Professor Dragon

Which version are you on? The last stable version has this fix: Tweak: Color grading fine tuning. Should fix cases of extremely bright fog But the fog should be a "some of the time thing" and not an "all of the time thing" as it is weather dependent. Give it a few days of sunshine and check back?

Well done. Standard advice is "Two picks and a shovel" - which lets you get MORE steel, and also dig up ruins and do more effective base building. 16 steel is nice and all, but you are a looooooong way off steel armour. And yes, greenhouses are lovely. Get one in the early game and you are set up all game for food.

My suggestion would be to give Armour Stands an "F" mode, which places the armour stand in the centre of the block, but differs between: Locked in place in X-Y co-ords. (But can still fall along the Z line if you take out the block below.) Can be bumped by player Most times you place an armour stand, you want it staying in one place and centred on the block, and not being bumped by every player interaction. But someone might want to nudge one into the perfect spot.

I'd say it happens way more often than it should, actually. Even though me as an individual player is not a representative sample size, everything that @Rexvladimir said rings true for me. In particular, the key point that the prospecting system could be improved. I know that I'm the type of person who can stick things through for lot longer periods than "average" people. My guess is that characteristic pretty much defines the character type of Vintage Story players. But even I feel that the "reward" cycle of prospecting is too long, too haphazard. Basically we've got survivorship bias going on with the current player base, where the only ones still playing the game are the ones who can handle the current game mechanics. There are probably a lot of people who either left the game or who looked at it and never engaged with it in the first place. That itself is wrong - this is a great game that deserves a bigger player base. It needs to take a good hard look at itself though and work through the key issues. This is all fine. That exactly is why this game is still in beta. Just look at the skill set for prospecting and how a typical experience goes: Gear up to metal tools Use a command to enable Node search on ProPick if it is not done Understand a grid search pattern - only explained really well in one obscure post by @Streetwind three years ago in a Reddit post with 143 likes (EDIT 158). (Link at end.) Understand Density Search Revise a few YouTube videos, because you ain't got a hope otherwise Understand vertical mining with use of the ProPick in Node search and hope beyond hope that your reading clips the edge of a field. (Spoiler alert - it "often" doesn't. You can go to the Mantle and miss the edge of an ore field by a single block) Gather a heap more resources for torches, ladders, new picks, food, baskets/bags than you ever thought possible. While doing the rest of seasonal base management, temporal stability at depth management, monster interactions, base building etc. Go back to revising Density search because you didn't really understand it. Begin to study geology, rock formation layers, ore distribution tables on the Wiki. (I have head cannon that Tyron is secretly a former geology teacher, who is trying to trick the world into studying geology mechanics by burying it cunningly inside a video game and never directly referencing this.) Engage in panning, farming and trading in order to be able to get enough bronze picks to mine, because you're not getting enough copper to make the leap. And all of this because you wanted enough metal for a chisel that doesn't break after a few minutes, to add a bit of base detail. My personal pet peeve is that you can have a target spread with a hot spot for an ore in the middle, fading out to the edges, and the ore field is NOT in the centre of the hotspot, but instead starts at a "Very Poor" reading on the side (Which side? No-one knows!) This is just not intuitive. I get the point of it. I understand the "chance to find, not a guarantee to find." But it just feels wrong. Professor Dragon

I understand the frustration. Every Vintage Story player is going to encounter SOMETHING like this. Some weird bottleneck or trick of spawn. It is not insurmountable though. Suggestions: Switch to the old colour world map, not the now default sepia map, and look at it for white squares next to water (not during winter due to ice!). This is a chalk beach. Find a Commodities or Survival Goods Trader and buy some lime to tide you over. Traders are a key part of the game. https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Trading#Commodities https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Trading#Survival_Goods (Possibly also a Building Materials Trader for "Chalk rock (Polished)" and break it up. Not recommended.) Travel more. You'll eventually stumble over a chalk beach or cliff, distinguishable by their bright white. As a side note - things are slower in this game. 3,000 blocks seems far, but isn't. A year seems a long time, but isn't. See this thread on hunting for it: Switch to Creative Mode, and fly around a bit for spotting. Then back to Survival. Install the Mod Block Overlay and look for it. You'll probably find it closer than you thought. https://mods.vintagestory.at/xray As others have mentioned, forget aiming to find Marble if you just want to get into leather working. It is one of the harder resources to find. Go look for chalk. Switch to Creative Mode and gift yourself enough chalk to get through the initial bottleneck, while you (a) continue your search next year or (b) play other parts of the game Professor Dragon.

It's been reported at the issue tracker: https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/6698

As a side note, there is no indication that we are in a world where "Canada" ever existed. But as there are wolves and bears and other current Earth-like animals, I don't see that as a barrier.

Okay. I see that I got confused when you said "So since the hats got rain protection and warmth, I was bent about my hunter hood not getting it. " that you were specifically concerned about the "rain protection" missing from the Hunter's Hood, not the warmth. I agree with you - the "Hunter Hood: should get rain protection. I think it is okay otherwise that different headgear has different "rain protection" and "warmth" values. After all, a fancy indoor hat might offer no rain protection while being warm. Here is my list of which hat or hood has what on v1.21.1 stable from the Creative menu. As I said before, it really is a mixed bag. I didn't check which ones are available in a Survival game. And the Nadiyans sure liked their hats. Clothing Item Rain Protection Warmth (C) Hunter hood None 0.0 Squire hood None 1.0 Nadiyan alchemist hood None 0.3 Nadiyan barber hood None 0.3 Nadiyan beekeeper hood 70% 0.0 Nadiyan blacksmith hood 70% 0.0 Nadiyan musician hood None 1.0 Barber surgeon mask with hood None 1.0 Rotwalker hood None 1.0 Scribe hood None 1.0 Roll hat 50% 0.0 Minstrel hat 50% 1.0 Messenger hat 50% 0.0 Merchant hat 50% 1.0 Lackey hat 50% 1.0 Jailors hat 50% 1.0 Gem encrusted fur hat 50% 1.0 Nadiyan alchemist hat 70% 1.0 Nadiyan barber hat None 1.0 Nadiyan fisher hat 85% 1.0 Nadiyan hunter hat 85% 1.0 Nadiyan inkeeper hat None 1.0 Nadiyan miner hat 70% 1.0 Nadiyan musican hat None 1.0 Tan Nadiayan peasant hat 50% 1.0 Blue Nadiayan peasant hat 50% 1.0 Tan Nadiayan peasant hat 50% 1.0 Beige Nadiayan peasant hat 50% 1.0 Red Nadiayan peasant hat 50% 1.0 Brown Nadiayan peasant hat 50% 1.0 White Nadiayan peasant hat 50% 1.0 Nadiayan shepherd hat 70% 1.0 Nadiayan tailor hat None 1.0 Brown Nadiayan fur-lined hat 85% 1.5 Blue Nadiayan fur-lined hat 85% 1.5 Straw hat 85% 1.0 Top hat 70% 1.0 Bamboo cone hat 85% 1.0 Alchemist hat None 0.0 Bamboo cone hat (large) 90% 1.0 Most helmets None 0.0 Bear hide helmets None 1.0 As I said, it is pretty mixed, and you can definitely make some arguments about what should have what. The poor old Messengers for example, out in all weathers at the end of the world you imagine, had worse hats than Lackeys who probably served indoors. Same with the Merchants. Out in all weathers, and can't match a Straw Hat? The Straw hat wins hands down as the easiest to obtain hat with the best stats. The Bamboo cone hat (large) offers the best weather protection in the game. (Not much good in wind though I wouldn't think! Should there be a wind mechanic hat penalty to reduce the warmth from hats? Fine in calm wind, nothing in a hurricane?) Your best warmth AND rain protection options bar none are the Nadiyan fur-lined hats, but as the game help says that they are available from a "Tailor", I'm not sure if you can actually get them in-game (?). There is no recipe and there is no such Trader as a "Tailor" I don't think - there is a "Clothing" trader. There is some question in my head whether items such as the "Hooded cape" or any body party that is a cape or cloak with a hood should give rain protection. It makes sense to me. Currently, they don't. Bear hide helmets are your go-to choice for very cold regions due to being the only helmet with a warmth bonus. You'd think that some of the helmets would also offer a little rain protection - but I'm having trouble picturing in general how you combine helmets and hats, and yet it happens. Lots of Seraphs walking around double-head gearing it. I'm curious why there aren't apostrophes in same of the names - such as "Jailors' hat" instead of "Jailors hat." But then again, I'm curious as to why some of the hats are plural in the first place compared to others. See "Lackey hat" versus "Jailors hat." There is definitely more than one Lackey - the Handbook tells us so. Anyway, top of my head, that's hats wrapped up. Definitely scope for debate and tweaking. Professor Dragon.

I think warmth is a separate request. The 1.21.n updates were about the new feature rain protection only: Tweak: Hats now provide protection from rainfall Looking in Creative I see that hats and hoods are a big ol' mixture of things receiving rain protection or warmth. Looking at the Hunter Clothing in general, it already has the highest warmth bonus out of the gate at 9.3 C. Warmth from gear Hunter hood 0 Hunter face mask 0.3 Hunter poncho 1 Hunter shirt 2 Hunter coat 2 Hunter gloves 0.5 Hunter leggings 2 Hunter boots 1.5 TOTAL 9.3 Looking at Malefactor, it gets 8.6, and these people also have survival skills. Warmth from gear Malefactor heavy cloak 0.5 Malefactor whitewood mask 0.3 Malefactor bloody pendant 0.0 Malefactor shirt 2.0 Malefactor leather tunic 2.0 Malefactor wrapped gloves 0.5 Malefactor trousers 2.0 Malefactor sash 0.3 Malefactor wrapped boots 1.0 TOTAL 8.6 Plus our shirt forever reads "Undergarments stained with sweat" no matter HOW MUCH I repair it. If we're putting in requests, I would like the option for a brand new clean Malefactor Shirt to be craftable or available from a Trader or an upgrade to the existing shirt. In short, I think you'd need a separate request for Hunter's Hood to get a warmth buff. Professor Dragon.

Does anyone else think that the cattail reeds "flicker" more on 1.21.n than 1.20 when harvested?

Those builds are amazing.

You'd also need a mod to keep the room counting as a room, most likely. eg https://mods.vintagestory.at/heatretention https://mods.vintagestory.at/cbr

I wish that I had that luck. Here is my latest search. A while ago (Maybe on the prior version v.1.21.0 stable???), I found and marked a High ilmenite reading near my base. The rest of the ProPick results are on current version v1.21.1 stable NOT ONE has an ilmenite reading. This makes sense (maybe) compared to the findings, but doesn't gel with the first result (?) Digging at the High reading didn't find anything. I used the ore finder (mod Block Overlay), and the closest vein of ilmenite is marked. The closest reading to it showed a Very Poor reading for Copper and trace amounts for Bismuthinite. I dug down to where the vein was - Block Overlay was correct. ProPick Node Search from within six blocks FAILED to pick it up from one block away. I wish I took a screenshot. Using ProPick again on different blocks close to the vein DID pick it up after that. I don't know? Professor Dragon.

Progress! Keep us posted. I see engagement on that thread.

Not to hijack this thread, but I've been wanting to vent for a while, and this kind of gives me the opportunity. What are peoples' experience with the Propick? In my hunt for Magnetite, I sank shaft after shaft into the highest "Decent" reading (after smothering the area with Distribution checkings) and found nothing. I think three (?) Black Bronze pickaxes were used. (Thanks, Survival Goods Traders.) Another area that was "Poor" I stumbled upon my first large haul, that let me enter the Steel Age. But then another area (I know what I'm doing now!) turned up EMPTY, even though there was Very High chance of Magnetite and Ultra High chance of Cassiterite. So, I downloaded an X-Ray mod called Block Overlay and went into my Test world. https://mods.vintagestory.at/xray And I tried prospecting again, and checking my Pro-Pick Distribtion and Node results against what was found. Now, I know how Prospecting is SUPPOSED to work. Distribution gives the CHANCE of "there might be none, even though you get a good reading" and "Node" is "always right, if you are within range. But in my Test world, a Distribution check gave no results, while standing literally in the middle of the biggest Magnetite vein I've seen. So I sent back to my real world (I'd had enough by this time), and checked. There was nothing near my original Decent Magnetite reading. There was nothing near my Very High Magnetite reading and the nearest Cassiterite to the Ultra High reading was 140+ blocks away. Now . . . that is a very small sample size. But honestly, it has been a frustrating experience and it would be nice if the Density Search were "a little more accurate." Would it kill it to have an extra setting where you could do a Density Search, but it actually checked broadly the chunks around and gave a yay/nay to it? I like to think of myself as a "give everything a decent go" type of player. But I'm pretty sure that many people would have given up long before this. /rant Thanks for listening. Professor Dragon.

I don't use Bisect Hosting, so this is just my internet search skills and Vintage Story knowledge. You are probably best to accept the jump forward in a year, and use the time commands to jump FURTHER forward to the next Spring. Yes, your Year start date will be one further along, but what of that? Here are the Bisect Hosting time commands: https://www.bisecthosting.com/blog/vintage-story-commands-server-client-command-cheats And use this command to nudge the month forward to where you want it: /time setmonth [jan|feb|mar|apr|may|jun|jul|aug|sep|oct|nov|dec]: Sets the calendar to the given month of the year The only other possibility that I see is to set you desired month, along similar lines to this page (but the example is for a different option): https://www.bisecthosting.com/clients/index.php?rp=/knowledgebase/878/How-to-configure-the-playstyle-of-a-Vintage-Story-server.html But then most importantly: "Servers must be regenerated to configure playstyle; this can be accomplished by Resetting the Server." https://www.bisecthosting.com/clients/index.php?rp=/knowledgebase/610/How-to-completely-reset-a-Vintage-Story-server.html Which if my understanding is correct, lets you set the config files and then build a world from those config files. But as I said, I've never done this. Professor Dragon.

Perhaps an inventory item reward of a map could be generated once you complete the objective? A displayable wall map that shows your World Map terrain (only - no waypoints) scaled to display on one block (no matter the distance), with two extra features. The caravan icon where you were given the map by the trader The current red X (or appropriate mark) where the story event is located. In general, player maps and player wall art are something that would be "nice to have."

Is that YOUR report? If yes, update it with more info. If no, then log your own. Be sure to include logs. I'm guessing that it is not yours, because you don't mention that putting "minbrightness" to an integer allows it to work, which is the implied case there. Nor confirm that it is exactly the same error message. The only common description in the black screen, but that is too broad. You've got nothing to lose by logging a separate thread. At worst, a dev. will flag it is a duplicate and link it to this one if it contained the same details. Professor Dragon.

Oh, COME ON @Diff - now I want to know what happened! Did you make it out? ? ?

Disclaimer - graphics issues are not my thing. Did you send the bug report, or someone else? If you haven't put your own through, I suggest you do that, that way you can provide your own client logs which will be a lot more useful to anyone looking at it. Without knowing your o/s, graphics card, settings etc, there's a lot of things it could be. Also, please provide the GitHub link you mentioned. Here is an example: Game won't start: OpenGL errors on startup [fixable with a PC re-start, or by updating graphics driver https://github.com/anegostudios/VintageStory-Issues/issues/6888 The above was mentioned in the latest stable patch, which you should get if you haven't. It contains this line, which is in-line with updating the graphics driver as a first step. Fixed: OpenGL errors at game start were sometimes wrongly appearing as 'Context profiles only defined for OpenGL version 3.2 and above', potentially masking the true OpenGL error report. [In general any OpenGL error at the start is fixable by re-starting the computer or updating the graphics driver, see Github #6888] But in any case, the logs will contain useful information to those who know what to look for. There is also general web searching for similar issues, but I'm guessing you've tried that. Professor Dragon.

"Tweak: Artisan trader no longer sells complete tile blocks, but individual tiles, that player must then craft into blocks or slabs (using mortar). " What does this cover? I'm looking at the Wiki Selling list for the Artisan Trader and don't see either block nor tile mentioned: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Trading#Artisan

Don't know. There has been some change to lighting presumably, because of this line: "Tweak: Color grading fine tuning. Should fix cases of extremely bright fog " My observations are that the inside of my house lit by lanterns is very bright at the moment, almost too bright. On the other hand, I went mining and my torches weren't lighting up far at all. But then next day they were doing what they normally do. Barring a dev. chipping in, I'd say to keep an eye on it. Try in different locations and different weather conditions. Bad weather outside (fog, rain) has previously been really bad on my world for impacting interiors where sunlight doesn't reach.

Can you screenshot what you see? The title screen being dark sounds odd. Otherwise, it is meant to be dark in caves or at night. But the title screen? Maybe a graphics/display issue.

You nailed it. "You have used 48.8 MB of your 48.83 MB attachment limit. " Okay. How do you guys work around this? I can go back and resize my prior images to a lower resolution format. Do you link out to an attachment site? I can see myself hitting a limit again even with some image management. Thanks.

Hi Everyone, A forum question. I used to be able to insert images, but am now getting a message for ANY size attachment of: "1 file would exceed the total allowed size of 29.872kB, and was skipped" (sic) This applies whether it is a 2.9 MB .png file or a 46 KB .jpg or .jpeg, by any attachment method (drag files, choose files, other media). This has only occurred in the past week for me. I also tried using a "New private window" in Firefox and logging in again, so as not to keep cookies, and same issue. I also used a different browser that I have never used to log in to the Vintage Story forums, and same thing. This happens in at least the "Questions" and "Discussion" branches of the forum. Thanks.