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  1. Posted

    i discovered the fire drill rather late, and flint is very easy to get. i'd go for the later.

    and you dont need burning material to start a fire (no matter if a forge, fire or stove), you'll use wooden pieces or something similar only when the fire is starting to fade, to fuel it again (if needed).

     

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  2. Posted

    thanks again.

    i just started a spot to show what i think i noticed about the errosion.

    one thing that i'm sure now, is the dragon statue in one of my older saves. when found it was amidst some trees and there was light green ground. i picked up the ash heaps, cut some trees did stuff.. and the area around the statue turned slowly to a more yellowish ground color.  so it might have to do something with the statue in this case...

     

    i'll post pics if something changes in the experimental area.

  5. Posted

    hey,

    copper: i make a screeny later. its rose colored and i found it mostly in rocky terrain on the surface in the mountains. if you happen to find one of  those "6 barrel pyramid" special places, you'll find some copper bars in them too. 

     

    wind indicator: did you lower the anchor? i had problems placing it too, lowering the anchor on medium and large ships is sort of needed to place stuff on them.

     

    and to get my ship back from an island i died, i built a raft and spent a good chunk of time rowing back to the island. sadly you have to press "move forward" the whole time.. at least its cheap to build.

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  7. Posted

    hey,

    after playing some more exploration mode, i collected a couple of questions (and no, not sulfur again, i finaly found some :D  ). and feel free to pack recipe questions into a riddle.. i like those!

    - in the trailer i saw those birch trees on what looks like a non-arid yland. can i find these by exploring or not yet?

    - black panther hides... is there any use for those pelts (besides decorating my home)? cant make leather or anything else it seems.

    - steel! i tried realy hard to find out how to make it. i know how steel is made and i'm guessing that a game would probably use the open-hearth furnace way/recipe to do it. that would mean, that its limestone i'm missing... is there limestone? or is it something completly different?

    - i noticed, that the ground (dirt) color changes in areas i cut down the trees and/or gathered the plants. is this some sort of ecosystem or just a cosmetic thing?

    - is it intended, that papersheets made in the press does not stack? i remember the paper from dismantled books does..

     

    the last isnt a proper question, more like a suggestion maybe.. ;)  if i'm missing a recipe here, enlighten me.

    the sea urchin spines.. maybe we could combine them with cotton (and maybe even toadstool) into blowgun darts. and craft a blowgun from bamboo or a pole..

     

    thanks!

     

  9. Posted

    uh, nice and tidy. i tend to live in a hijacked building i found or on a small plot of flat space cluttered with workstations :)

    sadly, my two most "advanced" saves dont work anymore, but i try to take a picture next time.

    i do make those crop-circles too. not in a organized fashion tho, more like a chaotic garden around my camp..

     

    btw. we need treehouses!

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  10. Posted

    hey,

    i found one of those big cubes with the emots on display. after cracking it open, i was rumaging inside and suddenly fell through the ground.

    i fell for a moment, and them seemed to hover on the spot (maybe still falling) i died of coldness not impact afer a fall. dropped items on death did not fall o the world surface, but seem to be lost somewhere down where i died.

    though there were "cave sounds" i dont think i fell into a cave, i did craft a torch while falling to verify this :)

     

    i could reproduce it, by facing the center of the cube-structure and walking backwards. fell again with the same result.

  13. Posted

    had these two buildings on most of my starting ylands too. didnt bother with the flying one tho. i tinkerd with the tower on the surface a bit.

    a bundle of tnt i found didnt do anything to the tower, but i could break the glass at the top. 

    the chest inside is locked, but i didnt dare to mess with it yet. i'm not sure if a chest drops its content if broken, or if a tech chest maybe needs power to open. no keys found until now.

     

    also i'm curious what happens if the fans on the bottom of the flying cube are disabled somehow?

     

  16. Posted · Edited by Aethelis

    i just wiped the starting island clean of the predators, and they seem to spawn again, although very slowly (like one every few days).

    edit: after thinking about english grammar, i guess it should have been: wiped the starting island clean of just the predators.

  17. Posted · Edited by Aethelis

    hey,

    i'm not sure, if its a bug or something other.

    after i looted the second new island, i couldnt board my ship via the ropeladders on its side anymore. i can do the action on them but it gives me a Failed result on the screen.

    (edit) it worked fine while building the ship and until after the first new island.

    is this intended?  can i fix it?

    i can still use the ship, just have to build a ramp and place a massive log to jump over.

  18. Posted

    i have been in caves several times.  i take a couple of torches with me, one or two to place, one as reserve and one just in case..  i found out, that the glowing mushrooms can be used in the alchemy stand, but i havent tried the resultin poition yet. also, you'll find crystals, that glow, deeper down the caves. those are mighty fine for illumination, be it base or cave or what ever.

     

    for the riches to find in the caves.. best thing i found were those crystals, but they are rather common (to plentiful), i found one of those dead adventurer spots with some stuff, and mutated beasts.

    i'm looking for sulfur, as that should be in caves someone said. also i found a gold ingot (on mentioned skeleton), so i guess theres gold ore somewhere in this game. mutated beasts are also good, the mutated bones they drop are very handy. i usualy hunt them with an iron crossbow.  and there should be yllandium crystals down there too, but i have yet to find one of those.

    i guess if thats my loot from four islands worth of caves, that i'm rather unlucky, or just doing it wrong somehow.

     

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  19. Posted

    sorry. that was meant to be a colorful description of the recipe, but i eventualy got carried away a bit :)

     

    crossbow bolts are the same recipe btw, but i didnt discover any higher tier arrows (like iron for example) yet.

  20. Posted

    that makes sense, i'm actually fine with the difficulty and danger (and thrill) that exploration imposes.

     

    the other point that plays a bit into the respawn beacon thing would be settling over to a new yland.

    the possibility to select another yland as my new "hometurf" would be great. but i can see how this is a rather large backdoor for a mobile spawnpoint. maybe link it to a certain amount/type of crafting tables built on the yland.. 

    i'd like to hear if theres any plans concerning this topic as well.

     

    cheers

     

     

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  21. Posted

    yes, i made me some already.

    just straighten some sticks and cut them to shafts. i then used resin to glue the flint tips to the sticks and some feathers at the other end.

    if you find it hard to cut proper notches into the feathered end without a fine saw, try to just cut a V shape. also, if you break some of the broader tips while chipping them, keep some. tho the more bladeshaped are better for hunting bigger mammals, i found that the slim, pointy ones are fine for birds and small game still. when choosing the wood type for the shafts, i tend to go for something with a higher resin amount. those will be less affected by dampness or outright soaking. and when checking for lenght, i tend to make mine about a handwidth too long. in case just the tip breaks (its flint..), that should leave you with enough material to fix a new head instead of throwing it away.

     

    ;D

  22. Posted

    hey,

    i noticed, that the maps i crafted are not in my inventory after i restart the game.

    there is sometimes stuff, that is sort of invisible in the chests and inventory, but normaly that reappears after a restart. the maps are gone however (i even checked the floor in and around my camp).

    so its in the explore mode, happened in two different saves and with the paper and the leather parchment maps.

     

  23. Posted

    hey,

    after i spent a large chunk of yesterdays gameing time by rowing a raft to the yland i died on, i thought about the matter a bit.

     

    my prime choice would be some sort of respawn beacon (i'm not too picky about its look, be it a bed or a dais or what ever).

    the main reason is, that its important to get the ship back, without the need to build a new one. so something that can be placed on a medium and/or large ship would be nice.

    this could be further explored by a construction for placement on land. something i can build in my base, or more importantly on a yland i'm exploring or to which i resettled.

    it would be for more advanced characters i guess, but idealy craftable without yllandium or other rare stuff.

    on my first yland the spawn was inhabited by a wild puma, and i so wished i could respawn im my camp, without running the gauntlet everytime :)

     

    another thing would be either a small craft that is faster than the raft (and without pressing W the whole time), or something like advanced paddles for the existing two. just to get that other ship from a distant yland, without sacrificing a lot of advanced ressources, faster than a raft does.

     

    cheers

     

     

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  24. Posted

    i'll second pauls wish.

    not sure if i just missed a checkbox somewhere, but in my crafting tab, those i did craft already are shown first, but only sorted by the last use. as this list (where red and clear icons are mixed) grows it would be handy to toggle of the red, uncraftable recipes. 

     

    also, i would be very handy, if looking at a recipe, i could click/hover on the individual parts to see their recipe. especialy for those still missing and maybe even for the workbench needed if there's one.

     

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