Oh, whoops, now that I go back and read it again I realize it was stated pretty clearly in the first post too that it's possible to break stumps with enough effort. I'm not sure how I got the idea that there was a consensus that they're unbreakable. Sorry about that!

I've noticed that I *can* punch through stumps, given enough time (takes ~20 seconds or so). This makes sense and is consistent with other blocks that you can't destroy, like punching through stone, but I didn't see anyone else mention it here so I'm not sure if this is actually an intended feature ...

You have to till a grass block to have a chance of finding hemp seeds, but I don't think your elevation matters at all.

I know this is late, but I want to thank everyone for your thoughts on this. I realize now that I had the entirely wrong mindset on how to play with hardcore spawn, which I think ultimately comes from the lack of renewable food at first. I'm not sure why exactly, but something about not having renew...

After a recent mishap where I opened a BTW world in VMC (thank goodness for backups!), I've tried changing the game directory for BTW. In the launcher, I changed the "Game Directory" setting under my BTW profile to a different folder, but the behavior baffles me. Now it seems like whenever...

Any mob that has the ability to pick up items won't despawn if it's holding something it picked up. (I once had a zombie holding wool trapped in a pool by my base for many a minecraft week before I accidentally fell in and it killed me.) I'm not sure whether just having the ability to pick up items ...

I've been trying to start a new world lately (something which I haven't done in quite a while), and I've been having some trouble coming to grips with hardcore spawn. What's happened a couple times is I make some significant progress, usually just getting to the start of iron tools and renewable foo...

I would call idle games the precursor to incremental games, or perhaps a superset of them. A Quest for Idle, released on Kongregate in 2009, was the first popular idle game and its popularity caused an influx of people making idle games to emulate it. These idle games usually involved little to no i...

Woo, new release already! (Not that this one wasn't expected, but still :P).

Thanks Flower!

So, since hardcore slimes were apparently added, can someone remind me how slimes worked before this update? As far as I can remember slimeballs aren't needed to make anything other than sticky pistons, right? And the weird spawning mechanic where they could only appear in certain chunks was a thing...

FlowerChild wrote:How would you know that?

Sounds like we have some Mendel-style experiments to do!

Looked at this a bit, didn't get anywhere. Just opening the file in notepad and looking for something resembling text, there is the word "Info" near the beginning as well as the sequence "BEGJMORTWY\^adfhknqsux". I'm not familiar enough with mp3s to know if that is a standard par...

So this news isn't all that new, but in case you didn't see it (I know I didn't until today), people will now be able to change their in-game names . I'm not sure exactly what is going on at the technical side of that update, but is it possible it could affect BTW? It seems like it might because it ...

Ah yeah, I've loved Zachtronics ever since I played the codex of alchemical engineering years ago... thanks for the heads up on this game, I'll definitely have to check it out.

You might go ahead and try opening it with the newest version of BTW--just make sure to back it up first just in case. As far as I know there shouldn't have been any changes since then that would break the world (FC is always sure to avoid that kind of thing), and it can't hurt to try it and see if ...

So I just recently got this game and before I begin playing it, I was wondering how much do I need to know beforehand? I'd like to be able to figure out stuff on my own but from skimming this thread it looks like there is some pretty complicated stuff. If I just dive in should I be able to figure ou...

With durability less than wood tools, though, I really don't think it's worth it. And while gold is faster and more enchantable than diamond, in BTW we have SFS as well. I'm not sure how it compares to gold in terms of speed, but I'm pretty sure SFS's enchantability is just as good as gold's.

See viewtopic.php?f=14&t=7904

It's been a while since anyone's posted here, but I just had an experience which definitely fits. There is a huge cave system where I always mine; I've been mining there since before I got iron, it goes from the surface all the way down to bedrock, intersects multiple ravines, and I haven't explored...

Have you had your world in creative mode at any point? I'm pretty sure FC made it so that if you have, all villager xp and levelling gets disabled (even if you change back to survival). I'm not completely sure on that though.

For any series of square goals that aren't timed, there is an easy solution based on the fact that you can just create a moving well that the sled sits in the bottom of. A function of the form 5*(x-a)^2+b will be a well centered at (a,b). So you just have to replace a and b with some functions of ti...

Hm, in my case I have been looking specifically to put siding along the edges of an animal pen to keep the animals from suffocating in the walls. Previously I have used fences, but they are kind of ugly and I want to replace them. Putting the floor up a half block like Sandrew suggested is a nice so...

When I put three moulding in a corner, I can get them to connect like this: http://i.imgur.com/cde6wkr.png But when I try to do the same with siding it does not connect, and I end up with something like this: http://i.imgur.com/ZFFCQft.png I can make the same effect in a different orientation using ...

Fences will have a new recipe that uses wood planks - it is the same as the fence gate recipe but switch the planks and sticks, and it produces 3 fences.

Confirmed in version 4.99999A0C Marsupial?! survival mode, only happens when mining charges are blown up with powder kegs, not other mining charges. (Specifically, the mining charge explodes and then leaves that ghost behind; reloading the world causes it to disappear.)