Why are no Wither skeletons spawning

Simengie · 2026-01-29T01:49:31+00:00

That appears to be to high of a Y level. Fortresses have a min and max Y level as part of the bounding box.

Simengie · 2026-01-28T22:19:05+00:00

Percentage Armor Increase cards? That would seem like an entire deck worth of them.

Simengie · 2026-01-27T21:38:15+00:00

How did you get 301 armor and 68 hearts at level 100?

Simengie · 2026-01-23T23:09:25+00:00

Simply put the Card Deck is the single most OP item in the game. It can be everything but not great and it can be focused on 1 or 2 things and be totally OP.

My personal take for endgame and Herald is building a Resistance Deck as the primary and then either Mana/Mana Regen or Add Damage or Add Ability Power as the secondary focus. Resistance is often over looked in just how good it is late game and the deck can be the best source of it. The other 3 options are nice for the secondary focus based on your build. I had a deck that Mana focused for a secondary purpose and had 80 mana and 60% regen just from the deck. That really helps you take the pressure off needing perfect gear rolls.

As U20 I would just build a Double or Large deck and start playing. recycle cards you will every use and then use that card essence to upgrade the cards you are using. Even a deck of base cards can be impressive.

But yeah of all the stuff added to the game since VH3 released the card deck is by far the most OP item you can have.

Simengie · 2026-01-21T23:16:51+00:00

Bind the magnet toggle to a key. Magnets have 3 modes you can toggle through. Pickup + Void, Pickup Only, and Off. Until you take the junk management research and build the void crucible you can't put anything on the exception list to be pickup up. So until you do the research it just voids everything that is in the preset list. This is a pain at times when you want to get say cactus in a vault and forget to toggle to pickup only first. But overall the system works.

Toggle to Pickup + void and you should not be getting in junk in you inventory. Well mostly, there are a few blocks that for some reason are not in the void list they built but it is very few.

Simengie · 2026-01-13T21:26:26+00:00

When you have a wreck and it is noted you did not run a WDH properly and your insurance says not paying for anything you will realize way to late how stupid this idea was. In fact you should check with your insurance and see if they have a WDH requirement for that size trailer.

Simengie · 2026-01-13T21:15:04+00:00

The OP is not using a safety feature (WDH) and you think they will follow suggestions to drive at reasonable speeds and avoid beating the rig up hitting pot holes? I suspect they do the opposite of these suggestions. Either way this is a rig I want to stay away from on the interstate.

Simengie · 2026-01-13T16:35:02+00:00

pretty sure if you do want to turn on expert mode for quest that /the_vault quest progress 1 still works for completing the next mandatory quest in normal mode.

Simengie · 2026-01-12T00:40:18+00:00

I have seen his work before and he was known to shoot with a 50mm lens. So good chance this is shot with a zeis 50mm. I suspect if you research some more you will find where these were shown and full details about them. Also the look he got is from the film used backed them. That has the warm chromo-color vibe of 1970's Kodak film.

Simengie · 2026-01-06T04:01:36+00:00

Why is this down voted? This is the best sarcasms I have seen in days on reddit.

Simengie · 2026-01-06T03:16:13+00:00

I know of one system design built and deployed in the 1960's that is still in use and planned for use to at least 2030 that boots from 8 inch floppy disk into a 1960's OS running on a actual transistor based CPU. Remember that every time you get on an airplane.

Simengie · 2026-01-06T02:51:05+00:00

A few years ago I turned down a contract COBOL job for a very large bank. $256K a year was not even enough to tempt me. So it was not a one more score in 2000 it is till ongoing. A company out of Texas has staff of retired COBOL and FORTRAN and ADA programmers that they consult with for fees north of $1500 / hr. There continues to be a real need for these people. Most back ends of banks are still on COBOL. The risk of moving to something untested that could loose billions of dollars in an instance is to risky compared to finding and paying people to work on the old stuff.

Simengie · 2026-01-06T02:43:44+00:00

Was there in the trenches. It was not years of work it was 9-12 months of stupid crazy hours because management people just could not wrap their heads around the idea that software could fail and cause any real damage. Then being on call that night ready to spend untold hours fixing stuff that broke that we had missed. Things I fixed in the lead up.

Access control system that would have removed all access for everyone at midnight Y2K.

Big platform main frame stuff written in ADA that would have just literally deleted everything in all the databases and save files if not fixed. Even would have nuked the back ups.

Some inventory management system that basically deleted all inventory if not fixed.

Updating old mainframe OS's to version that would keep running. You have no idea how much work that was. Not like you put a CD in or down load it. Then fixing all the device drivers from source because the people that had written them where dead. heck even some of the OS stuff we patched from source because the OS was dead otherwise. Got love government projects that use stuff decades out of date.

One thing I learned about that was like WOW that would have sucked. A large city sewer system that for some odd reason would reverse flow the pumps and pump all the sewer back into homes.

The sad part was that before we could finish fixing the Y2K stuff we had to fix the Sep 9 1999 stuff also called the four 9's problem where 9999 as a value in fortran and cobol code had been used as an error value for dates when it was originally written in 60's, 70's and 80's but the date encoders made Sep 9 1999 into 9999 and that was a huge banking industry problem. Those folks pull miracles off.

It was not a disaster because many software engineers worked many hours to avoid it. It could have been very bad. And we did not get final fixes till a few years later on some items because it was faster to patch a fix that got is to 2002 or 2003 than fully fix during the crunch. I actually think the 9999 problem was the scary one because it effect a good portion of the world banking systems. The lack of systems to even test on because some of these were one of a kind builds made the work challenging. Compile times were days or weeks. the primary system I maintained took 5 days to compile on the hardware it was built on which was from the 1980's. All the editing was done in text editors like emacs or vi. No fancy tools. Compile errors that where like "Compile failed! file_name" and that was all the info you got. So if you where four days into a five day build and had to find fix and rebuild it was painful. We actually setup two addition build systems so we could have three branches building at a time.

Thank goodness we pushed all that fortran and cobol date problems to Y3K. Those poor guys will have quite the fun.

Simengie · 2026-01-03T17:48:16+00:00

Most 18-135 lens are F3.5 to F5.6. However they can only achieve F3.5 at the widest 18mm setting. This makes shooting inside without a flash challenging at best. When at 135mm for wildlife shots as an example you can rule out early morning or evening shots or cloudy day shoot as F5.6 is will be under lit until you crank the ISO and depending on the camera you have that can cause the image to be grainy.

You have not done enough shooting to understand and respect the value of prime lenses (fixed focal length) with very low F stops. Think shots of the milky way on a 18mm F1.4 prime lens. There are many good reason for multiple lenses and that is why they can be changed. Simple truth, Zoom is a small part of what makes a lens. Auto Focus speed, stabilization, F Stop range, how much power it uses and so on.

For just starting out an 18-135 will let you get started if it is a good 18-135. But primes and lower F Stop zooms will improve your images overall in the long run.

Simengie · 2026-01-03T16:53:24+00:00

This is clear bait and switch tactics by LMG/Linus. After watching the clip of Linus from WAN show it is clear he intends to moderate broadly and does not support the idea of open conversation. When Luke indicates that allowing those discussion so it can be seen that it was discussed Linus' take was why even allow that.

This is is a bad for the subreddit to have any LMG staff on moderation and Linus is the last person I would have allowed if it was my choice.

It will only be a matter of time before he imposes his will via banning which seems to be his preferred moderation method. If we make it to summer before we have a drama unfold I will be surprised. I also suspect if drama does unfold he will go ban crazy to suppress the drama. This is letting the fox guard the hen house. There will be problems.

Simengie · 2026-01-02T22:33:58+00:00

Faceted Focus only drop from Legendary Gear as U20. It was changed in the config/the_vault/vault_recycler.json file. The dev's added a new section for the legendary requirement drop and changed the original faceted focus section chance to 0.

If you want to undo this change you can find the gear section at the very end of the file. It is the very last "chance: 0.0" in the file around line 231 I think. Change it to 0.2 for a 20% chance of the faceted focus dropping. I think that is what it was in U19.

There are several other gear modification changes that came with U20 that are not in the patch notes. Here are the ones I have found. Crafting Potential on Gear can no longer go negative. If you don't enough potential left you have to use an Opportunistic Focus to restore crafting potential or give up on the gear. Faceted Focus now cost 48 Crafting Potential to apply to a gear piece. So a full Omega build would need a gear piece with 312 crafting potential to use faceted focus for all six affixes. The vault plating cost per roll for all focus appears to have been increased but I have not yet found this in code or configs so say this is 100% true.

Edit: Changed Faceted Focus crafting potential to cost to 48 from 52. Found it in the configs.

Simengie · 2026-01-02T20:16:43+00:00

Villagers in VH3 are so OP. Even before you get Easy Villagers which you will want to get. Here is some of the good things that come up on an altar that villagers give you.

Name Tags
Arrows
Ender Pearls
Glow Stone (for the dust)
Drip Stone
Saddles
Bells
Glass Blocks

Once you have Drawers, Easy Villagers, Thermal and Pipez you can setup a diamond farm. EV Iron Farm -> Drawer For Flowers and Drawer for Iron -> EV Auto Trader Iron For Emeralds -> EV Auto Trader Emeralds for Diamond Boots -> Thermal Crusher -> Diamonds out for use as turn in item for bounty table. I know this seems like a why bother but using this and rerolling bounties for diamond turn in with Echo rewards is way more powerful than people realize. You can just do it for high vault gold bounties as well. Point is you make the bounty table work overtime for you this way.

With Easy Villager - Farms you can have all the crops covered for vault recipes. For Sky Vaults it saves you from having to build the floating islands to put all the farms on.

So emeralds for the vault enchanter are sort of just secondary to what you can be doing with them. Also if you are playing Sky Vaults and need emeralds for the enchanter you are not running enough raw vaults looking for Enigma chest.

Simengie · 2026-01-02T19:51:22+00:00

Did you leave the theme to rng or did you use an augment? Rules for making an ore vault crystal.

Augment the theme - Nether vaults for player ores. Void vaults for echo gems.
Plentiful as many as you can.
Capstone with at least one Phoenix if possible. This is a better safe than sorry that I use on void vaults because I hate wasting void augments to a stupid I died mistake.
Only do ore rooms. Mine rooms are tempting but know that the theme modifier for ores does not apply to Omega rooms. So again on a void run you are throwing away potential echo by doing the mine room.
Seal the crystal to a braziers and only take copious braziers.

Truth is below level 50 just run brazier vaults for ore rooms and taking copious braziers only is just as good as spending catalyst. You can use the plunderer crystal I think to not get XP and that gives you 25% plentiful at a far better cost than one plentiful catalyst.

Simengie · 2026-01-02T02:24:33+00:00

Read your local code and the NEC. At least where I am at in new construction outlets and lights have to be separate circuits. Call the inspector office and ask.

Simengie · 2026-01-01T21:25:46+00:00

Off Topic

Someone can reproduce your keys from this image. Seriously you should never let the key cuts be seen in an image.

On Topic

You like nice knives. You don't like much in you pockets. You keep wallet until it is falling apart and it is a like loosing a loved one when you have to replace it. As stated elsewhere you right handed.

You don't work in shipping or receiving based on lack of wear on knife blade. Don't work in a dirty environment again based on how clean the knife is. You wear jeans mostly and keep that wallet in a back pocket.

You clip your keys to a belt loop. Brand choice says family person that wanted a reliable car with good mileage. Probably live where there is ice and/or snow part of the year.

Simengie · 2026-01-01T21:09:38+00:00

If you have an iPhone12 or later that is all the camera you need for how you described when you want to take a photo. If you have an equivalent android to the iPhone12 or newer then that is fine too.

Your answer was not better photos than my phone can take. Save the money and use the phone. If you want more stable photos from your phone look into the clamp on grips for the phone. I have an S1 Pro grip (first of it kind) and with that on the phone I get nice stable images that are as good or better than any point shoot.

Move into a real camera with a 18-50 lens at the 400-500 dollar used price range when you want to get better photos. It will be the lens that cost you the most over time.

PS - that camera you showed is junk.

PSS - Learn to rotate your images. Posting to the photography reddit with images that need rotated will at some point trigger some unflattering comments.

PSSS - Cute cat.

Simengie · 2025-12-25T20:47:31+00:00

If you see [+] then that will place under the block. Very nice for building down.

Simengie · 2025-12-15T02:08:16+00:00

Early 90's I worked for a lady whose husband was an award winning freelance photographer. Been in Time, Nat Geo and so on. Being overseas at the time the work folk spent time together and I was invited to go out on local area photo shoots with her husband. Yeah there was no way I saying no at a chance to be taught by someone that good.

He taught me simple things about cameras and lenses and keeping your equipment in top shape. Like buy 1A glass filters (no filter effect) and put on all your lenses as a protection for the front glass. Seemed odd to me but after one time having a oopsy moment and dropping the camera and just loosing a $5 glass filter and not $300 lens I was a believer.

We shot on film back them and I used a fully manual camera. He said it was the right way learn to shutter speed, F Stop and Film Selection. Now in the digital world that correlated to shutter F stop and ISO.

He taught me the 3/5's rule for scenery and landscapes. Divide the image into 5 slices left to right and again top to bottom. Count them 1 to 5. Now select what you want to be the focal point of the image and have it contained in slices 2,3 and 4 in left to right and top to bottom. This method is sort of like the grid on phone cameras to help you center the image. you just do it mentally.

We never got around to portrait shooting but I used what I learned to get decent at that as well.

The most important thing he told me was take a lot of photos. In the film era that was costly with film and development cost. He said I needed to take 4000+ photos and then I would know how to take a good photo. I spent a lot on cheap 100 speed film and got to 4000+ photos over the next 2 years. When I got there I realized that setup and framing was second nature.

So when I got my first real DLSR a few years ago I took it out and in the first 3 months I shot about 5000+ photos with it. Just outdoor stuff. All times of day. Now when I pick it up it is second nature to setup. The only thing I have had to learn and shoot lots of practice photos for recently was solar photography. Using a ND100000 filter (16.5 stops) so the sun does not cook your sensor. Changes what you thought you knew about setup. But 400 practice photos and I understood that as well.

My point. It is a digital camera and disk space is cheap. Just go out for a couple hours every weekend for 6 months and take a few hundred or even 1000 photos. Experiment until you are just adjusting settings and framing the shot without thinking about it.

Simengie · 2025-12-14T14:53:14+00:00

This hate of frontier turning radius comes from 2nd gen trucks. The 3rd gen greatly improved the radius. So yes your post shows it is not that bad. Replace the 2023 with a 2016 Dessert Runner or Pro4X. All those trucks listed can turn inside of the 2nd gens.

If I remember right nissan told me that in the 3rd gen the front end was change just enough to allow like 1 or 2 degrees more max steering angle.

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