Enjoying the Fruits of Our Labor and Putting Our Face On! Vintage Story Guide S2 (1.18) Ep 26

[@MundusMeus974]

Hi Kurazarrh, I started watching this series about a month ago and I've been absolutely loving it. Your voice, jokes, and how you explain the game is really helpful and also comforting, kind of like listening to a friend at a coffee shop. My pc had broke and this series kept me going, got my pc back and I've bought this game based off your little walkthrough. It's been amazing. Thanks for this series. It's great.

[@kelvarius]

Congrats on buying the game! ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF -- er, I mean... Hope you enjoy it for a long time to come!

[@Kurazarrh]

Aww, hey thank you for such a kind comment! Glad the series could be a companion while you were having a silicon shortage! And welcome to the game! :)

[@tuftypinkchicken]

@@kelvarius HAHA! Came here to say this!

[@DecafSaxGuy]

I wouldn’t mind if you got a super powerful Burt. What’s nice about vintage story is that while a lot of things are powerful, nothing is invincible.

[@Kurazarrh]

Very true! Scorpion Burt would struggle to take on more than one nightmare drifter!

[@NatesiKness]

Wow the front looks gorgeous!! It’s awesome to see so much creativity! I love the voxel shaping mechanic, it’s what the other block game always desperately needed!

[@Kurazarrh]

:D Thank you!! I'm really happy with the front of the house--and in a handful (or two) of episodes, we'll make some further improvements! There is a "Chisel" mod for that other block game, but I don't think it's as fleshed-out as the built-in chiseling in VS!

[@darkwinner657]

Have learned so much from this series. Also sooo many new ideas for building. THANKS so much...Keep it up :D

[@Kurazarrh]

That's great to hear! Thank you so much! :)

[@yeoldstickinthemud9570]

For the lantern for the front door, you can do one of those old lamp post in the yard by the walkway. I don't know if everyone knows about them, but they seem to always be painted black and be alittle over head high. Thanks for the vid!

[@Kurazarrh]

Lamp posts are definitely an option! I was trying to decide clutter in the yard, so maybe I could fit some lanterns on posts attached to the fence or something!

[@rahul9704]

Chiseling is an excellent tool in a voxel game. The door frame is great!

[@Jannfndnanakid]

truth nuke

[@Kurazarrh]

:D Thank you!!

[@gmc9987]

For the door lantern, you could try to place it on the ground either on the stoop or just at the foot of it - so that it's not meant to look like a permanent fixture, but rather something that you'd grab on your way out to feed the animals or something that you just left outside after running inside real quick to grab something.

[@Kurazarrh]

Great idea! I'll play around with it, got lots of suggestions to try!

[@AustinStanley1]

Feels like with all that overhang, especially with heavy soil, you would need some supports

[@Adam-gk2mg]

It's cider season, baby!

[@Solstin]

Really liking the rounded look for the hobbit house! Hope you have a good supply of chisels handy :P

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you! I do keep running out of chisel durability, but once we get iron, hopefully that shortage will resolve itself! ;)

[@ogregflamenguista4313]

hey Kurazarrh i just know it will blossom into such a cozy hobit house

[@Kurazarrh]

:D Thank you!!

[@Lake_Filter]

Thought you would've incorporate wood as floorings to the porch, but I'm quite satisfied with the end result.

[@Kurazarrh]

:) Thank you! Glad you liked the outcome!

[@104Woodworks]

Dude I'm hooked and you are teaching me so much about the game! I started on the guide video about preparing for the winter, I don't know if I'm going to survive my first winter haha but you sure gave me hope, at least for a future play through 😂👌 thanks for all the info man, this game goes into such detail, it's what the "other block game" could have been, and do'nt get me wrong, I love Minecraft, but this is definately more my taste! Subscribed!

[@Kurazarrh]

Hey, thanks for the sub! Good luck surviving winter--and always remember, you can still go hunting, can find some grain inside food vessels, and can even buy (somewhat pricey) food from agriculture traders! ;)

[@104Woodworks]

I absolutely might have to resort to those options haha thanks again man 🙌

[@baconatur4039]

It will be either a yellow or a violet lantern.. and hopefully the latter.

[@Kurazarrh]

Ding ding ding!

[@thominaduncanson7596]

Perhaps your roof overhang could have two fabulously carved wooden support pillars, like a Swedish stave church? From what I can remember of the Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring movie, Frodo’s hobbit hole had beautiful wood carving in it.

[@shadowfighter126]

I think that a cool idea will be to lower a bit gravel in places near to the stairs or slabs on the path using pan bowl and maybe building little hut for your little "pet" Love Your VS series ♥

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you! Yeah, I'm thinking of chiseling down those gravel blocks a little bit to match the stairs. I've also got a fun little idea for where to store Burt when he's not adventuring with us! :)

[@chitin122]

If you take a 2 thick wall and chisel one side it should make a room still. But that requires building around it.

[@M.Hvistendal]

Nice job!! I love the door! And the redwood door looks great imo.

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you! I like the redwood but I do think acacia would look even better! ;)

[@rhondanation9214]

Love the new face. Lil makeup never hurts.

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you so much!!

[@dellanpinegrove6178]

For a larger selection of doors, you really need the medieval expansion mod. Great for gates and portcullises.

[@Kurazarrh]

Not anymore! ;) Vanilla Vintage Story now has, in addition to the standard 2x1 doors (2 tall, 1 wide), 3x1 doors, 2x2 gates, and 4x2 gates. All of them can be doubled up, too, to make them twice as wide.

[@awfrailey]

Could make a mailbox just to side off path in front of portico, and plop lantern on top of it

[@Kurazarrh]

Definitely a possibility! I was trying to keep that yard area open, though, as I'm not 100% sure what else I want to put there just yet. We'll see how things shake out as the rest of the house comes into focus! :)

[@Fosuya]

35:30 the house has a black eye 😂

[@Kurazarrh]

XD!

[@shannonbish5194]

I always like watching your videos. Your voice reminds me of Daily Dose of Internet. For the light at the door, what about a lamp on either side, instead of lantern(s)?

[@Kurazarrh]

I could put down some lamps, but I also need the lanterns to keep rifts from spawning next to the house. 😬😬😬

[@kelvarius]

Nice job with the house facing... I wasn't sure how well those bricks would work, but they really do the trick! Of course, it looks like you gave that face a couple of black eyes, but... ;) Also, I know you're not big on the cherry, but I usually use 'em for some cherry pies... Just some food for thought!

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you! Glad the design grew on you! As for the pies, cherry pie still gives less satiation than other fruit, so I still prefer to avoid it. If the game let you use more cherries \ cranberries in recipes to account for that deficit, I'd probably use them more.

[@dittymargoo]

Absolutely love the door shape! Perhaps there is a way to soften the roof steps underneath with chiselling? I suppose the problem would be that the wood looks like aged wood that could be pretty expensive if you want something to blend in.

[@Kurazarrh]

I think we have enough aged wood to make it blend in, just that we can't chisel the actual roof blocks themselves. If we need to, we could even steal some aged planks from the translocators nearby! ;)

[@dittymargoo]

@@Kurazarrh Yeah, I kinda guessed you wouldn't be able to chisel the roof blocks. Can you chisel the leaf blocks from the mod you have installed? If so they might also be useful to cover things.

[@Kurazarrh]

@@dittymargoo No, the leaf blocks aren't chiselable. Generally speaking, if the block isn't a solid cube, slab, or stair-step shape, it's not chiselable.

[@n3bux]

place some beams in the middle of the roof

[@Agora2021]

17:47 Burt jumpscare.

[@Kurazarrh]

XD yeah he does that!!

[@ScorpiusZA.]

It's interesting. In three middle of Summer and not all of the lake ice blocks have all flawed. Is that a chunk not loaded thing or a game thing do you think?

[@Kurazarrh]

This often happens when you haven't loaded a chunk since winter! Not really a bug in the coffee but something that probably needs some attention!

[@Abrxs365]

Thanks for the series! Question: Do you know the max size an animal pen can be and will they graze on wild grass with occasional trough feedings and still be considered farm animals?

[@Kurazarrh]

Glad you're enjoying it! As for your question, there isn't really a maximum pen size, though there are some practical limitations I'd suggest. Pens larger than about 40x40 are largely impractical since the animals might not notice and pathfind their way to the troughs. Pens larger than 10x10 are also somewhat impractical if you intend on breeding animals: male animals have a 10-block mating range. Animals seem to currently be bugged, and they won't graze on wild plants during the warmer months. But even so, for breeding purposes, you still need to feed them from a trough anyway. Wild grazing only affects their weight. Outdoor pens of ANY size are often not recommended because bears especially can attack over fences, unless you build them 2+ blocks high (and I recommend 3 blocks for fences, 4 blocks high for non-fence blocks).

[@LuisEdGm]

The asymmetry really bothers me, maybe it will look better once it is all complete

[@loviebeest]

It doesnt bother me but a lot of this building is a case of trust the process

[@Kurazarrh]

I generally tend toward some asymmetry because I find symmetrical builds look too structured. But on larger builds (like builds at the top end of reasonable size in VS), I start to like symmetry again. Haha.

[@deviantpersona]

Hey, sir. I just got the game 2 days ago after coming across a different video, but have been devouring your series due them helping to explain the game. Downside is that with 1.18.7, this seed isn't playable since the area where your house that your building in this video on top of a mountainous area. I hope that if you do a season 3, I'll be able to play along 😂 keep up the great work. 👍

[@Kurazarrh]

Hey, that's awesome! Welcome to Vintage Story! Yeah, unfortunately the seed is no longer valid in 1.18.2 or higher. If you downgrade your game to 1.18.0 or 1.18.1 and generate a new world using this seed, it should generate in the same manner as the world in the Guide series. After that, you can upgrade to the latest and it should stick.

[@deviantpersona]

@Kurazarrh I'll have to try that. I'm just now starting to get a few mods put in...I usually play about 20 hours of a game before even looking at mods to see how vanilla runs and what is needed for QOL. Plus, I mostly stick to building enhancements just for variety. I did try a terrain mod out, but not sure if I'm liking it, and though a ruin mod makes the ruins more realistic looking, it boosts the jar rate to where being a loot goblin is detrimental to game play early game. I may uninstall those 2 just for a more challenging experience.

[@Kurazarrh]

@@deviantpersona Ah. You're talking about Better Ruins. XD Yeah it adds interesting ruins, but it adds way too many of them, and they're all loot pinatas and too good in the early game. I do keep the Guide series mod list in the video description, and it's meant to be a "Vanilla plus QoL" series, so if you're looking for Vanilla-like, my mod list might be a great place to start. :)

[@deviantpersona]

@@Kurazarrh yeah, I grabbed a lot of those already. Now it's just whittling down

[@rogo7330]

Personally don't like that roof overhang. It looks like it was built after everything was dug up and entry was build after instead of home being dug up entirely from the hill. Plastic-plant feel. I'd personally would just place square grass blocks as one block overhang and it will gradually go down to the base of the wall, maybe with a sneaky blocks to jump up on the roof. Would look more like a rabbit that burrowed into the hill, but that rabbit also can build doors and forge some lanterns from bronze.

[@MrTerranaunt]

But why does that window styling prevent the room from providing the 'room bonus'?

[@Kurazarrh]

In order for a room to be "sealed" as far as insulation goes, it must be made from solid blocks, slabs with their solid side touching the room, stairs with a solid side facing the room, doors, and window panes in the correct orientation. Chiseled blocks must have an "insulating face" on the interior side of the block in order to seal the room, and it only allows for removal of up to 20 1x1 microvoxels on the insulating face. In this case, a single block with our fancy brick window frame is missing a total of 64 microvoxels on its insulating side, so it won't seal the room.

[@Argoxie]

aaaarrrrgggghhh my OCD at 25:16-28:00

[@Argoxie]

But everything is restored at 30:40, man Kurazarrh don't scare us like that. Love the roof now

[@Kurazarrh]

Haha yeah I didn't like it either!

[@hextorres209]

Question i remenber in earlier episodes you had purchased a redwood sapling but i dont remenber you ever cutting it down

[@hextorres209]

Nm saw it at end of the episode hahah

[@Kurazarrh]

XD Yep!!

[@grzegorzfranciszek1032]

Do something with barn and animals...

[@josiespectator]

what settings for the vol mod did you use?

[@Kurazarrh]

I'd be able to tell you for sure... if my laptop hadn't died... :X Anyway, I think I had the volumetric lighting and screen-space reflections turned on (though the SSRs do some funny stuff sometimes), and I always turn on deferred lighting and improve SSAO. Pretty sure I leave the other options off. I don't think I tinkered with any of the settings deeper than the main screen.

[@tajskaowo7222]

maybe get some old wood to make roof look lest you know blocky

[@Kurazarrh]

That'll be part of the long-term plan once the adjacent roof sections are done!

[@youareabuddha]

Kurazarrh, how many hours in are you at this point in the game? I'm trying to wrap my head around time of progression.

[@Kurazarrh]

Hard to say exactly since this was a while ago, but in general you can get a decent idea of how much time I was in-game by multiplying the episode number by 3.5 (the average number of hours spent playing per episode). So at this point, around 90.

[@godzilla_fan_13]

have you thought about getting a mod that increases the seed drop rate?

[@Kurazarrh]

For trees, or for crops? For crops, no. For trees... have thought about it! Some trees seem to be generating with much smaller canopies than in previous versions of the game, which exacerbates the issue.

[@Johng2476]

I installed crateful and find it isn't working for me.

[@Kurazarrh]

I haven't had a problem with it yet, but if you updated to 1.18.8, that could be the cause. I'm not the mod developer, though, so I can't really troubleshoot.

[@Johng2476]

@@Kurazarrh I used it prior to the update.

[@chitin122]

Why not read the scrolls and books directly instead of opening the journal?

[@Kurazarrh]

Haha, mostly because I'm so used to reading the journal that I forgot you can read them directly! XD

[@calabdodge1066]

#20 questions have you ever heard of the game called hytale and if you have wheeler plate

[@Kurazarrh]

Hey, thanks for your question submission! I've already addressed Hytale (though it was a long time ago), so I'll answer here: I've heard of Hytale! Not sure what a wheeler plate is, though.

[@calabdodge1066]

@@Kurazarrh sorry I use voice to text and it messes up sometimes because I I am dyslexic so I can't read or write so that's why you don't know what that is because it isn't and I already forgot what it is either but what I was trying to say sorry

[@calabdodge1066]

You should also add a VC for all of your members to talk to each other about vintage story and possibly about some ideas for vintage story

[@Kurazarrh]

@@calabdodge1066 Hey, no worries at all! Totally understandable! :)

[@Kurazarrh]

@@calabdodge1066 There are a couple voice channels over on our discord, though they're waaaaaaaay down at the bottom!

[@tehNashty]

Is burt mad at you?

[@kelvarius]

Of course Burt's mad! I mean, Kurazarrh never takes him on walks or plays fetch with him, and he NEVER seems to let him feast on the blood of his enemies any more...

[@Kurazarrh]

Hehe maybe!!

[@michaupinski6506]

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