Sparticus247

I'd say turn the difficulty down a bit for world 1 as well as go without any mods. This is your learning world. Allow items to stay on you after death. Give the monster spawn a couple days delay. Turn up the surface copper bits. This gives you breathing time to get used to game mechanics, and have a MUCH better idea of what mods you really would like to improve vanilla play. Do your real world after about 15 hours, enough time to get to copper and dabble in first farms. 1 silly piece of advice I have is try to use granite, chert, or other hard stones for tools and save all your flint for later. Much more valuable for fire clay than a 30th axe.

I tend to lurk more than post/reply but topics that bring up a lot of emotion tend to attract emotional responses. If someone believes all AI use is theft and or is killing the planet, there is a likelihood that there will be a strong emotional response to those who believe you are personally now part of the problem. On the other hand, though, controversial topics tend to be the ones that are worth discussing the most. We all need to leave a little room for nuance in our lives. Rarely are topics truly black and white. Life tends to be a lot more colorful. That being said, I think the combat in the game is fine lol.

Well after some exploring I found a translocator on a pretty easy to reach part of the island. I may make this my next playthrough and come back to this.

I may have to give this one a try and tweak the settings a bit.

Please don't......

"All these squares make a circle"

Ok maybe I'm weird but I LOVE finding and planting fruit trees. Pears and Pink Apples for EVERYONE! 20 trees for by year 3! That and I love bees. I'll fill a whole flatland area with skeps. Set and forget so I can go explore the world more, and bring back my goodies, such as every cattail root that exists in the to feed my problem.

Across 4 worlds each being about 200 hours each, I don't really do animal husbandry. I 100% get the benefit and appeal...but I like to wander a bit too much I think. As long as I have grain, salted meat, and veggies I'm happy. Things that last a long time while I bring my cooking pot and oven with me.

Wanted to share a good seed and settings I found. You can play with the settings a bit but here is what I get as pretty constant around the spawn area. I don't want to spoil too much but there will be bauxite, slate, and limestone areas not too far of a journey in different directions. Some can be walked, but some need a boat. Landcover: 40% Landcover Scale: 100% Upheaval Rate: 30% ---Features Near Spawn--- Yellow Star: Spawn island with a trader.. Green Pick: Iron Rich Island. Orange Pick: Copper Rich Hils Yellow Pick: Cave with Bountiful tin a short way down. Green Apples: Fruit Trees Red Hoe: Red Clay Black Hoe: Peat Blue Hoe: Blue Clay 10272013-settings.txt

Early game wolves are "ruff"

It's hard to pinpoint things that much. When is something considered "awesome"? It's in the eye of the beholder, but we as a group generally know what awesome is. Awesome however can be a bit different from person to person.

Since I replied on your last topic on bosses having planet sized health as forced/artificial difficulty in a specific Final Fantasy game, let me break this down for you. Imagine playing a game about defending the planet from "Crab Monsters". Now imagine that there is a "Boss Crab" on each region of the planet you have to defeat. Each boss crab is the exact same in its attack style (other than some randomness on attack order) where it has 5 attacks that can be dodged if you memorize movement patters, and 1 splash damage attack that can't be dodged so you have to have high HP and heal during the battle. Every boss crab is the same mechanic, just with a different character model, and each "Boss Crab" has more HP and does more damage than the previous. You level up your HP and healing by defeating lots of "Standard Crabs" during gameplay. That is the only way to increase your level. Is the "Boss Crab" that killed you 4 times actually difficult to defeat? You memorized its attack patterns, but it kills you with the attack that can't be avoided eventually because it hurts too much, and you can't heal enough HP in time between. Now if you go kill 800 "Standard Crabs" you may level up and have enough HP to defeat it next time. Then the next boss needs another 900, then the next 1200, etc. That to me is artificial difficulty. There is nothing you can do but slog through the game the way it was designed to add extra hours.

I like that this game is just hard enough without making it feel like it's being artificial about it. Remember those final fantasy boss fights that were hard because the enemy HP is just the size of a planet? That kind of difficulty I despise. This game usually lets me know that I am the one that messed up. Can't make any baskets or other things out of cattails, because I ate all the roots in the area? That's my fault. Having a hard time making copper tools because I didn't mark down where all the bits were and used them all in a 5,000 block radius? That's my fault. Didn't bother making any food storage for the winter and now I'm having a hard time? That's my fault. Etc etc. The game can be punishing, but it's usually fair about it.

Plenty of people have been playing this game, you can see all sorts of YouTubers and streamers now, and the game has been available publicly for years. That being said, if you are downloading from the main site you're good. If you are getting a free key from someone on a random discord group, and they send you an executable file for the game, absolutely do not use that lol.

This sounds like you're experiencing solar eclipses I've only had 4 in about 150 hours of gameplay, but they all happened in pairs close together. The red glow is probably a bugged light source. If it was near a fire pit or other fire source, I've had that same glowing red night light. If it happens again try placing a torch down right in the middle and then pick it back up