Professor Dragon

Try checking these: https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/5100 And the "Always on Top" setting mentioned here: Professor Dragon.

Hello Narg, The key point that many people get wrong about lightning protection: Minecraft - place a lightning rod on a wooden house and you're right. Lightning gets attracted to it, and wooden structures immediately around are fine. Vintage Story - place your lightning rod on a non-burning block (eg stone wall, stone blocks) high above (or next to) your structure. It protects in a pyramid/cone (roughly) down. Putting a lightning rod immediately above your house is just asking for it to be burnt down. The cause will be the lightning striking a few blocks out horizontally to another wooden block. So you'll have a nicely protected lightning rod, and a burnt house. As a bonus, you'll be struck by lightning inside your house at the far end for half your health. (Every Vintarian has an opportunity to join special clubs "My house burnt down by a pit kiln", "My peat area burnt and consumed my house", "Lightning destroyed my home and/or killed my chickens" and "I got hit by lightning while in my underground cellar.") I'm not sure. I THINK (but could be wrong): * The fire damage is always against the block it strikes, and then can spread. * The lightning damage to players/animals is in the radius. But if you have a lightning rod, then you are protected if you are in its protection area (not above or to the side). I haven't found a way to summon lightning (doesn't mean there isn't one). If lightning does occur, it strikes at random in an area based off weather and height and some things. So calling to an individual block is unlikely. You can however go into Creative mode, force the weather to be stormy, build in a high place, make sure that the commands to allow lightning and fire damage are on, and test. Sorry it's not easier. For practical purposes, you may (for now) wish to put your lightning rod on stone wall blocks - they're like a pillar - high enough to get protections, as per here: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Lightning_rod And this thread: Actually, for really practical purposes, I turn lightning and fire spread off with commands. After having them on for a while, it "Just Wasn't Worth It" YMMV /worldconfig lightningFires false /serverconfig allowfirespread false If you wish to dive into the code, start here and work out: https://github.com/anegostudios/vssurvivalmod/blob/ac9a0059d84ca3449f066f26b5ee6b47bc9ce76a/BlockEntityBehavior/BEBehaviorAttractsLightning.cs Hello @Christian Lewis - did you ever find out if this was possible to summon lightning to a specifc spot? My apologies that I don't have a direct answer. Professor Dragon.

It was introduced in v1.21.0. Feature: Monster autoharvest! The falx now extracts 1 drop per hit with a 25% chance from drifters, shivers and bowtorns (overall drop rate remains unchanged). There is a reason a falx blade is curved! Professor Dragon.

Hello shakra, You've got two points in here, that are not necessarily connected. Q1) How to make leaf blocks square? Q2) How to improve performance with leaf blocks? A1) With the exception of Berry Bushes, you can NOT make regular leaf blocks square like in Minecraft, in vanilla. At least, I don't think that they have an attribute for that. You can make Berry Bushes square by right clicking with Shears. They'll come back bushy though if you harvest the berries. I don't know much about mods to change leaf block shape. I didn't find many on a real quick search. It looks like this one has some square leaf blocks, but it is outdated: https://mods.vintagestory.at/buildersblocks A2) It is important to remember that leaf blocks act a little differently in Vintage Story as they are transparent blocks with overlap, so rendering in a forest may have a performance hit. You'd be better to address performance issues in general. You could always test having a huge number of fluffy berry bushes in Creative, and then Shear the lot and see how big the performance impact is, if any. There is a setting called "Waving Foliage" which you could try disabling. https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Settings From another post on this question (my emphasis): However, check out the other FPS impact hitters on that page. Also, a lower View Distance may help if you are in a forest - you won't be seeing far anyway. Some people chop down trees. Check out this: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Framerate_and_Performance Hope that helps. Professor Dragon.

I've always wondered why an anvil with a Helve Hammer positioned above it does NOT default to ONLY giving you Helve Hammer recipes. It makes sense to me. Otherwise, it looks like you can make things with a Helve Hammer that you really can't. SUGGESTION: Add an "F" tool to the Anvil which lets you switch between "Helve Hammer ONLY recipes" and "All recipes."

This is FANTASTIC testing. Nice job! You've confirmed good single player results after blocking in the hopper, and nailed down the loss issue to the multiplayer one that @radfast mentioned they would work on: It would be great if you could make an account on the Issue Tracker (after updating to 1.21.5 or whichever is the current latest release) and putting those same results in a comment against that thread. It would be great to show that it is a confirmed issue, experienced by more than the original poster. Professor Dragon.

Yes, this puts it in the realm of early game! It just needs fireclay and any fuel source such as firewood, peat or coal. https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Beehive_kiln/draft#Fuel_Efficiency If I had truly appreciated this, I would have built my Beehive Kiln BEFORE my THREE Cementation Furnaces, because then I wouldn't have fired all of those refractory bricks in pit kilns. I had it stuck in my head that a Beehive Kiln was a "late game' item and that I should get steel first. Another lesson learned. Besides, the coloured ceramics is really where it is at for me, so I just can't believe now (after the event) that I didn't do it sooner. It's a bit of a monster to keep stacked with ceramics and fuel though. Professor Dragon.

Thanks for the advice. Yes, the Beehive Kiln works marvelously with peat bricks. And, unlike charcoal, burning stacks don't fall over. The inside hole definitely lets rain and snow through. Thank you. I appreciated the details. Definitely nine squares with 24 peat in each. I lit the front three rows, rather than load and light. The progress indicator ticked off and was moving along nicely. I'm guessing that my very full load of the Beehive Kiln simply exhausted the fuel while I wasn't paying attention. I used the falling block technique to triple stack Storage Vessels and large flowerpots, along with some floor to ceiling shingle stacks, but that looks like it was being too greedy for the fuel supplied. I'll fuel up and give it another go. Maybe I should just not skimp out and stack it with 32 peat bricks, but I was trying to econimise. Oh well - lesson learned! Good to know it wasn't the rain - although I'm going to keep an eye out on that "Just in Case", however unlikely. At some point I'll test if you can block the chimney. I think I read somewhere that does halt the Beehive Kiln functioning, but perhaps a block above the kiln or two blocks above would not. Back to coloured ceramic production. Thanks both, Professor Dragon.

Does anyone know if rain or snow will halt the progress on a Beehive Kiln? I put in a fairly full load with 9 x 24 peat bricks, and came back to find all the peat consumed, but still raw items. I'm curious if I should have just gone for a 9 x 32 peat brick stack, or if I need to cover the hole in the Beehive Kiln "chimney". My base is in a Rainfall "Almost all the time" area. My prior runs have completed, so the kiln setup is fine in general. Same question for the Cementation Furnace (steel making), although my guess is that is immune. I can test this out, but I'm hoping that someone knows already. Thanks, Professor Dragon.

Excellent stuff - thanks for the feedback and extra details. It will help someone in the future, without doubt. Professor Dragon.

Are you sure that the Trader accepted the pickaxe? You could try spawning in a new Trader (???). If you are able to enter commands, then this will simply give you the map: /giveitem locatormap-resonancearchive 1 Professor Dragon

I hope you're experimenting first on a test world, and have Backup Saves. What exactly is the command you're running, and what are the results? It looks from the db prune page that you're expected to regenerate chunks with world gen commands in tandem. https://wiki.vintagestory.at/1.21.5 /db prune Command Command /db prune should now work properly Notes: Use with care, it's a powerful command, can take a few seconds or minutes to run. Essentially it can remove parts of the map already generated in earlier game versions so that they can be regenerated with fresh 1.21.5 worldgen and bugfixes, while preserving any parts of the map which have player builds, farms, roads or mines. A backup of the world first is advisable

Hi @Jacsmac May I double-check the basics? 1) Confirm version is v1.21.5. 2) Go to Settings, Graphics and confirm what "View Distance" is set to. 3) How many blocks are you from the Hopper during testing? For testing, be far enough that you are not picking up the output as it is created, but only a few blocks further. Say 7 blocks. 4) Creative test world. Backup Save your main world Disable any mods Create a small size (not a million blocks, but say, 50,000) Creative test world. Recreate your setup. (OPTIONAL) Replace the windmill rotor with the blue/green component "auto rotor (Creative)'. Click this so that the Power is 100% and it will give consistent speed output without relying on wind. Replace your reed baskets with single chests Fill the chest with Quartz Chunks - note the amount exactly Change to Survival mode /gamemode survival Start the Clutch Note output amount If not close to 95 - 100% then advise us here the number and screenshot the setup. If it works here in Creative (near 100%), then retest in your Survival world under similar conditions (ie no mods, stand close) 4) If we can't solve it here, then you are in a position I feel to screenshot this, gather the logs and put through a request to the Issue Tracker. Perhaps as a comment or linked to that same post. Thanks, Professor Dragon.

Make "Crushed/Powdered Ore" image different to "grains." A simple change could be to mirror flip the ores, so that they look a bit different to the grains at a glance. Similar to how the Crimson Maple Seed is a flipped and recoloured Maple Seed. The highlighted Flax Grain below is in fact Powdered Bauxite. And yes, I know that the colours are different. I'd like to be able to better quickly tell "This is food, this is ore" at a glance when sorting. Thanks.

I rebuilt your setup, and got 100% throughput. I even used the same orientation. Loading up the reed chest. The first stack shows 61, because three drop straight into the system straight away. 100% efficiency. I got nothing. Did I miss a block? Mods? Current version 1.21.5? Professor Dragon. EDIT Your post on the other hand, did help me. When I was testing, I found a flaw with my own main world which I had to fix. Do NOT put a Clutch next to the hopper. (Where the pink block in this screenshot. Correct is on the other side where it is.) Doing so causes output to periodically be forced upwards. So, thanks for that - I might not have noticed. I ran through a final test, which was a trunk full of bauxite in my main world - I was on a small test world before. This time the wind conditions were a lot more variable, ranging from a Strong Breeze to a Hurricane. I was wondering if very light winds were throwing the results. Anyway, 100% throughput again. So I'm not sure where the differences might be. Professor Dragon.

5 - 10 per stack seems high (?). I'll run through a few tests tonight on my world and see what numbers I get. I've found the post you referenced on the Issue Tracker: https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/789 According to that, a stack of 64 should lose less than 7 items per stack on each run through, so your results are in the right area of expectations. Radfast is on the Development Team, so if they say that's how they're meant to work, then that's how they work - although we can put through something on the Suggestions board. I see there is a mod called "Better Hopper" which may help, as it lets it pull from further vertically away. I can't speak to how it would work in this scenario - haven't tried it. I'm going to assume that when you say that you're "not standing next to the output" that you mean "not standing on the block next to the output." If you mean that you've gone far enough that you are not in chunk loading distance, then that's a different story, with the answer being "Don't go that far away from automation." But it sounds like you mean the former. Professor Dragon.

Thank you! I meant to mention using slabs, but chiselling is even better. That was what the "inside face" was alluding to, but not as clear as you put it.

Hello @Jacsmac, Welcome to the forums - and nicely written post. I could immediately understand what the issue is. As it happens, I've just been through the same process. If you surround the top of the hopper with blocks (or at least the inside face of a block), then stuff doesn't slide off the slides, or slide and bounce up something. In your case, one block here: I used glass, so that I can see what happens. This should fix the issue for you. BONUS TIP - Did you know? You can have the output chest for the pulveriser on the same side as the input chest? You just need to face the pulveriser the other way around. This is useful for some layouts where space is tight - I was able to get a nice flow and staircase layout just now, where there wasn't room in the "standard" orientation. Transmission and clutch are on the other side. Professor Dragon.

Fog is one of those "Whack-a-mole" issues in Vintage Story. Every time you think it's beaten, back it comes. The simplest, shortest solution is "Move your house." Some areas are simply more fog prone than others. Now, for the long answer. Fog has a number of factors that makes it more likely, or heavier. If you are in a particular area, or elevation, and the weather is just right, then you get fog (or cloud or haze). See: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Weather#Clouds_&_Fog Fog is also influenced by some mods. If you have mods which impact light levels or weather, try disabling those. (It is assumed that you are on the latest stable version.) In particular any mod that has BOTH "Ambient Particles" and "Override default values" checked in the World Edit. To see these values, you would need to switch the game mode to Creative (/gamemode creative), enter "~" (tilda) to bring up World Edit and then look at the values on the right. CAUTION: I'd recommend that you take a world backup before you consider touching those values. (I got more Creative World into a bit of a weather tangle while testing fog.) If you wanted to just kill the fog, then switching the fog levels left should do that. I've been adding to a post at the Issue Tracker which you may wish to check out here: https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/6228#issuecomment-3396800796 This is on-going. My understanding is that fog is an "area" affect which does not take account of whether something is a "room." I could be wrong on this, but that is my guess as to how it is working. Would I like it to take account if you are in a room? Yes, yes I would. Does it currently? There are issues. Long story short, if you haven't shot yourself in the foot by doing something with a mod or a command or World Edit, then I would recommend moving to a better climate/position. The world is large. There are plenty of nice places without fog. NOTE: Fog is usually a TEMPORARY event. So maybe just wait a few days. Maybe the rest of the year is just fine? Professor Dragon.

"Messenger Shoes" Footwear that gives no warmth, armour or wetness protection, however, it does give you a small movement speed buff when running. Would give player agency on whether to take a warmth bonus or a movement buff. So I see people swapping these out as the seasons change. Would require higher tier ingredients such as leather . . . perhaps tie to the Iron Age(?)

And to make a distinction, there are rafts as well as the sailboats. Rafts are a great "early game" transport method, especially if there are big bodies of water. They take a basket as well. The big advantage is low food cost compared to running or swimming. One day, I'll have an elk. One day. Also the unspoken, but at any point you can switch to Creative mode (/gamemode creative, /gamemode survival) and fly. Otherwise, what others have said. I saw one video where a guy had a mod which basically gave him a slow flying steampunk car, which looked pretty cool. Personally, I just run. Everywhere. A lot of running. It really does just work for me. Stone paths make running even more efficient, with a big speed boost. Around my home territory, I build a raft on each body of water with a three plank boat dock and a three pillar column to mark it (and rest the oar against). I'll get around to prettying these up, eventually. It lets you chain run/raft sections together. Also, ladders - if you live in an area with sheer cliffs, then some permanent installations help a lot. Anyway, sorry, there are no horses or minecarts, bikes or cars, steam wagons, palanquins or rickshaws. I hope you brought a good pair of shoes. (Hmmm. What a good idea for a Suggestion - footwear that has no warmth, wetness or armour bonus, but gives a small running speed bonus.) Professor Dragon.

I like the suggestion for an option of a mobile base respawn point, for the ship or the elk, as you suggested. This post won't be found here, so perhaps we should put this idea to the Suggestions thread? I also am playing with infinite respawns and set my spawn point. The novelty of finding yourself 5,000 blocks from your death point, when 30,000 blocks away from it, wore off very fast. It wouldn't be so bad, but even with experience, death can come suddenly and unexpectedly. FYI for other players, there is a respawn radius command which changes the default huge respawn radius to something more normal: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/World_Configuration#Player_spawn_and_death /worldconfig spawnRadius [number] Sets how far players spawn in a radius from world spawn. Eg /worldconfig spawnRadius 100 will respawn you within 100 blocks of your death Also worth checking on that page the other variables:

It has been mooted to replace some gameplay functionality. Think of Smithing, which is already crafting grid free, but instead requires you to manipulate the environment. Or there are mods which currently let you form things in your hands or on a work surface. There have been different proposals, such as different size grids, or gridless. I can't really speak to the pros or cons, or what is happening - just thought you should have a response.

While I'm at it . . . Instead of vines being destroyed when placing items such as peat or firewood stacks below them and encroaching into their space, have them pop off (or stop the stack). It's an easy decorating mistake to make, and then you need to go out and find another vine to fix up your room - or not have vines in certain spots.

I found this out the hard way. I had a cold biome start, so I travelled a looooong way south - thinking I was being very clever to get to a better climate - only to find that I need to go all the way back again for the quest. I think this behaviour could do with a Suggestion that places the Resonance Archive within a range of where you first ask the Treasure Hunter for the map and hand over the pick-axe, for example. On a multi-player world it could tie off either the first player to do so, OR fall back to generating a distance from world spawn. I think this would encourage travel - because in my view that should be encouraged, rather than anchoring players to hang around near spawn for fear of missing out and needing to come back.