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18 hours ago, Domkrats said:

Traits are good idea too.

I would better see finite water sources and expanded water mechanics thus making water wheels and thus aqueducts or water channels being necessary.
Similar to this mode, although it was for Minecraft. Downside for that would be limited possibility for waterfall unless water would rotate somehow though some channels.

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Existing gears and axles are great i think.

 

That water mod is amazing and would add so much gameplay and beauty to the world. I can imagine the engineers copying the Babylonians by using wooden screws to pump water into floating gardens. However, and although I haven't used the mod before, I'm worried that finite water would turn oceans and large lakes into their own little tactical nukes since I assume that removing one block from the water's bed would cause hundreds or possibly thousands of blocks to update simultaneously and really hurting performance.

On 8/25/2021 at 6:57 AM, Ryan Thomas said:

The TL;DR version is I'm hoping for some type of vehicle.

I've started to feel burnout a lot lately. Yesterday, I was sitting in my gem room, waiting for my son's bus to come. Lol, on a side note, that little turd! I was in my gem room because he told me that me being in the living room slows down his morning routine. He was nice about it, but morning routine? He's six, his morning routine is eat breakfast, brush teeth, and watch cartoons until I escort him out to the bus. But I kind of get it, I like a little alone time in the morning, too. Anyway, I was sitting in my gem room (I just procured a glorious agatized Favosite, for those of us that enjoy that type of thing), thinking of my morning routine in Vintage Story, which I was excited about. I've got a new round of leather to check on, animals to feed, a new round of meals to make, and a new cave to explore. I was excited about that, but by the time I put my son on the bus, I was honestly a little nauseous about that. Don't get me wrong, I love the game, I even try to name-drop it in my Steam reviews. Well, when it's organic to my review, anyway, sometimes it's hard to work it in, it doesn't look right if I typed "Blah Blah Doom Eternal Blah blah (Vintage Story is freaking awesome) blah blah (you should check out)..." Anyway, as much as I love the game, I couldn't bring myself to even turn it on, I played a few rounds of Mortal Kombat 10 (Predator's my dude!).

So, I was thinking "what's my deal today, I love Vintage Story" My deal: it's starting to feel a little monotonous. So, I was thinking "what do I do in the real world when stuff starts to feel monotonous?" I'm in my early 40s; my college days of "let's go streak the quad!" are behind me. Plus, you know, spouses kind of get bummed when they get a phone call at work; "honey, I had a little snafu. Could you pick me up.......and bring a pair of pants w you?". But the answer I came up with: ride/drive something. Maybe launch some type of sailing vessel just for the thrill of sailing and watching some type of sea critters swim around, or jump on a horse just to chase some rabbits around. Something, just for a little change of pace. Because: as much as I love the game, sometimes I feel like the Dunkin Donuts "time to make the donuts" guy (y'all remember that commercial?).

 

A simple sailboat with two seats and a small inventory paired with continent/ocean generation would be the dream. I can imagine the adventures with friends to discovery strange and foreign lands.

We're one step closer to world domination...

Love those ominous and mysterious hallways. Would be great for an adventure map if this game got support for that.

I think this and maybe some kind of waterwheel would add a lot of aesthetic variety since sometimes regular windmills can look a little out of place in builds.

The drifters look like short little gloops of material that have hardened into a grey hunchback creature with not a lot of character. This paired with how the drifters are always paired with temporal storms and other temporal talks makes me want to imagine that whatever temporal disaster happened in the past caused a lot of people from a lot of different times to be merged into one creature: the drifter. Imagine 100 generations of your ancestors being merged into one person, it would probably result in a derpy, brown and grey thing due to all of your ancestors' variety and color being averaged out into on person... *drumroll* the drifter.

But yeah that's basically my fanfic on it. I don't think there's much to be discerned from the drifter since they're pretty boring honestly and should get some cool characterization like making dog noises or being super rare.

Yeah I usually have them off entirely. I like the idea though I just think it's flawed.

Creative and brave. I wouldn't have dared to use up-facing logs as the floor but it seemed to work out quite well. Nice

I think some of my reasons for burnout are that temporal storms/drifters are cool for the first few instances but later just become an annoyance. Temporal storms end up just being sections of time where you go AFK on top of 2 block pillar and drifters are just fat little grey blobs that seem pretty out place from the rest the environment.

I think temporal storms should be much more rare but much more violent with monsters and drifters breaking your base and causing panic attacks with their screams. I like the idea of having variations on temporal storms (light, medium, heavy), but I don't think there's much of a gameplay purpose for them since especially with the 'light' variation it would just encourage people to go AFK. Also I think that surface drifters should be very rare and/or be limited to temporal storms since they don't fit in and are more annoying than threatening. The real threat should from the wilderness and the existing wolves, which are very scary and can be joined by maybe some other scary animals like grizzly bears, lions, and possibly dire wolves.