Maelstrom

My take on all of this. First - I always wanted to read Lovecraft and this game pushed me over the edge (and seeing a big fat tome of Lovecraft for sale at Costco). Having read almost all of that tome I will say that Tyron and Luke have done such an amazing job of weaving an eldritch story that I swear Lovecraft himself is consulting them. They definintely love Lovecraft! On rot/rust - it didn't appear until Jonas had started using the Lens, peering into another dimension. Opening a crack, if you will, into that other dimension. And something came back through that crack causing the Rot. This is exceedingly Lovecraftian. All of his stories are about what happens when alternate dimensions (usually entities) impinge upon earth. Those that attempt to fix the problem end up at least questioning their sanity if not losing it completely. As Jonas himself records in his later writings, Confession specifically. But the problem is that Jonas is also the cause for the inter-dimensional shenanigans, which is also a trope Lovecraft used often - someone on earth seeking arcane knowledge from alternate dimensions which then causes problems on earth for someone else to fix. On Thunderlord/Thunderwarden Dave - It could be (exceedingly doubtful to me) that Dave is just an ordinary guy in the rust dimension. Given his Cthulhuian size, I'm of the mind he's an elder god, likely responsible for the Rot. As you mentioned, there seems to be another god, more malevalent that Blind Bat Rickert found and possibly mentioned in "The Morning". Here is another typical trope of Lovecraft, humans recieving knowledge from extra-dimensional beings. Those beings always have an agenda of their own which is malevalent to the protege asking for the knowledge and usually to that person's physical degradation. Could it be that this, as yet, unnamed antogonist is responsible for the Mad Crow and the malicious eidolons? Some seraphim praise Jonas. I almost curse him. I am a seraph that will work to return it to the state it had before Jonas' misguided curiousity wrought it's destructions, even if it means (and I expect it does) the death or removal of the seraphin from this world. I am more than excited to see what is revealed in chapter 3!

Well now, that's a different problem. We'll just have to wait for Tyron to code those.

Until then you can always build your own villages and flip over to creative and add villagers yourself.

Looks like you were left out of the time warp loop! Seriuosly, that is some serious critter spawnage. That cave looks like the inside of an ant colony!

I suspect this quality was added in 1.20 as Tyron added a layering of "dimensions" to achieve certain things, mostly with lighting effects.

Good question. The easy answer is - that's the way the game is coded. I think the 'why' question you mean is: Why is the game coded this way? I don't know. Have to ask Tyron. I suspect it's an oversight in coding.

I was thinking color tone and illumination. You just had to pick the definition I didn't intend! PS I do that to my kids all the time!

Indeed! That house is very light!

Don't know. Depends on what the devs have planned in chapters 3-8.

Ok mister I'll One Up You... I'll forget to get my wife a bowl of ice cream when venturing from the TV coz I see the cats need water, get my own ice cream and come back to her drumming her fingers, tapping her foot and a most unpleasant look on her face.

Devs have stated definitively that they won't add firearms (beyond bows) to the game. Sooooo... That makes it a mod thing, which exist already.

If you don't want to wait and have no qualms with going into creative... /gm 2 grant iron ingot discard defective bloom done

That's if you play speed run style like @Thorfinn

I like them just blinking into existence. It's much Lovecraftian love there, imo. Lovecraft's characters had to be alert, perceptive and have their head on a swivel to survive.

Indeed Lovecrafts stories about the psychological horror of things on earth. But all those things causing the psychological horror originated from another dimension and, usually, were on earth for a while before discovery. Sometimes a human is the conduit of the psychological horror's presence on earth. Lovecraft, like you said, hints at or describes things obliquely leaving our imagination to fill in the details of that thing, being or whatnot. Exactly my thoughts as well. One major trope of Mr. Lovecraft is that the people that go insane are the ones that clean up the mess. Hopefully, we seraphs, don't go insane cleaning up Mr. Falx's mess.

That feels about right to me since this isn't TOBG.

Oooohhh. If you want 0.0.0 to be the exact center of the map? A few things of various levels of sarcasm go through my mind, but they all are of the, "not possible" response.

That won't happen in winter (as the OP posited in the opening post) when the ground is covered in snow though. 1. there won't be any thunderstorms. 2. IF there were, the snow would prevent a fire in the first place.

Hmmmmm..... I think you can do that this way. Set the world size to 50,000 (but that will also be east/west borders as well). Travel to the equater (there's a command [/wg lat pos] I think) to determine how far north/south you are from the equator. Someone else with more experience may have a better idea how to accomplish what you want.

I think you misunderstood the post. He/she wasn't looking for a high reading, but the highEST reading in the area. To your point - yes ores can be found at lower than high, very high or ultra high results. But hunting for those will lead to a higher density of ores. I've found TWO overlapping iron deposits in an ultra high reading that were maybe 1,000 blocks from my home. I'll take that over hunting for two separate iron deposits of decent level reading that are collectively separated by thousands of blocks from each other and my home.

Look carefully and you'll see that you are looking at two different prospecting results. Compare the coordinates to see precisely which result you are looking at.

It seems to be a difficult problem to figure out. Having some experience in coding I know how difficult it can be to fix a problem. The problem is slightly better in 1.20.11 (which has some side benefits, especially regarding map loading speed) as the problem isn't any worse. I believe temporal storms aren't as problematic after 1.20.7.

Not just probably. Definitely. Thus MicroSUCK

I get that from time to time (usually after doing something kinda questionable with downloading a mod while the game is open). Just quit the game, reload and all will be fine.

I did once. Just because chalk, limestone and borax were nowhere to be seen by the time I had enough hides to make backpacks.