u/Juck445

We’re back in it! No longer hardcore mode, maybe I’ll try it again depending on what people say about this current play through. This new update it crazy cool! Nice job to the devs, very well done but you removed my beloved Kvass.

My world is 7% continental, snow hight is set to 8.
I spawned further north than most, by design of course. At spawn the average temperature is -7c but me being me I moved a few thousand blocks further north bringing the average down to -11. Found some rye and barley as well as a little bit of cabbage on my way up. In my area there’s really only lentils and radishes. For animals there’s dire wolves, some grizzlies, polar bears, yaks, oxen, caribou, lemmings, moose and quail. I did find some snowberries at spawn but no other fruit.

I set up a small house with 2 campfires for a fireplace room made with mud bricks. Later set up a stove in August when I saw that the snow was no longer melting in the daytime. I geared myself up in full primitive clothing and retrieved both tin and copper from nearby sources. Enough to construct a bloomery, however; by then it was already too cold for any iron mining. By November it was already -22c on my front porch, I can’t survive more than 5 minutes outside even with my clothes and soups. My charcoal forge is not hot enough to keep me alive even if I’m nearly standing on top of it.

This predicament implies that I’m just too far north. To my east it’s ice sheet mountains biome, north is more doldrums biome like where I am currently but less trees, large shallow lakes and flattened ground biome. West is an ocean riddled with sea ice. very beautiful terrain, especially the mountains. When the weather permits I will beat a path south to find a more hospitable region, maybe -5c, as I do wish to keep this base accessible until I can get string for warmer clothes with polar bear hide. I want to go further north eventually.

Anyone have tips to better insulate a house? The firmalife ovens do a very good job but getting wood has been proving to be a treacherous task. Freezing to death is much worse than overheating, hence I’m no longer hardcore when I’m up north. Last I tried I froze to death in the muffle of the summer!

Cheers all!

I am interested in a tech locked server that was advertised a couple months ago. The OP mentioned it was only possible to advance to steel age and I was hoping that it still existed. Dm me ⚔️

I am not sure which one it was, either the alloy smelter or the steam forge hammer blew up seemingly randomly when I was not using them, quite a while after I was done using them. They were beside each other with a blaze burner between them. They were both hooked up to steam and venting out the topside. My liquid boiler was out of fuel and full of water (64 blocks away from the forge setup). I want to prevent whatever just happened. Maybe I’m crazy and a creeper somehow got behind me and made it look like the steam stuff blew up.. or maybe I accidentally placed a torch on the vent? I’m not sure, I didn’t know that those machines could explode but I’m mad that I have to make new ones 😂
The system was indeed full of steam and a steel mechanical pump was driving steam towards the machines. the boiler was not producing steam when I ran down to check it.
I hope someone knows what I did wrong or what may have gone wrong for those machines to explode so that I can prevent it from happening again 🥲

P.S
I agree with the guy who just posted about sloops^^ they deserve some adjustment. Really fun boats though, should try and add a briggate to the game one day if the pack can support something like that :)