Maelstrom

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.

Have you seen those youtube videos were insanely HUGE buildings are created? Well, thems aren't valid rooms and if you put animals in them, they'll despawn when owners don't want them too. Again, think through the implications. How hard is it to simply put a single light in the room? Even one single oil lamp will do the trick.

I know that sound. Definitely a death tolling if not properly equipped or ready for it.

I know what you mean. I'm in the same situation with work, kids, chores, my own schooling and on and on and on. Heck I can lose track of what I was in the middle of after just a couple of days. Until such journals are included, you could do the old MC thing of placing signs with writing on them to remind you what you were about when last you left. HEY! Stop throwing things! I was being facetious.