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It's true people have survived long periods without food, but many others have also starved much sooner than that. There is a lot of variance and not a lot of good, controlled data on how long it actually takes on average to starve to death. You do make some valid points though. I think realism in the crafting (while still being fun) is a major selling point, but the food consumption is a bit strange... also know that having anything in the off hand is a 20% hunger increase. ...which obviously is not totally reasonable.

For another unpopular opinion, I think the game has too many fixed waiting periods. Waiting for clay to fire, waiting for leather to soak 3 times, waiting for steel to cook, etc etc. all of these are reasonable in isolation, but in total it gets a bit silly. I'd do away with a few of them or shorten a few of them. Maybe make bowstaves not have to dry and shorten the soak time of leather...

I think there just needs to be more options for death penalties. I don't like to lose any items on death but would support something like a res sickness to still make deaths annoying.

My own thought is that maybe lanterns should just be the only light source that by default works underwater. Everything else gets put out. My direct sort of unpopular opinions: 1) The game is hard enough and doesn't need old content to be made even harder in the name of realism or anything else ...with a few very minor exceptions below! lol. 2) I think many surface animals are too strong (especially foxes), but would actually make some of the weaker monsters stronger. I think it's a bit weird that wolves are so much stronger than many of the lesser monsters. 3) Bushmeat doesn't really make any sense. I get it as a "gameplay mechanic" but it doesn't really make sense that it's so much worse than meat from less hostile animals. 4) One of the FEW things I'd make more expensive is Barrels. A 50 liter barrel should need more than 3 boards... maybe 9. 5) Echoing the maybe more popular opinion that flax is needed in too large a quantity.

I like this solution a lot since real bees don't just hide in their hives all day and this would give a clue to people like me. From what I've read, I've likely ran past bees without knowing it, so they maybe don't need to be more common, just easier to spot.

I cleared the resonance archives yesterday! The path to and from the place included whole mountains of chalk! Made me think of all the people I know of who've struggled to find it. I also finally found Bauxite on this trip. I think it's just the intended design of the game that sometimes you have to travel far to find something. ...though I still have some things I've never found out in the world, such as bees and lead. I DID find some galena in the Archives though!

I agree. Bees need to be less rare and/or have a more obvious presence. I've never found them. I've found just about everything else that can exist in this game.

haha, yeah. One example of an application of this is to know that if you generate a decimal number at complete random, rolling a dice for every digit, there is basically a 100% chance you'll generate an irrational, incomputable number, since that's what the VAST majority of the infinitely many real numbers are. Yes, there are infinitely many rational numbers too, and infinitely many computable irrationals, but their magnitude is trivial compared to the incomputables. Irrational means it can't be represented as a ratio of two whole numbers (you've likely heard this one). Incomputable means an irrational number that can't be represented in a finite algorithm. Most famous constants such as Pi and e are irrational but computable since we have simple algorithms that will eventually calculate all the digits. Okay, enough ranting about arcane math subjects. I just think this is interesting.

For the purpose of your post, this is mostly true. BUT since I'm a big math geek I can't resist pointing out this is not in general true. It's pretty established in mathematics that you CAN say two infinite sets are equal if you can make a 1 to 1 bijection between them. But if this can be shown to be impossible, we can know one infinite set is "bigger" than the other. For example, there are a lot more real numbers (decimals) than integers, because you can't make a continuous bijection between them.

it takes more than one fat to oil bear hides. also know you can put them in the crafting window with a knife to cut off the head.

my theory, not having gone far in the story yet, is that D̶̡̧̛̩͇͈͎̻̮̗͚̗͇̞̂̎̆̎͒̄̂̀̀̐ą̵̦̞͈͑́͌̌̄̈v̷̥̖̔̐̉̂̾̾͝ȩ̸̰̰͖̠̺̣͒̃͊̀̉̓̒̔ made the drifters and other monsters.

It's just RNG and a keen eye. I also had terrible luck finding crops in my main survival world. When I created an alternative world for creative mode experiments it was all over, lol.

I don't agree iron should ever show up from panning (or at least be very rare). It makes complete sense that you should have to mine deep for it. The rest makes sense.

I mean... I can think of many games that have merchants in amusingly terrible locations. From Software games are often terrible at this. Merchants in the ruins of dead cities... merchants in uninhabited swamps, etc. Many video game merchants are terrified a customer might actually find them

Some sell useful or at least cosmetic improvements! It's worth it to sell a few items to get some rusty gears I think. The best thing I got from a trader so far was honeycomb since I have yet to find bees so far in my game.

You mean setting up shop in the middle of nowhere might not be good for business? Of course that's not just a VS thing, that's a common trope in games.

I kind of agree. This game already has A LOT of stuff that requires waiting X hours or days for stuff to complete. Making leather takes days. Making steel takes +6 days. Firing Clay already takes hours, etc. There are already so many mechanics of this nature it's a bit silly sometimes. The idea itself is fundamentally good, except it's yet another thing to wait for in a game that already has a lot of such things and it would delay early game stuff in particular.

they still exist! though I imagine they are hanging on by a thread. I read they are still regarded as good for rapid response but don't know anyone that actually uses it.

I am supportive of adding potatoes just because I subjectively love them, but your argument is REALLY exaggerated. As others pointed out, they historically were NOT present in Medieval Europe. And the game is supposed to be hard, so pointing out how good they are isn't a very convincing argument.

Yeah, I can't speak to the apparent wind versus functional power in a windmill. To me they've usually seemed correlated, but you could have a bug or something from a mod. And yeah, directly hooking up the rotor to the quern should be enough power to make it move, even if not as fast as you can get from the large gear work stuff. ....unless of course the wind just happened to be DEAD at that time. So yeah, I don't know what is going on with your setup. ...unless it was just bad luck when testing the direct connection or mod related. But yes, could be a bug.

Besides the other suggestions here, maybe try resetting the password then waiting 5-10 minutes since very frequent resets might not have a chance to update in the servers.

I agree heat tolerance should be finite. I wonder if there are already plans for this but the first goal was to implement harsh winters. Would also give us an incentive to not wear fur cloths everywhere! haha.

December should be a snowflake type shape I think. February a heart. March a little stick person. Not sure about the others.

the large gears have a fair bit of resistance and using multiples of them to increase speed comes at a high cost of torque. Have you tried just connecting directly to the quern? I find that often works better unless you have a full 4 windmill rotors. The short answer is I don't think it's a bug, just kind of tricky mechanics.

just a depth of 1 or 2 works. You got to make sure you are filling it completely with firewood, then lighting a fire pit on top of it (not directly lighting the fire wood stacks) then sealing it with dirt (rammed earth is fine) as soon as you light it. Any gaps in the firewood stacks will ruin it. Lighting the firewood directly ruins it. not sealing the the pit 30 seconds after lighting the firepit ruins it. Post a picture of your setup before lighting it if still in doubt.