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Curious if any of you have come up with any creative uses for chutes/hoppers/A-screws beyond automating querns and pulverizers. I just love the look of these things and the sound they make when items tumble through them. I somewhat automated quenching (hot item goes into hopper which drops it into water, item cools as it sinks to the bottom where it reaches another hopper that leads into a chest) I did this because I lost some items laying on the ground to despawning, I also found that it's easier to put an item inside a hopper than trying to throw the item into a 1x1 pool of water. (I kept missing and having to pick the item back up and throw it again) Looking for more ideas (doesn't have to be practical)

I found what looked like a mass grave once, just a big pit full of bony soil and skeletons, very creepy. (perhaps victims of the disease, buried deep underground in hopes of containing it) The particular one you posted I haven't seen before however. But then again, I keep finding new ones myself, even after hundreds of hours.

I always pre-heat the crucible up to near 900 degrees with firewood and peat (usually 3 firewood + 1 peat OR just 4 peat if I'm feeling lazy) Then I alternate between 1 charcoal and 1 peat until melting is done. I think using this as a rule of thumb is efficient enough, and most importantly it's fool proof, as long as you don't walk away, this will save you some coal while getting the metal melted. If I melt using brown coal I don't bother to micro-manage since the burn time is so long and the burn temp is too close to copper's melting point for comfort, any mistake here basically forces you to start over. I use brown coal as my "light and forget" fuel for when I'm multi-tasking around the house/yard and don't want to bother micro-managing. As for black coal, I haven't found enough of it to figure out what to use it for. Side note; I wish there was a block that functioned like a crucible/campfire which you could route chutes and hoppers into

Glad you're having fun! I'm 475 hours into my world and just made my first batch of steel the other day. (it's quite the process, couldn't find borax for the life of me) I was pretty content with iron but turns out you need steel to mine chromite (it's tier 5) and for steel you need an iron anvil.. right now I need sulfur for the chromite solution, but no luck so far.. however I enjoy the grind! Windmill with automated quern will raise your quality of life quite a bit, my winter diet is 80% bread and having to manually grind all that grain would be a real pain.

I suspect right-click gets disabled when looking at a door to prevent you from placing placeable blocks in front of it when trying to open them. Imagine how annoying it would be, you're holding a dirt block and trying to run indoors from a shiver or something and as you open the door you simultaneously put the dirt block in front of yourself, blocking you out.

I think the game is completely fine 100% vanilla, after a few in-game years and lots of exploring you could add something like Better Ruins to maybe spice things up a bit, it's a simple non-intrusive mod that shouldn't cause any trouble throughout updates, just adds some extra variety to the ruins you find. Lots of people like to use UI mods, personally I prefer the vanilla way of just pressing C whenever I need temperature/rift info and keeping the screen as clear as possible. Base game has enough content to keep you occupied for several hundreds of hours. Good Luck!

Lovely videos and lovely build! You're a chiseling/support beaming natural! Oak and birch are one of my favorite combinations of wood, I used the same combination in my barn as well.

Me and a friend dug a 6x8 canal through a ~400 block mountain with bronze pickaxes, I think it took us something like 30 pickaxes and maybe 20 hours on and off (we wont be making another one anytime soon) If you value your sanity (and metal) I think an above ground stone path is better, the movement speed buff is quite significant, stone paths are also a good sink for excess stone and dirt when your crates are starting to fill up.

As proof, I've attached a picture of the aforementioned criminal. We painstakingly brought him back to town after the crime (we were new to the game at the time and thought we could tame him) ((moose milk is not a thing)) Initially we kept him in a pen outside the house along with the chickens but after innumerable acts of murder later we decided to move him inside the town barn, where he has spent the past 3 years and where he will remain until the moose taming update.

My buddy was standing on the edge of that pit, probably 50 blocks deep, just looking to see if we had missed any potential ore or ruin entrance (as you do when you pass that pit) suddenly a mad moose came charging out of the bushes behind him pushing him all the way to the very bottom, next 15 minutes were spent gathering sticks for ladders.