Thorfinn

I was bottling a 5 gallon batch of mead this morning, and as I'm dipping the corked bottles in the wax so they last longer, (instead of maybe a couple years, when the unsealed bottles start going, the mead in wax sealed bottles is often still improving at 6 years) I thought, hey, why not seal jugs to make juice and wine last longer.

I was thinking you would hunt several critters using two spears, then go back to "base" and leave the spears, grab your knife, make the rounds collecting meat, go back to "base" and start cooking, leave the knife at home, then do the rounds again collecting furs and fat until you have enough to make some clothes. You would do something similar with firewood, but just leave the axe leaning against a tree, and carry home the sticks and firewood. Mining, assuming you found enough clay to make the tools, likely you would have to take a hammer with you so you could crush the ore down to something uniform -- you can't stack medium and low ore, or crystals, but you can stack the nuggets. Then leave the tools behind. Not the slightest bit enjoyable.

Nice to know. They still only spawn wild hives in moderate rain, right? So no Uncommon or Nearly All The Time?

The other thing is I don't think rain is all that much different. Sure, there is savannah where rain is uncommon, and desert where it's scarce (or whatever those terms are) but the same is true in temperate starts. The first obvious indication if you don't like opening "C" is that the grass is, on average, much shorter in lower precipitation. I've never really tried beekeeping in arid conditions. No idea whether or not its possible. I actually prefer frequent rain. Crops grow quite a bit faster. Or maybe it just seems that way. Rather than being watered at 75%. they are 100%.

@Steel General, interesting. At least part of that could be modded in -- you would just have to base the character traits from the first item in your inventory. But in such a case, why wouldn't one just equip the Tailor bag whenever he wanted the tailored gambeson, so for pretty much the entire game, that kit sits in a chest somewhere. The clockmaker kit comes out when you want to repair translocators and whenever you wanted some useless pet who is always in the way of your attacks.

If I'm understanding this, you could pick up flint and a stick (at present, you can't put either in "off" hand, but with your vision, either hand is usable?), then knap a knife blade, assemble the knife, put it in the slot you were previously holding the stick. Throw away the flint, because you need the space for reeds. Now gather 40 reeds, make your baskets so you can carry something else, gather another 24 reeds to give you a total of 4 hotbar slots? Well, 3 plus an offhand slot? I'd tweak the numbers a bit. The core game uses roughly 3 reeds per storage slot. 10 reeds gets you 3 slots, a smidge over 3 per, and 24 reeds gets you 8, exactly 3. To remain consistent, your belt, with 2 storage slots should cost somewhere around 6 reeds, which is 2 ropes. The hunter's backpack suggests maybe 3 slots if you used 2 ropes and 1 pelt. The linen sack suggests 4 twine gets you 4 slots. Assuming the old belt is an ingredient for the new, including the original hand slot, that brings you up to the current 10. How about if you are doing a cold weather start? You will die because reeds are not present, and you only ever have 2 slots. Unless you add ground stacking of items, even clothes will be darned near impossible, as you need to somehow kill hares and foxes with just 2 spears, and to be usable, each kill must have both fat and hide, or you can't turn them into pelts. And never being able to carry more than 2 items, you can't even bring food with you. Dunno. In a default start, depending on how you earn the extra slots, it may not be that much different, other than a major hassle with early game inventory management, which has never struck me as the enjoyable part of the game. But you would absolutely lose the new players.

What's wrong with Maelsto M or Streetwin D? Sound like perfectly good rapper names.

Welcome, @RedVanGhoul. Agreed. Something like Empire Earth's custom civilizations, where you could save it for next time, or load it and tweak it as you figure out what you liked/disliked. So many of the current classes only make sense in a multi-player world, and even then, only if everyone talks things through so you don't all end up as Clockmakers or something. Though personally, I always prefer games that randomize that. Just like you do the best you can with the mapgen you were dealt, you do the best you can with the traits that were rolled. I blame that trend on the release of the 1st edition AD&D Unearthed Arcana's Method V where you decided what class you wanted to play, and the system basically guaranteed you a Superman character of that class.

Tin, same reason as @ifoz. A single small deposit of tin is all you need to get to iron, and I'm slowly breaking the habit of over-mining copper. I never have a reason for more than a few hundred ingots of copper, though I often have stacks of ingots and plates and a substantial amount of ore left over at end of game.

FWIW, the first and easiest thing to do before doing a reinstall is to clear the cache. Look for the directory "Cache" in the same folder and just delete it. When you start the game next, it will regenerate the Cache. Sometimes, an updated mod has fluff from the old mod version left over that Cache directory. I'm not sure why, but my version of 1.19.8 Update did not remove the old 1.18.7 core 3 (Essentials, Survival and Creative). I had to remove those manually. Wonder if there wasn't some glitch there. The update on another computer worked fine, though that was from an earlier 1.19.

Holy cow! Lots of those I have no idea about. Probably doesn't matter, but is there a point to using Expanded Matter if you are not using Bricklayers?

Are you sure you are not in creative? [EDIT] Been a while, but I think that how it works with time stopped, too. Or something that the admin was playing with for time.; [/EDIT] [EDIT2] Wait, how are you exiting without save? Alt-F4 or task manager or something? Because if you are exiting normally, that's something else entirely. You will have to provide a whole lot more about your install. [/EDIT2]

That's just White Claw.

What is the wooden derrick-type structure at the base of the cliff?

Browns you can outrun, absolutely, so long as you are not weighted down by armor or try to run away in a straight line. Thus the bit about F5 and getting used to controlling your seraph from that POV. It's easier if you have rolling terrain or bushes, or better yet, a forest. It's all in figuring out how. I have very little experience with polars. It came as a surprise (though it should not have) that unlike the other bears, they outswim you in deep water. But they cannot out-dive you.

Yes, they are lethal, but can be dealt with. On starting a game, switch to 3rd person camera and zoom all the way out, then switch the view back to what you want to play. Practice running with the camera following you. You need to get good at timing your jumps to ascend slopes and jump over small ponds and ravines. With that view, you can see not only where the brown bear is, and when you need to zig-zag, but also what kind of obstacles he has trouble navigating.

How does this work out? [EDIT] Looks ok on this computer. I'll have to check my other machine. (The one in the air conditioning.) [/EDIT]

Hmm. That's what I did. Wonder if maybe the default compression was set too high... Think I'll try just using a cropped PNG for now. Figure out what settings work later.

My brother runs about 1100 head. Yeah, I'm familiar with the temperament of the fluffy cows. Amazing how many people aren't.

Even if 1.20 gets released in the next few, it's likely to take quite a while longer to get the mods updated. I don't follow the news too closely, but it sure seemed to me there was a lot of big changes. If you use informational-only mods, probably no big deal. Worst case, some of the numbers are wrong. But with major content mods, there's likely to be a lot of hit and miss, missing textures or even blocks, etc. If mods are essential to your experience, I'd suggest going with a 1.19.8 world (follow @DejFidOFF's suggestions) and wait to migrate to 1.20 once that has a fairly stable release and the modders have had time to fix whatever broke. There's not much that breaks "immersion" more than seeing white voxels with red question marks all over the place.

Because Real Americans... There's not much we measure in metric, and what we do irritates them. Things like 9mm, 10mm, 5.56, 6.5 Creedmoor, 7mm Mauser, 7.62, etc. The real temperature units are also the big reason I use Hud Clock. That and the room indicator. I also like some of @DanaCraluminum's information tweaks. If those were separate from the gameplay tweaks, I'd make that Vanilla+, too, but by the time I get that all configured right, there's a new sub-release, and I'm starting all over. If I'm planning to play more than a year I add Golden Combs, too. It's late July or early August before you can get the Langstroth going so not much point in a single-year goal. In that case, I also add his crop and smithing rebalancing mods so I have something useful to do in year 2.

Yes, when I thought I'd grow some specialty trees, I remember having to ladder my way up and trim every leaf block, and sometimes that wasn't enough to get a single seed. But on average, you got slightly more than one seed so long as you never took the easy route and let some of the leaf blocks decay. The leafy blocks have a lower drop rate, but the quantity are the reason they make it on average. Yes, that means you have to start on the outside of the leaves and work your way in. I find oaks are also a little lean on acorns. I'm always throwing away birch seeds, but that's probably because thinning the brush for sticks and visibility means a lot of seeds. But purpleheart and ebony were a design choice. You are supposed to have to explore the forests if you want to do anything significant with them. I suspect that's also why those woods make better crates. You have to choose between decor and utility.

From what I understand, the limit on ebony and purpleheart is intentional. You are supposed to explore to get those, not grow them safely at home. Others like acacia and redwood are close, but if you do as @LadyWYT suggests and trim the leaves first, you should be able to make a stable woodlot.

What's so scary about moose? "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat." and "Eeny, meeny, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak."

Single player, I take it? Usually defaults for wilderness. Sometimes turn on cave-ins. I play either straight Vanilla, or Vanilla+ ( @Rhonen's HUD Clock, @Spear and Fang's Sortable Storage, @Taska's Meteoric Expansion), or , once I'm content that I've played the devs' vision, with one or more larger mods like Primitive Survival, Medieval Expansion, Bricklayers, Expanded Foods, Wildcraft, Fauna of..., etc. to get a feel for how others would balance the game. Bricklayers will probably be moved to Vanilla+ at some point. Done the cold starts, but they take away too many of the fun parts of the game, and replace it with way too much grindy tedium for my taste.