Maelstrom

I love me some trilobites!

hot pools are a terrain generated feature. Gotta go on an explore in new chunks for them to generate.

Weeeellll... Since bears were introduced in 1.17 downgrading to 1.8 would definitely de-rez your buddy Barry Bear. But I assume you meant updated to 1.18 and agree that your captive wild animals in the zoo are likely to despawn. But others will be able to confirm better than I.

Make a back up of your 1.17 world and then try it. If the world breaks, you can revert to the back up and continue playing in 1.17 (probably need a separate install to do so though).

If you are using the VSProspectorInfo mod, default setting requires you to hold the propick to see the chunks you've prospected in and the results for that chunk.

A cook pot of red meat stew holds 6 meals. add a bowl of same and you have a 7th meal. Eat before you depart and you have 7 high satiety meals on the run. Plus a cook pot to refill while out and about.

Try here: https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/forum/27-mods-mod-development/ as a better forum for your post.

Nope. There is only the one terrain generator in 1.18. What you can do is tweak the parameters. I would expect you can tweak those parameters to get a similar result to pre1.18 generation.

Sounds like you two have a good foundation for a mod! Get to work!

Just wait until you get bronze tools and start travelling very far afield to get rare resources, like bauxite, borax, iron. There's enough chores with forging new items, farming and animal husbandry (not to mention farming trees) that more chores will actually tip the balance towards unfun for the greater amounts of time spent on chores and reduced time in doing more fun things.

One problem. The trader and ore resources are not seed dependent. Others using this seed may not see any iron in the indicated location and may have a furniture trader. The geology will be the same which is enough for me.

I would refer you back to the video in my first post. Ultimately, I think thirst is unnecessary in VS.

Pretty much. Go forth and be lucky!

Uuuhhhh.... No. Months do not represent seasons. Most crops need more than 2 IRL months to mature, and manage to do so in less than 2 seasons (but usually more than 1 season). Might I suggest you learn a bit more about IRL agriculture?

What you picture is the best way I know of for finding kimberlite. As I understand rock strata generation for kimberlite "pushes up" the rock strata above it producing the odd surface generation pictured.

IF (big if here) a thirst mechanic is implemented I'd say twice as often but 1/3 to 1/2 as long as eating food. BUT carrying water will take up yet another precious inventory slot.

Weeeeeellll.... Modern lanterns don't use candles. I was speculating on what it would take to use a candle laden lantern to light a fire. I'm willing to bet in times before electric and gas powered lighting that lanterns were indeed used to light fires. As far as this game goes, though? It doesn't make a lot of sense (to me at least).

Handling a candle isn't dangerous (I've done so innumerable times in my life) and he has a point. The only issue I have is the inconvenience of opening the lantern, carefully taking the candle out, using it to light a new fire then carefully replace said candle and closing the lantern once again.

@daretmavi gets credit (see disease status thread).

https://youtu.be/7Gg9iQHfV5A

Looks like a typical medium rift activity night with 2 or 3 rifts nearby.

Jonas Falx is a character in the in-game lore. It seems that in 1.18 there are items connected to this character. Please be careful about unlabeled spoilers as there is a significant number of players that do not want to be spoiled in what will be in the stable (or final) 1.18 release.

And only Tyron (and the dev team) knows what is ultimately meant by "gem cutting". Could be merely jewelry creation, but could have hidden meaning as well.

Vintage Story isn't going to be THAT type of game. One way to accomplish the way you want to play is to go to creative spawn in the tools you need to acquire the building materials you want. Go back to survival mode and play in a non-creative environment.