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Originally Posted by Renton
Chests or Packs? Seriously. I think chests are a slight bit more convenient interface-wise but its a larger pain in the ass getting 16 logs than a few twigs and grass, and also, packs can't burn.
Wait what? You mean... instead of building chests... make a bunch of backpacks? Then just switch backpacks for different things?
Mind blowing. I never thought of making more than 1 backpack.
It could be a headache all it's own sorting things.
Chests are purely cosmetic anyway, as you could just leave everything (except food) lying on the ground like a heathen.
Logs and grass go on my main inventory bar. I had to run away from too many fights in the winter and froze because I left my fire building resources in my abandoned backpack (spider queens and tentacles, man... *sigh*). Twigs in my backpack for cooking. I keep 2 chests at camp for extra stacks of logs, twigs, grass, stone, flint, gold, reeds. If grass or twigs are roughly in my path at any given time, I gather them and if I don't have room in my inventory, I just drop them right there. Later, when I'm gathering, I get 2 or 3 for 1 in that area.
Originally Posted by Renton
How is selective crop farming sustainable? You have to feed a bird a crop, and he gives a seed for that crop, don't you just break even most of the time. I read on the wiki its 1-3 seeds but I usually get 1 or sometimes 2, it seems horribly inefficient at best and a waste of time at worst. Again, I question the usefulness of farms to begin with, but it seems better to just go with random chance crops.
It's slow to get started, but once you get to 3 Dragon Fruit producing farms, the seeds build up quickly. It's not as slow as you might think to get 10 farms on Dragon Fruit. It's slow at first, but the more you have, the more the randomness balances out. I tend to get 10 seeds from 6 - 7 Dragon Fruit, which gives an overhead of 3 - 4 Dragon Fruit per harvest (every 2 days in summer).
If it wasn't for the awesome power of Dragon Pie, I doubt it would be worth it.
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If Pumpkin Lanterns were more than a cute prop, farming pumpkins could be worth it.
If you were determined to play w/o a crock pot, pumpkins and eggplants would be your main food outside of meat.
Originally Posted by Renton
P.S. I still can't bear to play this game after like day 40. I'm sure shit gets fun in more ways after that point, but it just feels so grindy. I just find myself blowing the entire day trying to stay ahead on one resource only to have to do it again tomorrow. I tend to spend nights cooking, sorting my shit, or occasionally chopping wood. After a couple week break from this game, today I think I'm gonna focus on architecture. I want to get some walls up, maybe build a sick panic room.
Have you taken on the walrus yet? Have you killed a Spider Queen? Have you seen (let alone fought) Deerclops?
I took Willow and resolved to make a stack of each blow dart. Then I made a couple of boomerangs and went bird hunting (fun fact: black birds don't spawn in grassy biomes).
After a while I got attacked by a god damn dragon! OK, not a fire-breathing dragon. I dropped him with the ice staff / tentacle spike combo ('cause Willow don't mess around when it comes to slaying dragons!). Loot was useless, but it was a cool easter egg.
That's happened twice now. I totally recommend it, for the lolz if nothing else. Make some boomerangs and then run around killing birds as fast as you can.
For a change of scenery, try some cave exploring. My jaw hit the floor the first time I walked into a mushtree biome. Make a miner's hat and jump in. It's always "night time" in the caves, so be prepared for a short trip your first time. There's loads of new resources to gather. The enemies are unique (well... cave spiders are pretty much spiders).
Also, given your style of focusing on the early and mid game, I recommend trying adventure mode. You don't want to spend any longer than you must in any chapter where it's always winter, or where it literally rains frogs, or god knows what else. The point is to gather up the "things" as quickly as you can and use them to escape to the next chapter. I bet you could get it done in 40-ish days.
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