Maelstrom

It's not really quenching. It's just the old hiss of cooling metal in water, but there's no other effect to copper or bronze items.

Thank you for the mathematical explanation. Just the thing I was hoping for. You confirmed that I just have horrid RNG results. pretty much par for the course in my life.

That depends. You can quench copper and bronze tools without risk. It isn't really quenching since there isn't a benefit from quenching those materials. Quenching that provides a durability or "power" benefit is only for iron and steel tools.

Definitely will look at it tomorrow. I spent 2 in game days just trying to get a pro pick and scythe. pro pick broke once and the scythe broke 3 times! one of them on the second quenching. I always temper after quenching. RNbeGeezus hates me.

So I finally got to iron and started quenching and tempering tools. I have had almost half of my tools shatter (12 total and 5 have shattered) after quenching and tempering less than 4 times. Shatter chance does not exceed 20%. Methinks my RNG luck isn't THAT bad. What say you? Is the published shatter chances seem off to you?

I could be wrong. I had flax in a trough for about a year and it wasn't spoiled when I broke down the pen with the goats in it. It could be I broke the pen down just before the flax was about to spoil.

@Tj Pepler - Critcher I prefer the first image. The second has very distinct block borders making it seem rather disjointed.

The death seems to be the one who is taking the photo. But I can also see that person in the foreground being the victim. Still wondering if the bowtorn is paying off the hired gun.

One of us! One of us! You're not a true vintarian until you've burned something down, usually the home.

@EnbyKaiju Thank you. I tried the treasure maps when introduced in 1.18 and after three that only had clothing items or other meh stuff gave up on spending the gears. I'll give them another go thanks to your post.

Best way to accomplish this, that I've found, is to make dough out of the grain. Each dough spoils into 1 rot and spoils faster than grain does.

Apologies for digressing... You ever smith an iron anvil?

Benefit of the chute fed trough is that you don't have to check if the females have eaten enough. Provided you put an excess of food *cough*flax*cough* in the chest or crate. Additionally, food in a trough does NOT spoil.

Try playing the original Rayman from the PS1. The violent threats are a piece of cake compared to the obstacles you have to overcome. It is hilariously whimsical too.

As soon as I'm in the late copper age I just use a chute to feed a trough from a chest. Fill the chest occasionally when I want to breed up another generation.

To my knowledge bears cannot climb over fences, but they can reach through them. Even the piggus and goats are butting me through the fence.

I would add that it also further differentiates VS from TOBG. At first I didn't like this change, but I have grown to appreciate it. It keeps me on my toes and further scratches that itch of mine to overcome difficulties and challenges instead of being handed things whether on a silver platter or not. The satisfaction of this game is that everything is earned due to hard work and determined planning because some mistakes cannot be undone.

Welcome to the forums and I know the devs appreciate your gratitude. You aren't alone in appreciating this most wonderfulest of modern video games.

Welcome back! I was wonderin' where you'd gone off to and feared you had dropped of the edge of the world. I've seen a few bits and bobs here and there. Pretty much you can channel the water just like normal water. Maximum power is achieved from having five blocks of water flowing over the water wheel - basically drop the water over the uphill side of the water wheel. And you'll need iron to make the mechanisms necessary.

@Milverton That's a pretty gnarly spawn location. Tons of spires and mountains which reduces travel but also clay spawning chances. It's best to go to a plain with hills, which you have pretty close to the cool spawn location. Just by running around I found a huge clay deposit at -237, 115, 158 which so happens to be on the edge of a limestone sandy desert which is good for finding malachite, aka copper, easily. The red star is the clay deposit and in that plain there's likely to be one or two more clay deposits. Bonus - my marker is at a cave with copper, borax and silver bearing quartz. Not a bad place to put down the homestead and close to spawn for those early deaths.

Not necessary. No animal can climb over a single tall fence. Not even the seraph can walk over a fence. Just place a block next to a fence and try to walk over the top of it. Even placing a slab on top of the fence will still insufficient to allow walking passage over a fence.

For this comment I will ignore dairy and assuming the default temperate climate. The first year is difficult to max out your nutrition but not impossible. First you'll start with foraging and hunting. 1. Veggies and berries are easy to come by as they'll be everywhere throughout the summer. 2. Same with animals if you want to get your protein up. But for long term protein production you'll want to capture some animals to breed so don't over hunt where your home will be. Homesteading 1. Get a farm up as soon as possible. Even if all you have is a dozen seeds. It takes 2 months for crops to grow in medium fertility soil. If you get crops planted before June 1 you should be able to get 2 crops per plot before it gets too cold. 2. Get an apiary up as soon as possible. Bees produce honey which the game considers a fruit. And honey in a barrel doesn't rot. The last thing to maintaining nutrition is stockpiling food. Apart from honey raw veggies and grains will last for quite a long time with grains lasting insanely long. Meat and berries don't last so long but fruit from a fruit tree lasts longer than berries. As you know, winter is tough if you haven't prepared for it. The last key to long term maintenance of nutrition 1. Cooking meals in a cook pot and storing them in crocks will extend the life of the cooked meals. 2. Seal the crock with beeswax and that meal will last a year or more. 3. Don't die. Seriously. Dying nukes your nutrition. Die multiple times and you'll be spending half a month or more getting back to max. If you're in a warm climate the protein can be easier to increase since soy and termites are easily gathered.

The game isn't on steam. Or GOG. Only place to get it is from this website or humble bundle. The only money the devs make are from sales of the game as the mods are free. As for your clay woes? Your eyes aren't trained to see it yet. Once they are then you'll be seeing clay almost everywhere. This happened to me when the new berry bushes released. Nearly starved the first night coz I wasn't accustomed to the new berry bush model. Keep playing and look carefully at the sides of hills. Red clay is the most common but blue clay has the same look only blue colors not red.

Make a mod perhaps?

For anything other than iron and higher tier metals, I'll go for whatever is the highest reading that is within a reasonable distance (whatever reasonable is to you). Usually I can find Very High or Ultra High within a half day's run from home.