AprilPvd in VR:

No Man’s Sky

Lots of speculation since 10 year anniversary is coming up on August 9. It’s weird that there hasn’t been an emoji. But they are announcing something called Cosmos.

Palworld 1.0

Wednesday

Play PW with Grand Nagus and it was so much fun. I was so excited when after we recorded last week episode of Ctrl Alt WoW Final Fantasy 14 Grand Nagus stated that he wanted to play with me and so I tried to get him to join my dedicated server. I thought I had set up everything so that he would be able to join. There’s a whole bunch of stuff about port forwarding and it didn’t work and so we weren’t able to play on Tuesday. I fool around and read some other things about it, but then I came upon something about a paid dedicated server and at first, I was like do I really want to get hooked up on this is gonna be a scam is it gonna really work but I tried it and for $14 a month and this was just a test I was able to get a server that on Wednesday we both joined and we were able to play together. It was really a lot of fun we played like and I think six hours I know we played three hours and then I took a break and then I came back and we played for a couple more hours. Grand Nagus kept on playing we got to I think level 12 at one point we set up a base we work together we leveled up the power box. It was Millie Millie, a lot of fun and it worked seamlessly everything we did together once we set up a guild I think it’s called Cal guild and Grand Nagus is the guild master and it just it was so much fun. We were actually talking on Zoom although I’m gonna try to figure out a way we can talk in the game because although I was streaming it, it was hard to hear Grand Nagus‘s voice in the in the stream, but I’m really glad I tried this like I said I was a little bit wary of it and in the long run $14 a month isn’t that much if it allows me to have a server that people can join us and I’m not exposing my system to my home system to outside forces plus this will allow me to keep my dedicated service from my gameplay and yeah, it’s kind of interesting. The thing is that you do you do have the option of turning it on pausing it and starting it and pausing it, which is nice because I was worried about that on my own dedicated server. I asked I talked about this last week that I accidentally left it running, and then I came back and all my pals were all upset. Someone depressed one of the humans had an ulcer so you know it’ll be nice to be able to pause it when I need to.

Thursday

Attempted to open up the port forwarding so I could use one of my computers for the dedicated server. But I always feel nervous about doing that and then I finally realized that the $14 a month to host a server was worth not having to stress out about changing the settings on my home Internet.

I did a bunch of exploring, opened up a new section of the map and caught some more pets plus went into a dungeon to get coal

Pictures from my base tour

I did some breeding and here’s my map of where I put this particular base.

Every day before I play PalWorld I like to go over what I did the next day in the Podcast. This way, the information that you’re getting is fresher in my mind what I was doing before was just taking notes and then trying to read through my notes all at once when I recorded the day, I would publish the podcast, but I think this works a lot better so I’m back in on Thursday and I’m looking at what the group of pals in my base can do and kind of checking off some of the things off of the pals that I need to do specific things it’s an interesting concept and it’s it’s a lot of things to learn in this game and some people might find it tedious but I find it very interesting. I learned a lot yesterday. One of the things I did was I have two cooking pots. One is an advanced one, and if I set it upright, then my pet will feed themselves so what I have to do is make sure that when I set up some food to be cooked that it says that it’s going to be carried can be carried by the pals back to the food chest, they’ll store it there and one of the things I had to do on the food test was to make sure that I only allowed it to store food because if I allowed it to store ingredients, they would eat the wrong ingredients now the problem with eating the more ingredients is that they will not get as much nutrients and that one little coat thing called SAN that gives them their sanity so you wanna make sure that the food has enough SAN to keep them from going crazy and to keep them working productively so I had one of the fire pit working to make food for me, and I had unchecked carry the food back, not realizing that it would somehow confuse them and they wouldn’t carry the food back from the next one so I came back after going into try fighting another fighting the original tower again to see if I got anything extra and when I got back, my pals were starving so I fixed that part and it’s it’s a learning experience and I had a lot of fun doing other things. I also did some. I went out and caught a lot of pets and I also fool around with the pet compression machine, which allows you to take a bunch of different pets and combine them to make your main pet even better and it’s really a cool system because you it makes you go out and capture more pets and while you’re capturing more pets, you’re also leveling up and that’s two of my focuses right now or to level up my character and level up my base. I’m at the point where my base cannot go another level because I have to level up enough to access the things I need to level my base up.

Friday

I got back on Aprillian and it’s so cool because she has access to the things on the base that April Pvd has built up. At one point I swapped back-and-forth so that April Pvd could make her a better shield and April Pvd had upgraded her outfit and so she put it in one of the chest so that Aprillian could retrieve it along with a good shield. April Pvd had put an egg in the hatcher and Aprillian got it out and it was a really cool electric zebra thing and she used some of her books to upgrade it so that I can provide electricity for the base. Now that April Pvd is putting in more equipment that will need electricity. The whole thing is so fascinating. Then a brilliant try to do that second tower three times and I decided to try dual boxing it. So I put a brilliant on my laptop and Apple Pvd in VR. I made the mistake of not moving a brilliant and she was actually killed during the fight, but April Pvd was able to revive her. Then I tried it again and this time I put a brilliant in a corner and after she released her pet April Pvd was doing most of the fighting and she was able to win. I could also see when the Aprillian’s pet died and then I could reach over and cycle through her pets and pull out another one. It was so much fun.

Saturday

Of course, since it was Saturday, I did my workout in VR.

It was my normal routine 2.7 miles with 6698 steps in one hour and 56 minutes. It was a little bit longer than usual because Holofit has these challenges where you have to complete these different activities for each month. It’s something different and it makes me stay on the elliptical a little bit longer and push a little bit longer. It’s another advantage to VR. I actually got a new hat for my avatar.

Zenith

It was the second Saturday of the month, which meant that I did the Zenith cosmetic craze. We had a nice turnout and it was a lot of fun. I try to play characters that don’t already have cosmetics. I ended up pulling out of mage that I hadn’t played in a while. There was another mage there and I was telling her how the mage in Zenith is my least favorite type mainly because it’s so hard to hold my arms to shoot. She said even harder than the Blade and I said oh I love the Blade because I’m moving around and I’m actually getting exercise. The mechanics in Zenith are so good.

But of course, my main focus was on PalWorld. the whole time I was working out I was thinking of different ideas. When I finally logged off of Zenith, I jumped on Aprillian because I wanted her to do some exploring like I had done with April Pvd. I ended up exploring even more with Aprillian but I still didn’t find the third tower. She did level quite a bit and ended up getting more pets and enough so that she could do the second expedition.

Sunday

On Sunday, Grand Nagus and I work together on my dedicated server that I pay $14 a month. It’s not that bad. It’ll be fun and you know I had I think I mentioned that I decided to use it instead of trying to open up a port into my home network and it worked really well. We had a lot of fun with working. We working on our bases. We started out with One and now we have two and going through all the different quest lines together is really nice. It’s just like being back in World of Warcraft. Grand Nagus I guess it was and so he had a lot of information and I learned things and he learned things and it was just really good to play with another person and I’m looking forward to the next time we get to play together we took down some bosses. We got some new pets. We learned how to set how to put the right piles into our bases and we got to a point where one base that we had made by Nagus picked the perfect area and we had to pull out the biggest pals because we were getting raided right after we put the base down or not long after we created the base so we just put in the best and biggest pals, and they were able to fight off the raid Raiders and yeah, we had a lot of fun, especially once we both got out and we were able to ride around and the best part is when either of us died in a battle we could be by each other so that was kind of neat.

Monday

Monday, I took Aprillian out because I wanted to get her a little bit more leveled up and she actually opened up some areas that April Pvd had not been to. she also went a little bit further, and I realized that the map was opening up for both her and April Pvd, and she also noticed that she was getting closer to the marker for the next quest line which was to find out more information about the next tower. Now we are done two towers. The towers are dungeons where you go in and fight one boss and then we have run into other dungeons which are more like dungeons in World of Warcraft where you run through when you gather stuff up and you fight things and there’s also a couple of places where there’s just a portal in the middle of the area and you go in and there’s just one boss fight in there. I just wanna apologize for my voice. I seem to be coming down with a cold and a nice sound awful but I just wanna talk about power world and how much I have been enjoying this game so I got a brilliant to that point where is she now has opened up the next quest line to get to the tower, but I logged off and then I brought in April Pvd so she could go out there and do the same thing so it’s kind of fun. It’s kind of you know I love doing class. I love following the breadcrumbs and I love, figuring this out and we also leveled up on both characters and opened up some more things on our bases you know because as you level up the base you get all these different things that you need to build for the base to level up your power box which right now I’m at level 13 and I’ve got to and I’ve got two bases and like a bunch of 12 pounds and I’m doing the expeditions as well which brings in a lot of good mats and I’m also leveling up my power learning which is really important the power learning gets you things like making faster for you to make things there’s also some things about it for the expedition and I have gotten to a point where I can make some different resources so I went back to my original base and I tore it down and now I’m going to try in next weeks episode to build a base specifically or as a resource base. I’m also upgrading all the beds and I’m doing some making cakes so I can mate my pals. I think I’m gonna close out now cause you can see I sound awful, but I’m loving power world and I hope you get to play it and enjoy it as much as I have. Oh my gosh, I’m so awful.