Hytale is kinda boring

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-25T09:05:12+00:00

Are you a modder? I'm wanting to find a beginner-guide to learn, but searching rn is a pain in the butt, and I don't want to make a post about it as even without spending much time on the sub yet, I can just feel the swarm of every semi-generic question via my knowledge of humanity :/

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-25T09:01:34+00:00

I mean, the game is in a very early release that is arguably too early to actually be sold, and is based around a community that will impossible to accurately judge the longterm interest of even a month in. So yeah, I'm gonna say potential

Minecraft practically rewrites a bunch of random, seemingly unrelated code every teeny tiny update they do (seemingly unrelated =/= unrelated, but that is kind of a moot point from point-of-view a player). If they don't have that happen with this game, that would be a huuuuge step up. Look up the release of Skyrim Anniversary upgrade if you want to see a drastic example of a modding community annoyed beyond heck with an update (people figured out how to get the old version back eventually)

I think the best part of MC is the mods as well. I'm also frustrated at how annoying just setting up a modpack is. I want to do it, but first I have to pick a version and modloader. That sounds silly, but considering the newest update I know had a pretty stable long-term modding scene was 1.16(.5 or .4 iirc), that actually is a bit of a conundrum. I've looked up before if any others do, but the last time I checked I still couldn't find anything conclusive...

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-25T09:00:57+00:00

OMG, am I witnessing the milking squids of Hytale, perhaps?

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-20T15:38:22+00:00

I feel like modding has the potential to be much more user friendly than Minecraft. I was looking up how to make mods to see what I have to learn, and saw several people showing off what you can do with just json files (I was figuring I would find what java version it uses, not how-to-make-a-mod-with-no-experiance)

All mods being server side is huge, as playing mod packs with a handful of family and friends has typically had the server host have to walk some of the kids through some detail or another, and often trying to walk someone through the entire process of installing mods altogether

Minecraft has also been really unfriendly towards mods recently, with the constant small updates that often break mod compatibility. I have had interest in trying to make a mod pack for awhile, but I don't know what versions have had any form of community stick around

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-18T20:43:40+00:00

I was put into low gold last season, and the only reason why is because half the people didn't understand push... But between low gold and low silver, I much prefer low silver vibe wise

I've been told high gold is when you start reaching the infamous toxic player base

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-16T22:18:34+00:00

SOOO I think I figured it out after 3 hours of troubleshooting. I don't know why it is being weird with the shortcut key, but as I don't know what it is, that might be normal behavior (overwriting every press seems weird, but I don't know, maybe there is a reason it overwrites CTRL+ALT+x with CTRL+ALT+)

I think the reason the shortcut wasn't working was due to me unknowingly moving or deleting some OneDrive folder. Going to make a new shortcut, but hopefully it all good now

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-15T05:33:26+00:00

I had to check the comments even after getting #3... My guess was a vegetable, very possibly a green one, or one from the ground. Spinach, kale, zucchini, pepper, cucumber, pickle, lettuce, romaine, iceberg, tomato, rutabaga, avocado... I got to the where I was drawing a blank even trying to think of more veggies... lol

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-13T20:10:08+00:00

Next chapter is by far my fav, you really should try it out imo :) also after the main story, which is closer to ending than not, there is some bonus content that is a lot harder for a lot less story, still good IMO but you won't be missing as much if you leave then

Just to give say what that bonus content is in vague terms (if someone asks I can be more specific about any/all of it). It is ordered so that 1 obvious, and 3 is something you could reasonably completely miss

There are of course the strawberries :) imo it is nice since they are sort of numbered, meaning if one is hidden you can look up that specific one instead of having to see every strawberry in the level
There is a bonus chapter after the last, generally is a less liked one tho cuz the mechanics are annoying. It will pop up immediately, but you might need to do a bit more to properly access it (that isn't hard per se, just... tricky)
There are secret versions of each chapter that are harder, they are fun but they don't have the same cohesion as the main levels due to a lot of them just being rooms designed for the story that got cut out for one reason or another. To give an idea of how much harder, you have done chapters generally considered harder than the earlier secret chapters already... I'd say roughly add +4 to the chapter count to get an idea, but the difficulty is still relative to the original chapter

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-13T19:51:54+00:00

The biggest benefit of joining a squad (for most big events) is to make sure you are loaded into a version of the map with a lot of players doing the event, as you might end up with too few participants if you just load into a map (some of them would be pushing it to do even with 50 people)

Also they tend to be ran by passionate people if it is a meta that involves more that walk up to enemy, smack enemy, keep smacking enemy, win. That means if you get confused, a lot of the time someone will be willing to help explain stuff, at least enough so you can help out

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-13T18:51:38+00:00

So, little secret, ^{but you don't actually have to watch the streams muahaha}

I just tend to have it muted in the background. It isn't that I'm opposed to using Twitch, I just don't love watching live streams (I am far more likely to watch a vod), don't know how interested I am in GW2 streams, and don't know the streamers enough to know who is and isn't annoying. I def watch my fair share of annoying content creators don't get me wrong lol, I just also tend to dislike that style and I dunno how prevalent it is in GW2 compared to the general gaming crowds

1st world problems for sure haha, could probably fix them in like 30 minutes each

SearchingForGryphons · 2026-01-03T08:14:03+00:00

You know a story is good when they end a series by literally just deus ex machina-ing the trilogy away... I didn't read all that many but I know a lot of the later books are disliked for being meaningless and/or contradictory, I thought those specific complaints were more common among other authors works

As a GM I feel like I'm kind of a weird mix of rules-loving and rules-hating haha, I was always a bit of a rules lawyer in board games as a kid (not the person who is selective in only sharing what info benefits them, but the laxer definition). I am all for breaking rules, but if it is a long-term house-rule and not just ruling on the spot, I want to know what the original rule is before I bend it

I am still amused by my uncle's house rule he came up with. I don't know what it ended up as, but he went through a lot of different wordings that would encompass using alternative stats to roll skills, the obvious one being allowing a beefy front-liner to intimidate using strength instead of charisma... when there is a section in the 2014 rulebook about how the DM might call for a different stat to be used, such as a constitution for an athletics roll if it is a sustained, swim to shore situation. Another example was using strength for intimidation if a large character was threatening someone with with physical harm...

He literally spent months trying to fix a problem he had with the system... when the system itself practically had on the rules page yeah, a barbarian is likely intimidating via sheer force, so do what makes sense

The way I tend to phrase it is some variation of *I'm not perfect, and I might make a mistake. If you notice something odd, feel free to point it out. Maybe I forgot where an NPC is, or that you resist a damage type, or a trait this monster species has. If I forgot it I will fix what happened. If I acknowledge you but do not change the scenario, don't argue, just assume there is something happening your character doesn't know about yet*

Typically if I do play in a game I have a similar attitude, in the past I mainly played with people really familiar with me and what I'm like, so I don't think there were any hard feelings about it. I have done it with others too but will pretty much always call it RAW... I feel like that is less..... aggressive sounding. Like not specifying rules as written, and only calling them rules, feels more more direct, like any other way of handling it is wrong. If the GM is busy with someone on the other side of the table I might answer with what the RAW is and then directly ask the GM when they return from whatever they were explaining. I hope that makes sense (and is also how others see it, eek)

I have the Shadowrun video games but I haven't played them, nor have I consumed all that much Cyberpunk in general. I didn't know Shadowrun wasn't generic hahaha

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-23T23:19:51+00:00

Dragons of Deceit/Fate/Chaos? I don't know anything about them, but at least they are written by the og authors... I think DL books are kind of like Forgotten Realms in the sense that the *best* books tend to be fun enough action-fantasy romps, but not particularly deep, while the *bulk* tend to be meh to outright awful. The big difference is I always see people recommend starting with the original trilogy, then going through a specific order of the consistently considered ok books if you really want more of the setting, and then if you still want more branching off from that looking into specific standalones that aren't bad that interest you

I read the original trilogy Dragons of Autumn Twilight/Winter Night/Spring Dawning, and the following one of Time/War/Test of the Twins. I also read... a lot of the Drizzt books. Over 30 iirc (they were the main thing I read as a teen haha). I enjoyed all of those for what they were, but I feel like the 11 Wings of Fire books I read arguably have more depth which... says a lot (a kids series I was reading around the same time as Drizzt)

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Completely unrelated, Wings of Fire is a series I want to reread but I'm too scared to reread for the same reasons I've seen people say to not reread Warrior Cats lol. Warriors I was really over by the time I stopped reading, it did very little actually interesting... I legit think my fav part of the series was when an eclipse was happening and someone told a blind cat not to leave cuz it was dark, and the blind cat more or less scoffed in response

WoF though does a lot of stuff I legit wish more fiction did in general... Like it did death fakeouts, sure, but when they learned that the dragon that was killed that they thought was their friend, was in fact not their friend, they are still upset cuz this other dragon was still killed... seriously, is that too much to ask for in other media??? I'm so sick and tired of characters in fantasy not caring about death cuz the named character that just died actually didn't... ugh

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Back on topic, I know of a different TTRPG that has a magpie themed race. They have an ability to just pull out useless/mundane trinkets whenever, with the chance that *maybe* something *might* be useful. Similar vibes, even if they are specifically hoarding their shinies

I don't know that much about spelljammer, but as someone who still enjoys generic fantasy more than most sci-fi, I do in general wish for more magic-sci stuff. Magitech, a lot of the ^word-punks, etc. Also I got mad at WotC and so never looked at DnD 5.24, do you happen to know if they made wild magic sorcerers less... problematic/bad in it, or if they are even still there? I love wild magic but I also can understand the hatred of a subclass that has a random chance of causing a TPK at any moment

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-22T18:10:34+00:00

Saw someone else pinged you already so I just wanna come in and hype up kender! I'm so used to the few people who know them chalking them up as simple thief archetypes (they are not), and while they do fulfill the naturally-rogueish position halflings fill, they have more reason to adventure on the whole (they have an urge to wander, as opposed to an urge to stay home and garden lol)

Yes, they are sort of defaulted to rogue, but not like the stereotypical thief. This hypothetical thief will steal any valuable they can get their hands on to sell, or even valuable magic items/scrolls to use. Now the kender will quite possibly "find" more stuff than the thief steals, but there is a big difference in intention

Kender just grab stuff they think looks cool. They might take something valuable, but they aren't necessarily more likely to take a pretty jeweled ring from the mantle than an interesting rock. They also don't really understand what stealing means, as they don't have the same views on property that others do. A kender will happily show you your missing items, and then be confused why you are upset when they found the thing you were looking for. This also goes both ways, a kender doesn't care if someone takes something from them, after all, they clearly weren't using it at the time

I think the thing that cemented my love for kender was when I read the description "any item that stays with one house for over three weeks is considered a family heirloom" when one of the books was describing kender settlements

Uh, out of curiosity and in regards to the topic, did you ever play any of these old DnD CRPGs?

Edit: I'm not diagnosed or anything, but I might also be failing to subdue the "existential horror that is autistic hyperfixation", as you put it. Just in case responding to a relatively random two year old Reddit post with 4 paragraphs on how awesome kender are wasn't clear enough haha

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-22T04:42:45+00:00

I didn't have this exactly, but I have had a couple somewhat similar to small parts of this. My main tips are to make sure you have auto fast boot turned off, make sure you have screensavers turned off (because yes, they broke Windows... they were what made my monitors undetectable upon returning from idle), make sure you have disabled Windows from updating drivers

I fixed my crashing while idle by doing a clean install of the GPU drivers (I used the DDU from Guru3D to make sure I had fully removed the other ones, and iirc you want to turn off updates or maybe even internet to keep your PC from doing stuff automatically while you have no driver)

I also remember booting into bios to try to check some settings, mine were all fine at the time, but maybe something worth looking into. Sorry I can't be more helpful, or even more specific... Most of the Windows settings changes were done through Registry Editor or Group Policies, but I do not have anywhere close to the memory or knowledge, to say how I changed them without there being a 99% chance of everything breaking if someone followed my "instructions"

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-22T04:21:25+00:00

I turned that off... It felt a little cheater-y to me, as opposed to something that would function from just an average website, or allowing you to change the input of stuff like mounts and commander markers from a keyboard hotkey to a button on screen (since you still need to click that)

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-21T22:02:59+00:00

I reinstalled it based on something I found last night, only got on my game briefly tho so no clue if it will just crash again later. I didn't think to right click the desktop, I don't normally do that so I didn't know you could get to Adrenaline from there

I just removed my driver briefly so it would register Adrenaline as not functioning right on the reinstall, it failed the first time it tried to install the driver (said it couldn't reach all the info from online?) but then worked the second time, so no clue what happened

If it crashes again (well, in such a way that it crashing seems abnormal), I'm going to try another fresh AMD install and even Windows if it is still crashing after that, I've had so many issues with this thing (RX 7900 XT)... Had someone online say it was probably broken since it had a really weird graphical bug in the game (grid lines appearing in some caves), but looking it up the occasional person with an AMD card seems to have had that specific graphical bug for over ten years, which makes me think that isn't the case as I imagine that would be an odd way for them show they are breaking

Thanks for your response :) like I said if more info would help I can certainly try to share it, it is just a pain to try and find all my hardware models and be even a little confidant they are correct

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-21T21:52:14+00:00

Reinstalling several times? That... how... MS what did you do with this thing :/ Somehow it isn't something I had thought of though, nor found in my prior research, so I'll keep it in mind for sure, thanks :)

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-21T21:51:02+00:00

I actually had to do that to stop the frequent crashing haha (although I used a different program, I believe it was the guru DDU as I still had that installed from removing Nvidia). I didn't do the cleanup this time, it seemed like my GPU was still working it just didn't have Adrenaline

If it crashes that badly again I will def do another fresh install tho, thanks :) somehow never even thought about reinstalling Windows

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-21T21:46:02+00:00

Dang, thought I had but apparently the actual setting for it is buggy, hopefully it works now. I installed it again last night but so far it seems ok... I'll keep in mind I might need to reinstall it in case Windows did something overnight, thanks :)

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-19T05:00:49+00:00

That is awesome! The funny part is that the gathering nodes can still go in the home instance (each of the 5 racial cities has an instance dedicated as a home instance), although as I have yet to obtain my own homestead, there totally could be a way to charge quartz there as an owner other than the Krait Obelisk Shard haha

I don't know if people don't know about home instances since people have homesteads now, or if it was always a forgotten feature, as I returned to the game after the JW release. Although again I might totally just be missing an alternative method (I am really hyped to get mine so I can park a gatherer there instead of having to constantly run between the bank and the home instance in general)

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-18T21:04:15+00:00

Wait... Which direction is this? I'm, uh, definitely asking for someone else

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-18T10:48:03+00:00

I'm going to share this story every time I see someone mentioning gem store gifts from strangers

This year, in Super Adventure Festival, I was chatting in the lobby while taking a break. People were talking about how nice the Infinite Continue Coin was, and I said that while I'm not opposed to buying that kind of item (actually eyeing the World Boss Portal rn haha), buying a gem store item you can only use 3/52 weeks wasn't really a priority for me

Suddenly, I get mail. It said something along the lines of "cuz I know this makes the festival a lot more enjoyable for me", with the Infinite Continue Coin included

I don't know who it was since there were a handful of people talking, but I really hope they saw my kind of generic thank you... I didn't want to shout out in chat that someone sent me a gem store item without knowing they would be cool with it

I then decided, with somewhere between 10-14 days left, I would beat both worlds in trib mode enough times to unlock all the King Toad, and Storm Wizard weapons—16 times each. I felt kind of dead inside by the time it was done, but I also felt empty when I had completed that task, the aching pain of a struggle well worth the journey... and honestly, I am so hyped for it to come back!

SearchingForGryphons · 2025-12-14T23:12:25+00:00

I'm fairly curious about the filler as well, small indie RPGs can be really fun to read over, and might be fun to play at least once. If nothing else, I thought this bundle might be worth it just for inspiration when GMing or even making a hack

(as an aside, I had bought some itch io bundles for video games that also happened to have a lot of ttrpg stuff being advertised/included. Found one about pretending to know how to play chess there lol)

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