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Hmmm, I like this; it's well thought out. The only tweak I would suggest is boosting mining speed a bit(they should be better than Blackguards at that), as well as swap the melee penalty for some kind of ranged penalty. Miners are very strong and spend a lot of time underground, so I'd expect them to be able to hold their own well enough in a brawl, but have trouble when it comes to wide open spaces and ranged combat.

I tend to pick them off at range with spears, when possible. I try not to engage them in melee unless I have a shield and a copper falx, bare minimum. Swords work better than spears when it comes to melee, at least in my opinion, as it's a little easier to land hits while dancing around them. Spears have a longer range, that is true, but seem to get a little clunky when it comes to attacking things that are very close.

I like the idea, but I feel that the idea of "big skeletal robot" is already covered by the eidolon. The chase mechanic is a cool concept, though I think it would be in the same vein as the parkour challenge from a certain area; most players love it or hate it. Overall, I think the entire package would work a lot better as story-driven mod based around a necromancer cult, or something of that sort, rather than an addition to the base game.

On the ladder aspect, I will also note that it's a really good idea to carry a few rope ladders on you at all times. Not only do they make it a lot easier to scale rough terrain, since they can be placed/picked up easily, but they can also end up saving your life should you fall in a hole that you can't otherwise climb out of(though you could simply switch gamemodes and fly out of the hole).

Heh heh heh...play through the main story and you'll find them. Or I mean...explore far enough in the right direction, and you'll find them as well. But your best bet is starting off with the Resonance Archive--you can acquire a map to the place by doing a small favor for a treasure hunter trader. The story unfolds from there. Of course, you could, in theory, find other locations without going to the Archive first, but it's rather unlikely, and some things won't make as much sense either if you're not really familiar with what's in the Archive.

Hmmm, could be. I figured it was just a cosmetic difference in model for variation, but maybe the model differences aren't purely cosmetic.

I'm not sure that metal spikes deal that much damage; I'd more suspect a weird physics issue occurring when you stepped on them, in that the game managed to register multiple hits at once. Similar to how one arrow can count as multiple hits on a creature. But of course, it could have been just a really big poke from that spike as well.

Posting with spoiler tags, just in case you'd like the mysteries to remain. Though I will note that some of these topics have yet to be explained, if they even receive a future explanation. Some things may just be left up to the player to decide for themselves. I won't really say much on this part. However, playing through the main portion of the story will explain a good chunk of what happened and what's going on, in regards to these details.

I would check the lower layers and the grating to make sure nothing is damaged there; those blocks are harder to see, especially if buried, so it's possible to miss one. If it's winter, make sure all the snow is cleared out from inside the furnace, as it won't function otherwise.

I think there used to be some sort of clay block that you could craft and then fire, though it ended up being removed in 1.20 if I'm not mistaken. It'd probably be easier to just re-implement that, and then chisel the block down to whatever shape you wish. End result is pretty much the same, and the fired clay blocks could also be used as materials for other chiselwork.

1. Regarding pit kilns, it's never a good idea to build them in your starter shack. Particularly if your starter shack contains lots of flammable things, like grass, hay bed, reed chests, and yourself. 2. Mark the ore bits that you find on the surface--there's usually a deposit underneath. 3. Nothing but igneous rock for miles tends to make for a more challenging progression. That can be either a good or bad thing, depending on one's preferred playstyle. 4. Never sleep in the open, and never leave the door to your base open while you're sleeping. I got murdered by a sheep once from ignoring this rule. 5. If an NPC describes something as dangerous, it probably is and you should treat it as such, regardless of your skill level. Really, it's a good idea to pay attention to what NPCs say in general. 6. Always examine what you're about to eat to make sure it's actually something you should be eating, especially if you play with mischievous friends. 7. You don't need to rely on caves in order to find ore. 8. It's perfectly fine to dig straight down, provided that you're placing ladders as you dig. Your character will cling to ladders, so it's rather difficult to fall off should you happen to dig into a cavern. Just a few tips that I can think of on the spot. Not necessarily all stuff that I had trouble with, but stuff that may not be immediately obvious to brand new players.

I typically just hover over the basket to see what it has in it, and then move those items elsewhere if needed. I'm not sure that an "empty" button is needed, but perhaps an outline when you select the slot on your backpack slots, to highlight which slots a basket/backpack covers.

Vintage Story is an uncompromising wilderness survival sandbox game inspired by eldritch horror themes. Find yourself in a ruined world reclaimed by nature and permeated by unnerving temporal disturbances. Relive the advent of human civilization, or take your own path. With all due respect...it's not being advertised as a more complex Minecraft. There are a few superficial similarities, but the two aren't even close in terms of gameplay and what's expected of the player. Just because it's a sandbox doesn't mean that it necessarily needs to be easy, or that you get to settle down exactly where you want at the start of the game. Though I'd also agree with the points @Thorfinn already made--there are already several options to easily reset your spawn in the current state of Vintage Story. One of my favorite parts of that interview. I'd not really stopped to consider how much the ease of resetting one's spawn point affects other challenges that a game might offer, but in retrospect, it does trivialize a lot.

To be fair, easy-to-set spawn points would be a good game decision for an easy building/exploration focused sandbox game, which is a strong point of the other block game. However, that's not what Vintage Story is; it's a brutal, challenging survival game with eldritch horror elements and a story to tell. If the core spawn mechanic was changed and made easy, it would lose a lot of the challenges it presents the player with. Death is a steep penalty, in more ways than just potential item loss, and therefore something to be taken seriously and actively avoided as a result. I'd also say it's possible to get the "cozy sim" experience without mods, but it does require turning pretty much all the settings to the easiest possible.

I would presume it's for balancing reasons as well, since spears have significant ranged damage(to be fair, you need to actually hit the target though, and it's not always wise to go throwing away your primary weapons) as well as the most reach of any melee weapon. If you allow spear types past the bronze tier, then you start running into the issue of the other weapons being much less attractive, because they can't really compete with the potential damage output.

I like it, but it's useless if the minimap is disabled. Might be better to just have an option to share waypoints with other players, and leave it at that.

The general loss ratio seems to be fairly consistent, regardless of pit size. I say that just from making a rough guess based on what I've dug out of my charcoal pits, not because I've sat down and crunched every number. That being said, I'd wager the "most efficient" depends heavily on the context of how much you need versus how much effort you want to put into it. A giant pit will net you a LOT of charcoal(like, I think I built a 7x7x7, which isn't max size, and got almost two full crates of charcoal), but will also take a significant effort to fill. A small pit is easily filled, but isn't very useful if you need a lot of charcoal. I would say small pits are the most efficient in the early game, with moderate-size pits probably being the most efficient overall. They aren't as much hassle to fill as the huge pits, and provide decent amounts of charcoal per firing, meaning that it's easy enough to fire the pit 2-3 a week at most. Of course, if you'd rather just have a couple crates of charcoal after one firing, and not need to bother with it for a long time, then making a huge pit will probably be a more efficient use of your time.

I think I just used a bucket or a jug to remove it and dump it into a barrel. Also, welcome to the forums!

Old piece of work that I never finished; the world's long since been deleted and I've moved on to other projects. However, I was pleased with the aesthetic and will probably end up copying the design later.

Depending on reed dimensions, it's a good way to suffocate too. However, I daresay videogame logic would apply in this case and one need not worry about that. Given that the player can already hold their breath for a decent length by default though, I don't think it'd be a particularly useful addition to the base game. Better as a mod, in my opinion.

Honestly, forgot that was a thing, since I always pack a ton of pie when going on expeditions. Pie stacks ridiculously well(but make sure you cut it before heading in to story locations!), and in the case of redmeat pie is especially filling. However, the main issue with packing a practical fridge's worth of pies...is that about half of it spoils before I can manage to eat it, even as a Blackguard. I always pack way too much food for the Archive. Does beat the alternative though.

Haha, sure, why not, in regards to the bears. Bears are basically the boss entities of the surface and early game, so having a class that's stronger at confronting them could be interesting. Very interesting. Especially if the Noble is rather foolhardy in a multiplayer scenario--could see a lot of shenanigans develop as a result. I had considered that as well, since nobles would have more refined manners and thus have some advantage in negotiating. However, I think it's a benefit that's better leveraged by the Tailor, since tailors would need to have good business sense and nobles...generally have so much money that they don't care about prices. If anything, paying outrageous prices for nonsense would be ideal for a noble in some ways, since spending lots of money on frivolous things is a method of indicating your power and status. Assuming that NPCs eventually offer more reactions to the player's class though, I think Noble would be one of those that's either well-liked for their manners, or perhaps despised for their arrogance. Or perhaps they're simply treated like the village idiot, since nobility may be a completely foreign concept in the present and the Noble otherwise proves a bit inept at common labor.

I see you've not found their giant counterparts yet. I'm not so sure that Jonas is responsible for creating the rusty gears, or the temporal gears, for that matter. It's possible that he did, and the process used has long since been lost to the ages. However, I suspect that the rusty gears, and perhaps a portion of the temporal gears as well, actually come from the Rust world dimension. It's been described as a wondrous land filled with giant, impossible machines, that also turned into a dark and dreadful place not long after Jonas began his work(it's also rather heavily implied that Jonas essentially copied a lot of what he saw there). Of course, there's also the theory that rusty gears are simply the remains of temporal gears that have been used up. Either way you look at it, I think the main idea is that the gears are special because their design is too exceptional to be the work of human hands. I'm not so sure that Falx made a pact with any otherworldly entity. It's possible, but as it currently stands, he just seems to have found a way to peer into the Rust world and simply copied the things he saw there, for the most part. I don't think there's yet been a concrete reason given as to why all the automatons went rogue, other than it probably has something to do with whatever turned the Rust world into the horrible place that it is. I think it's also implied that the shivers, drifters, and bowtorn may be the unluckier victims of what Jonas's grand Salvation Engine did to the Old World. Given how prominent of a figure he is in the lore, I would be surprised if we didn't run across him(or what's left of him) at some point, though I would expect it to be an encounter that happens more towards the end of the story. I'm certain he's still alive though, based on some dialogue from chapter 2, though in hiding and wanting nothing to do with his inventions or other people.

Welcome to the forums! I guess it kind of does, since your latitude affects your climate and day length. Building something like Stonehenge would be relatively simple, but building it to be functional...I'm not sure how one would go about doing that in game. You'd definitely need to consider how many days per month you have it set to in your world; by default it's 9, but it can go as high as 30.

I think it's just for variety, plus I suppose if you wanted a more difficult cheese to make, it fills that role nicely.