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Fire elementals won’t cross shallow water. Build your door next to water and if you place it well they won’t get close enough to set it on fire. Also fire elemental pathfinding sucks, so just get them to follow you to the other side of a puddle and throw rocks at them till they die.
[quote]Can someone explain exactly how recipes are learned? [/quote]
Eh, not exactly, I can’t.
This is about 50% guesswork, but here goes 😛
You learn craft recipes at semi-random when you improve enough in various crafting relating skills. As you’ve noted, it is not guaranteed that you will be able to use the recipes you get but in general you get ‘earlier’ recipes before ‘later’ ones. There is also a link between the type of skill you use and the recipe you get (not sure if this is a ‘soft’ link or a ‘hard’ link). In your case you should make lots of Sharp Glass shards from sand to boost your glassworking skills.
Except that you shouldn’t, because the Solar Still sucks. Work towards the Stone Still instead. BTW, A desert start is good because you can get lots of Pineapple and Cactus leaves to tide you over until the still produces water.
In theory the method with campfire + glass flask should be good, but you need both Furnace (stone) and Kiln (sandstone) and it is often difficult to get both.
Doors are magic.
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Don’t bother with a solar still. It will always be night when you run out of water.
Yeah, I had a similar experience. But it’s not the lack of a monster limit that’s the problem. It’s that the monster ‘level’ ranks up based on your accumulated ‘Talent’. If you concentrate on fighting skills as much as possible and neglect everything else as much as possible you may find it easier.
Once you can beat up Flame Elementals and the like you will find that there are never enough monsters to fight. I have put in a request for a difficulty level setting though. 😀
