That would be cool if you could visit other ylands by invitation. would make it very interesting and make the world much bigger.

I have noticed most lag in areas where there is a lot of trees or other flora on the ground areas and also if there is a place where I have a lot of items thrown onto the ground. My current house is quite large with windmill and electricity and I do not see much lag but everything is put away in chests and neat. When I go back to where I first settled there is a lot of junk thrown around (was more worried about surviving than keeping it clean) and I get more lag there than at home.

Mine is stone. Super easy to get and lots of crafting options. I do like stone with wood highlights. The only issue with stone really is that once it has set its really hard to remove or redo so you have to be sure within 2 min of placing it or build in your protection dome.

Baked potatoes are my fav. fill you full and super easy to make. You can definitely eat past the "im not hungry" message. with a baked potato i can go quite long before the hungry message reappears. Cooked fruit is also super easy with bananas since you do not have to replant those and you get quite a bit per tree. I ate several bananas (10) past the "not hungry" message and I also did not get the hungry message appearing again for some time.

That is really cool. very well done.

The notification is something they added in the last update. Very useful for new players until you learn the secret of the birds as mentioned above.

Also as a beginner don't pick up everything you can possibly pick up. You will run out of inventory very quickly and beginning containers are quite small. keep with the essentials they mention in this post. you can pick up shells and other things further on in the game.

The birds follow direct lines from ysland to ysland. It is possible you saw a bird flying half way between 2 islands and sailed right between them. Try to follow the birds and find out which direction they are going. If you sail more than 10 min in open water without any sign of birds or ylands you are probably not going to find anything. turn around and sail in a different direction. For best results look for birds on the shore of your island or from top of a mountain. If you dont see any there, try to sail around your yland away from shore and look for birds. There should be at least one coming and going from your yland to another one. follow it and you should find new lands. I have only a small boat but have found 2 different ylands using this method not far from my original spawn point. My second hop I found a desert yland that had a small patch of sulfur (the item I was looking for) on the surface.