[Poll] On Caveless Worlds

[GetNerfedOn]

Next on my list of questions: why do you play caveless worlds?
As always, answer freely and of your own will, and leave your opinions in the comments!

[Starving eater]

My computer always lag.I dont want it to surfer more

[kiwikenobi]

I play with caves, but only so that I can make lanterns and refuel my miner hat more easily. I don't really care about doing much else down there other than grabbing light bulbs. If light bulbs were obtainable on the surface, I'd probably play without caves.

[Starlogy]

playing without caves is for weenies (or people with lackluster computers).

[CameoAppearance]

I'm not very good at spelunking but I like having it as an option. Being able to pop into the caves to take a shortcut across the overworld, grab lightbulbs, cower from the overwhelming heat of the merciless sun, or grab unharvested/unwithered resources is quite useful even if you're never down there long enough to see a depths worm. However, sometimes I generate a caveless world to make it run more smoothly for people with bad computers or bad connections, to take advantage of the code quirks that differ between a single-shard world and a multi-shard world, or because I want to test something from the surface world with the console and playing the game normally isn't important right now.

[user1464576869]

So lately my grilled chipset puter has performed less than acceptable. While I answered No I might have to resort to Yes. But even more truthfully, I've stopped playing all together because of it. So technically still No?

[1bubbainpa]

Whenever I join a pub as Wormwood, my goal is to create a massive seed farm ASAP. Caves are great for this, because carrots are plentiful in the bunnymen areas, and I can get even more from pseudo-wars in the villages.

Usually, I end up with around 60 carrots by day 5, which I then use a birdcage to get around 100 seeds for my first plantation.

So yeah, I kinda love the caves.

[TheTraditionalGentleman]

I wish my potato could handle caves, but if I want to play with anyone else I have to do surface world only. As is, I use a few mods to bring some cave aspects to the surface (lightbulbs in the swamps, for example) so I don’t entirely miss out. 

[WildWildWes]

Honestly I just don't like playing caves. :/

But also the thing about pc limitations.

[Mooagain]

I mostly use caves for lightbulbs, but I really want to find the ruins once I finally become better at the game.

[Nino123]

I play a caveless world when i just want to discover a new world, just for the pleasure of exploration. For quick games.

[SinancoTheBest]

I sometimes play on caveless worlds; if the best lobby available around doesn't have them, I join anyway but if there are alternatives with caves, I'd just join them instead

[Well-met]

hosting a local cave shard completely changes how your client is handled by the game.

Unless you have a dedicated server, you should never do it.

[Primalflower]

i forget to turn them on

[Be2014]

I have been playing on public servers and have learned to love cave life.  The cave swamp has lots of light so growing crops np.  In the summer no fires. In Autumn the Bear never destroys the base.  Best part random people never find it.  Yes, there is a small surface base that gets burnt down in the summer by random ppl., but the cave life is so much easier.  Challenge yourself try living in the cave instead of the surface.

[Frashaw27]

I always play with caves because I think that without them, the game feels really hollow. There is just something about the caves that just...completes the experience. There is a lot of items that only have function if you have caves and I just feel weird playing without them. This is of course exempted if I'm just playing a testing world where I just try a idea or practice a fight.

[metallichydra]

22 hours ago, kiwikenobi said:

I play with caves, but only so that I can make lanterns and refuel my miner hat more easily. I don't really care about doing much else down there other than grabbing light bulbs. If light bulbs were obtainable on the surface, I'd probably play without caves.

 

12 hours ago, Mooagain said:

I mostly use caves for lightbulbs, but I really want to find the ruins once I finally become better at the game.

 

if you only have caves for light bulbs, you wont have to have caves when "hook liner and inker" is released. i think there's a sea mob which drops lightbulbs in that update.

[Frashaw27]

29 minutes ago, metallichydra said:

if you only have caves for light bulbs, you wont have to have caves when "hook liner and inker" is released. i think there's a sea mob which drops lightbulbs in that update.

I think its similar to Glowflys where you can get it from them but it is so much easier to get them from a plant.

[AlternateMew]

Public servers make cave bases safer. Solo play I run for the caves when I mess up on the surface. I find caves safer than the surface, plus the sweet supply of raining gems from the sky.

[Khalon]

Everytime we (me and my team) start a New whole world we have always the same mission. Slain all bosses (at least once) and meanwhile survive. So without the caves we can't complete our mission!!!

[Seero]

No magil and no star caller? No thank you (+ bunnyman hutches too)

 

That being said, How do you do a caves only world? the lack of pig skin might prove for a nice challenge

[mistrbushido]

1 hour ago, Seero said:

No magil and no star caller? No thank you (+ bunnyman hutches too)

 

That being said, How do you do a caves only world? the lack of pig skin might prove for a nice challenge

You can get pig skin from touchstones.

[Butt Pillow]

My internet can't really handle the caves without lagging everyone else, so I typically play caveless unless solo. I hate Verzion so much you will never understand.

[fimmatek]

15 hours ago, AlternateMew said:

Public servers make cave bases safer. Solo play I run for the caves when I mess up on the surface. I find caves safer than the surface, plus the sweet supply of raining gems from the sky.

This is so true, despite the fact that caves should be more dangerous I also tend to base there, usually further from the stairs, when I can't find a nice group of people on the surface. Huge majority of griefers, trolls and babies can't find a base like this:

[Hornete]

On 11/15/2019 at 1:55 PM, Well-met said:

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Uhm, Caves simply make the host act like a client. So by this logic people shouldn't join other peoples games??