Professor Dragon

I was in the process of writing up a guide for this, as I just went through moving a mega base between two worlds.
I'm not going to get that done soon though (on holiday), so here is the overview. 🙂
OVERVIEW FOR A SMALL BUILD COPY
Preparation
Prepare the source world. (Get as you want to copy it. Put items into chests etc). Backup the source world. Create target world. Back this up also. Use the World Edit commands to copy over the build from one location to another:
Switch to creative mode with "/gamemode Creative" Take the "Magic Wand" from the Creative Inventory (e) and place in the active Hotbar slot.  Open World Edit. Default key is tilda "~". Choose the Select Tool (dotted rectangle) from the left pane. With the Magic Wand tool active, left click to mark a start postion and right click for the end. Mark this. Use the command "/we export <filename>" where filename is written without a file type.
The type ".json" is added automatically. eg /we export My_House will create a file called My_House.json. Start up the target world and go into Creative mode. Start World Edit, select the Magic Wand, Choose the Import tool then select the file name from the drop down box that is top left. Right click where you want to place it WITH a block in hand. REFERENCES
This video is a great place to start: 
How to Copy & Paste Builds Between Worlds - Vintage Story by @ArtGnat
Professor Dragon.

Linking my Suggestion from 2022 🙂 It didn't exactly set the Community on fire, but you could change the upvotes from six to seven if you wish.
 
There is one possible alternative. If you set the World Configuration "openDoorsNotSolid" then opening a door or trapdoor makes a Cellar not a room.
I have not tested the impact that this has (I'm out of time today) on a Greenhouse. But if it is valid, then we could use trapdoors to act in this manner.
https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Room#Cooling_Score
Of course, this means that you have to remember to close your doors on your main cellar and rooms, and also that you can't use the door room divider trick in a forge area or very large room.
Professor Dragon.

That is  . . . odd. 
Try testing to see if the water seam difference is due to fresh vs salt water. You can place farmland and grow next to fresh water, but not next to salt.
I don't know what to do about that, if it is the case, but it may be what is going on. 🙂
Professor Dragon.

Check out this old post with someone adding mods to G-Portal and they gave their steps:
EDIT
You were following these instructions, right?
And stopped and restarted the server?
https://www.g-portal.com/wiki/en/how-to-add-mods-to-your-vintage-story-server/
And you've enabled the Mod as per the mod instructions?
"The mod is disabled by default when first installed. To enable the mod, open the configuration menu (Ctrl+Shift+M by default, adjustable keybind), and click the Enable button. You can also configure all of your preferences from this menu, including the icons, colors, and names that should be used for each type of automatically created map marker."
Maybe try with a DIFFERENT mod as a test.
Professor Dragon.

Might be a static ports issue or UPNP at a guess. Check these two threads:
 
and:
 
Professor Dragon.

Huh. I bow to @Thorfinn's superior game knowledge.
I just tried this on a test world with 100 Cob blocks and a flint shovel, on v1.21.5.
When broken in my case, it returned 83 Cob blocks and used 100 shovel durability.
It appears you don't get the full amount of Cob blocks back 🙂
EDIT: I did a real quick check of your logs - you may want to remove them from here now - and did not find any issues.
I can see where you are moving Cob around (eg "Moved 22xCob to (22x into backpack)"), but there are no errors or other activies in the other logs near these times.
Professor Dragon.

Oh, right, yeah. Somehow I was thinking "Five panning attempts", and not "five whole blocks with eight attempts each equals 40 tries."
That is somehow attrocious RNG or one of the other things.

MY ISSUE HAS BEEN WORKED AROUND
I was not able to retrieve my original Elk or my diary from my current world.
I have worked around this by:
- Taking a current backup, then restoring a prior backup
- Opening my book in that old backup, and select and copy each page of text into a separate Notepad++ document.
- Restoring to current backup.  
- Changing to Creative Mode and gifting myself a new Elk and equipment (saddle, harness etc)
So my issue is addressed in practical terms. I even gave myself some free upgrades as compensation for the inconvenience.


Here is my fresh new Elk, in markedly different colours so that I can distinguish the original if he ever shows up again.

ADVICE TO OTHERS
Do NOT store anything on an Elk that you can't afford to lose. 
Eg Food, wood, a bed - fine.
One off story mission rewards - nope. If you DO have important stuff to transport long distances (I mean, that is kind of the whole point) or into a dangerous area like the Story 2 zone, then:
Take a Save backup before loading your elk. In the course of my restoration attempts, I've viewed a lot of different forums and Issue Tracker posts in different locations, and this issue comes up often enough to take care.
ON THE BENEFITS OF OWNING AN ELK
These things are AWESOME.
I can immediately see that this is a game changer for me. I highly recommend that everyone complete the Chapter 1 Story so that they may buy their Elk.
I regret playing for three real world years before getting my first one!
High speed travel
It is like having a "ground Elytra" from Minecraft. Zoom, zoom, zoom! Bears, wolves
See ya later, fellas! Holes
I see you coming! Plus I can jump over most, and take less damage if I do fall into one. Extra Storage
Speaks for itself. Will help out on complex or large builds. Storage on Demand
Doing a build and need to access some resources?
Call your Elk and supplies come to you! Thanks all. 
Professor Dragon

No, you can't.

However, you can harvest Bowtorn with a knife, as you would do for a Drifter or animal, and they have a drop chance of including a Bone arrow.
Frankly though, they're not worth it. They take a precious inventory slot in the early game, and later they are outclassed by . . . well, anything really. A flint spear, for example. And if you are getting enough of them to use as ammo . . .  well, then you're getting shot by Bowtorn way more than is healthy.
Plus . . . kind of gross.
You'd be better off using that slot for a pile of rocks. Not only can you knap tools with them, but you can throw one of them if you need to get the attention of something. Or go to a body of water and skip them. 🙂
Professor Dragon.

Found it! I now have a complete set.
For the record, it took a looooong time to find. Much longer than clearing the archive. 
I feel no guilt at all about going into Creative Mode and gifting myself more black coal to keep the place lit, as it took forever to find this last one.
The one that caught me up was located at:
So, there is a complete set in the library as of v1.21.5, but you need to click on every single shelf to find it. (Multiple times in my case, because I went top to bottom I thought many, many times.)
Thanks, Professor Dragon.
 
 

It is most likely simply not enough power for that setup. Each piece adds friction, and needs enough torque and speed to work well.
Not enough sails on the windmill Not enough height to give sufficient wind speed Not enough sets of windmills connected to the vertical axle in the image Not enough wind at that time. Recommendations:
Try addressing all of the above Switch to Creative Mode (/gamemode creative) and temporally add in an "Auto rotor" set to 100% as a power source. Does it work? Remove the Helve Hammer and see if it spins. Removing the clutches and transmissions and simply have one angled gear to bend the power from vertical to horizontal, as a test. The first thing I would try though is raising your windmill blades 100 blocks in the air.
Professor Dragon.

Assuming that the mods aren't interfering, then animals should eventually spawn there. It's often a feature of new worlds that some areas will have animals and some won't for a while. A key point is that this is not Minecraft - the spawn rates are a lot lower.
You might be better off traveling though and trapping some and bringing them back, rather than waiting the  - possibly years in some cases - for the natural spawns to occur.
You can check the .json files if you like, and find out what blocks prevent spawning for mobs. Usually, it is nothing to be concerned about on a standard world - there is always space between unspawnable blocks.

I don't know about ore maps. Are they server side? Stored in the main Save? Not sure.

Try starting here. I don't know if it will help, but try it 🙂  - you might be able to rule this location out at any rate. These might just be for the maps  you see as a player top right.

\AppData\Roaming\VintagestoryData\Maps
https://wiki.vintagestory.at/VintagestoryData_folder
Professor Dragon.

EDIT
I may have misunderstood the question.
Anyway, note on that page this comment:
"Radius can only be up to 2 - larger radius doesn't seem to show more. May require increasing viewing range."
Also this comment on an earlier worldgen map command on the same page:
". . . saved where the game executables is located."
EDIT - SOLUTION
Ok, Peoples. I have my act together now!
A command such as:
/wgen regions ore 2 cassiterite
 
As referenced in https://wiki.vintagestory.at/VintagestoryData_folder
Is indeed ". . . saved where the game executables is located."
On my system, this is where I manually told it to put "Vintagestory.exe", but it may be different on your system.
After running the command, you will see an update to the "General" tab:
"cassiterite ore map generated."

And a new file such as this:
map-ore-cassiteritearound-50-51.png

Which when opened will show something like this:


Thanks for staying with me! 
Professor Dragon.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Adding to what @LadyWYT said, also greenhouses - they don't speed up crop growth, but they give you longer to get crops.
And traders - they sell food.
Creative mode - get food in bulk for free.
And if you're doing this for fun, and can do mods, then hit the mods hard. Endless options for easier fun.
Crop Speed
If you can use commands, then you can adjust crop cross (typo!) growth speed directly via cropGrowthRateMul.
https://wiki.vintagestory.at/World_Configuration/en
Configurations not in the customize world screen
These configs need to be created first. Subsequent edits to those can be done with /worldconfig [variable name] [value]
/worldconfigcreate double cropGrowthRateMul [0.1 ... 10]
Sets the growth rate for crops and berry bushes.
Professor Dragon.

I suspect that you did, in fact, spend all your cassiterite on tin bronze chain-mail armour.
You don't get to be a Professor Dragon without a little intuition 🙂
You most likely got it all - the deposits aren't that large, especially if  you had enough to <checks notes> . . . make chain-mail armour and delight in the noises it makes while walking around in it.
Still, put your Prospecting Pick into "Node" search (F), if you have that option allowed in world settings, and see if you did in fact get it all.
It might be worth doing another Density Search and checking the chunks around.
There's nothing to say that there is anything more there . . . but it is probably as likely there as anywhere else 🙂
If nothing after a few attempts, then move further afield again.
Professor Dragon.
 

Hello @Laguna
You may go to the story location (Resonance Archive) even if other players have completed them.
However, the loot drop only happens once. 
See here:
https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Resonance_Archives#Multiplayer
___ WIKI EXTRACT
Spoilers for Story
___ END EXTRACT
Also see this thread for more discussion, including how to regenerate the story structures.
 
If you are thinking of joining an existing server, then possibly this is a question that has come up before on that server.
So it may be a good idea to ask the server admins. how the situation is handled. Maybe they manually reset it. Maybe they don't.
Professor Dragon.

Oh right, got you. You want to know the details of what the privileges do, not just which Roles contain which Privileges. I'm up to speed, now!
Uh, I don't know. I've had a quick look around but have not found anything.  If anyone else knows, feel free to chip in.
Most of them are fairly self explanatory I would think, such as "build."

You could try doing a text search against the code here: https://github.com/anegostudios
For example, my initial search against this brings up entries such as this:
https://github.com/anegostudios/vsapi/blob/7a623149c858d44f5a570f734eae14ca9a6e5d0a/Server/API/IPlayerDataManager.cs#L74
 /// Set given role for given player. Role must exist in the serverconfig.json. For a list of roles, read sapi.Config.Roles
Now, I've got no idea what that is referring to or whether it helps. (Sorry!)
No doubt someone with code experience could chase this down a lot quicker.
Or someone who already manages a server 🙂
EDIT
Found it.
https://apidocs.vintagestory.at/api/Vintagestory.API.Server.Privilege.html

 
This is from an older post: 
Paging @Thorfinn in case they wish to add anything.
Professor Dragon.
 

Yes.

If you wander far enough (and it may be a few thousand or ten thousand blocks if you're unlucky), you should come across big surface Peridotite areas - in the same way that you come across big shale or bauxite areas.
These areas are often sparsely covered, so you may even have a good chance of finding some Olivine fragments on the surface, which you should dig down from.
 
I would never recommend digging down to deep ores unless  you have to.
 
 

That's a great question!
Regular trees (pine, oak, maple, birch etc) grow to their full size in one step and do not get bigger nor change after that. Fruit trees (apples, pears, peaches etc) go through several growth stages.
  Even though I was pretty sure, I went into a Creative world to confirm my understanding on the current version v1.21.5.
I experimented both by speeding time up and by advancing years.
Both confirmed that trees behave in the way described above.\

The moral of the story is, if you're trying to get "the perfect tree" to put outside your house, you may need to chop and replant it several times.
There are, of course, also mods that change this tree growth behaviour.
Professor Dragon.
 

Yes, it does. See this comment by @Streetwind
 

You need to have the cross-hairs aimed at a water source block before using <Tab> + right click.
Otherwise, it will attempt to place the water on the ground.


I have my buckets set to be <Cntrl> rather than <Tab>. Not sure if this is something that I've done - but it's different to what you have.


Professor Dragon.

1) What are your other World Generation settings?
You can see these before loading into the game with the "pencil icon" against your Save file.
In particular, "landformScale" and "oceanscale."

2) Do  you have mods that impact world generation?
Such as Terra Prety.
3) Setting "landcover" to 40% means that 40% of your world will be covered by land, and 60% by oceans.
This is a pretty "ocean heavy" setting.
Some amazing person has put a table on the World Generation page showing the different effects of land settings.
Professor Dragon.
 

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.
 
 

Hello @ChiyannaD,
Welcome to the forums. I don't have a lot of experience on hosting, but as it looks like you're keen to get on with things, I'll advise what I can.
There is a good chance that pretty much ANY hosting option you choose will be fine, especially for only a few players.
Hosting has come a long way, and Vintage Story is not like a First Person Shooter where every frame counts.
You should look at the single player recommended system requirements here as a baseline:
https://www.vintagestory.at/sysrequirements/

I'll assume you are looking here: https://suhosting.net/Vintage-Story

The 100GB Storage is way more than ample. My own world with hundreds of thousands of blocks travelled (straight line, not circle) is under 10 GB.
Seriously, I would not factor in traveling to the "edges of the world." Most people don't actually travel significant distances in practice.
I'd hang a question mark over the 3 GB memory. It is below recommended specifications, HOWEVER they are providing a decent CPU, so maybe that will offset it (?).
Still, it might be good enough for a few players, without heavy mod use.
I'd probably want 6GB+ myself as a wild, not fact checked, guess.
Network speed might be a factor, but I can't comment on that in your scenario.
QUESTION: Does the host (whoever they may be), allow you to switch plans?
If yes, then it really does not matter. You can choose a plan and then move it up or down as your needs become clear. If no, then either look for someone who does or slightly oversize your requirements. If anyone with experience with hosting can comment, that would be great.
Thanks, Professor Dragon.
 
 

I think it would be best if you:
Created the world with your favourite land forming settings. Switched to Creative and flew to an ocean: /gamemode creative (Optional) Use the "setspawnhere" command to now zero your co-ordinates to the spot you are on: /serverconfig setspawnhere
See:  https://wiki.vintagestory.at/List_of_server_commands/serverconfig
And: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/Coordinates Switch back to Survival and enjoy: /gamemode survival Otherwise what you are asking is "Can the world generation make an ocean where I will spawn in?" and that would be a "No" in practice.
I included the second link because there are two different co-ordinate systems in the game. The "friendly" 0,0 one displayed in the HUD, and the "real" one used in the back end. You don't need to know about the second type - just be aware that it exists, and why it means that the above command is useful.
Professor Dragon.