Early-game mountaineering
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:09 am
Now that things have mostly stabilized, I figured I'd pit my skills against the early game as well and see how I would fare. All in all, I'm pretty confident I will survive, but my world seems oddly devoid of surface-level caves, so I currently spend my time trekking around in search of iron ore.
I passed a mountain biome and saw several caves up in the mountains. Where I should've thought "do I want to risk going hungry to see whether there's iron up there?", instead my meta-game knowledge piped up with a "eh, iron doesn't spawn at that level anyhow. No need to bother."
The current iron spawning limitations just feel off to me... artificial, almost. It's a matter of taking the most well-known level in the game (ground level). Below that, there will be iron. Above it, there will be none.
I passed a mountain biome and saw several caves up in the mountains. Where I should've thought "do I want to risk going hungry to see whether there's iron up there?", instead my meta-game knowledge piped up with a "eh, iron doesn't spawn at that level anyhow. No need to bother."
The current iron spawning limitations just feel off to me... artificial, almost. It's a matter of taking the most well-known level in the game (ground level). Below that, there will be iron. Above it, there will be none.