It is already February and I haven’t had any technical weekend project to post about. I wanted decided to write general post to update what this year has been like so far.

Palworld

I got very into Palworld since its release, I was probably due for another dive into a Minecraft mod-pack. Another play through of Minecraft would have been difficult. I have already played through several of the main skyblock style ones. The only mod that I hadn’t explored was the chemistry one that goes deep into the elements.

The main aspect of Palworld that was just what I was after was the technology tree and thus the progression. It starts you off small and gives you a path forward to slowly build-up on.

The capture of Pal to use as a workforce in your bases is always a great aspect. Compared to to the Minecraft mods I had played, you don’t have to wait till late game to have things automated. Having said that, I first caught the sheep but later realised the cat was the real most-valuable catch of the early game as it is so versatility as it can mine, transport and craft (handiwork).

The mistake I made was getting distracted by trying to capture each of the first 20 types. This set me back in player levels as you are rewarded more experience and thus progression by capturing 10 of a kind. I really needed to focus on capturing 10 of a kind of the first few low level pals. The result of this is it meant the pals in my party were starting to out level me.

I had caught 20 different types of Pals in the first 2 days of release of the game and 50 different types in the first 5 days. On the other hand, I was slow at defeating the first tower / boss fight.

It was very tempting to take a break from playing early on and creating a Paldeck application or least web page with local storage with the list of Pals to keep track of how many of each I had captured for that sweet experience bonus on my phone.

I been playing solo to date and am looking forward to playing a bit more but I’m keen to go ahead with co-op, that however will wait until the multi-player has been sorted out.

Other things

  • I’ve been visiting potential wedding venues.
  • I’ve had a solar system fixed where in the end everything but the panels themselves were replaced including the fixtures to the roof.
  • The movies I’ve watched were Everything Everywhere All at Once, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Love is in the Air, Leo and Lift.
  • The television shows I’ve watched were The Artful Dodger, Pokemon Concierge and the end of My Demon.
  • Coding wise I was looking at creating triangulation from a digital elevation model however it not quite there yet to post about it in depth. The promising approach was using delatin which does the heavy lifting, but I was hoping to be able to explore individual parts of it from point selection to the triangulation.