You must have me confused with someone else. I've never been a heavily nomadic player. I might wander for the first couple days. In fact these recent changes have pushed me to be more nomadic than ever before. I think my feeling is that I haven't actually made any progress (as mentioned I haven't go...

I've found that with the new changes whenever I die I feel inclined to regenerate the world rather than accepting the respawn. Granted I've never gotten much past creating my first crafting bench but I feel that the amount you leave behind to find vs the depopulation of the worlds resources (specifi...

I was finding it similar to my experiences with some horror games in the past, where the prolonged anxiety eventually makes a good game less fun (for me personally anyways), and the motivation to play eventually dwindles away. Anyways, I'm finding the play in this release to be much more approachab...

I suppose it's possible. But since I don't use multiMC and just use the simple copy files into the jar installation method it seems unlikely. There's not really much to screw up there.

In several hours of playing on the latest version I have yet to see a single creeper. Is this intended? Is it a bug or a feature I didn't see in the changelogs? Have I just been insanely lucky? (unlucky?)

Anyone have any hints on how to work the new UI free brick oven? I can put items in but can't seem to insert any fuel nor light the thing.

Scratch that I think I figured it out.

Has anyone found anything shovel-like in the early game?

FlowerChild wrote:
I am sufficiently humbled :)

To be fair I often leave the game on when my wife is like "Let's eat dinner" or "Wanna watch a show?" so it's quite possible my actual play time is much closer to yours. :)

FlowerChild wrote:
If you're into crack, The Long Dark is also 75% off, and Steam says I've only spent around 300 hours of my life on that one :P

I think I must be since my Steam account says 577 Hours

FlowerChild wrote:Crusader Kings II seems to be free on Steam right now. As in, free permanent copies of the game, not just a free weekend.

That sounds familiar... First one's free... Next thing you know you're selling your body on the street to pick up another piece of DLC

Stuck again... Soo... Got the brick ovens. That was awesome. Managed to scrape together the 16 iron ore to get the iron chisel and chiseled the stump as suggested. But I'm a bit at a loss. I have the crafting bench but not sure what I could craft that would actually help me progress. Is there a ston...

So I tried the thing I thought it was after reading that hint and it totally worked... Just somehow I thought I had already tried that previously...

Well I'm still working on how to smelt iron. I tried throwing the nugget in a blazing campfire. I do not recommend that to anyone else... :)

Ok. I guess that makes sense. In my brain I was thinking stone axe means leave the primitive sharpened rock behind.

For string

How does one cook food once one has fire? I tried throwing and right clicking and left clicking, no more fire after left clicking... :( How would you cook food on a campfire in real life? You wouldn't just toss a steak directly into the flames - you'd roast it on a pointy stick. Got it. I kept tryi...

How does one cook food once one has fire? I tried throwing and right clicking and left clicking, no more fire after left clicking... :(

I am greatly intrigued. This coincides well with the fact that I just died recently and totally rage quit. Unfortunately I won't be able to play much over the next two weeks. Does this perhaps represent a shift of focus away from the return to home concept and indicate you are reshaping BTW to have ...

-Added Hardcore Soul Mating as part of the above changes to hardcore spawn. In the early stages of the game, this means that when one player dies on a multiplayer server, any other players that die in the following Minecraft day will also respawn in the same general vicinity as the first. This is t...

Hmmm... I have a pro-nuclear family... Does that count?

My wife plays with me. Technically that's the whole family :D

FlowerChild wrote:Does stump remover feel too costly for this? I know once I have a mob trap going I usually have enough creeper oysters and rotten flesh to clear just about any forest I care to.

For me I've never built a mushroom farm. I feel the spawning rules are so strange and arcane that I just avoid them.

I was just going to post in tech support about this. It seems the ladders always face in a certain direction if they can.

Sure sure. As you said, many wolves in the fire and I certainly am loath to make suggestions that might postpone cool new features or some kind of homecoming... ;)
Just something that worms it's way into the back of my mind as I play.

Actually, the intent was to introduce much more of a cost to early game exploration with these changes. The trapping thing was a workaround that I had anticipated, but which I wanted to consider further before addressing. Short term trapping still works fine with this most recent release (you shoul...