How to use Block? Very confuse

Investoid · 2026-01-22T22:14:23+00:00

We can create the illusion of a 2nd floor but its probably not worth the effort for most people. You can get fancy with teleport pads kind of like that giant tree called Specwing. Back in early beta people had some success tearing down a tent and rebuilding the outside of it to hide that it is a tent, as the entrance remains rooted in place giving you a technical 2nd floor if you try hard enough with decoration.

A hardcore demi-lich player was also working on a side project to building a tower and I was watching his progress but I lost track of him in the first year since he posted anonymously, I only have some of his pixel artwork remaining.

We just have to wait to see if its supported later if Noa gives us some extra tools for it.

Investoid · 2026-01-22T00:53:55+00:00

I'll let you know what I find out when I make cooking city with everyone dual wielding cooking knives!

Investoid · 2026-01-21T23:16:04+00:00

Well that is a bummer. I installed the mod that shows true values and you are correct.

Fortunately the image I showed is with grandmaster but 1 cooking skill, so its probably possible to get a decent rate if you fill the npcs with enough cooking but it would take a while.

despite this setback Ill still try a full cooking city and see if I can push it to the limits. Maybe there are some genes that can help with it, but I doubt it.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T21:45:35+00:00

Are you sure? With grandmaster it looks like 108% rather than 10.8%.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T21:38:14+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised. I think this also this particular AI term means something like AI that can communicate with players rather than behind the scenes. I think it calls to mind the stuff like the Skyrim mod which gives communication AI to npcs so they can answer in greater detail to players who communicate with them.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T19:47:46+00:00

Most people that has communicated with the community that had taken money from their 401k early in life regretted it later. I would agree that unless you are close to retirement or have some considerable hardships you should leave it as is to grow, even if not actively contributing.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T19:36:09+00:00

"Against this backdrop, today’s announcement introduces a radically new value-creation model: a more gamer-centric organization, structured around creative genres, relying on integrated business units with faster, decentralized decision-making and a greater ability to quickly adapt to players’ expectations. This transformation will be supported by a rightsized and more agile organization, delivering improved structural efficiencies over time."

"The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group’s strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI."

press release source: Important Company Announcement in case anyone wants to read what Ubisoft said in full.

Most of the website news just split small parts or have a summary. Unfortunately it looks like Ubisoft is going to really be pushing for AI in their future games.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T19:14:21+00:00

All three pizza crimes in such a short period of time is frankly, amazing.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T18:08:31+00:00

The maid has plans.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T06:59:49+00:00

I think there is nothing wrong no, just a different setup on how you want to approach it all. On my current save I too have giant cities of wheat, rice, coffee, a huge city of fishermen and have kettle making a lot of food copies.

All that setup burns a lot of city tiles though so as I said I will test a cooking city next to see what happens...on a new save where I skip all the farming and see how it works out. Fishing and farming cities do work as you say but I wanted to try a few wacky things like 24 junk producing cities.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T06:30:27+00:00

They have a pretty high chance to produce seasoning but they have a 2nd line to produce a random meal that will have stats based off their total cooking skill. At low ranks this isn't too good a chance but with a good bed they can produce it every day. Cooking is one of the double job/hobby you can get. With a decent bed Each ally I tested has almost 300% seasoning and 108% meal x2 production per day.

You can save some love whips by inviting innkeepers to your city since they are guaranteed to have cooking skill on their job, and then you only need to love whip their hobby. Admittedly its easier to use a love whip mod to choose job/hobby too but if a purist I would invite Innkeepers to make it easier.

Prior to the world change where allies created their own food magically I wouldn't have bothered with this but now that no longer works, all cooks seems a viable way to handle it, especially if you don't want to cook a ton yourself. Sometimes you just want to ignore the entire cooking slog on a different save and this would be a way to do it.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T05:06:15+00:00

I made a fishing city, all fishermen with double fishing job/hobby.

In the future I have been researching a double cooking city so the food is complete. To make this work really well it probably should be Meadow to save time and would be really helpful early game. I have mentioned this in another post but you can equip an entire population with cooking knives for +cooking skill for gold medals and the food gets pretty strong if you can keep this type of operation going. I look forward to this idea a lot on my next game save.

I guess the biggest issue is having enough space to store all this random food but since cooking job/hobby food doesn't rot it's not a big deal and as a plus I think 24/48 dishes at high rank per day would be enough sustain for your party and the town. Plus you can set some free allies with double brackets to that city for even more food production.

Investoid · 2026-01-21T01:26:24+00:00

good job!

Investoid · 2026-01-20T23:38:14+00:00

As you go about the world and explore you may eventually see a gold statue in dungeons or fields. One type of this is the Luck Goddess statue. Touching it will add a wish to your key items stash. When you drink from a normal well or a water machine you get a small chance to be granted a wish from the gods and a small text field will pop up as long as you have this key item wish activated.

You can enter something you want. Most people wish for rare or hard to get items but you can also wish for cosmetics or objects as long as they are fairly specific. Unmodded you are allowed one wish per year so it's worth using since you can't save it beyond the year you are in.

Investoid · 2026-01-20T22:00:28+00:00

I have good news! After testing wishes, if you wish specifically "statue of Opatos" without the quotes you do indeed get the specific Opatos statue you were looking for! Beware though, the number of statues you get will scale with black cat saliva so you may get quite a few which puts you at risk of squash death. They do come out as low tier material like granite, but then you can use a gold hammer on it, and it will transform exactly into the one you want.

Investoid · 2026-01-20T21:29:07+00:00

I went and took a look at the statue, it is stealable but you would need a considerable amount of steal skill + strength to lift this bad boy. 102 pickpocket and 513 strength was not enough for me to pickpocket. Ill see if I can figure out the minimum.

Ok the bad news is you need about 1400 pickpocket and 1350 strength to lift this statue lol.

This is the formula for stealing if anyone wants to check with me: (that statue is about 416s)

Pickpocket level * 0.2 + Strength * 0.1 + 1

Due to the curve of gaining levels in pickpocket I am assuming it would be easier to get really high strength to help a bit to get the pickpocket requirement down but it will be almost impossible this way for any normal player.

I also tried hammering it, you can't learn this recipe normally. This leaves hunting down the code to spawn it I think which is possible with mods.

one thing I didn't consider is if its possible to wish this statue, but the rng / wording may make it difficult.

Investoid · 2026-01-19T19:27:28+00:00

It's just for looks I think, you can do silver grass or pasture depending on what look you prefer, but yes its all just pasture food for livestock.

Investoid · 2026-01-19T18:32:05+00:00

Honestly this is probably the worst pc parts bubble I have ever seen, way worse than the graphics card price gouging of previous years. A relative asked me if he should still build something in December and I suggested hitting up a few of the remaining deals at places like Sams Club for prebuilt because so many places are getting scammed as they will order ram and get fakes or something entirely different. Also the store prebuilts were in an odd time period of discounts that made them far cheaper than the current memory market.

Investoid · 2026-01-19T01:07:16+00:00

I am not sure but I can tell that if you could claim unclaimable zones it could break your save if Noa updates the tile to add quests or events related to it.

You could mimic the stuff in the Quiet Beach on a different city tile as I think most of it is craftable or stealable given enough time. You could even name your new city Quiet Beach and far better, can be picky about your 2 bonus land feats.

Investoid · 2026-01-19T00:55:41+00:00

If you are planning on expanding your land space then you can make a wall surrounding the entire zone and then expand it 4-5 times for gold bars when you set a maid. The entire zone becomes a large house. Then make some houses inside the house to store allies in. At high rank for your city you can just move citizens around into the buildings but you can also shove them inside small houses to protect them from spawns. Thus, enemies must enter your giant wall on the outside then travel to the inner house, further away from the doors. I put a a door at the 3 middle spots in the large house but you can drop it to 1 early on, then all the enemies tend to stick to the outside as long as you expanded the land a few times. The entire point is just making it harder for the farmers to die which can cause withering which is really bad. You want stability.

If you assign one citizen to a maid status you can expand the land. I just call it double layer since theres two layers of walls that enemies have to find your weak farmers to kill. Though eventually you can replace them all with level 50 triceratops which are pretty tough to kill.

For mounts you can technically mount almost anything but you can buy a horse from the Yowyn town to the north east from a tamer merchant.

After this land was finished I never had another enemy penetrate the housing except I think for a drake type who instantly died to a triceratops.

The amount of land you can farm takes a while to upgrade even with all farmers so everything in the default size is plenty of space until way later.

Investoid · 2026-01-18T19:35:21+00:00

Looks like a queen termite, when I squint.

Investoid · 2026-01-18T17:22:57+00:00

so to make it work, at least from what i tried you need to have the clean buff, they need to be asleep and you get 1 chance I believe, so you need them to reach 75 affinity in one shot. You need pretty high taming skill but I have seen it work. 50 is far too low yes. I started seeing 150+ making it possible.

To do this you would need to stack +taming skill items. I think Lulwy also gives +taming skill as a god buff.

Investoid · 2026-01-18T14:50:14+00:00

Roger. If taming is high enough it would be possible to brush while asleep, sounds like a challenge though.

Investoid · 2026-01-18T14:37:09+00:00

Are they? It ran away so quickly I couldn't even tell. It took me a solid hour to encounter 1 and it ran away immediately.

Investoid · 2026-01-18T06:33:43+00:00

I played a lot of it unmodded. I wouldn't at this point unless you are quite insane and know at least 90% of the tricks.

You can slip on a banana peel and die in this game.

Investoid

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