New Player no longer!!!

[Iscariot]

It's March 1st in my world again! After about 40 hours of game time. I spent my winter mostly afk. Mainly because I didn't have the best gear (I mean, most defense atm is a copper lamellar helmet)

And, any further progress I wanted to make would require a windmill, and I didn't really farm flax until early autumn...

Anyways! I survived winter*

(*disclaimer. I died 4 times. However only 1 of those was hunger related. The others go as follows. Ram, Moose, Wolf. The time I died from hunger I first had my health lowered by a ram)

I did do *some* stuff though. Mainly, exploring when I got the chance. I've found an area with a rock that supports Borax but no readings yet, so soon I can get to work on a cementation furnace.

That same area has readings on Halite as well. Beyond that, I've found a commodities trader in which I can sell cracked vessels from the treasure hunter for profit. My plans now? First and foremost. Grain farming. Flax for the fibers and so I can get sails for rotational energy to power a helve hammer and pulverizer. (Well, not both at once. probably just a clutch between them)

And then, Borax. since I need a flux. I have found limestone though, so my limewater needs are practically non-existant now, and I have been making leather since I've been really doing nothing. I never ran out of food, so I always had an option waiting at my home ^^

I do wanna cave since I have some Chromite readings, but I'll probably wait until I have candles and lanterns. And I'm not in that much need of chromite.. Since I've been using reed baskets STILL. So first I should get the normal leather backpacks before sturdy leather. I'm also gonna make like.. A rot box to put excess stuff in, since I feel like compost for fertilizer AND Terra Preta are gonna be pretty useful. And finally... A greenhouse. I wasn't too active during winter, mainly because everything I was kinda relying on wasn't active either.

So, if I can keep my bees throughout most of winter, I can start claiming the land, and carving out my own place other than my house ^^ Im thinking roads with streetlights would be pretty. Oh! And more animal husbandry. My bighorns also gave me a lamb! So I'm now at gen 1 for them. I wanna give them a bigger space. And capture some chickens and boars in other pens.

Anyways, this game has been fun, and I'll probably stick with it for a while, as the space it takes up on my PC is negligible compared to other modern games so I wont need to uninstall it anytime soon. I'm glad to be here!

[Shoom]

Glad you're having fun!

I'm 475 hours into my world and just made my first batch of steel the other day.  (it's quite the process, couldn't find borax for the life of me) I was pretty content with iron but turns out you need steel to mine chromite (it's tier 5) and for steel you need an iron anvil.. right now I need sulfur for the chromite solution, but no luck so far.. however I enjoy the grind!

Windmill with automated quern will raise your quality of life quite a bit, my winter diet is 80% bread and having to manually grind all that grain would be a real pain.

[Calixtus]

On my first play through I got to 220 hours in and hardly hit the story line.  Of over 40 traders I never found the elusive one.

When 1.21 landed I decided on a new start and set my world for a warm start.  What a difference!!   I am way more ahead than the first playthrough.   Admittedly I know a lot more so that has sped things up. It's now December in my first year and I haven't seen snow!!   Here in the Redwoods it does rain pretty much all the time but really good for foraging mushrooms.  Greenhouse, barns, honey farm and windmill with quern all up.    Orchards laid out waiting for my first cuttings and its hunting time to fill up my barns with some animals.  Loads of boar around but not seen a milk producing animal so that might be a problem but I must have my Cheese Grommit, Cheese!!   

One thing I am missing compared to my last game is coal!  Not seen a single seam of it so far but as wood is plentiful my charcoal pit is being kept busy.    

 

[LadyWYT]

These posts have been an absolute joy to read. Seeing brand new players be so incredibly enthusiastic about the game is just...so incredibly adorable. 

12 hours ago, Iscariot said:

I've found an area with a rock that supports Borax but no readings yet, so soon I can get to work on a cementation furnace.

Sounds like my current world. Claystone everywhere, but no borax to be found. I finally found a deposit after many hours of searching...and it was under a trader wagon.  At least it was mineable!

[Iscariot]

An update for anyone who is wondering. I've found borax! It was by complete accident. The area I had found some readings had lead. So I figured "Get food, go on an expedition, at the very least, I'll have some lead if I ever need it"

So I was mining it in this pretty large cave system. it had a drop off, but no easy way back up. Anyways, as I was mining, lots and lots of drifters came by. And I fell down. Only to see that right under that drop off. Was a white rock that didn't look like quartz! (I had had a run in where I thought I saw borax just for it to be quartz -_-)

I got a stack and a single rock. Netting me 128 (Would be 130 but I haven't bothered to crush that single rock. Maybe use it for display) of the actual powder. Safe to say I wont be in too much need after that!

side note while I was exploring I found a pretty beefy mountain.

Anyways, getting to work on the helve hammer, i've already got the pieces in place except 4 more sails. Which won't be too bad as my flax is already growing. Though, I made the mistake of planting them early March, where it's still a bit chilly at night, so they'll be stunted..

Also, pulverizer is real close as well. The windmill is essentially just a dirt platform.. Eventually I'll revamp it much like I upgraded my house. I've got plenty of olivine, and bauxite is no trouble for me. Refractory bricks are near!!!!

[Broccoli Clock]

On 9/10/2025 at 4:50 PM, LadyWYT said:

These posts have been an absolute joy to read. Seeing brand new players be so incredibly enthusiastic about the game is just...so incredibly adorable. 

My guilty pleasure is watching people play the game blind. It's fun watching them trying to figure shit out. Not sure if that's me stroking my ego going, "yes, yes, you've learnt something I knew already", or if I just enjoy watching the penny drop - especially on a live stream.

[Maelstrom]

I find blind playthroughs especially hilarious when the player thinks it's just a minecraft clone.  Goes and punches a tree for a minute before giving up.   One even punched rock after determining that punching trees didn't work.  

[LadyWYT]

2 hours ago, Maelstrom said:

One even punched rock after determining that punching trees didn't work.  

To their credit, that is a next logical step.