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Speaking of flying machines, apparently that's a mod now: https://mods.vintagestory.at/vsairshipmod

Really depends on how much work one wants to sink into the setup. It's not something I would recommend though due to the changes coming in 1.22. Multi-windmill setups should still be possible, it's just the Frankenmill designs that are going defunct, I think, in favor of watermills and bigger windmill options.

No, that actually is working as intending, at least in this point in the game's development. Water in Vintage Story does not act the same way that it does in the other block game. Water sources have to be placed individually, either via bucket or the creative menu(though if using creative there's probably a world edit tool to quickly fill a space with water). It is a bit cumbersome, may or may not be subject to change in the future. Overall though, I don't get the impression that the player is meant to be able to easily create large bodies of water, outside of world edit.

If the vessels are just covered with dirt they should be fine. The space will just cease to function as a cellar when you remove the dirt to access the vessel.

It's typically a matter of just picking a direction and walking. However: Translocators are a very good way to cover a lot of ground rather quickly, if you happen to find a few. Limestone, chalk, and slate can sometimes be good areas to look at well, as those are rock types that often appear alongside bauxite. It's no guarantee of finding bauxite, of course, but if there are convenient cliffs or caves around to check strata, it can't hurt to give it a shot. However, if you're still having no luck, you might just turn your attention to a different task for a while. Iron is sufficient for completing the story, so you might consider working on story content(if lore is enabled) and see if you run across any bauxite in the process. Likewise, you might consider venturing to the tropics for some new scenery and goodies to bring home, and see if you stumble across a source of bauxite along the way.

Like others have already noted, looking for circular depressions in the ground and then digging down to see if there is suevite or meteor chunks underneath is typically the best method. Sometimes there are suevite/meteor bits on the surface though, so digging isn't necessary.

Welcome to the forums! Cellars still work in southern climates. The difference is they won't be quite as effective as in the north due to the hotter climate. In the default temperate climate, cellars will be most effective in the colder months, while losing a bit of effectiveness in the warmer months. It's probably just due to the warmer southern climate. What rates are the storage vessels reading? To my knowledge, cellars in southern climates should have rates similar to northern climates in the summertime, so stuff like raw meat should stay fresh for at least a few days before starting to spoil. One thing you might check is the cellar's construction, since using wood or placing slabs that aren't flush to the interior can throw things off.

Well...now I have to pay more attention next time I make soup in Vintage Story. I knew the stews changed depending on what you put in them, but the soup all looked the same.

I think perhaps some of it is due to the differing natures of the two. Discord is very convenient for fast communication, which makes it great for gaming with friends, but the fast pace of such communication also makes it very easy to react to things in the heat of the moment, and emotional reactions are, in many cases, not the best choices. Forums, on the other hand, move at a much slower pace, which makes them more suited to handling large volumes of information and people at once, but can also make them frustrating to deal with if one desires quick responses. That wait time, however, is an overlooked benefit, as it gives users a chance to cool off and think over their response carefully before posting. Granted, it's not completely foolproof, as it's still very possible to get into altercations with other users, but it does tend to happen a little less often, I think, due to the slower nature of the posting system.

Five sets of sails is plenty to power a helve hammer, provided the wind is decent. If you connect the windmill directly to the helve hammer using axles and angled gears there shouldn't be any power issues as long as there is some decent wind. If you only want to use a single windmill to power everything, you will need to connect the windmill to a large gear, using an angled gear to connect it to the large gear's rim. In the pictures you provided, you've connected the windmill to the main shaft of the large gear, which in my experience will make the large gear spin quite fast but won't actually translate to power. By connecting the windmill to the large gear's rim via angled gear though, the large gear will turn much slower but actually be outputting usable power. From there it's just a matter of connecting everything else to the other empty slots on the large gear's rim, making sure to include transmissions and clutches so you can switch the machines on and off as needed. One windmill alone won't power everything at once, at least not in 1.21.

I think the better course of action would be to add some sort of flying machine for the player to build and keep fueled/maintain, whether that be a hot air balloon, simple airship, or simple airplane. Granted, I also think flying machines are a bit outside the scope of the game, but if flight is intended to be a legitimate method of player travel over long distances, the player should need to invest a lot more into it. Flight is, after all, a very powerful ability, and while Minecraft's elytra is very fun to use...it's also a source of the game's wonky balance. Acquiring one can take a bit of work, but once the player has an elytra, it's very easy to maintain with Mending and Unbreaking III. Sugar cane can be easily farmed for paper, and it's also not hard to build a basic mob grinder for gunpowder or otherwise hunt creepers with a Looting III weapon. For Vintage Story though, I expect travel to remain more...grounded. Mounts, railroads potentially, and maybe even teleporters as a very late game investment. The glider will probably remain a niche item; useful for covering short distances or avoiding what would otherwise be lethal falls, but not something intended to be used for conventional travel.

Kind of? I'm probably butchering the explanation here, but it's reducing the speed while increasing the torque. The speed might be slower, but it's producing usable power, in other words. The helve hammer requires quite a bit of torque(power) in order to operate. I'll also note that if you have multiple things hooked up to one windmill, you'll want to build transmissions and clutches in order to toggle them on and off as needed, or otherwise disconnect the unused machines from the power source as needed. The more machines you try to power at once, the more power you will need.

Pigs...eh, maybe. But sheep and goat poo? Not really worth the effort, unless you already have them contained in a pen. Same goes for chickens. For running around collecting it in the wild, it's more ideal for look for where large herbivores have been--preferably those that gather in herds, like bison, buffalo, elephants, etc. Not only do large herbivores produce more poo, but the herd itself makes enough poo to fertilize a field or two, if you find a herd that is. Would also note that when said poo dries out, it could be used as fuel as well. Might be a little gross, of course.

Tried adding a bit of milk to the egg mixture...the end result was definitely better than just using only eggs.

Welcome to the forums! Have you tried connecting the windmill to the side of the big gear rather than the main axle? I'm not the most adept at the mechanical side of the game, but I think that may be the problem in this case.

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Valheim is a pretty big offender here, I think. It's been a while since I last played, but to my knowledge it's possible to play a single character across multiple worlds, in both singleplayer and multiplayer. While that does make for some flexible gameplay, it also leaves the door wide open to cheating since anyone can use console commands in singleplayer to give themselves whatever they want before hopping into multiplayer.

Welcome to the forums! I kinda just...make it up as I go along. I'll have a general style in mind when I start building, but for VS a lot of my choices end up being based on the materials I have available near my base. For example, building a Spanish-style villa probably isn't going to work if there's nothing but basalt, slate, and shale for miles around. A foreboding castle would probably be a better choice. Typically I'll build the exterior shell first, then finish the interior. However, during this process I also try to make sure that the design makes sense. That is, a kitchen area will be near a dining/general hangout area, as well as have convenient access to a cellar to make retrieving cooking ingredients simple. If there's a fireplace and the climate is colder, it might be ideal to put the fireplace in the middle of the structure and build the living spaces around it. The design won't actually provide extra warmth, but it'll feel like it realistically could. Likewise, if building in a hot environment, having large windows and doorways will help the building look like an inviting place to cool off, rather than a stuffy structure that retains heat. Never let comparing yourself to others become a habit. It's quite a destructive one. It's fine to look at the work of others to draw inspiration and learn how to do stuff, same as it's good to examine your own work to see where improvements could be made. There will, however, always be someone else with more skill, not to mention that you yourself will have your own individual style. The world would be boring if everyone were the same! Mistakes will happen, yes, but that's just part of the learning process. A mistake is only a failure, I think, if one doesn't learn from said mistake.

Oh yeah for sure, PvP is an entirely different beast.

Welcome to the game and the forums! Rather than type everything out here, I recommend reading this guide instead: You don't need to follow it to the letter, necessarily, but it provides a solid walkthrough of the basic first steps of progression. I did this quite a lot when I first started too, as I found it easier to just start over with a new world when I messed up rather than continue the old and try to fix my mistake. Once you get more experience, it becomes easier to hold onto worlds rather than start anew. Do note that I'm not encouraging you to start a new world whenever you make a mistake! That's really just up to you based on your own preferences. I'm just saying it's not necessarily a bad strategy when learning the game. Aside from the guide I linked above, I would say that your first big goal should be establishing a secure food supply and surviving your first winter. If you can't establish a secure food supply, you'll struggle doing everything else in the game, surviving winter included. If you can establish that supply though and survive the winter, you should be able to achieve anything else you set your mind to. Also don't be afraid to make the settings easier or harder as needed. Most settings can be adjusted via console command after a world's creation; you'll just need to reload the world for the changes to apply.

This kind of ruin complex seems like it would a prime way to add in the procedural dungeons.

Is that finishing the game in 15 minutes or advancing to Feudal in 15 minutes? Getting the AI to surrender within 15 was pretty easy on the original game version--all it took was finding the enemy town and then distracting the villagers with your scout. Getting to Feudal in 15 minutes depends mainly on how good one is at managing multiple things at once. Speed running can be fun, and I usually speedrun the early game as I don't really like to start really serious building until I have iron tools. Bronze and copper just aren't durable enough for what I do. That being said, speedrunning and trying to min-max everything also leads to burnout within short order in Vintage Story. I haven't been speedrunning in 1.22 much at all, mostly due to certain bugs making it impossible, but the slower pace has been rather refreshing. Ironically, I think that's partly why AoE 3 didn't really catch on like its predecessor. Was still a really fun game, but it did change quite a lot and made civ strategies much less flexible. I do agree with Thorfinn though: When it comes to Vintage Story, I don't get the impression they change just for the sake of change, which is what some games do(MMOs particularly). The changes that are implemented build on what's already there, often come with explanations, and the reasoning behind them is usually also quite easy to figure out .

Perhaps instead of trying to change the wild translocators, simply give players the means to set up their own teleporters as a late game piece of tech. Then the players can just choose where they want to set up the teleports(provided they're willing to invest the resources), and thus ensures that the teleports are always useful. As for the wild translocators, they could be broken down into parts, repaired or not, which can then be used to build other contraptions. Yeah, I agree with @Thorfinn here. There are already several player complaints about iron ore(which fills this criteria) being too difficult to find, and it's also not unusual to run across chunks of map where the density search produces no results. I think the better option here is just allowing traders or other NPCs to sell some of these resources so that players have the option to buy it if they're not having any luck locating the resource or would otherwise rather trade for it.

Rhadamant, I think, is a decent example of what the average VS veteran does to progress, and he's definitely not wrong about needing to get the lay of the land anyway. I rarely pan much these days, save for the occasional bony soil. When I first started playing though, I panned quite a lot since exploring felt very dangerous due to my lack of skill, and panning was a very safe, if boring, alternative.

A fair enough point, which I counter with Vintage Story's own development. The devs patch out undesired strategies, yes, and that's not really unusual when it comes to game design. The boss fights of VS are a good example to use here, I think, since both had cheese strategies when initially implemented, that have since been fixed. The first boss could fling the player into nearby alcoves, which allowed the player to potentially skip the fight entirely, or otherwise shoot at the boss from safety. The second boss had a stairwell the player could hide in to avoid getting knocked out of the arena(and falling to their death) and otherwise duck into to damage the boss from safety. It's not really ideal for the player to be skipping the fights like that, hence why both strategies have been patched out. However, the devs have also been known to walk back certain changes, or make alterations as needed based on player feedback. The changes to healing are a good example of that. The initial change canceled the bandaging process if the player fell for longer than one second, making the first boss fight tougher than what many players could handle. While the devs obviously want boss fights to be challenging, they don't want the fights to be so difficult that most players can't beat the fights either. Thus the healing change was adjusted so that falls no longer interrupt the bandage process. The second boss was also adjusted to have a slower, more predictable attack cycle, so that the player can more easily damage the boss and dodge incoming attacks(and just...overall tell what's happening in the fight). The oncoming spear controversy is another good example: spears were too strong before, and have received some adjustments to compensate, as well as some new options to bring them in line with the available materials. The initial adjustments seem to have been a little too strong, so they're in the process of making more adjustments to the numbers so the weapon feels better for players to use while still being in line with the intended game balance. I would say that applies to most things in the game, really, not just rifts. There are certainly plenty of players that don't enjoy X mechanic, but I'm not sure that alone is a good enough reason to delete certain mechanics or rework them. Pleasing everyone is an impossible task. Best for the devs to design the game they wish to play themselves, since that will ensure the highest quality.