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As I understand it, there is a lore reason that wildlife are so aggro towards the player, but of course that doesn't really change how annoying it can be to have a bear or wolf repeatedly tear your face off.

The one use I've seen for snow shovels: they pile the snow layers and allow you to turn them into full snow blocks.

Ooooooh. I like 4B the most. I think the big, bold temporal gear means it would show up well at icon size, while still looking good at the size it is in this concept art. Edit: wait what, first ? that'll teach me not to look at timestamps huh

enjoy the ridiculousness

tbh it feels like I'm more likely to spawn in and immediately OFUCBEAR

Lol, can confirm, I spawned into my current world and saw TWO bears chilling within 50 blocks of spawn

Man, I didn't even think this could be a bug, it was just like. Creepy-cool.

@Emma Malha @quicksilvr Known issue, going to get fixed in the next release https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/8912

Yeah, exactly :D Like cassava! Like, since that already exists in-game and needs processing before it's edible, it's a natural extension of the spirit of realism to have mushroom-processing as well.

Excellently evocative of the mod! I love the snowman, lol

Aw man, I was hoping that was intentional as a like, "cooking off the psychedelics" sort of thing. Mod idea free to good home: mushroom processing to make them safely edible.

Agreed here on both counts. I haven't modded for VS, but I've modded for Dwarf Fortress: Steam Edition, and I made my own dang cover art for that one mod. And if I hadn't wanted to draw that, I could have taken "before" and "after" screenshots of what my mod did and stuck them together in GIMP. And like. We're not playing Vintage Story because of the breathtakingly phenomenal graphics, here. Goofy programmer art cover images for mods is fully in line with the spirit of the game.

Huh! That's not really an argument I've heard about games, but then, I come at games from a very different direction. Namely, I like games for their potential stories. Like, yeah, interactive stories are a good way to practice what skills you'd need in a real situation, and not all games have so much as an excuse plot, but also... humans just like telling stories. Making up fantastical worlds. Telling tall tales. And The Sims is a virtual dollhouse, where the dolls can move on their own but also you can boss them around, and they make excellent stories. And from that perspective, losing being fun also makes perfect sense to me. Does getting torn apart repeatedly by wolves make for a good story? I mean, as the struggle that the protagonist must overcome, it's a great story. Vintage Story has so many potential stories to find in it. The desperate scramble to collect enough food before winter, scouring the hills looking for GODDAMNED CLAY, the frustration of falling down an unexpected sinkhole, the ingenuity required to retrieve your items within the limit of the ticking clock, the cleverness required to kite a bear away from your last death point, dying repeatedly in the process but that's all expendable, the point is getting your stuff back-- Stories where the protagonist just wins and wins and wins aren't interesting, to me. And to a lot of other people, too, which is why storytelling advice is always "there has to be tension and struggle or your protagonist will feel boring and overpowered". And there can be such a thing as too much struggle, where it stops being interesting and it's just tedious, but. When death isn't permanent, when it's just a setback, you can always recover. And that's a power fantasy too, just as much as winning and winning and never losing.

Do you use a VPN? I haven't experienced 8 captchas in a row, but ever since starting to use a VPN (ProtonVPN, specifically) I've been running into captchas everywhere constantly. If you are using a VPN, well, turning it off long enough to download things might help. If you're not, there might be another reason you're getting slammed with captchas but I wouldn't know it.