runnybabbit

Is there supposed to be muddy gravel generating under sea water beaches again? I travelled to the worldgen border to explore and noticed the nice wavy ocean sand got suddenly cut off for muddy gravel in fresh generation. At first I assumed it was a fresh water lake that spawned next to the ocean but then I noticed a nasty chunk border between the wavy sand and muddy gravel.

Great idea! I'll see if I still got the pelt.

lines would be useful for the standard brown-and-tan map to denote tectonic/rock boundaries as currently it's quite difficult to track which rock type is surfaced on the standard map.

Much sadder than that. I wiffed every single swing, but since it was only a fox I refused to back down. I often rely on a shield to give myself some breathing room but the fox also kept running through my legs to deal death by ankle nibbles from behind... At first I thought it was some new clever AI behavior but I haven't seen it since so maybe it was just pathfinding jank. Anyway, I ran back to my death point with a spare blackguard shortsword we had lying around and downed Fantastic Mr Fox with the first blow.

Today I died to a fox... as a blackguard. With full health, nutrition, and iron gear. Just waiting until the inevitable day I throw hands with a racoon and get thrashed.

The last couple of updates seem to have some nice perfromance improvements. I had lots of stuttering on my shoddy laptop so until recently I've been playing VS exclusively on a much more powerful desktop. However I live completely on solar here and recently the bad weather has put power at a premium, so I switched back to the laptop only to be... pleasantly surprised. It still starts to stutter after a little over an hour of gameplay but it's been much smoother overall. Another 'performance' thing I've noticed is the item pickup seems much more consistent, though that could arguably be more of a 'polish' thing. Anyway, I feel like items used to often sit for a second or two before being picked up but now it's much more responsive. Has anyone else had a noticable increase in performance the last couple of updates?

To expand on this a bit, historical fire arrows were a lot more... "smolder-y" than modern movie pyrotechnics present. As MKMoose suggested they were mostly situational, and required lots of prep time so not the sort of thing a single hunter or archer would have much use for. They could be devastating weapons in seige and formation warfare however. Tod Cutler had an excellent video exploring historical fire arrow recipes if you're interested https://youtu.be/EAAYhIJIOjg?si=qFYdVkrxKWN9JZXf

I've been using brown dots to denote boats for some time now. Issue becomes when you forget to remove the marker and all your coastlines get cluttered with brown dots but you can't remember which one actually had the boat. For sure that's a skill issue though.

I've often thought much of the character screen information could be made more vauge and specific info placed into jonas tech. Perhaps a single climate/rainfall/temp reader... potentially with expected seasonal highs and lows if that would work in the engine. Pre-modern peoples would not take for granted acess to quick and accurate temperature readings down to a fraction of a degree, which are a technological marvel.

I feel this ought to at least have one of those little red text popups at the bottom "your ingot is too cold to work".

Oops yep guess I skimmed that the first time. I wonder how much the rust world intrusion (which, is afaik the lore reason for the terrain generation being so weird thus far), would change cave generation too.. Like could we have recognizable 'real world caves' but then 'spooky and geologically improbable' be it's own branch with specific and recognisable formation?

Don't forget lava tubes such as The Kazumura Cave in Hawaii

Would also love to see all sorts of expanded meat preservation mechanics. Maybe a smoking thing that works a bit like blue cheese curing but in reverse?

Most can be deducted from the names themselves... "Oh boy, I wonder if these Orange-Fluted Organ Liquidator Mushrooms are safe to consume"

IRL having even a small-scale poultry setup for meat production really does net you with a TON of feathers. Granted, not all of them are very useful, since arrows require specific feathers found on the wings. I like the idea of a duvet increasing warmth when sleeping as well as sleep time. I've woken many a winter morning completely freezing despite leaving the fire stoked