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Whoa, whoa, whoa... is that what you think? If so, then I can understand why you are annoyed, but let me be very clear here, I am absolutely not accusing you of that. I think your take on Lovecraft is wrong, but that's it. There is no suggestion you are somehow a flag waving supporter of bigotry, and I have no evidence what so ever to base such a crazy claim on.

I'm coming across as passive aggressive to you because I am nervous of where it could take us, that's all.

..and Lovecraft was born ~30 years after the civil war ended. What was that fought over and who won that? If I'm honest the, "my country was raw dogged by racism, it should be accepted", is not the win you think it is. It's also opening this up to comments about the current administration and that can only be the sort of "dumpster fire" territory that both of us want to avoid. I'm not dismissing your point, the times were "unenlightened" to use an euphemism, but with him specifically I believe you are underplaying his hatefulness with anachronism. I'm not here to convince you of anything, I'm sure you are an intelligent and capable individual, but the evidence is very clear. Either way, I doubt this exchange helps, and I am guilty of letting this get off topic, and for that I apologise. (Edit, in fact I'd be happy for the mods to just remove a section of this thread to "keep it more sanitary")

If you want to discuss it we can, but I am very wary of opening that Pandora's Box, and this really isn't the place for it. We can all agree that the game doesn't need to have an explicit tie to Lovecraft himself, which is good, and that's where the matter should probably end. However, to claim he was just expressing view that were mainstream at the time is utterly wrong, and I'm sorry if being this absolute with my push back is causing a problem.

..good sentiment, let's keep religion and politics out of it. So it's really disappointing that you post this.. ..if you don't want people to expand on the topic, stop trying to claim that Lovecraft was just a bit kooky for the time but held totally normal views. I cannot overstate this, he was an avowed racist, even for the time. There is not a modern scholar that thinks differently.

Password vaults are not a panacea, but I certainly recommend them. I actually have KeePass installed locally, although I don't actually use it as I have LastPass as a browser extension. Is LastPass the most secure? Nope. Am I lazy enough to put up with the minimal risk? Yes. Have I used it for nigh on a decade? Yes. Have I ever been informed (or noticed) an account being hacked? No. As the username/password is the same as the client area, and I needed to log in to download the game, the details are already in LastPass, but it's a browser extension so it's never going to automatically log me into a (non-browser) application. The same is true for KeePass. The only way for it to work is for the application devs to intentionally build this in.

You are not wrong, that definitely is a better way to do things. Thank you very much. For those wondering, VS will hang for a 2 or 3 minutes (at least on my PC) and will output the files to <game install location>/icons but it does what it says on the tin; icons, all of them, 100px in size.

I mean in the air, not in your inventory. It's weird as almost everything else has a tool tip. Look at a tree and it'll tell you the type and tool needed. Look at a rock and it'll tell you the type and (dependent on settings) the cave-in stability value. Butterflies? Nope, even with dev tools turned on and "extended debug info" enabled, there is no tooltip. Is this by design? Because there is a "literal shit ton" (technical term) of them, and each one is different, so is it intended that we should work it out by the design alone? Happy to install a mod if needed, and I'm looking to add in Eternal Butterfly so that collecting them doesn't kill them, allowing me to release duplicates.

I regularly have dev mode on, and for one simple reason, the debug data on the tooltip as it provides not only the full item id but also a lot of detail on chiselled blocks. However is there a reason not to? I'm intrigued to know what "problems" that could arise from using it?

This could just be for game balancing, but it seems a little weird that for some things the lantern (and by extension the candle) doesn't operate as a source of fire. I mentioned bloomery in the title and perhaps it's a bit of a stretch to use a candle to light something so industrial, but a fire pit should be no problem as it uses a base of dry grass.

I literally wrote my own mod because while I don't mind the early game struggle I was frustrated at the lack of sticks mid game. I made it use an axe and a plank (board),as I felt at the point you are able to make planks it's just a matter of splitting those planks into sticks. https://mods.vintagestory.at/show/mod/21934

I agree that it shouldn't necessarily be a dev, in general the wiki for most games is maintained by fans rather than devs. The devs should focus on development. The wiki is locked for fan edit, though, which goes against the whole point of having a wiki. It's literally in the name. Don't get me wrong, I understand why that might be the case, the game is still developing and you don't want to have to go and sanity check every entry added. However, the wiki contains more detail than the handbook, and (imo) it's easier to access that information due to it being in a web browser. You could argue that the obfuscation is intentional, that you shouldn't have the granular level of detail available in the wiki shown in the handbook, and it's a point I could agree with if it wasn't for the fact the wiki is hosted on the official site, so there is clear intent for the player to use it. Frustratingly I asked for editing permission (I'm certainly not knew to wiki's in general) because there was no entry for Rammed Earth and I wanted to add it. I was told no. Which I respect, I'm not complaining, and I am just some random who could spam all sort of nonsense if given the opportunity (I'm not, but I could understand why they'd think that).

Sorry but I completely disagree with both of those statements. This is also not correct in regard to Lovecraft. Even in comparison to the times, he was a hateful person, intentionally so it seems. Do I want this discussion to end with me posting a 5 page essay on just why Lovecraft was shitty, no, so I'll just leave it at the classic "agree to disagree" stance. Now, the important thing, does that hate reflect upon the game? No, because it leans into the classic horror tropes that while Lovecraft could be seen as the figurehead of they certainly weren't the only proponent of.

I honestly wouldn't know, I've not let the music play for more than 30 seconds..

Ah, right, ok. That'll explain why all I could find were textures. I'll either scrape the images from the wiki or see what I can do in game. Thanks for the prompt reply.

I am building a little web app, at this point just a proof of concept and unlikely to go public, but I plan using the images that are in game for certain things. The example here is the pear, but it could be any item. The wiki does have a lot of images, but their sizes are inconsistent, take for example the difference between a red apple (400x400) and some red meat (100x100). I have checked the assets folder and can find textures but not a static image. Is it just the case that when shown in your inventory it's rendering it in real time? Thanks in advance.

If display cases show their contents, why doesn't the Owl treasure chest?

Yeah, Lovecraft was a pretty f*cking hateful person. Even for the time, he went the extra mile. It's why I know of his work but have read very little of it.

There is a thread on here covering the mod... Personally I like the idea of character progression, but I would much prefer it was within vanilla, as I don't think they would be so OP (imo). I'm sure it can be tweaked, but the buffs such as the ability to do extra high jumps or have constant light underground just doesn't seem right.

Yeah, you'd be surprised. imo.. it's OK, but to claim "everyone thought it was awful" is a bit off. Either way, whether you liked it or not (heh.. and it seems not!) doesn't really matter. I mentioned the two titles as examples of where dynamic music is used, both being situational, but with 7 Days' music being prominent, and the switch in music being played is noticeable. whereas DayZ is the very definition of "less is more".

From looking at the message, and how it came about, the first suggestion would be to do a complete uninstall, grab the recent exe from the client area on this site, and re-install. I know that's not the most exciting reply, you might find someone who has suffered similar in this subforum.. https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/forum/15-vintarian-support/

Yeah, I had figured as much, but didn't spend time looking into it. I might include it in my next world, but seriously nerfed in terms of items.

Do you mean it has a current? Hard to tell from a still image. If so, your answer is a Bucket. (wooden boards and twine). VS is slightly odd with it's water blocks in that placing them counts as a permanent water source (unlike the "other block game"). If there is a "flow" in a square, then facing it with a full bucket of water and pressing [ctrl] and [right click] it should place a full water block in that location and remove the "flow". Repeat as necessary.

I watched that video too, here's a link for people if they want to, and trust me he's hardly scraped the surface! My recommendation is to still go in blind, but for the love of God, do the tutorial/first steps guide. Boffy didn't and they spent the first hour getting nowhere, the next hour figuring out shit that was in the first steps guide.

There is a mod for firearms, but remember the lore... this game is set in the ~13th century and muskets weren't invented for another 3 centuries at least. You did have cannons as it's about this time that they were invented in China.