Maelstrom

Kinda hard to see the particles if one builds another coke oven on top of the existing one to conserve fire bricks.

I didn't see any seraphim jumping into that one vat in the RA. Might come out as a sear-aph.

I get the idea that end game tech is going to be somewhere in the early (maybe mid) 1800's based on what has been disclosed in the dev's roadmmap. That makes the current carbon-iron steel alloy the end game tier for equipment. The alloys you mention weren't developed until the early 20th century (1906) which is the end of the steam age.

Considering steam technology is going to be the top tier, end game tech; I doubt we'll see any tools of a higher tier than steel.

Epilogue

So rendering fat is now locked behind an anvil. That makes auomated querns equal to other automated machines. Darn. Gonna take a lot of time to make fireclay, flour and other stone age uses of the quern.

So we grabbed rakes and shovels and other implements of destruction and headed on over to the restaurant...

Now THAT'S Cave Diving! So I was running to my 1.17 home. You know, the one with the killer curb appeal? Yeah. That one. Well on the other side of that beautiful valley is where I found bees (some 1,000 blocks distant), the translocator to that wizardly trader levitating above that murder hole and then there's this other murder hole about 100 blocks from the stairway I built to get back to my home from the 3,000 block run to the translocator. I knew that murder hole was there. I had encountered it a few times before, I just hadn't bothered to clear the bushes away that were hiding it when running back home from my southerly adventures. So you know what's coming... I was running home from one of those southern adventures. I don't know if I was just tired or distracted driving buuuuut... I jumped over the bushes and you guesssed it! Began falling. And falling... and falling... aaaaannnnnd faaaaaalllling... and feeling like alice and a certain rabbit hole falling... One eternity later (at least that's how long it felt by this time) I swear Tyron has an easter egg that if you fall more than a predefined distance you begin hearing wind whistling in your ears. Coz I was hearing wind whistling in my ears!!! and stuck the landing. Fatally so.

Did you not watch Multiplicity which documents one of the major problems of cloning?

NonononoNo. This could have been a lie directly to my face of all things! The story was delivered in 1999 before the interwebs were much more than a curiousity.

I started playing with the 1.14 release and I didn't settle on that day one strategy until 1.19. Keep playing to figure out what works best for you.

Did I claim anywhere that the story was true?

Humor me in a humorous digression. An old coworker of mine went hunting with a friend of his who was on the USA Olypmic marksmen team. On the day of the storied event they were hunting caribeasts at dusk and one was grazing all nice and profile on a ridge some fair distance away. Said marksman shot said caribeast which looked up momentarily in surprise before resuming it's grazing. A third member of the hunting party proclaimed the marksman had missed and the marksman objected, "There is no freaking way I missed the side of that barn!!!" then proceeded to plug it again to prove his skill. Again the caribeast looked up in surprise and decided to walk away. As it turned away from said hunting party, the silouhette against the clear sky could be seen two streams of blood squirting out from it's sides. After a handful of squirts the beast fell over dead due to blood loss.

Rabbits, foxes, wolves, Seraphim. Anything that potentially triggers a block update can cause an landslide. Somewhere on the Utoobs someone posted an 8 minute montage of hilarious landslides, one of which caused a horrendous frame rate drop while the player ascends a ladder from a mine. The video zooms into the mini-map where a truly mindbogglingly massive landside continues which we see the end of when the player emerges from the mine.

Launching off on a tangent - if growing flax is the goal, I assume to produce the obscenely huge amounts necessary for things like windmills and sailboats; your best bet to produce such amounts of flax fiber is to grow a couple stacks of flax seeds in a garden/farm during the summer (or the appropriate time of year for flax's perferred growing temperature). In temperate regions a greenhouse can extend growing seasons by about a month before and after a crop's growing season outside of a greenhouse. It can provide an additional harvest per year, provided the soil nutrient levels are sufficient for maximum growth speed. Given the yield of crops, before 1.22 it doesn't make a lot of sense to build a greenhouse. The changes to harvest yields described in the patch notes for 1.22 may make greenhouses more attractive. In arctic climates a greenhouse is likely to only way to grow any crops whatsoever.

I would expect that to be the case, but I'd want others more experienced in those technicalities to confirm that is the case.

I use gold as a liner for my molybdachalkos lantern. Black + gold lining is so awesomely be.a.you.tiful! Meteoric iron? The stuff of flexing. I make a anvil for my helve hammers then quarry the blocks to use as the base for the fuel for my steel furnaces. After that? armor for show, I guess? Frankly, I value the suevite more than the meteoric iron.

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There is always a deposit under surface nuggets. The ore may be up to 10 blocks below the nugget though. My tips Be prepared to forage for food most of the first summer. Within the first few days plant some grain and veggies so that you can start building a reserve of food and stop foraging. As mentioned, smelt a prospecting pick as your third tool to find bigger ore deposits deeper underground than the surface deposits you find. My day one objective - 64 reeds (4 hand baskets and 1 reed basket), pick up every loose flint I see, grab enough berries and/or shrooms to last through the night, at least 8 logs, at least 32 sticks and 32 grass then find a clay deposit to dig into for the first night, during which I form 1 cook pot, 1 crock, 1 bowl, 1 crucible and 1 storage vessel. While the clay items are firing in a kiln knap 4 each of axe heads, shovels, knife and spear heads.

Considering most of the seraph's previous life was spent underground; my seraph goes for a hole dug in the first clay deposit it finds. There's plenty to do that first night, forming the first clay items and knapping a stack of each tool head.

You can keep your old world. New terrain features (like new trader outposts and rivulets) will only come up in new chunks. Existing chunks will retain their original features, including traders. New mechanics, like blacksmithing are not dependent on the terrain.

WAIT!!! FULL STOP! You AVERAGE 20 hours a week playing this game?!?!! Dayum! I'm impressed!

IKR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed. In my previous 1.18/1.19 world that nice juicy Very High copper reading is smack dab in the middle of a HUGE unstable area that was strong instability on the surface! It was a good 250 block radius. By the time I sprinted to the mine, descended into the depths to prospect for the next ore deposit I was at 80% stability. I could mine one deposit before having to evacuate at 25% (or less) and hopefully spring far enough away so guests didn't start hounding me. @Thorfinn World height was not high enough to ladder up either. It was the absolute WORST unstable zone I've ever encountered. Just GREAT! Now I have another silly story to write about. Thanks LadyWYT!

That's just storage! Thank goodness. I saw that crucible sitting there and was worried you thought that you were going to light the charcoal pit to smelt your copper!