Maelstrom

You see it? me neither. Ah HA! THERE it is!

He's in timeout. You know why.

No. Chiselled blocks are forever static except for additional chiselling.

That there is the mother of all tidal erosion. Probably be best not to land as your weight might tip those precariously balanced lands into the sea.

Not necessarily. In my experience sometimes what seems like the simplest of changes creates a nightmare of cascading changes that causes me to wish I had never started this simple little change.

I can only imagine how long it takes to make one of these amazing creations. I'm not so good with the building and, especially the chiseling (my talents aren't of the artistic side) but marvel and gawk at what you artisans do with the game!

creating usable items from m.iron isn't as much of a production pain as steel. Put the nuggets in a bloomery and out come ingots, unlike regular iron. From there the ingot can be forged into tools on an iron anvil. M.iron has higher durability than iron but less than steel. So it comes down to personal cost/benefit analysis. For some, the process of converting iron to steel is too laborious for top tier tools. Others (like me) prefer the long lasting steel tools over m.iron ones and don't mind (or in my case enjoy) the steel production process. M.iron can be considered a late iron age material, kind of like a copper anvil is the gateway to the late copper age.

I, too, think m.iron is just for funsies. By the time I have an iron anvil I'm waiting for my steel to finish processing. About the only thing I do with m.iron is make an anvil for my helve hammers so the iron anvil I have can be used in forging non-plate steel items like chain and tools. Recently I've taken to quarrying the m.iron block instead of mining it.

Welcome to the insanit... errr... forums! That picture is AMAZING!

Be sure to dig way, WAY down. Even if your stability is dropping like a rock with concrete shoes. I have an area that has ultra high sphalerite but also has lots of copper that is slightly unstable on the surface. By the time I get to the zinc and copper the gear is spinning half as fast as when standing in a rift.

There is a way to consistently place blocks (especially slabs) in the orientation you desire. It's difficult to describe how to place slabs but Kurazarrh in his season 1 Vintage Story Guide series displays a graphic about how to place slabs in the orientation desired. I don't recall which episode, but I believe it's within the first 10 episodes of the series.

I want a 12 inch die cast Dave. Even if it costs $150+US

I am currently mining that blessed rich deposit of magnetite. I think I got a very high reading. Might have even been ultra-high. I'll have to check next time I'm playing. My two mining trips got me about 80 ingots 64 of which are processing into steel. Only thing I bothered making out of iron were the pounder caps, anvil and two iron doors for my dual steel furnace.

Foxes drop bush meat not red meat like the cute li'l bunnies. BUT that bush meat is necessary for recurve bows.

Two headed drifter. Once upon a patch release not so long ago there weren't such wealthy mobs. Storms would net you some flax and maybe a couple of rusty gears for all the nightmare drifters that were slain.

That was a feature implemented in the 1.20 update.

Lead anvils are the best way to Etho someone!

In my current world I am at best poor for iron within about 1,000 blocks of my home, plenty of copper, tin, zinc and bismuth and from all those mines I have found zero iron. Found a decent reading for iron a few thousand blocks south and multiple shafts yielded nada.

#metoo Usually when I'm busy lighting a bunch of kilns in my 5x5 kiln grid and forget that the one behind me is lit and I back up while lighting the one in front of me.

That coincides with my experience with forges. Brown coal burns just as quickly as charcoal in a forge despite taking almost twice as long in the firepit smelting ore.

I'm sure you know to make the targetting square as small as possible, but after that you should take gravity into account as well and aim higher than your target.

Given the larger number of days in May, it shouldn't be difficult to have at least 2 stacks of flax, vegie and another grain before the end of May leaving 2 growing seasons in the first summer. That is gonna be an absolute crapton of produce. I'd think the difficult part would be meat, unless the roughly 3 months gestation is really just 36 days (given my 12 day months). If animal gestation works the same as crop growth, then ranching enough meat would be difficult that first summer.

I learned about pit kiln fire spread by watching my wooden fences burn repeatedly. Figured out why they would burn down and made sure my pit kilns are at least a dozen blocks from any other buildings. Fortunately, these lessons were next to my cobblestone "cellar" attached to my forever home which was still under construction so I haven't lost any storage to fire... yet.

Update - air above the block being panned is a requirement for panning. Now I can get back to making steel tools and prep for that medium storm headed my way.

I've seen high rift activity PLUS rifts but no spawns.