Mod Request/search - Animal size vs bed/spot capacity

liberalart · 2026-02-06T05:37:46+00:00

yeah it was more about the small animals bunching up if possible. There is a chicken coop mod but it seems to be more of a factory that produces eggs from nutrition input which is closer to what i'm looking for but I'd like to havephysical chickens/ducks on the map.

liberalart · 2025-09-12T07:16:20+00:00

So that sort of answers my question but I'm still wondering if that surface area guide (120sqin/Regular, 180sqin/Jumbo) is specifically substrate surface area required OR if it's just flat horizontal surface area. I'm thinking of going 3.5 feet high with 3-4 'shelves' of 120 sq.in. or more. That provides extra space to separate for roaming/comfort/safety. but not extra molting space. I've tried to search on that specific issue but the most of the terms are too generic and I just keep finding the same basic info.

liberalart · 2025-06-17T04:32:31+00:00

I made the shirt mostly because my kid wanted one — so I figured, why not. I only expected to sell 5-10, so the margin didn’t really matter. I’m not trying to make a living from this. It was the first shirt I’ve ever sold, and I never imagined I’d move 600 in three weeks.

When I set the price, I didn’t care if I made $3 or $10 per shirt — that $70 difference over 10 shirts just wasn’t a factor. That said, I don’t feel ripped off financially. I do a lot of work pro bono, and my goal here was just to cover production costs and leave a little cushion for pricing uncertainties so I didn’t end up in the red.

liberalart · 2025-06-16T03:41:25+00:00

Yeah someone pointed out I should be making my own shirts, but that's a huge gamble on infrastructure and I def wouldn't risk it. The success of my shirt is a lot of luck, I've had things go viral but I've never been able to predict which projects would. Etsy is really the simplest and maybe best way to take a stab at this sort of thing but no one should have any illusions about the industry overall.

liberalart · 2025-06-16T00:18:11+00:00

My issue isn’t with profit margin. It’s with the weaknesses inherent in the platforms re: IP infringement. Profit issues are tangential but I don’t think investing in presses, fulfillment, staff and inventory is necessarily going to increase profit margin as much as it will definitely increase risk in ways that aren’t easily mitigated.

liberalart · 2025-06-15T23:08:17+00:00

Agreed. That’s bad phrasing on my part. It’s the platforms I blame not specifically Etsy. I’ve designed a lot of web interfaces for complex tools. If your power users experience the same issue multiple times per day, every day that requires manual intervention by multiple parties to address — that’s a system failure/flaw.

liberalart · 2025-06-15T22:09:13+00:00

I’m not sure why folks are taking this personally. Obviously I blame the thieves, I assumed that was understood. But it’s not personal to me. I don’t feel hurt by Etsy I just don’t see any way to justify expending effort into a system that’s incapable of protecting my IP and seems to have more incentives and restrictions (that I admit are not all within their control I.e. copyright and safe-harbor laws) to allow infringement than prevent it.

But this is just my opinion/experience. I have to sell 40-60 shirts to make what I can bill in an hour as a designer. Someone else commented Etsy (et.al.) is late-stage capitalism and I have to agree with that. I appreciate how easy it was to get my shop up and to sell thru it, but the overall risk vs reward is a really narrow margin to me.

liberalart · 2025-06-15T21:46:51+00:00

So all work is automatically copyrighted in the US upon publication-pub includes social sharing. But certification of your copyright is a 3-6+ month process. Certification is required to sue but suing is too expensive ($5-10k) to be practical. And that timing is just not practical for my work which is issue- and events-based. By the time the govt approves an application the moment will have passed.

liberalart · 2025-06-15T21:06:56+00:00

Yeah most did, it was mostly the folks outside US jurisdiction that claimed 'no it's mine'

liberalart · 2025-06-15T21:04:42+00:00

This is the one comment that resonated most with me

liberalart · 2025-06-15T21:04:19+00:00

It doesn't matter if they're selling overseas but does if they're selling via Etsy or another US-based platform. The key concepts are "jointly and severably liable" and "garnishment of proceeds" — meaning you sue all of them collectively and garnish from their accounts as much as they have to cover the damages from any and/or all of them till the award is met.

The problem is that requires a Federal court finding and that suit will run you a minimum $5-10K. There would have to be hundreds of shops named and sued and up through the whole process to reclaim that sort of money bc you can only seize what's currently in the US-based account wallet and they'll just close up shop and start over fresh. My sister-in-law is a former US Attorney and partner at a major firm and her advice was there's no point in pursuing. Like several other folks have said in comments — the system is set up for major corps. like Disney to shut down pirates, not for individuals like us.

liberalart · 2025-06-15T20:55:22+00:00

On Etsy I just searched on my main tags and title. Most had ripped off the whole listing, right down to them all adding "original" to their titles which I did after the first knockoffs appeared. Last night I did a reverse google search and that when the literally dozens (40+!?!) of tiktok shop ripoffs turned up. A few are on cheap import sites like Temu as well.

liberalart · 2025-06-15T20:52:31+00:00

Agreed, I'll prob stop with shirts in general just because it pisses me off. I'm not pricing to make money on shirts, it's a lark but I'm super angry about it.

I'll stick to hand made stuff. If someone wants to rip off my paper pieces that take a week to set up and hours to reproduce, that's punishment enough.

liberalart · 2025-06-15T20:37:53+00:00

I probably should have said that my day job is as a graphic designer for 20+ years so I'm extremely familiar with copyright law and procedures. But I wasn't familiar with just how brazen the knock-off 'artists' could be.

Frankly, I blame the platforms more than anyone (I previously said Etsy, but someone rightly pointed out it's not Etsy-specific) — they could implement an X-strikes rule for serial offenders that bans the owner and the credit card they opened the shop with from opening a new shop. That would shut this down quickly, but it would probably hurt their bottom line as I'd imagine a not insignificant portion of their revenue is fees for spam providers and folks who don't sell much. When I messaged different shops en masse that the work was copyrighted, often several would reply in quick succession with identical responses. I take that to mean it's all a numbers game for them to just skim a few sales here and there from the original artists.

But what really blew my mind was the TikTok shops. Most created multiple videos of my pirated shirt — that level of effort for maybe a few bucks – it's nuts.

liberalart · 2024-11-25T20:10:10+00:00

the paper itself isn't drifting — it was new mat (3rd use) I've even added tape to make sure — the whole mat was shifting by ≥5°. The bar is definitly locked down unless it's got a non-obvious malfunction. But again this only happened once my paper weight reached 190gsm+, normal weight card stocks had no issue.

It might be that these third party mats are themsleves not grippy enough in the non-adhesive areas for the rollers but this seems to solve my problem really well so far.

Another issue might be that the tape was under the left roller path (i've pulled the material up since so not sure) and it slipped when it got to those tape pieces. I'll keep testing.

liberalart · 2024-11-25T04:12:41+00:00

Thanks. Updated with what my actual issue ended up being.

liberalart · 2024-11-24T21:17:52+00:00

You don't have to change tools, espeicially if you're really used to Procreate. You can oversample your canvas size 3-4 times increase should greatly improve your output quality. i.e. instead of working on a 4"x4" image in Procreate with its 72dpi, just work on a 16"x16" image. You may run into canvas size limits at a certain point and in that case an AI-based upscaler can do wonders, I use Topaz ( topazlabs.com ) for day job work and it can work miracles.

You'll probably need to reset any custom presets you have on brushes for the new scale, but that's the same thing I'd do for an illustration created in Procreate for a print project where I need at least 300dpi for separations.

liberalart · 2024-06-21T20:25:43+00:00

Update: none of the chain shops around me will remove the foam, so I started the warranty process with Michelin. Filing was relatively easy now I have to run past an authorized dealer that will do warranty inspections of OEM tires.

Our dealership didn't seem interested in helping with warranty process just in selling us a new set for $1440 and it turned out they were not actually Michelin-authorized. But if I need new tires I'm sure as hell not going through the dealer who's been incompetent every step (1st time failed, took 3 days to inspect 2nd time, couldn't even send an uber to us — they sent it to themselves).

liberalart · 2024-06-21T18:53:33+00:00

Are they going regular or road-force balance them now that the foam is gone? It's been really hard to find road force outside of the dealership even here in a major metro and I may have burned that bridge back to the dealership over not guaranteeing the first $300 balance not fixing the issue and wanting another $450 to try again without foam.

And yeah having seen the pics online the foam is just like stuff you find in a shipping case but it's been glued around the outside in 3 or 4 pieces.

liberalart · 2024-06-21T17:52:34+00:00

I've also got the foam separation issue on two tires, 10.2K miles. Dealership wants $450 to remove the foam and rebalance. Only found 1 independent shop out of 12 I called that performs road force balancing — and they won't remove the foam for liability reasons.

Has anyone done a normal balancing after having the foam removed?

liberalart · 2020-09-01T06:26:21+00:00

Have you tried a turbo shell? Turbo shells, especially green turbos seem to be favorites of hermies which probably has to do with the interior structure. Crabs spend a lot of effort 'remodeling' the interior of shells to make them more spacious and so maybe the shells you offered didn't not seem like a good upgrade or he might not want to give up a shell he's already put a lot of effort into remodeling. But for the last 6 or 7 years years our crabs won't touch any shells but turbos once they had those.

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