fishing has been bountifull but couldnt get enough materials to make a new set of armor. on the bright side, i got just the amount needed to make the summoning item and got to kill King slime. he actually killed me but since its a non-despawn boss i could finish him off.
now i think this new mod added some extra uses to the Royal Gel. but i dont know how does it work, will have to test if killing slimes while using the item does something or if it has to be placed.
among the loot there was the slime hook and 2 pieces of the ninja set, there was also a shadow diamond for the magic storage system.
EDIT:
yeah turns out the Royal Gel is just for catching slimes while using another tool. but i have to finish the Adventurer quests first.
guess i'll leave it as decoration for a while, the next stop is to hunt the Desert Scourge.
EDIT2:
forgot how many times i've fought that stupid worm, i dont have enough damage, and cant make a higher platform because it will probably despawn. so i've been doing quests for the Adventurer.
there's an assortment of neat stuff you can get from them. the rewards are very RNG (they come in a loot bag), mostly stuff like bones, hearts/stars, gems, potions and watches (dont know why, but its usefull for saving mats in timers). the first item to be bought with his currency is for the nurse but since its revengeance well that's a bad idea.
the cool stuff from this mod however is that some of the quest items can be used. there's a silk scarf that also counts as vanity, and Coconuts with a base damage of 37 so you can go literally nuts with early game if playing thrower (sadly, they cant be used for food, maybe in future updates), they are obtained as easily as just planting and chopping down palm trees in a sand plot.
EDIT3:
fished until running out of bait, still no good stock of metals to make armor but i got enough gravitation potions to probe the sky. worldgen has been quite generous this time, found 3 floating islands in a row. one is a desert based one that is unique to this mod, the other were normal floating islands, one had the Lucky Horseshoe and the other had the Skymill and Starfury so now i can up my damage against that worm. gonna test if this is enough.
the Demolitionist and the Painter settled on those sunplate cabins for the time being, i ran out of potion so cant explore further but this is more than enough.