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Man how do I build group up? I built on a hill and want to raise the ground around me, I'm trying to stand up higher and not move but things won't build up
The hoe has a menu similar to the hammer, the second option builds ground up but it costs stone and you'll need to lay down a workbench
Man how do I build group up? I built on a hill and want to raise the ground around me, I'm trying to stand up higher and not move but things won't build up
The Hoe "raise ground" function will raise up the ground but it's expensive, stone-wise. The best way to use it is to use the raise ground function right next to a small rise, which will bump up the ground a little higher than the spot you selected, move up a little and repeat. Eventually when you get high enough, you can select mostly empty air and just the little edge of the high ground you're on and it will magically bring everything under the circle up to that level. This is stone intensive but still better than raising a whole patch of ground by one unit of z-level. I was able to make a tight spiral pattern to raise enough ground to build a lighthouse near one of our sea bases (since you can't build a bonfire on stone tiles, it needed the natural stone high enough to see and clear high tide/waves). The lighthouse actually works well as a guide point at sea since the render distances are so good in this game.
Man how do I build group up? I built on a hill and want to raise the ground around me, I'm trying to stand up higher and not move but things won't build up
right click when holding the hoe and you'll get a menu of options and "raise ground" is one of them
warning, it requires a lot of stone to do any substantial raising. it's something like 4 stone to raise one square meter of ground (ie, 1/4th of a wood floor plank) by one meter.
What I didn't expect was the longest stretch of swamp ever interpersed by a couple strips of plains and a dick draugr who shot me in the face while I was poisoned and ran into deep water by mistake
That dude's probably guarding my best gear and food now like the douche he is
DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
I bought this, hated how it looked, and returned it
then I bought it again and actually played and it's fun and I got more into the look when I realized it was evoking early action CRPGs, Gothic and such
I never see a thing and go "wow they chose a really poor texture"
I think the most unintuitive thing at the beginning would be figuring out the roof mechanic to cover the work bench. After you are done with that you can use the bench to repair stuff for free so you don't need to make new tools again after they break
I ran out of fire arrows halfway though, then ran out of regular arrows, then ducked into a burial mound that was right there, killed the skellies, looted a bunch of feathers, went out, dropped a workbench and an upgrade using the corpses of greydwarves the elder summoned, used their resin to make -more- fire arrows, then went back and killed him.
Yay! On to the swamps!
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Before following any advice, opinions, or thoughts I may have expressed in the above post, be warned: I found Keven Costners "Waterworld" to be a very entertaining film.
I literally just got the roof on and was like "aw yeah I'm figuring out the game mecha- why did it say the ground is shaking?"
Troll time is why the ground is shaking.
Troll time.
They demolished my house and brutally killed me dead.
As was mentioned you either got horribly unlucky with your seed or you're right next to a Black Forest biome. Or, I mean, I guess it could easily be both
If you can manage it take a look around the immediate area and see if there's any trees other than beech/birch/oak nearby
If you're seeing pine and fur trees you're very near or actively in the Black Forest and lets put it this way: I'm in fully upgraded bronze armor and weapons and I won't even build in the Black Forest.
I probably could but it would be incredibly annoying. While greydwarves and trolls are easily murderable at this point constant greydwarf spawns would be annoying and while trolls aren't really a threat to me anymore they're still pretty tedious to kill.
I very intentionally built my first big base a few hundred meters away from the edge of that biome.
In a nice open field where I can see what's coming at me :P
I rerolled world's and got a pretty lake lookin one so I'm rebuilding my house on a little island with one side to the water (assuming I can build docks and stuff??) And then I'll fortify the front with some sticks or something.
DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
edited February 2021
I built a place right next to the starting rocks and then went in search of water and built a little shack and watchtower. there's a tiny island just off the shore, I'm gonna raise it a bunch and put in a lighthouse.
my newest, shiniest home is, yeah, a few hundred meters away from the Black Forest, because I found a big mostly flat area and it called to me.
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
My biggest place is on a big hilltop meadow near the starting area, and right down the very steep hill is a river I can use to get to the open ocean
It's a very pretty location and convenient to the Black Forest, but I kind of hate running up and down that dang hill
Seriously considering a massive landscaping operation to put in some stairs
DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
edited February 2021
also jeezy pete, chopping down trees is a dangerous business
I keep ending up with waaay more wood than I need because I'll chop a tree down, it'll land on another tree with enough force to break it, which will then land on another tree, and they're all physics-ing around and if you touch them it does a bunch of damage to you.
edit: hell yeah I just chopped down a tree and it landed solidly on flat ground.
edit 2: I chopped it too hard and it rolled off the flat ledge and directly onto the staircase to the Lower Encampment (I have an Encampment) so I gotta fix that
I found a world seed that puts the first few biomes and bosses pretty close to spawn.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
I think I have died 7 times near the same spot.
I was out exploring, just looking around, got too close to a woodline, got.mobbed by greydwarvea.
Went back to get my stuff, same thing. Accidentally got to close to the same area again, same thing. I'm not going in the dark forest, but they are definitely coming out, in the day, to mob me.
Spent some time accumulating stuff, finally made pants, a tunic, a crude bow, and went back to try to whittle them down from afar. Ain't happening. This seems to be the fount of endless greydwarves. At one point I killed two before five more brought mw down.
Seven times. The ladt time, I managed to find my original marker, with tons of supplies, and while looking at it, couldn't figure out an easy way to takenall the stuff at once and... you guessed it... greydwarves.
You are near a spawner. Look for a glowing purple fire nearby, and then go bash it dead ignoring all the dwarves. Otherwise yeah... they will just. keep. coming.
I got my first few cores, but alas not enough to build anything yet. Still, progress! And yellow mushrooms! And I got a couple of upgrades in the process.
The game really has a lot of stressful moments, but it's quite satisfying once you start feeling comfortable raiding a new biome. As long as trolls don't show up.
Questions about random finds:
If you capture stone towers with skeletons, do they respawn, or is that basically your place now?
Is there any use for dungeons once you've killed and looted everything?
I wish building was a little less restrictive. Having to have a roof covered workbench is a burden when you want to build like, a wharf out across some inlets so you don't have to keep swimming.
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The hoe has a menu similar to the hammer, the second option builds ground up but it costs stone and you'll need to lay down a workbench
The Hoe "raise ground" function will raise up the ground but it's expensive, stone-wise. The best way to use it is to use the raise ground function right next to a small rise, which will bump up the ground a little higher than the spot you selected, move up a little and repeat. Eventually when you get high enough, you can select mostly empty air and just the little edge of the high ground you're on and it will magically bring everything under the circle up to that level. This is stone intensive but still better than raising a whole patch of ground by one unit of z-level. I was able to make a tight spiral pattern to raise enough ground to build a lighthouse near one of our sea bases (since you can't build a bonfire on stone tiles, it needed the natural stone high enough to see and clear high tide/waves). The lighthouse actually works well as a guide point at sea since the render distances are so good in this game.
Edit: found a youtube video that highlights what I was describing:
right click when holding the hoe and you'll get a menu of options and "raise ground" is one of them
warning, it requires a lot of stone to do any substantial raising. it's something like 4 stone to raise one square meter of ground (ie, 1/4th of a wood floor plank) by one meter.
What I didn't expect was the longest stretch of swamp ever interpersed by a couple strips of plains and a dick draugr who shot me in the face while I was poisoned and ran into deep water by mistake
That dude's probably guarding my best gear and food now like the douche he is
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
This was the meadows but it was really terrifying when fog happened at night
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
then I bought it again and actually played and it's fun and I got more into the look when I realized it was evoking early action CRPGs, Gothic and such
I never see a thing and go "wow they chose a really poor texture"
Edit: oh wait I think I did the thing.
I died again immediately.
Holy shit this big chungus immediately aggro'd me in the starting area and is just one shot killing me over and over.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
Is it blue? That’s a troll
They fucking hurt even in top tier stuff
That's crazy it's in their spawn point though
Ok cool I was building a house and got mobbed by a fucking dwarf wizard cool cool cool
I didn’t see one til travelling to the nearest shoreline and I had a bow at that point.
You’re building near a Black Forest biome likely, which is where greydwarves tend to spawn
Select your hammer and middle click on stuff to break it down. You get a full refund on resources
I ran out of fire arrows halfway though, then ran out of regular arrows, then ducked into a burial mound that was right there, killed the skellies, looted a bunch of feathers, went out, dropped a workbench and an upgrade using the corpses of greydwarves the elder summoned, used their resin to make -more- fire arrows, then went back and killed him.
Yay! On to the swamps!
I just finished finally building a nice house
And you know those trolls you were talking about?
Yeah two of em showed up and wrecked all my shit.
dig a moat!
like for real!
also you can put sharp sticks all around your shit
Troll time is why the ground is shaking.
Troll time.
They demolished my house and brutally killed me dead.
there are random base attacks, but I believe they only occur after a given set of time and a certain tech level?
also trolls typically do not spawn very close to the starting zone and rarely go far into meadows at all
you just got super unlucky, which just means odin fears you
how do you tame a boar? use mushrooms?
I made a flint spear and some pants (with boots finally) and a shield, might go see if I can stab a giant deer or something
As was mentioned you either got horribly unlucky with your seed or you're right next to a Black Forest biome. Or, I mean, I guess it could easily be both
If you can manage it take a look around the immediate area and see if there's any trees other than beech/birch/oak nearby
If you're seeing pine and fur trees you're very near or actively in the Black Forest and lets put it this way: I'm in fully upgraded bronze armor and weapons and I won't even build in the Black Forest.
I probably could but it would be incredibly annoying. While greydwarves and trolls are easily murderable at this point constant greydwarf spawns would be annoying and while trolls aren't really a threat to me anymore they're still pretty tedious to kill.
I very intentionally built my first big base a few hundred meters away from the edge of that biome.
In a nice open field where I can see what's coming at me :P
my newest, shiniest home is, yeah, a few hundred meters away from the Black Forest, because I found a big mostly flat area and it called to me.
It's a very pretty location and convenient to the Black Forest, but I kind of hate running up and down that dang hill
Seriously considering a massive landscaping operation to put in some stairs
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I keep ending up with waaay more wood than I need because I'll chop a tree down, it'll land on another tree with enough force to break it, which will then land on another tree, and they're all physics-ing around and if you touch them it does a bunch of damage to you.
edit: hell yeah I just chopped down a tree and it landed solidly on flat ground.
edit 2: I chopped it too hard and it rolled off the flat ledge and directly onto the staircase to the Lower Encampment (I have an Encampment) so I gotta fix that
I was out exploring, just looking around, got too close to a woodline, got.mobbed by greydwarvea.
Went back to get my stuff, same thing. Accidentally got to close to the same area again, same thing. I'm not going in the dark forest, but they are definitely coming out, in the day, to mob me.
Spent some time accumulating stuff, finally made pants, a tunic, a crude bow, and went back to try to whittle them down from afar. Ain't happening. This seems to be the fount of endless greydwarves. At one point I killed two before five more brought mw down.
Seven times. The ladt time, I managed to find my original marker, with tons of supplies, and while looking at it, couldn't figure out an easy way to takenall the stuff at once and... you guessed it... greydwarves.
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The game really has a lot of stressful moments, but it's quite satisfying once you start feeling comfortable raiding a new biome. As long as trolls don't show up.
Questions about random finds:
Is there any use for dungeons once you've killed and looted everything?