You are expected to sift through 117 pages of recipes which have 30 entries each just to figure out what to do to progress. Plus many recipes have multiple variants, which you also need to manually sift through. You need to manually gather and craft resources so many times it is not funny anymore.
So far I reached the copper age. I do not mind some grinding but this is incredibly, incredibly tedious. If you are still not turned off and absolutely want to try this one, here is some very necessary guidance:
You start above a tree. The unavoidable fall alone causes some fall damage. This lone apple tree (with no apples) stands on a single block of soil.
You might ask yourself how you even reach the stone age, as did I. Wood can not be mined with your bare hand, so how'd you even progress?
While I stopped there, I believe the next goal is to get 3 iron for a bucket, make water (dirt with snow is dirt + white dye + bonemeal, then grow a pine on it to produce and multiply snow) and lava to have a cobble generator and be able to farm cotton and wheat.
Eventually you can have autocrafters and so on but its all so incredibly tedious until then.
If you had earlier auto resource gathering, especially for chopping down trees, and auto crafting for mulch, bonemeal and dirt, it would be much more bearable.
While you only took a few minutes reading this very review, every single step needs so much manual tree farming. I spent probably around 3 hours on reaching the copper age. Including sifting through the recipe list to even know what to do next and looking at comments on the forum and on here.
Extreme renewability, but at what cost?
See https://github.com/Der1248/Castrum/issues/8 - this contentdb entry says its for minetest 5.3 and above when it is exactly the opposite.
You are expected to sift through 117 pages of recipes which have 30 entries each just to figure out what to do to progress. Plus many recipes have multiple variants, which you also need to manually sift through. You need to manually gather and craft resources so many times it is not funny anymore.
So far I reached the copper age. I do not mind some grinding but this is incredibly, incredibly tedious. If you are still not turned off and absolutely want to try this one, here is some very necessary guidance:
You start above a tree. The unavoidable fall alone causes some fall damage. This lone apple tree (with no apples) stands on a single block of soil. You might ask yourself how you even reach the stone age, as did I. Wood can not be mined with your bare hand, so how'd you even progress?
Due to contentdb max character limit in a review, I put my little guide here: https://gist.github.com/FinishedFragment/8fb5c099a906534bdfa217c57f7e0e18
While I stopped there, I believe the next goal is to get 3 iron for a bucket, make water (dirt with snow is dirt + white dye + bonemeal, then grow a pine on it to produce and multiply snow) and lava to have a cobble generator and be able to farm cotton and wheat.
Eventually you can have autocrafters and so on but its all so incredibly tedious until then. If you had earlier auto resource gathering, especially for chopping down trees, and auto crafting for mulch, bonemeal and dirt, it would be much more bearable. While you only took a few minutes reading this very review, every single step needs so much manual tree farming. I spent probably around 3 hours on reaching the copper age. Including sifting through the recipe list to even know what to do next and looking at comments on the forum and on here. Extreme renewability, but at what cost?