How to start a story?

[Hentai Ninja]

So apparently there is a story beyond visual storytelling.

I watched a video from 2024 where panning bony soil dropped lore book. Was it changed since then?

I have panned more than 30 blocks and didnt encounter even one. I am playing on standard playstyle with temporal rifts disabled. Do i need to trigger some event before game drops some lore (literally)?

Also, before i disabled rifts with a command i killed a lot of drifters and i didnt drop any temporal gears. Now i know they are important for setting spawn point, do i have story world setting disabled?

[Kreeate]

1 hour ago, Hentai Ninja said:

So apparently there is a story beyond visual storytelling.

I watched a video from 2024 where panning bony soil dropped lore book. Was it changed since then?

I have panned more than 30 blocks and didnt encounter even one. I am playing on standard playstyle with temporal rifts disabled. Do i need to trigger some event before game drops some lore (literally)?

Also, before i disabled rifts with a command i killed a lot of drifters and i didnt drop any temporal gears. Now i know they are important for setting spawn point, do i have story world setting disabled?

You need to find a certain Trader that will ask you to bring them an item. Once you give the item to the Trader, the story kicks off.

The story mode and lore functions perfectly, even with temporal rifts disabled.

Edited July 22, 2025 by Kreeate

[Maelstrom]

Regardless of the story events, you should be getting lore items from panning bony soil.   In 30 blocks you should get at least a couple of books.   It could just be horrifically terrible RNG though.

And that lore really enhances the story events.

Edited July 25, 2025 by Maelstrom

[Never Jhonsen]

On 7/22/2025 at 4:13 AM, Hentai Ninja said:

Also, before i disabled rifts with a command i killed a lot of drifters and i [didn't] drop any temporal gears. Now i know they are important for setting spawn point, do i have story world setting disabled?

There is a "Homo Sapiens" mode that will remove all lore from the game, but it also disables drifters and rifts by default, and has no ruins to gather bony soil from.

I would expect to get two to four lore books from a stack of bony soil. 0/30 is harsh but not out the realms of probability.