Yeah, the introduction of Alphas was a clear indication they'd gone a bit off the rails in the scaling and mmorpg vs survival direction. You get such a massive boost from tame dinos (3x damage right off the bat plus stacking health and damage each level up plus faster attack speed while ridden) that...

Glad to see you taking a look at Ark. I agree with the vague sense of dissatisfaction with the leveling system early on. The intended progression for thatch, wood, stone, metal makes some sense but I think they missed the boat. For solo play and PvE there's no real point in metal, dinos can't hurt s...

Finally making progress, as I'd mentioned I stopped pre soul urns. Managed to get up to making an anvil today finally (can only play a few hours a night). I'm kind of glad I stopped for a bit, all these new things to fiddle with. I can sure as heck foresee automating this soul urn business. Note to ...

For the original song (I hear you knocking) I was picturing the thump thump of a zombie bashing a door. I really need to do something about that at my place. I keep replacing doors since I can't be bothered to go kill them while building stuff and haven't bothered to light my place up like Times Squ...

I'd highly recommend Better Dungeons, it adds some really REALLY tough enemies to the game, would certainly increase the need for steel gear. Thanks, I'll take a look at it. The decreasing challenge in MC is my primary concern right now with regards to developing the mod. Previously, my focus was t...

I took a break from MC and BTW starting last September right about when hellfire dust was introduced. At the time I found myself increasingly frustrated with the simplicity of MC. BTW is a great addition but the core of MC just kept feeling so bloody pointless. In particular I was annoyed that even ...

I futzed around with BTW last summer but stopped playing it and MC back in September, right about the time Hellfire dust was added. I recently started playing again and was happy to see BTW is still very actively developed. Many thanks, it's far and away the best *coherent* mod out there. Back when ...

I've been a lurker for a while, essentially a consumer of your mod which I like immensely and play exclusively, but with nothing to contribute conversation wise other than some ideas on game design which I'm not dumb enough to bring up yet so I've refrained from posting, but here I'm dumb enough to ...