Jistuma

There's a difference between complaining and feedback. Heck, the shears durability was quickly fixed for example. But if you complain for the purpose of complaining without giving proper feedback and sugestions to modify it, or at least explaining how worse it is to keep the change, then it won't be seen too much to heart. Because all changes always have someone that dislikes them, and real feedback from "I hate change" needs to be done. ShameJax for example came to me specifically AND made a feedback thread to talk about the durability of the shears, so I quickly understood the problem, and changed it. Just complaining and saying devs and coders don't know what they are doing, does nothing to help fix anything, it's just complaining.

Do you know how the code for recipes is? How many lines each recipe has? How many recipes there are, and how hard it is to calculate times based on the skill level of someone? We trusted the recipes created by the one that previously coded. For most things, that is enough. In this case, the purpose of the staves was scrapped, but the recipes remained. We found several new uses for the staves, but forgot that the previous purpose was magic, which meant that the time it would take to make the staves would be bigger than normal. We aren't perfect, we're coders and developers, we can't know all the recipes that exist, together with all the times, tiers and other things concerning each recipe. So no, I didn't look with much detail at the recipe for the staves, because the time to make it is one number lost in lines and lines of code.

No I just didn't think it would take so long.

Takes 8 hours? If it does, I do think we should lower it. Before the staff was going to be used for magic, but right now, it's for other crafts, so lowering the time will probably be done.

The chances of those branches dropping are a lot higher now that lumberjacking been changed to destroy all the tree and the leaves auto breaking. Still, Blacksmiths having to use other professions as well, was also intended.

Black Ferrum ones are min30%, max60%

So are normal iron swords. Though, they are pretty close to good iron swords. Not the best ones, but pretty good ones.

Any reason why it shouldn't be?

Why would it spawn a cave spider? Though it does spawn mobs (this multiple)

@Heero, all the finished potions have more then 18seconds. Even the Moderate healing potion gives Regen II for 25 seconds (gives 10 hearts) or instant 8 hearts. Yes they have side effects, but for example, a moderate celerity potion gives Speed II and gives -1 dmg (half a heart). -1 dmg is removing 1/4 of the Orc buff (Weakness debuff is weak as hell, level II weakness only does less half a heart damage, that's going to be fixed in 1.9 making it -2 heart dmg per level.).

And those are only the Moderate potions. Stoneskin potion leaves you partically immortal but you can't jump for 3 mins. Healing gives you 16 hearts and 20 seconds slow. Accuity gives speed II and Jump II for 2 mins with Hunger V (you have to eat a lot to run a lot). Alchemist fire creates lava where the potion lands, meaning it has the potential to cause a lot of damage to an enemy.

Besides the abuse of using Stoneskin potion with a horse, all other potions I believe are pretty well balanced. Yet it's for balance that I take a while to add new potions. Example, how am I going to balance Speed III or IV? Can't be poison or wither because it kind of breaks the use of speed. I can make it that the drinker gets more damage, but then players will think it gives resistance. Mining fatigue is useless, slowness doesn't work if you have speed, and nausea doesn't actually do much besides annoy. Blindness stops sprint jumping. What remains is hunger, weakness, instant damage and maybe the reverse resistance (more damage instead of less).

Running away does not start PVP default, it just allows for the other side to down you (you can't turn around and fight back if you are running away). On the other hand, the KOS, banished stuff, if the KOS person is just running around the area, shout for your friends to gather. You need to roleplay to attack him, but it doesn't actually have to be directly to the person. You can roleplay gathering your forces and telling them to apprehend the person which is KOS or banished. Then you need to talk or emote towards the KOS person, but if you have been rp'ing about him before, you don't need more than a line or two before you down them to then revive them and continue rp. If they are banished in a place and are there, then they are roleplaying being there even if they don't emote or talk.