Jarulf

This is exactly how it's been for me as well. I've been playing on and off since I discovered VS sometime in late 2024, I'm not very 'good' at it but, for me, it's an absolutely fantastic game that suits me perfectly. I'm now in my first year of a 30 day month save, early September and getting a little nervous about the food. And my sows and boar show no interest at all in each other.

Oh, breaking the actual gear. Didn't think to try that. Thanks.

On my way home (after checking a basket trap, that #$%¥ kid refuses to be caught even after days of tempting it with tasty turnips and carrots. If it grows up first I'm gonna kill it!) I spotted something on the ground, at the entrance to a cave, a rusty gear. And it's just sitting there, I can't pick it up. When I broke the block it was sitting on, it just dropped to the one below. Is this normal? Edit: Went back to check, it's actually a Loose Rusty Gear.

Thank you so much for that detailed explanation. And thank you to the rest of you a swell. There is so much to learn about this game (in a fun way), so many interconnected pieces and little things you might miss or not fully realise at first. After my last post I played for an hour or so before work, and after digging up 30 or so blocks of bonesoil got the wanted 2 gold and 2 silver. The last thing I did before rushing off to work was to pour my black bronze into a pickaxe mould. Not quite sure what to proceed with now, but some more prospecting seems in order soon.

Thank you! I haven't done any panning of any sort in this playthrough, I kind of just forgot about it I think, and was only very vaguely aware of what bony soil was useful for. I have lots of ruins close to home, so I know what I'll be doing soon. Also a bunch of pickaxing my way through the area's rock layers hoping for some Bismuth or Zinc (or I could check my old prospecting results - not that I really understand them well).

I discovered VT around Christmas last year, a random YouTube video I clicked play on. The name was vaguely familiar, but I knew nothing more than that it was a block game. I thought it looked fun, moreso than Minecraft which I never really got into, so I bought it. One of my best impulse buys ever. Many test starts later I'm now enjoying a world approaching its second winter. I'm still a newbie, discovering and experiencing things for the first time and just got my first pigs and a lonely billy goat (his mum and aunt are expecting again though), but I've been unable to find any tin, so I'm stuck in the copper age. A little annoying since there are several meteor impact sites around tempting and taunting me. I'm having so much fun, thank you for a fantastic game.