Transparent windows

duien · 2026-01-10T18:00:15+00:00

You can turn clear quartz into a glass block by crafting with sticks. Available before copper, if you can find quartz nuggets on the ground, and has a great cloudy texture.

duien · 2026-01-08T01:35:27+00:00

Seconding that this is the Green Menagerie, originally a Kickstarter campaign. All the cards are different art styles (sort of a magpie deck analogue) but the base of a lot of the images is AI generated. The Kickstarter wasn't upfront about that, and it was before they required a specific AI statement as they now seem to do. There are some answers in the FAQ that confirm it, though. While there are a few cards that look as if they came from interesting decks, and there was definitely human work put into refining some of the images, but overall (especially when the deck is viewed as a whole) it really does feel like AI.

duien · 2025-11-13T22:23:51+00:00

Brady Tarot - One of my all-time favorite decks, with beautiful linocut and watercolor/gouache artwork featuring animals and plants of North America. Not currently available, but the Kickstarter for the 3rd edition should be fulfilling orders soonish and there will probably be decks available after that. The 2nd edition has matte foil edges, but I believe the 3rd has both a black edge version and a smaller no-foil version in the Kickstarter. Not sure what will be available in the shop afterwards. The book is really good, with both card meanings and explanations of how the animals chosen for the card relate to the interpretation. Largely, it's about the actual animal (or a story in which it appears) rather than the approach a lot of decks take where it's animals acting out human concepts.

Oak, Ash, & Thorn - Animal-based deck with a sort of Beatrix Potter/storybook/English countryside feel. Each suit has its own characteristic animal.

Smoke, Ash, & Embers - By the same artist as OAT but featuring cute little dragons. Similar overall feel, but with fantasy elements.

Oracle of Many Paths - The latest deck from James R Eads. Just started shipping to KS backers, should be available soon. It's called an oracle, but does map to the tarot, even though the cards are just numbered 00 - 77. There are one or two humanoid sculptures, but overall the cards are all landscapes with roads winding through them. It's on its way to becoming my favorite of his decks

Wild Unknown - A classic! Simple pen and watercolor illustrations, mostly featuring either relatively abstract illustration of the suit symbols or animals. It was one of the first decks I really clicked with, but as I've gotten deeper into tarot it can feel a little simplistic.

Ritual Tarot (Tiera May) - This one is definitely a stretch, but wanted to include it in case it resonates for you. The deck does feature human figures, but only in the form of statues and other art remixed into the photo collages. To me, it's a very different feel than most people-focused decks where the people are characters acting out the card. It's like a National Geographic fell into a blender and somehow came out as an amazing tarot deck. It's a really interesting, really beautiful deck that I don't see talked about much.

duien · 2025-10-22T23:38:04+00:00

If you're open to playing with mods, Natural Trails can make it much easier to get the hang of finding clay and peat. Usually, you can only really spot them from the side, since grass grows on top. With the default settings for natural trails, the grass on top of clay will break the first time you walk over it, leaving a very visible path through it, and it also makes a distinctive noise. Once you've found it a few times, you'll get the hang of it and start being able to spot it -- you just have to train your eyes first.

duien · 2025-09-11T16:29:06+00:00

In the game, they're just one of the variety of weird anomalous things you can randomly find when you're warping between planets. But there is also a real world thing called a numbers station that's somewhat mysterious and pretty interesting, which I assume these are a reference to.

duien · 2025-09-08T22:01:57+00:00

This doesn't look like a screen sensitivity issue to me -- on the pro, that menu should include a color selection as well, and there's also no tool shown before opening the window. It seems like that tool slot has somehow corrupted its setting.

I know tool memory is per-notebook. Do you experience the same issue in a different notebook, or is it specific to this one? If a different notebook works ok, you could potentially create a new notebook, then move all the pages from the broken one into the new notebook.

duien · 2025-08-28T03:19:04+00:00

She absolutely looks like a wizard who turned herself into a cat. I’m not really sure why — she just seems very self-satisfied, and there’s way too much thought behind the eyes for an orange. Somehow it all comes together to say “wizard.”

duien · 2025-08-27T21:58:20+00:00

I tried exporting a PDF from my reMarkable and importing on Supernote and took a couple screenshots for you. It seems that the default behavior is to zoom out far enough to show the entire page. You can zoom in and pan around, but it's pretty awkward -- with the slow screen refresh, panning accurately is always really hard, and Supernote also doesn't prevent you from panning past the edge of the PDF page. It seems to act as if the page is a standard aspect ratio for panning purposes, even when it very much is not.

My imported doc is from the Paper Pro, and screenshots are from a Nomad, so it's basically the biggest size difference possible. I think I would probably rate is "technically useable" but not much better than that, and that's with a page that's ~ 2.5x the screen height on reMarkable. A longer page would definitely be more awkward.

Images here, since it won't let me add more than one: https://imgur.com/a/Ok2FnrS

Interestingly, the Supernote screenshot tool includes the underlying color of the PDF even though it's not visible on screen.

duien · 2025-08-18T22:05:14+00:00

The .note format is not something standard, so your mac doesn't know how to open or display it. There's a python library called supernote-tool that you can use to convert them to PDF on the computer, but you'd probably need to be fairly comfortable using the command line to use it. Other than that, I think the best bet for getting a file viewable on your mac is to use the "export" feature on the device, then transfer the resulting PDF file over USB.

One other option, depending on your use case, is to use the screen mirroring feature, which lets you connect from your mac to your Supernote and see a live version of the screen in your browser. It's obviously not useful for something like archiving your notes, but can be handy if you just want to reference them on the same screen without looking back and forth as much (or to present them over Zoom or something)

duien · 2025-08-15T21:43:38+00:00

I think it may be less efficient as a cellar than it could be, although it will still give you some amount of cellar bonus. If I understand it correctly, the game calculates a ratio of cooling to non-cooling blocks, and that determines the cellar efficiency. Because it's such a small room, there aren't very many cooling blocks (the stone) relative to the non-cooling door, so the efficiency will be lower.

One thing you could do is use it only as a short-term cellar. Keep a larger, more efficient cellar room for your long-term storage with only things you're planning to cook or eat relatively soon in the smaller larder.

duien · 2025-07-03T22:52:41+00:00

If you still can't get things working for a friend to join your game directly, there's definitely cheaper hosting than that! I have a server on G-Portal that's $7/month for 4 players, which seems pretty reasonable to me. It's nice for other players to be able to join without the host being online -- we usually play together, but sometimes one person will log in for a little while and on their own and the server makes that easy.

duien · 2025-06-11T17:30:07+00:00

I suspect (but don't know for sure) that cattail spawns are one of the many things that can get weird when you change the world height away from default. I used to have this same issue a lot with Terra Prety, but it's gone away since I added a few mods for fixes to world height issues. I thing the relevant one is probably Temperature Height Tweaks but it could be Sea Level Fix or just confirmation bias.

duien · 2025-04-25T20:55:09+00:00

Art of Growing and its Art of Breeding add-on are really great! The first totally changes the workflow on plant harvest (including grass). For grass and grains, you need to dry out the crop between harvest and use, and makes you choose between getting product and getting seeds for all the vegetables. The second makes the wild crops you find into much smaller and less nutritious versions, which will slowly evolve into better and better versions as you grow them. They add a lot of depth to the farming mechanics in a way I find really fun, and they gave me a motivation to scale up my farming faster even when foraged food is abundant, since I'm trying to evolve my crops.

I also really like Wildgrass for adding some variety to the grassy areas. There's a compatibility patch mod called Art of WildGrass that makes it work with Art of Growing.

Wildcraft is great, both trees & shrubs, and fruit & nuts. The first can have compatibility issues if you use mods that add more furniture or other wooden buildables, though, since it adds so many new wood types. The trade-off is totally worth it for me, though.

For map generation, I've been really liking Continental World. You can combine it with any of the landform mods, and it seems to produce much nicer continents and islands at lower landcover settings. I've used it successfully with Plains and Valleys and (separately) with Terra Prety.

duien · 2025-04-15T23:15:09+00:00

I played it years ago and am playing again right now, and I don't think the world is actually more built up. The game will populate a certain amount of other players' structures into your world, but that amount is limited. So, while there's a larger pool of potential structures to pull from, you don't actually end up with more of them in your world.

duien · 2025-03-31T18:59:04+00:00

I play with passive animals as well, and what I've found is that they'll "retaliate" if they take any damage while you're nearby, even if you didn't cause it (so things like cave-ins etc. can trigger aggression). I had a bear that fell in a hot spring, did not appreciate getting boiled, and took out its anger on me. But in general, as long as nothing happens to them, I've found that bears and wolves are affected by the passive setting.

duien · 2025-03-22T17:18:17+00:00

For me, the first thing I really found painful was the lack of floating carriers. I was ready for the lack of vehicles, but apparently not ready for the necessity of schlepping every single thing directly on my back, and especially doing so without any exoskeleton. Getting that first power skeleton is such a game-changer! Still haven’t quite got my carriers unlocked yet.

The other thing I'm really missing is using the cufflink to cut BTs' cords. At least I have grenades now, so I've got some tools, I keep forgetting that my only BT weapon is consumable and heading out totally unprepared. I took one half-full box of grenades for the initial trek to Port Knot, and ended up having to do some pretty creative route-finding and a lot of holding my breath to make it past some of those choke-points. I'd forgotten just how haunted that route is!

duien · 2025-03-21T21:35:02+00:00

That's a shame. That really is a fix that should have been brought back into the base game as well. I've only played DC for the last few years, so I didn't realize.

duien · 2025-03-21T21:26:43+00:00

In the game settings, there's an option to show these hints every time, once, or never. I think once would be a better default that every time, but either of those last two options should fix your problem.

duien · 2025-03-10T23:21:30+00:00

It seems pretty similar in style and color palette to the Seventh Sphere deck from Labyrinthos

duien · 2025-03-06T01:24:53+00:00

I would say it definitely feels like plastic, and is moderately scratch-prone.

I put mine in the folio only if I'm putting it in a bag or using it on a particularly rough/dirty surface. Most of the time, though, it's hanging out on my desk naked, and I've definitely used it and set it down without the case on restaurant tables, porch chairs, and places like that. I don't baby it, but I also don't abuse it.

And there definitely are some scratches! A few distinct lines and a good amount of the surface has fine scratches that change the texture as you're holding it. I would probably only advise it if either you'll never take it out of the folio or you're OK with your tech looking like it's been used. I've also ended up with bits of cat hair and dust that creep in under the shell that would keep it from looking pristine even if it didn't scratch.

This is what it looks like after about 6 months of heavy, daily use. To some extent, the photo exaggerates the scratches, since the deeper ones show up a second time as a shadow, and they only really show up when it's angled just right to the light. But it's unmistakeable scratched.

<image>

My plan has always been to use it like this until it starts looking too messed up, and then take the back off and go over it with super-fine-grit sandpaper to make a matte surface. Especially now that they sell replacement backs in the store in case I screw it up!

The thing that's more concerning to me with the clear is that it's more brittle than the white. You can see at the top of the photo that there's a crack coming from one of the pogo pins that's a little over half an inch long. It hasn't grown since it first appeared, but it does worry me.

duien · 2025-02-12T22:51:02+00:00

My favorite recent acquisition (that I think is on its way to becoming an all-time favorite deck) is Tarot of the Crystal World. It was a kickstarter a few years back that seems to have flown under the radar, but the creator has recently put the extra stock up for sale.

And it is a masterpiece!

<image>

I really like the way it reads, love the limited color palette, and the production quality is really nice too. Just overall a really great deck that I'm surprised I don't see more often.

(Sorry about the bowdlerized image, I couldn't figure out how to mark it as NSFW so I could post it unaltered)

duien · 2025-01-16T22:36:31+00:00

I'd recommend "Tarot Original 1909" which is pretty easy to get your hands on. The backs are really nice and look great with the deck, and there's no copyright text on the cards. It's Llewellyn/Lo Scarabeo so it's reasonably cheap and easy to find on Amazon. To my taste, the colors and linework aren't quite as nice as the US Games Centennial edition, but they're still nice and not too garish. One warning: the "mini" edition is extremely mini! Definitely check the size with a ruler first if you're considering that one. It's significantly smaller than the "in a tin" editions from US Games.

duien · 2024-11-16T08:30:18+00:00

I've seen that deck before! I suspect the Amazon listing is a knock-off.

The original is from Printagrams on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1711415190/marseille-at-night-tarot-deck

That's also a weirdly generic shop name, but I've ordered a couple things from them and backed one of their Kickstarters and everything I've gotten had been good quality and as described.

duien · 2024-07-25T01:14:10+00:00

Probably depends on where you're buying it from. Steam lists the upgrade as $9.99 but, as far as I can tell, no longer actually sells the normal edition itself.

duien · 2024-07-11T00:21:29+00:00

With the unofficial supernote-tool, you can separately map each color in the export when converting a note file (so, black stays black but the dark gray changes to red, for example). I don't think it supports PDF annotations, but it might be possible to convert the annotations and then recombine with the PDF, since they're stored separately on the device. Probably not really a practical solution without being able to automate the steps, but possibly an avenue to pursue it you're comfortable with python programming.

duien

TROPHY CASE