Little-Known Pro-Tips Thread - Now up to 113 Tips!

[linkfanpc]

Whoa, what a necro.

1. When taming animals you're supposed to leash them to hitching posts. But you can just leash them to trees and it works just as well. But you can take this one step further and use a shovel and q10 tree seeds to plant a ton of trees, because tiny baby 1% grown trees can be hitched to as well. When you're taming 20+ animals at the same time this is a massive time-saver.

2. I just learned this and it kinda shocked me, but buckets have a unique property where when you drop them on the ground, you can transfer substances between them just like a barrel. You can leave a bucket of water on the ground and draw it up into waterskins for example. All buckets of anything take a long time to despawn too (more than 2 IRL days at least. I've left a bucket of bad ql tar for three days straight and not had it despawn i'm pretty sure).

[vatas]

When you press "Build" on a construction sign, it can feel like a demonstration for Murphy's Law, but there seems to actually be clear and consistent rules on how the material being built in is selected.

From top to bottom, as an example, Village Idol has metal as first and stone as second input and these are simply checked in order.

Check inventory for metal bars -> check surrounding area for metal piles -> use one from the top of the pile (logic for which stockpile is selected if there's multiple, I don't know).

Check inventory for stones -> use up all the stones held -> check for stone piles -> use up stone piles.

And so on.

[vatas]

Barrels can be CTRL+SHIFT+Right-clicked to fill your inventory with its contents.

Tags: "Barrel" , "Take All"

[Uriel]

Do You know the pain of butchering animals after big hunt? Did You know that by clicking shift+rmb (in Ender at least) You have harvest command that will strip all part of animals? I did't know for so many years!

[Regulus2424]

There is now a mass butchery command. You can Shift-click a carcass lying on the ground to get an area select indicator using the harvest pointer. The character will butcher anything in the commanded area from start to finish without asking questions.

I do wish that the character (or rather, the command) asked questions tho, such as "do I have the highest q tool equipped?" or "can I switch to Butcher's Cleaver for those low q carcasses?"

[lordgrunt]

2. I just learned this and it kinda shocked me, but buckets have a unique property where when you drop them on the ground, you can transfer substances between them just like a barrel. You can leave a bucket of water on the ground and draw it up into waterskins for example. All buckets of anything take a long time to despawn too (more than 2 IRL days at least. I've left a bucket of bad ql tar for three days straight and not had it despawn i'm pretty sure).

well, you learn something everyday in this game. nice tip i'd probably never discover myself. though, all the posts right after that always seemed to me like a common knowledge, been using those rules for ages now. except mass butchering which was clearly described in one of semi-recent patches.