Krougal

Yeah, that is another thing that is wrong. Some kind of sedimentary rock should be the default for the top layer.

I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes mathematicians!

Fire marshal Bill

I'm sure China, North Korea, Venezuela or any other communist shithole of your choice would be happy to accommodate those of you who would like to see what it is really like...

I'm seriously looking at former WP countries, because they know how bad it was under the USSR and they don't want any of this shit again, meanwhile the West is racing fearlessly into totalitarianism. Such a crazy world we live in.

Yeah, while I did say I think OP was over-reacting a bit, I agree some people are really over-reacting to OPs over-reacting. It's a little different when you've got a captain or even better, an admiral breathing down your neck for something and every meeting goes off the rails because too many people who have no business in a meeting are invited and they all want to inject their own agenda into it, which drags what should take an hour into an all day affair. I didn't say anything about experience, it was discipline (job specialty), and I guess I should have specified these are engineering meetings I am talking about. I am also a big one to set up groups for junior technicians and engineers only, so that the techs and engineers can share information freely, without management interfering or making the techs afraid to ask questions. Somehow managers always creep into them, and I throw them out. I'm also just a relic of an age that is at an end. Toxic wasn't even used to describe people when I started working. Granted old network and system engineers generally are toxic. I think you are right in that it was generally because in the early days we were all told to pretend like you knew it all, even if you had no clue and were just figuring it out, which you probably were. There was no Google, there probably wasn't even connectivity if you were going out to a site. So you really did have to know everything you needed to know or spend hours on the phone with tech support. Everyone was very cut throat, and a lot of it was because of insecurity. I didn't participate in it. I've mentored a lot of people over the years who have gone on to be better than me. Disclaimer for the young and impressionable: Don't act like this if you aren't both very sure of yourself and don't have anything to lose. In fact, better to not act like this at all.

Oh, I dunno, sure, not on the short timetable that the doomsday youtube video predicts. Probably not even in our life times. Eventually though. I gotta admit between my own work and that video I was starting to get a little paranoid, but then having sat down and messed around with the current AI, they are all pretty stupid. ChatGPT is a complete pathological liar and sociopath. Copilot is completely useless. Gemini and Grok may be a little better, but being as you get cutoff pretty fast by the pay wall, I have less experience messing with them. I produced pretty good results modernizing my resume with Gemini, but I already had a pretty good one to begin with and I really guided the AI by the nose through it, so it was really just doing my grunt work. The federal instance of ChatGPT I haven't really used, but considering how frequently my co-workers come to me with code that doesn't work that was produced by it, it isn't any smarter.

Wow! I haven't heard that one since...probably Plato himself LOL. Yeah, I remember now that that was the original purpose of college. Although, I gotta admit these days between going into debt up to your eyeballs and all the leftist nonsense they indoctrinate in these days, anything other than a STEM degree, and of course things like doctors (or does that count under Science?) and lawyers which require the education (I'm sure I'm leaving out some things), seems like a waste of time and money. I agree with Mike Rowe, a lot of people would be better served by going into a trade. I mean if you are independently wealthy and don't need to make a living, then you can study whatever you enjoy. Granted, this is all going to go full circle I think when the AI takes over, if it doesn't decide to just kill us all outright, I guess we could turn into a society of philosophers and artists. Don't get your hopes up though, if I were a betting man, I'd bet on extermination.

It's 1 believe it or not. Which I thought was kinda cheap, but then that 1 seed will get you quite a few pumpkins.

Fire arrows? Yes! Weaponize all the things!

Savegame file itself is whatevername.vcdbs You probably want to copy the entire vintagestorydata folder. Data is data, it shouldn't be different between the two OS's. Try running a repair on the save?

Bread and circuses, been that way for thousands of years...

No shame in that. I had to quit playing Rust and other highly competitive team games because after a while all they did was stress me out.

Yes, there is another button there to copy all the settings, and then you can customize the new world creation and paste them in. Then you can further tweak them if you want to change a few things.

You are mostly right, the premise of EA is a promise for a good faith best effort to provide a finished product at some point in the future. While it's all very vague, there are certain expectations after you hand someone money. Granted the 20 bucks we all forked over doesn't go very far these days at all, so yeah, individually we are all entitled to very little, collectively it is reasonable to expect the funding to be advancing the project. I still don't really want to, nor I do I think we are entitled to see the company's financials. Maybe they have other revenue streams. Maybe they are just laundering money for the mob. Don't know, don't care. As long as we didn't buy into abandonware, whatever they want to do is fine really. It is also unreasonable to assume a company will only produce 1 game, or can only produce 1 game at a time. Granted I think op is over-reacting a little (ok, a lot even) but they are entitled to their opinion. To add to what @Katherine K said about how providing strong direction and letting everyone have a say are not necessarily at odds with each other. Just because they let you talk, does not mean what you say doesn't go in 1 ear and out the other. Especially in big organizations, who love to say things like "Our human capital are our most important resource." I've sat in a lot of meetings throughout my career. Everyone is equal and all that, blah, blah, blah. That is as a person. Everyone's value to an organization is not equal. Sure if there is no one there to take out the trash, you'd be amazed how fast it is going to turn into a shithole, but just about anyone can do that job. Some PMs want everyone involved in everything. I care about the tech writers opinion only slightly more than I care about the janitors. I've also been dragged in to give my opinion on matters where I have no expertise and frankly don't care one way or another. When I run meetings, I have on more than one occasion said "Everyone not an engineer keep your mouth shut or get the fuck out. This includes non-functional managers!" There is such a thing as too much transparency. We all like to overshare in this day and age. I am probably oversharing right now... This is not to disparage anyone or encourage treating any co-worker shitty by the way, no matter what their job or experience level, it's just I see so many entry level and recent college grads come in with this huge chip on their shoulders from an over-inflated sense of self-worth. It took me many years to develop my own over-inflated sense of self-worth and it takes a lot of ego-stroking effort to maintain it.

Just a whole pumpkin, and it's shapeless. Unless it was added in a more recent version. I don't do pumpkins very often, I mean I will plant them if I find them, but I don't really go out of my way to get them.

Yes, but the wolves an' bears deliver for no additional fee.

Dude! You just made me spit a mouthful of coffee all over my monitor! LMFAO.

Y'know, now that you mention it. I have been playing with that on lately and I seem to see some stuttering. I also for the life of me can't even see any visual difference between on and off.

@Mrozak Since op is complaining about the inconvenience my guess is they are referring to an issue I have seen with switching multiple versions where you start getting prompted for your username and password for the game frequently, which can be annoying, but considering how many far worse DRM schemes are out there, I'll take it. What you bring up are actually far more serious issues, and that is sound basic advice to protect yourself from any software you are unsure of. It's also good that they host the VS mods, since that means they assume some responsibility for making a good faith effort to protect you from malicious code, but really there is no substitute for doing your own due dilligence. Unfortunately that is just the world we live in. I wouldn't even install software updates on business systems from a trusted partner without checking the MD5 hash to make sure it wasn't tampered with. The threats are very real, and while nobody should panic, they do need to be taken seriously. My gaming rig I might be sloppy with, but I don't conduct financial transactions on it.

Yup, that's why I changed my recommended setting from 1 day to 2. The rest of this is also solid advice.

Yeah, I was trying to keep it simple, but the lists are kinda long, so maybe it wouldn't hurt to split day/night. I did mention that some tasks should be done during the day. Of course considering the recent discussions on difficulties finding clay, I start to wonder if my timeline is too aggressive for newer players. I used to be more picky about my first camp, but I also find myself frequently doing the same thing as you; just use the hole you are already making (don't do this in a peat bog unless you want to go down in flames). Also saves trips and is self-expanding since you'll be getting a lot of clay the first week anyway.

Does it need to be 1 post or 2? I had tried to science it back in...I dunno, 1.17 maybe. I just don't remember. I wound up still fencing them in anyway. Wabbit season! Seriously, I think he did that too. I've found rabbits to be a complete waste of time, unless I am desperate or just on a push to quickly get a full load for tanning and killing indiscriminately, I don't even bother with them. Ditto for raccoons and foxes.

It supposedly doesn't work that way. Although the wiki is not infallible for sure, and my own personal experience, I cannot say with any kind of certainty either way.

Well IIRC it doesn't generate at all if it is too warm. You won't find any in warm or hot starts. @Ryilo Except clay and peat also look like forest ground. @Maelstrom Yeah, the ores are another thing I struggle in the poor lighting to see. https://mods.vintagestory.at/visibleore is another QoL mod I really like. Pretty much this game in a nutshell! Part of why even if I am trying not to cheat and use it as a "ground penetrating scanner" I still use block overlay just to scan for nearby visible surface details, I consider it more an "accessibility option". Same for the visible particles mod, sure, you can find meteors by looking for suevite, but ain't nobody got time fo'dat. I highly recommend either or both mods for people who get tired of struggling. I have also found as I gained experience with the game, I am less and less dependent on these mods, but they were definitely a useful crutch to keep me from rage-quitting in my early days. There is a lot to learn very quickly in VS. This isn't your fathers Minecraft!