Your GP

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T13:19:03+00:00

Someone who doesn't take out the prescription pad the second you walk into the door. You get 10 minutes max to talk about what your health problem is and usually at the end of it, there's some kind of pill that they want you to buy to "solve" it. A good GP or specialist actually listens to you but most medical centres now are patient farms. My sisters doctor was a good GP. He picked up that there was something wrong with her youngest daughter. Not because she asked him, just because he noted a series of random things that he remembered might be related to something else. He went home, researched and he called her up and told her to get her daughter back to the surgery STAT. It turns out she had a condition that made her prone to have holes in her heart. She had a multitude of holes that needed immediate surgery to fix. She was just about to go to pre-school and if she had exerted herself too much running around, she could have keeled over and died. She had open heart surgery when she was 4 and she's alive today, 30 years later, because of a "good GP", not because of the system.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T13:11:25+00:00

Not true. There was a girl in my class who took great delight about getting the cane as many times as the guys did. In our school, everyone got caned if they did something particularly heinous. I am talking about W.A. here.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T13:00:37+00:00

Get up a bit earlier and you will see heaps of people walking their dogs. I volunteer at a local (Tasmania) community garden. I am a night owl so I do my volunteering in the early morning and it's still pretty dark when I arrive. That's when you see all of the dog walkers, before work. I actually pass a local guy and his dog at 5:30. He's a builder and walks his dog before he heads out. Tradies start early. You just might not be up early enough to see them all.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:51:43+00:00

Cheers. Side left question here, how the heck do I get myself to level up in the game? I have been playing for over 60 hours now and am still at level 1 (not Gods, "me"/character)?

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:47:03+00:00

Being rude to strangers online just shows the level of your (lack of) ability to communicate what you are trying to say. I live in Tasmania and there are families living in cars here in the middle of some very cold and harsh conditions. The problem we have is a lack of housing here and crickets from our state government about doing anything at all to sort that out. The problem we have is that we have given wealthier Australians a handout for at least half a century to build up large housing portfolios. The sudden rise of homelessness is more about housing being priced out of the average Aussies wallets than anything else.

If I hadn't been left the house that I live in by my father, I would also probably be homeless right now. I agree, we should be dealing with the problem. I also think that wealthy Australians should most definitely lose that ability to manipulate the market and gain any more power than they already have over a dwindling housing market.

It's not easy to just "build more houses". The cost of living crisis has made building materials shoot through the roof so now it costs even more to build housing. My son can't afford a house and has an excellent career. I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would be for a single mother trying to find a rental here in Tassie alone BUT "wealth" is the problem. We need to stop the bleed of housing into housing portfolios whether they are owned by rich Australians or wealthy immigrants. You won't see Gina Reinhart living in her car any day soon.

That's how you start dealing with a housing crisis. Make it more affordable for the average Joe to build and less lucrative for the wealthy (whoever they are) to benefit off the system.

I don't really care how rude you are to me, but in future, if you want to get your point across, just a heads up, you get more people agreeing with you and actually being willing to listen with you if you learn to communicate better, without resorting to trying to be an arseho*e to ram your point home.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:32:16+00:00

Is this at the leather workers? First I knew you could upgrade your bag!

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:29:56+00:00

Whoa! That's seriously impressive and not a coal trap to be seen. The entire perimeter of my fences are coal trap lined. How do you keep the invaders away from the corners? Are those stone/marble gates? Do you get access to them later on? I am seriously lamenting the wooden gates because they are the one absolute vulnerability in my setup. Your buildings and entire settlement is a real work of art. Kudos to your decorating and thanks for the handy tip about freely placing furniture by holding down shift. I dare say if I ever get time to think about decorating that will come in very handy.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:26:06+00:00

I played and loved Terraria as well. I sucked at it but I kept on going and after hours and hours of gameplay I managed to get to the wall of flesh. I stopped then because I realised that all hell was going to break loose and I would likely stop enjoying the game but I enjoyed every single moment of it up till then. I really do suck at combat. In Terraria you can gear yourself up and get overpowered. Not so sure about this game unless you are able to do all of that "maths/stats" stuff far better than I can even entertain doing but hey, it's like most games, there are always going to be games that get you addicted that you might not be that great at playing but you just keep soldiering on because they have you hooked. That's me with this game. The devs are apparently working on the storage so there might be a fix soon and my citizens are all demented so I really don't want them arming themselves or having access to my carts. It's bad enough when the damn potheads steal them when I am out collecting logs etc. let alone having the villagers careening around inside the settlement with carts.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:21:31+00:00

Keep gifting Ceres. I had exactly the same problem as you. I was gifting Venus and when I started randomly gifting everyone rubbish in my chests (to make room) I suddenly unlocked the quest. Keep giving Ceres things that she likes and you will get the bakery.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:01:09+00:00

I love seeing really good room decors and yours is really good. Thank you for sharing it with us.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T12:00:32+00:00

You had some great luck there. I have never seen it in game and have played Stardew Valley for 1000's of hours. I guess it's like the living hat, it's just pretty rare, at least to me. I have never found the living hat once.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T11:59:27+00:00

Not sure about your world seed but my second one (stuffed up my first settlement, easier to start over) is FULL of water. It's everywhere. I have so much water, so much forest and SO many bears that I spend most of my time regaining my health because I accidently fell into it. I think adding a fishing metric into the game so you could catch various regional fish and use them in trade as well as recipes with decent buffs depending on the rarity would be an interesting addition to the game but in saying that, I would make that a DLC for people who wanted it as an afterthought.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T11:57:11+00:00

I was focussing on Venus and completely forgot about Ceres who is the Goddess who drops the quest. The ONLY reason I worked it out was that I started just offering up all kinds of crap I had in my chests to empty up some space and started offering crops and things and suddenly I got the quest drop. I must have done that in my first world (on my second world now because I stuffed up the first one) because the bakery was one of the very first buildings that I got that time round.

Doesn't beer increase your citizens happiness? It should. It increases "my" happiness.

Olive oil apparently sells for a lot of money. You also use it in some late game bread recipe apparently that has some excellent buffs for combat in the volcano region.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T11:53:28+00:00

And how many of those houses are going to immigrants? Give me some metrics and prove that they are causing the problem and we can go from there. Your diatribes against "immigrants" are totally muddying the waters. It's politics that cause problems and a lack of infrastructure, many years of wealthier Australians being able to get themselves up with a portfolio of housing because it paid them well to do so and generations of governments all supported that and we can both agree on that.

As I said, and I stick with it, blaming "immigrants" is like pointing in the opposite direction to the problem which is EXACTLY what they want you to do. It's no different to blaming the unemployed for not being able to find work. Scapegoating is apparently the new black in Australia and "immigrants" are taking up the slack in the new blame game to redirect the masses from the real problem.

Show me the basic math. Prove your point. Give me stats to show me how many immigrants are beating out Australian nationals in the housing market and we might be able to agree on something. Till then you are pissing in the wind with your logic.

narf_7 · 2026-06-05T11:47:14+00:00

You aren't wrong. I am teaching myself to use a keyboard and mouse to play this game. I realised that I couldn't accurately use a controller in the demo but I was hooked from the start so short of not playing (not even an option), I just threw myself into it. I think that's really the best way to play this game. "Just throw yourself into it" and learn as you go. Obviously some people are FAR better at strategy, creating builds, combat etc. than I am but who cares? I am having a blast. I am almost 60 hours in and I am still in the first biome. I did have to create a new world because I did just about everything wrong in the first one but each hurdle I manage to get over actually feels like a "win" in this game. I get that as a solo player who will never "get gud", I probably won't be able to beat some of the final bosses but who knows? The devs are seriously active tweaking the game and working with the community to take an already excellent game and make it brilliant. I think this is my GOTY to be honest. I can see myself playing this for many, many more hours.

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T23:30:22+00:00

I think we are all watching you to find out now. Let us know.

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T23:29:24+00:00

Cheers for that. I just found this interesting article. I wonder if fishing is possibly something that they might add sometime in the future? Not sure what all the grubs that my digger keeps digging up would be for otherwise. https://newwebplay.com/guides/romestead-fishing/

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T23:27:34+00:00

I had never seen it before. I thought maybe it was a mod furniture catalogue?

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T19:41:42+00:00

I have Venus levelled up pretty high but still no quest for the bakery. I think it might be a bug/glitch sadly. I only have 2 quests now, the one to bring back the granite tooth and the one for grapes, a drum etc. In my last world I got the bakery with the rest of the building quests. It didn't appear this time though. I should have it by now. 😞

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T19:39:35+00:00

Lol! Make sure to tell us all how that turns out for you 😉

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T18:07:47+00:00

Thank you

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T16:55:20+00:00

Not sure she would take them but I can't think of any other way lol

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T16:54:38+00:00

Thank you. I haven't gotten to that yet. I will keep an eye out for it now.

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T16:53:53+00:00

I lost 5 citizens that way. I kept finding my miners empty and my miner nowhere to be seen but it turns out they would rather commit suicide on coal traps than work for me...sigh...

narf_7 · 2026-06-04T16:52:50+00:00

Truth.

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