Zane Mordien

Same as above, normal... NO, but it can happen. I once killed 24+ wolves in one location over 10 game days. I killed the pack of wolves, went inside my starter hut for the night and by morning there was a new pack of wolves in the exact same location just hanging out. I say 24+ because I quit counting. After 2 months they finally stopped spawning in that same spot over and over. It's all RNG so sometimes you have bad luck.

One thing about food, is you can always survive the winter even without a big cellar of food. You just have to hunt all winter. Save this savegame file and come back to it when you are better at the game for a challenge. I just recently started replaying my first playthrough where I quit because I wasn't prepared enough and I've been enjoying the challenge of salvaging the playthrough. Good luck in your new playthrough!

I feel like I've had much better luck finding bees in 1.20. If they changed something that would explain why.

You are pretty much out of luck on bees in the snowball earth. The best chance you have is to use the Better Ruins mod. There are bees in at least one of the ruins. Question is do you even have flowers? I tried in snowball earth but I realized there are no flowers anywhere on the map. Not even redtop grass.

The storms are just every 9 days or so. You don't do anything to trigger them. During a storm the light level doesn't stop them from spawning. Congratz on Tin Bronze!

So do they want us to just build cheese fighting pits instead of fighting out in the open? I really enjoyed the thrill of running and fighting never knowing if a nightmare drifter might spawn on top of me and hit me as I was trying to loot in 1.19 or before. Now I'm back to the fighting pit just killing them without risk. The nightmare bowthorns and shivers are just too much out in the open IMO. Am I wrong?

It is annoying to go back to cowering and hiding during storms until I get reasonable armor, which is not fast. I wish they would implement something like 7D2D where the mobs in the storm/horde gets harder as time goes on and doesn't start day 1 with ranged attackers.

I just always have plenty of work to do inside at night.

I don't have the seed number memorized, but I have a favorite that spawns in limestone with a nice large sort of flat area completely free of bears and wolves spawn points. Angry pigs are the biggest animal problems. It's my relaxing start seed.

I would also consider not duplicating types of mods unless they are specifically supposed to work together. Like multiple food mods or crafting mods. Looks like you have several things going on there that would conflict, but I didn't go look them up to see if they work together

Once you get used to finding food, you shouldn't have any trouble at all. I play blackguard as well and food is never an issue. I don't use the starvation trick unless I'm playing snowball earth or something where there is very little food and then it is out of necessity and not to min/max my food usage.

That was odd. Glad that fixed it.

Your spawn point is always a fall to death on any map you make?

Am I the only person that thinks rattle snake when they hear the crickets in game? I grew up where rattle snakes are pretty common so I was raised as a kid to always be listening for them and these crickets make me think there are in game rattle snakes ready to bite my ankles.

The one that almost got me crawled out of a cave I was nearby. I don't want to give away spoilers but I think it can climb walls so it will come out pretty easy. You know the way sometimes drifters will come out of caves near you in the middle of the day except if they can climb walls it will happen more frequently. The nighttime is a pretty easy thing to avoid just stay indoors.

I'm thinking more for new players. The bears and wolves are enough to deal with for someone brand new. The drifters are annoying but once you figure out you can just run away from them they are easy to avoid. Something that runs fast and comes out at night and even crawls out of every cave entrance you get near during the day is off putting.

I vote hunter. Food is a struggle when you are a new player. Black guard is my vote once you are experienced. There are tons of food options once you have it figured out. Get that garden planted ASAP!

Yeah I had one chasing me yesterday and it was very hard to ditch. I like the mob but hopefully it's tuned down in speed or waits awhile before it starts spawning in the full release. Otherwise it's just another frustrating mob to kill you early on without any way to kill or get away from once you aggro it.

I pack several days of supplies and pick a direction and run for days until I find it. That has always worked for me.

Option 3: Just make a pile of spears and run around around during the storm and spear them to death. Way more fun and it's pretty easy to do. I spent my first playthrough huddled scared in a room killing them but it is so boring. Run and Gun is pretty fun and easy. They are so slow you rarely ever take a hit except from a rock or two.

Temporal Storms need some variety but the concept is good for me. The great thing about the game, as people have posted, is you can just turn off all of the temporal stuff if you don't want to mess with it. One thing that might make your experience better is downloading a HUD Clock mod that warns you when the storm is incoming. I never notice the text saying they are incoming and the chat window goes away so fast that I don't have time to notice it.

I had something similar happen to me once and I just started a new game. I know that isn't much help.

I've started building my base at least 4 blocks high and then I climb out in the morning to survey the area for bears. Especially my first shelter because they always like to find me after the first night and try to camp me in my packed dirt shack.

Amen. I see resin everywhere now, but my first play through it was so hard to find.