u/muffalohat

So messing around with a mountain map - is there a good way to find pure limestone deposits? It's visually indistinguishable, as far as I can tell, from the impure limestone which basically gives you nothing. Going tile by tile with the little mining tool and reading each popup is... not a very good way to do this. I hope this isn't the only tool we've been given.

Edit post: for clarity, I am talking about the limestone variant that occurs only on mountain maps. Not "rocky soil." If you don't know what I'm talking about, you probably haven't played a mountain map because it's literally everywhere and it is named "impure limestone."

as weirdly humorous as it is to see someone jumping into help who knows even less than I do, it's not particularly helpful.

So I'm trying out a marsh map now and I've noticed my settlers are finicky about when they will agree to mine clay that's underwater. Sometimes they'll do it. Sometimes they won't. Is there a way to remove shallow water, even in a small area? Like if I surround it with a waterproof material, like clay or limestone bricks, will the water eventually evaporate? If not, is there another way to deal with it?

So I noticed something about Bread in this game:

Apparently, at some point, Bread was a simple meal made with Barley.

At some point, it was changed so that Bread was now a lavish meal made with Barley and Milk.

However, in some ways, the game still seems to think it's a simple meal. Specifically, if I set a threshold for lavish meals, Bread will not count toward them. Meaning - if Barley is the closest thing to my chef, he will happily blow through all of my barley stores making bread, without ever reaching the threshold.

Anyway, place "I've done nothing but teleport bread for three days" joke here.

So earlier this week I posted a thread here asking how to construct the Oak Sanctuary, since you need to have a room and you can't grow trees indoors.

Following advice there, I built a four level-high temple around a grown great oak tree. However, it does not count as a Great Oak Sanctuary. Weirdly, it doesn't even count as an Oak Temple, which it at least should. It's just a "spare room."

Not sure what I did wrong here. There are no workstations inside, nothing inside that doesn't count toward the objectives other than floor tiles and lights. All I can think is that while I was growing the oak tree, I removed the growing zone under it because I was afraid that my workers might chop it down. (I never got credit for it after it grew so I put the growing zone back but it doesn't seem to have changed anything.) However, even without the great oak tree, that doesn't change the fact that this temple should still count as a regular temple.

Is this because I still have a regular temple active? Are you not allowed to have both?

Is the four level temple with no floors in between the ground and roof too tall to count as a temple? it still counts as a spare room and three floors would clip weirdly through the top of the tree.

EDIT: Having the regular temple wasn't it. I tried destroying the old temple and nothing happened.

Can anyone think of any reasons why this isn't working? I don't want to build this enormous-ass temple a second time.

So, I'm familiar with the priority system. I've played tons of Rimworld and Stranded: Alien Dawn so I know how it SHOULD work.

What I want to know is - what the hell is going on with it in THIS game.

I can literally sit and watch my miner (Priority 2 Miner), who currently has dozens of blocks of earth slated to dig up for my moat. He'll run all the way out to the moat, dig up one block of earth, and then decide to go back into the castle and help chop down trees in the tree farm (Priority 5 Cutting) before returning to dig up one more block of earth.

All the earth is easily accessible. He's the only guy mining right now. I know I could turn off cutting for him entirely, but I shouldn't have to because this isn't how the system is supposed to work.

Why is this happening?