Yerik

Knapping only works if you hit one rock with another. Make sure you have a rock/flint in your hand when working on it in the world.

I’d love for the starving sound to be different. I can’t tell you how many times I’m playing with someone and they suddenly panic, convinced they’re being attacked by something unseen. I rush over to help, only to discover there’s nothing there—just their sheepish, ‘…I forgot to eat again.’

I love the ash idea, it could pile up like snow, the bigger taller your house is that burned down the taller the ash piles are afterwards.

I went in knowing nothing, and yes I was a ragdoll as well. It wasn't until I started reading spoilers after the fact that I learned that. I also didn't know that when wearing full iron plate armor healing was 0% effective and thought it was a bug. lol

Beautiful building!

If you are looking to add some text to the map see the "Guide/Contribute": https://map.tops.vintagestory.at/?x=0&y=0&zoom=6#contribute It's as simple as adding a sign and adding text "<AM:BASE>" with the name you want to display. Keep in mind this won't show up immediately, they only update the TOPS map about once a month.

I think you should be able to harvest the glow worms and use them to create the glowing blocks that are only in creative mode. I would really love the ability to chisel glowing letters, signs, art, etc in survival mode.

When exploring, always, always bring stacks of ladders!

When I logged in to this update the first thing I noticed was how fuzzy everything looked. I ended up turning off bloom, which helped a lot, and turning up the texture quality. In case anyone else has this issue.

I was unaware that holding a torch helped, I will try this next time. I was under 50% health and was harvesting 20+ skeps when it happened, lots of bees attacking me, lol.

Where does death by bees live in the strangest death list? When I died by bees on the TOPS server everyone was saying they have never seen it happen, lol.

+1 love this idea!

I think they all went into the deserts and died. I find cow sculls there all the time, yet have never seen a living one. Something must have made them go mad!

Can lava turn regular water into boiling water? If so, that is exactly what happened.

Here, here! These are my 2 favorite games of all time as well!

Boiling water... yes, I think you are correct. This makes a lot of sense.

Frustrating death: Several months ago I joined the TOPS server, met new friends and joined the town of Dawnreach. I chose to progress myself without help as it has been a while since I had played the early game. I got a full set of tin bronze tools and was ready to go exploring for iron. I found a cave in town that had a translocator, out of curiosity I jumped right in. Then suddenly I was burning to death in lava. I went in the portal over and over again trying to get my stuff back, or at least try and plug the lava leak in the ceiling.. no luck. Gave up lost everything. A few weeks later I decided to venture out to that location far away and fix the problem so no one else runs into it. I figured since it was below a lake, I could just dig down and the lava would turn to obsidian and problem solved. For some reason when I finally got down to the TL I was burning in water, lost everything again... Both times I almost quit playing on TOPS, but I love the fact they don't shut down the server ever so my builds will live on forever keeps drawing me back despite my losses. Ahhhh, good times.

In the 1.21 notes Tyron says they have fixed most of "animals sometimes escaping their pens if the player leaves the area" So hopefully this is now fixed.

Does anyone know if there are plans to upgrade the TOPS server so that there isn't a 30+ minute queue time just to play?

When I get the urge to start over I just dump everything in a chest and run thousands of blocks away and start from scratch there. Usually I do this because of terrain generation updates. But I would say around the 100 hour mark.

This sounds just like: Natural Trail Mod I just started using this mod, it's awesome!

Because of this when I see people mention the true name of "the other block game" I react just like they react to "He who shall not be named". "How dare they speak its true name in this community!" Lol Vintage Story is such a better game, I love it so much. It is better than I imagined "the other block game" could have been, and constantly improving. Thanks to the Devs, you are awesome!

I tested this a while back using "/db prune 0 drop confirm" and it seemed to regenerate chunks near me, but kept all my buildings, etc. I did notice that I had a trader camp that I had put a fence around stay, but a new one appeared 2 chunks away. And other traders disappeared. I also had some blue clay deposits nearby which I hadn't dug into yet, disappear. (As this was the update that added red clay) I ended up not pruning my chunks, but it made my save file like 2% of what it was, so totally worth it if your save file gets huge.

Correct. The barrel recipes have to be exact, as they cannot contain 2 types of liquids.