The taming training was grueling, but it was worth it. My alt fished while I tamed the pig I got (had to walk along the coast back home because I found out pigs can’t swim…).
Soon I got taming up to 13.55. Now equipped with the rest of the things I needed (horse shoes, saddle, and dual longswords), I attempted to tame my riding horse, and on the 2nd try I got it. I attached the saddle and horse shoes to it, hopped on, and… was saddened about the speed. Only going up to 20km/h.
Taking off my gear however, boosted his speed to 24km/h. Roughly the speed of a Corbita in a gale.
This is what I call bad. The gear was supposed to protect me from blows from hostiles. Yet all its doing is weighing me down which is weighing my horse down.
I did notice one thing. Putting the gear in a barrel and carrying that doesn’t slow the horse down that much.
Later on, me and my alt went on his rowboat, and I took my horse along the north coast to Cliff Side Port, where I was going to ride my horse all the way back home while my alt drove the rowboat back home.
The trip was successful (and fun). The only setback was I was traveling at night. My alt made it back about five minutes before I did. But I ran into NO hostiles!
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Today, with nothing to do I wanted to do, I was viewing some of my really old screenshots of JK-H. I wanted to move my house or something.
The way I got Oceanside Retreat just looks.. messy to me. I got all of that open space, covered by random Maple, Pine, and Lemon trees that I’m not even using.
So I fired up Mapper, and attempted to map the main area of the settlement.
(I originally tried to put the pictures into this post, but WordPress is stupid and wouldn’t align the picture with the text right, and was forced to link the pictures instead)
And this is what I have. What it looks like right now. It’s a mess and the flow just isn’t the way it needs to be. So much wasted space. But back then I was just starting out and needed to get my settlement set up ASAP.
I studied the picture, and the pictures I took of one of my old homesteads (namely my first one, Benie’s Homestead). And soon I came up with something I liked. Something that would use up all of those available areas of the settlement.
Something like this.
Objects are thus (in the second picture);
Chest – FSB (Food Storage Bin)
Large table – Coffin
Armchair – BSB (Bulk Storage Bin)
Altar – Trash heap
Fountain – Well
It incorporates the idea for the double path to my house, and has trees in the middle. The field/animal pen has been moved to the area I don’t use, and it will be four tiles bigger. But the biggest thing is moving the house to the corner and re-adding the 2×3 porch idea I had since I moved in. I want to move the house over, and then chop the trees down below it to see my new boat dock. The Maple trees down there have overgrown and need to be “pruned”. Plus it will give me beneficial wood.
My “Storage Shed” house (where I store my carts and catapult), will be moved closer to the house and the field. This to me is a smart move as I will be able to easily walk in from my house, get my large cart, then walk across the road and hitch my work horses when needed. Instead of having to walk across my settlement to do it currently.
A lounge area (two chairs and a dinner table) will be built and placed on the porch area, with my large barrel being there, filled with delicious Stew when I just want to sit back and watch the pixelated ocean waves.
The settlement is called “Oceanside Retreat”, and it’s currently not much of a “retreat” (as in a place to relax). I’m trying to change that.
All I’m really waiting for is my Barley to grow and be harvestable. This is what’s going to take the longest time, as 2-3 of them are just starting (due to my horses eating the seeds). I’m going to need 35 Barley to fully “move” the field to its new location.
I also am going to have to get down in my mine and start mining like crazy for more stone walls (and pavement), and then start chopping trees down. Planking will be critically needed for this plan.
All I can see is this project is going to keep me busy for about a day or two. Maybe three. Depending on how fast I can plan the construction and how much material I’m going to need. The point of all of this is to remain active in Wurm, instead of thinking about quitting.