Thorfinn Posted March 1, 2025 Report Posted March 1, 2025 I built a scaled down farm (64 plots of 8-around-1) a half dozen blocks into a lake, and had it mostly planted by 1 JUN. In addition, I had 30-some populated skeps that would probably be ready to harvest when I got home. But... I miscounted. The entire length of the second row of fence on two sides of my farm were juuust outside of the protection of my lightning rod. It needed to be 34 tiles off the ground, and I had it only 33. Not a huge deal normally, but I always enable lightning to cause fires. So evidently the storm that passed through was lightning but no rain, and my fence drew the short straw. Not a single thing left in my farm. Fences, crops, skeps, even the handful of grass that always springs up, just gone. I'm just now getting things back going, but I've found only around half as many seeds because I'm now circling around 3k block radius looking. Sunk by a mistake a kindergartener with limited experience with a number line should not have made. Any rookie mistakes of similar significance in your Vintaging? 1
LadyWYT Posted March 1, 2025 Report Posted March 1, 2025 1 minute ago, Thorfinn said: Sunk by a mistake a kindergartener with limited experience with a number line should not have made. I mean...when I was in kindergarten, teacher asked me to draw a number line between 1 and 10. So I did. I drew a 1, I drew a 10, and a drew a line in between! Turns out that's not quite what the teacher meant... 2 minutes ago, Thorfinn said: Any rookie mistakes of similar significance in your Vintaging? Friend jumped the gun on smithing the other night, smelted the copper ore down but forgot to craft tongs. Oops. I don't think I've had a huge rookie mistake, yet, but I'm certainly due for one.
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