I'm a nerd from the US who really likes block games! This channel is mostly going to be about playing PC games, perhaps with some deviations here and there.
*to the person who was live in stream and said that smithing hurts their eyes. Go into the setting, there's an option slider that thins or thickens the Voxel Grid when smithing/clayforming. Crank that slider up a good 20-30% from its default and you'll get much thicker and easier to see lines on the Voxel Grid, which is very helpful for those with poorer eyesight or help prevent strain after long sessions.
@SnyperMK2000JclL7 сағат бұрын
Almost done with this episode bit DO NOT forget about making a super dope colored Meteoric Iron Shield...
@Lake_Filter12 сағат бұрын
While I was watching the last episode, I laid down on my lazy sofa, blinked once, and it was four episodes later. Anyways, as english is one of my secondary language, I always wonder whether the synonym for hyena is hellona or howdyena.
@Kurazarrh11 сағат бұрын
Oh man. Sleeping while the baby sleeps, huh? ;) Also, definitely howdyena!
@locustsunКүн бұрын
Personally, I wish you would give From Golden Combs a chance. I also wish it weren’t so weird with controls, having to place things in such a manner, and being able put them in the regular inventory (a problem I hate with the general games packs and mods like butchery). The ceramic pots are so much better for me that the constant build/rebuild and loss of hives from skeps in early game, and I kind of like having something to do in the game other than planting and forging/mining.
@Kurazarrh11 сағат бұрын
I mean... I am giving From Golden Combs a chance, just that I'm giving my thoughts about the experience in real-time. I think it's a really NEAT mod, but I don't know yet if I really LIKE it. I'm somewhat predisposed to disliking things that are fiddly or that require a lot of effort without a commensurate increase in efficiency or efficacy. From what I see with FGC so far, the Langstroth hives seem to be best for people who only want to check their bees every couple months, or if you have limited space for bees.
@Bromon65511 сағат бұрын
I agree about the ceramic hives. Harvesting and rebuilding skeps is one of the most tedious aspects of the game for me. Skeps are primitive and should be an early-game item only.
@RyanBrockeyКүн бұрын
This video perfectly illustrates something I've come to realize after 60+ hours in VS: a key part of the game loop is looking/walking away from the game. I often have a book beside me so I can read while I wait out the night or a temporal storm. I don't know if this is intentional and I don't know if I like it or not. I'm still playing and enjoying VS, so I definitely don't hate it.
@Kurazarrh11 сағат бұрын
I find that most of the time, there's ALWAYS something to do. When I'm waiting for 20 ingots' worth of ore to smelt in a crucible, that's like 8 minutes of time I can spend catching up on other things in-game: meal prep, milking the sheep/goats, feeding the chickens, harvesting or replanting crops, and so on (or staying near the crucible and forging more tools or plates!). The only time I generally have nothing else to do is panning lots of blocks at once. Then I'll mentally check out and just watch TV while I pan. If you haven't seen the Desert Life series I'm doing now, you could check that out and see what I've started doing during temporal storms. They've become a lot more exciting and interesting now that I've changed tactics!
@davidstjohn208Күн бұрын
I am thoroughly enjoying the series! I've been playing Starsector for about a year, so I'm familiar with the game. Still, I learn something new about it with every video you post. Going back to watch the Incomplete Guide next.
@Kurazarrh11 сағат бұрын
Hey, thank you so much! I love Starsector and play WAY too much of it! I hope you enjoy the Incomplete Guide series! :)
@lkmdude8094Күн бұрын
I was convinced that you weren't going to find an ion beam this episode.
@Kurazarrh11 сағат бұрын
I was, too! XD
@walterverlaan1286Күн бұрын
It's going well, I think.
@Kurazarrh11 сағат бұрын
I think so, too! Being a swarm of angry bees can be dicey in the early-game, before you have all the skills, ships, and officers that really make your fleet a force to be reckoned with. It's definitely a slow-burn beginning with an exponential increase in power and capability over time!
@motherofnerdlingsКүн бұрын
Ha! A fellow new englander? Im in the land of lobstah! 😂
@JStankXPlaysКүн бұрын
The first time I saw star sector was a Quill18 video. I saw one giant explosion and immediately bought it.
@KurazarrhКүн бұрын
I think I saw Splattercat play it first, then... Not sure who, but I watched someone else play a bit before I jumped on it!
@julianadams37102 күн бұрын
I also just wear tailored everywhere except going underground or during storms, armor stands make it easy to swap outfits at a few clicks.
@KurazarrhКүн бұрын
Yeah it's the best everyday wear!
@BionicleFreek992 күн бұрын
I appreciate that you're not afraid to experiment with design ideas from other cultures.
@KurazarrhКүн бұрын
Thank you! I'm having fun doing it!
@walterverlaan12862 күн бұрын
Good stuff. Gooood stuffff.
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
:D Thank you!
@ALE199-ita2 күн бұрын
Oh wow you house gotten very good! the like mosaic really adds a lot of good to it!
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
:D Hey, thank you so much!!
@Charlii420692 күн бұрын
Bit of a strange question I know, but how did you find the transition from QWERTY to Dvorak? (assuming you started with qwerty like most of us did) I've been considering trying it out myself but it looks a little intimidating! Thanks for the great VS content.
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
I did start on QWERTY, and the reason I switched was because my left hand was starting to feel the strain (that layout is very heavy on the left hand). Anyway, at the time I switched, I was doing a lot of writing, as well as transcribing some old notes and stories I had written on paper in order to have a digital copy. I went absolutely cold-turkey. Switched all my computers to Dvorak and didn't allow myself to fall back on QWERTY. It took about 2 weeks before I was mostly able to type without looking at my hands again; 4 weeks until I was back up to my original typing speed, and by 6-8 weeks, I was actually typing faster than I ever had on QWERTY. So I absolutely recommend it, especially if you're having any hand/finger/wrist strain, arthritis, or carpal tunnel. Also it's great for really annoying everyone else who tries to use your computer! ;)
@Charlii42069Күн бұрын
@@KurazarrhI'm finding I have issues in my left wrist as well actually! I’ll definitely need to give it a go after hearing that! Thanks so much for taking the time to respond :)
@PhunnyConflicts2 күн бұрын
I felt a bit... Threatened towards the end...
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
*Emperor Palpatine* "Good, good..." :P
@bugermeister3 күн бұрын
Yeah... Vinternach is very very hardcore with his mods. Some of it like the overly restriction of backpack slot is stepping into the area of "no longer fun" immersion.
@PhilBoswell2 күн бұрын
I'm failing to understand the logic: how and why does restricting these items to a Backpack Slot "increase immersion"?
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
Yeah, I talked at length a while back about immersion being fun until it's a chore. This definitely gets up into "chore" area and reminds me of some of the more hardcore and grindy mods in big Feed The Beast modpacks for that other block game.
@yaroslavbozhdynsky3 күн бұрын
Did You know that 60 clay shingles will make 40 slanted roofs, but if you first make 24 shingle stairs (out of 36 shingles) you can then add single shingles to them and make a total of 48 slanted roofs.
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
I wasn't aware you could actually do that with those recipes. Is that something that the Bricklayers mod adds?
@yaroslavbozhdynsky2 күн бұрын
@@Kurazarrh base, check the wiki. Roofing.
@slouching_towards_los_angeles3 күн бұрын
Why not fire both SRMs on your TT brawler at once? Even if not linked, switching between the two rapidly would double your burst DPS with them. I've seen a couple situations in the past few battles where that little bit of extra punch would have helped a lot. Also, on your LP brawler, you might want to switch the SRMs to autofire if you arent going to manually control them. That way they can act as PD to shoot down fighters and give chip damage to shields and unshielded ships. Really enjoying the series so far!
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
You'll find with missiles, I tend to use them somewhat conservatively. XD In any game with limited resources, I tend to hoard them until I HAVE to use them, unless it's "limited" resource with a large pool. As for autofire on the SRMs, I find that they pretty much just always shoot as soon as they're in range (which IS what autofire does, but still), so they end up often on cooldown when I need them for PD duty. =/
@sheik99563 күн бұрын
lol wow. did u seriously kill a nightmare and NOT harvest it ? ok lmao
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
I don't find the loot tables on even nightmare drifters all that exciting. The only drifters I will ALWAYS loot are double-headers, because they are a guaranteed temporal gear drop, guaranteed stack of rusty gears, and guaranteed ~4 flax fibers. Nightmare drifters still have a pretty good chance of giving you nothing.
@sheik99563 күн бұрын
dude, wtf are you doing ??? you are NOT ready for that ruin . just leave. steel armor + weapons minimum to take that. and even so wtf are you doing ? HEAL. taking on night mares on half bar ? dude.
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
What can I say? I live life on the edge! :P
@motherofnerdlings3 күн бұрын
Do the tannin barrels go bad? Or could you have some ready on standby?
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
Nope, tannin never goes bad, so I could definitely have some on standby. I don't recall what the situation was at the time, but if I didn't have a ton of oak logs, I may not have wanted to use them all on tannin!
@motherofnerdlings2 күн бұрын
@Kurazarrh nah I was asking for my own future plans =)
@Sarafimm23 күн бұрын
Watching you make the Langstroth Hives of the From Golden Combs mod and I definitely think I'll just plop down a chest nearby and fill it with all the stuff I need to make the hives. I'm with you on the "It has to go into the backpack slot???!!!!" Aaagh! I think if the hive pot/Langstroth breeder box has bees in it, it's "filled" and only then should it require being placed into the backpack slot.
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
Yeah, I'd have a lot less of an issue with the backpack slot bit if I wasn't just going to plop the box down next to where I'm working. As it stands, it just makes it more fiddly.
@Free_Moonshadow3 күн бұрын
loving those pillars v impressed
@Kurazarrh2 күн бұрын
:D Thank you so much!!
@SnyperMK2000JclL3 күн бұрын
I was looking through the mods list... there is totally a "visible terra preta" like mod for Meteorites... xD just an idea but it might be useful to quickly recheck some of those known spots for more buried deeper.
@Sarafimm23 күн бұрын
I really think some Suevite blocks would look great on the ceiling or upper walls of a "Sun Temple". It would definitely be a great excuse to go back and get some Suevite and ensure you also got all the meteoric iron from those spots. Might only find a few extra blocks, but it would help with repairing the White Knight armor.
@addisonchow97983 күн бұрын
Can you do tempest only swarm for maximum beehiveception ?
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Tempests are kind of funny in that regard. They're excellent ships in the early to mid-game, but they fall off HARD in the late game. You can extend their lifespan by building them for capacity and defense, but then you lose out on their strike capabilities. I think one of the weaknesses of the Tempest is that the AI is way too liberal in dumping their Terminator Drones into the enemy at the first chance they get. Which is a shame because the drones do three huge things: 1) they are a source of flux-less IR pulse lasers; 2) they are a source of flux-free PD lasers; 3) they can armor tank for the Tempest. AI pilots like to just turn them into so-so missiles and slam them into enemy shields as soon as they can. If Tempest pilot AI was adjusted to only dump the drones when enemy shields were overloaded, I think they'd be a lot more useful into the late-game. As a player ship, the can hold up okay into the late game, but again, you have to (re)build for defense over offense.
@SnyperMK2000JclL3 күн бұрын
Awe, "Meteorite" labels and not "Meaty Ore"... xD Also you should dig down around the center of the impact sites and around the edges a bit. I have found that many of the Meteorites are in 2 clumps, one usually smaller fracture clumo up at the surface and another clump slightly below. Ages ago i had commented that i was mad that you were getting like 6-12 ore blocks per meteorite site where i was lucky if i was getting 3 to 5 ore blocks. I went back like a week later and dug out the suavite and found even more ore blocks just a bit deeper/off to the side of the small cluster i had found previously.
@SnyperMK2000JclL3 күн бұрын
I think it would be really cool if you added some slate or other very dark stone to represent "metal slag" around the anvil of the Helve Hammer setup. As if it was a bunch of soot, slag and scrap chips from the smithing process scattered all around the anvil and maybe some densely covered areas nearer the helve hammer rigs and less in the opening you walk into, as if you did a ton of smithing but your repeated walking has cleared a path through the debris.
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
That could be a fun detail! I should probably think about replacing the floor with stone first, since a wood floor might be a bit too flammable!
@yaroslavbozhdynsky3 күн бұрын
Hives look gorgeous though.
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Oh yeah, they look great even if they're a real pain to use! lol
@gonzoreader73913 күн бұрын
Quick kuestion, have you ever considered doing a valheim playthrough? Not sure if it’s your style or not but I’ve recently been addicted to it and you’re one of my favorite creators :)
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
I did do a Valheim LP! I didn't take it all the way through the game, though, because Valheim got more and more grindy, which was getting in the way of me completing the Vintage Story Guide episodes. But here's a link to the playlist: kzread.info/head/PL_m19gCRJ121cMWgirQmECVNXAFI0JOEP
@gonzoreader73913 күн бұрын
@@Kurazarrh oh man, welp here I go to binge it now! Thank you!
@motherofnerdlings3 күн бұрын
Where did you get the glass before having a bloomerie ? I must have missed something in a past episode? Sorry i know this series was a while ago, do you remember?
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
I do remember, actually! ;) There is a way to acquire glass before having a bloomery (and even before obtaining a pickaxe!). The quartz you can find sitting on the ground, when you pick it up, has something like a 25% chance of being "clear quartz". Combine 2 clear quartz in the crafting grid with sticks arranged above, below, and on either side of it to get a "clear quartz glass block." It's a bit foggy, but it works well for basic windows!
@motherofnerdlings3 күн бұрын
@@Kurazarrh oooh awesome to know ! Thank you so much!
@remuluson29043 күн бұрын
I use neutrino detector often and it can be really good at checking systems than normal scan burst. It has all the range and will always detect stuff like research stations and habitats. My tip to using it effectively is to check for pulses around landmarks or in direction of asteroid belts and whatnot (aka no fishing in the empty space). If pulse is coming from nowhere, its 80% fake or ambush fleet waiting for you to trigger it.
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
IIRC doesn't the neutrino detector actually have a fixed range of 10,000 space units? I'm having recollections of it not picking up stuff on the opposite side of large star systems.
@wallylamamaggie3 күн бұрын
it's selfish but i'm kind of grateful you don't have over 100k subs, even though you definitely deserve them. if there were that many of us then we would get jealous because we'd miss your attention!
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Hah, yeah that's one of the things I think about sometimes: how the channel would have to change when and if we grow to that level!
@Dev_2R4 күн бұрын
I lit a brush fire earlier trying to get rid of a bunch of leaves and tule, ended up burning down half of my farm fence. It'll be scythe and shears going forward for me 😂
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Uh-oh!!! Yeah, that'll do you in right quick! Glad it only got your fence!!
@Lake_Filter4 күн бұрын
It's quite astonishing to see the humble beginning of the somewhat-majestic structure standing during the last stream. It's like walking around town and getting hit by nostalgia while looking at a particular corner, noticing how much it changed over the years, saying "There used to be a suspicious person loitering around in that corner.. ..now there's a bunch of them. Run." :D
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Lol! Yeah it is fun to see that kind of evolution! I hope the final design lives up to your expectations!
@Lake_Filter3 күн бұрын
I was expecting the eternal mud hut as the permanent temporary solution. So far so good. I do expect more temporary chessboard with mud umbrella in the future. The 3 pits at the trading post feels like decoratives unless you put something in there each stream, though.
@Bromon6554 күн бұрын
Perhaps as a way to introduce a more balanced seed system into the game, seeds could be very prolific but saplings have a chance of dying, similar to fruit trees? In that way you’d be able to harvest a realistic amount of seeds from trees but you wouldn’t be able to cheese the game by growing an entire forest’s worth of wood in one go.
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
I've had someone else suggest having saplings having a chance to die, but from a game perspective, I don't like it. It would make getting wood an absolute chore in a game that already makes everything into a chore! lol Given just how much wood the player needs, I don't see the current wood output to be "cheesing" it, even if the amount of wood we receive is unrealistically large--because the amount of wood we use is equally unrealistic.
@Bromon6553 күн бұрын
@@Kurazarrh fair enough, maybe if the game made wood go further then the concept could work. But you’re right, between leather, charcoal, building blocks, mechanical parts, etc, I never have enough wood.
@motherofnerdlings4 күн бұрын
Im looking forward to getting this game! Love these videos :)
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Hey thank you, I'm glad you like them! Hope you enjoy the game when you get it!
@themidnightrust4 күн бұрын
haha, talking about how to make From Golden Combs more accessible and user friendly, like Vinter Nacht's entire design philosophy isn't to make mods as brutal and fiddly as possible lol. They literally made a mod that makes crops grow *in real time* Making everything take backpack slots was ✨a choice✨
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Oh, yeah, it's pretty obvious that this mod was designed the way it was intentionally. And each modder is going to have personal tastes for "how much grind do I like in my coffee?" For me, personally, a mod that makes the bootstrapping part more involved should be easier to use in the long run. But here, it seems like it's just as complicated to use as it is to set it up.
@Bromon6553 күн бұрын
I think the issue is that even in the spirit of the mod’s brutal design philosophy, the backpack slots stuff is just senselessly arbitrary. Especially considering some components of the hive can be held in your hands and others can’t.
@themidnightrust3 күн бұрын
My favorite Vinter Nacht mod is In Dappled Groves, you have to split firewood on a splitting block and saw planks by hand on a sawbuck, no more inventory crafting 😂 I've never tried the Langstroth hive, ceramic ends the skep grind and that's good enough for me lmao. Vinter Nacht really does make excellent mods, but by god you have to like punishment to use them lol
@rbratta4 күн бұрын
You don't eat termites when out and about? It's one of my favourite travel snacks when I'm exploring in dessert areas 😅
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Haha, no... I probably should, but 1) I forget you can eat them and 2) once you destroy a mound, it never comes back!
@motherofnerdlings4 күн бұрын
-6 c is only 21f, that's borderline normal for night time in mid to late spring in New England 😂😂😂
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Haha, yikes!!!
@CygnusiaX15 күн бұрын
I wish I hadn't missed the stream (again! My morning involved car repair annoyingness, which accompanying back wreckage) but I could have walked you through the whole Langrstroth process. Also, you can stack 4 supers together... 40 liners is a ton of wax/honey. It is frustrating needing a backpack slot, but the author was going more for immersion in mind. Personally, I think they should make an addon for CarryOn so you can use that function to pull them off one at a time.
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
I find it odd that the hives (and even the skeps, to be honest) require a backpack slot... like do beekeepers ACTUALLY put these things on their backs, or are they going to set them down a few feet away and get to work?
@PhilBoswell5 күн бұрын
K starts talking at 0:10 and reveals the game at 3:18 so you don't have to wait very long 👍
@StorytellerWMD5 күн бұрын
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@Dev_2R5 күн бұрын
Grizzly bears are brown bears, it's just a matter of food source that distinguishes them. I've been wondering what to do with all the bones from wolf hunting, but it never dawned on me that they're handles, and of course my "I wonder" never led to the guidebook!
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Ah, interesting! I didn't know that! In Vintage Story, they're treated a little bit differently. Maybe just due to their diets making them tougher!
@Karlswebb5 күн бұрын
Ngl, dont usually watch small channels. This was nice. Kinda relaxing vibe. Sub’d.
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and subbing!
@SUS_USU6 күн бұрын
what is the challenge living in a desert vs living on a artic?
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
Both places are generally difficult to find food, but deserts are a little more generous, since the cacti can have fruit, and gazelles and hyenas provide plenty of meat. Arctic/antarctic areas are kind of ... not really ready for regular play outside of extreme challenge. It's MUCH more difficult to survive, since you won't overheat in the desert, but you can certainly freeze in the arctic. Growing crops is much more difficult in cold weather than hot, unless you enable underground farming (which makes cold survival kind of a cinch then). The "challenge" in this series is less of a survival one and more of a thematic one! ;)
@SnyperMK2000JclL6 күн бұрын
If you want some color but not loud vibrant colors, maybe filling in the center of the "flower" with yellow glass and the "petals" with blue glass. It wouldnt be out of place so to speak with the wrought iron as it would look like a stained glass decoration held in by the wrought iron.
@Kurazarrh3 күн бұрын
I might look at more decoration like that at some point! Though in the desert, we'd want minimal glass in general to promote airflow! These kitchens get HOT! ;)
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*to the person who was live in stream and said that smithing hurts their eyes. Go into the setting, there's an option slider that thins or thickens the Voxel Grid when smithing/clayforming. Crank that slider up a good 20-30% from its default and you'll get much thicker and easier to see lines on the Voxel Grid, which is very helpful for those with poorer eyesight or help prevent strain after long sessions.
Almost done with this episode bit DO NOT forget about making a super dope colored Meteoric Iron Shield...
While I was watching the last episode, I laid down on my lazy sofa, blinked once, and it was four episodes later. Anyways, as english is one of my secondary language, I always wonder whether the synonym for hyena is hellona or howdyena.
Oh man. Sleeping while the baby sleeps, huh? ;) Also, definitely howdyena!
Personally, I wish you would give From Golden Combs a chance. I also wish it weren’t so weird with controls, having to place things in such a manner, and being able put them in the regular inventory (a problem I hate with the general games packs and mods like butchery). The ceramic pots are so much better for me that the constant build/rebuild and loss of hives from skeps in early game, and I kind of like having something to do in the game other than planting and forging/mining.
I mean... I am giving From Golden Combs a chance, just that I'm giving my thoughts about the experience in real-time. I think it's a really NEAT mod, but I don't know yet if I really LIKE it. I'm somewhat predisposed to disliking things that are fiddly or that require a lot of effort without a commensurate increase in efficiency or efficacy. From what I see with FGC so far, the Langstroth hives seem to be best for people who only want to check their bees every couple months, or if you have limited space for bees.
I agree about the ceramic hives. Harvesting and rebuilding skeps is one of the most tedious aspects of the game for me. Skeps are primitive and should be an early-game item only.
This video perfectly illustrates something I've come to realize after 60+ hours in VS: a key part of the game loop is looking/walking away from the game. I often have a book beside me so I can read while I wait out the night or a temporal storm. I don't know if this is intentional and I don't know if I like it or not. I'm still playing and enjoying VS, so I definitely don't hate it.
I find that most of the time, there's ALWAYS something to do. When I'm waiting for 20 ingots' worth of ore to smelt in a crucible, that's like 8 minutes of time I can spend catching up on other things in-game: meal prep, milking the sheep/goats, feeding the chickens, harvesting or replanting crops, and so on (or staying near the crucible and forging more tools or plates!). The only time I generally have nothing else to do is panning lots of blocks at once. Then I'll mentally check out and just watch TV while I pan. If you haven't seen the Desert Life series I'm doing now, you could check that out and see what I've started doing during temporal storms. They've become a lot more exciting and interesting now that I've changed tactics!
I am thoroughly enjoying the series! I've been playing Starsector for about a year, so I'm familiar with the game. Still, I learn something new about it with every video you post. Going back to watch the Incomplete Guide next.
Hey, thank you so much! I love Starsector and play WAY too much of it! I hope you enjoy the Incomplete Guide series! :)
I was convinced that you weren't going to find an ion beam this episode.
I was, too! XD
It's going well, I think.
I think so, too! Being a swarm of angry bees can be dicey in the early-game, before you have all the skills, ships, and officers that really make your fleet a force to be reckoned with. It's definitely a slow-burn beginning with an exponential increase in power and capability over time!
Ha! A fellow new englander? Im in the land of lobstah! 😂
The first time I saw star sector was a Quill18 video. I saw one giant explosion and immediately bought it.
I think I saw Splattercat play it first, then... Not sure who, but I watched someone else play a bit before I jumped on it!
I also just wear tailored everywhere except going underground or during storms, armor stands make it easy to swap outfits at a few clicks.
Yeah it's the best everyday wear!
I appreciate that you're not afraid to experiment with design ideas from other cultures.
Thank you! I'm having fun doing it!
Good stuff. Gooood stuffff.
:D Thank you!
Oh wow you house gotten very good! the like mosaic really adds a lot of good to it!
:D Hey, thank you so much!!
Bit of a strange question I know, but how did you find the transition from QWERTY to Dvorak? (assuming you started with qwerty like most of us did) I've been considering trying it out myself but it looks a little intimidating! Thanks for the great VS content.
I did start on QWERTY, and the reason I switched was because my left hand was starting to feel the strain (that layout is very heavy on the left hand). Anyway, at the time I switched, I was doing a lot of writing, as well as transcribing some old notes and stories I had written on paper in order to have a digital copy. I went absolutely cold-turkey. Switched all my computers to Dvorak and didn't allow myself to fall back on QWERTY. It took about 2 weeks before I was mostly able to type without looking at my hands again; 4 weeks until I was back up to my original typing speed, and by 6-8 weeks, I was actually typing faster than I ever had on QWERTY. So I absolutely recommend it, especially if you're having any hand/finger/wrist strain, arthritis, or carpal tunnel. Also it's great for really annoying everyone else who tries to use your computer! ;)
@@KurazarrhI'm finding I have issues in my left wrist as well actually! I’ll definitely need to give it a go after hearing that! Thanks so much for taking the time to respond :)
I felt a bit... Threatened towards the end...
*Emperor Palpatine* "Good, good..." :P
Yeah... Vinternach is very very hardcore with his mods. Some of it like the overly restriction of backpack slot is stepping into the area of "no longer fun" immersion.
I'm failing to understand the logic: how and why does restricting these items to a Backpack Slot "increase immersion"?
Yeah, I talked at length a while back about immersion being fun until it's a chore. This definitely gets up into "chore" area and reminds me of some of the more hardcore and grindy mods in big Feed The Beast modpacks for that other block game.
Did You know that 60 clay shingles will make 40 slanted roofs, but if you first make 24 shingle stairs (out of 36 shingles) you can then add single shingles to them and make a total of 48 slanted roofs.
I wasn't aware you could actually do that with those recipes. Is that something that the Bricklayers mod adds?
@@Kurazarrh base, check the wiki. Roofing.
Why not fire both SRMs on your TT brawler at once? Even if not linked, switching between the two rapidly would double your burst DPS with them. I've seen a couple situations in the past few battles where that little bit of extra punch would have helped a lot. Also, on your LP brawler, you might want to switch the SRMs to autofire if you arent going to manually control them. That way they can act as PD to shoot down fighters and give chip damage to shields and unshielded ships. Really enjoying the series so far!
You'll find with missiles, I tend to use them somewhat conservatively. XD In any game with limited resources, I tend to hoard them until I HAVE to use them, unless it's "limited" resource with a large pool. As for autofire on the SRMs, I find that they pretty much just always shoot as soon as they're in range (which IS what autofire does, but still), so they end up often on cooldown when I need them for PD duty. =/
lol wow. did u seriously kill a nightmare and NOT harvest it ? ok lmao
I don't find the loot tables on even nightmare drifters all that exciting. The only drifters I will ALWAYS loot are double-headers, because they are a guaranteed temporal gear drop, guaranteed stack of rusty gears, and guaranteed ~4 flax fibers. Nightmare drifters still have a pretty good chance of giving you nothing.
dude, wtf are you doing ??? you are NOT ready for that ruin . just leave. steel armor + weapons minimum to take that. and even so wtf are you doing ? HEAL. taking on night mares on half bar ? dude.
What can I say? I live life on the edge! :P
Do the tannin barrels go bad? Or could you have some ready on standby?
Nope, tannin never goes bad, so I could definitely have some on standby. I don't recall what the situation was at the time, but if I didn't have a ton of oak logs, I may not have wanted to use them all on tannin!
@Kurazarrh nah I was asking for my own future plans =)
Watching you make the Langstroth Hives of the From Golden Combs mod and I definitely think I'll just plop down a chest nearby and fill it with all the stuff I need to make the hives. I'm with you on the "It has to go into the backpack slot???!!!!" Aaagh! I think if the hive pot/Langstroth breeder box has bees in it, it's "filled" and only then should it require being placed into the backpack slot.
Yeah, I'd have a lot less of an issue with the backpack slot bit if I wasn't just going to plop the box down next to where I'm working. As it stands, it just makes it more fiddly.
loving those pillars v impressed
:D Thank you so much!!
I was looking through the mods list... there is totally a "visible terra preta" like mod for Meteorites... xD just an idea but it might be useful to quickly recheck some of those known spots for more buried deeper.
I really think some Suevite blocks would look great on the ceiling or upper walls of a "Sun Temple". It would definitely be a great excuse to go back and get some Suevite and ensure you also got all the meteoric iron from those spots. Might only find a few extra blocks, but it would help with repairing the White Knight armor.
Can you do tempest only swarm for maximum beehiveception ?
Tempests are kind of funny in that regard. They're excellent ships in the early to mid-game, but they fall off HARD in the late game. You can extend their lifespan by building them for capacity and defense, but then you lose out on their strike capabilities. I think one of the weaknesses of the Tempest is that the AI is way too liberal in dumping their Terminator Drones into the enemy at the first chance they get. Which is a shame because the drones do three huge things: 1) they are a source of flux-less IR pulse lasers; 2) they are a source of flux-free PD lasers; 3) they can armor tank for the Tempest. AI pilots like to just turn them into so-so missiles and slam them into enemy shields as soon as they can. If Tempest pilot AI was adjusted to only dump the drones when enemy shields were overloaded, I think they'd be a lot more useful into the late-game. As a player ship, the can hold up okay into the late game, but again, you have to (re)build for defense over offense.
Awe, "Meteorite" labels and not "Meaty Ore"... xD Also you should dig down around the center of the impact sites and around the edges a bit. I have found that many of the Meteorites are in 2 clumps, one usually smaller fracture clumo up at the surface and another clump slightly below. Ages ago i had commented that i was mad that you were getting like 6-12 ore blocks per meteorite site where i was lucky if i was getting 3 to 5 ore blocks. I went back like a week later and dug out the suavite and found even more ore blocks just a bit deeper/off to the side of the small cluster i had found previously.
I think it would be really cool if you added some slate or other very dark stone to represent "metal slag" around the anvil of the Helve Hammer setup. As if it was a bunch of soot, slag and scrap chips from the smithing process scattered all around the anvil and maybe some densely covered areas nearer the helve hammer rigs and less in the opening you walk into, as if you did a ton of smithing but your repeated walking has cleared a path through the debris.
That could be a fun detail! I should probably think about replacing the floor with stone first, since a wood floor might be a bit too flammable!
Hives look gorgeous though.
Oh yeah, they look great even if they're a real pain to use! lol
Quick kuestion, have you ever considered doing a valheim playthrough? Not sure if it’s your style or not but I’ve recently been addicted to it and you’re one of my favorite creators :)
I did do a Valheim LP! I didn't take it all the way through the game, though, because Valheim got more and more grindy, which was getting in the way of me completing the Vintage Story Guide episodes. But here's a link to the playlist: kzread.info/head/PL_m19gCRJ121cMWgirQmECVNXAFI0JOEP
@@Kurazarrh oh man, welp here I go to binge it now! Thank you!
Where did you get the glass before having a bloomerie ? I must have missed something in a past episode? Sorry i know this series was a while ago, do you remember?
I do remember, actually! ;) There is a way to acquire glass before having a bloomery (and even before obtaining a pickaxe!). The quartz you can find sitting on the ground, when you pick it up, has something like a 25% chance of being "clear quartz". Combine 2 clear quartz in the crafting grid with sticks arranged above, below, and on either side of it to get a "clear quartz glass block." It's a bit foggy, but it works well for basic windows!
@@Kurazarrh oooh awesome to know ! Thank you so much!
I use neutrino detector often and it can be really good at checking systems than normal scan burst. It has all the range and will always detect stuff like research stations and habitats. My tip to using it effectively is to check for pulses around landmarks or in direction of asteroid belts and whatnot (aka no fishing in the empty space). If pulse is coming from nowhere, its 80% fake or ambush fleet waiting for you to trigger it.
IIRC doesn't the neutrino detector actually have a fixed range of 10,000 space units? I'm having recollections of it not picking up stuff on the opposite side of large star systems.
it's selfish but i'm kind of grateful you don't have over 100k subs, even though you definitely deserve them. if there were that many of us then we would get jealous because we'd miss your attention!
Hah, yeah that's one of the things I think about sometimes: how the channel would have to change when and if we grow to that level!
I lit a brush fire earlier trying to get rid of a bunch of leaves and tule, ended up burning down half of my farm fence. It'll be scythe and shears going forward for me 😂
Uh-oh!!! Yeah, that'll do you in right quick! Glad it only got your fence!!
It's quite astonishing to see the humble beginning of the somewhat-majestic structure standing during the last stream. It's like walking around town and getting hit by nostalgia while looking at a particular corner, noticing how much it changed over the years, saying "There used to be a suspicious person loitering around in that corner.. ..now there's a bunch of them. Run." :D
Lol! Yeah it is fun to see that kind of evolution! I hope the final design lives up to your expectations!
I was expecting the eternal mud hut as the permanent temporary solution. So far so good. I do expect more temporary chessboard with mud umbrella in the future. The 3 pits at the trading post feels like decoratives unless you put something in there each stream, though.
Perhaps as a way to introduce a more balanced seed system into the game, seeds could be very prolific but saplings have a chance of dying, similar to fruit trees? In that way you’d be able to harvest a realistic amount of seeds from trees but you wouldn’t be able to cheese the game by growing an entire forest’s worth of wood in one go.
I've had someone else suggest having saplings having a chance to die, but from a game perspective, I don't like it. It would make getting wood an absolute chore in a game that already makes everything into a chore! lol Given just how much wood the player needs, I don't see the current wood output to be "cheesing" it, even if the amount of wood we receive is unrealistically large--because the amount of wood we use is equally unrealistic.
@@Kurazarrh fair enough, maybe if the game made wood go further then the concept could work. But you’re right, between leather, charcoal, building blocks, mechanical parts, etc, I never have enough wood.
Im looking forward to getting this game! Love these videos :)
Hey thank you, I'm glad you like them! Hope you enjoy the game when you get it!
haha, talking about how to make From Golden Combs more accessible and user friendly, like Vinter Nacht's entire design philosophy isn't to make mods as brutal and fiddly as possible lol. They literally made a mod that makes crops grow *in real time* Making everything take backpack slots was ✨a choice✨
Oh, yeah, it's pretty obvious that this mod was designed the way it was intentionally. And each modder is going to have personal tastes for "how much grind do I like in my coffee?" For me, personally, a mod that makes the bootstrapping part more involved should be easier to use in the long run. But here, it seems like it's just as complicated to use as it is to set it up.
I think the issue is that even in the spirit of the mod’s brutal design philosophy, the backpack slots stuff is just senselessly arbitrary. Especially considering some components of the hive can be held in your hands and others can’t.
My favorite Vinter Nacht mod is In Dappled Groves, you have to split firewood on a splitting block and saw planks by hand on a sawbuck, no more inventory crafting 😂 I've never tried the Langstroth hive, ceramic ends the skep grind and that's good enough for me lmao. Vinter Nacht really does make excellent mods, but by god you have to like punishment to use them lol
You don't eat termites when out and about? It's one of my favourite travel snacks when I'm exploring in dessert areas 😅
Haha, no... I probably should, but 1) I forget you can eat them and 2) once you destroy a mound, it never comes back!
-6 c is only 21f, that's borderline normal for night time in mid to late spring in New England 😂😂😂
Haha, yikes!!!
I wish I hadn't missed the stream (again! My morning involved car repair annoyingness, which accompanying back wreckage) but I could have walked you through the whole Langrstroth process. Also, you can stack 4 supers together... 40 liners is a ton of wax/honey. It is frustrating needing a backpack slot, but the author was going more for immersion in mind. Personally, I think they should make an addon for CarryOn so you can use that function to pull them off one at a time.
I find it odd that the hives (and even the skeps, to be honest) require a backpack slot... like do beekeepers ACTUALLY put these things on their backs, or are they going to set them down a few feet away and get to work?
K starts talking at 0:10 and reveals the game at 3:18 so you don't have to wait very long 👍
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Grizzly bears are brown bears, it's just a matter of food source that distinguishes them. I've been wondering what to do with all the bones from wolf hunting, but it never dawned on me that they're handles, and of course my "I wonder" never led to the guidebook!
Ah, interesting! I didn't know that! In Vintage Story, they're treated a little bit differently. Maybe just due to their diets making them tougher!
Ngl, dont usually watch small channels. This was nice. Kinda relaxing vibe. Sub’d.
Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and subbing!
what is the challenge living in a desert vs living on a artic?
Both places are generally difficult to find food, but deserts are a little more generous, since the cacti can have fruit, and gazelles and hyenas provide plenty of meat. Arctic/antarctic areas are kind of ... not really ready for regular play outside of extreme challenge. It's MUCH more difficult to survive, since you won't overheat in the desert, but you can certainly freeze in the arctic. Growing crops is much more difficult in cold weather than hot, unless you enable underground farming (which makes cold survival kind of a cinch then). The "challenge" in this series is less of a survival one and more of a thematic one! ;)
If you want some color but not loud vibrant colors, maybe filling in the center of the "flower" with yellow glass and the "petals" with blue glass. It wouldnt be out of place so to speak with the wrought iron as it would look like a stained glass decoration held in by the wrought iron.
I might look at more decoration like that at some point! Though in the desert, we'd want minimal glass in general to promote airflow! These kitchens get HOT! ;)