CigsAndHam

Game is too easy currently. I want everything to be more difficult and time-consuming to achieve items and progress. Things like blacksmithing, farming, tailoring, butchering etc all need to be implemented. I want the world to be brutal as well. I want areas consumed by the rot with dangerous enemies. I want natural disasters threatening to wipe my base out. I want seasons that fluctuate due to temporal influence. Excessive rain in summer. Drought making farming near impossible. Disease culling my animals etc. I want the world to reflect more of the lore and not be a sunny, happy paradise considering the mass-extinction event the old world went through.

So I've recently encountered one in my solo playthrough. Was trying to put down ladders to explore a high-iron cave but went too low and dropped 40 blocks. Immediately a bell started ringing and scared the crap out of me. Not fun.

Haha that's fair. Yea it's from Beetlejuice. One of the funniest moments of the movie in my opinion.

I feel you with the sounds. With headphones, immediately hearing the raspy breathing of bow-torn and shiver while in a cave is quite unnerving.

I do have that problem. One thing I've started doing is looking for a location with a certain theme in mind. On this new world I have, I'm building a dwarven settlement inside the mountain. I found a relatively thick mountain with decent surrounding terrain. I also use the rivers mod and the mountain is bisected by the river which looks cool. You really need to have a theme in mind and search with that mindset. There are plenty of times where nothing looks good until I have a set goal in mind. Another themed build I'd love to do, potentially in the same world is find a big desert-area and build in a Byzantium-style. Just gotta have a set building style in mind.

I dont have arachnaphobia or anything like that, but it's something about locusts, how they spawn/sound/crawl that really activates my "Yuck" meter. Shivers are sort of the same way but dont give off quite the same feeling as locusts. I can still cleave my way through them but I'm surprised by the weird signals my brain gives off when I see them haha. Anyone else experience that at all? Makes exploring caves interesting for sure.