and how do i get bulrush?

and cut grass

how do i get mushrooms??

I gave this a try, thank you for making it. I put 6 pieces of ground on the same shallow fresh water and didn't get any more land. It looks like it may no longer work or maybe I was doing something wrong.

I have considered this, but quickly realised it would have a run away affect with some of the items i considered doing it with. Which is why my current intended way of doing it is iver having it done similar to turf but via crafting, or making ore deposits extremely expensive to make.

Im leaning towards a crafted item as this puts a strong incentive on making strong / large automation systems via the bots to get the resources you need.

I have an idea for making the metal deposits. How about: 4 stones + 4 turf + 1 stone pickaxe = 1 metal deposit. It would allow for people to make metal deposits decently well.

started this yesterday afternoon, and it's very slow progress. is there any way to adjust the rate of getting extra dug turf to make expansion faster? also is there a way to get sand?

@Totally Not Pug i have this issue alot when working on the mod. For me it seems to happen when i load the wrong save first then switch to another save and world. Only thing that has worked for me is completely restarting the game, seems to be a bug with the base game as far as i can tell.

@fear vector I can not seem to get the sieve/combiner to work. Am I completely over looking something? I have them made but there are no options when I open up the UI. I have tried in Settlement and enlightenment and nothing allows me to select an option to build ground or seive for rocks.

so how does one get rough stone

I am currently working on a larger than normal update for this Mod. I have currently partially reworked the early game. This will lead into new resources and alternate ways to make things, hopefully giving me a nice platform to add in methods for the late game.

same here I was doing so well then Boom! no more progress for me. :(

...and after some enjoyable hours I realise: Mushrooms?! In Settlement mode?

In what way has it broken? I had to fix a load problem that caused my game to crash but thats because i have been trying to update the mod and i had a error in the code. But the sieve when i finally got in seemed to work as intended.

I think the latest update broke the Sieve?

I had taken a break due to frustrations with the modding api, and this had kinda fallen to the wayside. But im back playing my mod now as i originally made the updated version of the original mod so i could play it and shared it as it took no effort, but this also lets me know how to develop the mod.

Ideally i would love to put alot of these things behind mods or even make it into some kind of large scale overhaul mod. But as this isnt that feasible under the modding api i have put some thought into its possible future development. At this stage im thinking of adding in two new items. 1. a new crafting station to be used for things like sand and possible of fine materials 2. A new crafting item like rope maybe that would be used in building this new station and possible other things.

Great mod, and I'm really enjoying it. And I'm looking forward to more features down the line if you feel for making it.

There are some resources I'm not seeing a way to get yet. Big rocks, clay, metal, sand, bulrush, cotton, bees and flowers are all recourses I don’t see a way of getting, but is needed. Coal is helpful, but I think you can just use charcoal.
There are currently three more things to research on Level 2, and I'm unable to upgrade my research station to Level 3, all because I need said materials.
I think you could just expand the tools you have already made with making Big Rocks, bulrush, cotton, bees and flowers in the combiner. And clay, metal and sand in the sieve with turf, like stones are made today. It’s not very elegant, but workable to be able to play through most, if not all, of it.

anyone knows how i can get sand?

Ok i just posted a crude work around that marks the quest complete if you have unlocked the crude gear. Dose not give you the slab but the costumes and other academy items it leads to should be avaliable.

i see i havent got that far either but really maybe add a mod to combat the problem your having till its fixed on here

Its the certificate for the academy that is stopping me, cause i can not see a way to mine 25 stone, to complete the mine 25 stone, so that i can unlock the rest of the academy. I dont like the idea of having deposits, this certificate is locking the rest of the certificates from opening. I was looking at a way to complete the 'Simple Strip Mine (Stone)' certificate without mining? if it helps its part of the first 7 you get before you unlock any more certificates.

This wouldn't be that much of a problem, except that signs and cool little upgrades for yourself are locked behind the later academy certificates, the biggest one being the bot database.

Would also probably love to add research that helps with turf at higher stages, but once again modding api gets in the way.

Not entirely sure what your asking for here, as i have never actually 100% finished the vanilla game. I had taken a temporary break from the mod how ever after updating it to at least let you get a ok distance into the game, mostly due to frustrations about the very limited modding api.

If this is a request to get deposits for things like stone, clay, ores i had decided to stay away from them as i found that after making only 1 deposit it made it way to easy to make more, and more and more. So in spirit of how i felt the early game played out from the original mod author i decide to make it as you should focus on having better and better automatic turf production. This is further reinforced by the fact because the modding api is lacking i cant disable things i feel break the progression of my mod.

Well if i followed my tail right, it seems this is where all the updates for autoblocks has gone to, just wondering is there a way to get the simple strip mine, from the academy?

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like how a sifter would only work better if you used water like how a gold miner would sift it using water to get rid of the minerals around really though water would make the dirt get removed either way it would help making turf though if you did dirt from a bucket and water who knows though

You make a fair point, i had overlooked it as i had seen it as being easier to make it from turf then the the effort to make buckets constantly. But by the time you get to having a bot it could become trivial, as such i think i am going to look into removing the need for water as its not really necessary as you can sift dirt without water.

the soil thing then becomes useless

well turf can give you 2 if you keep digging it up and then also bucket and soil to make land can be automated easily as long as you make your bot do it 1 time only for each forever :)

Will do currently working on the progression, and how to do it. I was a little worried about the costs of the items such as berries and such, going to guess you dont find this to be a issue then? As i didn't want them to be too easy to get as you generally only need one to get started, that and all items being available to the start due to modding limitations that are built in by the devs.

Its working, thanks. Mod is awesome, keep updating it if you can. Vanilla is good but normally to much room to work with and to OP, your mod dulls that down and gives it a bit of a challenge, sop thanks and keep up the good work.

It should have updated on your end hopefully, as when i moved to using ground as the new system i forgot to add in the code that makes shallow water around it. Hopefully you didn't use up all your turf as your trying to use the base games 30% chance when you dig up a turf to get a second turf. I would automate that as soon as possible with bots like i did i actually ran alot of other things manually for awhile just so i could pump out alot of turf..

yeah i figured that part out, thanks, how do you get more turf, as the ground tool only creates soil and how can you make the island bigger, as you cant use ground on deep ocean water, only shallow

You need to make the combiner (was formerly called a bucket maker) and then use the bucket to collect fresh water.

Edit: Just realised i forgot to update the name in the description.

How are you supposed to get fresh water to make stone in the sieve