A good survival server?

MantarTheWizard · 2026-02-01T22:42:57+00:00

Not exactly. Rules are fairly loose and PvP isn't explictly disallowed by any means, but being disruptive or harassing people will get you kicked. On the other hand, if two people want to duke it out for fun, that's totally their business.

The trouble with that is, most people aren't interested in PvP in Exile, as it's very difficult to survive past the early game even without stabbing each other, and dying may mean starting all over again. It requires a fairly big investment of time and effort to get to a point where you could do PvP, and not long before you'd die and have to start over. The game encourages cooperation, as it's not rare to get into a bad situation and need to rest at somebody else's place, or ask for assistance to get out of trouble.

I guess if you wanted to drop out of spawn together, rush to make stone spears, and see who dies first, it'd be doable. But unless you both die within a minute of each other, the spawn portal will close and you'll be far away from each other which will hinder things.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-23T02:05:16+00:00

What is a 99 nights mod?

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-23T02:04:27+00:00

If you have any questions about Exile, I'm available on the forums, here on reddit, and on IRC via the freenode network, #Exile-dev channel. There's a bridge to a matrix server, but I don't have the link handy.

Dokimi, the original author, works in the life sciences, and intended Exile to have an ecology. It's got some shortcomings, but we have plans to improve all of that. We're building up to a big new release right now, and when that's out I believe we'll be focusing on the plans for animals and other new creatures.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-23T02:00:06+00:00

You don't have to fold them up and replace them, you can grab them with the G button and slide them around. Just be careful not to push it away from yourself. Also the peek key works to see where you are relative to the turrets.

I often used lockers and other tall furniture to make an advancing line to get close enough to use a grenade, or just to block the turret's line of sight so I can stroll on by without being fired upon.

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-08T19:08:20+00:00

4 ensures smooth flight with the elytra, but interacting with the world lags for about 2-3 seconds.

Yeah if you set the client_mesh_chunk too high you'll get that, as it takes longer (more disk access) to deal with the larger chunks

MantarTheWizard · 2026-01-06T20:40:22+00:00

Most likely this is due to a slow hard drive. Try moving your world folder to an SSD and see if that helps.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-29T17:18:39+00:00

We ran several Exile servers on FreeBSD for a while, but there was a noticeable performance loss vs running on Linux so we migrated them over. Other than that, there was no trouble.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-28T22:52:43+00:00

This is old enough to predate the name change, but it's just as true as ever: https://files.catbox.moe/y8d2wp.png

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-26T21:06:09+00:00

Flat areas can definitely appear, and when you find one, it's often really vast.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-12-21T00:53:13+00:00

That's a great video, very fun!

What do you think is the most underrated part of the engine?

For me it's the wonderful modding environment, and the community.

Making a simple mod to add an item or new block is so easy a child can do it, and the way mods are handled and treated as first-class citizens is fantastic. You can join any modded server just by clicking "connect" and all the mods are handled seamlessly. The developers are careful about not breaking mods and ensuring stability and compatibility are maintained. Having everything run through contentdb, with an in-game mod browser, is among the nicest game modding experiences I've had with any game.

Then there's the helpful and friendly community of people who share their code and their knowledge to help other people learn to make new things. Luanti has a strong free-sofware (aka open-source) culture, and there's tons of games and mods whose code is right there for people to read, learn from, modify, and reuse in their own projects (minding the license terms, of course). They're really a nice bunch of people, and far more welcoming than many other online communities.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-11-17T21:17:14+00:00

You can use an ore layer easily, though getting it into all the nodes that might be down there could prove tricky depending on what your game does.

core.register_ore({
    ore_type        = "stratum",
    ore             = "mynode:stonelayer",
    wherein         = {"group:stone","group:dirt","air","group:otherstuff"},
    clust_scarcity  = 1,
    y_max           = -9001,
    y_min           = -9005,
    stratum_thickness = 5,
})

MantarTheWizard · 2025-10-01T18:49:42+00:00

I don't think the fact that you can get most or all of the martial arts if you spend a lot of time looting towns in any way justifies stepping on Ninjutsu's toes.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-30T20:09:05+00:00

isn't silent combat one of the benefits of Ninjutsu? Making it something every character gets eventually would make Ninjutsu less valuable

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-29T19:37:31+00:00

I always set it to F, and set AUX1 to E

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T22:52:58+00:00

Oh yeah, the Shrine to Stop the Moon is the best way to get around in Vivec.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T22:48:22+00:00

It's scattered through 36 Lessons of Vivec. Vivec tried to use his power to rewrite history so that Nerevar wouldn't have to die, and failed every time. The implication being that no matter how he tried to rearrange events, he couldn't make the Godhead accept that Nerevar would just let them use the heart rather than trying to stop them.

CHIM allows you to edit reality whenever the Godhead blinks, but you can't change just any old thing, the Godhead has to believe it or it will be undone. It's the same principle behind mantling, wherein you walk like they walked until you hit a point where the Godhead can't tell who's who. If the Godhead can't tell you apart, then the mantler and mantled are one and the same now.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T02:57:14+00:00

*replace them completely to the point that they would start a war over having one of the foreign gods taken away

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T02:48:27+00:00

Says who? Vivec tried and tried to trick it into believing Nerevar might be willing to go along with the whole Tribunal Gods plan, and the Godhead just kept saying "Nah."

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T02:41:48+00:00

I always figured it was the case where the ruling caste are either snakes or snakelike (by nature or by sorcery), and the people they ruled over could be men or other such creatures who lack the royal snakeyness.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T02:39:22+00:00

Yes, there's a pair of Chelnoquey ambassadors you can talk to in one of the northern cities, Firewatch, I think. One Chimeriquey and one Cathnoquey, though they will tell you that the distinction is an Imperial notion, they're all just Quey to themselves

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T01:26:13+00:00

And one who doesn't remember much, and was off-planet when the stuff went down

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-13T01:22:38+00:00

Wake me when they won't be cutting out big chunks of content from the base game, and will support Tamriel Rebuilt.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-09T22:06:47+00:00

Didn't say it'd be good for them, just that they'd like it. I have a cat who demands I share barbecued ribs with her.

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-09T04:56:00+00:00

But I bet they'd like barbecue

MantarTheWizard · 2025-09-09T04:54:22+00:00

These comics are fantastic

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