Dubbs Malone

You may need to google the definition of origin story, kid. Anyway, you start the “shade” then threaten to cry to the admins when it comes back to you? You’re deluded, lil bro. You’re the one who waits to respond to me within seconds every time I respond. Seems like harassment to me lol

Waiting with baited breath for me to comment, salivating, hands shaking, heart pounding... waiting to reply.

lol your feelings got hurt

Spears are 100% better as they allow you to kill them without taking any damage, consistently.

Sorry man, you're just doing it wrong.

So here's a quick example of it. I accidentally had my black bronze spear selected even though I mate a flinty just for the occasion but I think it's pretty obvious that the method can be used pretty much indefinitely.

Ok so in another thread I explained how to fight wolves and I figured I should put a guide up so more people can understand. I see a lotta people complain about wolves, especially on reddit. It's really so simple it feels silly to make this a guide but based on the amount of times I've seen people emphasize the threat wolves are to them I guess I'll just do it. Ya just use a spear and sprint sideways, circling the wolf while you stab it. They can't adjust to the movement quick enough to hit you. Obviously the better the spear the easier it is but it really isn't hard to avoid getting hit even a single time. Multiple wolves aren't much harder as they just can't handle the lateral movement. You just vary the size of the circles and maybe mix in a figure 8 here and there. Unfortunately this renders wolves as virtually zero threat but I guess they can surprise you in the woods every once in a while. Here's a quick and dirty example of it. I accidentally selected my black bronze spear instead of my flint but I think it still gets the message across:

Ok so a lotta people seem to have trouble with wolves. They are absolutely no threat if you know how to fight them and it's incredibly easy. Use a spear, sprint sideways around the wolf while you stab it. It will never land a single bite if you do it right and it isn't hard. I kinda wish they weren't so easy as this method has erased a cool threat of the wilderness in the game. It's really not even much harder to take on a whole pack as they do not have much of an answer to the strafing. To take on more you just need to vary the size of the circles and mix in some figure eights. I guess I could make a guide so more people can see this.

Yeah. Personally, I set my tool durability to 150% for my runs. Seems to make more sense to me. Also HP +5 to 20 and move healing down to 50%. I don't feel I should be easily killed by a fox but also shouldn't heal from a tough battle in just 24 hours. And always, always, always permadeath. Without risk the rewards mean nothing to me.

Here the guy shows how to extract iron ore from sand and create slag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPIUMpiV0IY Here he makes an iron knife.

Yeah, I will be creating plenty of backups. The reason I was so emphatic is because I play permadeath and I've been doing arctic starts where I spawn around latitude 75 or higher. In my current playthrough I was on the verge of starvation while also freezing to death on my first day but luckily spotted some ruins off in the distance. Ultimately I found some good stuff in a dungeon there which put me in a position to build a raft with a chest and begin heading south. From there I've been making some great leaps and bounds by way of some very lucky finds and I had progressed so much to even having a sailboat that it would have been such a sin for a run like that, where I went from almost perishing in the frozen wastes to the heights I've reached. Good times, man.

Nah I didn’t take offense to anything. I just didn’t know if you saw my post about how the rollback didn’t work or if you saw my edit where I updated that it, in fact, had. Strangely, though, I’m pretty sure I was running mods when that error was thrown. But this is all relatively over my head so take that for what it’s worth. Regardless, thanks again. So much.

Wait, did you see my edit??? I mean I am so incredibly grateful to you, Thorfinn. I really cannot overstate it. It may seem trivial but because of the experiences I've had on this playthrough it just means so much to me. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to address my problem. You're my hero.

So I did as recommended and rolled back to 1.20.4 Crashed again upon loading the save but the error message is a bit different. Any thoughts? EDIT ! ! ! --- So, on a last ditch kinda shot I deleted the other, remaining files in the save folder. The files other than the VCDBS regular (I'm relatively outta my depth here) save file. And when I attempted to load the save it FRIGGIN WORKED!!! I really don't understand this stuff well enough at all to have any idea but some step(s) of the process of rolling back worked. I have no clue which part exactly, but I'm back in my world, Pangeana, and I get to keep discovering these absolutely incredible structures and I'm just so grateful to you, Thorfinn. Without you I'd have been screwed. Thank you SO MUCH!.

Thanks very much. I’ll try that. So is it possible to pick up a metal rod by destroying a bookcase? Also, how do I do that?