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the new ashlands stairs are actually pretty easy to build in a confined space with. been using them to build inside certain towers in ashlands. they can be rounded fairly well: also discovered a quest, which took me all over ashlands and was pretty fun to complete and had a neat reward.  don't think it's really better than fully upgraded mistwalker, but it looks cool, and that's the most important stat for a video game item.
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Public test patch notes. Dont read if you hate spoilers. https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/892970/view/4199120329649538868?l=english
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May 7, 2024 21:47
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went through my screenshots, and it's very fun watching your town grow. wish i'd taken more when it was just a shack on the shore.                                 also my flying fortress i built when I somehow managed to mine out a mistlands cliff such that it was floating in the air, but still connected to a rock on the ground. which I immediately recognized as a powerful magic rock.             
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Last night after I confirmed my current mistlands was too tiny (but surprisingly good for spawning like 6 gjalls; being adjacent to plains and black forest I got a ringside seat to some gjall vs troll/loxes), I moved on to another island and got a "proper" mistlands biome with ancient armor and so far one infested mine. For awhile when I've seen builds using nothing but black marble, I thought they looked tacky without any contrast. I still feel that way visually, but after deconstructing one tower and filling a (non reinforced) chest with black marble, I get using it so much. Stuff is like beech tree wood in the mistlands. Now I'm thinking of ways I can spice up my base.
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May 9, 2024 11:52
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best way to get a load of black marble is to excavate the giant skeletons. dig down as far as you can until you hit bedrock or water, all the way under it, then dig out the whole skeleton and just pop it to make it rain black marble. i like to put up wisplights so it feels like an archaeological site.
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May 9, 2024 12:02
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Do people not spam the mistlands with torches? My map following is ok, my memory of where I've been is ok-ish, but it's so disorienting I feel like if I get attacked/chased, I'll panic and either fall off/run into a cliff with low stamina.
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May 9, 2024 14:21
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Cheesus posted:Do people not spam the mistlands with torches? Yep. Those torches work well but i wish they had more vertical scale to their bubble. I have been attacked by gjall because id run right under them because they gleefully float above the area cleared by the wisp torch.
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Zodium posted:
That's very cool - although you now have a base with load-bearing sliver of rock somewhere in the ground. One troll swing could bring the whole thing crashing down :p Cheesus posted:Do people not spam the mistlands with torches? I just entered mistlands for the first time myself, and find it relatively ok to get around - the only thing is you can't really make roads there, too many jagged cliffs. So carting out resources means putting up portals. Cheesus posted:For awhile when I've seen builds using nothing but black marble, I thought they looked tacky without any contrast. I still feel that way visually, but after deconstructing one tower and filling a (non reinforced) chest with black marble, I get using it so much. Stuff is like beech tree wood in the mistlands. It's too dark for my taste. I wish they added some lighter building materials - limestone or the like. Or added a system where you can cover the cobblestone pieces in plaster, that would work too. I tried a mod to add color to the pieces, but that ended up looking a bit too unnatural. Philonius fucked around with this message at 16:35 on May 9, 2024 |
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May 9, 2024 16:31
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Philonius posted:That's very cool - although you now have a base with load-bearing sliver of rock somewhere in the ground. One troll swing could bring the whole thing crashing down :p i think only the mistlands event can fire in that biome, but a neat feature of the flying fortress is that mobs will just walk around underneath it without attacking. except for gjalls, which will generally knock over a few lights and banners through the marble walls. you're in luck on the lighter building materials in ashlands, though I personally don't really like it. but I also think black marble looks very good for magical / mystical stuff.
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I love making roads in the Mistlands. Just crazy winding stone staircases, bridges, and cantilevered walkways everywhere. It is difficult to make roads wide enough for a cart, though.
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Coming back to the game after a long hiatus and my building brain is so rusty. Just the worst, ugliest houses positioned as awkwardly as possible.
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Once a year when we boot up a fresh server and make it to the stonecutter tech area O have to spend an hour relearning the building mechanics. I would be so thrilled if you could dig into the side of a mountain to save a heap of effort but all ground layers auto descend.
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Starting in March, my house building got relatively better but I'm otherwise hopeless. Seeing what my brother in law (who has played the game close to its release) was building on his server compared to mine just embarrassed me. In an effort to up my game, I came across this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttDdY3JvPI I didn't build it step-by-step, but used it as a technique/guideline (for example, mine's 10x10 instead of 12x12) and I love it. The layout is great and having all of the upgrades in the basement makes the usable space clean and efficient. I wiped out a Draugr village at the top of a hill overlooking the ocean and doggedly stuck with the location (one of the rehabbed buildings is now my chicken coop). After realizing quickly that hoofing ore up the hill was a chore, I finally completed a double-wide stone stair case to my dock which is both ugly and janky looking.
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I wouldnt feel too fazed about it. Building is like 90% austhetic and 10% function.
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I have never seen the term austhetic but lmao
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May 10, 2024 16:34
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Ashlands live release apparently set for May 14.
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Cheesus posted:Starting in March, my house building got relatively better but I'm otherwise hopeless. Seeing what my brother in law (who has played the game close to its release) was building on his server compared to mine just embarrassed me. I like this guy's house (and his "factory"), but like you I changed it to 10x10. I also wanted a separate workshop, so I have two of them, but I need to figure out how to modify the roofs to be different from each other. I built the entire 12x12 thing, realized I didn't like it for a couple reasons (one being my base location), so I used it as an excuse to move to a small island I found. As soon as I can figure out how to bring a wolf pair there (they keep trying to loving attack sea serpents and hopping off the boat), my island will be grey dwarf and boar free.
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Xenix posted:I built the entire 12x12 thing, realized I didn't like it for a couple reasons (one being my base location), so I used it as an excuse to move to a small island I found. As soon as I can figure out how to bring a wolf pair there (they keep trying to loving attack sea serpents and hopping off the boat), my island will be grey dwarf and boar free. sail the route without wolves and kill any serpents along the way. if it starts storming or becomes night, stop moving until it's day and clear.
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Ashlands is live.
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hell yeah. flametal is wild. that's an oak tree down there.  
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Burns posted:Ashlands is live. No major patch changes? I guess the biggest thing is now mods might get updated. I need my craft from containers and torches mods.
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I logged back in and almost lost my portal network because it was built in a temporary wood shack over terraformed land that I never got around to building out. When I logged back in, there was no support and it crumbled. I had to load another timestamp and run immediately to place supports. Not looking forward to seeker raids where my primary base is at.
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I spoiled myself with some Ashland videos, but otherwise didn't pay attention to the non-Ashland changes. I really like moving stone/black marble to the new "heavy" tab.
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one thing that really grinds my gears is they don't give you the dark material ashland fortresses are made of. 
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Zodium posted:one thing that really grinds my gears is they don't give you the dark material ashland fortresses are made of. They don't let you make the same building pieces as the dvergrs in ashlands either, kinda sad. I wanted to reclaim their house but the parts are all different.
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Salynne posted:They don't let you make the same building pieces as the dvergrs in ashlands either, kinda sad. I wanted to reclaim their house but the parts are all different. yeah, it's weird there are one or two black marble pieces used in the dvergr towers you can't build, but this is like, an entire type of building material. it also looks better than the grausten you get with ashlands. very strange choices.
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Zodium posted:yeah, it's weird there are one or two black marble pieces used in the dvergr towers you can't build, but this is like, an entire type of building material. it also looks better than the grausten you get with ashlands. very strange choices. I mean, I do like all the new build pieces too. Just yeah, strange choices. They clearly have the models.
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Anyone seen a message about their server running out of space? Ours just did and started spitting errors that the world can't be saved. A few minutes after that I ventured into ashlands for the first time and nearly immediately died 
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Been trying to start a forest fire...
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Do I need to do anything to opt out of the beta? I wasn't a part of the Mistlands beta.
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The whole game is in beta...? What would you be opting out of?
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Ravenfood posted:Do I need to do anything to opt out of the beta? I wasn't a part of the Mistlands beta. yeah you gotta change back to the main branch in the same menu you set the pbt branch.
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Ravenfood posted:Do I need to do anything to opt out of the beta? I wasn't a part of the Mistlands beta. Go to your game in Steam, then into Properties, followed by Betas. From there, choose None for the Beta Participation dropdown.
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Zurreco posted:The whole game is in beta...? What would you be opting out of? The Ashlands test branch that went live just recently. I was in that and wanted to get back into the main thing in case they patch it since I assume they aren't going to keep patching their PTR. Zodium posted:yeah you gotta change back to the main branch in the same menu you set the pbt branch.
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Burns posted:So getting to ashlands: I did this but it took probably 500 iron and 5000 stone and 5 hours of building. I just imported it all. I now have a portal at the start of the pillars and another near the shore. Wow the enemies are aggressive but I took out the closest spawner and am making progress. Died a few times falling in the water while building bridges but the new snapping options made it much easier
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desperate to know why you would do this when a drakkar costs ten iron, thirty black marble, fifty fine wood and thirty yggdrasil wood and can sail up to the shore edit: forgot to post this but in the last pre-release patch, they made it so the spikes on ashforts drop scrap bronze when you destroy them. hell yeah. time to take a mallet to all of them. edit the second: ashlands is wonderfully dangerous. every now and then you just end up overwhelmed, out of stamina and eitr even after meads, because there are too many mobs and then a fallen valkyrie or starred asksvin shows up, or a marksman knocks your rear end into lava while mining flametal. i've lost almost half my skill points in everything except elemental and blood magic. down to 46 from 85 swords. I wish I liked the visuals more because the gameplay is great. Zodium fucked around with this message at 12:26 on May 16, 2024 |
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Yeah my take is that ash is just as hard as the mists but significantly less bullshit. You generally get the chance to square up and see whatever's got bad intention coming. I can't tell you how many times I got ganked by a two-star seeker flying out of nowhere in the mists and got staggered before the little bastard even showed up on my screen. I have seven or eight hours running around in the new biome and I haven't had anything like that happen. When you get in trouble it's generally because you pulled too much aggro and run out of stamina/magic.
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The charred warrior moveset making parries a lot harder is funny. I still think that introducing magic the way they did might have been a mistake, but it's all still fun. I think I prefer melee for fun and will keep doing it, but for some things magic is just objectively better. For solo play anyway.
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Eifert Posting posted:Yeah my take is that ash is just as hard as the mists but significantly less bullshit. You generally get the chance to square up and see whatever's got bad intention coming. I can't tell you how many times I got ganked by a two-star seeker flying out of nowhere in the mists and got staggered before the little bastard even showed up on my screen. I have seven or eight hours running around in the new biome and I haven't had anything like that happen. When you get in trouble it's generally because you pulled too much aggro and run out of stamina/magic. interesting. very much having the opposite experience where mistlands really wasn't that dangerous because you were rarely dealing with more than 2-3 mobs at a time, so watching out was generally sufficient, while ashlands just keeps spawning mobs while you're engaged in fighting other mobs. died when a fallen valkyrie spawned while I was fighting two asksvin today.
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