Survival Guide - Advanced tech

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Farming

Wild crops drop seeds which can be planted on farmland. Craft yourself a hoe from stone or metal. Farmland requires either a nearby water source, enough rainfall or daily watering with a watering can to grow. It also needs nutritious soil, so if you come across high fertility soil, take it with you. Depleted soil will make crops grow very very slowly. Crops also require specific nutrients, so be sure to rotate your crops accordingly.

Berry bushes can be replanted as-is, they have no special soil requirements.

Light

Torches can be created easily by putting sticks in the firepit, but when placed will burn out after 3 days. More permanent light sources include oil lamps and lanterns, check out the main article on Light sources.

Inventory Space

You have the following options to expand your inventory. Look up in the handbook opened via H to check out how to craft them.

  • Basket: 3 Slots
  • Hunter's backpack: 4 Slots
  • Linen sack: 5 Slots
  • Leather Backpack: 6 Slots
  • Mining bag: 10 Slots for Stones and Minerals

Early Copper Age

Copper ore can be found by surface chunks like these.

Acquiring copper tools requires the following steps

  • Find copper nuggets either by Panning or scavenging the worlds surface for loose pieces of nuggets
  • Find clay and form yourself some tool molds as well as a crucible
  • Harvest fire wood and create a Charcoal pit to produce charcoal

Once you have that all ready. Please the crucible into the firepit. It will open 4 additional firepit slots where you can place the nuggets inside. Once the crucible moved to the output slot, the metal is ready to be poured into the molds. Hold right mouse click with a crucible in hands on a placed mold to pour metal.

Make sure to completely fill each mold. Once the temperature has dropped below 200 degrees, you can remove the tool from the mold.

Late Copper Age

Early copper age tool casting is easy and fun but prevents you from creating some of the more advanced tools and weapons, such as the saw, shears or the metal version of the spear.

1. Again using clay, build some ingot molds, a hammer mold, and an anvil mold and bake them as before.

2. Cast yourself a copper hammer, a copper anvil, and some ingots

3. Craft a forge

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4. Add one or more pieces of coal to forge and your desired metal ingots holding shift + right mouse click. Ignite with a torch.

5. Once the metal is over 60% its melting point it can be worked. Take it from the forge and place it on the anvil. This will open up a dialog allowing you to choose what to tool/weapon to craft

6. Your goal is now to fill in the empty blue squares with metal. Hit 'F' with a hammer in your hand to see your tool modes.

  • Heavy Hit
    When used on the bottom layer: No effect
    When used on the upper layers: If near the edge, it will move voxels the the lower layer, i.e. flatten the work item. Otherwise it will spread apart the voxels.
  • Upset (Up, Left, Down, Right)
    When used on the bottom layer: Move voxels to the upper layer, only possible at the edges of a work item
    When used on upper layers: Move voxels horizontally or down by a layer if its at the edge
  • Split
    Irrevocably removes one voxel

If you mess up a work piece: Copper and Bronze work items can be smelted back down into an ingot again, Iron work items not viably re-smeltable as of v1.12

Some tools require more metal, you can add another hot ingot to get more voxels.

Bronze Age

Iron Age