And boy do I regret not getting it earlier.

I defeated the Ender dragon ages ago, and I had everything I needed to go and explore the outer End, but I decided to do a bunch of other stuff first, since I thought that the elytra wouldn't be that big of an improvement. I was wrong, I've had this thing for like 10 minutes and I already rely on it, it's so useful being able to fly and travel about 3x as fast as on foot.

My new #1 priority is now to build a bigger sugarcane farm to make rockets. I already have one, which I thought would be enough, but I'm burning through rockets way faster than I'd expected.

I'm thinking about joining mastodon, but I don't know what server to go with, and the list of servers seems to have very little information about each. Right now I think I'll open an account on mastodon.social.

I'd prefer a server with a high character limit and that has access to most other servers.

I'm thinking about joining mastodon, but I don't know what server to go with, and the list of servers seems to have very little information about each. Right now I think I'll open an account on mastodon.social.

I'd prefer a server with a high character limit and that has access to most other servers.

So, this starts with the local currency of Laroth (Laroth is not a single country, and does not have a unified currency, but that’s for another post- I’ll just treat it as such here) which originally consisted of Chinese-style silver coins with holes in the middle. These holes meant that you could string them up on a piece of cord and carry large amounts of them easily that way. (This also served as a standardised unit, but again that’s for a future post about currency.)

People start wearing these strings on their belts, since pockets aren’t really a thing yet. Rich people, to show off, start wearing large amounts of them, all around their waists. Not only does this show off that they have that much money, it also shows that they can walk around in public with that much money without worrying about thieves and robbers, whether that is because they can afford to hire bodyguards or for some other reason. This still isn’t enough flaunting for some though, so they start using fancier materials, replacing the plain cord with gold/silver chains, or intricately patterned ribbons.

This currency stays around for a fairly long amount of time (how long exactly I haven’t decided yet) and this trend becomes pretty well-established in Larothan culture as a way for the rich to show off. It starts seeping into the fashion of the lower classes as well, as a set of plain ribbons or tassels attached to the belt.

Eventually, Laroth switches to coins without holes in them (again, Laroth has multiple currencies and not all of them did) and people started carrying their money in pockets (the medieval kind not the modern kind), purses, wallets, etc. The ribbons now end up entirely useless for carrying money, but by this point they’ve been a part of Larothan fashion for a long time and so they stick around, except since they can’t carry money it becomes entirely about the ribbons themselves.

Since they no longer have to serve a practical purpose, these evolve into many styles. Some are plain, just dyed with more expensive dyes (reds, blues, greens, purples). These are mostly worn by peasants and such. Then they get fancier with patterns and tassels and so on. Some incorporate bits of gold, silver, lumin, and other precious materials. Some have beads or glass or other decoration. Some have elements evoking the coins they once held, while others completely ignore the history of the garment and are made in ways that could never hold a coin.

They differ massively based on class, and there are many regional variants- especially since some areas did not move away from the old style of coins with holes, so they still serve their original coin-holding purpose there.

So, I've had this idea which doesn't fit in my world (I've only got humans), but I thought it was neat so here it is: Dwarves would invent bullpup firearms and here is why.

With early muzzleloading firearms, you have to reach the muzzle of the gun to be able to load it, which poses a problem for dwarves since if your gun is much taller than you it would be difficult to reach. You can't just shorten the gun, since with black powder you need a long barrel to get it to fully burn and give your ball enough power. Furthermore, a long gun would also be unwieldy inside small dwarven corridors, which would be extra important since with dwarves living underground they'd be more likely to be fighting indoors.

The solution to this is to bullpup their muskets. I'm fairly certain that there aren't any significant technological barriers to making it work, there just wasn't much reason to do so in our world. This would let them load their guns normally, without sacrificing power, and make them much easier to carry around and use indoors.

The main issues with this are that having the flashpan so close to the user's face would burn them, and the hearing loss. The flash is dealt with by that plate that sticks out beside the lock, which would hopefully deflect the explosion away from the user. The hearing loss I think could be compensated by the fact that the dwarves, having to fight indoors underground oftern, would probably have much better hearing protection much earlier than in our world.

Behold, Hoid, immortal wanderer, slayer of god (participant), collector of magic... questionable interior decoration

Eren B is the location of my post-post-apocalyptic world called Nuclear Spring. It is a large moon about the size of Mars that orbits and is tidally locked to a massive, Jupiter-sized gas giant called Eren. (for those who don't know, being tidally locked means that the same side of the moon always faces the planet, like with our own moon) Because of how large the gas giant is, and how close Eren B orbits it, Eren B goes through a total solar eclipse every day, when it passes behind Eren.

There was no life on Eren B before it was terraformed, and so all the life on it is descended from the few species brought over by the original colonists. This has resulted in an oddly large number of niches being filled by various species of birds.

The civilizations on Eren B are mostly at a late medieval to renaissance level of technology, with a couple notable exceptions- Old Tech being one of them.

The continent in the middle (which I still haven't named yet) is currently the only continent I have fleshed out, which is why the others are drawn with nowhere near as much detail and don't have any seperate biomes.

The red horizontal line denotes the equator. The point where it intersects with the central vertical line is where the gas giant is directly overhead. The other 2 vertical lines are facing towards and away from the direction of the moon's movement.

The main regions I've created so far are as follows:

Laroth, the large central desert is mostly split between the big cities built around oases and the tiny villages and nomadic peoples who survive out in the Sand Sea. They also have a vast supply of Old-Tech because the desert has preserved many ancient structures.

Alorgast, a somewhat mongol-inspired empire in the south. They own almost the entire surviving population of horses on the planet.

Teluo, a lose confederation of city-states in the north-western islands and stretching down the western coast of Laroth. They are very, very loosely inspired by the ancient Greeks.

Saw the post asking for an icon yesterday so I made this thing.

There were 4 comments on that post, I have no idea why it's displaying as -4.

The Keepers of the Peace is one of the largest organisations on Eren B. They are a holdover from the time before the Fall, though their exact origins is still under debate. They are a religious military group that is dedicated to preventing unnecessary wars between the many nations of Eren B, though what exactly is considered an "unnecessary" war varies greatly between the many sects. Besides maintaining peace, the Keepers also provide aid during natural disasters- a common occurrence due to Eren B's partial terraforming, uphold the tenants of the Charter- the Keeper's holy book, and protecting the people of Eren B- though once again different sects have very different views on who deserves protection.

Pictured here is a foot soldier of the eastern Larothan sect of the Keepers. He is wearing a blue headwrap, blue headwear being one of the symbols of the Keepers, and headwraps being almost universal among the people of Laroth- the partial terraforming of Eren B left it with a very thin ozone layer, which combined with the desert environment of Laroth makes covering up very important. On top of the headwrap, he's wearing an olive wreath, another symbol of the Keepers, though wearing actual olive leaves is not something every sect does.

He's armed with a spear and shield, with a sword as a sidearm. While firearms have become widespread in other parts of the world, a lack of saltpeter in eastern Laroth means that melee weapons are still standard there.

On his belt are a couple potions, which I will probably retcon, a syringe and a gas bottle. Not sure what to do with those yet.

Eren B is a Mars-sized moon that orbits and is tidally-locked to a Jupiter-sized gas giant. It has been partially terraformed however it still is a pretty hostile environment and has no native life. The people living on Eren B have regressed to a medieval-renaissance level of technology after the fall of humanity's interstellar empire (the reasons for which I haven't figured out yet)

I've seen a lot of these "tell me about your world" prompts on the subreddit, but they often result in people either writing massive walls of text or a single short sentence that is incredibly vague.

So instead I want to try something different. Introduce your world using exactly 50 words, not more, not less. Not sure if that's a good number, I guess I'll find out.

Pictured here is a Larothan priest painting a glyph of protection onto the side of a granary. The people of Laroth believe that such glyphs protect the contents from harm. The blue square is meant to ward of poison, plague and rot; the red square prevents fire- which is deadly in the water-scarce desert; the yellow square defends from the wind, sand and other environmental elements; and finally the white square is meant to hold an additional blessing, decided by a prayer said by the priest while painting it. These additional blessings are often things like protection from war, theft, and other such human-caused problems.

Larothan granaries are small square buildings, usually separate from other buildings, with the grain being kept in a pit inside. Flooding is almost nonexistent in Laroth, and the most common pests can fly, making keeping them suspended mostly unnecessary.

This was inspired by this post from r/worldjerking about the fire diamond being a magic system, and specifically the comment from u/DanDaManatee about a cargo cult.

Eren B is a Mars-sized moon that orbits and is tidally-locked to a Jupiter-sized gas giant. It has been partially terraformed however it still is a pretty hostile environment and has no native life. The people living on Eren B have regressed to a late medieval- renaissance level of technology after the fall of humanity's interstellar empire (the reasons for which I haven't figured out yet)

I noticed that this community didn't have an icon so I made this one. It's probably way too high res, but I wanted to be safe since I didn't know what resolution Lemmy icons are supposed to be.

I also made a flat colour version.

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