Kevin Eric Snell

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti

Oh, okay, I was wondering about this. It's May, 23 Celsius... so over 70 Fahrenheit, and I've still got lake ice, which just wouldn't happen.

Ugh. I didn't have a timer running, but that must be what just happened. I was smithing in the night, and even though rift activity was "calm," for some reason a bunch of drifters spawned, which I hadn't realized until I stepped outside to drop my copper plate in the pool. Morning was hectic as I was dodging like 5 guys who refused to despawn, and by the time I managed to get back to the pool, it was gone. Didn't feel like 10 minutes, but time flies when you're dealing with stupid stuff.

Fortunately, I had slightly better luck at the site I found to the southwest that registered as "decent" for bismuthite. I triangulated a couple times and stumbled upon about 7 or 8 chunks. That, combined with all the zinc I found panning in gravel, gave me my first bronze. So now I can go back to my copper motherlode with better tools and keep searching.

Struggling with this problem now... new player digging into an ultra high copper zone, no hits so far digging down to depth 70 or so. Though I did wander around and find a little bit of sulfur, which is worthless to me now but might be useful later. I gotta go back with more ladders. But as I understand it, it's entirely possible that this area which registers as "ultra high" could be completely empty, right? Oh, and it's not just that I'm digging in an ultra high area. I've taken several readings and carefully triangulated where the percentage is highest before digging down, still nothing.

Yeah, I'm desperately fighting a losing battle with my starter gear to keep it above 0% tattered. My pants especially go from 10% (after repairing with thread) back to 0% in a few days, even without combat or swimming. No wonder people play naked. I'll do that as soon as the winter's over.

I certainly hope this is possible. I just blundered into the smithing without having consulted any online guides and now have a lot of waste.

Watching Youtube tutorials now. Yikes, this game desperately needs some kind of smithing tutorial. Just speaking from a first-time player perspective, that is utterly unintuitive. None of the smithing controls were explained in-game. That's a lot of wasted copper. I'll try again.

Wow, I'm trying to make a sawblade and can't get anywhere. No amount of smithing gets the voxels into the right spots. 3 ingots in already

In the middle of the night, I was interrupted by a burning boar squealing at the front door of my shack. Apparently he'd run through my pit kilns. When I went outside to butcher the corpse (which had disappeared), I discovered the burning boar had started a brushfire.