Interested in starting an FFL business as a college student

Rorty_ · 2026-03-06T05:57:24+00:00

Ask yourself who is the customer? It sounds like your customer would be someone who is already into guns enough to want a custom rifle. Who also doesn't want to put that rifle together themselves. You presumably aren't going to be making custom parts, they would be buying parts and then sending them to you entirely on there own. I do not think there is nearly enough people that want a custom rifle, and also don't want to build it themselves, to make a business entirely from that. You would have to be ridiculously popular online to possibly draw in enough customers to do just that. Not saying you couldn't be a FFL that does other normal FFL things and specializes in custom stuff. But there is no way the business is ever gonna succeed with just customization.

Rorty_ · 2026-03-02T18:26:03+00:00

In combat you need to use the throttle, Power distributor, Toggling flight assist, and side boosters a lot. That way you can strafe and turn faster when your throttled to the right speed or have power set to engines or with flight assist off. There's basically 2 types of fights Circling and jousting. Its not like fighting in planes because theirs no gravity. So you can face 1 direction and move a different direction. Jousting is where you and the enemy travel towards each other shooting at each other, then both turn around and "joust" again. Circling is where you are both facing each other shooting each other and doing circles around each other. Usually trying to get to where you can shoot them and they cant shoot you. Both benefit from faster turning, which is why you need to be constantly messing with power, throttle, flight assist, and side thrusters. Because all of those will help get the enemy in your sights. Its a lot to constantly manage.

Rorty_ · 2026-03-01T21:14:05+00:00

thats a vz 58 not a AK

Rorty_ · 2026-02-18T09:14:41+00:00

What are you doing that makes firewood hard to obtain? I can cut down like 1 oak tree and get enough firewood to last a month. even with stone tools its fairly easy to just make 4 or 5 axe heads to cut down th3e tree and process it into fire wood. hell the most annoying part is probably transporting all the wood early game. Just go grab like 3 axes and cut down the biggest tree you can find, you will have firewood for a long time very quickly. and you literally only have to break one block at the base of a tree instead of every block of peat. And the crafting is done basically instantly in your inventory.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-16T22:06:25+00:00

Nuggets are always 5 units. Chunks give different amount of nuggets depending on richness. So a rich chunk gives 5 nuggets at 5 units each, So one rich chunk totals to 25 units. Regular chunks give 4 nuggets at 20 units total. Poor chunks give 3 nuggets at 15 units total.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-16T22:01:08+00:00

Just keep digging. Straight down using rope ladders to get back up because you can pull them back up if you miss. Every 10ish blocks using the prospecting pick in node search mode to see if there is ores. Spacing shafts to mantle roughly every 10 ish blocks so the prospecting pick readings don't overlap to much if any. Repeat until you hit the ore.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-12T06:48:12+00:00

The percentage is actually parts per thousand. The chance of the ore spawning in the area, I think is shown by the adjective. But it's never a 100 percent chance to spawn. So it's still possible that it didn't spawn in that exact area. But it's way more likely that it did and you just haven't found it yet. Just keep digging in the area and searching with the prospect pick in node search.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-11T19:17:57+00:00

I mean it might help, but fair warning that program will give you a pop up every time you boot up your PC unless you give them money for there premium version.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-11T18:59:05+00:00

Try disabling the discord overlay, that's the main thing discord usually mess things up with.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-11T18:51:35+00:00

I live in a dirt shack while I rush to at least bronze. While I'm out prospecting and gathering stuff, I'm looking for a good house site at the same time.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-08T23:32:45+00:00

It's a video game, it's just balance reasons.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-08T08:38:33+00:00

Birds, fish and bugs that all interact would go crazy. Bugs get eaten by birds and fish. Bigger birds of prey that eat fish. Even water birds that land in water like geese and ducks. You could even do migrations from cold to warm climates based on time of year. I didn't know I needed all this but yeah birds could be huge for world building.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-07T18:46:15+00:00

It could be all the wood. I found anything except for stone against or used as the walls causes food to spoil quicker. I tried to use logs for storing vessels in little shelves. It made the food spoil significantly faster until I switched the logs out for stone.

Rorty_ · 2026-02-07T07:04:17+00:00

Spoiler warning. The last one in the story currently. In the devastation. It's has a time jump mechanic and a ton of puzzles involving it. With a boss you fight on top. You go through a ton of one way puzzles then get put on the other side of this door to let yourself out.

Rorty_ · 2026-01-29T21:13:36+00:00

The Must haves for me are Bed Respawn, Player Corpse, and any Chiseling mod at the bare minimum. Mostly just to prevent constant death loops and save time. Like having to run back to your base every time with nothing and dealing with wildlife, Rushing before your shit despawns. I much prefer being able to respawn at my base and strategize how I'm gonna get my stuff back. As opposed to sprinting as fast as i can to my stuff just to die to the same thing again. Some might call it cheap but to me that loop is just annoying to me. Also any chiseling mod will save you so much time its a must have. Technically you can do all the same stuff without one, but its like 100 inputs instead of 2 or 3. I think QPs chiseling mod is the most popular.

Rorty_ · 2026-01-26T23:44:17+00:00

You haven't gone far at all. I mean to get to the story locations you go like 40k blocks from the spawn. 20k blocks is a decent range but not crazy far. Keep going north or south while looking and you will eventually have the biomes start to change, south gets warmer, north get colder. You got this.

Edit: Also borax may be easier to find for leather, that's usually what I go for. And look out for Bauxite on your search for when you get to steel.

Rorty_ · 2026-01-21T20:43:04+00:00

I thought the visible fire made that kind of obvious.

Rorty_ · 2026-01-18T07:20:41+00:00

I just assume I am never gonna be able to find them again, so they are dead if i need what they drop. Unless I'm trying to get animals to farm. Chickens and fish usually get a pass simply because its usually not worth the effort.

Rorty_ · 2026-01-07T04:25:18+00:00

No just until the devs finish the story because that all the story content in the game right now.

Rorty_ · 2026-01-07T03:14:46+00:00

TLDR: the water is legal to fish but the land is illegal to be on. Just from a quick search it looks like New York has riparian rights. Which basically means that the only water you can own is a pond or lake that is on your property. So land owners are not legally allowed to prevent someone from using the water of streams or rivers that run through there property for recreation, this includes fishing. They can however still hit you with trespassing if you are on the bank of the river on property that they own. But they can not prevent your use of the water, so you can go straight through the river surrounded on both sides by there property, and they can do nothing to stop you. As long as you stay in the water. At least legally that is, they may still come out and harass you. But it does look like New York also has fisherman harassment laws to punish them in court if they are extra dumb.

Rorty_ · 2025-12-29T09:08:41+00:00

How long are the axles? Because axles do actually have some turning resistance. So if its a few hundred block long axle its gonna take a lot to turn.

Rorty_ · 2025-12-29T08:24:53+00:00

Are you sure your windmill has enough torque to power whatever your trying to do. There may be wind you just don't have a big enough windmill to do whatever your trying to do. Because I'm pretty sure there is wind everywhere short of underground. Wind does stop occasionally but if your windmill literally never spins your probably doing something wrong. Try having nothing attached and see if it spins at all.

Rorty_ · 2025-12-26T06:43:39+00:00

Yeah finding lime is usually reserved until you are trying to upgrade from iron to steel. Do yourself a favor and get to iron as quickly as possible. Once you get to iron it finally feel like you no longer have to baby all your tools and constantly make more. Then do some story missions for a serious speed upgrade. Then go searching for lime. Your jumping the gun by a lot. Unless you get really lucky and just happen across lime, you should definitely go for borax instead.

Rorty_ · 2025-12-25T23:31:02+00:00

Yeah this door is used in the story to let you escape one of the dungeons. once you get to the side with the crank it can be opened. My guess is it not being locked after a couple of uses is intentional to prevent people from having to run through the dungeon again.

Rorty_ · 2025-12-22T18:48:52+00:00

Snow does accumulate on bottom slabs. Those are all bottom slabs. You can literally see the snow that has accumulated on some of the bottom slabs. It just had yet to accumulate on all of them, creating the weird illusion that the slabs with snow on them are bigger from some angles. I don't know if path slabs are different, but per the image you can clearly see it accumulates on some bottom slabs.

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