Good afternoon! After anticipating playing VS for a few years I've finally got myself a 4 pack to share with friends. I'm definitely a survival-craft simulation player, while the others don't necessarily like or dislike survival craft itself, they've played a fair few and are happy to at least try it out so we can all spend time together.
I'm -mostly- going in blind, and that's how I want it to be. I've learned some things of course from the 2022 trailer and from the various videos that got me hooked on VS for a while, but a lot of that learning has kind of leaked out of my head. Like I could NOT tell you how to pan or mine or prospect anymore, even though I think those were big parts of the progression and videos.
That said, I'm curious how much you can actually learn through in-game sources besides just "experiment." Is it all logical deduction and progression, are there in game sources of information on how to do things like smithing and crafting and cooking and etc? Obviously there's the answer of "Go try it out", and I would, but I've got both some technical issues (I'll sort them out with support, they were great help even when I couldn't buy the game a year ago) and some obligations which means I couldn't jump in and play yet even if I want to. Obviously there's also the wiki, I'm just trying to learn what I can before having to stick my neck in there.
So go ahead, I don't particularly want spoilers, I just want to know how VS teaches you. Is it through harsh process of "learn or die", is it intuitive, are there in game hints you can find like the one big ol' rune rock in Valheim that teaches you to tame Boar, et cetera.
