Teh Pizza Lady

I once dug up an entire chunk looking for iron that had a fairly high change of being high quality. Never did find it and the drifters took over the mine 'cause I ran out of oil lamps to ward them off.

Am I just the camp mom now? I'm already sorting the storage...

So, uh… does anyone else have this problem? So I'm playing on a multiplayer server with a friend of mine. I picked Clockmaker and she picked Blackguard. While she was off mining, I spent an embarrassing amount of time crafting the perfect stew. Like, I’m talking Gordon Ramsay levels of effort here. Red meat, bearded tooth mushrooms (do you know how hard those are to find?!), and turnips—TURNIPS, people. I simmered it all down into what can only be described as “a pot of warm hugs for your soul.” When it was done, I proudly poured it into a crock, sealed it like the responsible adult I pretend to be, and lovingly placed it on the shelf in our house. I stepped outside for maybe five minutes to check on the bronze I had poured earlier, and when I came back? The crock was empty. EMPTY. At first, I thought, “Wow, I must’ve been hungrier than I realized.” But then I saw crumbs on the floor. Crumbs. And there, just beyond my window, was a Blackguard trotting off into the sunset, probably picking her teeth with a twig and muttering about “a nice stew that could’ve used more salt.” WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED? Is this normal? Are Blackguards, like… food critics in disguise? Should I be flattered or offended? Why do they even want stew? Do they have digestive systems? Can I lure them into a hole with a trail of stew-soaked turnips? More importantly, HOW DO I STOP THESE GREEDY JERKS FROM EATING MY FOOD?! Do I need to build a stew vault? Hide my food underground? Barter with them? (Do they like pie better? Should I bake pie?) Or is there some secret mechanic I’ve missed entirely? Because if I can’t keep my hard-earned meals safe, I’m going to have to live off raw bushmeat and regret. Please help. I’m tired of feeding the local population. And also, I miss my stew.

which is currently the default for anyone playing on an RC version of the game.

Upon further investigation, there is only one reference to the SpeedMultiplier for boats that is in the BoatEntity.cs file where I got the original code. It's in the vssurvivalmod repo so if you can modify it, and compile it into working VSmod code, then you could theoretically try it. I don't have my computer setup for VSmod coding so I can't do it right now.

I'll have to dive deeper into it, but they appear to be separate. The boat speed is directly tied to the boat entity and doesn't reference player movement.

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Hmm... and which one might that be??

I'll have to dive into the code when i'm not at work, but it would seem that the water resistance is only simulated at this point because the forward momentum of the boat is calculated as a limit. // Add some easing to it ForwardSpeed += (motion.X * SpeedMultiplier - ForwardSpeed) * dt; AngularVelocity += (motion.Y * SpeedMultiplier - AngularVelocity) * dt; Once the ForwardSpeed is the same as motion.X * SpeedMulitplier, then no more speed can be added to the boat. Increasing the speed multiplier would increase the top speed of the boat, and that ratio appears to be linear, though I do understand that 2 data points doesn't really make a good graph. so while this could simulate water resistance, it is not calculated here.

I should add that I didn't see a way to control the angle of the sails or that the wind direction had any bearing on the boat's speed. Also there didn't seem to be any way to use an oar to help paddle the boat.

I saw a thread yesterday where a player was using the sailboats and thought they were extraordinarily slow. I did some digging into the game's code on GitHub and found this: Another section that defines the value of the motion variable (used below): And finally: From my own testing, the sailboat cannot be controlled from the passenger seat and so it cannot exceed a STR rating of 1. The physics engine scales the motion so in case of lag spikes, the boat moves further during the spike instead of resetting its momentum (controlled by DT which gets larger as the framerate goes down). This would seem to indicate that the raft (with a passenger) could theoretically go faster than the sailboat since the passenger rowing adds 0.5 to the STR rating for a maximum of 1.5. This seems to indicate that the rowboat would indeed go 50% faster than the sailboat. In order for the sailboat to be worth it, the distance you would need to travel would have to exceed half reasonable distance that a rowboat could travel in a day to ensure that making round trips with the rowboat would be ineffective. Both are still slower than the elk so if there is a land-based route then it's possible that the elk would be the quickest way to get from point A to point B, but that's beside the point. The point is that sailing has always been faster than walking and the sailboat, as far as I can tell, is clamped to walking speed due to the nature of its control scheme (driver seat only, no passengers can assist with rowing, etc). Am I doing something wrong here or is the sailboat really that bad?

Are you playing on a multiplayer server? If so, maybe someone decided to help you out. If not, then the only logical explanation is that your sow was joined by two others, one of which is pregnant. This makes even more sense if you have your pen setup with dirt on one side so that a male can easily follow you in.

I have a hammer with a hard steel head and a wooden handle. The hammer head is older than the handle because the handle has been replaced twice. If you want realism, then you need a separate durability for the different parts of the tools, which would add a bunch more complexity to the overall systems. Perhaps requiring nails to attach a metal head to a wooden handle would be in order, but having a bunch of bindings for different materials is adding a level of complexity that would only serve to increase the amount of stuff you have to carry in the already-limited bag space. I don't think this is as good of an idea as it sounds without some way to ensure that you won't become over-encumbered carrying the things you need to gather in order to craft simple tools.

This is a good idea, but trees can actually worsen the situation if the problem is bad enough.

Imagine you're sheltering from a temporal storm. It's the nastiest one yet. You're pretty sure the bowtorns and shivers are coming together to make a new type of nasty monster to deal with. Somewhere outside, is a bear eyeing your abode waiting for you to come outside. Then an earthquake strikes out of nowhere (because real earthquakes cannot be predicted without majorly advanced technology that doesn't exist in VS). Your house collapses. Suddenly 20 drifters, 3 shivers, and 19 bowtorn all decide you're the most dangerous thing out there and the bear is hungry. You my friend are screwed. If that happens to me in-game, I'm turning it off and deleting that world. #nopeRightOnOuttaHere Same thing, really, for hurricanes, tornadoes, and volcanic activity. It's not going to be fun, not even in the slightest bit. You are suggesting an unmitigated disaster on top of an already harsh world that actively punishes you for daring to exist.

I once went to this zoo that was supposed to be amazing, but they only had one animal on display: a dog. It was a Shih Tzu.

if it's in the game, it should be on the wiki if it's on the wiki, it should be in the game If something is included on the wiki, but isn't in the game or cannot be found by playing the game, then it should be removed from the wiki. The game doesn't necessarily have to spell everything out for you. Part of the charm of the game is tinkering with things and figuring it out. Sometimes you just need to be 2 grass short of a pit kiln for it to sink in just how much of your survival is hinging on you actually learning how to play the game. Sometimes you need to walk past horsetail 20x before you figure out what it looks like because I totally didn't do that before. lol I think we're saying the same thing at this point.

I agree, it doesn't make much sense to have some information on the wiki and not include it in the game. However the in-game manual doesn't give you specifics on anything. If you want to know everything before-hand, then why not memorize the entire wiki before even touching the game? For that matter, why even play the game, if you're going to take the experience of exploring the game's mechanics away from yourself?

Whether we should or should not is the debate, I guess. I'm inclined to say that it doesn't matter since mods exist and OP originally expressed interest in making one. Discussion should center around that, for which there is already a linked wiki page.

Oh, no denying that peat is easier...if you can find it. My point was rather that peat isn't renewable. OP was saying that he preferred to use peat or firewood because it was less precious than charcoal. My argument was that the non-renewable resources should be considered more valuable. Hope that clears things up.

Also to answer your original question on making the mod: > How does one make a mod that changes what the forge accepts as fuel? Behold the VS wiki: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php/Modding:Developing_a_Content_Mod

Charcoal is actually so painfully easy to make I'm not even sure why this is even a question right now? part of playing games like this is building a stockpile of materials you're going to need. Charcoal is one of them. I'd consider coal peat to be more precious than charcoal given that you cannot craft it from an easily-renewable resource.

This is everything I thought it would be and somehow I'm still disappointed. Maybe it's because I didn't think she would have a comb-over... or maybe I'm just disappointed in humanity.

One need look no further than that thread to know who really cares about the players.

He is a moose-kin... And he has a raging blood-lust against foresters. There I was, the other day, minding my own business, just trying to chop trees for my charcoal pit when out of the corner of my eye, I saw him... or rather his shadow. It was Dave. There was no mistaking his long, spindly legs; his elongated neck and giraffe-like proportions! And has luck would have it Dave decided to attack, but not before quietly transforming himself into a moose and charging head-first at me. I just want to thank my lucky stars that he didn't turn into a moose with antlers or that would have been the end for me! TL;DR: Dave is an other-worldly moose that is constantly on the prowl for Seraphs chopping trees to make firewood and charcoal