Maelstrom

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.

Welp... Consider that the story of the game is inspired by Lovecraft. And of all of his stories I only know of 2 instances where characters go into another dimension, and both of them are dream worlds while the bad stuff that happens come from alternate dimensions and causes havoc on some location of earth. The devs are doing an absolutely amazing job of portraying Lovecraft in video game format. So good that I'd swear Lovecraft himself is at least consulting on this project. That said I would be dumbfoundedly shocked if the devs ever design travel to other dimensions into this game. Read some Lovecraft (can be found online for free since it's public domain now) to get a better feel for the game. I have found my appreciation for the game has grown immensely from doing so myself.

I just don't understand why sleeping is so important. There's just too much to be done. Even after I've created my quad hammer, dual or quad steel furnaces, have steel armor, I just don't have enough time to sleep. There's always at least a few items on the to-do list that precludes sleep.

You can! Break out your chisel and collect the various types of materials that produce the color and texture you'd like in your shutters.

So animals don't despawn unless killed? Now you're going to have a crap ton of rabbits, raccoons, foxes running around in the bottom of caves reducing performance. Then there'll be a crap ton of complaints on the forum about poor performance. Think through the implications of things.

Ummmm.... ok? Considering the clay becomes hardened/baked in the sun means that it's as resuable as much as a broken coffee mug. Additionally, you only get a small portion of the 16 reeds back when a skep is broken. The current mechanic makes a lot of sense... to me.

Not sure. Devs have steam power and powered rail travel on the road map. Blast furnace might not be out of the question. Would also make a massive charcoal oven more attractive, especially with recent updates to allow doors for a multi-block charcoal pit to be built.

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Here's how traders work. You can sell as many items as you want to the trader in the right side (limited by your supply of those items), BUT the trader is limited by the gears he has to buy with. He would buy 23 items at 1 gear a piece or 2 items at 10 gears a piece. He will keep buying as long as he has gears. He has a limited supply of items on the left (just like you have a limited supply of knives and scythes) that will be restocked; in this case the trader will restock HIS supply in 6 days (as noted above the left hand box of goods).

That applies to all the other molds as well. Well, except for black mold. You were lucky to survive it the first time, don't go messing with black mold a second time.

VS can't afford the four horsemen of the apocalypse so they hired the 40 bowtorns of armageddon.

World settings has an option to make reset spawn points be permanent until changed again. Want a more convenient way to reset spawn? Command line changes give you that option. Want an inworld indication of where a spawn point is? I'm sure that could be modded. There might already be a mod for it.

I disagree @Resserfi_YT. Femurs of most animals have insufficient length for use in crafting shovels, hoes, spearshafts. The stone age axe is more of a hatchet than a two handed chopping axe. I would like to see bone handles for metal knives as a decorative option and provide no other benefit.

I think @Trex_Crazy is asking for a permanent structure to process iron rather than the temporary bloomeries.

Surface ores can spawn up to 10 layers below the nuggets. My experience in 1.18+ has been that surface deposits tends to spawn no more than 6 blocks below the surface.

#metoo Definitely upgrade to steel which offers tier 4 protection where iron gives only tier 3. Steel chain might be better than iron plate and provides better manueverability than iron plate.

That dastardly den of Drifters probably spawned near a rift and milled about until you provided a valid path and then they came running to your siren song.

Once got my first lantern from the basement of a vanilla surface ruin. I wasn't even in copper age yet to craft my own.

I'm jealous! I'm always getting Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses with their not so peaceful proselytizing. It wasn't a temporal storm. text box does not show storm warnings.

MS is commonly called MicroSuck for a reason.

That's the wondeful thing about VS. If all you want to do is homestead? Have at it to your hearts content, even if you never touch the story stuff! My main world is a lightly modified vanilla experience with soil instability and cave-ins activated intended to maintain the core experience with most mods being QoL but a small few content mods to preserve what little gaming time I have (i.e. quarry mod). I recently started a second world with more dramatic mods; mainly rustbound magic with whatever flavor mods to suit my taste, like better ruins. This world departs from the core content more and I may not ever get to story chapter two in this second world as the world is intended to mainly explore the magic in the aforementioned mod.