Michael Gates

VS has apparently had about a million sales-- Anego doesn't publish figures but somebody figured it somehow-- so, we're about to the point where all the common names are taken. Try adding "Nightside" to the middle of your preferred username, see how that goes.

Most animals need a 2-block-deep pit to hold them; bears and most goats and deer require a 4-block-deep pit. This change is why soil is now usually 4 blocks deep, btw. If you 're annoying wolves, pigs, or goats to get them to chase you, you'll want 3x5 pits; they'll usually just run around a 3x3 and then you have to play a few verses of "Pop Goes the Weasel." Very bothersome.

I play "permadeath until I deploy a blue gear," which feels like a nice compromise. If you die before then you've made a Mistake, but having to cancel three levels of excavated Dwarf King's Underground Fortress because you fell in a hole would be annoying.

The handbook entries for the various kinds of mushrooms say you can feed them to pigs, but when I try to put them into a trough they just don't go. Tried it with almond mushrooms and puffballs. I had about ten of each-- does it maybe need more at a time, or does this just not work at all?

Yup, this is expected. If I'm going to be working in a particular swatch of forest, I pretty much always dig a wolf pit (3x5x2 deep, with a pair of "goal post" pillars to either side so you know where to go and when to jump over) as close to the treeline as I can. Eventually you get good at it, and then you start to think about wolves as more of a resource than a hazard.

No, thirst is *always* just another satiation bar, and we've got four already. Hydrate or Diedrate is fine if you want to do that, but imo this doesn't actually add anything to the game experience.

I would make "Studded Leather," an armor based on the chromite-tanned leather. Same stats as regular leather except one more tier and maybe 1% more resists. Some high-end parts going into each piece-- steel nails and maybe something that drops off a sawblade locust. The main point would be for it to be Shiny, like terra preta that you wear.

I just realized, my current world has huge bismuth readings all over, and no sphalerite...

I think the important thing is to know what you actually want to accomplish in the game world. It's important to have a to-do list, and getting to iron age, having enough food stored for winter, maybe putting up a mill are good things to have on it; but right after those, you've got to put down "MAKE GIANT PENIS STATUE." Or whatever. If you want an Impossibly cute tiny cottage with little hearts chiseled on everything, write that down. Make it official. And now, I'm going to contemplate the giant penis statue with the little hearts chiseled all over it.

Just stick 'em in there next time, they can keep track of it from inside.

Nice to know SOMEBODY still sees them. I play vanilla, so it can't be a mod... grr. I really like those spearheads in the early game!

Between three 1.22 worlds I've panned about seventy blocks of sand (various rock types, most recent one was andesite). I've noticed a change; copper spearheads don't drop at all anymore. Didn't see it in the change logs but that might just be me looking in the wrong place. Has anybody else noticed this? Was it an official thing?

It's much more practical to simply rename the game directory to something bizarre, and then in a few months when you want to start another new world you just have to go find the installation you still have! Also, you'll get to mumble things like, "Was it filed under 'Concrete Porn?'... ooh, no. No, that's not Vintage Story at all."

Yep, that's wrong; it's supposed to drop four chests and four bookcases. The other part of this is, people absolutely hate the "four chests and four bookcases" thing, so it sounds like somebody tried to fix it and made an error?

This is something a person would use maybe twice in a game, and I don't know of a way to do it without breaking immersion. Alt-tab and run calc if you want to squeeze out every bit of bronze, as opposed to going and finding another disc of cassiterite (there WILL be another one, near the one you found).