lilith99

I seriously don't understand how people able to play the entire game in only first person view especially when exploring and searching things, viewing level is so low that there will be many things missed like wild plants, berries, surface ore around you and obscured by slight terrain bumps, bushes or trees, unless walking in grid path with points marked on map or in your head, but if there isn't anything around you, it's a massive waste of time too... watching youtube videos on how people play makes me think i'm an alien with inferior cognition...

yeah now i know because of your advices, thanks! im not ignoring, i just explain why i do that, because you guys keep thinking i can't progress because i ignore hunger, so i keep explaining...

i don't explore farther because i just don't know how much do i need to travel or where should i search dig for limestone, hence i don't eat, so i just do what's around me, after a year i still can't figure out how much do terrain layers change horizontally after i read almost every guides in handbook, then i come here asking/venting, not because i keep dying so i can't explore.

yeah, i play through a year starving to death almost everyday, and i do have veggies stored a cellar, i don't eat those just because i don't know how to explore and find things not around spawn point. and as i mentioned before winter i try not to eat those food because i don't know how long winter will be. it's more like testing and see what comes at me before i start using resource as much as i can, it seems quite doable even starving everyday(collecting bushes, seeds and copper), again because i didn't know how to explore, so it does not hinder me much.

is this assuming if i don't use the short range search mode? how is that possible to get that amount of copper pickaxe to mine those absurd amount of rocks? isn't 20-25 far enough that those ore generated in between? what if all those tools used up without getting anything? there are more than multiple ways that may need unknown amount of copper like building dream underground rooms, repairing armor, losing resource due to occasional unretrievable loot on death...etc.

i play many other survival games, i don't look at external info or guide because i hate those people saying "you don't need wiki", and want to prove them wrong, initially i still struggle to find berries, yes there maybe tons of them, but some places don't have any when i search the wrong place, also they spoil so quickly, sometimes i get surpass amount, sometimes i get nothing till starving to death. also the hunger rate decrease too fast and food value compare to other survival games, a bear and a wolf only last about 1.5 day, all the veggies i preserved are still well with many months left even after a year, i read every guide in handbook, but still stuck after getting copper.

I'm more surprised that it seems like only me doing this thing people considered terrible and miserable? it's just not wanting to waste resource before i know more about the game, eating full meal just to get kill afterward is more discouraging than starving to death... at least it's what i feel. normally if i die this many times when i play other games, i would lose motivation, but not in this game, it certainly mean that it's not that punishing "WHEN I'M NOT TRAVELLING" thanks for all your advice, after all i still don't know what to do with prospecting pick for finding ore beyond copper, am i just supposed to find high reading places then randomly decide how much range should i proceed to do dot-grid short range pick? because this thought makes me think it's inefficient and tedious...

initially i thought "i don't know what would come at me, and how long winter lasts till crops-farm-able time, why bother before i know more about the game?" so i preserved all crops i farm and not eating, then as i keep playing, i'm just used to the "starve to death cycle" and keep doing it, because i don't know what to do beside collecting things i see around.

i have to be clear that it's not that i want to stay starving the entire game, it's just that the terrain are so huge and no information on how much range it changes horizontally, i don't know what to do beside running around spawn point collecting things i come across, and because it's near spawn point, i find that constantly starving to death does not hinder me from doing that, i know how to hunt wolf and bear when i see them first, but to travel far it's inevitable to face forest and need to pass through, sometimes those trees even obscuring me to run toward terrain dead end when fleeing from predators, i will die no matter how much i eat, even i don't die, i still need to go back and heal passively, i would never want to make healing items because how fast i would burn through stacks of them and spend time again collecting resources... once i know more about how terrain changes and generated, of course i would start maintaining hunger, with not knowing how to find anything what i want, it feel aimless and a waste of time maintaining hunger and nutrition buff.

but the real thing i feel is that, when im not worry about hunger, i won't always be on toes while maintaining hunger, it's less things to manage, and more relax to me that i don't have to keep worrying about will i lose all my nutrition buffs... maybe because im not traveling, it doesn't affect much of what i need to do around respawn point, and yes the hurting sound from starving is really annoying, i would just turn down volume.

but i would still die from 2-3 hits from bear, wolf or mobs, doesn't that make preparing food and eating a waste? and having armor equipped at all time slow down movement by a lot to me... though it only hinders small amount of things which are mostly neglectable as i'm not traveling far. i do have a bunch of vegs preserved and not eating, i still able to collect what's around respawn point...

so can limestone layers occur like how excessive conglomerate stone are or only in small patches within other sedimentary rocks?

i know there are other alts for lime, but still all i come across on surface are still only conglomerate and shale stone, i would dig through sedimentary layers to find it but i don't know how much range would those stones change horizontally. on surface which are visible without digging? maybe not... i may miss, but it's still too rare? why are there excess amount of conglomerate and shale stones?

i would like to know how tedious this game is normally supposed to be in standard preset without any custom tweak, I'm trying to find limestone rock, in my world all i come across are only useless stones like conglomerate and shale stones, i have gone 3k blocks away and all i see still are these useless stones, in the handbook, you are told to dig through the sedimentary layers to find any other stones, but i don't know how far/blocks should i keep search/dig in between, or do limestones spawn in small patches covered and surround by useless stones, same with finding ores beyond copper, even using prospecting pick, it's still very vague on how much the range is long range search? and if finding strong reading, how much within the range should i need to do short range pick? it seems copper tools aren't recyclable from what i know(which doesn't make sense, a simple google search "is copper recyclable" would tell you it's fully recyclable), will there be enough copper for me to waste on grid-dot-way of mining all the stones for finding anything? I'm about 60 hours playtime, i still ignore hunger and die everyday after a year, because with current gears, dying to creatures after eating feels like a huge time waste on preparing food, i don't know if dying is normal and a viable choice when not exploring far even for a veteran player. And one more, why is the handbook states: "METAMORPHIC layers will always occur below sedimentary layers, but ABOVE IGNEOUS layers" then in next paragraph "IGNEOUS layers always occur below sedimentary AND METAMORPHIC layers" in my world, Andesite rocks always occur above Phyllite rocks. Also I try to avoid reading any wiki information or guide, because i really hate it when people say"yeah "x" game is completely playable without wiki, the game tells you everything you need to progress" when it's clearly not. sure you can live and work without vehicle in real life, but is it practical? Sorry for my bad English.