LadyWYT

Well first and foremost, I don't expect to see any new lore pieces added, unless there's a new Jonas contraption or new tapestries/lore books to find. Lore stuff is generally saved for story updates. I would expect to see coral reefs though. They were supposed to be in the 1.20 update, but weren't working correctly and got pushed back. So finishing them up and releasing them with 1.21 seems obvious. Going along with that might be some new types of fish or other aquatic animals, and perhaps a proper way to fish as well. It's a logical next step since the water has been made more interesting. Another creature update is also very possible. We got updated wolves in 1.20, and I believe all the older creatures will eventually get updates as well in order to match the new style. Bears are likely, in my opinion, since they need some extra polish with sound design in order to let players have some prior warning of their presence before getting chomped. Bighorn sheep are also likely, as their models are quite chunky and stand out the worst as far as dated looks go. Boars are fine, as are foxes, raccoons, and chickens, so I wouldn't expect to see any updates to these until later. Traders I also think might get a visual and audio update to match other human NPCs. For game mechanics, I'll take a page out of your natural disaster suggestion, and suggest that changes could be made to the current weather patterns to allow hailstorms to damage crops and blizzards to reduce visibility even further. I think a change like this would pose a greater challenge for the hardcore players, while not being so punishing that more casual players never give it a shot. Likewise, both seem like they would be a bit easier to handle, and the penalties a lot more fair than losing an entire base. More plant species or other natural decor like tree stumps and fallen logs could be a possibility. Now that we have better ways to travel, it only makes sense to add a few more things to see on your adventures. Some of these plants could be new crops, to give a bit more food variety. It's possible that surface ruins could receive a bit of an update as well, but I think what we have now is fine, and would rather see more natural stuff instead. It's a longshot, but I could see a loom item or other method of fiber processing added. No more just slapping things into the crafting grid and getting cloth as a result. The main issue I see here though is how exactly it would work without the player needing to stand in one spot holding down a mouse button/key for long periods of time to craft, like what the manual quern requires. If there's a way to realistically automate a loom though using medieval tech, then it's not much of an issue. Birds. I'm guessing that the systems used to create the bugs and frogs could probably be tweaked to accommodate a more detailed model(no one wants bird blocks), and used to spawn small songbirds and whatnot as ambience. To more ambitiously expand an already ambitious idea--add larger birds like crows to potentially eat grain crops. Placing a straw dummy in a crop field will protect crops within a certain radius from birds, and straw dummies could also be equipped with clothing items(not armor) for decoration. A different angle on the birds idea: add more large birds similar to chickens. Ducks and geese would make good additions to the water, and could only spawn during certain times of year in certain climates to simulate migration patterns(birds already spawned would not despawn though). Turkeys, pheasants, grouse, quail, and ptarmigans could provide additional hunting opportunities. Turkeys, ducks, and geese could also be domesticated, which adds another livestock option that farming enthusiasts will probably enjoy. Warm/tropical climates could spawn ostrich, emus, and peafowl as well as potentially dodo birds since these didn't go extinct until the 1600s. Peafowl would also be a fun exotic to add to your livestock collection, albeit a very noisey one. Some more cave clutter would be a great addition as well. More rock formations, cave pools with creatures, bats(which would obviously produce guano as a resource), and moss/mold would make the underground more interesting to explore.

That's a great idea for a Jonas tech contraption. I'm not entirely sure what one would use it for, as most reasons I can think of to keep a chunk loaded usually require the player to be around supervising certain processes.

Hmmmm...not especially, other than I don't expect any major lore content release. Most of my attention on the update front has been thinking over the revelations of story chapter two, and what could be coming next on that front.

I'll also clarify that I don't necessarily mind if some sort of natural disasters make it into the vanilla game, provided that it's an optional challenge, similar to the cave-in mechanics or fires started by lightning. I do think though, that there are other ideas that would be much more popular and add much more value to the gameplay overall. That would help, but the drawback I see here is that if the events strike without warning, you've then got the pressure that you have to make disaster-proofing a priority, as you don't know when one will strike. If you're focusing your attention on that, that's time and resources that you aren't devoting to other tasks you need/want to do, which can end up very frustrating especially when no disaster hits for a very long time. Likewise, it would suck to sink a lot of work into say, preparing defenses against an earthquake, only to get hit by a tornado instead and have a lot of damage done because you didn't prepare correctly. You could also have the worst luck, and have a natural disaster hit early on and wipe your progress before you've had a chance to prepare as well. Alternately, you could treat natural disasters like temporal storms, and give some sort of advance warning so the player isn't blindsided. However, it seems like that would be a different kind of frustration, since it takes time to fortify things and while you could hide in a hole and be fine, your stuff can't. Now that I think about it though...the biggest issue with an advance warning is probably natural disasters only affecting certain regions. In that case, you could just take a trip to a different region for a few days so your base chunks aren't loaded, and then return. No loaded chunks means nothing exciting happens, which defeats the purpose of disasters.

Precisely my point. Keeping in mind that the setting is the late Middle Ages. Not saying they didn't have their own disaster-proofing back then, but it's not the same level as it is today. You could go the Jonas tech route, I suppose, and make a device that counters extreme weather events. However, Jonas tech is very rare, and very late game. The player still has to survive long enough to reach that level, without getting so frustrated with things they can't really prevent at all that they quit playing. In regards to building things out of stone to resist damage from earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and the like...I'd highly recommend taking a look at before and after pictures of areas hit by disasters like this. We build stuff out of steel and concrete today and it still gets torn apart by natural disasters. I'd also argue that we already do have natural disasters in the game(or perhaps unnatural), in the form of temporal storms. I'll also point out that while there is plenty of advance warning for them, and they are fairly easy to deal with, I've seen more than a few complaints about how much some players hate them. I'd be surprised if a more realistic natural disaster that actually wrecks your base was more popular.

If it also helps...I got into a ranged duel with the base tier of the new ranged nasty...and won, as a Blackguard. Your wits and reflexes will definitely be your best friends when it comes to combat in 1.20.

Pottery and food prep are always decent options. Nighttime is also good downtime for looking at your map and planning mining, trade, or exploration trips.

I've got iron brigandine at the moment. The tier 4 monsters will still hurt, but the armor will keep you alive provided you aren't getting mobbed. You'll probably still need to duck inside and heal a time or two though, depending on what's after you and your combat skill.

I do agree, but at the same time...when I think about it...why not roll with it? Slap a lead on a large wild animal's neck, and maybe instead of trying to run away it starts focusing its efforts on mauling you instead. Now you could argue that a player could just equip armor and be fine, though I would expect many players to be trying this method of capture very early in the game before they really have armor to deal with it. However, I also think there's a good counter option for that: if the animal successfully hits you, they have a chance to break the lead and escape. For small animals, lead-breaking wouldn't be a factor, but I'll also note that we already have a good way to transport small animals now, in the form of the basket traps.

Like @Grummsh said--if it's not cold outside, I don't worry about repairing clothes unless I have material to spare. In the early game, I'll also stick to fur and rawhide clothing, as it's easy to craft and can be easily replaced when it wears out. For other clothing, the sewing kit restores most of the item's durability, and you can also buy these at some of the traders(survival goods and commodities, mainly) if you can't craft them yourself.

Excitement? Or frustration? The challenge would certainly be there, but I don't see getting a build that you spent hours perfecting wiped out in a natural disaster being very fun. Or losing your high level livestock to a tornado, or an earthquake perhaps striking while you're underground and burying you alive(goodbye items!). Most unfortunate occurrences that are in the game right now are entirely preventable with good preparedness and situational awareness from the player. Natural disasters are a different story; yes, you can prepare to an extent, but in a lot of cases you don't have much(if any) warning, and the "preparation" is oftentimes more about cleaning up whatever mess it leaves behind than it is avoiding the damage. As a mod though, it'd be great, so players that want that kind of content can add the mod to their games. I don't see it working for the vanilla game at all though, unless natural disasters can be turned off(and should be by default anyway) so that players don't have to deal with them. I'm sure we'll get these sooner or later. I think we were supposed to have coral reefs to explore in 1.20, but they weren't quite working right and have been pushed back until they're ready. Another feature I'm sure we'll get sometime in the future. Like the above two, I'm sure we'll get cats(both big and small) as well. One change I would make to big cats, in order to make them a little different from the bears and wolves we already have as predators--perhaps give them a larger detection radius, but make them stalk the player instead of outright charging to attack. I believe Fauna of the Stone Age does this with their big cats, as well as making them faster as well, so they're entities you really don't want to encounter unprepared.

I was more referring to fixing the rare bug or um...accident. "Accident" in this case typically meaning that I've gone and died in an inglorious fashion, and can't be bothered to shell out time and resources to make new stuff or retrieve my old stuff legitimately. I also don't like playing with "keep inventory" turned on, as it tends to lead to more reckless behavior on my part. So I'll opt for just sacrificing a bit of time to instead jump through some console commands, fix my mistakes, and then switch back to survival mode when I'm done. In that example, I was referencing playing in pure creative mode--no survival involved. When I'm just playing around with various things and mapping out build ideas, I like to work with several blocks at once, and have them all on hand without having to go into the creative menu to retrieve whatever isn't on my hotbar. In the other block game, I would just stash whatever I wasn't using at the time in the survival inventory, and pull those blocks back out whenever I needed to use them. Worked like a charm. I believe there's also a shortcut that allows you to copy whatever block you're looking at to your hand, but that can also end up requiring quite a bit of flying back and forth to reference various parts of the build. Personally, I've just found it more convenient to have a whole palette of blocks stored on my person to quickly reference, rather than searching the creative menu or constantly copy/pasting bits of a build.

It's an old thread that got resurrected--the player voices haven't changed in 1.20.

From the tinkering around I've done on some of my worlds, it would be handy for troubleshooting those times that things really go wrong in your game and you don't have the time or patience to fix it the "legit" way. It's also a handy storage spot for blocks when creative building; there's only so many slots on the hot bar and that way you can just swap blocks around in the inventory instead of constantly having to search for what you need.

Welcome to the forums! I believe initial player spawn conditions are still being adjusted in order to prevent these situations from happening, and in my experience it hasn't really been too much of an issue. However, sometimes you just have bad luck. If you close the character creation windows without locking any choices in, you should be able to run to a safer spot and reload the world, which will prompt you again with the creation menus.

Monsters will only spawn on the surface at night if there is rift activity and a rift nearby for them to spawn from. Higher rift activity means more rifts and more frequent spawns; lower rift activity means you might only have one or two rifts that may or may not be nearby, and fewer spawns. Calm nights means no surface activity at all. If there is a cave nearby, however, a monster or two could come crawling out regardless of rift activity or time of day, though it's still more likely to happen at higher levels of activity. The one exception is temporal storms: monsters can spawn most anywhere during those, provided there is enough space to spawn them. Light levels don't really apply while these are in effect.

Those are the bowtorn. I don't think it's intentional behavior. If I recall correctly, there were already issues with the new mobs just hanging out in daylight in previous test versions, so it looks like that behavior might not be fully fixed yet. I will say though, that last temporal storm all the monsters did end up despawning properly...including a nightmare bowtorn that waited until he was one hit away from death before vanishing. He was pretty goofy looking though--looked like he was sporting a nifty pair of rusty Ugg boots.

They're late game tech--if you've crafted steel, then you're probably at the point that you can start making rift wards, provided you have the resources. To my knowledge, they're not really a place-and-forget item like lanterns either. You'll need to refuel them occasionally with temporal gears.

You need it to craft fire clay, since fire clay only spawns naturally under black coal/anthracite deposits now. And it probably will be an annoying change for some players, so I expect to see a mod or two that either makes the process easier, or makes fire clay spawn as it did previously.

It's almost certainly going to be a mod. I'm not sure about a vanilla mechanic though. Maybe for the really late game, towards the completion of the full story, however I also think it's not necessary given this story reason(spoiler alert!):

The only pattern I've recognized is that the game likes to wait until you're lulled into a sense of security and get complacent, and then spring high levels of rift activity on you at the worst time. In other words, it's just luck of the draw as to what you'll get at any given moment, and it sounds like you've been really unlucky. My usual strategy for working outside is to always have a shield on hand, that way I can equip it to deal with any hostile wildlife or monsters that spawn should it be nighttime. As for caving, I don't go caving unless I'm looking for ruins, and I never go in without armor. If the monster activity is too much underground, I'll leave and come back later when the activity has died down a bit. Yep! It's not often that it happens, but sometimes a rift will spawn right on top of you. Sucks when it happens though, as it's usually right where you're trying to work, but it does make rift wards a more valuable asset around the base. In fact, I'd say rift wards are almost a must-have now, given the new monsters and what's happened a few times with temporal storms and high rift activity...I've been able to deal with the mess outside my base so far, but life would be a lot easier with those wards in place. My guess is that if you were working on the roof, the rift probably spawned in the space under you. That really applies more to chunks--some are stable, some are unstable, and some are neutral. The status that they have is permanent, and does not change. Rifts have a higher chance of spawning in unstable chunks, I believe, than they do in stable chunks, but they can otherwise spawn pretty much anywhere on the surface when there is rift activity. I have noticed though that they tend to spawn in the same general spots, so if say a rift spawns in the middle of your farm, the chances of one spawning in that same general spot later are fairly good. The one exception to this rule is story locations--the stability varies wildly, and some locations can be quite unstable, but you won't actually lose your stability while exploring them. I presume this is to keep the overall theme in place that certain locations are dangerous, while still allowing the player to explore at their own leisure, especially considering some locations are quite large and complicated. I've also not noticed rifts spawning in story locations, and to my knowledge the enemies that spawn in these locations, if any, are specific and not random.

*looks at thread title* Spoilers, my man... In any case, welcome to the forums! It's a neat idea, but I don't think it really works that well in the long run. Ten years is a lot of time to pass in-game, and Jonas parts are quite rare. Most players probably won't play a world for that long, and definitely won't want to wait ten years per schematic. Likewise, I don't see a lot of players wanting to sacrifice Jonas parts to get a schematic that they will also likely need said Jonas parts to build in the first place. The other main reason I don't see this idea working long term is that blueprints seem directly tied to story events, which makes sense given that blueprints are for extremely uncommon, unconventional pieces of technology. It's more rewarding to retrieve this special stuff from completing adventures, rather than playing the waiting game and grinding out incredibly valuable parts. And I would expect to be seeing more blueprints to discover as more story pieces are added to the game.

This is very true, but will also require more fuel upfront. By mass-production I meant there's not currently a way to stick several piles of flint into one receptacle and cook them all at once for a minimum fuel cost, like a beehive kiln or refractory. Multiple firepits will help speed up the process though, if one is willing to go that route.

Pretty much! In all fairness, it was too easy in that respect, but I wouldn't say it feels like too much of a bottleneck now. I like having a use for all the flint I inevitably acquire, plus it gives more incentive to find the materials for the sturdier high-tier refractory bricks. And provided you stay on top of resource management, the fuel cost isn't bad even if you're using charcoal to cook it down.

Welcome to the forums! I'm guessing that the chunk it's in is too far away from where you do most of your activities, and gets shuffled into the "inactive pile", as it were. So it's only going to update when you're close enough to flip it to the active category. I would consider moving them closer, or finding something to do nearby while they eat. I've not encountered issues with the ambient creature noise, but the climate I'm playing in is too cold for cicadas to spawn, I think, and it sounds like that's what you've encountered here. However, given real life experience, I can say that cicadas are very loud, so perhaps it's more accurate than intended. It depends on the rift activity, but yes, the nights are harder now thanks to the new monsters. Bowtorn are especially dangerous if you don't have anything to mitigate their damage, however, they also don't like you getting close and will try to flee. This is one I strongly suspect is unintentional. I've had a couple of temporal storms roll through and leave a bunch of them outside my house, when all the other stuff that came with despawned after the storm. Now I was able to deal with them without dying myself, and I suspect that leaving the chunk and coming back later would probably make them despawn. Having a rift ward active would likely help a lot as well. As far as bowtorn remaining in daylight after a typical night has passed--that I haven't really noticed. Usually if I see a monster in daylight, it either crawled out of a cave, or got caught in the morning sunlight and is trying to flee. Bowtorn are the slowest monster, so they aren't going anywhere fast.