Maelstrom

On land. Basing underwater is much too difficult. I don't really pay attention to stability, rainfall, etc. Just where ever looks like it has sufficient space to build. Sand/gravel expanse of desolation? no problem I'll eventually find some suitable dirt to dig up and haul back. Hilly terrain? I can always build/dig suitable work/living spaces. Temporally unstable? Just mix at home chores with errands away from home. I may consider an underwater outpost once I have an ungodly amount of glass. Given the abundant size and number of quartz nodes that won't be a problem as much as the time gathering such resources.

Welp. What you done did was create something of a stepped pyramid. I'm not familiar with how bears interact with fences, but to make it more effective move the higher tier fence to be vertically above the outermost ring of your ground fence tier.

Ladders do the same thing and already exist in game.

No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an...

I was on a hiatus for the past 9 months. Forgot that log is in the chat. DOH!

How do you pull the damage log? I too am interested in analyzing things a bit to improve my gameplay.

There should be a cash log somewhere. I am not too technically adept and there's others here that will be able to assist more than I. You may want to post this in another forum - Questions might be the best place.

I killed three moose with nary a nip. I was pretty surprised when it climbed up the 3 block haybale pillar I was on. But he just dropped off without comment and ran about the countryside being difficult accepting my invitation to be dinner.

Not to my knowledge because (to my understanding) the various combat factors make it difficult to calculate damage.

Occasional freeze is probably view distance, but could be other things. Check your settings to see if you have other settings that use up CPU resources. As form animals? I just started a world that I have encountered moose, pigs, sheep, carribou, deer, wolves and a bear. All within about 500 blocks of where I settled which itself is about 750 blocks from spawn (on the edge of a lake so don't see much at spawn when I revisit upon death).

Despawned? I'd say forcibly expired.

Based on personal experience I can concur that bears don't seem to be so dangerous. Last play session I was out and about on a wonderful mid-May night with torch in one hand and flint spear in the other. Came running around a two block tall bush and saw what seemed like a statue. A moment later the realization hit that I was not looking at a statue but a bear standing on his hind legs from point blank range (three blocks). I veered sharply to the right and ran fast enough that I didn't even hear the bear, nor have I seen it since. Playing as a blackguard I've survived a first hit encounter with bears but that was with battle jammies and higher health from better nutrition, neither of which applied in this encounter.

Ultra-high readings for the bronze metals will likely result in being set for the rest of the game. Drop a shaft and you're likely to run into a vein even if it was just 10 blocks from the previous shaft.

That really only applies to iron since all the other ores have much higher spawn chances. Having said that, I have found iron on a decent reading.

Yes. Yes it do.

Yes, crops grow while chunks are unloaded. I believe that is the case for animals and curing foods like cheese.

Have you ever stood under a tree when it's raining? The tree's leafy canopy diverts nearly all of the water to the perimeter of the tree's canopy.

Not to mention procedural alloying would open up a whole universe of min maxing how to get the desired metal, thereby reducing a lot of the challenge which is the heart of this game.

Sounds like a good mod idea.

Is 0.01 slower spoilage REALLY worth the hassle of packed dirt? Have you tried a hay block for quicker passage?

Reducing upheaval will assist as well (30% or less).

I would consider using resin if it made resealable crocks. But it would likely be a finite number of reseals - five feels about right. Maybe down to 3.

A lot of info on the wiki is out of date.

Dave is the name the community bestowed upon the critter.

Definitely possible to battle 2 headed drifter naked and flint spears. In my first temporal storm of my last world I was nearly successful, and did so within a confined space amidst a surface ruin (1.17). If I hadn't have derped and darted to grab a spear that was too close to the drifter I'd have been successful. I wasn't going for a story to flex on other, but really wanted that first shiny gear to reset my spawn so I didn't have to run a few hundred blocks from spawn.