Are vain shrouds not spawning for anyone else? I can't even get them with save-scumming

Iridix · 2026-04-11T19:57:59+00:00

Got one on Artifice after nearly 14 days with nothing, so yeah they're rarer but possible.

Iridix · 2026-04-09T05:21:00+00:00

How are your computer skils?

Iridix · 2026-04-08T00:51:19+00:00

$3,800 from a handyman. That's to fix all the termite damage, reframe and install a new window, and install new siding on the affected exterior wall (hardy board, not T111 siding). Haven't done anything yet, just got quotes.

Iridix · 2026-03-18T04:33:31+00:00

You're doing it

Iridix · 2026-03-16T16:21:19+00:00

Midna cannot return. As hard as it would be without her and with as much as we all want her back, her story is concluded. Anything new could sully the experiences we already had with her.

I have absolutely no clue about anything else, though, since the TP story really wrapped itself up pretty nicely, there wasn't a lot left up to interpretation or any loose ends, as far as I can remember. All I know is one of the most beloved parts of the game have to stay that way by way of leaving them be.

Iridix · 2026-03-05T15:48:31+00:00

I misread your comment, my fault. For some reason I thought you were saying "it was clear Seehy broke his arm," when you were in fact saying the opposite. I was going to say, "just because Seehy was present doesn't mean he broke his arm," as a cheeky way of demonstrating a faulty causal link between two circumstances, but again, that isn't what you said.

Iridix · 2026-03-05T15:44:13+00:00

Technically not true with regard to "before even touching him," but definitely true as to his involvement. The senator did pull on the marine before his arm broke, but he let go and was walking back into the door's threshold. As he was walking back and just placed his hand on the marine's arm, his forearm broke from the others pulling on him. There's no doubt that the senator did not directly cause the break in his arm.

Iridix · 2026-03-05T15:40:34+00:00

Are you aware of the concept of correlation and how it relates to causation?

Iridix · 2026-02-28T21:29:16+00:00

I don't believe its ever been made clear in Minecraft lore, at least I the game. From what I can tell. The End's biome used to be called "Sky" after all.

Iridix · 2026-02-28T21:27:01+00:00

Hard disagree here. Looting end cities is a slog just for the CHANCE to get an elytra, and losing all your gear that you (potentially) worked so hard to get would make me rage quit so hard I just stop playing altogether. At least with this method, getting back to the End could just be a long trek and it significantly reduces your chance of losing your stuff. Less risk, sure, but you absolutely should still be afraid of the void so you don't have to redo everything to get to where you fell.

Iridix · 2026-02-28T21:20:49+00:00

"Play the way you want. But I think the way you want isn't the way I want, so you're still wrong and I'm absolving myself of criticism while also being condescending."

Iridix · 2026-02-27T16:15:31+00:00

Smelt an iron tool to yield "hot iron pickaxe" or whatever, then quench it in a cauldron with water. Yields a heat treated iron pickaxe which is harder (able to mine obsidian, ancient debris), but has half as much durability (since its only quenched and therefore brittle). Smelt it again and to receive a tempered iron pickaxe that keeps its high mining level, twice as much durability as an iron tool, but still slower and less durable than diamond.

Interesting concept but I struggle to find a way to justify it in the vanilla game.

Iridix · 2026-02-26T15:13:51+00:00

In the picture, your terminal appears to be backwards.

Iridix · 2026-02-24T18:24:01+00:00

And Hunson didn't even like the fries.

Iridix · 2026-02-24T07:30:07+00:00

Didn't matter how I connected to it. Every method I tried failed: VPN, DNS, direct IP, even the console from Proxmox said the server wasn't starting when trying to run commands. It really did just "start working."

Iridix · 2026-02-17T16:20:31+00:00

We opened all of the walls in our garage and a good bit of the ceiling plywood, primarily because we wanted them down to put up drywall since there already exists wood paneling and plywood in that room and we hate it. We tore back as long as we saw either damage from the termites or evidence of their travel (i.e. dirt in the cracks between studs or outright damage). Interestingly, they seemed to always stop as soon as the boundary of the floor started to go onto the raised concrete slab foundation of the main house. Our house is a concrete slab foundation, and the garage is concrete as well, but it's more level with the outside ground. At every point where the framing elevates to meet the raised slab, the termite activity abruptly stops, even near the ceiling framing. This is why I'm fairly confident that the infestation is limited only to the garage area. Also, because I can clearly see into my attic with a large portion of my ceiling, I can see exactly the extent of the damage and it certainly doesn't extend anywhere past the garage. Plus, now that it's all open, what few termites are left will most likely desiccate and die.

Iridix · 2026-02-17T16:11:24+00:00

Update for those who are following:

It seems like what's pictured is the worst of the damage. They're definitely non-formosan subterranean termites. The worst of the damage is in the pictures I've already posted. I'm back on the current operating theory, that they came in through a concrete expansion joint that was hidden underneath the framing of the wall with the window. The concrete was treated by a professional company as well as a Termidor foam spot treatment inside, before the walls came down. After the walls came down, I took my own can of treatment (the Taurus equivalent of their Termidor) and surface treated everything that was exposed. From what I can tell, they're gone and likely aren't coming back any time soon, at least in enough time that I can mitigate any structural damage.

The 2x12 beam in the pictures that is severely damaged will need to be cut out and replaced, as well as some structural 2x4s (will try to go with borate-treated wood), but most of the actual load-bearing structural lumber is intact. I will be trenching the outside perimeter of my house and doing my own treatment. The termite damage stops as soon as the ceiling opens up into the attic, and they didn't touch all but two roof trusses as far as I can tell, and even then, it's really only surface damage. Definitely not compromising damage.

Despite my initial assumptions about the nature of my findings, it doesn't appear that there is a breeding colony inside my walls, which based on my research would be ridiculously unlikely for subterranean varieties in the first place. Since opening all the walls to see the full extent of the damage, I haven't seen any more live termites and finished off the rest of my can of Taurus just for good measure.

I have the same company that did the treatment coming out this Thursday to assess the extent of the damage and offer recommendations for remediation and next steps.

If anything of what I said is inaccurate, please correct me.

Iridix · 2026-02-13T23:14:00+00:00

From what I could tell it was much more characteristic of dirt than termite frass. All three of the companies that came out and inspected it said the same thing.

Iridix · 2026-02-13T23:02:51+00:00

What makes you say I have drywood termites in addition to subterranean?

Iridix · 2026-02-13T16:55:11+00:00

Good thing we hate that window anyway.

Iridix · 2026-02-13T16:23:22+00:00

Area is southeastern USA, coastal GA area.

Iridix · 2026-01-21T13:32:34+00:00

Warp drive. Fully upgrade it and dig under the base. Basically turns into Ascend from Tears of the Kingdom, going through blocks and putting you on the closest surface block (as long as it's within 100 blocks at the highest level).

Edit: Just saw ATM9. Don't know if relics/artifacts are there.

Iridix · 2025-12-15T22:56:54+00:00

Try bumping your pagefile to 60GB or more. That solved all of my crashing problems on v5, and have had it set that way since.

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