Teh Pizza Lady

The sound comes and goes depending on which direction the gear is spinning once you get to that point. Not necessarily. I think you're imagining the visual and sound distortions to be immediately obvious, but I think at first, at full stability, there wouldn't be any noticeable difference at all. It's not until you spend a fair amount of time there that if you hear a chicken cluck or a wolf howl, that you realize, "Wait, that sounded different." It's not until you've spend a long time there that things would actually be noticeably different. It wouldn't be painfully obvious until the rust world starts creeping in as it already is in the base game, or until the distant landscape starts to wiggle a bit as if even your vision is being distorted by the instability. If players won't pay attention to a visual indicator that's right in their faces, they wouldn't pay attention to a different visual indicator or even an audible one. You just have to think in terms of "gradual changes over time" instead of walking into an area at full stability and being able to know instantly "Oh yeah this place is bad." Instead you walk in, think everything is fine and then start to feel uneasy as you start to notice that things aren't quite right. What I just said above.

I like your idea, but I think crafting a pass-through bearing with fat or beeswax would be a more elegant solution, especially if you can choose the type of base block the bearing appears as: wood, ashlar, cobble, etc. This makes the player have to make conscious decisions regarding base building, which I like. Haphazardly building your base and windmill is great at first but if you want to seal up the room, you need to decide what block to put there, just like you do when building anything quality.

I don't think the solution to a player not paying attention is to make the information more readily available, but rather to educate the player and teach them to pay attention. Losing your home because you didn't notice in the 8 in-game hours it took you to build it that your temporal stability was draining is not the fault of the game, but of the player. And that's a hard truth a few players aren't willing to accept. Personally I am in favor of removing the gear. The rust world sounds that would appear when your stability gets low should be indication enough of what's going on. And in my opinion it makes it even more immersive. You enter an area, you shouldn't be immediately aware that something it wrong, and I don't see anything in the lore to indicate that you should either. Same for the temporal storm warnings. They should be audible and visual, not a text popup and I'm sure that one of those "polish and quality" passes the devs will make in a future update, but in the mean time I'm glad we have Temporal Symphony as a mod and judging by the sheer amount of downloads it has gotten since it released, I'm by far not alone in this. Actually I'm going to go ask Salty if he can remove the gear from the UI... XD

Just dropping in to say that full monochromatic color blindness is a very rare condition that actually exists because it's a recessive gene tied to the X chromosome. That is to say, only biological females will ever present with the condition. And I know someone with this condition who plays a very colorful MMOJRPG (FFXIV) and I can say it's definitely a struggle for her. IDK how this relates to the current thread but I thought it was interesting. carry on!

yeah that's why I agree with the suggestion, but I wouldn't like having it in my game. Hence why I suggested it be an option for those who want a more relaxed or aesthetic play-through

I personally like the idea of "Nowhere is safe" for Vintage Story. It means base patrols are definitely necessary and you have to check the closet for the boogeyman before you go to bed. It keeps the game exciting for me. That said... I can definitely see this as an option for those looking for a more relaxed play-through, especially newcomers to the game who are used to game mechanics in The Other Block Game (TOBG).

Hey. Your fangirl is showing. not that I disagree or anything.... >////<

you're closer to the truth than you think.

That reminds me... might need to take more samples with the propick up and down the length of the mineshaft because I'm pretty sure I didn't go all the way down to bedrock and I'm pretty sure I only took like 3-4 samples the entire mineshaft.

the prospecting gives the chance of finding something underneath you as a permille, not a percent. That is, there is an extra zero in the ‰ symbol instead of the two zeros in the % symbol. The information displayed is as follows: The relative density of the ore compared to how dense the ore can get. The densities are as follows: Ultra High, Very High, High, Decent, Poor, Very Poor, Miniscule. A reading of "Ultra High" means the ore is as dense as it can get. A reading of "Miniscule" means the ore can be present in the area, but in very small quantities. A Very Poor reading of one ore may have a much higher permille reading than an Ultra High reading of another ore. The name of the ore. You can click on the name to see the handbook entry for it. The actual density of the ore in parenthesis, given in parts-per-thousand (‰, notice the second zero at the bottom), based on the column prospected, which represents the average number of blocks in the area that may be of that specified ore should it have spawned. Note that spawning of the ore is not guaranteed. Prospecting results are position-based, not chunk based. You could have many different readings within the same chunk. Prospecting readings are based on the position of the first sample out of 3 taken. I say this because mods like Prospect Together will attempt to make everything chunk-based. This is for the mod's heatmap display of prospecting results in the area. Prospecting results should be similar for 4 chunks in an area because the ore densities are created from a density map generated with the world, at a resolution of approximately 32 blocks. The ore densities will tend to have a more concentrated 'center' and then decrease when moving towards the circumference. So when locating a low density reading of any desired ore, try taking other prospecting samples some distance away in other directions to find an area with a higher reading. By using the heatmap feature of Prospect Together, you can watch the prospecting readings to see where the center of the ore distribution is... again... IF it spawned. A friend of mine and I got an Ultra High reading of Magnetite at like 3.9‰ (which isn't a whole lot) and dug in the area only to find that there was nothing there. We took samples as we were digging using the Node Search mode and got nothing in the entire mine shaft. Also worthy to note that it will not tell you "Tin" when prospecting. You want to look for the ore that smelts into tin, which is Cassiterite.

yeah the Halite really should drop more than 2 salt and the salt domes should be more rare.

you mean like this one? https://status.vintagestory.at/

I now want to build a boat out of ebony.

Also double check that with your port forwarding, that your device's IP hasn't also changed on your internal network behind your router. For example, I gave mine a static IP address at the router so no matter if there's a power outage or something happens it gets 172.16.1.107 as the internal IP. So then I can just set my router to push all traffic on 42420 to that IP instead of having to guess or worry that it might change. Your router interface may vary, but this is how mine looks: These are all internal IP addresses so I don't have to worry about someone trying to browse to my internal network machines. LOL Then for the port forwarding, I have it setup so that all the Vintage Story traffic goes to the serverbox.

I'm so glad!

... Your friendly neighborhood blackguard strikes again! EDIT: Story time. Temporal storm. Only medium strength. There's nothing at the door to our house. I open it to look outside and see if I can see Dave. My blackguard friend exclaims, "What are you doing?" and closes the door. I say, "I just wanted to see outside. There's nothing out there!" I open the door again. Nightmare Drifter walks in and promptly hits me. I run away with all 3.2HP left and pull out my spear. Maybe I can out-range and help kill it. The blackguard starts swinging wildly. I get caught in the crossfire. I probably deserved it for opening the door...at night...during a temporal storm.

Create account or sign in if you already have one Click DDNS & Remote Access in the left <<< menu Click DNS Records Click the green Create Hostname button Enter your desired host name. I put Sincop3_VS as an example. You can choose whatever you want. I chose serveminecraft.net as the domain because there is no servevintagestory.net. Make sure your IP address is correct. Check the Enable Dynamic DNS option. Click the green Create with DDNS Key button Download the DDNS client and install it. When it runs, allow it to simply run in the background. This will help you ensure that your DNS record now always stays up to date with your IP address. Make sure your ServerURL and IP entries in your serverconfig.json file are 'null' With luck, it should work, but if not, then you'll be back here for more help!

If you own/control your own router and she does not, then you can setup the port forwarding, there shouldn't be any reason you cannot use a dynamic DNS service like NoIP.com instead. It won't rely on whatever weirdness is effecting Hamachi, and since you're only playing with friends, you don't have to worry about someone else getting your IP address. I strongly recommend giving it a try and seeing if the problem is different or goes away entirely...especially since you are both in the same country.

So to be clear you are not on a college campus, you run the server, and your friend is... where? i'm just trying to understand the setup. She could also just not have Hamachi setup correctly. I don't know what you don't tell me haha.

I'll try to stay near spawn, but mainly because I don't want to venture too far north and have the RA be towards the south... or decide to settle somewhere to the east only to find that the RNG put the chapter 2 locations to the west this time. It just so happens that this makes respawning a little less inconvenient in the event of my untimely death. Now that we can revive each other upon death, I am less picky about respawn location as long as the people I'm playing with don't also die in the process of trying to revive me!

Was going to recommend a Debian-based distro but I see Mint is already listed. It's my favorite and go-to for anything Linux-related.

I usually look for: Temporally stable close to reeds close to food sources Once those are satisfied, I can settle pretty much anywhere. My current hovel is in an old ruin that my friend and I have turned into a proper house.

For what it's worth, if you're interested in mods, there are several that add salt from sea water as a mechanic, either by sealing it in barrels, or by boiling it in a pot. I think Primitive Survival is one of them. It adds a LOT of early game stuff that I wish was in the base game and it's one of my go-to mods for improving early game play. If all of the features of the mod don't appeal to you, never fear, they allow you to turn some of it off in the config file.

That's actually a brilliant idea.

Are you or your friend: using a mobile hotspot or wifi on a college campus? configuring Hamachi correctly? It uses UDP ports that are not open by default College campus networks are NOTORIOUS for implementing CGNAT which interferes with the network tunnels that Hamachi creates. They also like to implement deep packet inspection algorithms which interfere with Hamachi tunnels. Back in the day we used to use Hamachi to play games and we could only get it to work if everyone was either on the college campus or off the college campus, but not if there was a mixture of the two. Try as we might we could not get the network to cooperate. I think we even took it up with the college IT department and the answer was basically an instant "no". If you are on a college network or one of your friends is on a college network, the solution is to open port 42420 on the router of the person hosting the multiplayer game (NOT ON THE CAMPUS NETWORK) and do the appropriate port forwarding there. Then sign up at NoIP.com and get yourself a dynamic DNS name that you can share with your friends. It should work then.