Sykogenic

this isn't really a good all around guide, this guide is about specifically how to use the basic vortex crafting functions just on the temp map with all their locations right there and all the crafting benches already right there and tools spawned for us and the entire server ready to help one another in OOC.

 it's literally going to wind up being so much more complex than this. i am not dragging zemos, thank god he wrote the ******* guide, i'm just saying that we will need to

teach players the bench recipes

craft the benches

tell the players what node items they need to get a specific tool

find the new node materials in harvestable areas

travel back

get a specific tool to unlock a new step

go to the benches

learn what you need next 

travel back to the nodes

wait a day for your energy cooldown

get a new tool

new nodes

different benches

new tool

craft the 1 item you want

repeat but only after you wait another 24 hours

as opposed to the vanilla minecraft way of doing things, which everyone a-priori understands because... they bought the minecraft game, which is often as simple as a 1 to 5 step process. Even dying glass only takes sand, wood, stone, flowers. Anyone can do that.

Ya what disco said, this is helpful short term but uhhh kinda doesn’t really explain the actual systems in depth. There’s all these super complex systems coming out and it’s been near radio silence on how they work. We’re going in blind as hell and the only way to pick up a basic understanding to this point is learn the very hard way (which as we just established isn’t even really indicative of how they will actually work on launch) or scavenge the tech disc for random offhand mentions of them that still leaves us wanting more info

I am making a FAQ currently to address these questions.