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What's the point of the weapons beside the axe in Valheim? I recently unlocked the tier 2 workbench and will be getting the tier 3 one the next time I play. So far, all the weapons look like they have the same or worse stats as the basic axe, which I need to keep upgraded to cut wood with anyways.
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Haifisch posted:This would be cool(and is cool in the few games that actually make NPC societies beyond 'people who want to kill you and/or take your stuff'), but a)requires more work than 'everything and everyone is trying to kill you' and b)would probably lose the segment of the playerbase who plays survival games for their 'I am the Last Human and I am a total badass who doesn't need anyone else to survive' kicks. I imagine that segment of the player base would be at least as happy to have npc's gratefully thanking them for bringing in food/leather/wood and other supplies so that they can continue surviving. As long as it's optional anyways.
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I'm really impressed with how deep Valheim is. I thought it was just going to be basically a hunting simulator, but then I killed the first boss and now there's dungeons, and mining, and a whole new metal tech tree to explore.victrix posted:Anyone messed with Volcanoids? It was fiddly enough to put my wife off so I didn't play it much.
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Got up to bronze equipment in Valheim. I'm going to stick with troll for now for that sweet, sweet sneak bonus. It takes a ton of copper and tin ore to make anything out of bronze. I don't know how people are supposed to be able to afford to make bronze arrows. It takes me multiple hours just to get enough bronze to make or upgrade each piece of equipment.
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I recently started playing vintage story and drifter packs are getting pretty frustrating. One or two drifters makes for an exciting challenge. But when there’s six plus of them, they just rock throw me to death. I’m not sure how I’m supposed to deal with that. Some nights are fine and I can be out doing stuff in my garden or chopping trees all night without seeing even one monster. Other nights I get swarmed by huge numbers of drifters. Is there a way to predict which it is going to be? LLSix fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Feb 26, 2022 |
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Feb 26, 2022 16:32
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Any tips on finding bees in Vintage Story? The world I'm in has been very hilly and forests tend to be small. I've been through a dozen of them and still haven't found a single bee hive. It's pretty fun to play with a friend, but drifters are definitely more annoying obstacle than fun challenge. We did make the mistake of building our house between two caves during the starter grace period. When it ended, we were getting waves of up to 6 drifters coming in almost faster than we could kill them. Had to seal off the caves completely. It was pretty exciting before that, though. LLSix fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Sep 8, 2022 |
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Thanks for all the advice for finding bees. I got the mod that makes a big text bubble appear for bee sounds, so I'm all set to go hunting the next time we both have time to play.Travic posted:Are there any tips for finding limestone in Vintage Story beyond just exploring more? I've gone about a days travel in every direction and found none. There is a ton of granite and a fair amount of basalt, but no limestone. I've been walking and checking the exposed rock and the rock bits on the ground. Is there some trick to finding it? There's an effort post on the official forums: https://www.vintagestory.at/forums/topic/4748-prospecting-for-limestonechalk-guide/
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I'm looking for more tin to avoid falling back out of the bronze age (the first quartz deposit I mined had only 2 poor gold nuggets and no silver  )My prospecting pick found this cluster of very high 0.2% and ultra high 0.2% cassiterite(tin):  Any tips on where to dig down to try to find it? Or even how deep to look? The area is pretty hilly (un-annotated screenshot). The red map-marker is just fire clay, not a cave. I'm guessing I want to try that middle UH square, but even that's a pretty large area to cover. Godlessdonut posted:As a Kenshi fan, I approve of this simple cosmetic change. Nice aesthetic. The bed on the floor in back is a great touch.
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HelloSailorSign posted:Each ore type has some specifics on where in the y axis it can spawn, seen here: https://wiki.vintagestory.at/index.php/Ore_Deposits Thanks. If I'm reading that chart right, cassiterite only gets Ultra High (bountiful) in granite. The surface stone here is basalt, so I should mine down until I hit granite before starting to use the propick in node search mode?
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I found 2 unconnected tiny tin disks in that center square. ~500 tin units all told, or enough for 50 bronze pickaxes. I was initially disappointed by how little tin I was finding, because I hadn't realized how many tools that would make until I wrote it out just now. I guess I'm good on tin for a while. I'm still getting propick node readings of "very small" amounts of tin around the edges of the disks I dug out, so I'm guessing there's another disc down there, but I guess I don't need to look for it right now. I used vanilla ladders since I didn't realize that I could make rope from cattails, so I didn't realize I had a source of rope until after I'd made a couple stacks of ladders. Oh well.  I have pet bears now! Also pictured, what used to be my pet goats  I'd left a pit behind to passively trap goats for when I wanted to try to domesticate some. And because they're kind of cute. Unfortunately/awesomely, both a black and brown bear also thought they were cute. Too cute not to eat.
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Travic posted:Managed to get a rooster, a ram, and a ewe. Unfortunately I underestimated how much they eat. I had 4 stacks of flax seed and they're burning through it. I may have to let the sheep go. Your sheep can be fed grass. It takes a lot of grass to keep them fed enough to breed, but with a scythe it doesn't take long to gather. I just got to this point too. I think the most aesthetically pleasing designs I've seen for sheep raising are outdoor pens but I've got my heart set on a barn. Anyone got a vintage story animal pen or barn they want to show off?
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MrGreenShirt posted:I would like to apologize in advance for the quality of these pictures. This was from an iron-age village build I did a while back that I accidentally deleted, and all I have left are these lovely phone pics I took for reference while building. Cool! I like both.
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Are there any good survival games for iOS? I was excited when I heard Card Survival was getting an iOS port, but now it looks like it'll be at least a few months before that happens. Obviously there's Don't Starve, but I've already played it for hundreds of hours.
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MarcusSA posted:I’d pay that if it were on iOS. Truth.
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RandomBlue posted:Gonna check this out today: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1324130/Stranded_Alien_Dawn/ So the real question is: what's mod support like? So much of the fun of Rimworld comes from its mods.
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Vintage Story: I spent a good 4 hours mining out an iron deposit today. Just poor quality, but now I've got a chest almost full of chunks. I figure that should be enough for awhile. Very excited. I just got by first tiny helve hammer started and this is my first time moving into the iron age.
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esquilax posted:What's the deal with resin in Vintage Story? Is there some good way to find it other than just marking nearby leaky pines on your map to gather every seven days? That is the deal with resin Sorry, it's just awful for no good reason. There's a console command to spawn specific items that I usually use to cheat in resin but I can never remember the exact command. The "good" news is that it respawns fairly fast so once you find a few places and make a circuit of it, you can get enough without too much trouble.
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I wonder if any one has successfully implemented asynchronous PvP. Something where people can rob you while you're offline but not so punitive that it requires shifts of people manning the defenses. It's immersion breaking to have stuff that's simply invincible. On the other hand, most people don't want to lose the game while they're not even playing it. LLSix fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jan 31, 2023 |
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I got that card survival game people were talking about a while back. How do you tell what your actions did? All I can see when I take an action is an explosion of stat changes. When I go to look at the stats there's no log of how much difference the last change made or even why the stat went up or down. LLSix fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Mar 12, 2023 |
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TorakFade posted:I sometimes wish there were more games concerned with long term survival, like UnReal World, and not just survival as in "don't get killed by $enemy_of_choice or natural hazards to eventually escape back to civilization" Clanfolk is a base management game (same general genre as Rimworld) where the main obstacle is gathering and storing enough food and water to survive winter. And then keeping your food from spoiling the following summer. TorakFade posted:Oh, that's nice to know! I have Vintage Story and tried playing a few times but always bounced off it, probably because I didn't spend enough time trawling wikis and stuff and just "jumped in", which doesn't seem to be the best thing for this kind of game The first thing I do in VS is make a knife and then gather almost two stacks of cattail reeds to make basic beginner bags. That more than doubles your inventory space. After that, you want to get enough claymaking done to make a crockpot and bowl. Crockpot meals more or less double the nutrition you get from food and you have to have a bowl to eat out of the crockpot.
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I sometimes fail to realize that I've been playing URW for almost 20 years now (started with version 2.80 in 2005 iirc 
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Tiny Timbs posted:Just bought Vintage Story last night and got eaten by a bear before making it 10 steps out of my starting spawn I'm sorry that happened. It usually doesn't. I guess the world gen doesn't do any checks that the player spawn location is safe, but I've generated dozens of locations and never had that happen. I have been eaten by bears lots of times. Even once you're geared up, they're still a serious threat.
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I've been playing a fair bit of Card Survival lately. I'm irrationally frustrated by crop plots only being single use. It makes sense to me that it requires some effort to clear the soil to start with. I've cleared ground to plant before and it is work. But after that the soil should stay cleared. The game already has a fertilizer mechanic to track soil health (and it starts at 0 despite it require compost elements to build the crop plot to start with). The fertilizer mechanic properly represents soil health and nutrients, so the crop plot disappearing isn't needed to represent the soil being depleted of nutrients (if that was even a realistic concern in the middle of a jungle). The game is difficult in a lot of ways that make it more fun and engaging, but this specific mechanic feels like a fun tax.
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Krataar posted:What are my options that are basically stardew but you’re on the frontier or home stead and gotta eat and survive so it’s kinda sweaty but chill Vintage Story is the closest you're going to get probably. It has farming. It has tool tiers. It has mining. It has limited combat. It has animal raising (extremely difficult to setup). It allows you to build elaborate homes and barns. Vintage story does not have: NPCs (beyond traders who just buy and sell) Marriage candidates Social elements Magic (can be added with mods probably) You will definitely die a few times before getting a stable setup. Raft kinda scratched the same itch for us. Valheim is also an option for a much harder combat experience, but the farming in Valheim is impressively unfun to do at any sort of scale. I've been thinking about trying to convince my partner to start another VS run for awhile. It's good fun.
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All this Vintage Story talk got me to start up a new game today. First day was a bit bodged up, but 3 days in and we've finally gotten our reed had baskets completed (4 each) and are just waiting for tomorrow morning for our first clay pot and bowls to finish firing so we can eat non-burned food again. I like the mod that lets you carry boxes on your back so we're firing up clay vessels too so we can be more nomadic without leaving junk lying everywhere behind us. Temporal storms off, of course. HopperUK posted:This youtuber has a pleasant tone and a gentle pace and explains very carefully how Vintage Story works, so if you're up for watching a video or two, this might help. Kurazarrh is great.
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chainchompz posted:Checking back in: I got it last night and sacrificed sleep for gaming, which bodes well. For hunger, you want to make a clay cooking pot and a clay bowl. The food you can make in a clay pot is not only more satisfying, but it also counts double. For a short time (based on food quality) after eating a clay pot or other advanced meal, you no long lose stamina/satiation. So you can sprint and do stuff as much as you want until the (invisible) buff goes away.
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Synthbuttrange posted:How much does having a group to play with matter in Valheim? Is solo fun/doable? The early part through the first boss is fun solo. The entire rest of the game involves a tremendous amount of grinding and/or mostly optional base-building. With a group this is a good time. Solo I found it tedious long before beating the second boss.
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I started up a new game of Vintage Story and Clay Storage Vessels are behaving oddly. When I first put down a storage vessel, transferring meat and berries from my inventory to it, increases the amount of time to spoil, as expected. Then after a few game days, I'll put something into the storage vessel, and it decreases the amount of time to spoil (the opposite of expected behavior). This happens regardless of where I put my storage vessel. I don't have plank so no door yet, but I can dig a proto-cellar out under ground with no light access and that helps delay spoilage, but, again, after a few days it seems to stop working.
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GreenBuckanneer posted:I'm trying to find a good base builder kind of game but IDK what to buy that's good That's most of the good survival games. Except maybe Terraria, but the base-building in that is just to support the adventuring and fighting. Maybe try one of these adjacent base-builder genres? Stardew Valley is a good introduction (I've got several thousand hours in it) to the farming life-sim genre. Happily, it is also general considered the best as well. Rimworld is probably the most accessible of the base-building management games If you don't want to fight in your basebuilder, Clanfolk is a great choice, but since this is the survival thread I'm guess you want more conflict than Clanfolk provides. Not that Clanfolk is easy, most players die their first 2-3 games before they figure out how to not starve or freeze to death. Spanish Matlock posted:Lego Fortnite From what little Lego Fortnite I've played, it is just a reskinned Valheim. OP said they didn't like Valheim so I'd be surprised if they like Lego Fortnite.
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Card Survival is a great game and there's a mobile version so it travels well. Thread is here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4041213
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TorakFade posted:I gotta try Card Survival because it looks like it scratches the very same itch, but I remember trying the demo and bouncing off it for some reason... A lot of the learning curve in Card Survival is the UI. Some actions are done by clicking on cards. Others require you to drag cards on top of each other. It can be very non-obvious how to do some things that are obviously possible. At least that's what I had a hard time with until it become muscle memory.
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YerDa Zabam posted:Feeling like there's a shortage of new survival games atm? Those are some pretty crops in the steam screenshots.
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Is there farming in Enshrouded? I love farming games, but the farming in Valheim was so fiddly and frustrating that it caused me to stop playing.
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Synthbuttrange posted:I think I'm over survival games. Let me know if you find any.
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I just started playing Medieval Dynasty. It's been out for years I know. Some early thoughts: Wolves are brutal and vicious. It's kind of weird you don't have to water crops but I think I like it. Wow, you need to build a lot of buildings.
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twistedmentat posted:Your can build a liquid storage thingy under the drink boxes straw and it will capture the drops of juice. That's cool!
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The prices in Medieval Dynasty are insane. Saddles cost twice as much as an animal to put it on. People will work for you, for free. All they ask is that you not starve them. Well, not starve them too much. A little starving is fine. A six pack of beer costs more than a whole cow’s worth of meat.
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Qubee posted:Does anyone have any good cooperative games to suggest? My friend just built his first PC after years of playing on a beat up old laptop. It goes without saying he's very excited to play games with me. Raft. Don’t Starve Together. Not a survival game but super fun and you didn’t say if your friend likes stuff other than survival games - Overcooked. It’s cute and silly and sooo much fun yelling at each other and trying to coordinate.
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