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A16 - STARVATION Mod for A16

Farm animals are being fixed, since the bug was finally identified.
1) some ranges are in xml, some are harcoded. I can tell you out of my head that plants look for water in a 7 block radius, and NPCs look for food either inside their own inventory or in a 16 block radius, give it or take it... It's a good idea not to have too many fridges near survivors, since they will look for the closest one, and it's harder to keep multiple fridges with the correct supplies... Also remember they don't need direct access to it, like the animals, so they may find one on a different room and try to use that one... I will review this procedure when possible.

2) there are a few way actually: find the farmer npc and finish the quest, be lucky enough to loot one (VERY rare and only drops on one place), or be lucky enough to get one on Pacco's slot machines. Quest can only be done once, but you can loot more then one... They are not currently breedable, but since Tormentedemu is making nice stuff with mounts, who knows :) maybe they'll get to be a lot more useful in the future.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO EVERYONE: next patch will bring weather seasons. It will all be configurable via xml, so that server managers or individual players can opt out of it or configure their own season distribution. The patch is not far away, so I thought I would give a heads up to let you guys discuss that with your groups to make a decision before it drops.
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Great to hear that a new patch is coming out soon! Also, its always fun to discover things like Pacco's slot machine, which I didn't know about until you just said so! Thanks for responding so quickly.

 
Can't Craft Forged Steel

Playing Single Player \ Starvation Mod.

I've posted this in a couple places, so sorry for SPAM fo some of you. Just can't seem to find the right place to post. If any could direct me if this is not the right place.

I've seen posts all about this but none has exactly described my issue. First, I have all the skills. Second, I have a crucible. Third, i have all the ingredients. The forge does not have Forged Steel in it's recipe list. If I search Forged Steel, it shows up but grayed out. The recipe for forged steel in the list of 3 are as follows. Scrap Steel+Clay, Steel + Clay +Coal, and Iron + Clay + Coal. The coal in my inventory never registers. I don't have a recipe in the list that is just Iron + Clay.

Any help would be much appreciated. Without steel, no sense in playing.

 
Great to hear that a new patch is coming out soon! Also, its always fun to discover things like Pacco's slot machine, which I didn't know about until you just said so! Thanks for responding so quickly.
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What? Slot Machine? In Pacco's fort?

 
Playing Single Player \ Starvation Mod.
I've posted this in a couple places, so sorry for SPAM fo some of you. Just can't seem to find the right place to post. If any could direct me if this is not the right place.

I've seen posts all about this but none has exactly described my issue. First, I have all the skills. Second, I have a crucible. Third, i have all the ingredients. The forge does not have Forged Steel in it's recipe list. If I search Forged Steel, it shows up but grayed out. The recipe for forged steel in the list of 3 are as follows. Scrap Steel+Clay, Steel + Clay +Coal, and Iron + Clay + Coal. The coal in my inventory never registers. I don't have a recipe in the list that is just Iron + Clay.

Any help would be much appreciated. Without steel, no sense in playing.
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Did you make the bigger forge? There is a bigger forge that does steel, copper, zinc, and a few others things. You learn steel as a skill like vanilla and then you need the bigger forge. I hope this helps.

 
Did you make the bigger forge? There is a bigger forge that does steel, copper, zinc, and a few others things. You learn steel as a skill like vanilla and then you need the bigger forge. I hope this helps.
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I've played on PVE/PVE servers with Starvation that don't require the "Bigger Forge" to craft forged steel. Is this a requirement for single Player mode?

 
I've played on PVE/PVE servers with Starvation that don't require the "Bigger Forge" to craft forged steel. Is this a requirement for single Player mode?
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I play a single player game of mine to experiment in creative mode, but I mainly play on a PVP server. So you need the bigger forge for both single player and multiplayer. Maybe that server you play on was modded or maybe that was an older version of the mod. I am new to the mod so I cannot speak to how the mod was in pervious versions. Create a single player creative mode game and mess around with it.

 
If it's not blinking, it does not have enough power.
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Yeah, take a look at the top of the tower and see if it lights up. In the youtube videos I see there is a bright beacon like light that comes on and off. Although in my game I don't have a bright white light, there is some light that subtly blinks... You might have to get rather close to see it

 
My tower is at bedrock underground and it works. It spawns about a person a day or so. Maybe run an experiment in offline CREATIVE MODE and put a radio tower in a POI and one not in a POI and give it a test. Check for the light and make sure its working.
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Alright thanks! the light is working. As you can see here: https://imgur.com/a/B5lJ5

Does your radio tower hit any ceiling as in, it's light is blocked while underground?

 
Alright thanks! the light is working. As you can see here: https://imgur.com/a/B5lJ5
Does your radio tower hit any ceiling as in, it's light is blocked while underground?
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The tower can go right through the ceiling and it should still work. Maybe you are just getting unlucky with your spawns. Again, I would try it out in a fresh single player map with creative mode and see if it works. You can rule out a lot of reasons by running an experiment.

 
... and NPCs look for food either inside their own inventory or in a 16 block radius...
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Their own Inventory! This is the first time I hear about it and it opens a lot of new options here for placing. Is it spoilage-safe?

@carpediembr: do you spend some time close to the activated beacon? I noticed the crafting of the mechanic and smith will pause while the area isn't loaded. So maybe if you minibike in and out quickly, it doesn't have enough time to produce survivors.

 
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If it's not blinking, it does not have enough power.
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I also had the same issue, hooked up the tower to the generator bank, turned it on, no blinking. However, it spawned plenty of survivors which was good but odd. Been working fine ever since.

 
I also had the same issue, hooked up the tower to the generator bank, turned it on, no blinking. However, it spawned plenty of survivors which was good but odd. Been working fine ever since.
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I'll take a look when possible... I know energy has some problems when it's near a chunk frontier, not sure if that's the case for either of you.

NOTE TO EVERYONE - Farm animals were indeed bugged, but I think I fixed them. And here's another small tip to you guys, before next patch. Build some roofs for your farm animals.

 
Well, yesterday I moved in to another place (quite far from that POI) and underground.
Yet, no survivor. https://i.imgur.com/qnzueLE.jpg

I'm doing something wrong... no idea what
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Leave several blocks of space around the underground tower or the survivors will spawn inside the walls and be stuck so you don't see them.

 
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