Heres a little starters guide if anyone is interested...
1: Start off the game with a Tiny Holding, until things are more fleshed out, the survival stage can't be effective in larger areas due to the expansive area it is. Up the ante each time you gen a new world with a "successful" life/death/restart.
2: The sliders are generally reversed to what is commonly used, the far right means little to none. Thought the sliders are tied into the stage above each. For example, you can't have mountains without hills therefore if there is no hills there is no mountains and so forth. After fiddling around, I am sure you will understand, also. Erode at least once...
3: Climate afaik is placeholder, haven't noticed much there.
4: Start the game in Summer, you have a higher chance of some berries and acorns being fully grown and harvest-able. Gardening is the skill used for this.
5: Lets start. Are you in a Grassland? They have the Rocks and Trees and a few different coloured grass tiles which are the crops to be gathered later. If not find one...
6: First go up to a tree and press S -> U you need to use hotkeys for this cause its currently bugged. Anyway, select gather branch...
7: You hands are full, it goes to the ground. Open your inventory by either clicking the bag icon in top right or E. Click on the ground button and click drag the item to the backpack, while your at it, drag the waterskin and bread too. The backpack can hold 4 separate items, I think, haven't tested this fully when it comes to items with stacks...
8: Gather a couple more branches. 3 at minimum. You will notice that your Stamina (green bar) will rapidly deplete. Rest with the Numpad5 key. this will give a slower rest time then using the menu choice. This is much more controllable then the other, don't use it...
9: Find some rocks and gather at least 2 or so...
10: And this is generally where I get up to. I make a hammerstone by putting a rock into the crafting window, knap another stone with the hammerstone in the main hand (this is how you use tools of course), attempt to make anything else but their 3 day long workshift means I have to stop early and go scavenging in the forest for berries which sometimes can be rare as fuck, also if your hands a full you forget that they drop to the ground and you whole trip is wasted as you attempt to go back and find them.
Generally this is where the current flaws come in...
How does one make a firepit useable? I can build it, but does branches not count a fuel, do I have to make firewood? But that requires an Axe, cutting down a tree, chopping tree to logs, logs to blocks then finally blocks to firewood. This seems to take up a lot of time...
Even then, is lighting it a free action or do I need flint and steel like item to ignite the fuel?
Sleeping can lead to character sleeping all night and day if not paying attention, be aware of that...
Hunger goes fast, you will be ravenous almost instantly, just getting it to a green bar will do, as it looks like that bar's volume is your overall health.
Character dies if that or water drops to Zero. Instant death...
At least now everyone is on the same page I am on, if your further please let me know how...
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