Assorted questions regarding base game + ACE

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Hey there, played this game a while back and decided to come back to it and start a new run with Ace installed. Also went for hardmode cause I’m probably crazy and dumb, and a couple of things had me confused (and I not 100% sure which of these are game features or ACE features), so I decided to ask them here before starting a new run again:

  1. Starting with combat related things, I’m playing with Clan Muramasa and when upgrading a hearthling to a Paladin, I cannot find any equipment for him other than the weapons.I have all crafters unlocked except the engineer and shepherd and can’t find any thing to craft. Due to my race learning stuff from scrolls, am I missing recepies that I have not collected from them yet? Also, the Priest has a “Steel Circlet” which can be equiped by a Pally, but nowhere to craft it, and the Headbands (iron, steel, etc) are only equipable by the priest.

  2. I know I’m underpowered (considering I did 3 major mistakes that took me days to fix), so I’m sure I’m lagging behind, I have a 5 man party. A level 1 Paladin, Level 3 Samurai, Level 5 Samurai Archer, Max leveled Priest and a Level 5 Wizard, most of them with the best gear I could craft at the moment. But I’m still getting my butt kicked, specially the raids from the gobling guy, and the fight with the Wolf Wizard destroyed me. At this stage in the game, should I have a bigger deffensive party?

  3. Speaking of being underpowered, the only reason my samurai is low level is that it took me about 12 IRL hours to get my blacksmith to lvl 2. I crafted almost everything on the menu, from tools to weapons, iron bars (about 50 of them) and a couple of decorative items, but the man still did not want to gain XP fast enough, am I missing something here? Problem is most good recepies are bound to lvl 2, including the tool to promote someone to Samurai and the decent armor and weapons.

  4. As for non-combat questions, what would be the best way to store food so it lasts longer? underground caves? Speaking of food, is there any goo way to determine how much food should I be farming/trapping/cooking to prevent waste? I was mainly using the daily request numbers as a guide, and never went off by much, but I still have plenty of leftovers that rot.

  5. Do you even water bro? I mean, how do I go about using the wet and dry stones? I nearly flooded my vilage once, and then flooded my crops a second time trying to get water close to it. Had to resort to console-digging to try and prevent the water from overflowing.

Speaking of water, it doesn’t drop from more than one block? My “Waterfall” is three blocks wide but only one of them drops water down, and it fills very slowly depending on the size of the “lake”.

Also rice, how to grow it? It asks to be submerged, if I do just surface-level water it is not enough, if I do 1 block high it is almost double of what it needs, the status for water level is yellow and the time is red, and I haven’t been able to grow rice for the past 15 hours, am I missing something?

Again speaking of water, when I load the game I get a lua engine error quoting something about evaporate on water.component, should I be concearned? Also, some of the workshop templates do not work, they do not allow me to place any buildings and when I edit the file to change the name of the building inside the template, I get lua errors when attempting to use them. Is it a “old mod” compatibility issue, and can it be fixed? Making japanese roofs is hard for my brain and a lot of the templates have cool building styles that match the aesthetics of the race.

I know that with these amounts of questions I shouldn’t be playing on hard mode, but I wanted the extra combat challange, and I know the three main mistakes I did, which basically costed me about 15-20 days worth of new hearthlings, and hindered my progress. I’ll be starting a new run soon, so I’m using this one for testing stuff before I transition to a new game, so any tips are appreciated.

Thanks!

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  1. Muramasa is one mod, Paladin is another. Feels like paladin uses cleric equips? Maybe it simple do not have craftable equips? Priest is the name of clerics in the muramasa. Steel Circlet should be in the blacksmith.
  2. Your party is good. You have knights and cleric, so you can survive most things. You picked the hard difficulty, so you shouldn’t complain about it being hard lol
  3. You only gain xp from items that are the same level of the crafters. Each level below is halves the xp for that craft. (i.e. 2 levels below is 1/4 of xp). Also, the amount of xp needed to level up is based on the total amount of levels you have, in all jobs. Each level requires more than the one before. So if that blacksmith also has levels in other jobs, they count too and thus the requirements are even higher.
  4. Store it inside containers (chests, crates, etc…).and it will last longer. Only items in the ground will spoil faster. Better food rot slower than simple or raw food. If you have too many rotting, they are probably all raw food or you have way too many raw food being produced and not being converted into better food. Better food is worthy more at the daily score too. A single cake is worth 100, while a berry is 2, so you need 50 berries to get the same score you would of a single cake.
  5. Wet stone spawns water, dry stone sucks water.

The width of a waterfall is dependent of the water flow. More wet stones, higher flow.

I can’t help with rice, i have not played with it yet.

Some templates can have outdated items, that sometimes don’t exist anymore, or are from a mod you don’t have. These would cause errors.

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Thanks for the reply. A couple of things:

I figured out that the Paladin comes from the Church of Plenty mod, but there is no description of it having custom gear, though I’d assume it should have.

As for the water, I saw an old dev video showcasing it, and it made more sense, but in my current village, I only have one waterfall and a small 2-block-high 3-wide river below it and it is not flooding, even though the river is smaller than my previous attempt, and I didn’t need to use the dry stone yet. Go figures :slight_smile:

My problem with the blacksmith is that he was level 1, so there were not leveled options to select from, what I’m assuming it could have been, since my new blacksmith is about lvl 4 now, is that the previous one had crappy stats. Do you know if the “I want to be a (INSERT CLASS HERE)” perk does affect XP gain? Both of them had it, but now my current one has better base stats, so it makes sense he would gain more XP.

I know combat is brutal, I was just wondering how weak my party was compared to what is should be. Right now I have a 6 man party, getting a 7th, second healer member, and I’m still struggling through main combat encounters, even though I have better gear now. The siege was only doable since I had the glory-farming-campfire-summon button, which alowed me to keep half the enemy army entertained before I could deal with them :laughing: . (call it cheese, game gave me the feature, I’m using it).

As for rice, I placed it in one-block-deep water and it was too much, and on half-block-deep it was not enough but still enough for it to function properly, so no complaints here.

Final question, I’m kinda stuck in the Candledark quest, every day they trick me and spawn bats and spiders. I have the 3 campfires lit and my guys went to it and nothing happened. After I collected some resources from the event tree, an NPC gave me a recipe to protect me from vampires. I’m assuming that now the quest is progressing right? I can’t leave my village to deal with other threats since everytime I do it, the event spawn bats to harrass my poor workers.

Thanks again for the replies!

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Ace updated water, If the water has a way to the edge of the map, it auto stabilize and will not change height. So it never raises the water level.

The want to be crafter trait gives happiness if you put them in that job.
Mind stat affects XP gains, more mind, higher XP, faster leveling.

The wards will do super high damage to candledark mobs, it is the intended way to defeat them, without using your citizens.
The enemies comes after you light the campfires, if you need a pause you keep them off.

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