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In defense of the other block game...it's nice to have the option to be lazy like that, and some of the shenanigans you can do as a result(like shoving the wither into the ceiling to suffocate instead of fighting it) are pretty wild. But otherwise, yeah...since players are intended to actually complete the story challenges in Vintage Story, the protections do need to be in place to ensure that they can't do things like just mine their way into a certain library. I know that's what I tried the very first time I went there, as I couldn't find the entrance. I figured out pretty quickly that wasn't going to be an option!

I mean...it's better than not seeing that screen when you hit bottom, and learning that you have no way to climb out of said hole.

Welcome to the forums! Fruit trees are actually pretty common, provided you're not in the arctic. They can, however, be a little hard to spot in the summer(and fall of the first year) since most look similar to birch trees. The way to tell them apart from other trees, aside from having bare/flowering/fruited branches sometimes, is that they have smaller trunks, smaller overall size, and tend to be a brighter shade of green. Once you learn what to look for, they become a lot easier to spot, though I will note that they only bear fruit in the appropriate season beginning year 1. Pumpkins and cabbages are currently only available from seed. Seeds can sometimes be found in cracked vessels, and I think purchased from agriculture traders, although I'm not entirely sure on this last one. Pineapples are only found in the tropical regions. Unless you set your world spawn to the tropics, you'll need to make the trek south and explore a jungle in order to find them. Do note that traveling that far south will take several days on default settings! I wouldn't be surprised if berry bushes get changed sometime in the future. As for fruit trees, you can propagate those via cuttings, though said cuttings only have a 40% survival rate(less if you're trying to graft to a pre-existing tree). Edibles spawns are tied to regional climate, I believe. Regions that are warmer and get plenty of rain are more likely to have more berry bushes, fruit trees, and other crops. Deserts will have very few, if any, edibles around at all. Mushrooms seem to spawn en masse in very wet chunks. There are some maps I've had that I basically lived in a wild grocery store, and there were other maps where I had to really trek in order to find any edible plants(aside from cattails, which I avoid eating). There are a couple of mods I'd recommend checking out though. Wildcraft: Fruits and Nuts will add a plethora of plants to forage to your heart's delight--I play with it frequently myself. Ancient Tools will add edible barks like birch, pine, and maple. There's also a mod someone made for more realistic starvation, though I don't know if it works with the current version of the game or not(turns out there's a fork). I know that I tried it once upon a time, as it sounded interesting, but in my experience it made hunger pretty much irrelevant. I'll also note that it doesn't play nicely with other mods that add foodstuffs or otherwise alter anything regarding hunger, so it's pretty much a mod you use almost by itself. https://mods.vintagestory.at/wildcraftfruit https://mods.vintagestory.at/ancienttools https://mods.vintagestory.at/realisticstarvationfixed Yes, hello, Blackguard here...and I would disagree that hunger is oppressive. Sort of. Personally, I've never had issues with it, unless I got one of those maps where just none of the usual edibles are to be found anywhere near spawn. However, that's also where I would agree, that whether or not hunger is a real problem depends on the player in question. Some might struggle to stay fed, or otherwise find it a hassle to deal with, and then you have others that will crank it as high as it will go and not even break a sweat. For the average player, I would guess that the default hunger rate is just enough to keep them occupied managing their food supply, without actually being overwhelming. An excellent example! There's uh...believe it or not, there's actually a toilet mod. There's one for diseases too, but it's the toilet mod that really makes me giggle every time it surfaces on the mod database. Not all wildlife...just the predators. To my knowledge, rabbits and deer cannot be bred like the standard farmstock, but will drop redmeat when slain. As for goats, they also drop redmeat, but they're similar to sheep in that the player can actually domesticate them for dairy products.

It's a known bug. You can break the blocks if you switch to creative mode. Otherwise, story locations are protected from almost all player tampering in order to ensure that the player actually completes the challenge. The other block game has a serious weakness in that regard, since the player can bypass most puzzles and fights by simply breaking/placing blocks. The chunk protection also stops players from just robbing the NPCs blind, or otherwise stripping the locations bare of all resources.

It's a suggestion that comes up fairly often. I'm not sure if it's something that will ever be added to the vanilla game or not. It seems a likely candidate for some later addition...perhaps once we have more machinery?

Ah okay. I knew it was a very low percentage, I just wasn't sure how low. I usually skedaddle back to safety once I hit the 30% mark.

There was another one, I think, that let you sacrifice items in rituals in return for getting a temporary buff. Unfortunately I don't recall the name of said mod though.

Welcome to the forums! I love these little doodles. They remind me of a lot of the illustrations in the old children's books I read when growing up. That strange cozy yet uncannily realistic vibe...which I suppose is also Vintage Story's aesthetic in a nutshell, heh heh.

I'm not sure you even need a model, at least not for the tiny fish. You can probably just slap a fish.png into the texture spot, maybe tweak how they move as a school a bit, and call it a day. An old Ecco the Dolphin game I have for PS2 had schools of fish that were essentially just that...mobile .pngs

Snowball earth. You could also just start a game in the arctic, and go from there. As for adding natural disasters to vanilla, even as a toggle...yeah, that's better suited to the mod realm than a vanilla feature. We already have a sort of natural(unnatural, really) disaster in the game for players to deal with, in the form of temporal storms, and it's not uncommon to see complaints here on the forums about how those are implemented.

It depends. Early armor won't let you tank enemies or anything, breaks easily, and wears down your resources faster. However, it can absorb a hit or two, which can buy you enough time to escape whatever's trying to kill you. I would say it's something that's useful for newer players as a bit of a safety device, but quickly loses value as a player becomes more skilled at the game. Veteran players tend to skip early armors entirely, as they've developed enough skill to be able to easily go without it. However, it's not always the case...as a veteran player, I still use things like improvised armor on occasion, as sometimes I'm accident prone. Personally I play with the cave-in mechanic turned off. If I'm not mistaken though, you should be able to use the dirt blocks to craft packed dirt, which should be sturdy enough to build the traditional starting dirt box house. The temporal mechanic is pretty weird until you get the hang of it. The most important thing to remember is that when you're choosing a base, you ideally want a location where the gear is either spinning clockwise, or not spinning at all. Clockwise means a stable area; no gear movement means the area is either neutral, or stable but you're at full stability already. If it's spinning counterclockwise, that's bad--you're losing stability, and losing enough will eventually cause monsters to start spawning(around 25-33% full), and even kill you if it's drained to zero for an extended period. You don't want to stand in rifts, as doing that rapidly drains your stability. The most you can do is wait for the rift activity to subside--the rifts will disappear on their own with time. Keeping areas well lit will help prevent them from spawning, but if one happens to spawn in an inconvenient location the best thing to do is just find something to do elsewhere for a little while. As for destroying rifts...there is a late game item called the rift ward, that will stop rifts from spawning within a certain radius provided that the ward is powered.

There's at least a couple, though I'm not sure there's a way to really solve that issue in multiplayer. On smaller servers, especially the ones where it's just a handful of friends that play roughly around the same time, it's not really an issue. On a large server, however, it can be a real problem. It's kinda just one of the extra challenges that goes with multiplayer itself. ServerPauseMod: https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/24765 No offline food spoil: https://mods.vintagestory.at/offlinefoodnospoil Immersive Inventory Spoilage: https://mods.vintagestory.at/immersiveinventoryspoilage Also keep in mind that those mods may be out of date. Doesn't mean that they won't still work in a newer version of the game, but you're more likely to run into issues with outdated mods.

Not just that, it would remove a lot of drawback from playing Blackguard. It takes two shots from low-tier weapons to kill a rabbit, and I would say an extra hit on average to kill larger creatures at range as well. Blackguards are very strong fighters, but one of the prices they pay for that strength is that they need more food...and it's harder for them to get said food. Meat is the best food source when it comes to pure calories, so if you make it easy for Blackguards to hunt there's no real challenge left to hold them back in the early game.

Tagging on to this here--hunger rate is also affected by armor type, weather, and things carried in the off-hand slot. If you have something in your off-hand slot, that automatically increases your hunger rate by 20%. Equipping armor will increase hunger as well, at a proportional rate to how heavy the armor is. Heavier armors drain more hunger in return for providing more protection, while lighter armor drains less but offers less protection. As for weather, being outside in the cold can increase your hunger rate if you're not near a heat source, although I think this hinges on your game settings regarding winter(true winters enabled, I think).

With all due respect sir, don't drag me back into this. I said my piece regarding the initial suggestions in the thread, did my best to make my case on breaking them down in regards to how they could be implemented and potentially affect the game. I don't have anything further to say currently on those suggestions, and I don't have an interest in making the fight personal, which at this point is what the thread has turned into. The most I'll say is thus: Some players do enjoy hanging out at base more, and that's a fair point. However, the game still needs to be able to be completed for the average player in singleplayer. The more maintenance the player has to do at home, the less opportunity they really have to go wandering off exploring. The reason I point out problems I see with the farming suggestions, and don't offer a solution as to how they could be implemented in a way that's likely to be fun for most players ...is that I've turned the ideas every which way in my head, and don't see a good solution for it. If I can't think of a good solution for a suggestion, and don't otherwise see that it adds anything particularly valuable in terms of gameplay, then I tend not to be in favor of implementing the idea into the game.

Welcome to the forums! Threads like this are always a refreshing breath of air, and it's fun to watch new players take their very first steps into the game. Vintage Story can seem intimidating at first, but a lot of it is just that it's a very meaty game in terms of information you need to know, and most gameplay loops intertwine with each other in some fashion or another. Once you figure out how to progress things, the game becomes much easier, though it will still happily punish players who get too complacent. Regarding bears and wolves, it's pretty much a rite of passage to get mauled several times when learning the game. I've definitely been there. Bear trophy armor is supposed to be added next update, which I'm super excited about! Sounds like you're off to a great start too, and I daresay you'll get through winter without much issue at this rate. Fish I wouldn't worry too much about, when it comes to food. They're a convenient source if they happen to spawn nearby, but until proper fishing is implemented your time and effort is typically better spent elsewhere. Personally I tend to call it the hunger or stamina bar. I somewhat agree with @traugdor, in that it'd be a little less confusing if the community used a consistent name for it, but it is what it is. Oh for sure, go for it if you have friends that want to play too. Multiplayer with a friend or two is an absolute blast! Just make sure to check the food before you eat it, unless you prepared it yourself. It's a bit of a running joke to sometimes slip a few...er...special shrooms...into a stewpot to feed your friends, heh heh.

Weird. I've been playing on 1.20.7 still(because mods) and haven't noticed an issue with it. Maybe it's a bug in a newer version? Or the block column could be messing with the pathing, as you said.

Yeah I was trying to be nice and not go there. I watched the first few episodes of his series after he made that funny wolf post on the forum a while back. It had its entertaining moments, and it's cute watching new players figure out the game. I've admittedly been curious about that, given the arguments he's been making. I suppose that's the handy part, and a drawback of posting on social media--it leaves a paper trail for others to follow. Personally, I've nothing against inexperienced players presenting their suggestions. However, it's also not unusual for many of those suggestions to be quite flawed, especially in relation to other parts of the game, which is to be expected from inexperience. As I've said before, where it gets aggravating is when questions and concerns about the suggestions get brushed aside with a simple "you're wrong, you don't know what you're talking, it'll just work and be fun before I said so!" argument, instead of an explanation of how such a thing could work and how the concerns would just be addressed. Keeping in mind that Wilderness Survival is the "hardcore" preset, same as Exploration is the "easy". The Standard version is the developer's intended difficulty, and as a result that's the metric I use when making assessments about suggestions. That, and my own experience with the game itself, and other ideas that others have tried via mods. Sometimes an idea works, and sometimes it only sounds fun on paper but isn't fun in practice. With all due respect my man, I believe you when you say you're passionate about the game and want to see it improve. You wouldn't be here making suggestions or having fun with it on YouTube if you weren't. And not everyone has fun in the same way, and that's okay. But I honestly don't believe that you want to be friends or hold a discussion to actually find common ground. Your actions haven't backed up your words in that regard, since you've not done anything except dismiss any opposing viewpoints as "irrelevant" because "we don't know what we're talking about, we're just stubborn old veterans chasing people away" and "you have a game-design oriented brain, so you're automatically right". Maybe that's not what you meant to say, but if it wasn't I would recommend taking a look at word and phrasing choices, as that's how you're coming across. Otherwise, I will note that you're free to defend your points by simply ignoring every counterpoint and labeling it as "irrelevant", but that destroys your case more than supports it. In any case, I'm glad you're having fun with the game. Hopefully you continue to do so. I don't have anything else to add regarding the rest of your post, since everything I've said up until now has essentially been ignored.

Assuming you're playing with lore content enabled, have you checked out any of the story content yet? You don't have to actually complete the initial content if you're not yet confidently equipped, but bronze should at least let you comfortably poke around in the first location. There's also decorating your base, if you're inclined to mess around with chiselwork. Winter has a lot of downtime, which makes it an ideal time to do things like chiseling. If you're inclined to invest more heavily in farming, winter is a great time to go collect cuttings of fruit trees so you can plant them towards the end of winter/beginning of spring. Cuttings need cooler weather in order to vernalize, but it can't be too cold when you plant them or they'll almost assuredly all die. Last but not least, there's always exploration. Frozen water is easier to traverse, and you can make notes of the extra resources you find. Of course, if you're really worried about the cold, you could venture into some of the caves in search of ruins and translocators. I don't recommend going too deep, as the high level monsters can overwhelm bronze fairly easily, though if you're skilled enough it shouldn't be too much of an issue if you're careful.

If you're seeing a shiver crawling around in broad daylight, it's usually due to the sun just rising, a temporal storm just ending, or a cave/overhang somewhere nearby. However, I will note that some recent versions of 1.20 had issues with monsters spawning in broad daylight, so if you're playing on an older game version you may be running into a bug(which could also be occurring on the latest versions, though I'm not aware of any bugs of that sort). In any case, you shouldn't be seeing monsters out and about during the day.

I daresay it's just bad luck. Sometimes there can be complete calm for several days, and sometimes the activity is nothing but high levels. You might try looking into acquiring a rift ward or two to curb some of the spawns, although rift wards are a late game tech item so I'm not sure how feasible that would be for the present. You might also try fencing off a safe perimeter around your base and lighting up everything inside. Shivers currently can't climb over fences, and the lights will at least cut back on some of the spawns, if not curb them entirely.

Welcome to the forums! For resources, I don't think you have anything to worry about there in terms of basic progression. For the story itself, however, some locations require specific types of terrain to generate in. The Resonance Archive requires a large mountain, and a certain other location requires a smaller mountain or hill I think. I'm not sure that those locations will generate naturally if the required terrain isn't present, so you may need to place them manually in order to complete the main story.

Hmmm. Iron should be sufficient for fighting sawblade locusts, although if you're getting by multiple sawblade locusts at once(or other higher tier monsters) that might be a bit much. Keep in mind that plate armor offers the worst healing stats, so if you need to rely a bit more heavily on healing items in combat you may want to switch armor types. As for fighting sawblade locusts in general...they're somewhat rare and you don't usually see more than one at a time. They are fairly tough, requiring a few hits to kill, and like other locusts have a special leap attack they can do. If you plunk down a light source before engaging them, a shield is useful to help block at least some of the incoming damage. You may also try softening them up a bit with ranged damaged before engaging them in melee.

Smithing is one of my favorite parts about the time, though ironically I hate spending long hours at the anvil banging out repetitive items. I daresay most players would agree that it's very tedious. However, in the case of smithing, it's generally not something you need to do very often, with certain exceptions such as iron blooms and plates. That is where the helve hammer shines though, and also what pushes players to go to the trouble of setting one up. A helve hammer will make processing all that iron and manufacturing all those parts much less tedious, and by the time you actually need all that stuff you should already have a helve hammer set up. Yeah, I wouldn't do that to pottery--that's a bit much. Smaller recipes like pots and bowls don't really benefit from a turning ability; in that case, I'm thinking more of a niche QoL feature for larger objects like storage vessels and planters. Not that it's hard to just walk around the object in question either, but it can be a bit of a hassle whereas a pottery wheel you can just shove into a corner and keep the project out of the way. I don't recall suggesting texture variations, but different textures is a decent way to give a pottery wheel a bit more purpose. You could take that a step further and make certain items like vases, pitchers, and whatnot as decorative/functional items exclusive to the wheel. In that case, you still have functional pottery that can be completed with the system we have at the moment, and ignore the wheel entirely if you wish, without penalty. But for those wanting more decorative vessels, or a wider range of function, the wheel could serve that niche. With a proper glazing system added for pottery, perhaps you could limit glazing to only the higher quality pottery crafted on the wheel, and leave the standard pottery as-is. That way players just in it for pure function aren't punished for ignoring the pottery wheel(which may not be something they enjoy messing with), while players who lean more heavily into the decorative aspects of the game will probably love it. Oh I can think of worse things than QTEs...microtransanctions.

Welcome to the forums! It's a neat concept, but I don't think it should be part of the core game. This is one major reason why it shouldn't be added as a core feature: religion, whether it pulls from real world religions or not, is a touchy subject for many people. The game does feature some loose religious references, but overall, religion is left up to a player's own interpretation, and is therefore able to appeal to a wider variety of players as a result. This is the best way to implement religion as a gameplay mechanic. If players desire it, leave it up to them to determine how it's implemented. A whole lot of controversy is avoided that way. Edit: because I'm a dumb-dumb sometimes and forgot what section of the forums I was in. I want to say someone already made a mod that implements this sort of idea, though without the religious aspect. https://mods.vintagestory.at/temporallife