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Antarctica is technically a desert but given how cold it is I think its closer to a frozen dessert than the traditional desert we tend to think of.

If you had read the rest of the post, you would have seen where I conceded that it wasn't period-appropriate. This is what I was referring to. Period-appropriate blast furnaces for Vintage Story will not have casings and will more than likely be the English Weald or German type... of which the name is escaping me atm. Anyway, reading before posting is important because you might end up restating something that someone else already said, especially if you're stating it to correct them and they already said it in their post.

Granite and other stone types are an insulating material. If the room exceeds a max size it will no longer count as a room. The interior dimensions can be no greater than 14x14x14 which is 2744 cubic meters of space. I think the dimensions can be a bit different as long as the total volume doesn't exceed the 2744 magic number.

Clouds. Look behind there. If it was a clear sky then it may have been a new moon and not visible.

Looks like that was it! Light can come from a lot of places in this game and walls don't necessarily block it entirely. If there's a way for it to creep in, it will!

Check your brightness/contrast settings in-game.

Blast furnaces shouldn't require tier 3 bricks since I don't think many of us have even created tier 3 bricks. They require Titanium which is a rare item in the game to begin with, and the metal, while it did see use in blast furnaces, was not a requirement which I will explain below. Historically, blast furnaces were often rebuilt frequently since the refractory lining deteriorated quickly. Rebuilding this was called relining the furnace. A typical furnace could last upwards of 10 years before needing to be relined and modern ones can run even longer. What usually wore out the fastest was the hearth. The bottom of a furnace holds the molten iron and slag at around 1500 celcius and the carbon lining there tends to erode away. Sometimes titanium is added to the charge as the furnace is running in because it forms a protective layer that it will extend the life of the hearth. Parts that get replaced often: Tuyeres - replaced every couple of months Cooling plates - Copper or cast iron plates in the walls designed to absorb and radiate heat away from the steel casing Tap holes and casting clay - replaced with every cast just about Bell - charging system at the top of the furnace which saw constant wear and tended to bear a lot of weight under high heat as charges were added to the furnace. The steel shell also sometimes needed repair. Early blast furnaces had stone/clay linings that only lasted a couple of years and their operation was seasonal with relining just being a routine part of operating one. I imagine that's the type of blast furnaces we'll get in the game, but if you want to make steel required, then there is historical evidence to support its use since the outer shell of the furnace was often made of steel. However for simplicity sake, the furnaces we'll probably end up getting will be period-appropriate and not have steel casings and will be an earlier type of furnace (English Weald or the German type) that typically lasted only a few months before needing to be repaired.

Yeah so you need to run the .bat file from the USB drive. This is your clue here: It should read something like PS D:\> before you type the command. Try that and let me know how it goes.

Chain is also best for archers because it has the lowest accuracy penalties.

Use a friend's laptop to download .NET 10 Runtime and .NET 10 Desktop Runtime for Windows x64 as zips instead of installers. Extract both to the same dotnet folder on the USB drive. Since you have VS installed (and just lack .NET 10) here's what you need to do: Borrow a friend's laptop to download both the .NET 10 Runtime and the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime for Windows x64, as zips under "Binaries" rather than the installers. AFAIK the desktop runtime zip holds only the desktop-specific parts and depends on the base runtime, so you will need both. Extract both into the same dotnet folder on your USB, merging if your computer asks. When it's done dotnet.exe should sit directly in the folder with shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App\10.x and shared\Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App\10.x underneath it (the x will vary depending on whatever is the latest version of .NET 10 when you attempt this.) Copy and paste the below file into launch.bat (see below) Make sure your USB is structured like so: USB:\VS\ dotnet\ (extracted .NET 10 runtime zip) VintageStory\ (the game) VintageStoryData\ (saves, mods, config) launch.bat launch.bat contents: @echo off set DOTNET_ROOT=%~dp0dotnet set DOTNET_MULTILEVEL_LOOKUP=0 set PATH=%DOTNET_ROOT%;%PATH% cd /d "%~dp0VintageStory" start "" Vintagestory.exe --dataPath "%~dp0VintageStoryData" A quick check before running the launch.bat file is to right click and open the USB in Terminal and type the following (assuming it's your D:\ drive): .\VS\dotnet\dotnet.exe --list-runtimes If it prints a line starting with Microsoft.NETCore.App 10., then you extracted everything correctly. If you get an error instead, paste it here and I can try to help. I have over 10 years of experience managing .NET applications so I think I can probably be of some assistance.

I've seen that too, in the game which makes figuring out where you've been hit a bit of a pain. I've been able to figure that most animals will strike from their mouths and claws so the hits can be measured using the animal's height vs the player's height. Ranged attacks are... something else. However I did find that players DO transmit location damage information when they strike another player. I'm hoping that the team builds on this and expands it to mobs or else I might have to write a new mod just for this.

so helpful. XD

do you know if locational damage on the player is coming? I didn't see anything about that just locational damage FROM the player to other players in the current API.

You'll get generic responses because this is a public forum. The proper channel to reporting issues like this is to create an issue on the github, which is the one task you said you were initially unwilling to make. Unfortunately, that is the proper way to do it as that is the only method of reporting bugs now if you do not wish to join their Discord server either. See here:

Need to log out? Punch a Blackguard! Not much to say. I got tired and my blackguard friend needed to do laundry IRL. Hit ESC to log out, clicked... nothing happened. I hear over the Discord call. "Ow! you jerk!" MFW I did that in the wrong order.