Maelstrom

I had my suspicions, but with all the tweaking for the new beasts figured the daytime rift spawn was a bug.

Not sure. I witnessed daytime mob spawnage early in the 1.20 update. I suppose it might, possibly be intended.

Daytime rift spawns is a bug created in 1.20 when new mobs were introduced and tweaked.

That is a hallmark of excellent horror. Everything is fine and beautiful and cozy. And then you see the one thing that is totally out of place. Horrifically out of place.

Good point. Haven't played in a while and even longer since I fired a stack of bricks in a kiln. Maybe I should stop playing The Crust so much.

It shouldn't matter what is fired in the pit kiln. Fuel determines duration. Probably a bug.

Not glowing upon return to returning point? Remember to eat your fruits, veggies and temporal gear for a healthy radioactive life.

BGTOW? (Boars Going Their Own Way) What have the sows done??

That bell looks awfully biological for being a mechanical in game. Otherwise, incredible! My best would be stick figures and still look horrible.

Does that not take me back to Attack on Titan! Did you draw for them or something?

I've had rift activity hang out at a certain level for long periods of time. The higher levels usually don't stay for long though. It was a lot of fun when the quiet change from a constant nocturnal spawning a'la TOBG closer to the current variable spawnage due to rifts. One of the later 1.15 updates introduced rift activity in the "character" gui and the nightly spawns became much more variable. From what I recall everyone was, "WTH changed to mob spawn?". It was a refreshing for such a surprise. The 1.16 update trailer showed the current rifts including playing a resonator near a rift.

Nah. He's just started enough worlds that makes it seem that way.

While wild animals do spawn after initial world/chunk generation, it is more likely that animals will migrate. Especially in the OP where a ram was captured and a ewe showed up. Animals are programmed to roam around and will wander from spawn. In my experience, wild animals spawn in existing chunks sometime in the spring season.

Been a long while since I last made those armors. I think my numbers are inflated coz I made a set of chain AND plate for my blackguard.

Trees grow like that other blocky game. Slap down seeds next to each other and create a massive tree. Only thing to worry about is shearing leaves to insure future iterations remain possible. Steel armor? IIRC chain is like 30 to 36 plates while plate armor is around 72 to 76. Multiple furnaces make this less of a grind.

Consider that the male doesn't even have an indicator whether he's eaten or not. I'm not including the weight indicator in this as it does not provide info about breeding and is used to determine resource yield.

I find blind playthroughs especially hilarious when the player thinks it's just a minecraft clone. Goes and punches a tree for a minute before giving up. One even punched rock after determining that punching trees didn't work.

I've had tons of success running the default 6 block radius. Node search mode is just as much determining where ore is not as much as it is determining where it is.

How small? about 24 block diameter or so. Once you see your first one (and they are at best uncommon) you'll know you've found one. The rock itself will be the surface layer; which is why the color map will reveal the anomaly. In all my wandering and looking at color maps, I've only found one such anomaly, but there was indeed phylite or kimberlite way deep down. I don't recall which one coz it happened a couple years ago now. Unfortunately, that world was on my son's computer before he left for the colleges. It is either lost in his vault of games or is no more.

firepits are also a great way to light a stack of torches. Particularly (and especially) with the Better Firepits mod.

regarding the finding of phylite (but this might be for kimberlite) This only works for color maps. In a gravel or sand plain look for a small eliptical rock strata that is not the same as the surrounding rock strata. Phylite generates deep and causes the strata above it to be upthrust. The top layer then disappears revealing the second layer of rock strata as the surface layer. Mine down and you will find phylite (or kimberlite). Kudos to Nathan Wostrel

Tobias? Is that you?