Building and tinkering
I’m been in a big building and tinkering mood recently, and have been really getting into Valheim. I play solo and honestly don’t have too much time to put into it, but I’ve been building larger bases and am legitimately excited to keep trying new things and progress further. I’m not much good at it, so while I’m looking at online resources for reference I’m trying to keep my expectations from getting too high.
I never was able to get into Minecraft and had resigned myself to that fact that I’m not the type of person who enjoys sandbox games. But something about Valheim is giving me some real joy. Partly the game aesthetic, and partly just my state of mind probably.
In another somewhat related point, I’ve been using Claude Code to create lots of little tools for myself and fun game prototypes, as well as working on a system that will let it run mostly autonomously so I don’t have to babysit it as it works through larger projects. This might seem like it’s taking away from my opportunities to build myself, but I love the process. It’s like working on a big Rube Goldberg machine, and the joy when I’m given a finished product that largely works as expected is real.
None of these things have any real significance, and I have to real about that. It’s tinkering, and I don’t mean that in a diminishing way. It’s a perfectly legitimate hobby, I think, and there are cases where it help me to learn new things and grow.
(This is a very unpolished post, but I want to get in the habit of publishing more, so this is what we get.)