Forceous

Welcome and all hail Dave!

If it wasn’t peat it had to be wood, I just look out of my window and I see a raging fire, luckily I managed to stop it before spreading further lol

How did no one warn me of the wood next to the pit kiln here, I almost had a disaster lmfao

We went sooo off-topic lol

I hope they surprise us to be honest. I have to agree!

I just lost hope for ES6 to be honest, how do you release a 37 seconds video of mountains and then go silent till now???

No I meant due to how the game has big advertisement budget and the fact it's on Steam makes it easier to spot, everybody knows about it but not everyone plays it. For MSFS 2020 you cans see it peaked almost 70k concurrent players but only managed to retain people who are into the niche, but also the fact that whole flight sim community is divided into different games/software but are united under one community. The whole genre of sim racing, flight sim is expensive to get into (you could argue flight sim is cheaper because you don't really need so much while sim racing you're required to at least have the hardware) I mean I just used examples that I am exposed to. For me MSFS and ETS I was introduced to them way before I knew Steam existed (from the old franchise entries). .Epic is genuinely the worst lol I could argue for the logo but the name definitely raised my eyebrow and even had my friends go "what in the goofy ass name is that?" haha

I think the reason for MSFS' low numbers is just how niche the sim pilot community is plus the fact there is competition in other software like P3D and X-Plane. And to be honest ETS and ATS just has no competition at all but the developers are great and didn't utilize that fact to milk money from people. One big reason for me would be the harsh refund policy, you practically have no time to judge if a game is good for you or not, while for other games 2 hours might be enough, for Vintage Story it's definitely not, I spent the first 2 hours looking for clay, that might deter some people and bring bad publicity, especially if they don't know the whole premise of the game, I already saw complaints here from people who just got the game but still didn't understand the premise of it and found things just too hard to do, I'm 32 hours into my world and my main house building is still a work in progress lol. Having way too many players would hinder the development greatly, so it's better for it to stay this way. I agree with you here as well, but I think it's nice for it to be this way, and I'm a strong believer of organic growth. I tend to stick less with games that I see ads for every single time I open Instagram or some other app, sometimes I don't even bother to try them.

I don't really believe that's the case. Just because it's a niche game and isn't flashy doesn't mean that's THE reason why it doesn't have many players or hype although it could be a reason for an individual to not play it. I personally have not known this game existed, and it's been around since 2016. I only knew Minecraft, Terraria and Hytale when it was announced to be the sandbox voxel and blocky games (with some other niche and failed projects like Cube World). I only got to know VS right after Hytale's release, especially with the "Holy shit, 4 cakes!" meme (Means that there is 4 great games you could play that fall under voxel games). That's the only time I got exposed to VS and only after Hytale's release. 10 years after the initial release of VS is when I discovered it. It's way too under advertised but that's for a reason. You argued that the type of the game is the main reason why there isn't enough hype, you'd be surprised how many people would actually love this game, me included. Take for example games like Project Zomboid or simulator games like MSFS and Euro Truck Simulator 2, these are niche games, not everyone would play them or enjoy them, they're not really mainstream and present everywhere, but they still rack up tens of thousands of players every single day and have big communities. Mainly due to the advertising and Steam presence. VS could very well have at least more than 30k+ concurrent players daily, but they choose to not advertise and list the game on Steam due to the simple fact that they just haven't reached the full vision of the game, for me the game feels complete but the devs still think otherwise. I'm excited to see what will come in the future.

That's part of the reason it's still not on Steam as well, apart from the fact the devs claim they still haven't reached their vision of the game.

It took me way too long to decipher the abbreviations lol

I have done some chiseling work for the front door, it's not noticeable in the screenshots but it definitely opens the door for infinite ideas

I have managed to do some improvements, it still very much work in progress but it looks much better now. (Only took me about 3 hours). Ignore the pit kiln roof, that's also work in progress lol

I just have to be patient with it, it isn't really THAT annoying but sometimes I'm just like "my god it's raining again". This annoyance really does come from real life, considering I've lived in a rainy tropical country for quite some time I was always annoyed by the rain lol.

Yeah normally in any game that has chunk loading, new content only appears in new chunks.

Yep I noticed that, but the only good thing tbh.

I forgot they exist. That would help quite a lot to add some depth.

I'm normally good at building but I just hit a big creative roadblock and I genuinely cannot think of anything, so I'm resorting here for help lol. I already know that there is a mixture of Pine and Oak logs around the building, I'm trying to replace the Oak with Pine since Oak is valuable for leathermaking. I also know some things are not centered like the Pine logs at the back of the building, I'm planning to fix that as well. Any help is appreciated!

Are you running any mods?

I laughed out loud when I saw that this is added in the new update, I'll be having lots thank you very much hahaha

Hello and welcome to the forums! At the moment you just need to backup your 1.21 world, then you can launch the world in the new update with no worries.

Since this is my first world, the worst decision was to setup shop on a place where it rains pretty much the whole damn time. At first I didn’t realize it but now it’s just always rains to the point I had to lower the volume of weather all the way down to 10% lol Some people will probably say I can just move but I’m too deep now, just gotta deal with it.

That seems like the best bet. Hopefully someone comes up with it soon.

Marble can also be used for lime, you grind it in the quern and it'll give you lime. You'll find limestone and marble in mountains.

That is true though lol, that is the exact problem why you can't progress.