HalfAxd

Love the reference...“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”

It won't be of immediate help, but I use the Player Corpse mod which marks all of your death locations on the map... very useful, it can get a little embarrassing...

VS does have an interesting mechanic if you stay hidden (sneak) the animal won't know which way to run when hit and it will only run a short distance and lay down ( I assume to rest). This allows you to stalk the animal effectively by continuing to sneak up for the follow-on shot. This also forces you to make decisions regarding what terrain to "push" the animal toward in a effort to keep line of sight (aka. push it toward the open field)... again, pits/cliffs are historically effective in this way. On bleeding out... IRL not all hits will cause the animal to bleed out. I would love to see hit placement have specific effects though... would be cool! I totally agree on having a better feeling bow mechanic... I really love the bow in 7 Days 2 Die... feels satisfying to use... Enjoy!

I find bowtorn to be trivial on the surface. What annoys me is finding 2 or 3 of them immediately upon entering a cave... maybe that's part of the de-spawning issue mentioned previously? They are not hard to kill but they take some of the fun out of exploring...

The hunting mechanic is actually pretty realistic from the perspective of using crude spears and arrows... running down a wounded animal is what happens even hunting with guns. In game this brings the historic use of chasing animals off cliffs or into pits as a viable tactic. I like having to work for my kill. I agree the current rapid fire spear spam is OP... but I do take advantage of it!

Thank you... I only gave myself a gear to replace the one accidentally burned in my off-hand by mistake.

I've accidentally burned two temporal gears before realizing why it happened (the gear going to my off-hand)... really frustrating... I quickly looked up how to give myself a gear thru the UI.

I like the audio cues we currently have (bowtorns, wolves, clicking shivers)... while it would be nice to hear a bear coming, there is real tension in blindly walking thru a forest wondering if you are about to have your face bitten off. For my style of play, I'd hate to see tropes like combo moves, rolling around on the ground, etc. in VS... keep it simple...

Welcome to the sickness! Experiment with pits for protection, trapping/hunting...

That captive rabbits breed like... 'er... rabbits.... OMG my pen is full of rabbits!

Torches do wonders!

I use peat before firewood when I have it... I'll have large stacks of it whenever available... I use wood for building...

I only farm using furrows as a personal preference... I have a couple farms built off the base of waterfalls, so will try to build a greenhouse there when I manage to get enough glass. I love the options VS presents us with... it only takes imagination...

That was excellent! Thank you

The bowtorn are scary at first but wait for them to shoot then charge them... they run and are easy prey at that point.

Thank you

Ouch! I'm curious if it burns storage baskets too...

Yes, it reveals all I noticed mushrooms did not burn... I'd say GGBeyond was my guiding (torch) light. LOL

You generate a new world and find a plot of land to call your own. It's time to celebrate! Find a local area with lots of life and overgrown with foliage... and burn it to the ground! Hop and sing thru the night as the fires illuminate the world... In the morning walk thru the burned out clearing and gather all the meat from the fallen... Ah, I just woke up in this world and life is good! Now if I could only find a beer.

Some more focus on QoL, especially related to inventory and crafting... "Open All" local inventory containers in set radius would be a huge help to me... removing frustration... Thank you!

I'm more of an explorer... I find an initial spot with lots of cattails, setup a small shack, garden with what I find locally and get that running... get some food prep going too... I'll use that as my base of operations and start wandering the map... multiple day expeditions... I never feel rushed to work up the progression ladder.

or just bring a torch and burn a path... #evilgrin