NotEvilAtAll

“Nah worries, oi’m sure da soup Demons won’ give us ter maneh problems!” says Filibert Applefoot, resident of Knoxville

ur like a solid 6.8/10 I see you a bit on the forums but I have more rep than you therefore I'm cooler than you hahahahahahah I totally have not manipulated any communities with everyone pings on discord to rep my stuff no no, not at all

[!] You find a scrap of paper floating around in the wind. Some words are scribbled onto it, as well as a simple drawing. HARVEST TIME IS HERE ~The lovely ol' pumpkins of Knoxville!~ Ah yes, the wonders of autumn. The birds are singing, the air is full of wondrous smells, the crops are fully grown and ready for harvest! It is time to dig up potatoes! It is time to cut down the winter wheat! It is time to pick pumpkins and carve them into fancy ornaments! Let us clear away the fields so we may plant them anew! It's HARVEST TIME, fellas! It's time for us halfling folks to prosper and be merry! Thus, on with the list of activities (A proper harvest ought to be organized like a festival, after all!): -Pumpkin pickin', pumpkin carvin' -Cutting down rows upon rows of wheat! -Competition to see who can dig up the biggest potato! -Drinking and shogging! -The first animal slaughter of Knoxville, to commemorate the new herd of cattle in our wee village! Be there or be a smelly pumpkin! Our village is in Attenlund within Haense, down the long and winding road to the big lake from the big city! Shouldn't be too hard to find! -Filibert Applefoot, local Knoxville halfling, candidate for Sheriff. [!] Another crude bit of paper is nailed onto the first BIGGUNS ARE INVITED! ((Event will take place at 7 PM EST, Tomorrow Thursday the 24th of June, 2021. Knoxville can be found using the below map: ))

OOC: Hello there! This is an event designed to simulate a single day of halfling life as best as possible. Everybody starts at the beginning of the hour, having just woken up. Their characters then go about their day as they would IRP, eventually falling back to sleep at the end of the hour, which ends the event. Working, eating, talking, and other things your character typically does in a day can and should be roleplayed. There will be a single roleplay prompt happening during the hour to promote interaction, but attending it isn’t mandatory. Feel free to do as you wish. The intention isn’t to attract a large quantity of halflings into one location at a time, but rather to create as much immersion as possible. SoL Event Checklist (Optional): -Wake up ( ) -Eat something ( ) -Do some task ( ) -Interact with someone ( ) -Eat another thing ( ) -Go to sleep ( ) RP: [!] A note is pinned to the Bramblebury Noticeboard! "Been a while since we've properly cared for our animals. Praps we ought to do that soon, seeing as it be a bit cold out these days. -Filibert Applefoot" ((Scheduled for 4 PM EST today, 6/23/2021))

"Oi be' oi could make ah fanceh booze ter trade away fer dis!" says Filibert Applefoot, a halfling without a hat, before heading back up the road on his long journey back to Knoxville.

I thought they came from cabbages. The more you know, I suppose.

This is an example of a much lower effort custom tree using these tactics. I only spent some 3-4 minutes on this, with most of the time spent messing with leaves and turning oak logs into oak wood so that there's only bark showing. In survival mode I don't think this would take much longer than 10 minutes, likely under 5 minutes if you don't mess with the leaves or try to hide/replace log textures.

This is my modern take on an old LOTC build tactic for fast, cheap, and easy custom trees. Pictured below are trees in the old halfling village of Willow Hollow on Vailor: Every single one of these trees (as far as I can tell) is a modified vanilla minecraft tree. Fancy oak trees (the large oak trees with multiple branches) were grown all around the village with extra logs, mushrooms, leaves, pumpkins, etc put around their trunks to make them look unique. So, let's try doing that in a more modern minecraft version with extra blocks to use and new post-1.14 textures to play around with! This is how you can guarantee that a sapling will grow into a fancy oak tree. There are other ways to modify the tree with blocks put around a sapling, however. If the ring is moved down a block, you get a weird balloon-like tree, and if you put two blocks on top of each other next to a sapling, it's very likely that the tree will turn into a big ol' fancy oak as well (although this has failed on me before and just grown a slightly taller normal oak tree instead). This is just my personal preference, but I like to change the visible oak log blocks into oak wood so that only bark is showing anywhere on the tree or its branches. Add some roots near the base of the tree while also beefing up the main trunk a bit from the top. This should give the tree an interesting look, almost as if the trunk is slightly bent. Add natural things such as mushrooms, flowers, or leaves near the base of the trunk while beefing out any areas that look to thin with planks of your choice (I prefer spruce but dark oak or regular oak can work as well). In this tree, I also added some bee hives and a red mushroom growing off of the trunk to really get those druid-y nature vibes. Usually adding some mushrooms, flowers, leaves, or pumpkins is plenty to make the tree visually interesting, but if you really want to add tons of nature around your tree, feel free to do so! If you don't want the tree to look like a vanilla fancy oak tree as much, you can mess around with the leaves up top a bit, breaking up anything that looks too blocky and adding leaves where the leaf cover looks too thin. This adds a lot more effort to the tree building process so it's not necessary unless you expect the tree to be looked at from above or far away. If the tree is only going to be looked at from below, dressing up the tree trunk is usually plenty to provide the illusion of a fully custom tree. Make the tree somewhat useful! Might as well age your booze up in the tree if it's going to be there anyways! You can add a ladder going up to a treehouse, benches or chairs, a picnic area, a small herb garden, or anything else you want on top of and near the trunk! The more useful things you add to the tree, the more memorable it will be! Vines are also cool. Add vines if you want. I also threw in a pumpkin 'cuz why not. That's all I did for this tree. Hopefully this guide helps you build good trees without spending loads of time gathering leaves and painfully shaping the entire tree from scratch! If saplings can create decent large oak trees, might as well use them as a base to elaborate upon!

OOC: Hello there! This is an event designed to simulate a single day of halfling life as best as possible. Everybody starts at the beginning of the hour, having just woken up. Their characters then go about their day as they would IRP, eventually falling back to sleep at the end of the hour, which ends the event. Working, eating, talking, and other things your character typically does in a day can and should be roleplayed. There will be a single roleplay prompt happening during the hour to promote interaction, but attending it isn’t mandatory. Feel free to do as you wish. The intention isn’t to attract a large quantity of halflings into one location at a time, but rather to create as much immersion as possible. SoL Event Checklist (Optional): -Wake up ( ) -Eat something ( ) -Do some task ( ) -Interact with someone ( ) -Eat another thing ( ) -Go to sleep ( ) RP: [!] A note is pinned to the Bramblebury Noticeboard "Plantin' season is comin' along! I've some new seeds I'd like to try out in our main field, let's get to work on planting 'em! O' course, you're free to go off and do your own things once the planting itself ends! -Filibert Applefoot" ((Currently scheduled for 3 PM EST today, 6/18/2021. That time may be changed slightly))

Mushroom infection yes +1

Filibert Applefoot laughs "Hah! Dar beh carriage drivers who dink t'ey can ac'ualleh MOVE carriages? Tha's somefin' onleh dah monks can do! Wheels onleh work when da monks 'cause 'em ter work! Probabley jus' some bandi' tryin'a rob people 'n e'ernalleh s'a'ionareh carriages 'er somefin'"

Should I join the WT so I can shill for the Wildlands being brought back?

Criticizing lore is toxic?

"Pre''eh cool!" says Filibert Applefoot, a halfling from the other village of Knoxville

Sorry but when I see horrible musket lore submissions I’m going to critique them. Hanharan’s lore didn’t even include a maximum range.

We can have dry compasses, but not liquid ones. Wheelbarrows and heavy ploughs aren't on there because they were invented in china before the medieval period I read it. It doesn't mention a maximum range. Please give it a maximum range or, if this is accepted (which I doubt) I'll get a friend and do a musket duel from opposite ends of the map so that the Lore Team is forced to give it a maximum range.

That's Warhammer 40k which is different from Warhammer Fantasy. Warhammer Fantasy does have actual nuclear weapons and machine guns in the hands of the skaven rat people so I'm not sure that "Well it's in Warhammer Fantasy!" is a good argument for porting something to LOTC.

Warhammer has nukes too so we need to bring back the thanhium nuke so we can do a heckin' epic oren nukerino again

Heavy ploughs: Wheelbarrows: Spinning Wheel: Astrolabe: Flintlocks (which is what this musket lore is for): If you wanna make a historical argument please stick to firearms that actually existed in the medieval europe AKA the matchlock arquebus.

Sir those are matchlock guns for the historical images this is not a lore submission for matchlock guns, but flintlock guns. do you know the difference?