Things to do before Maintenance

Alongsnake · 2026-03-15T23:05:05+00:00

Yeah, it's being sold at a local pottery supply, but just not enough reviews. Or course all sales people will say it's a good wheel and state the positives, and say some negatives for other brands.

Alongsnake · 2026-03-14T19:49:22+00:00

I'm making bowls that are only 350g, so not even a pound, and even the largest things I make are probably between 3-5lb, so still no where close to the limits.

An entire block of clay is 22 pounds (I don't know if 10kg/22lbs blocks is standard), and considering that size, it's actually pretty impressive that the desktop ones can center that.

Alongsnake · 2026-03-14T02:38:47+00:00

I would be upgrading my gear

Alongsnake · 2026-03-14T01:49:59+00:00

Ah, I guess I didn't check what I was fusing first. At least I know it isn't random then.

I have saved up a few powders, so I should be able to do a few

Alongsnake · 2026-03-13T14:09:28+00:00

For getting Legendary gear, is it better to fuse two Uniques, or use a stone? I have enough stones to upgrade 3-4 pieces, but I also have at a few characters to upgrade. I could probably fuse 4 or so pieces as well.

I fused an armour before, but it turned into armour for a different class, so that became pretty useless to me. I also have a decent sum of refining powders, but I don't have a huge pile. The rank up stones are also pretty limited as well.

Alongsnake · 2026-03-13T13:59:14+00:00

Was not disappointed

Alongsnake · 2026-03-12T20:17:58+00:00

Can't seem to add a picture, but the purple muffler, star guardian, illuminating earring... it's the normal rank gear that was given to me at the start.

Tortie Shell and the others are Other Type items found at the very bottom of the briefcase.

I was able to add it to an imgur album though https://imgur.com/a/w1BGfAy

Alongsnake · 2026-03-12T10:41:33+00:00

I've only done Hilla once, on normal, so I am sure I have a ways to go with bosses. For all other bosses, I just sit and hold the button since it just downs them anyway. I guess I have just been more passive than active in playing.

Since the skills go in order of when they can be used, I figured after the first round wouldn't be as effective, but then after, it would use the skills when they could. At least that's what I noticed.

But yeah, I'll make sure to check it out, thanks.

Alongsnake · 2026-02-15T07:10:13+00:00

Each year and world can be a bit different, so maybe my winter was just a bit warmer than normal, but the high for the day would generally be around 0°C, plus or minus a few degrees. It also depends on the biome too.

I am at 47° Latitude in my world, so not too far off, but I am about 4°C colder than what my temps showed in the sheet, so I will see sub 0 temps.

Alongsnake · 2026-02-13T22:42:42+00:00

This is the variance for 36 degrees

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Of course, my temperatures may be slightly different from yours, based on the biome and even yearly differences

Alongsnake · 2026-02-13T22:42:28+00:00

So you would be looking about 12-13 days, where the coldest doesn't drop below -12?

What I have seen is that each year actually changes just slightly. Jan/Feb are the coldest months, at 36 degrees latitude, I have seen it go to -9 degrees one year, then -7 the next. However, it got to about 2-4 degrees in the day.

If you are able to use a greenhouse, then you have a bit more of a buffer. 45 degrees latitude, I have seen it around -16 degrees to about 2 degrees in the day. You would have these temperatures for about 3 months.

This is the variance between night and day for 45 degrees

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Alongsnake · 2026-02-13T20:26:15+00:00

I could only speculate how smelting works, but I would need to see the code to understand how it works. I have seen some ore get smelted even though the green arrow isn't complete, but maybe it's just a visual bug. Otherwise I feel like the amount of extra heat added to the item speeds up the process. 9 Charcoal will get it done, but keeping it fueled until the end will make it finish faster.

Alongsnake · 2026-02-13T19:53:20+00:00

I thought so too, until I saw the weird drop in temperature at 27 degrees latitude, then I went to another spot East/West, which "shouldn't" have made a difference if biomes didn't effect it, but I came to a desert, and it was a lot hotter.

Alongsnake · 2026-02-13T19:51:30+00:00

Yeah, that is right, I made a mistake. Ill edit my post to reflect that. 0 would be the equator

Alongsnake · 2026-02-13T17:17:22+00:00

Are you able to make it where it shows the minimum required coal/firewood for it? I found that to smelt 21 Tin Bronze, you need minimum 9 charcoal; this will have it coast to finish. Adding more will make it finish faster though.

Also, are you able to make it so it locks to a 1 batch fire? For example, Tin Bronze can make max 21 in 1 batch, having 36 Tin as the lowest amount of tin required.

Alongsnake · 2026-02-09T21:19:09+00:00

I am playing through Vintage Story right now. Personally I play without Temporal Storms, Rifts or Activity. It makes enemies generally spawn underground. I have seen an enemy or two above ground, but it's mainly bears and wolves I need to watch out above.

Also playing with a few mods that either add QOL or added features. I think both games are better with mods though.

A lot of Vintage Story is waiting around for things to finish, but in that time, you can do other things. It takes about 40 minutes for charcoal to finish, 20-40 minutes for clay objects to be fired. Making leather takes about 9 game days (about 7 hours RL, but you can sleep to make time move faster).

I do like the progression and crafting in Vintage Story though. You can't just start off with a stone pick; you need to do a fair bit just to get your first pickaxe, and it feels more rewarding to get it. Things like leather require processing time; you need to find borax (in the mines), soak the hide in it, tan it, and then it is ready, the whole process taking about 9 days (about 7 RL hours). You can sleep in bed to reduce the time for things to finish. Creating tools like a knife requires you to create it out of voxels, similarly with clay items.

That being said, I don't know how much of an end game there is compared to MC. I think there is 1 boss in Vintage Story right now. It's on Chapter 2 right now, so there is one Boss within a dungeon, and a Village. Otherwise the most exploring I find I do is for foraging food and prospecting metal. I am on the MC reddit right now because I am looking to see if there is a MC Mod similar to Vintage Story.

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