Posts by Graysilk13

Catching Animals
First step is too build a high cage with no gates in it for the animal. They climb out and they open gates. 2018 I sunk my pen below ground level about 4 blocks. Then lined the sides with stone blocks. I topped the stone with 2x4 grates -not the opening ones. These give a good view and the animals stay in. Players say they have good luck with plank and board walls also.

1.Find an animal, have your rolling pin equipped and approach slowly.
2.Stand next to the animal, hold food in your hand and point it at the animal.In chat, you can see that the animal will say "Yum" If it likes the food. It also says "Thank you" at end points.
3.After you feed it its favorite food several times, you will get a message in chat saying: "AnimalNamexxxxx belongs to you". You may have to feed it several diff. foods to get the to eat it. 2018 In game, type /abm help. This will give you a list of food that each animal will eat.
4.Now point theRolling Pin at your animal and see message in chat:"AnimalName XXXXX is following you" - to stop it following you, point the rolling pin at it again.
5.Check to be sure the animal is following you, and then you can teleport home with both the animal and yourself.
6. I find it best to have the cage you already prepared for it, close to the spawn spot. If not, be sure to check the animal is still following you. Lead it into the cage. 2018 notes now say that the animal will no longer wander further away from the place you leave it, than 20 blocks and it will return on its own. I am testing them again this week and not sure if this is true. I will find out.

To breed animals requires a pair of animals. And they must be caged.
1. Feed one of your animals several times and watch the chat box - when it says: "AnimalName xxxxx wants tobreed" stop: repeat feeding the other one. Somewhere in the feeding process,your animals transform into male and female.
2. Again feed both of them several times, and watch for chat to say "AnimalName xxxxx is pregnant".
3. On screen the pregnant one will show readings of "1% pregnant", ticking thru to "99% pregnant". Immediately after the 99% blinks, the screen shows that the new animal has been born.
And you a have a new animal.
I didn't time the pregnancies unfortunately, as I was extending the cages and had both the cow and pig pregnant within about 10 minutes of each other. I do know it was 2 hours -at least. 2018 I don't think this changed much, but I will time it and add it here.

Naming (2018):
1. Holding a piece of paper in your hand, stand near the animal, a window will appear on screen. Type in the 'owners name' if you want, and name the animal your choice. As of first week of Jan. the plug in appears to be having a problem with naming. It is being worked on I heard.

There is a reward program for catching, breeding and naming your animals. 2018- just began working on this:
1. So far I have learned that the birth of an animal counts 1 point. After catching a pair of cows, sheep, and pigs and breeding them, I accumulated 15 points. The birth of each new animal game is 1 point each. I have 18 points at this point.
2. When you approach an animal, it will tell you how many points you have, which is a little strange
3. These points let you earn pets. To collect them, you apparently have to drop an item on the ground to collect the pet you earned. I'm guessing here. I haven't accumulated enough points to be sure of this step yet.
4. Fox= 60 points. Drop an aluminium ingot on ground.
Penguin= 50 points. Drop a gold bar on ground.
Rabbit = 40 points. Drop a silver bar on ground.
Mini-Pig = 100 points. Drop a mithril bar on ground.
Rat = 100 points. Drop a lightbulb on the ground.

Edited 1/15/19 I have tamed, penned, and bred enough animals now to have accumulated 40 points. I dropped a silver bar on the ground. And immediately got a rabbit.

However, the rabbit took off like a rabbit. I had to chase it all over my property, feed it, and pen it up. This surprised me, because this is not what I expected. The chat instructions led me to believe this is a Pet, an animal that stays with you. I may have read the instructions wrong. However, it works, as it does give a better chance to actually catch one of the little rascals. And I am interpreting pet from experiences with other games too.

The chat says "Congratulations, rabbit #xxxxxx belongs to you now".

As of last night I am now the proud owner of a brand new cow and a brand new pig.
The multi-server I am on allows no plug ins and limited creative. We do things the hard way.
I built a large metal grate cage in 4 compartments. Two pigs in one side, 2 cows in the other.
Getting the critters to mate wasn't as difficult as trying to name them. The window comes up, type in the name and then try to close the window. Not clicking outside the border, or esc. or enter worked. I'll try again today.
Just wanted to say that this is just an amazing feature. I love this game.
I have to click in just about every day just to see what others on my server have done, what's on this forum, and what's coming next.

Agree Poptart, ArchticuKitsu noted something that I think a lot of us have been aware of for a long time. Steam seems to have a lot of impatient people on it. Many of them don't seem to realize the amount of work, time, and testing that goes into a good game world. Especially one as complex as RW.
And then there are the Trolls. I have seen those forums run down too many good games before they got a chance to take hold. Landmark, the voxel building game was one of them. Continually posting negative comments does have an effect, many players take those comments to heart and don't bother to check them out.

I bought RW through their own website and quit Steam. It was not just the trolls alone, but my first experience using a middle man to connect to my game made me feel that it was just not worth the aggravation. Keep it simple.

Quote from DaBoiye

Actually, planks, beams, and logs can all be spawned in the world through console using "item woodplank 64 131" where 64 is the quantity with texture 131. Also, try this plugin [Plug-in] Planks 'n Beams with ANY (built-in) texture for much easier spawning and also it will take resources unless in creative mode.

This can be done fairly easy with planks, hip roofs are next to impossible tho.

This can also be done with beams, just make yourself a circle and then blueprint it around and around till it's closed up! It doesn't look perfectly smooth, but it works.

Yep, buy some beams from that plugin and resize them to anything you want!

These are very easy, there is a excellent guide on Steam about circular building.

YESSSSS I want a golden floor for my bathroom!

This can be done by downloading the AreaProtection script, creating a area, and cleaning it up. Or you can grab the world-edit or block-placer thing, I have no experience with that myself.

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Thank you for your comments Daboyie. I should have mentioned in the post that I play on a no-plug in allowed server, survival. While I do play on my single also I, like Littlecats, prefer not to use any plug ins not made by Red in the basic game. Also playing on the single allows me to keep up with the game with no restrictions imposed by player run servers.
2. Agree, I've used the planks horizontally angled to get the shingle appearance, while not easy it could be done. The green copper also almost gives a shingle like appearance.
3.Spheres, that can be manipulated. Made hollow or as half spheres.
4. No plug ins by choice. Asking for smaller blocks by Red :). It is easy to manipulate the size of the beams down to smallest size and use as 'blocks', but limited texture. Stone or metal in that same small block size would make amazing builds, in the main game. I can do it on my single server using the console.
5. Arches, we have circular arches. I'm asking for pointed arches or very long diameter arches for cathedral size doors or windows. I'm aware of tutorials on the web. I wrote building guides and taught in-game building classes in last building game I played for 3 years. I got the basics. I want the ultimates. The possibilities for variations are endless with more shaped building blocks. Look at the types of stairways we can build now with no plug ins: spirals, closed, the inside and outside finishing blocks are great. This is what I mean.
6. On the area delete: we may still see that when the next step "Edit" comes up on the extended construction system. I love the terrain editing: smoothing and painting and cut/fill is wonderful, very smooth. The placement step is also wonderful: not for the endless supply of materials imo that's sorta cheating. But because of the landscaping that you can do with the plant and grass and flowers placement.
I am not complaining about this game world. It is beautiful, and has some amazing mechanics. The Extended Construction system and grid and manual system is just amazing. I also realize that we may never get the kind of spheres and circles possible with pixels that are possible in voxel building: but this game is the best I've seen yet at what it does. And Ive never played an 'alpha' that is this well made either.

First, I think RW has an amazing building system. The building tools system allows a great range of style building, from castles to Roman architecture to cabins. Window frames that allow the glass to scale itself to fit is awesome. There are many touches like these that make me excited to see what is coming up next. I love the game world. The choice of biospheres for the styles are amazing and beautiful too and so important to the overall setting of buildings.

Some things I'd like to see relating to building:
The grid system is very good. However I 'd like to see a way to scale what we are building besides using the blocks by dragging them along the length of walls ect.

Ability to pick up ALL wood from the ground, same as we can pick up blocks of stone. I waste so much wood (I know it's my fault, but still....)

On the Block Bench there are big blocks of wood listed under the planks. One in particular is a nice brown rough wood that I use on appropriate floors. But, they have to be fit into block sized areas because they are not 'real planks'. I'd like to see these wood blocks as actual planks on the Saw Bench also.

Shingles. A panel of shingle patterns that we could size to fit. Or place singly if we had to.

Straw or Hay roofing for peasant style huts.

Ability to make angle cut beams or boards for supports.

Spheres in game. And the ability to size them.
Basic wood and stone blocks about a quarter the size of the ones we have. Not sure if that's possible though.
Arches in various sizes: longer, and or wider

More metallic surfaces to build with, besides copper. Like silver and gold.

Ropes in both straight sections and small wide half coils, and full coils
Chains in both straight sections and small wide half coils.

Ability to make cloth into objects like robes and tapestries and carpets.

Ability to make flags and mount on staff.

Area delete. Like the blueprint command but once the area is highlighted, hit 'delete' and all gone [one pick at a time on a castle wall is a very long job].

Negative building: Make a large sphere and then placing a smaller sphere inside it, hit 'remove' and the center disappears. Now have a large hollow sphere. (we did it with voxels in LM. Not sure if pixels allow it?) Fun though.

All I can think of at the moment.

Thank you for the answer. I'm not sure what the problem was. But before I got to try your answer above, we did a transfer of the game to a completely new server. When I logged in, my map then pulled up on screen. But, the map was totally blank: as though no exploring had been done at all. I had had 4k files on it.

A player on our server suggested I go into the Map Folder, copy the old files from original folder, delete the files from the new folder, then paste the original files into the new map folder.
It worked.
I am saving your response above, to my files: if the map should refuse to pop up on my screen in the future I will have this at hand.
Again, thank you.

Just wondering if optimization has been being worked on recently.
It seems as though my graphics is even better than it has been. And that is usually very good.
Running Alienware, liquid cooled, 970 Nvidia gtx, 7i, Win10, 20 GB ram.

My map has stopped working, it will not pop up on the window.

Tonight, I had just teleported into one of my spots in a tundra wilderness area. I clicked 'M' for the map, as usual. At the same time, I saw on chat where several people were saying that the 'can't pick up bug' had struck again.

The server was restarted. The pick up bug was fixed. My map still didn't work.

I checked the settings. Tried every key on keyboard-nothing. Reset the key bind. Nothing. Set it back to original M. Nothing.
Logged into my single server and the map there works fine.
Back into the multiple server, map still will not come up on screen. Re-logged from the desktop. Still nothing.

The server has not changed its name.
This is not a Steam problem, I don't use Steam.

Any suggestions?

Update.
I put down a new paper press on my single server.
Loaded it up.
And it works fine. So I did it again. Again it worked fine. Got Paper both times, and no 'sticking'.

I then went to my multi-player and loaded up the press paper.
It worked fine. No sticking. I got paper.

Whatever was wrong it had to be something I was doing, but I have no idea what, as all the other stations worked fine.
I worked on this for several days before I posted it, and it solved itself. I think. I don't know.

Thank you for your replies all.

I mean I have no 'plug ins' added onto my account, such as the gps one. I'm playing my single player just as it is. My multi-player has plug ins and is hooked up to a totally different concept using Bristol. I cant tell much about it because I am not a programmer. I do not go thru Stream. I bought the game directly from your site.

I asked other players on my mutli-player server if they were having any problem like this. No one was (15 players on). However, one player was having this problem with the large smelter (he has several in his workshop) as he said he has to click both the space to place ore, and the ingot to remove them several times to get them to place or pickup.
I didn't think to try the press on my single server -I thought I had covered every way I could test it. Sigh.

Yes I know that once the hand appears the click works....except on my paper press it does not. (anymore, it used to before the update a couple of weeks ago).

By "all over the top" I mean: click each and every spoke when the hand appears on it: clicking each and very space in-between the spokes when the hand cursor appears. Even clicking the area above the spokes when the hand appears. In short, clicking any and every place the hand cursor appeared. and getting no response.

I haven't tried making a video since I went to Windows 10 and my video program does not work on win10. I will see if I can get a video going on a newer version or diff. program. I'm no expert at it, but it would be a good way to see what I'm doing wrong, or if it is me.

PS. This is a fantastic gaming world. After losing my 3 years previous building game, I did not think I would find another anyway like it because I looked for 3 months to find one. So, please don't think I am complaining. I'm only reporting a bug (which may be my own bug) 9 out of 10 of the craft stations give me no problems, that's an excellent average I think.

Graysilk13, it is working, so far. Thank you.

Thank you. I will set up the log file later this evening when I go on line.
Murphy's Law: if something can happen chances are I will discover it. This does not always make me happy

In a separate thread, I noted the fun and games I'm having keeping my account from requesting my pw here on the forums after I log into the first screen. When I repeat the relog, it says it doses not recognize the p/w. After just recognizing it when I originally logged in. I have about 5 accounts with my name Graysilk (with a number attached to it) because I cant get the p/w to be accepted after its approved. (Yes I know. And yes, I've set up p/w on game sites etc since 1999, no idea what problem is here but running out of emails to set up new Graysilk# accounts because 'that email is in use)
I requested all of my other account mess-ups be deleted but apparently that's not possible.

Just telling you this so you know that If my new account here does not go thru again, I may be unable see the answer ....for awhile.

Thank you I appreciate the answer.
Plug ins are not possible on my multi-player but I can do it on my single.

Red I have been having problems with keeping my account password recognized, since I added my second account here.
As first acct., Graysilk, I had no problems logging in. Then I added my second account and posted.
When I went back in with Graysilk, I logged into the main page. no problems, my name was up in the upper corner of site.
Then I clicked into the forums and was told I had to login again. I did that.
And I was told the password was wrong. I keep a file of passwords, it wasn't wrong. BUT, I signed off totally. Reentered site.
And went thru the same thing: main site login okay, go to forums told to re log and then pw not recognized.
So I applied for a new password. Got it. Posted a couple posts. Got out.
Next time I logged in, the same exact thing happened. From main window, to Forums, to re-log, to pw not recognized.
And again. About 3 times.

One time I asked you (using my second acct.) if you could maybe delete all of the other accounts and let me start again. You did not, but you did set the password I think so I could access my acct.
That one worked one time, and then repeated the 're-log, p/w not recognized thing.

I logged in today and went thru the same routine. I added a number to my name as you can see, and used my last email address. If this does not work and stay working I have no more emails I can use. And I will have to give up. I don't want that to happen. You are my only source of RW happenings and updates. I do not use Steam, nor will I.

I have an Alien/liquid cooled pc with GForce 970 gtx, i7, win 10. As said, I don't use Steam. I bought right from RW. I've checked my settings, my net blocker, ect. I've no idea how or why that would affect my log in problem here. But heck, why not? Can't think of any thing else.

(I have been setting up game sites since 1999, so you are not the first , so I don't think its entirely my fault but...it could be.)
I will come here looking for reply tonight provided I can sign in.

I had no problems using the Paper Press after the problem adding water was fixed.
Then there was another update (about 2 weeks ago -? )
Since that update I have to play the click game with the Paper press: I load the cloth into the 4 slots and then:
1. I hit F, and I click all over the top area of the press: on the spokes, the hub over and under the spokes, the screw and then repeat. Somewhere in the midst of the clicking the hand cursor appears and the press goes down.
2. I now have rags. So I add water.
3. Repeat the click click click game.
4. I get paper

The last time I did steps 1 thru 3, about 3 days ago, the press would not open. So:
5. I deleted the entire press.
6. Remade the press.
7. Same results 1-3.

I have just started a new claim and so I finished the new storage/workshop area and:
8. I Remade a brand new press.
9. Same results 1-3.

I do not play thru Steam.
I do not have personal plug-ins added to my account.

I asked other players on my multi-server if they are having this problem. None are apparently.
I am out of options. I have rebuilt the press twice. I have even moved the location to a different site. Each move, I note that the press has lots of overhead room. Any ideas on what I can try next?

The chat is very stable and glad we can communicate in game. However, I wish we could:
Fade the window out entirely and/or lock it so it does not constantly fade
Add chats channels such as Marketing/Building/Private chat
Eventually:
Change text size and color

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I love this game. I bought it less than a week ago.

I figured out how to build using the blocks. I haven't figured out the wood building but I will get that figured out. It took me awhile to mine without trapping myself inside the mine. I really love this game. Thank Devs for making this game!

If we could make plates, drinking glasses, and silverware, we could set the tables in our home base.

If we could make vases with flowers in them, we'd have a use for the flowers.

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I've been playing since Jan. I love the game also. There are very good tutorials on wood building on YouTube.
But, if you hold a plank in your hand, and hit the F1 key it will bring up a menu to show you how to build. Its a good start.

If underground (and no part of sky showing overhead), press the F2 key several times, it will teleport you back on top of ground. This works on multiplayer I'm on. If on a single player you have full admin. rights and can use F2 to fly.

We can fake the plates by using the posters. Take an image of a table setting with plates, silverware etc. Place in a folder in the game files, name it so you know what it is "pgn images' etc. Use ONLY pgn images as they leave no background. When in game put a poster on your hot keys (numbers 1-5) and scroll thru to find your folder, select the image and place it in game. Makes good rugs on the floor, and pictures on the wall also.

I've not been able to log in on my old account despite several attempts to get it open. Today my account let me into the main window with no problem.
When I clicked onto 'Forums' I was told to sign in again. This happens every time I set up my account, requiring me to go all thru the registration again, I'm running out of numbers to add to my name and emails to assign. Hope this one sticks.

Meanwhile, now Ive got about 6 accounts all with different sign-ins, or p/w's, or email and none of them work after the first setup. I do wish there was a way to delete those accounts. Or to know what in heck is causing this to happen.

Well, crossed fingers and hope.