Why on earth does the 1st boss have so much health?

[Professor Dragon]

59 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

Re: your suggestion, I'd vastly prefer being able to transcribe the books in your journal into books you make when you get home. Gives you a reason to make them, and you can create various color schemes to show off your lore collection. Also gives a point to making the effort to find the last few books, whether through exploring ruins, panning bony soil, visiting traders, whatever. (Yes, I think you should be able to make book versions of the various tapestries, too.)

Something like that I could see spending some time after finishing the story to create. I think it would be worth it to create a visually stunning library. 

Is that the Transcribe function? Sounds like a great idea. Beats lugging several trips worth of books back and forth over 30,000 blocks.

From this post it seems like the process is:

• Make a new book in the colour of your choice
• Copy text from a source eg Wiki into the book

Is that it? Or is there a way of Transcribing from the Journal, then squishing the resulting individual Parchment papers into one Book?

9 minutes ago, Bumber said:

You don't have to kill any sawblade locusts to reach the boss room. Considering they actually deal more damage than the boss, the smart thing to do is run. (I locked one in a room and tried to cheese it using the door, and still got killed in the attempt. Really ought to wear iron for those.)

What can I say, I'm a completionist. I didn't want to miss out on any of the shiny loot at all. 

But you do have to go by at least one - there's no avoiding that.

 

[LadyWYT]

15 minutes ago, Bumber said:

You don't have to kill any sawblade locusts to reach the boss room. Considering they actually deal more damage than the boss, the smart thing to do is run.

You don't have to kill any of the enemies at all, aside from the eidolon. However, most newer players(and many veterans) will opt for killing the enemies, since a dead enemy is no longer a threat. I think it's also worth noting that newer players tend to be a lot more prone to panicking, which makes it difficult to actually escape from an enemy efficiently. They might stumble over rubble piles, or run into the walls, or run into more enemies instead of toward safety...you get the idea.

 

2 minutes ago, Professor Dragon said:

What can I say, I'm a completionist. I didn't want to miss out on any of the shiny loot at all. 

This too. A player experiencing the location for the first time isn't going to know where to go or what to do, unless they either have help from an experienced player, or looked up a guide to the location. Likewise, players like to explore and collect loot, and a player's first time in a location often equates to exploring every nook and cranny they can possibly reach, as well as potentially carting off most anything that's not nailed down.

 

4 minutes ago, Professor Dragon said:

But you do have to go by at least one - there's no avoiding that.

If I'm recalling correctly, that's the one in the mines. And there are definitely worse things than sawblades in the mines.

[Thorfinn]

24 minutes ago, Professor Dragon said:

Is that it? Or is there a way of Transcribing from the Journal, then squishing the resulting individual Parchment papers into one Book?

I don't know of an in-game way to do it. That's what I'd prefer. Open your journal to any given section, and if you have an empty book in your current hotbar slot (possibly with a quill in off-hand? Or vice-versa?), a "Transcribe" button is selectable, if you don't it's greyed out. Either way, when you read the lore, it's obvious that there must be some way to transcribe it somewhere, so you could open the handbook to the guides section to find out how.

Edited November 19, 2025 by Thorfinn

[hstone32]

This reminds me. Is the archive supposed to contain completed tomes? Maybe I'm bad at looting, but I could only find 100% of one. The otheriare sitting at around 70-90%

[LadyWYT]

10 minutes ago, hstone32 said:

This reminds me. Is the archive supposed to contain completed tomes? Maybe I'm bad at looting, but I could only find 100% of one. The otheriare sitting at around 70-90%

I think there's four different stories unique to the Archive:

The Patronage of Tibalt Amaro(5 parts)

The Spy and the Sparrow(10 parts)

The Weight of Stone(9 parts)

Admirer of the Miller(10 parts)

The library should contain the full versions of each story, however, it's also easy to miss a book or two, and if you're playing with friends it's also possible to end up missing parts of the stories if you don't have a dedicated book reader(that is, have a specific player read all the books first, so you don't get duplicates). In your case, I'm guessing there's likely just a couple of books that you've overlooked somewhere, but if you want to know the stories without bothering to search for them, you can find the complete stories here: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Lore_book

[Professor Dragon]

14 minutes ago, LadyWYT said:

The library should contain the full versions of each story, however, it's also easy to miss a book or two,. . . 

I can confirm that the RA Library had a full set on my run on v.1.21.5 just yesterday. 

However, it took me FOREVER checking and rechecking EACH SHELF before I completed the final book.

[LadyWYT]

1 minute ago, Professor Dragon said:

However, it took me FOREVER checking and rechecking EACH SHELF before I completed the final book.

Oh for sure. Despite the bright teal on the bindings marking them as lore books, they're still quite tough to pick out from the hundreds of other books there, unless one searches very carefully.

[Professor Dragon]

49 minutes ago, Thorfinn said:

I don't know of an in-game way to do it. That's what I'd prefer. Open your journal to any given section, and if you have an empty book in your current hotbar slot (possibly with a quill in off-hand? Or vice-versa?), a "Transcribe" button is selectable, if you don't it's greyed out. Either way, when you read the lore, it's obvious that there must be some way to transcribe it somewhere, so you could open the handbook to the guides section to find out how.

I'll test it out. I think you can only Transcribe a page at a time, which is why the other person went the route of making a new book and copying from the Wiki.

You could add your idea to the "Suggestions" thread. If the functionality is not added as you described, then we could get a new contraption called the "Printing Press" which does exactly that. Put books or Parchment/ink/coloured leather in, and you can print out a full book from your Journal to it.

[Professor Dragon]

Just now, LadyWYT said:

Oh for sure. Despite the bright teal on the bindings marking them as lore books, they're still quite tough to pick out from the hundreds of other books there, unless one searches very carefully.

Spoiler.

Spoiler

You don't even get the bright teal on all books - just about 70% of them or something. The rest just appear to be regular shelves, or cobwebbed shelves, with no visible indicator.

 

[Xanadu2003]

On 11/17/2025 at 10:40 AM, Facethief said:

Like seriously, 500hp? That’s 100 hits with a good weapon. Is there any way to reduce it to something more reasonable?

Ive found it incredibly fair with vanilla combat. Are you using the combat overhaul mod? For some reason that mod makes the boss take next to no damage from attacks and makes for a frustratingly annoying "fight"