PoisonedPawn777

Might be an outlier here but I'd rather see bears buffed than nerfed. It makes perfect sense that I would get 2 shot by a bear running around naked in the wild. I do agree that there should be more of a warning of an incoming attack, I know animal footstep sounds are supposedly in the works which would solve a fair bit of the problem. I'd also agree that a rework to the ai behavior would be welcome, however bears and wolves are intentionally more aggressive in VS than seen in real life and I wouldn't want to see that go. Overall, you learn to deal with bears with experience, and once you have armor bears become relatively easy kills, even in melee combat. Far more worried about bears going after my livestock than I am getting killed by one.

Everything you've said that you want from the game is fairly easily configurable on a standard world setup. There's really no need for a specific game mode. You can already start a world that has story elements, traders, ruins and underground mob spawns without temporal storms, surface spawns and temporal stability (each of which can be toggled on/off separately). I think it's fair to have a discussion on how temporal storms and spawns can be improved to provide a better experience to the player, but those who dislike the features entirely do have the option of removing them without removing other aspects of the game they might enjoy.

I love the idea of having a new way to process all the extra berries I collect. Wonder if it would be able to be implemented in a realistic fashion that would have you separate the alcohol during the freezing/thawing process, or if that would make it too complex. Would certainly require it to be a bit more hands on. Hopefully our seraphs are immune to methanol!

Would be nice to have a simple option available, particularly early game. Assuming of course we can account for the lower quality of the alcohol, otherwise the current distillation process would be rendered fairly useless.

Before loading into your world on the far right there is a tab that allows you to edit or delete that world. If you go into the customize tab you can adjust the world settings before saving and starting the world back up. It'll be the first option under the Temporal Stability tab. It can also be turned on/off in game with the command /worldconfig temporalStability [false|true] and then restart your world to have it take effect, noticed it was a bit finicky though.

1. I think the best thing to help keep you safe during exploration is experience, coming from someone who died regularly when I first started playing. One habit I've adopted is sprint jumping whenever I'm in an area of heavy underbrush as it tends to be full of wolves and bears, the extra height helps me see the danger and avoid an encounter. You also learn to keep an eye out for easy escape routes should you get ambushed, I know what type of terrain I can use to outrun bears and usually know where the closest body of deep water is. Keeping a couple spears on you early game can also help as dealing a bit of damage may cause the bear to retreat briefly before reengaging, giving you time to escape. Takes time, I also always do a quick scan before opening my map to place a pin or stopping to knap a tool, worst time to get ambushed is when you have a tab open on your screen. 2. Assuming you have a light source, bed, source of food. Just burrow into a hillside, place a bed, start a fire and you're good to go. Temporal storms are always a pain early game, I tend to stay near home as the risk of death is fairly high. 3. If you're new a dying a lot I'd recommend either turning on Keep Inventory or setting item despawn to a longer period like 60 min, it's really annoying to run all the way back to your stuff just to see the bear that killed you camping your gear. Gives you a bit more flexibility in regaining your items.

Keep in mind, just because you are in an area with sedimentary stone as the top layer, sandstone in your case, the deeper rock layers will still be an igneous variation. Andesite, Granite or Peridotite. All of which are capable of hosting the ores necessary for bronze making; Cassiterite, Bismuth and Zinc. You are on the right track using the density search, there have been times where I've had to explore >1000 blocks before locating certain ores, unusual but it happens.

Doesn't require wind power. Just collect a stack of flint, easy enough while you're exploring, grind it in a quern, smelt it down and dig up some red or blue clay..bingo 8 stacks of fire clay.