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The warm and cold climate variants actually are player-replicable for the most part, which is neat. They're mostly made of daub and mudbrick, with aged thatch (not obtainable in survival, but normal thatch is) for colder climate roofing. But yeah, I do wish this kind of architecture was easier/possible to create in survival. Especially since in the lore these huts are meant to be thrown together in a couple of weeks, as Elvas said on the stream.

I'm sure this has been brought up by other people in other places, but I thought it'd be nice to make a proper suggestions thread on it, especially with the upcoming 1.22 trader houses nearing completion in the dev streams. Roofing in this game is kind of weird. You place down different roof pieces, they always have to be at a 45 degree angle, and then they have blocky undersides. Meanwhile the new trader houses (which, let me clarify, I think are absolutely awesome) that players will now be able to find scattered all over the world have smooth chiselled roofing. I think it'll be a bit of a disappointment to new players when they find out it's extremely difficult and time-consuming (sometimes impossible, if the trader house uses creative mode roof beams) to create a similar dwelling. I've already heard of similar new player reactions to the treasure hunter's shack in 1.21, excited to build something similar only to find out they aren't able to. I think it would be really nice if roofing either adapted to whatever block it was placed on top of and inherited that texture, or if roofing was more like large support beams you could stretch across a build to make a frame and then add material to fill in. Either of these would allow for roofing that looks sleek and do away with the bulky undersides, as well as allowing different shapes of roofing beyond the 45 degree angle. EDIT: I think ideally the way dynamic roofing could work would be detecting the shape/thickness of the block below, then using that texture and thickness to give the roof its blocky underside. That way roofing could be precisely aligned to walls of different chiselled thicknesses, and only have the blocky underside when it is actually on top of a block.

Personally I still think a decent compromise would be if they added a nearby mini-dungeon of sorts, where you could get a special Jonas part that fixes/activates the elevator early. That way you can either do the parkour yourself, or take longer to raid a dangerous structure and be rewarded with the option to skip it.

I have no idea why I'd want to make up my claim, really. I've flown around in creative noclip a lot testing worldgen, especially back in 1.20. These big spherical caves aren't all that common, but they happen often enough for me to find them in noclip mode. This is a screenshot from 2024, you can tell because the NPCs in the hotbar aren't wearing clothing, which is a bug that's now been patched.

I've seen this kind of thing before in survival, though none quite as big as this. Still, some absolutely massive near-perfect half-sphere shaped chambers near the mantle. My friends who play Vintage and I call them 'fried egg caves', since they look a bit like an egg yolk when all lit up.

The top area of the RA actually isn't protected in vanilla, and nothing stops you from taking the doors up there. They're just cosmetic though, and you'd need to be in creative mode to actually open/close them.

It's used when creating structures, I'm pretty sure that the meta filler block makes the game force spawn air wherever it is placed. Useful when making underground ruins or cellars not filled with blocks upon generating in. It can't actually do anything in survival though, since it only takes effect when the structure it is a part of gets generated in.

If you go into your Vintagestory folder (in your appdata), then navigate to assets->survival->textures->entity->lore you can find the monster textures. From there you could hue shift them to pink with basically any image editing software.

Yeah, the gold gear is exclusive to that certain chapter 2 story location. The only "trinket" items (as I have been calling them lol, the random little decorations that can be placed into display cases and ground storage) that can be obtained more than once are the artistic bottle, human skull and deformed skull. Those three are found in both the chapter 1 story location, as well as regular ruins.

VS has some weird systems like this that almost act like something you'd expect to see out of a 90's RPG. Not in a good way either, more just feeling like antiquated design. I'm talking about the way armour and shields work - they're an internal dice roll. It's a 3D open-world survival game, and yet hit detection works on a "20% chance head, 50% chest, 30% legs" system. If an enemy hits you in the legs, and you're wearing plate armour without a helmet, there is a 20% chance that hit actually registered on your head and so you'd take full damage. This is the kind of system that works for a 2D RPG where characters are simple sprites, but it feels quite wonky in a full 3D environment. I've talked about it before, but this system feels really out of place in the game in my eyes. It's not telegraphed at all, and it's not explained by the handbook. There also isn't really a reason for the hit detection to work like this, as it is not really fun, and certainly not realistic. It's fine enough as it is right now for just serving its purpose, but I think that making it true hit detection would be much more engaging and make much more sense. It might also help to relieve some of the combat frustrations that players have.

It wouldn't be that tricky to go into the files yourself and hue shift the monster textures to a silly colour, or replace the sound effects with your own. Granted, that wouldn't really help if the animations are the thing that scare you the most.

I feel like a decent way to shake up the current meta would be making the damage types into a real mechanic. Currently certain weapons list damage types (blunt and piercing for example), despite the fact these actually don't mean anything and don't affect anything. Having weapons such as maces designed for taking down mechanical foes (slam the metal plates around, disrupt the inner workings) while being worse than falxes at dealing with Rust monsters (they're thick-skinned and contain metal, so they absorb the blow better) would be a step in the right direction in my eyes. Making players choose what weapons to take along for what enemies they expect to encounter. That, and changing the way armour hit detection works. Currently it's a Morrowind style percentage chance. Even if it looks like a drifter hit you in the ankles, the game could roll the chance for that hit to apply to your head. This feels weird and completely untelegraphed (not to mention the fact this isn't mentioned anywhere in the handbook as far as I remember). Making it a system of actual hitboxes (legs, chest, head) could help with a decent amount of armour/combat jank I think. If you aren't wearing a helmet and a drifter swipes at your plate armoured legs, that should not count as a head hit.

The main problem for Jonas parts being the main incentive of storms is that ruins/story locations are just far better ways to obtain them. You can probably get almost all the parts you'd need to make at least one of the Jonas devices by completing all of the current story locations in the game, I know a certain location from chapter 2 likes having them as frequent loot. Underground ruins also offer many other rewards than just Jonas parts, so they're more worthwhile to be spending your time on as opposed to storms. Jonastech being largely novelty items is another problem, but to a lesser extent since the terminus teleporter is still a handy item to have. I definitely hope Jonastech gets expanded at some point, as well as what I like to call "Seraphtech". The tuning spear and rift ward are more midgame focused than the other Jonas items, both have no reason to have been invented in the old world, and both require far less Jonas parts than the other Jonastech items to craft. This idea of somewhat unreliable cobbled-together midgame Jonas devices implied to be invented by the player Seraph could also be a fun thing to see expanded in my eyes. (I always enjoy the idea of a midgame night vision alternative that is easier to create, but has a random chance to fizzle out and leave you without a light source. Very useful when caving, until the lights go out while you're in combat!)

You should be okay. Worst comes to worst set your respawn outside the archives and just keep fighting it until you win. The only real piece of advice I can offer is making sure to jump when it does the ground slam attack. That way you aren't thrown into the air.

Was surprised to see I was the original poster of this thread. Anyway I've changed my main character voice since then, I usually go for harmonica medium.