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[ApocalypsePlease]

was my anvil somehow capped too or not?(i need to know if i should make a new one)

Objects are not softcapped by anything ever. The anvil's quality is the direct (rounded down) average quality of the bars used.

Question 1:
I have 8 pieces of very low quality leather, what should I use them for? I already have a backpack, an armor (chest) and a sling
Question 2:
Does learning ability go up as long as I study more and more curiosities? currently at 260% (lots of chiken here, have over 10 still unbutchered)
Question 3:
I have 19.6k learning points, what shuold I invest them on? (I am an hermit and intend to stay so, computer can't handle more than 2 people)

My skill values:
UAC=4, MC=2, MMship=6, explo=5, sewing/smith/carp=1, cooking=4, farming= 3(+4) survival=3

Skills I have:
Animal husbandry, baking, bee keeping, brawling, carpentry, cloth making, farming, fishing, foraging, hearthmagic, hunting, leatherworking, lumberjacking, masonry, militia, mining (but no mine), pottery, stone working, swimming, will to power, wheelmaking, unarmed combat, yeomanry.

1. Make a waterflask, it is a 1x1 slot item that holds up to 2L of water. Apart from that, I'd consider saving them to make a coffer (largest movable container without needing metal) or 2.
2. Your learning ability is increasing as you change your martial/peaceful and tradition/change sliders. If you get your martial/peaceful slider to full, it will give an extra 20% learning ability, which at the same time will move the tradition/change slider to full change, giving you 3x learning ability (the 20% stacks with the 3x, meaning you can have 360% learning ability without buffs or items that enhance learning ability)
3. You should focus on getting around 20 marksmanship as a minimum to start hunting. Aside from that, get your exploration and survival up, (aswell as farming if you've got yourself crops)

PS: Swimming is a bad skill to have bought. It's ok, just never toggle it on, I advise not swimming until you have a constitution of 60 (40 works, but is risky), aswell as a silver for the ferryman

http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Waterflask
http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Coffer
http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Personal_Beliefs

How do you determine the QL of an anvil?

I'm waiting until I can get 5 bars of Q20 to make a new anvil, but my Smithy Hammer has gone missing so I can't make more. We have one bar each of Q21 and Q22, and I'm tempted to make it with those, but I don't know how it'll average.

As I stated previously in reply to Skys, an anvil's quality is the direct (rounded down) average of the bars used, meaning if it was made using those two bars, it would have a quality of 20.6, which would get rounded down to 20, meaning there would be no difference from the Q20 bars.

[ImAwesome]

how much strength is needed to destroy a hearth fire? wiki says it has 5 soak and a ton of hp, but I have no idea how much damage I do. I'm currently at 14 strength, and recently expanded my claim over an area that included a hearth fire, but I don't think its owner is active, and its in my way...

[TeckXKnight]

how much strength is needed to destroy a hearth fire? wiki says it has 5 soak and a ton of hp, but I have no idea how much damage I do. I'm currently at 14 strength, and recently expanded my claim over an area that included a hearth fire, but I don't think its owner is active, and its in my way...

Damage to items = Sqrt(Str)+(Item Bonus)
Where Stone Axe is a bonus of +1, Pickaxe is a bonus of +2, and Sledge Hammer is +4
Dual wielding is futile and does not confer double the bonus.

Numbers are always rounded down, so right now you do 3 base. If you get to 25 and use a stone axe you can do 1 damage per tick to hearthfires.

[ImAwesome]

feels weak

thanks, I'll see if I can find a nice neighbor to destroy it for me

[ApocalypsePlease]

Sledge Hammer is +4

Fixed as always

[TeckXKnight]

Sledge Hammer is +4

Fixed as always :P

Haha, of course~

[ApocalypsePlease]

Sledge Hammer is +4

Fixed as always

Haha, of course~

Nothing personal, just prefer we keep information said as accurate as possible

[rozn]

I was thinking about such a thread earlier when I was browsing another forum that had exactly this. Guess I will sticky it although I am really not happy with the number of stickies the "How do I?" has. Then again what to remove? Maybe the music thread to the wizards tower, but that is about all i can think of.

Jorbs and loftars threads here are quite old too and covered by other peoples beginners guides. They should decide though what happens to their threads I guess.

I know this is old but perhaps make one sticky that branches out to all of the stickies there are now? Im not sure, just brain storming.

[TeckXKnight]

Nothing personal, just prefer we keep information said as accurate as possible

No, I appreciate it, I really do. I'm just really sorry that my knowledge is getting so rusty~! It is rather pleasant to have a fact checker. Perhaps I should double check with the wiki before I post from now on though =)

[DarkAlexander]

So I kinda want a palisade, and I have a few questions:

-Will having a palisade make my home more appealing to greifers/pillagers?
I don't really have anything valuable (yet) and having a palisade might make them think I do.

-I'm about a week in this game and obviously haven't planned my encampment from the start, I just kinda put it against a cliff (luckily soil is Q23). Still, I can't make a single line to go all around my land and make a gate; As I'm short on leather, would it be advisable to seal myself inside the fort and then build a ram to make the gates? How much strengh would I need?
°does the quality of the material used increment the hp of the construction?
°What does sealing the cornerstones do?

(kinda unrelated)
When (days/weeks/months/years) will World 5 close?
I started about a week ago, and although restarting on equal level with everybody sounds nice, only now have I "understood how to play", and I'd like more time to reach the "hermit endgame".