There is a large repository of mods on the steam workshop, but almost the vast majority haven't been updated in a long time (in many cases a decade or more). Obviously people move on to other games eventually and this one has been out a long time, but I feel like I've missed out on some great content which will never be experienced again.
I have to cull my tabs often as they become irrelevant to whatever task I'm currently doing because my tab list gets pretty crazy pretty quickly. Especially since I'm given 2 modules to work on simultaneously per module block. I know they're unpopular (eww Microsoft Edge), but I don't think I could live without vertical tabs and tab grouping. How crazy does your tab list get and how do you manage them all across both research and personal tabs like music?
The first image is what it looks like just holding the build tool. But if I hold the ctrl key, the border looks as shown in the second image. I've also noticed that the house furthest in the image has no citizens living in it, and if I try to recruit a citizen from the tavern it says there is no space for them to live even though that house is vacant.
So what is the difference between the normal border and the border shown when I hold ctrl?
I went away and there were no flowers in my garden. Came back 6 days later and there are a whole bunch of these scattered around the garden. What are they? I've never sent these orange flowers before.
For context this is in the UK.
Being a sandbox game, there are of course no wrong answers. I'm just curious how everyone handles their storage.
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Personally I have a warehouse lined with walls of storage drawers because they are extremely scalable and you don't get the issue with vaults being overfilled by things like cobble because each item has its own storage. Everything leads back to this warehouse located by my Minecolonies town for easy access.
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What I like about storage drawers is that packagers and frog ports work with them so I can have frog ports send inputs based on factory gauges, and have controller IOs on each machine to place the outputs directly back into storage. The downside is that if you lock all of your drawers then the IO won't take a new item in unless you place one of them into a drawer to assign the drawer to that item. Some people might find this method to be outside the spirit of create, but for me it is a good balance between an aesthetic factory with items flying everywhere, and practicality.
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What do you guys do? Vaults? Drawers? Maybe something from another tech mod like applied energistics? Why is that your preferred method?
I ask because traditional farming essentially goes out of the window because there is no water. Beds I assume don't explode when a citizen sleeps? There also just isn't a lot of buildable area in the nether with lava lakes everywhere to contend with so I imagine you'd spend much of your time terraforming and idiot-proofing every possible edge that citizens can walk off into said lava lakes.
I love this launcher, but I use it on a TCL android TV and it frequently defaults back to the original launcher. Each time it does this I have to go into the accessibility settings and uncheck the recheck the option to make projectivy the default again. I don't know for sure, but I assume this happens whenever the TV's OS updates in the background.
Presumably this happens because Google/TCL don't like it when you bypass their advert ridden launcher, but I'm curious if anyone has found a way to prevent this from happening because it is the one thing that makes it seem pointless trying to use projectivy in the first place.
My cousin want to do game design but I'm not sure he knows what that entails. So I'm thinking about printing out all of the design pages you get in-game that show how the dev designed Prison Architect, and sticking them in a book so he can look at them and get an idea of what game design actually is and decide if that's the kind of thing he wants to do and get some inspiration.
I don't have them all in-game and it would take way too long to try to obtain them. Just wondering if the design logs are accessible online or if anyone has them all and is willing to send me a screenshot of them all.
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Okay so to answer my own question, you can get the PNGs from the game files...
On my factory's ground floor I have frogports and chain conveyors in exactly the same configuration. While laying down some train tracks I found this floating above the ground ~400 blocks away from my factory. It is only the frog ports, conveyors, a single deployer, and the end of a shaft charging a spare jetpack. The shafts are spinning, but none of the duplicate objects are real so I can't interact with them and it seems to be only visual. Oddly though, I went back to my factory and found another duplicate... But also the objects have visually disappeared in the factory where they're supposed to be.
I probably won't report it as a bug because I have a lot of addons and pin pointing the offender would be almost impossible. It also doesn't seem to be affecting gameplay since reloading the world fixed. I just found it amusing.
EDIT: I think the Steam'n'Rails 1.21.1 fork for Neoforge is the cause because it only started when I started laying wide andesite tracks.
I'm only a year and a bit away from finishing university and having to decide which path I want to take, and I'm at a bit of a loss. And yes AI is a factor in this, but not from a doomer standpoint. I'm not convinced that it will wipe out software jobs, but rather change what the jobs are.
On one hand, AI will almost certainly displace some of the traditional software roles like building websites, databases, and CMSs, but not completely. More that development will be AI assisted so less software engineers in this market will be needed to achieve the same output. So with this in mind, hardware seems like the safe bet because at the end of the day, somebody still has to plug the machines in and setup the environment for AI models to be interacted with. They don't run on bare metal and do their thing without user input.
On the other hand, I see some new roles becoming available. AI models do not economically scale well and we're already reaching hardware limits for all-in-one general models that try to do everything. But all of the most efficient tools aren't general but rather specialised. For example, despite common Hollywood tropes, we don't invent new compression algorithms that can compress every file type better than anything, we create specialised algorithms for video, audio, images, text, etc. I see AI going in that direction with local specialised models becoming more popular. This could end up being a huge market if businesses eventually decide they want specialised models trained on internal business logic rather than paying recurring token costs and handing sensitive data to could services. Let's take a customer service bot for example. Does it really need to be trained on billions of parameters, or could it be trained only on the specific company's own policies and community forums? Local specialised models just seems more economical for businesses, and that would be a big opportunity for contract work.
TLDR: hardware seems to be a safe bet. But AI, while risker, could prove to be incredibly lucrative if businesses move away from centralised cloud services to provide it.
What are you guys' thoughts on this?
I ask because for almost every movie/show you could possibly want to watch, there are a bunch of different files you can grab... But they're not all equal. I know you can set filters but that really doesn't guarantee anything because a 1.5gb 1080p bluray x265 is NOT the same quality as a 15gb 1080p bluray. Sonarr doesn't have the ability to check exactly what settings were used for encoding so it really is a gamble as the what you'll get if you leave it to the automatic search. Now obviously this isn't as much of a problem if you have your own r/HomeDataCenter and only grab straight remuxes because that's an easy metric to filter by, but for most of us that isn't possible in today's economy.
So yeah, do any of you actually let Sonarr handle it all automatically? Personally I always use interactive search and open the link to the source to check whether the files match up with TVDB. As for quality I generally don't examine the posted settings used for the encode, but rather I sort of just eyeball the file size and decide whether it is realistic for, say, a 2 hour long 1080p or 4k bluray. For example, a 1080p bluray movie tends to be 8-15gb while a 4k bluray would be more like 20-30gb. This is what I consider to be an acceptable range between potato quality and "can I really afford to have a single movie take up 100gb"?