Maelstrom

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!

With my current job that one sentence could have taken a few hours between first keystroke and submitting.

Be sure to use the handbook. That will be your savior for a very long time! OTOH it is a heaping helping of fun watching streamers/Utoobers go in blind and think you can punch trees like TOBG.

Mischief of Mice found that a water shaft surrounded in ice was a very quick way to travel. Second only to the raft elevator, which is exponentially faster than the water/ice elevator.

I recall the first update where candles were made in a cook pot not crafting grid. After making my first batch found a cookpot that was contaminated for food, forgetting I had cooked candles in it previously though cooking food near an active rift caused cookpots to be covered with inedible residue. Hmmm... Maybe there's a humorous story in there...

Nope. They are a hard nut to crack.

Agreed. The rainful is wonderful if it isn't constant. There comes a point where it becomes annoying.

Silver lining - your crops grow quicker from being constantly moisturized.

Update season is upon us!!!

That sounds like an excellent story for the *ahem* Humorous Stories thread.

So basically everyone agrees that the main black bronze use case is to flex. My flex? Black Bronze helve hammer head along with one iron, one meteoric iron and a steel one banging away on an meteoric iron anvil.

Nah. copper chisel. Wasting a lot less durability since most if not all of the chisel will be used up in deconstructing the anvil.

Yes. You can break down a copper or bronze anvil into 8 ingots if you use an undamaged chisel.

Don't discount the eldritch (formerly called Lovecraftian) theme of the game. In Lovecraft large beings such as Dave are typically very powerful beings that one had best hope pays attention to you as much as we pay attention to a gnat. My belief is that Dave is one of those elder beings of indescribable power compared to we mere "mortal" seraphim. We are to Dave as gnats are to us and we're best served if we never draw the attention of Dave.

OH! Forgot about this one. In 1.17 I had a home that I planted my reed garden smack dab under a dogone cotton pickin' RIFT! before it repeatedly materialized on said reed garden Do you know how much fun it is to harvest those cattails watching the stability drop like a rock attached to a lead anchor? -1 out of 10 - do NOT recommend!