Variant resources: Gekko = awesome, but petr. trees kinda suck

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Twiggy trees: I find these a little awkward but I don't dislike them as much as some. It might be nice to get an extra twig or two for your trouble, though. The new-to-the-server players being screwed thing doesn't feel like that big an issue to me because I just leave twigs and flint at the portal anyway. Might be more trouble on wilderness servers or PvP servers but a Klei poster mentioned in another topic that birds will drop flint and twigs for new players on servers where twiggy tree phases are up.

Juicy berry bushes: Don't really have much to say about these. Nice food item, good for quick rot.

Grass gekkos: I love these things. They're funny to watch and funny to chase around and not having to actually harvest the grass is great. I do have one complaint though: although it's hard, these things can be herded into a pen for easy farming, but it doesn't seem that they will ever split off into a new herd, and by consequence they will just run into whatever walls you use ad infinitum. It'd be really nice if they'd settle down after being so far away from their herd for a certain period of time, because they look goofy (in an un-fun way) eternally pathing to a place they'll never reach.

Petrified trees: Here's the ones that really bug me. The idea of trees becoming petrified over time is fine, I think, but changing all non-gold boulders into petrified trees instead has really, really hurt me for nitre. My map's rocky biome isn't huge, but I think I should have more than a dozen nitre to show for clearing the entire thing out. The fact that I'm going to have to go spelunking just to slowly stock up on nitre kinda sucks. Please adjust the drop rate on this if they're going to replace boulders during world gen this way.

[BirdyMurakami]

"Might be more trouble on wilderness servers or PvP servers but a Klei poster mentioned in another topic that birds will drop flint and twigs for new players on servers where twiggy tree phases are up." Really? o.O Birds drop twigs in that type of world? I never knew that..... If that's true that's really good to know. 

And yeah... I wish they gave more for petrified trees. They're pretty much just overworld stalagmites. 

[GiddyGuy]

5 hours ago, BirdyMurakami said:

Really? o.O Birds drop twigs in that type of world? I never knew that..... If that's true that's really good to know. 

I could be wrong, but they should drop twigs if you have twiggy trees in your world.

I have not played enough with a world of grass geckos to see if they drop grass, or if grass is around to be harvested from rare grass tufts.

Also nice Webber tips on the other thread.

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17 hours ago, GiddyGuy said:

I could be wrong, but they should drop twigs if you have twiggy trees in your world.

I have not played enough with a world of grass geckos to see if they drop grass, or if grass is around to be harvested from rare grass tufts.

Also nice Webber tips on the other thread.

They don't drop grass, no. But when grass gekkos are up, grass still grows in savannas, and you don't need any tools to harvest from grass gekkos anyway.

And yay, they adjusted nitre from trees! Thanks Klei!