Thorfinn

Wow. If I spawn in forest, I usually run into one or even two on my first day. Not that I can do much about it right then, because I'm pretty much always sprinting trying to put distance between me and the wolves chasing me. But I know where to come back to when I'm better equipped to deal with wolves.

Something like Survival Categories?

OK, cool. I was scratching my head trying to figure out where I found it since it didn't seem to be on ModDB, and I didn't remember having downloading anything elsewhere. I was starting to think it was auto-installed from joining a server, but that made no sense since the server I play on is my son's, and I was over at his house, and he had not heard of it. I've only found 3 of the variants so far, but, hey, it gives me an excuse to run around at night. Does it only run around Halloween, or will I find them any time I enable it?

Is it commonplace to not have bees by June? July at latest? I typically transplant my first hive by mid-May, early June or thereabouts. July if I really mess up.

[Watching.] I've heard them (but not always seen them) in forests and tundra. At least where snow abounds and trees do not. I have not heard them on just joe-standard plains, to the best of my recollection.

Huh. Never noticed that. Thanks. That probably explains why so often I don't empty the bowl. I'm only eating until I top up the bar.

Welcome, @Owktree! Nice start! Early June, and almost set for iron. Which you have a lead on. Borax is usually my stumbling block, too. House of Cubes. I like that. Me? Nothing much to take pictures of. Another 4-day run. By dusk of first night, had 1 linen sack and enough excess reeds to make 2 baskets. Gathered a stack of peat along the way and built my House of Cubes on top of a clay deposit. By dawn, had the essentials firing. (Cooking pot, bowl, crock, crucible, 2 storage vessels.) Day 2 was getting small charcoal pit (3x3x2) going and planting and fencing in first days seeds (~30), do some exploring. Night 2 was a little boring -- 2 bowls, 2 cooking pots, hammer, pick and anvil molds firing, 4 more storage vessels made, but not firing. That was all I had room for in my little House of Cubes, and with all the drifters prowling about outside, there was no way I could start any more outside. I could have I suppose. Run away to draw them off or despawn them, but dawn wasn't far off by then anyway. Day 3 was spent at lumber camp, filling fairly large (5x5x4, more or less) charcoal pit, and finally getting enough fibers for the second sack. Day 4 was gather charcoal, plant whatever seeds I had (~40) and mine out a couple decent copper deposits. Still no leads on tin. Sigh.

We have a winner. If you get a rift near your "base" just before night, run to an alternate base or prepare to do battle. There might be a limit on number that spawn, so those locked outside eventually are all that there are going to be, but I, too, have seen drifters spawn right in front of me, within one tile of a torch, if there was a rift nearby.

There was a cute little mod that helped capture the spirit of the season, NiclAss, I think was the author, but it seems to have vanished from ModDB. I have it on my other computer, but I'm not at home at the moment. Am I just not seeing it, or was it pulled or something? Thanks!

This. Running any mods? I usually open several containers, press "e" then shift-click everything out of my pack.

This. Running any mods? I usually open several containers, press "e" then shift-click everything out of my pack.

It does this. When you eat a meal, it starts a timer that while it runs, your hunger bar doesn't move at all. 30 seconds per 100 SAT, IIRC.

I'm not a developer, but from what several devs have said over on GOG, Workshop support is mandatory, and is implemented in a way that it is not friendly to Nexus or other third-party mod systems. It's why games like The Planet Crafter are always a week or two behind at GOG, and some early access don't even bother with updates at GOG.

Wait, what? Does my food cellar count as a cave then? It's almost always dirt walls and ceilings, with a mostly natural stone floor.

Thanks. I never tried booleans. I assumed that parameter was optional, either the word "pinned" or blank. After all, it worked that way before, in 1.16. [EDIT] Incidentally, maybe a note on the wiki page that "pinned" is boolean would be in order, whomever has edit privs? Thanks! [/EDIT]

This used to work. /waypoint addati bee ~0 ~0 ~0 red bees I've tried all kinds of variants to no avail. The closest I got was placing a black dot called "red bees". Using #FF0000 in lieu of red does not work at all. Reply on console says "Color may be a known .net color or hex number." Any suggestions?

If you give it a little thought, you can devise a similar trap where they kill each other all night long, and you are close enough to safely butcher them as they do so. Just don't put it that close to a rift. They will come to you anyway. I didn't think about adding a torch. Nice touch. If you have time to build a pit kiln within a tile of the bottom of the pit, you don't even have to wait for them to kill each other.

Primitive Survival mod works differently. Maybe that's what you were thinking of?

I pan every night after about the second night just because I have nothing else to do, and it was occasionally useful for skipping through bronze. Seems to me it was taking around a couple hundred bony soil to get enough gold and silver to make 1100 black bronze. The majority of the time, it was through tin prospecting, but maybe a quarter of time time it got there faster? Used to be possible with regular sand and tin bronze, but the chance must have been nerfed. Either that or my luck changed.

No, just look around for somewhere the gear is running clockwise. Granted, it seems everywhere I would prefer to settle down, it's running counter-clockwise, but they are not that hard to find. I really don't know if that's intentional behavior or not. I'm a little OCD about letting it get low. Halfway is about all I allow it to get. [EDIT] Oh, and greetings! Just noticed you are new here. [/EDIT]

There's a mod that does what you like, @rku. It's called Knapster. I believe it also does multiple blocks, too, but don't quote me on it.

Could be. Never really paid much attention, other than it seems it's always raining when I'm collecting peat, and usually raining when I'm clayforming that first night on top of a clay deposit. Only reason the clay stands out in mind is I that I realized this is the first time I did not have to shield the torch from the rain in a long, long time.

Rare they are, but now I can no longer say that. The game I just started, I appeared on top of the ruins block that was at spawn.

Thanks! So it's not that there are more bushes, but rather more berries per bush?

Finally got my fall work done IRL (firewood stacked, garden harvested, canning done, house and outbuildings ready for winter, etc.,) so have some spare time. Back to playing my 3-day runs, trying out different playstyles to see what works best in the new version. Either I'm getting a whole lot better at the game or the game is a lot more lenient in giving out food. Not having to chop out a tree to get a fire to get a torch has been a huge improvement. But while I used to have maybe a couple small stacks of berries that would be enough for a good breakfast and maybe a bit more, my last few runs have been nuts. Sixty berries by nightfall is now a pretty low end, counts well over 100 are more common. A midnight snack the next night of some porridge with veggies and berries is the beginning of the end of hunger issues. Kind of related, sort of, why am I running into clay in areas of low precip? One run a couple days ago I set up my first night camp on top of a deposit of blue clay AND peat within an 8x4 blockhouse, and when I hit "C" to check the temperature, noticed that precip was low. I imagine it is possible it was whichever ruins mod I was using, or maybe primitive survival, but other than that, I'm running pretty vanilla. Anyone else running into things like this?