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First time finding fireclay in my 130 hour world I stopped even thinking about finding naturally generated fireclay once I figured out you could craft it. I live in a massive bauxite/lime biome and I SCOURED the area for fireclay at some point in my first year without ever finding anything, so I gave up. Cut to 100+ hours later and I found a pretty good size deposit underground while caving, still the only fireclay I've ever found in this world. I thought fireclay was a myth...

thank you!! I felt quite clever for the eye design >:3c

Thanks so much for the reply!! That clears it all up for me

Hi! this is kind of a silly question. I really like to collect the tapestries found rarely in underground ruins. On a few occasions I've come across a "rotten tapestry" which are always at least a little identifiable under the rot as real tapestries. I mention that they're identifiable because I find it kind of odd that they're clearly tapestries that are collectible, but seemingly can't be fixed or mended in any way to retrieve them. Usually a tapestry is first covered in rot and then the image "clears" when it's looked upon, so I'm also wondering if the permanent rotten tapestry is a bug or if it's just built-in that some tapestries aren't able to be picked up/can be found in this unfixable state. In this case, the rotten tapestry is clearly identifiable as the "Holy" tapestry, but cannot be picked up or fixed. Thanks in advance to any answers!

Here's a zoomed out map; from what I understand, people generally have problems finding bauxite and lime just due terrain generation. Much to my chagrin, it is bauxite all the way down anywhere I go in this entire area that's pictured. Bauxite world is granite, limestone, and bauxite for the most part. There's also a lot of hematite, magnetite, olivine, and quartz around me. I've found a couple really large olivine deposits with big crystals inside which I thought were super cool! And some massive quartz deposits with rich and bountiful silver and gold as well. Despite the insane amount of bauxite though, I've never found naturally generated fire clay, I've had to craft all of my fire clay from red/blue clay T_T... I've stayed very close to my natural spawn and don't really have any plans atm of moving since it's definitely nice being near bauxite and limestone, but I would like to make a winter home much further south towards the equator. I considered moving during the first winter in my world because it seemed like it went on forever, and I'm ngl the extremely short days started getting on my nerves since it's very difficult to travel in the dark and I'm definitely an explorer! I'll probably try to fill this coming winter (currently fall in-game) with projects near home, like chiseling more details and furniture around the base, stocking up on charcoal, smithing, starting construction on my steel refractory, playing around with automation/mechanization, etc. Pretty zoomed-in look at what's currently happening around my house :3 I definitely prefer having more densely packed/decorated areas that are on a smaller scale than having like a large property/base area with space between everything. That being said, the biggest expansion to date is the windmill I'm working on >_<;; I don't know anything about mechanization, I was never interested in minecraft mods that had automation and mechanization upgrades and I don't typically enjoy games like Satisfactory or Factorio that are dependent on mechanization/automation. I've been hammering out all my steel by hand and grinding my quern by hand for the last 110 hours and I honestly would have kept it that way if I didn't need a windmill to advance to steel. However! It seems pretty intuitive and I'm not annoyed or criticizing the fact a windmill is required to progress, I'm having fun building the windmill itself and I'm excited to get it up and running ^_^!! You may notice that my elk is in fact ... Not... in his stable. I put him in there when we come home but I always leave the gate open because I don't mind him wandering around and I think it's funny to see where he goes to take naps etc. He really likes to sleep next to my boars for some reason, I think they're all friends :3 My farm/crop area is also pretty small because once you have a cellar set up, you don't really need that much food to make it through a year comfortably, and even then I know I won't be able to eat it all despite the limited harvest. Soybeans are definitely a game changer for me for the winter and being able to get enough protein, but I still have never had any dairy, as the only two goats that came down from the mountains last winter were both male T_T... I've kept both of them but I'm hoping to find a female close to base this coming winter to finally start making cheese. I did recently accidentally kill my only rooster (oops) so the chicken breeding has come to a halt, which is fine by me as I really just want their eggs anyway. And I'm currently on generation 1 of my boars, with mama pregnant with gen 2 currently. Generation 0 I caught in early spring iirc near the Boar Hot Springs, who have tragically been slaughtered already once I confirmed at least 1 sow and 1 boar was born from their first litter.

Hi, I really like crafting and survival games. I probably have much the same background as the majority of VS players; grew up playing minecraft, sprinkle in ~1,000 hours of terraria and stardew valley for good measure. I use to sit on my older brother's bed and watch him play minecraft in-browser in 2009, I also have very fond memories of watching him play on the very first releases with multiplayer compatibility with his neighborhood best friend. Everything was so square and janky and colorful and the world felt like it went on forever in all directions. I probably started playing it myself around 2010 or 2011, hard to say. I played on free private servers with my childhood friends through Hamachi (iykyk) until they stopped having fun and being interested in the game like I was, and then I migrated to finding multiplayer servers to play on by myself. I made a lot of (questionable) friends and have memories of talking to them on Skype about running our own server, which we did for a short while, funded by one of the older people in the group as I was only about 12 or 13 at the time. Minecraft's heydays for me were late alpha and very early beta, up until the adventure update I would say. I still played a lot over the years on servers with friends, you know, the two week minecraft phase we all experience once a year or so. I still have fun with minecraft when I play it, but I can't play it alone and almost never have been drawn to single player. My worlds feel empty and I get lonely, bored, and lose a sense of direction very fast without people to share the experience with. It's always been a social game for me. I've kind of lost touch with minecraft in the last year or two, I was fairly on board and up to date with everything through the deep dark, and everything past that I really have no idea what's been added or introduced. I watched part of a video covering the latest update, mounts of mayhem, and that's the first time I really couldn't recognize the game I grew up playing. I dipped my toes into and am grateful for the beta community of people who play the game like the adventure update never happened, but even then, modding or playing old versions of the game by myself has never captured the same feeling as it did in my youth. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and I'm certainly not immune. I am sickeningly nostalgic for my childhood at times. It's not minecraft's fault that it's continued to grow, evolve, and adapt into the future. And it's not minecraft's fault that I don't find the same joy in it as I did when I was a kid. I could only live those memories once. But that's enough about minecraft; I saw some small videos from very small creators about vintage story ~3 years ago but at the time had a really crummy laptop that would not have been able to run VS in any stable or playable way. I started getting recommended videos about it again ~3 weeks ago and, having a desktop this time around, I dropped the $20 on it without a second thought. I have 100+ hours in my first save file at the moment and there's no end in sight. It took me 20 hours to make my first copper pickaxe, and probably ~40 hours before I had a real house that wasn't just a small hovel dug into a mountainside. The experience I've had playing VS for the first time has brought me back to my childhood playing minecraft again. I didn't think that feeling was possible to relive. Everything is square and janky and colorful and the world feels like it goes on forever in all directions. I mean this genuinely and from the bottom of my heart, I hope that everyone who has had a hand in VS' development knows how special the game they're making is. I don't see it talked about much in videos, but the lore is so important to me and I have enjoyed every discovery and story location more than the last. I read every book and scroll and tapestry with baited breath to learn just a little more about the forgotten world in which I live, full of rust and human remains and infinite sunsets and sunrises from spring to winter. I love the music, the atmosphere, the gameplay, and every niche crafting mechanic you can get your little hands on. I love the long days and short nights of summer and the blink-or-you'll-miss-it days of winter spent toiling over more homely concerns, chiseling or building and staying near spawn. I love panning boney soil in the reedy pond behind my house after a long journey, saddlebags packed with bits of a world long gone but not forgotten. I love rummaging through ruins and sitting by the campfire on a winter night cooking and listening to a little-known track that plays when you're sat around a fire for a while. I love exploring and pushing the boundaries of my world ever further, I've yet to take the long treks north and south but am planning on doing so in the coming in-game months. I love smithing, and making pottery, and cooking meals in my little kitchen. I love hunting deer and battling bears and watching shivers who haven't seen me stare at their small, unrecognizable hands before craning back on their hind legs to rise and look into the sky before bashing their head against the walls and floors again. Really and truly, VS is such a once-in-a-lifetime game and I am so grateful to have stumbled upon it. It feels alive in the same way that minecraft did when I was little, and it's been really special to relive those memories and feelings.

i had a lot of fun painting this! maybe i’ll do a full body of him at some point. shoutout to the forgotten noble mask.