What's That Grinding Noise? A Windmill to Automate Our Quern! Vintage Story Guide S2 (1.18) Ep 17

In today's episode, we aim to make life easier for ourselves! We start by finishing up some bronze ingots and getting some more molds for nails and strips. Then we build a little tower on our house and build our windmill atop it! After a brief foray through the most distant translocater we've found, we mine out some limestone and bring it back to grind--look ma, no hands!
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Mods:
Better Firepit
Branch Cutter
Campaign Cartographer
CarryOn
Chisel Tools
Clay Mold for Nails and Strips
Emote Menu
Farmland Drops Soil
Simple HUD Clock
Joy of Sailing
Noisy Bears
ProspectorInfo
Shelfish
Simple Wind Direction
VertPlanks
Workbench Expansion
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[@theharbingerofconflation]

The clock calling your house a cellar is quite the diss.

[@Kurazarrh]

Maybe, but it's kind of nice from a mechanics standpoint!

[@XiaoYueMao]

isnt it calling it a cellar because its cold and enclosed?

[@loviebeest]

This season seems to go much faster than last. Not only because of incredible luck but more likely because of your experience. It's still just as entertaining and educational!

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you! Glad you're enjoying it! A good part of the accelerated progression is that in the first season, we spent a few episodes in the initial starting area and then spent some time looking for and finding the location to build our house, so we didn't have two "first house" episodes this time around. I also held out on a windmill in the first season until I could bring my vision for the Lupine Ridge estate to life, but windmills are actually a pretty simple thing to put together, even in the copper age!

[@GirishManjunathMusic]

Awwww yea, more vintage story! \*oboe noises\*

[@Kurazarrh]

Haha, *toot toot tooooooot*

[@washingtonirving8240]

I really liked the little recap sequence at the start. It was so cozy and fun!

[@Kurazarrh]

Thanks for saying so! Glad you liked it! :)

[@finkle11]

Love the ambience of Vintage Story in the winter.

[@Kurazarrh]

I think the ambiance is nice, but it does put quite the strain on travel! @.@

[@pnumenwiese]

Candles are nothing to sneeze at. Mhmm. Sometimes it's funny to hear these quotes or whatever you call these. The elderly people here where I work have tons of wise and funny things to say. And I love it! Grreat and entertaining video! Thank you! I downgraded to 1.14.10 to load my fav world again. There was obsidian and I loved to use these for weapons and tools. Looks cool. Also I "cook" my claystone forms at the fire pit. Pretty .. strange. Have a cozy weekend with your family!

[@Kurazarrh]

Haha yeah idioms are weird no matter what language they're in! XD That's quite the downgrade! Do you think you'll ever take a backup and then upgrade that world to the latest version? Sometimes it blows up, but generally Tyron's done a great job of making sure that old worlds can be ported forward (though you might have to step through 1.15, 1.16, 1.17 first!)

[@pnumenwiese]

@@Kurazarrh Oh yes, I will not take the big step to the latest version. I learned from you, I believe? I explore an good ammount of chunks and take it to 1.15.0 today. Already installed. Now I will have a huge meal with bread and pie! Yay! Also backups are always a thing. Since I lost my worlds in Subsistence I safe whenever I upgrade. For now I will play the vintage version of VS. Just found your new video.. I have to go o/

[@Kurazarrh]

@@pnumenwiese Ah, that's awesome. Wishing you well on your journey through the versions! :D

[@theharbingerofconflation]

Loud quern is why I usually make windmills external towers with doors

[@Kurazarrh]

Yeah, I don't normally keep my quern in my living quarters. But since this isn't our forever home, I didn't want to attach a huge windmill next to it only to abandon it later! XD

[@theharbingerofconflation]

@@Kurazarrh I'm now wondering if you'll live in a hill in the village like a hobbit or down in your personal Moria like a dwarf xD

[@Kurazarrh]

@@theharbingerofconflation Find out... Soon(TM)! ;)

[@tehNashty]

​@@KurazarrhI hate that trademark... Want it now! Dang in it!

[@newkkl]

Great way to help get people started on windmills! They can be so complex it’s hard to follow sometimes. Also, I always learn little new tidbits from you like the shift from 7x7 to 14x14 for rooms -super useful.

[@Kurazarrh]

Hey thank you! I'm glad you got something out of the episode! I'm not sure if they changed it or if it was always that way and I just never noticed!

[@KerboOnYT]

Wow, that is really cool that you can use wind power. Great series!

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you!!

[@Xeros08]

Great episode! Didn't know about the chute/hopper thing!

[@Kurazarrh]

Thank you! You can bet that once we have a place with more room, we'll be installing a fully automated quern system with chutes and hoppers! :)

[@Xeros08]

@@Kurazarrh Question, is there a way to have the windmil and an insulated interior? Cuz having that windmill kinda made the renovation useless :P

[@Kurazarrh]

@@Xeros08 Yeah, sadly! I think if we had a much taller tower or had it offset far enough from the house, the room calculator might give it a pass. But that would make the whole house look strange. Other options proposed include putting the quern and gearing outside, or leaving it inside but encasing it such that I can open a trapdoor and access the quern. I don't think it's a project for the current house, though. I want to build our forever home soon! :)

[@Eckebrecht]

Grinding up marble? You monster! What is next....sea shells? ;) I wonder whether the blocks from the mod 'Axle in blocks' are insulating?

[@Kurazarrh]

Ooh, I don't think I could forgive myself if I ground up seashells... The axle in blocks mod might be handy for filling that gap. Would be a nice-to-have, though I wish it wasn't necessary to mod it in!

[@Eckebrecht]

​@@Kurazarrh I am relieved to see you have still some dignity left.... True, even that the roof isn't insulating by default is a shame. One would think they would.

[@GirishManjunathMusic]

@@Eckebrecht unceiled shingles aren't insulating at all irl either so I think that's fair actually

[@Eckebrecht]

@@GirishManjunathMusic Hmmm...Alright, you have a point there. But they should at least keep snow and rain out and that is a problem I have regularly with mostly corner pieces.

[@tehNashty]

​@@KurazarrhI take it you KNEW you were grinding marble. How else would you have known? White marble cobble or drystone is just meh, anyways.

[@townwitchdoctor5538]

That explains why the upstairs room in my castle was -20c.

[@Kurazarrh]

Yeah it gets chilly up there!

[@k3kr]

That's one tough improvised armor

[@Kurazarrh]

Haha. I keep replacing it with a fresh one whenever it breaks! Plus, it only absorbs the hit 50% of the time, and the other 50% it's useless (when legs or head are targeted).

[@benben-fz2es]

This is a huge problem. We don't have sealed axles block. So that a lot of negative consequences are affecting the game such as no quern in the kitchen or smithing blooms which are getting cold in seconds during the winter. So the actual solution is to place quern and helve outside/separate "room". In you case it is about to make small room/bubble around the quern upstairs, with trapdoor to access it, or move it outside.

[@benben-fz2es]

Aesthetically the bubble may be made with trapdoors too. Trapdoors are isolators.

[@Kurazarrh]

Yeah, we could really use a sealed axle block for situations like this. Not to mention, cellars don't HAVE to be completely enclosed--and for aging bleu cheese, you have to have a hole in your cellar. So why not rooms, too?

[@chitin122]

I can't believe any sane person could tolerate an automated quern in their kitchen there is a reason it deserves its own building/tower.

[@gmc9987]

If you power the quern from below, you *can* seal a room with a quern in it - the bottom half of the quern counts as a sealing block so you can run an axle underneath the quern, as long as the axle doesn't come into the room itself it'll be sealed.

[@benben-fz2es]

@@gmc9987 good idea as the powered quern also powers the upper side axle. So the system could look as quern being that magic axle block. Needs tests and checks.

[@gmc9987]

Yeah, the game counts any valid room that fits within 7x7x7 as a cellar (as long as it doesn't have enough glass in the roof to be a greenhouse, that is). So you can actually make an entirely wood and glass cellar - it just won't store your food very well.

[@Kurazarrh]

I thought wood specifically couldn't be used to qualify as a cellar? Or is it just "worse" than stone/dirt? I haven't experimented with that!

[@gmc9987]

@@Kurazarrh It's just worse. As far as I can tell, cellars aren't all-or-nothing, they take te ratio of "good" cellar blocks to "bad" cellar blocks and use some sort of math to spit out the decay rate for each location in the cellar.

[@gmc9987]

Having the door open or closed also affects things in 1.18 too! Shelves near my door have a .27 spoilage rate when my door is open, and .26 when the door is closed, during the summer months.

[@Jael555]

its the spring of my second year and i have a huge crop of flax coming in, ill be following in your footsteps soon! thanks for the video!

[@Kurazarrh]

Ooh, nice! Flax is one of the biggest needs in this game. Good luck in year 2! :)

[@ryxamcross]

So we're becoming Took or Bucklanders? Nice.

[@Kurazarrh]

Maybe I'll be a fool of a Took! ;)

[@elise3517]

Smallfollllllllk yeah!

[@Kurazarrh]

:D

[@mshambaPGrated]

As always, great video!

[@Kurazarrh]

:) Thank you!!

[@theharbingerofconflation]

Seems like I'm getting my windmill after all! Muhahaha

[@Kurazarrh]

There was always going to be a windmill! :)

[@kelvarius]

Hmmm... Inspired by small people who don't like to adventure, huh... I GOT IT!!! You're basing the build on Viking culture! Yeah, that's it! That's the ticket!

[@Kurazarrh]

Got it in one!!! :P

[@slarzyer]

YEA!... i cant wait to get into the new 14x14 room designs myself too

[@themidnightrust]

I haven't played much since 1.18, are you not able to smash limestone with the hammer inside your inventory now?

[@Kurazarrh]

Hehe. You can, but I always forget about it! XD

[@kelseyforrest3450]

Thank you for the windmill tutorial! This task seemed like such a process that I have been hand grinding everything not wanting to take it on 😅 this video helped a lot!

[@Kurazarrh]

Hey, I'm glad you got something out of it! I hope the wind power system is a bit less daunting now!

[@mcPeekBetweentheReeds]

*Adjusting the nerd glasses* Mh, hm mhm hm, yeas, more knowledge.

[@Kurazarrh]

:D

[@Dunzification]

Oh no. You left that dirt block under the roof. Thats going to bother me for the rest of the series xD Absolutely loving it so far though! I end up watching your videos several times because I put them on before bed and then I inevitably fall asleep because it's so nice and relaxing. So then I need to rewatch them while awake, haha! I hope it helps out your analytics

[@Kurazarrh]

Haha, aww, thank you! Glad you're finding them relaxing like that. That's actually a load-bearing dirt block, so if I remove it, the whole building will fall down! ;P

[@Dunzification]

@@Kurazarrh yeah, you have a very nice voice to listen to! Speaking of load bearing dirt, do you think you'd ever play with dirt gravity turned on as well? I've done it a fair bit and it can make for some awesome rock slides as well adding yet another potential danger to any adventuring. Bit annoying to build with though :p

[@Kurazarrh]

@@Dunzification Ahh, thank you! As for dirt gravity, while it's realistic, I think I'd want Tyron to adjust how dirt generates before I try it out--I don't think it's that realistic that there would be so many areas of dirt just WAITING to erode suddenly and violently all the time...

[@kevinsiscoe]

I really appreciate your videos, Kurazarrh. I purchased this game about a week ago - and your videos (even earlier seasons) have been been such an instrumental help in learning how to play the game. Thank you for taking the time to create this content for folks like me.

[@Kurazarrh]

Hey there, thank you so much for saying so! I'm always glad to hear that my videos have been helpful in getting new players into Vintage Story! :)

[@Trav18]

I take it you lose the room bonus by having the quern chute up to your windmill? If so it's a shame you fixed your room bonus with the extra roof tiles, only to lose it shortly after!

[@Kurazarrh]

Sigh... yeah, unfortunately our room bonus vaporized with the windmill! Though I didn't realize it until over the weekend!

[@thor2520]

​@@Kurazarrhu could Close the chute, Box the quern in and Access it trough a trapdoor!

[@Kurazarrh]

@@thor2520 True, though then I'd still have to deal with the constant grinding noise! XD

[@tehNashty]

​@@KurazarrhWow, there is no pleasing you, is there? 🤪 I hear ya. I always put my windmill in another building because of the noise. I usually hook up a clutch and transmission to each thing. Especially the helve hammer!!!

[@TheSunnyTrails]

“Cinnabar is great for the lungs” ahh yes, mineralised mercury stuff of vigor and vitality! An ingredient of the fountain of youth! *don’t actually mess around with cinnabar*

[@Kurazarrh]

XD Protip: never listen to anything I say! ;)

[@chitin122]

Grindy grindy, I always loathe setting up an early windmill. Wish this game added watermills and animal powered mills to be more complete.

[@Kurazarrh]

Those could be fun! Animal-powered mills would be a pain to set up without better animal handling/management, though!

[@chitin122]

@@Kurazarrh I just want to see common sense animal behaviors in some of the existing animals like boars for example. Not sure why they are more chill than Rams who will attack you for getting close. Boars would 100 percent come after you. I'm sure a reduction of predator species with more hostile or evasive prey would make the game more interesting and challenging.

[@Kurazarrh]

@@chitin122 Animal behavior in the game is extremely basic, yeah. But it's still in development, and I know Tyron's been experimenting on and off with leads/rope for animals, so maybe updated animal AI is on the table for a future release!

[@tehNashty]

​@@chitin122There is a mod that does water wheels. There is a mod that does electricity too. Have not seen one that uses animals, yet.

[@chitin122]

@@tehNashty i don't really like the water wheels that have durability

[@themidnightrust]

#20Kuestions Where would you rank translocators on the transportation-to-murder scale for teleportation technology, and why?

[@Kurazarrh]

Thanks for your question submission! It's been added to the list!

[@Andy_Enderson]

No judgment from me about grinding marble considering I've ground seashells for lime, and marble.

[@Kurazarrh]

You... WHAT? Seashells??? Heresy!

[@Andy_Enderson]

@@Kurazarrh *Cackles in grinding seashells for lime*

[@tehNashty]

​@@Andy_EndersonGrinding seashells for lime is akin to building a house with terra pretta!!! 😠😡🤬

[@dittymargoo]

If you built a small tower (same size as the one you've just made) attached to the side of the house with a door for access to the quern, would this still seal your house? Sure, more blocks would be needed though.

[@Kurazarrh]

It would, actually! Someone else proposed a similar idea, but using a trapdoor in the ceiling where the quern currently is. Turns out, it works! :)

[@Hugo-xr1mg]

looking the way the game is setting, we shouldth have some vehicles, like Horse and Carriage, what do you think?

[@Kurazarrh]

That seems to be the kind of thing Tyron is working on! If you check out the news feed on the VS server, he's working on mini-dimensions that should allow for additional in-world grids of blocks that are disconnected from the world grid! (The purpose for these being primarily vehicles.)

[@nono-jj9rr]

Please try and automate more things this season, you've barely ever built any machines last season and now being a clockmaker it makes perfect sense!

[@Kurazarrh]

Last season? We built every machine possible last season except for the archimedes screw. There may be other uses for wind power through mods, but the vanilla game only has 4 main uses for it.

[@nono-jj9rr]

@@Kurazarrh I mean more automation in general

[@Kurazarrh]

@@nono-jj9rr What kinds of things do you want to see automated? Vintage Story doesn't have much in the way of automation.

[@nono-jj9rr]

@@Kurazarrh I'd love to see just how far you can push things with hoppers and chests to try and make as many automated machines as possible

[@justjoe5373]

You saying you'll have to buy resin from a trader is making me feel lucky about this aspect of my world, far away from using any resin but already got like 10-15 of them marked on my map

[@Kurazarrh]

I find that even with a dozen resin trees marked, unless I really stay on top of harvesting them every 8 days on the dot, I run out pretty quickly. Supplementing from a trader is really handy. In the first season, we had like 30 resin trees, and I still couldn't do everything I wanted to before we went south!

[@justjoe5373]

​@@Kurazarrh Damn that's a lot of resin. Gonna keep an eye out for any extra trees I come by lol. Guess it makes sense, you gotta have some resource be the bottleneck for automation and it can't be wood and fat

[@elijones7926]

ok cool i thought my game was bugged but your "stone rubble" blocks are invisible as well. i picked one up and its just a question block. maybe something got overlooked? it is a block that was right next to the translocator that you fixed toward the end of the video. its to the left of it if looking at the one you popped out of.

[@Kurazarrh]

Yeah I noticed that, and I've seen that issue in some other people's videos. I hope Tyron notices it soon!

[@IngieKerr]

I realise it would take up precious space/mats* , but would the clutch or brake help with the quern noise & despawning "feature"? [ for despawning: as in, if one were going away-from-base for a while, one could flip the clutch off to a quern (or brake on the main shaft), stopping the process, but with the ease of just being able to flip it back on upon return, doesn't stop the despawning, but makes the toggling of the processing more lazy :) as it doesn't require breaking things or emptying things to shut it up or protect from material loss ] - I don't want to play the game for you of course :) Just that I remembered that you never used either clutch or brake on [e.g] the noisy hammers for the last season, so I wasn't sure if you had an aversion to them other than the materials and space/planning needs? - anyway :) my main thought was "aww, i wanted to see how the clutch or brake was best used, this seemed the perfect opportunity to try them out, maybe he'll save that for future hammer time stopping situations" [ aside and if i were to have a wish-list for your buildings (far be it from me to actually critique them, in all their splendour) - it's that you don't seem to make your power axles a "feature" of the builds... here I'm thinking of your cog-wheel basement at Lupine Ridge - which always made me feel you were embarrassed for them down there, hidden away - rather than on full display in some shaft support structure decorated in your expertly chiselled way :) - too early in this game to care about such adornments of course, but just note I'm watching, and judging :)) ] anyhew, be assured I won't be grumpy if you choose not to complicate matters with such machinations :) I'm certainly not posting to complain "you're doing it all wrong", or coerce into an unnatural style - I'm just here to throw some bits of my brain into the idea-quern and see what plops out into the chutes of design :) * if the response is "One word : Resin." then please ignore everything I've said, and carry on as you were :)

[@Kurazarrh]

Well, resin is certainly one aspect of it, but for this simple setup, I think the bigger issue is that I'm not certain that you can place transmissions or brakes on the sides of blocks... but I also haven't experimented with that! Might be something to find out about later. I do tend to hide the mechanical bits in dedicated rooms, and I wish I had gone back to the mechanical room at Lupine Ridge to at least get rid of the dirt blocks everywhere! The honest answer, though, is that I don't find the gears and things all that interesting to look at, and because of certain limitations on placement, I think they're difficult at best to work into a build and have it look good. Especially since having a hole for an axle to enter a room removes all of that room's technical functions (our house no longer functions as a house due to the axle hole). For this season, I'm going to do another dedicated gearing room, but some of the axles might make an appearance in certain areas of the house. I'm not sure how yet, but I'll figure that out as I go! XD Maybe in the future we'll do a build where we have large gears in the ceiling or something, like a tinker's workshop!

[@IngieKerr]

@@Kurazarrh :) and aye, and as others and you have alluded below/above - the game _perhaps_ should have a house-maintaining thru-wall block axle block. Tho there's an argument that game-lore-immersionwise one shouldn't have axles in the house or pantry as it's at least against OSHA, but also not in the spirit of most folks' houses, and besides, IRL i've personally yet to visit a perfectly insulated mill or smithy ;) and fair points on all other points :) [I didn't specifically mention the dirt blocks in your old basement, just to be discrete :D]

[@tehNashty]

​@@IngieKerrNot sure OSHA is a thing in Vintage Story... Those pit kilns would never be approved, that's for sure!

[@IngieKerr]

@@tehNashty "So, you carry a hot crucible from here..." "Yup" "...to here..." "Uhuh" "...using a pair of wooden tweezers?" "Yeah... .... I used to use my hands, but it started getting hot for some reason..." "Right, I'm shutting this place down"

[@tehNashty]

@@IngieKerr Noooooooo! Don't you dare shut it down! I do not acknowledge your authority! 😛

[@kaze2827]

It is my first winter but my character doesnt get cold during the winter even while naked.

[@Kurazarrh]

If you're indoors or near a fire, you won't get cold, even if naked. There are other things that can affect this, since you can also change the world settings to give your character more resistance to the cold. Other than that, unless you get wet, it can actually take several minutes before your character starts to get cold outside. If you open the character screen, you can watch your body temperature. If it's lower than 37.8C, then your character is starting to get cold.

[@akiamini4006]

Seriously engoying the flow ma boi Kurrazarth , iron age is soon to be at scope hopefully !

[@Kurazarrh]

:) Thank you! We've just barely hit the bronze age, so iron will be a little ways off!

[@ScorpiusZA.]

To keep warm in winter, are there heat sources like fireplaces and the like? Also, does the temperature differentiate between inside and outside, or is it only outside temp only

[@Kurazarrh]

Fires (of any kind, even a burning house!) will keep you warm, for sure. Though as long as you have reasonably-warm clothes and an enclosed room, you generally won't even need a fire unless you go outside for extended periods and/or get wet. The game doesn't differentiate between indoor and outdoor temperature except when you have the "room" buff, though I'm not up on exactly how that works.

[@ham8426]

Is there a clay kiln structure you can make instead of always doing pit kilns?

[@Kurazarrh]

Not in vanilla at the current time, unfortunately. There is a mod that adds a dedicated kiln, but it's a little beyond what I'm comfortable adding as far as mods are concerned, at least for a guide series that's meant to be pretty close to vanilla Vintage Story.

[@ham8426]

That's fair, the old TFC pack i play also has an addon for a kiln but not one default, sadly it requires fire clay which is no where near as straightforward as it is in VS, you gotta hunt for two separate uncommon/rare ores to grind into dust and mix with normal clay. Hopefully VS adds more post metal convenience technology like that

[@locustsun]

"KZ! But, you didn't remove the extra block (soil) above the angled gear in your tower! Meh immersion is le ruined" Your slender-mill is both compact-ful and impact-ful, bravo. Personally, I like being amongst the machinery and seeing all the moving pieces. So, I'm hoping that your designs for the forever-home include a more open mill that we get to see often. ...not that I would want you to do anything other than what's in your head.

[@Kurazarrh]

:) Thank you! I've got some ideas for our forever home and its machinery that I think you'll appreciate, if you love the machines and mechanics. It'll be a little while before those plans come to fruition, but they'll make it here eventually!

[@tehNashty]

Hey, how do you get 2 spears from Axe? This is all explained in this episode of, "The Vintage Story Guide 2"!!!

[@Kurazarrh]

Haha, of course, we only got 2 from Axe... had to make the third ourselves!

[@tehNashty]

What? I don't know what you are talking about! Yes, I did edit...I got rid of the extra 2 @'s! 😳🙄

[@gigglingsociopathh2911]

#20Kurazarrh If it ever could become a thing, would you ever play this game in vr? Is there an older game that you think would make a good vr version, and what game would that be?

[@Kurazarrh]

Thanks for your question submission! It's been added to the list!

[@gigglingsociopathh2911]

@Kurazarrh I hope your having a good weekend. And I am enjoying watching both vintage story and starsector (not sure if I spell thT correctly).

[@Kurazarrh]

@@gigglingsociopathh2911 Awesome, glad to hear it! And I did have a nice weekend, thank you. :)

[@Friskain]

Hey Kurazarrh Im wondering what do you have "Days Per Month" set to

[@Kurazarrh]

I left it at the default of 9, though I personally prefer anything from 12-20 or so. Though with longer months comes longer winter... @.@

[@Friskain]

yeah thats the downfall to longer months is Longer winters :( I tried once to set it tp Spring only but the months stillprogrssed normaly and it still got to winter

[@splintercelloo7]

In sure you've said it several times in past vids so my apologies if you've stated it, but do you have a mod that is letting you place items on slabs? I assume so cause I can't, regardless of how/where they're placed.

[@Kurazarrh]

For placing items on slabs? No, I don't have a mod. But you can only place items on top of slabs (and upside-down stairs) if the top of the slab/stairs is on the "top half" of the block cube that they're in. Like, if you place a slab on the ground (on top of a full-cube solid block), you won't be able to place anything on it. But if you place a slab so that it is 1/2 block above the ground, it becomes an "upper half" or "top half" slab, and you can place items on it normally. You can't place items on vertical slabs or any block that doesn't have at least about 75% of its top surface fully intact.

[@splintercelloo7]

@@Kurazarrh thx for the explanation! I'm fairly new to the game. No other block game experience previously. I'm about 100 hrs in (13 mths game yrs) and haven't really really found a purpose for slabs. Not even for flooring. I've only placed a dozen or so in various scenarios to see what they do.

[@Kurazarrh]

@@splintercelloo7 Using slab top halves is handy for saving on materials, especially wood, which is somewhat work-intensive and slow to renew unless you have a massive tree farm.

[@splintercelloo7]

@@Kurazarrh makes sense. Considering this is my first world seed I don't have much to compare to as for resources availability. This particular seed seems to be extremely bauxite rich which I'm only just learning why that matters. As for trees and climate, I seem to have availability to 4-5 tree species and they all drop a lot of seeds. I'm playing on as much of a survival mode as I thought I handle. I'm generally a minimalist type person, I don't really do grand-scale unless it serves a function first then appearance. Today I just accidentally found an hematite/iron deposit while exploring a cave that turned out to be pretty close to my starting location. I'm beside myself with how much I've gotten so far. Idk if iron typical comes in such large amounts, if so then I will certainly abandon copper age at this stage. I've really enjoyed your series. You manage to avoid going straight to spoiler territory on each topic which I value as it still allows me to uncover things at my own pace. You definitely got a sub from me sir!

[@Kurazarrh]

@@splintercelloo7 Hey that sounds like a great seed! Iron does typically come in enormous veins, but you'll need to progress to bronze before you can mine it! :)

[@yoburbrassbar8107]

What mod do you use to get the mold for nails and strips? I searched the mod db for nail mold (and most variationsof the name I could think of) and only found moremolds, which adds a whole bunch more molds that I don't particularly want. I suppose I could try deleting all the other molds from the zip but that seems to add a whole lot of places to make a whole lot of mistakes!

[@Kurazarrh]

I thought I updated the name of the mod in the videos but I'll have to check. The full name is Clay Mold For Nails and Strips. You should be able to find it on the mod site if you just search for nails.

[@yoburbrassbar8107]

@@Kurazarrh Thank you from the bottom of my weak (and out of practice) programming skills!

[@madeingermany9445]

your house is not isolated again after building the windmill tower in your house

[@Kurazarrh]

Yeah, several folks have pointed that out. I've fixed it now, but it'll be a couple episodes before that fix!

[@theguywiththename888]

Idk what’s up with the simple hud clock icons for me but it keeps giving me the “cellar” icon when I’m out working in my fields..?

[@Kurazarrh]

Yeah it sometimes has a delayed detection and\or the display gets stuck. I find that if I move into and out of rooms, greenhouses, and cellars a lot, it can get confused! It's gotten better recently, so if you haven't updated in a while, you might want to check!

[@raymonshrewsbury5688]

Kern

[@Kurazarrh]

Not sure if you're trying to correct a pronunciation, but "quern" is indeed pronounced "kwern" according to the Cambridge, Britannica, and Merriam-Webster dictionaries.

[@Hughmong_Us]

You need to stop saying "oh, queso" all the time; you're making me hungry 😋

[@Kurazarrh]

I had to think about this for a minute... but I got it! XD