Michael Gates

Un-mentioned QoL improvement: surface borax bits are now MUCH more visible. Look at this thing!

What, no war elephants? Don't you know this game is literally unplayable without war elephants?!? Seriously, daaang that's a lotta content+, and an impressive new release.

A thing I'm kind of wondering about is whether the guts of the dungeon generation system are available for modders. In an ideal world, "Better Dungeons" would be entirely plausible. Or add a couple of block types and make a mod for crashed alien spaceships.

It's because she's friends.

...wait, there's been a specific command to put toilet paper on Tyron this WHOLE TIME? OMG, the missed opportunities.

And yet it works all the way across a given geome, and I successfully exploit it when I go hunting small-disc ores. I once found a field of ilmenite discs several hundred blocks wide, all of them in the peridotite at 60, and in the higher slate stratum at 75-- didn't even WANT that much, just needed to see if it was happening for real.

I see a couple things here, so I'm'a drag them together.. This is because limonite only shows up at the top layers (chert, shale, basalt). All of the sedimentary-only ores give much lower numbers and descriptors than you would normally expect, because the reading for them in 90% of the rock column is zero! Also applies to coal, borax, lapis.. a couple other things maybe? If you go back to your mined-out ore disc, dig a lil' tunnel out maybe half a dozen blocks in a cardinal direction, and from there dig out some further one-block-high holes four blocks further and nodesearch at the ends of those, you will almost always find more. Ore gets placed in *fields* of discs, all at the same level. Sometimes they get shoved up or down by a block or two because the surface topography shoves the rock column up and down a little, but no further. This even works with iron; I once found three hematite discs in a row, right next to each other, and if there were anything I wanted to do with five or six hundred iron ingots I'd be in business.

They've been doing that, I think, forever. Bright light just doesn't bother them.

Yep, this is the thing that happens now. Time to start using bloomeries for this, which have their own annoyances but are now *much* more efficient than a firepit.

Long, cold winters are just.. boring, unless you've got some particular indoorsy project like making a statue of Kermit the Frog.

My understanding is that brown bears became about 5% faster in 1.22, so just running in a straight line works poorly. The ways I know to dodge bears are to run past trees right next to them (the bear has to go around), dig a 1-block-wide pit 3 blocks deep and stand at the bottom, or go up a 4-block-high nerdpole.

*finds empty outpost* /gm2 /spawn ... uh.. *looks at pile* "Led Zeppelin Trader"

You can make the black leather face mask, that uses up two whole leather bits AND makes you look like you're working on the whole gimp suit!

You seem to have failed to read the text I posted. My point is that you can get productivity improvements equivalent to several windmills worth of extra power just by leveraging your strengths and the helve's. If you like big gears and you cannot lie, I'm not here to stop you. But if what you want is to process a couple of ore discs worth of iron, it's faster NOT to grow four windmills worth of flax and enough pigs to make sixty axles and thirty resin for assembly and all the rest. I produced an estimate for it four or five years ago. It seems that a geared setup pays for itself sometime after the two-thousandth ingot, which is a pile eighty blocks high.

...and this is why I attach the helve directly to the windmill rotor. Y'all are willing to expend genuinely incredible amounts of stuff to save yourselves ten in-game minutes of climbing up and down a ladder. To make the helve go fast, let it do the part of the job it's good at! It is BETTER than you at that "move a voxel from here to way over there" thing; does it in one whack, where you have to go.. one.. space.. at.. a.. time. So let it do that part. But YOU are better at clearing big chunks of slag off a bloom or blister. Here, look at this bloom: You can see I did NOT clear every bit of slag off, nor did I do the tedious work of moving voxels over. All I did was whack off those chunks of slag where I could get more than one with a single click. In the left picture, you can see the mouse pointer resting on a voxel where a click took off FIVE voxels. If I were processing this bloom by hand, it would be about a quarter done, but FOR THE HELVE it is much closer to finished. I will barely have time to do this to the next bloom before this one is finished. It's about three times as fast as just setting untouched blooms on the helve hammer; it's practical to run three forges while doing this. Here, observe this plate: What I've done here is pile up two ingots, then used "Heavy Hit" to to punch five voxels right down the centerline of the ingot to place *fourteen* voxels where they need to go, then more heavy hits twice each in three spots on the left (center, two UP from center, two DOWN from center) to place another nine voxels, and then twice each in three spots on the left to place nine more. Seventeen clicks, thirty-some voxels. I never quite get it right because I'm old and tremula is a whole thing, but it's still about two voxels per hammer hit. Then, because every one of the remaining voxels would take between two and seven(!) hits to move into place by hand, I give it to the machine. If I grab the previous plate off the floor where the helve dropped it, I have just about time to make a chain section or an 8x of nails and set up the NEXT plate before the helve finishes with this one. Again, about three times as fast as handing it the whole job.

There's a thing to do, where you dig down through the gravel to the ore, dig out the one exposed ore block and grab it, then dig out a gravel from the bottom gravel layer NEXT to the hole you just punched in the ore layer.. one of the falling gravels lands in the hole so you only have to dig out one more to get to *that* block of ore. It still sucks, but it sucks slightly less?

Look at the hub and see if it shows power in kN; that displays for the rotor hub on a windmill, so the water wheel *should* do it also. If not... bug.

In my current world, I explored everything within about two thousand squares of my house before I found bauxite. It was the top of one particular smallish high mountain, nowhere else. Went all around the base of it, no baux anywhere. Fine, ladder up and spend a day pickaxing. Sometimes, stuff turns up in odd places.

*looks* ah. There are TWO recipes for wood ladder; one with planks for the sides, and one that's all sticks. If they keep both, that means we'll have both typed ladders and "wood," and I'll have to think of something funny to do with 'em. It should be possible to do "Snakes and Ladders" with a cliff face, some ladders, and ooh, water source blocks would be good...

I do wonder how we're going to get <wood type> ladders, when wood ladders are made out of sticks? Are ladders going to be made of planks, and thus gated behind saws now? I really hope not; gathering four full stacks of reeds to make a single rope ladder for Baby's First Mine is very time-consuming.

DO NOT TURN THE FISH INTO CANDY but seriously, this all looks great. There is so much pretty going on here! The decorated storage vessels, different red-clay color when fired, the fish, trader outposts.. just a ton of neat stuff.

The size of harvests scales with the month length iirc. With thirty day months you get a huge pile of stuff at the end. Which means that what you want isn't more farm, it's more CELLAR-- build yourself a lot of storage vessels. And also.. yes, you have that first crop to wait for, and dealing with that might require you to walk a far ways out finding berries and animals and stuff. Think of it as a chance to turn up some bauxite, limestone, maybe even a marble or halite outcrop.

It's like a rite of passage! Only, more of a rite of burnage

Regular, 1-high fences are fine for keeping animals on this side or that side, IN MOST CONDITIONS. The exceptions are: 1) Putting a raised block next to the fence. If you've got your fence, and there's a raised block on one side, animals can go over the fence from that side. This is useful sometimes, because you can make a fenced pen and then drive goats and stuff into it. 2) Snow. Snow can pile up so that animals can climb on the snow, and then walk over the fence. 3) Bears. Bears can *reach* over a 1-high fence to strike animals on the other side, even if they can't get to them. Cases #2 and 3 can both be prevented by using 2-high fence. I have never seen animals "glitch" through a fence.

Are you sure that's not just some of the chunks reloading improperly in the real world? It might happen, you never know.