You still get skinning skill ups using the melee attack (not shown since I probably hid the UI) but I agree it seems like an oversight and something they'll fix. Regarding weapons, I'll have to do some testing but I think the 2handers stun faster versus the one handers, but I would like to give 1 hander run a go at some point. Although after the Aska Alone series I kinda miss the bow lol

Your welcome. Total game changer, right!

You didn't find the mine yet?

@@Ser_Bucky Nope. When I have time to spare I adventure and explore the map which is damn huge but still havnt found a mine. I must have the worst seed in the game LOL

@@Daniels656993 OMG yes, cursed seed for sure but an interesting challenge! Let me know how it goes lol!

Thanks for the kind words. I'm impressed by your management of the resources.

@@Ser_Bucky it has been a grind and many hours of playing. Fun nonetheless.

Thank you!

No, it's a trailer to my new playthrough series. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJ7EcqGMatSXm6c

Omg that’s brilliant.

Thanks for watching. I appreciate the feedback.

Wow, thanks for the lovely comment, that's made my day!! I for sure have plans to do more games eventually, maybe 7 days as I've played that one since Alpha 7 and would love to do a series on that. Also thinking of picking up Valheim since I see a lot of comparisons. Welcoming game suggestions too :)

@@Ser_Bucky You definitely give me the vibes of 7 Days for sure haha! Will watch out for the vids if you post them!

@@Metorial I'd have to edit out all my screams because I'm super jumpy in that game 🤣🤣🤣

You totally should, it's very relaxing with just the right amount of panic moments. I'm def looking forward to doing another solo-series. And I hear you on the AI with the patch - I left day/year length normal in my new series for that reason.

Totally!

Haha yeah. I did not have a series name when I started recording then the day one bear coupled with the drauger invasion made it pretty obvious lol

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Ikr! Or villagers who had any sense of self-preservation 🤣

@@Ser_Bucky id like to see a threat marker flag as well, like all other resource markers. Villagers would automatically avoid the threat marker radius, and ignore all resources within it.

Huh, that is a really good idea! You should post that on their forums!

@@Ser_Bucky i can't get to their forums on discord :(

@@beaverhart2566 Did you react on their discord rules page - or do you mean you can't even get to the discord. discord.com/invite/yayr8aN8JH does that still work?

Really? That's bizarre. Good find.

Jump and dodge.

This is the way.

Yeah, of course. So you'll need at least the copper axe for chopping hardwood trees. So first mine up at least 40 copper ore and smelt it into ingots. Copper nodes can be mined using the Simple Pickaxe. You'll only need 20 copper ore for the wood axe, but you will need a copper pickaxe also so you may as well get at least 40. To make a copper axe (or any forged tool) you'll next need to build an Armorer Station using the Simple Hammer (recipe is sold by the NPC at the portals). Once you have the Armorer Station just interact with it and you'll see various tabs for items you can create; Weapons, Armor, Tools. You'll want to go into the Tools section and select Forged Axe - then craft the copper version first. While you're here craft a Copper Pickaxe too. Now that you have a copper axe/pickaxe you can gather hardwood and tin. Combine tin and copper into bronze at the Forge Station and then just repeat the forging process at the Armorer Station by selecting a bronze tool (or armor).

@@Ser_Bucky I made a copper Forged Axe but when I went to a hard wood tree it said I needed a copper axe. Thanks a lot, I'll try again. I'll subscribe, I can at least do that for you helping me out. 😉

@@Death72515 Thanks, I just tested in my game and a copper axe worked for me. If it doesn't work this time it might be a bug or your axe may be zero durability - idk. You definitely shouldn't need bronze axe to cut down a hardwood tree since bronze tools require hardwood to make.

@@Ser_Bucky I messed up, lol. One I was trying to cut was dark wood, you need bronze for that one. Now I have to try to find hard wood trees to make the bronze one to cut the dark wood trees lol.

@@Death72515 OH NO! lol, well I'm glad you figured it out.

Thanks 👍

Do it :D The devs will be coming out with a patch this week (end of August) that allows for world sliders - so you can adjust the world difficulty to better accommodate a villager-free run.

Thank you!

Hey, thanks. This is an important critique for me to work on because I am deaf in my right ear and I find it really hard to tell if my voice/music levels are too high/low during editing. In the finale episode I tried normalizing all dialogue to a KZbin preset (I use Da Vinci Resolve). Definitely for eps 1-3 the audio is wonky since I didn't know that function existed for those. I'd be interested to hear if this is an issue on my next series now that I use the normalization function. Thanks again for the feedback though, appreciate you watching and offering good criticism.

@@Ser_Bucky Your last episode of this series was much better!

@@at6776 Great to know. Thank you!!!

Glad it was helpful!

That last bit made me spill my water lol.

@@Ser_Bucky 😅

:D Off towards the next adventure!

Thank you! Hope to see you in the next series.

Haha yes! Apparently you can harvest sound waves as well as corpses.

That's awesome. Bunnies are still hard for me - small heads.

This is a great one!

OH!! Ok, thats how that has been happening! It was driving me crazy trying to figure out how that was happening. Thank you.

Hi. "Contributed" items is their way of phrasing turned in/handed over. So for instance I am on the hunting 3-star buck quest and if I give Achaeus 3 bucks then I've contributed 3 bucks towards the amount being asked for. The NPC dialogue button for this could do with some work since it it hard to see/interpret at times. But it basically Contribute :: Give. When you fulfill the quest requirements the button changes to Complete I believe.

@@Ser_Bucky thanks

@@brianadsersen8968 You're welcome!

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Glad it helped!

Thank you!

Oh my gosh, really! Thanks for the correction.

Oh that doesn't sound too bad. My mine is littered with large stones.

ETA: I built them in episode 4. The buffs sound great for a normal playthrough, sadly they need continual interaction to keep the buff up so just really nice paperweights in a solo playthrough lol.

Yes, I built spread out in this game because I always build so compacted and it became a pain to navigate.

I've not tried terraforming as defenses yet but its interesting and def gonna give it a go sometime soon.

For sure. the leather gambeson is awesome too but gonna take a loooong time to grind that high.

Thanks! It gets easier with skill. Considering the constant rush I seem to be in it's sometimes nice to be forced to sit down for 30 seconds lol!

Hey, I have the next two episodes planned but they take AGES to edit lol. I'll keep going for a while though, probably just with bigger and bigger time jumps. The seed is Aska Alone. I'd love a good seaside seed, I'd be down to do a seaside series at some point since most of what I play and see is inland.

@@Ser_Bucky qtdwVIOwAORdvMhSpS6zhclFSSx0YeKU9qKWnF1dkRDVSz8x , go right from where you spawn and walk around the shore scanning a bit and you'll find it .

@@randoir1863 Will check it out. Thanks!

I was so surprised by how much damage the longbow did - and those were bone arrows in the video! I left my iron ones in the workshop lol.

Day 18? I started a new seed last night and RAN INTO the bear in the middle of the night on day 1. Had to run through some thick trees to get to safety. He's still nearby, as things other than myself still aggro it. I think it's chasing every smolkr on the island my way, as well

@@Bayle_Bune Yeah I saw one on my first day to in the vid, hanging about the Jotun Giant circle lol. Never knew there were free-roaming ones, but there is a scripted one after a few weeks.

Thanks, appreciate that. And yes, the villagers being a pain was the inspiration for this series lol. Episode 2 is up now FYI.

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Thanks! What are some of your go-to's when starting a new game?

I'll check it out, thanks. Any tips on what direction to start of in? Another seed I saw suggested on reddit is Pug. I think it had a lot of mines in a small group.

Not really that good at the game tbh, can't make it past day 13 without everything spiraling out of control. I explored a bit to the south and found some wolves, not sure if there are any dens close though.

Hey there. Compost is not a requirement at all. If i have spoiled food in my bags I'll go ahead and add them to the crops but haven't really noticed any difference doing so and i dont go out of my way to gather spoiled food from villagers or anything to add to the field. The basic set up will be more than enough. After a few seasons you can even go 2 fields or even 1 field of flax since you'll have literally thousands of fibers by that point :)