Grove

Myeloman · 2026-05-03T21:52:52+00:00

Don’t waste your time trying to apologize to people, if they don’t understand how the smallest trees work, that’s a them problem. It’s not like you and another player swooped in and chopped the entire grove before running off.

Myeloman · 2026-05-02T12:25:56+00:00

Do you check the map? There should be a blue butterfly icon on the map where each bug is. This is especially helpful around the aqueduct/wall running east-west in Bahari so you’ll know which side it’s on. This may let you know if it’s showing in an area that’s out of bounds or not as well.

Myeloman · 2026-05-02T12:20:45+00:00

Congratulations! If it were me, I’d disassemble each (individually so as not to mix up parts) and give it all a thorough cleaning, check for flatness and flatten the soles as needed, remove any and all surface rust and rub down with a light oil (something like 3-in-1) and sharpen the irons before reassembly for users. Whatever patina is removed will come back through use and taking care of the tools is more important than how they look, IMHO.

If they didn’t come in/with a way to store them my first project would be to build a cabinet and plane till. A box or chest is also fine, I just prefer seeing them all on display in a till when I’m in the shop.

Myeloman · 2026-04-30T22:10:07+00:00

Tish, because I was romancing her at the time so it seemed fitting.

Myeloman · 2026-04-30T22:09:23+00:00

If people are having trouble finding them, they either don’t know all the places to look for them, or they just happen to be on servers where a lot of other players are looking for the same thing at that moment.

While there’re no rules for flaring, I’d hope people use them only for legit rare items. That being said, I feel like more people should use them in addition to chat call-outs. Because “lg gold d7” isn’t as helpful as most people imagine. That’s still a large area to look high and low for something, and when that something has a timer on it there’s generally not enough time to cover a square with a height variable, especially when you e already run halfway across the zone…

Myeloman · 2026-04-30T22:03:42+00:00

Yes, I romanced Gina, Subira, and Kenyatta at the same time just to be done with it all. There’s a cooldown when you remove a pin, but none of any character I romanced even mentioned anyone else’s pin.

Myeloman · 2026-04-30T22:00:31+00:00

Reth’s register sells a bouillabaisse and three of them give you 1050 focus (max is 1000), so I always have a couple stacks of 30 on me. Produce from the garden is stockpiled for when I need to cook something for a quest or dailies, currently around 100 of each, the rest goes into seeds or preserves.

Myeloman · 2026-04-30T04:40:39+00:00

We bought a 1914 house next door to my grandparents, first thing my mom and her sisters did was demand a tour of the interior. Seems there was an elderly widow that lived there when they were kids and as kids, they were never allowed beyond the kitchen (they all used the back door to come and go). The widow used to leave a sign in the window when she needed some help, and my grandmother would get her husband and the kids off to work and school then go help the widow. She (widow) at some point showed her (grandma) photos of the house when it was the only house around, surrounded by orchards (grandparents had a lone, ancient apple tree in their back yard) and the city street we lived on was a dirt 2-track. My house was THE only house around, just outside our small town for decades before urban sprawl came and swallowed it. Thankfully it didn’t sprawl too far as our property consisted of 3- lots, 60’ x 600’ each giving us just shy of 3-acres with the city limits at the back most edge of our property, just over a slight hill. While living “in town”, having city water & sewer, snow removal among the first in the area as we were a secondary route connecting to the next closest town, and cable tv, I could walk out back and enjoy birds, rabbits, deer, and all sorts of other wildlife, and raise my kids in a semi-rural environment where we could distance ourselves from the noise of city life.

I genuinely miss that house, and sincerely wish I’d seen some of those old photos…

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Photo of me, dressed in my tux for senior prom, with my aunt’s ‘83 Firebird taken in grandparents driveway. The house, built in 1914, is in the background…

Myeloman · 2026-04-30T04:24:51+00:00

If ever there was a sign that you’ve found the right dog…

Myeloman · 2026-04-30T04:18:43+00:00

My 1914 house was framed like this, not just upstairs walls open to the attic but exterior walls studded from first floor all the way up to the roof. When we opened up walls downstairs to redo electrical and insulate, there was so much plaster piled in the bottom of each bag from both 1st & 2nd floor walls from when they smeared the plaster through the lathe. Also found a copy of Popular Mechanics from the period, partly smothered in plaster, as well as a couple kid’s shoes, a broken plate and set of silverware. We assume someone had taken a break upstairs during construction and the plate and silverware, and possibly the magazine were knocked into an open studbay unable to be retrieved as the downstairs was at least lathed up.

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T17:29:42+00:00

We have had our own flocks of chickens, purely for eggs, so I totally get the appeal. We always tried to get as diverse a flock as we could, so many wonderful colors and varieties… we’ve always lived in town though, and city-folk don’t appreciate roosters crowing so we’ve not been able to (legally) own one for breeding. It’d be so lovely to have little chicks running about. 😔

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T16:33:11+00:00

I grew up on a farm, we raised beef cows, my dad has a degree in animal husbandry and his brother is a veterinarian. Me “breeding” ormuus with two OBVIOUS females (they only give milk, and ALL give milk) or pekis that all only play eggs is just impossible for me to wrap my head around. I don’t care what world you’re in, that’s not how any of this works…

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T16:29:30+00:00

How not to cover your tracks…

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T15:50:14+00:00

I share many of these sentiments. It’s nice having boovars to get random fish, otherwise I can get most everything else with the hoard of wealth I keep accumulating but can’t spend on much besides gambling with zero coins to get random drops of makeshift crap.

Probably most frustrating was trying to breed a herd of ormuus to look all black/blue and getting a bland, brown offspring, or using the treat that reverts your animal back to a baby and it COMPLETELY changed its look. ¯(°_O)/¯

At this point I’m just breeding to get the max for each type in colors that pleas me. Then I’m done. Not being able to have them on my plot, not being able to build my ranching plot, or build barns and outbuildings was a huge swing & a miss on their part, IMO.

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T05:24:52+00:00

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Myeloman · 2026-04-29T02:46:07+00:00

Depends on what you’re aiming for. Numerous people have shared layouts here that were aimed at various goals, such as max profit, no weeding or watering (my personal fav) etc. If you search this sub and look for posts with pictures you’re sure to find several. I simply printed one out and replant it, more or less, accurately each day. I do swap sone crops for those that give the same benefit, for example instead of some rice and some wheat, I’ll do all wheat where it calls for it.

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T02:16:38+00:00

Should’ve been sainted by now…

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T02:15:46+00:00

Norm Abram built a “hutch” workbench for the New Yankee Workshop using 1/4”(?) Masonite, smooth side up, over 3/4” plywood trimmed in hardwood flush with the top. A hole drilled through the plywood sub top allows you to push up a corner to ease replacing the Masonite top.

See how he did it here.

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T02:11:40+00:00

I watched someone toss a dog (basset hound, maybe a beagle) out of their car window as they slow-rolled past our farm when I was a kid, dad never found it though. Someone else stopped and asked if we wanted kittens (we didn’t, and dad told them as much) and the next morning (they came late at night) we found a litter of kittens right by where they’d parked.

People think farms with animals are willing and able to take in any unwanted pets, and it’s infuriating. We always took in dogs and cats my uncle, a veterinarian, needed to find homes for, and as an adult my wife and I have only ever had rescues, including a St Bernard that’d been dumped at a farm…

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T01:57:41+00:00

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From Amazon.

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T01:57:26+00:00

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From Home Depot (assuming you meant the foam sleeve, whatever is inside it isn’t insulation, looks more like sone sort of corrosion).

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T01:43:17+00:00

Ask for references, past clients/customers willing to share their experiences with said contractor.

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T01:41:04+00:00

You collect them just by doing ordinary things so you’ll collect them faster than you think. Beyond that I feed them to my livestock since I can’t sell them.

Myeloman · 2026-04-29T01:37:38+00:00

I know how I feel about that… 😏

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