shadou66

Wow, I go to work for a few days and I come back to a plethora of useful information. Thanks to everyone for the input. And, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one with bear woes. Makes me feel a little less like a complete wimp. Well, I guess its time to get to get busy.

Oh, thanks. This gives me good information on where to look and what to look for as well as explaining some of what can and can't be changed in animal behavior.

No way to just remove the spawners or just delete bears as an entity?

I love this game. Unlike many of the folks here I'm not looking for a "knife in my teeth" Rambo style adventure. I have zero interest in seeing how hard I can make the game. I just want enough challenge to make things interesting as I explore my world and build my haven. And the dev's gave me exactly what I wanted. There's so many custom options now that most people can tailor their experience right in the game plus fully developed modding tools and a truly superior modding community. Things were great, and then, there were bears. I get it, bears are big and dangerous but come on. I live in a rural area in the mountains. We have brown bears, cougars, wolves, and coyotes all over the place here. I've encountered a few bears and unless you're dumb enough to provoke one of them, they generally leave humans alone. They might raid your garbage or go after your pets if they're really hungry. And, yes, they can climb pretty well but they're not scaling 12 foot fences, they're not up on the roof(although I did have a cougar on my roof once), not stamping around in farms, or camping anyone's front door. So, I'm fed up with the bears. I looked for a mod. There's a mod for everything, for every block, creature, and mechanic there's a mod. For bears there's 2. One that unbelievably makes the bears harder (???serious adrenaline addiction there) and one, just one, that removes the bears from the game and it doesn't work. Okay, I'll just bite the bullet and set the animals to non-aggressive, fine, not what I wanted but okay. Just loaded into that new game and wham five minutes into the play-through dead by bear in the middle of a plain, at least 50 blocks from the nearest forest. I'm done with these demonic bears. So, where does that leave me. Map settings don't work and there are no mods. I'd have to go explorer and that's a little too casual even for me. So, I need some help. I know nothing about coding but I so hate these obnoxious creatures that I'm willing to learn how to code just so I can deal with them. Seriously, can someone tell me how to alter the code to divest me of these hell-spawn disguised as bears. And to the kind folks who are going to explain how to avoid, trap, or kill the bears, I'm aware but I'm way past that now. No, now it's genocide.

As far as I am aware bloomeries were not temporary structures. While some were small compact affairs with a simple draft system, others were quite large and had water wheels attached to run a bellows. The ore and charcoal was added to the top of the bloomery, heated to just under smelting temperature to add carbon and remove impurities, and the resulting "bloom" fell to the bottom and was then shoveled out to be further worked into wrought iron. In fact, if the temperature in the bloomery got too hot, the iron would be absorb too much carbon and become unworkable by the forges of the time. Many bloomeries were still in use in the late 1700's until they were eventually replaced by blast furnaces. Now a small home-made bloomery would probably be temporary because as Adrian pointed out there wouldn't be any way to contain the heat and control the airflow in such a small structure without sealing all the openings. But, these simple one use bloomeries weren't usually made from expensive ceramic brick. There are stone and brick bloomeries still standing in West Virginia, USA from the colonial era. I'm pretty sure you could find quite few medieval bloomeries still around in Europe. So, perhaps a better built bloomery need not be destroyed with every use. How any of this applies to glass making, eh, I don't know.

Love this mod, thank you so much for it. I do need to ask a dumb question. How do I access the config file? Are there hot keys to open it in game or do I have to go into the mod file itself? I need to turn off the poop. My fps has been dropping to like 15-17 crazy low. I couldn't figure it out until I walked out into a field and saw literally hundreds of wild rabbits and chickens. I don't think this mod effects the spawning of wild creatures but the poop. The poop was everywhere, on every block. I don't know what's causing the wildlife overpopulation but getting rid of the poop can only help. Come to think of it. I haven't seen any wolves lately. Hmm. Anyway, so I need to turn off the poop and I know that I can do this through the config file but I'm not sure how I should access that file. I know Jakecool is on a break, but if anyone else out there knows, any help would be appreciated. Sorry didn't see the other posts regarding over population. I still don't know how to access the config file. I'd rather not edit the mod itself unless I have to. Thanks.

Absolutely love this mod but I am having the same population problem with boars. I've got at least 20 piglets from 2 original boars. Well I won't be hurting for meat. Also, I am surprised that the poop from the animals is not used to make compost. That's an age old use for manure making it quite valuable. Maybe combined with grass in the composter or a barrel. If there is already a way to do this, my apologies, I just don't see it. Maybe something to look at when you have time to mod again. Thanks for the great mod. Edit: Just re-read boar description so perhaps not a bug but propagation as intended. My apologies.

Thank you for the clarification. This is good news. Authenticating occasionally is no big deal that puts it on par with a minecraft-like system. Well, I look forward to playing the game. Thanks again.

So I've some discussion on DRM on online play but I could not discern from that whether or not there is an actual single play mode for this game. If I am forced to play on a server with or without other people I don't want this game. I am truly sick of having multi-player on-line everything ruling the game world. I play games to get away from people and I live in a rural area so I'm not always guaranteed internet access. So, can I play this locally by myself or no? The game looks interesting but no single player is a deal breaker.