If you feel the game is too easy might I suggest you set rules for yourself?

Too many resources you say? Try the game the way it was orginally intended...Try no portals.

and/or Try perma-death

and/or try not allowing yourself to loot your corpses

and/or try a full play through without progressing past troll hide armor (or Root Armor).

This is how I've managed to keep myself interested in this wonderful game.

Base building and upgrading is also a large part of the game...I have over 550 hours played and I am still farming cooper and tin, it goes pretty quick when you are actually using it for something other than making a few pieces of gear.

If you have all the iron you needed, you are missing something. I think my last home had like 500 iron bars in it for support beams alone, not counting the other stuff. Copper and tin to a lesser extent, and sliver to a lesser extent, but iron and dark iron and golem crystals and rocks/wood/tar should keep you busy for weeks unless you only build tiny shacks.

Originally posted by skydancer:

I enter 10 meter inside black forest and i found 5 copper node. Enought to make all you need.

Given copper is useless on its own, 'enough to make all you need' is moot, unless you had 20 tin nodes 5 metres inside the same biome as well?

Originally posted by blankitosonic:

Well your options are going to a "really bad and hard " seed or mod your game
In the first you will not found resourse so easily , like a little islands seed , where is a pain searching a good swamp for crypts and a tall mountain for silver
And second option can recreate the game , i didnt try that one

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Oh the hyperbole.

You really think you know the Black Forest because you went 10m inside of it? You most certainly do not have all the resources you need and to assert otherwise is pretty funny to me.
As for AI, that is the same for every game. Once you understand the AI, it always does the same stuff no matter what game you are playing.

Its not an hyperbole if he are in an easy seed , literally can get 3 or 4 copper nodes very close to a meadow edge , and a lot of thistle nearby , and tin is always close to the BF shore too

The hyperbole is he thinks he found all the mats he needs from the Black Forest by going in 10m.

I roam a lot of black forest for thistle and some cript but i found all the copper and tin very close to meadows border. Maybe ''the problem'' is that i don't care to build epic building and just stuck with core wood building. The iron for tool and armor and weapon is not much. I even craft the useless sledgehammer just for fun.

Imo the game need some option when you start a server where you can set the difficult of some settings.

The solution to 90% of the issues with the game is? Mods. There are mod devs singlehandely releasing more content that what 10 devs seem to right now. You've got mistlands, Deep North, and Ashlands getting close to done now, just being polished. Added difficulty, actual loot, etc, etc, etc.

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Oh the hyperbole.

You really think you know the Black Forest because you went 10m inside of it? You most certainly do not have all the resources you need and to assert otherwise is pretty funny to me.
As for AI, that is the same for every game. Once you understand the AI, it always does the same stuff no matter what game you are playing.

Well said...

If you feel the game is too easy might I suggest you set rules for yourself?

Too many resources you say? Try the game the way it was orginally intended...Try no portals.

and/or Try perma-death

and/or try not allowing yourself to loot your corpses

and/or try a full play through without progressing past troll hide armor (or Root Armor).

This is how I've managed to keep myself interested in this wonderful game.

Originally posted by skydancer:

I roam a lot of black forest for thistle and some cript but i found all the copper and tin very close to meadows border. Maybe ''the problem'' is that i don't care to build epic building and just stuck with core wood building. The iron for tool and armor and weapon is not much. I even craft the useless sledgehammer just for fun.

Imo the game need some option when you start a server where you can set the difficult of some settings.

Yes, if you don't build much, the game is rather short. Building fancy stuff in sweet locations is probably more than 2/3 of the game for many, many players. If you just want to bash through the bosses to 'the end' there isnt much to do, it does not take very long, and is probably unrewarding after the first time. It probably won't be that much more rewarding after the rest of the game is done.

it's designed to be competitive, so everything suddenly gets more scarce when there's someone else who also wants it

Any game is going to become easier once you understand it, im sure there are mods that let you edit the world if you find it too easy

Oh the hyperbole.

You really think you know the Black Forest because you went 10m inside of it? You most certainly do not have all the resources you need and to assert otherwise is pretty funny to me.
As for AI, that is the same for every game. Once you understand the AI, it always does the same stuff no matter what game you are playing.

Of course the game is easier in the previous biomes once you gathered all the resources to make it to the next one. That's just... how most games work.

And you may have just been lucky, because you got an "easy" seed. There are hard seeds out there, where everything is not so easily packed together. I had to travel far to find my first little swamp island and it only had one crypt with little iron in it.

So a lot depends on the seed. Try another one or look specifically for hard seeds if you want more of a challenge.

I have had worlds where I found a copper area first. Other worlds where I couldn't find a good spot like that and ended up in troll fairly quickly.

Thing is you need cores to process the ore. So you kind are better off using troll to get the cores so you can do metal stuff.

I had one seed recently where there was no copper or trolls in any close area to the start point. I had plenty of black forest ... it was the terrain.. it was just insane.

A large uplifted landmass that was just full of deep ravines and waterways. As if a giant beast had clawed away the land into deep ruts.

I think the constant level changes made it impossible for any nodes or trolls to spawn... there just wasn't enough real estate to assign as spawn point.

Had to travel a long way before I found any copper but did find a good spot with lots of nodes.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2715496868
The mushroom markers in the minimap are copper nodes.
This was a fairly open area considering how routed out the area was.

Well your options are going to a "really bad and hard " seed or mod your game
In the first you will not found resourse so easily , like a little islands seed , where is a pain searching a good swamp for crypts and a tall mountain for silver
And second option can recreate the game , i didnt try that one

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Oh the hyperbole.

You really think you know the Black Forest because you went 10m inside of it? You most certainly do not have all the resources you need and to assert otherwise is pretty funny to me.
As for AI, that is the same for every game. Once you understand the AI, it always does the same stuff no matter what game you are playing.

Its not an hyperbole if he are in a easy seed , literally can get 3 or 4 copper nodes very close to a meadow edge , and a lot of thistle nearby , and tin is always close to the BF shore too