Lanceleoghauni

I have a more inland start, I've got a large body of water to my south I haven't quite gotten to yet but I've only seen one or two fish so far in my playthrough. It's been very berry centric and foraging heavy as I wait for the cuttings and crops I've found to grow. Mouflon is an important part of my diet too haha. I think it's probably fine, it's really strong if you have a good start for it, but so is "rolling really good on ruin loot". I don't think the game needs to punish you all the time and lucking into really strong solutions to problems is fine.

My builds are not going to win any awards aesthetically, but I get a lot of enjoyment out of crafting with local materials to create homes that work with the landscape. Tight, cramped interiors that are nevertheless carefully thought out and eminently practical and "Cozy". Might be worth interrogating what it is you wish to capture in your builds. Grandeur? Glory? Or a softer, quieter life of excessive storage and decoration built up over in game years? Whatever it is, try to lean into it

I'll go with water wheels and expand it further. I want there to be more water and fluid manipulation mechanics. Plumbing and irrigation systems that allow for functionality without being able to move source blocks. I have no issue with creating source blocks I just like having options. Glassblowing is a big one, which kind of goes with fluid manipulation. I'd like vanilla long term storage options for alcohol, with a bit more capacity than the barrels have. I'll second or third or however many diagetic woodcutting. I'm generally in favor of removing things from the 3x3 crafting grid whenever possible.

People complaining about bowtorn is always so strange to me. They... Stop moving to aim. THEY STAND PERFECTLY STILL TO SHOOT YOU. SHOOT THEM BACK.

my 5x5x3 takes forever to load and unload (much less now that I have iron tools, I suspect.) But given that I'm up to working iron now, between blooming, working those blooms, and shaping it really is proving to be necessary if I don't want to be wasting all my time firing small batches of charcoal

That's my thought too, accidentally settling in a temporally unstable region and leaving just enough to avoid taking continuous damage.

I agree that tule is both too rare, and too inefficient to ever intentionally use. I was excited to use it early on, since I had some thatch based building ideas. But as soon as I started trying to actually use it I quickly abandoned it, and now am slightly resentful when I see that tule has spawned near a water source instead of something useful.

For all the people who complain about bowtorn they're incredibly trivial to kill the instant you have a bow and arrows, yeah. The fact that shivers move fast enough to force a confrontation is a good thing.

my speed is positively glacial compared to others. I didn't get iron until the start of my third year. I'm a big homesteader though so building up my home little by little is a lot of my enjoyment. It's been 3 years and I've never had enough metal scraped together at once to upgrade from wooden lamellar. But I have more food than I could possibly eat.

This is a really good rendition! That's a lot of chiseling

Unless it's currently bugged, sailboats are explicitly designed to allow the transport of animals.

I got lucky and found a salt dome, exposed in a cave, not far from my home (and in the region I was planning to do all my mining in anyways). I haven't played a ton of worlds but now that I've lived a delicious, salty life. I am loathe to give up having more of it than I know what to do with. bears? Wolves? No problem. Salt the meat and have a tasty snack without even touching your firewood. Chalk got you down? who cares? You have YEARS to find enough to process your hides now. Salt is love. Salt is life.

I am currently so flush with peridotite from mining the bronze and iron that I am desperately trying to get rid of it. Stone axes save a lot of durability on the iron once it's down and ready for firewood, but the speed and inventory space saved by using iron to fell the trees is NOTABLE. However, I really can't emphasize enough that deep iron deposits are VAST. If you get lucky like me and have a bountiful vein on top of that... well. There's very little reason to avoid using iron for something beyond "I don't want to have to hammer or go back down into the hole" I tend to keep my mining trips brief, because even fully lit, and constantly braced, the mine's dangerous. It's deep enough that my sanity is constantly draining like it's in a temporal storm.

I've been slow-rolling my cozy farmstead lifestyle for awhile now, but I've finally started mining in earnest. In the copper age everything feels so tenuous. your tools break instantly and metal is scarce, even exploratory mining feels dangerously extravagant until you have a good stockpile saved up. Bronze alleviates this a little bit, but the increased complexity does not pay out as much in durability as you'd like. It still feels knife's edge until you manage to find deep deposits of bronze alloying metals. But iron. Oh man. I've finally hit iron. Is this what true stability feels like? There's so much of it. It's so durable. Even processing blooms feels pleasant and rewarding. My charcoal stockpiles are weeping but I can delete more forest soon. Fewer places for the wolves to hide anyways. I love you iron. Maybe I will finally be able to afford real armor... Once I can make leather. Borax and Chalk are in short supply...

I'll Agree that this seems better suited to a challenge/suffering mod. I would not want these ideas implemented in a game where, as ladywyt points out, it takes considerable investment to raise animals. Having damage that isn't mitigated by armor would also disincentivize making it, which kind of sucks given how expensive it is early on.I would not want someone scraping together for their first set of metal armor, only to get a storm with birds that punch right through it. That's ragequit material right there and the opposite of what I want to happen if I show a friend a game.