LadyWYT

Plus find ALL the butterfly pins.

Don't need a mod, just need to go into creative and give yourself the admin sword. It was a bit buggy when I went through it the first time, HOWEVER, that was also on a release candidate and not a stable release. I've also played through it with a friend on the stable release(modded), and it was a lot smoother. There was, however, an issue with the lift and mode switching, in which I was suspended in the vacuum of space for a short time. I don't remember exactly how it happened, but switching again fixed it, I think. In regards to falling through solid objects--some props have goofy hitboxes and look bigger than they actually are. However, there is also a bug where you can get knocked back into blocks. Usually when that happens, you're only partially clipped into the block and can walk free, but sometimes you will actually be stuck in the block itself and need to switch gamemodes in order to free yourself.

I think it's mostly likely a weather effect. If the weather is really bad outside, the inside of your house can sometimes be foggy too, for whatever reason. If you built underground, it could be a side affect of the new underground fog mechanics as well. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but sometimes chunks underground will have a dark fog effect that keeps light from shining quite as brightly. I don't think it's a permanent effect, as it seems to come and go, but I wouldn't swear to it.

Yeah, some of the new locations have had some distinct growing pains. There have been some improvements, but I think overall, it will boil down to what kind of content one enjoys doing. Players who enjoy parkour will enjoy chapter 2 a lot more than players who hate parkour. Also no shame in this.

At a glance, I'd say you have some mods that are out-of-date. Older mods can work on newer versions, depending on what changed in updates, but it's never a guarantee that an older mod will continue to work on a newer version of the game. 1.20 changed quite a few things, so I'm guessing it probably broke something related to one of the older mods. I'd check your mod versions, making sure that everything is updated to the most recent stable version of the game(or at least a stable version of 1.20) and removing anything that's older and not confirmed to work on 1.20.

Very true. And if you could turn those scaly pelts into shoes, that means you can have a comfy pair of crocs to wear!

The hippo scares me. Something tells me the tropics might no longer be the safest climate zone to settle in! Loving the progress so far though!

This is actually already a thing: an optional challenge setting that prevents buckets from placing water source blocks. Firepits shouldn't be burning anything, save the fuel you put in them. Pit kilns, on the other hand, will happily set fire to whatever flammable thing happens to be near them. Which is also why you don't want to build them in your house(learned that the hard way!) Maybe, but I think it would make flax a little too easy to acquire, in addition to encouraging players to hunt the drifters and whatnot in the early game. Not that actively hunting them is bad, but in my opinion the monsters are more of a hazard to be avoided, unless you need to deal with them for some reason. I haven't tinkered too much with those crops, but cherries and peaches don't have the same shelf life as pears and apples, which is why they have a shorter time window for harvest/use. If I'm recalling correctly though, cherries don't have as good of nutrition value as other fruits, which is a shame. If I were to change anything, I'd increase their nutrition value so that it's more worth investing in them. Also already a feature: cave-ins and soil instability. If you have those turned on, not only will you need to be careful about your mining process, but you'll also be unable to build with just plain dirt as it will collapse. You'll need to pack/ram the dirt first, if you wish to build anything with it. Or a simple Jonas contraption. Or even a complicated one that functions like an airlock--it only opens for the player, and closes shortly after being opened.

If by "wall" you mean fences and stone walls...yes, yes they should be allowed to climb over those, in my opinion. Not that I dislike trapping them in my farms and killing them from safety, but it is rather sad when they can climb two block heights, but can't crawl over a simple fence. I don't think such a change would be too unbalanced either--you'd need to plan your defences a little more to account for the better climbing ability, but they otherwise are still weak in tight spaces.

Oh definitely! I just find it funny because I've digging around on a Decent reading for halite on a friend's server and found absolutely nothing. Yet here I'm not even looking for halite, and just happen to find it floating in the air for whatever reason.

Oh this is really cute! Do the more experienced players sometimes act as tour guides?

Could just pass it off as those darn temporal storms or a translocator gone awry. Depends...for the Archive, no that's not normal. As @Thorfinn already mentioned, the Resonance Archive tends to spawn somewhere between 4k and 6k blocks from the world spawn. As for other points of interest though...you might be traveling those kinds of distances in order to get to them.

Depends on which class you play. Blackguard is at the strongest advantage for the first boss fight, since that class has a bonus to melee damage and a health boost. Hunter is probably one of the weakest, since ranged weapons aren't as useful there and Hunter having the penalty to melee. The script flips entirely on the next boss battle, as Hunter becomes the strongest class with Blackguard perhaps being the weakest. In my opinion, the boss fights on default settings have felt fine. They're challenging, yes, but they haven't really felt unfair, and I say that having had my rear paddled by them a time or two. That being said, it probably wouldn't hurt to add a specific damage/health slider for the bosses, so that players who would rather just play the story(with some challenge posed by the regular monsters) without difficult bosses, can. Or, possibly, add a class that gets a bonus to damage vs. boss monsters instead. It'd be a very niche trait, but one useful for speedrunning/making those fights a little easier.

Welcome to the forums! It's a neat idea, but I'd be concerned about it both taking up processing power that's better used elsewhere, or becoming more tedious than fun to deal with. Immersion is nice, but having to constantly maintain your base to keep it from literally falling apart will get frustrating fairly quickly, especially if you have a large base. Likewise, the main plot has the player venturing away from home for extended periods, so having one's base fall apart while away could be a big turn-off from ever venturing too far from home. However, I could see it potentially being an interesting challenge feature for Homo Sapiens, since I don't think there's as many challenges/hazards in that gamemode. Now if it was structured so that the weathering only takes place on player-made structures if they are away from the chunks for a long time, then it might work as an immersive feature without being too frustrating. However, I'm not sure how you'd take chiseled blocks into account, and I'm also not sure how it would work in multiplayer, given that it's possible for a lot of time to pass if you haven't played on the server in a while. Could be a hassle there, but then again that might be a feature that a lot of servers end up turning off.

For those wondering, there did turn out to be a halite dome buried in the ground underneath the floating blocks. Ironically, a propick reading only gave it a miniscule chance of spawning, but there it is.

I don't think this is how you're supposed to find it!

There's a whole 'nother chapter, my friend. Though getting bad luck on the treasure hunters like that does make it harder to start on chapter two. I think the next update is rumored to be focused on improving the end-game tech options, but I wouldn't swear to it. In any case, more Jonas tech options would come with the need for more Jonas parts, which makes hunting the highest tier monsters a more attractive choice. I also figure the overall story pace might be designed with the intention that the player will be taking breaks between chapters to return to their base and replenish supplies/repair or otherwise improve gear. Depending on what conditions you set for your world generation, you may also be needing to wait for specific times of year before tackling some pieces of the story as well. I don't think it really needs fixed, as it's nice to have the option of quick progression, provided you're willing to push that hard for it. Generally, I think I'm usually getting to steel around the first of Year 1, on average, maybe a bit later. I like to take my time in many cases and build for aesthetics, not just pure function. One "fix" that would probably work though, to stretch out the progression time a bit...just add some more options of things to do when progressing. Some could be mandatory, some could just be optional gameplay loops, but more choices for the player means they'll need to make decisions on what they spend their time on, since not everything can be done all at once.

I believe that a space has to both fit the correct dimensions and be insulated in order to properly qualify as a room. Doors with holes in them(crude doors, sleek doors) don't count as insulating. Which is easily done by hammering out a sawblade on an anvil. You don't really need to ever build the crude door since it's easy enough to obtain a solid one. It is a low chance, yes, but I think it works. If it breaks on you at the wrong time, you're going to have a really bad day and may not survive. However, the break chance is also low enough that players may be okay with taking that risk and using the door, rather than use dirt or rush to get a sawblade. If it were a higher break chance, then it'd be an even less attractive option than it already is. I think if a drifter can break it, then realistically the other monsters and larger wildlife should be able to as well.

Or maybe they're like those little Buddha statues, but with drifters instead? Aesthetics are definitely worth it, especially if you like bragging rights/a really nice looking base.

1. I'm wondering if the cave fog isn't tied to some sort of "weather" for the underground. Some spots seem to be worse than others when it comes to that fog. So I'm not sure if it's only certain areas that have less visibility than others, or if it's a peculiar condition that comes and goes at random. 2. I'm pretty sure that one is a case of finding an incredibly unstable chunk; some are definitely worse than others when it comes to how fast you gain/lose stability. 3. Were there any rifts nearby to spawn anything? At high levels of activity there generally are, but sometimes the rifts spawn further away so any monsters they produce are too far to notice you. Or it could be a bug. In any case, I think I've had a night or two like that, but in general if there is rift activity, there are appropriate monster spawns to go with it. Prospect until you find a good spot to dig, then dig a VERY deep mineshaft. It tends to spawn near the mantle.

I kind of like the idea, but I have to agree with @Facethief. There's no point in having the door when you can block the way just as easily with something else. Though I'd also argue that the crude door already has the kind of function you're suggesting it have, just not quite how you've suggested it. Drifters and other monsters can't break it, nor can aggressive wildlife for that matter, but it has a chance to break every time a player uses it. Given that you need to open doors to get into your house, and close them to keep things out...that's two different chances for the crude door to snap off its hinges, assuming that the player closed it when they went outside the first time.

Scale armor offer more ranged accuracy than plate and more protection than chain(though less accurate). So if you prefer to do your fighting at range but also want a bit more protection than what chain offers, scale is the way to go. Keeping in mind that one's progression speed hinges heavily on their skill. An experienced player can have their hands on iron within a couple months of in-game time, or even have steel in that timeframe depending on seed layout and task priority. A new player isn't going to have the experience and skill needed to do that though, given that they're still learning the game. In regards to early armor types, most of them aren't very useful, especially to experienced players. Copper is pretty much a waste, as it's better to use copper for bronze. Bronze is decent, and can get you through the Archive, but won't hold up to the sturdier monsters(tier 3/4). Leather and improvised armors are...okay for the very early game, but aren't generally that useful for more experienced players, since those players are usually better at avoiding/dealing with danger. I would say those armors have situational usefulness--they might not offer much protection, but they're cheap, easy to acquire, and can sometimes be the difference between life and death as you establish yourself. In regards to gambeson, it's definitely a prime choice for adventuring armor. It does take a while to acquire though, and there are other things you might want to use that flax for too. Steel plate does turn you into a walking tank, however, the drawback is that you can't heal at all while wearing it. There might not be much damage that gets through the armor, but the bits that do will add up, and if you don't have a way to get to safety and patch yourself up you're probably done for. As for what you might have to fight? Aside from certain powerful story-related entities, the new monsters that were added pack quite a punch, especially in situations where you have a lot of stronger ones in the same general area. Steel is protective, yes, but it won't keep you safe from complacency. Storms actually do start out easy, and get harder as time goes on. Which ironically, seems to be backwards from how certain things pan out in the lore, but for gameplay...I mean it works. But even the "easy" storms are going to be nasty if you're lacking in equipment and don't want to use cheese strategy(things that shouldn't work but do because videogame logic). Which I also think is fine, provided there are ways for the player to survive(like being alerted to the storm's approach, and hiding). It's okay for some things to be incredibly dangerous, and temporal storms help drive home the point that something very bad happened to the world. As for the loot...the Jonas parts are probably the best thing you can get from the storms, and I'm not sure what else the monsters could drop that would both feel satisfying and not unbalance the gameplay. Temporal gears, rusty gears, and flax fibers can all be acquired elsewhere, in safer fashions, but they're still useful gains from a storm after a fashion. Also, this is just my opinion, but I think the monsters are supposed to be more obstacles that players need to face every so often, instead of things that players are actively encouraged to hunt. That's not to say they can't or shouldn't be hunted, but they seem more like supernatural abominations that lurk around and try to rip your face off every now and then. They aren't things you want to encounter, realistically, but will need to deal with in order to accomplish certain things(like the main story). I don't think it's too far-fetched, though I wouldn't expect it to be implemented in quite that fashion. I think there will likely be some "dungeon instances" that we'll enter and do stuff(technically there's already at least one!), and while I expect them to be dangerous, I don't expect them to be a way to acquire resources outside of plot-specific macguffins. Well...I mean...I have what I've dubbed the "Friendship Hole/Mines" on my friend's server. It's a mined-out quartz vein that I've been using as a stone quarry as well--near the surface, with a lot of dark open space. There's usually a couple of monsters down there to tangle with, though on days with higher rift activity there are more. So I'd say that yeah, someone could dig out a "kill floor" if they wanted. It'd be a lot of effort, of course, and unless you're hunting the exotic shivers and bowtorn deep at the mantle layer, I'm not sure why you would do this. But yeah, you probably could.

I do what @Never Jhonsen does: block the entrance to the translocator room, and tunnel my way to the surface with ladders. It's not only safer, but offers much more convenient access to the translocator, assuming you're going to be using it with any frequency. As for caving in general...the equipment you'll need somewhat depends on your skill level. I generally wouldn't recommend venturing too far into caves until you have iron armor. Iron armor is sturdy enough to hold up against most of what's in the caves, and if you happen to find yourself facing off against the nightmares haunting the deepest layer it can buy you enough time to either deal with the threat or escape. Gambeson and bronze are also solid choices, though they won't hold up as well against deeper level threats.

The steel requirement to mine it is probably to encourage players to upgrade their tools in order to progress, instead of relying on the cheapest tools for everything. It also ensures that players have access to what they need in order to process it, instead of letting them dig it up and then get frustrated when they can't do anything with it.

It's probably a mod that got forgotten about. If not a mod, then I would say it's most likely a wolf that you didn't get the best look at, or possibly even a shiver. It wouldn't be out of the question to mistake one of those for a modded creature if other mods are installed, if you didn't get a good look at it.