Zane Mordien

I start many wildfires to help me find copper and make the wolves easier to see.

I know Tyron won't add iron spears with increased damage but have they shot down iron/steel spears just for the durability increase?

Was the food still hot? I know that crocks don't show expiration time right after the food is cooked and you put it in crock. It doesn't show until the food "cools" down. Side note: You realize the wooden blocks are making your food spoil faster? In cellars wood blocks negatively affect food spoilage. You need to use stone or shelves.

That is weird. I assumed incorrectly that the hot start was closer to the equater than that. So what you are saying is it won't create a world from north pole to south pole only? It's always offset to the north?

No problem, just save it until you have a helve hammer. The helve hammer can fix any iron bloom.

@Maelstrom I know, but they are new to the game and obviously they have watched a prospecting video. Some of those videos will lead you on a wild goose chase looking for ultra high readings when you don't need that reading to find ore. You're a veteran player so youre making a conscious decision to find a higher reading. I remember as a new player it was frustrating until I realized that was not required.

Ore generation is fixed for the world. STOP! Ignore that stupid prospecting walk through on YouTube. You don't need a ready beyond decent. Even poor is okay, because in the time you spent looking for a higher reading you could have dropped several vertical shafts and found tin. Another option is just to buy some tin from a trader if you have some gears. You don't need ultra high to find good Ore. That walk through is very informative but it leads people to believe they need to hunt far and wide for a high reading and that is not the case.

They don't usually replenish an item right away if you buy it out. Sometimes they won't even sell the same thing. It's all random.

I make mine out of iron, but thats just because I have way more iron than bronze usually.

Yes, don't forget the map file!

If I go cave exploring I take at least a full stack of torches if not two stacks. These days I don't do a lot of cave exploring to be honest though. Not much reward for the risk/annoyance.

I was unable to make that work myself. I'm sure there is a way but you got me on how to do it.

The light level has to be above 7 to stop "cave" spawns in the normal game. The temporal weather also impacts how fast they spawn. If it is "calm" then they will spawn a slower and at "very high" or "apocalyptic" they will spawn very fast. The drifters can spawn around you anywhere at anytime when you are in a cave if you didn't light it up. Even if you have a torch they can spawn just a few blocks away or anywhere the light level is not high enough to stop them from spawning.

Nice list of ideas.

I was blown away when I found 30-40 gears in a vanilla ruin in a hidden chest. I've never found anything that good again.

People are allowed to give feedback even if you don't agree. You don't need to throw snark at everyone who posts.

There are quite a few basements in ruins nowadays. Early on the aged torch holders and the a aged chest ( i think thats the name) can be found which are very useful. Dig down in corners is my advice. Just because there wasn't a basement in one corner it might be in the otherside instead.

I'm the opposite, I find so much surface copper i don't bother with deep copper unless I run into it looking for tin or iron.

Interesting. I think your only option would have to be a Mod. The only setting I can find is False or True for "passtimewhenempty", but that would be interesting to just slow down time when empty.

Well I'm no help, but I'll bump the thread for you. It happens sometimes to me and my son when we are playing on the server in our house, so the port forwarding isn't the issue for me since we are connecting to the servers home network IP and not the router's IP. I usually have to reboot the server to get it to stop doing it. It doesn't happen very often to us, but it's only 2 of us so I'm sure it shows up more with more people.

5-7 blocks doesn't seem weird to me. It's not normal but I've had a few that way.

If no one is watching does a bear in the forest exist? I guess not by that logic.

The "lore" answer doesn't really work because he has said in interviews that they just haven't gotten around to upgrading all of the animal behavior. I don't expect them to reprogram bears to bring you coffee and biscuits every morning, but more diverse behavior would be nice. I fully expect they will tone down bears and add mountain lions to make up for it. Lol

I don't even noticed the hunger rate difference when in play other classes. Food is so easy to get once you get the hang of it.

It's not in the exact same location in my experience. I did this in a chunk near an existing trader and it generated another trader. So now I have 2 traders a couple chunks apart. Of course one is a furniture trader so I really just have one trader.