We have a sea base in the black forest near a swamp and we had probably walled off more land than necessary but the topography was right, but greydwarves spawn inside the walls. We came back from the Bonemass swamp last night with a boatload (heh) of iron and I discovered that a greydwarf had tossed rocks over the picket fence and about 50 of my 72 turnips planted were destroyed
Maybe some campfires or torches will prevent them from spawning? I built a couple workbenches and structures in the area but apparently that wasn't enough. Long term I'll probably move the farm to the meadows where my buddy is building a giant tower.
MOAR FIRE
BIG FIRE
for real though, torches at first and when you can make BIG FIRE, do it. Light the fuckin beacons of Gondor.
Hmm
I built a lighthouse (complete with bonfire) in the water right at the mouth of the bay (maybe 1.5 workbench radii from where they seem to spawn) maybe that's too far or not enough fire? Time for some science tonight.
How did you get a bonfire atop a lighthouse? I can’t seem to build one on anything but the ground.
It was a bit of a project actually. I built a little foot bridge (left it so I can re-feed the fire) out to a rock just off the edge of the coast, and burned a ton of stone using raise ground (and where I learned the trick I posted up-thread of building up easily) to get the rock big enough to support the structure and tall enough to clear the water, then laid the bonfire, then laid 8 stone tiles around it (think a 3x3 grid with the fire in the middle grid) and then pillars and arches around it. I'll try to nab a screenshot this evening, it was the first real "project for the sake of trying something for just decoration" but it is nice to use as a beacon when sailing in at night or in the fog!
How do I get the next boss to...activate? At the stones. I beat boss 1, put their head on the hook...then nothing.
Check the burial chambers found in the Black Forest. Eventually you'll run across a runestone that will guide your way.
I actually found a runestone in one of the ruined stone towers in the Black Forest once as well.
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.
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TonkkaSome one in the club tonightHas stolen my ideas.Registered Userregular
I should grab some pictures of my adorable lake house.
Speaking of digging things: how feasible would it be to dig
An underground hall?
I have strong proclivities towards doing dwarf shit in these kinda games.
Sounds like a possible thing. Although you need to be on a hill, since if you dig too deep you'll end up in water.
Ran into this: (big spoilers here re: special items and tier 3, click at your own risk!)
no seriously don't click if you haven't defeated the tier 3 boss
if you've killed bonemass and gotten the Wishbone, you can find Muddy Scrap in the ground in the swamp area. The swamp is already at water level so even a little digging creates pools.... digging in the dark you can easily create, by accident, a pit deep enough to drown yourself in while trying to snag scrap that sank to the bottom...
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.
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ThegreatcowLord of All BaconsWashington State - It's Wet up here innit? Registered Userregular
Oh yeah that spooky dude started appearing for me around day 70 or so. I have no idea who or what he is. I was focusing on leveling some ground, I looked up, saw his shape and he was gone.
So far the only thing that bothers me in this game is needing a roof and close enclosure around work benches. It really limits me doing cool stuff. For instance I was going to make a crafting terrace! But I can't!
I spent several hours building this tiny shitty bridge today and holy shit it was frustrating. This game desperately needs to take some tips from Satisfactory, because this took waaaay too long.
And the supports in the water are getting slowly (not that slowly though) destroyed by the river! what the fuck! The first supports were nearly dead by the time I finished the last ones. Guess I need to unlock stone building? Those probably last longer.
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Olivawgood name, isn't it?the foot of mt fujiRegistered Userregular
Now that you have roofs over the supports, they shouldn’t decay further I don’t think
So far the only thing that bothers me in this game is needing a roof and close enclosure around work benches. It really limits me doing cool stuff. For instance I was going to make a crafting terrace! But I can't!
Consider, if you have them unlocked, stone floor / 4m log pillars with open walls / roof. I think that will give you the open pavillion look while also meeting the requirements for shelter from the weather. And let's be serious here, you don't want to be making armor in the driving rain anyhow! It'll rust!
Stone bridges aren't really a feasible option, they can't go more than one slab without a support, and the snapping for stone pillars is even jankier than with wood. Gotta go with wood and give it a roof, the degradation system isn't very intuitive
Now that you have roofs over the supports, they shouldn’t decay further I don’t think
Hmm interesting. I'll have to check that later.
I do really like the freedom and creativity the extra building angles offer, but with all the ways the game hamstrings you it's hard to get the most out of it. Definitely excited to get better at it (and/or updates) so I can make some cooler stuff.
Oh yeah that spooky dude started appearing for me around day 70 or so. I have no idea who or what he is. I was focusing on leveling some ground, I looked up, saw his shape and he was gone.
Oh yeah that spooky dude started appearing for me around day 70 or so. I have no idea who or what he is. I was focusing on leveling some ground, I looked up, saw his shape and he was gone.
He appears to only have one eye, as well...
Pretty sure it's
Odin keeping an eye on your progress.
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
Oh yeah that spooky dude started appearing for me around day 70 or so. I have no idea who or what he is. I was focusing on leveling some ground, I looked up, saw his shape and he was gone.
He appears to only have one eye, as well...
Pretty sure it's
Odin keeping an eye on your progress.
I've seen him so many times by early day-400s and sometimes I'm just doing something like harvesting carrots or picking berries and wondering if I'm being judged
So, I was sailing last night, exploring my first continent outside of my home island with all of my good stuff on me, naturally. This new continent is awesome and big and has cool rivers running through it and I was having a blast.
As I'm speeding down one of these rivers through a black forest along a nice straight stretch I see a troll right on the shore. I'm going fairly fast with the wind and the troll is a fair bit away from me and I figure that even if he gets close enough I'm pretty sure my boat can survive one hit and then I'll be out of range and home free.
Boy was I wrong! That troll strode through the water with ease, came right up beside my boat as I was zipping past him, and crushed my whole body with a single blow of his tree trunk. I probably didn't have much food up, but I thought he'd hit my boat!
I hadn't landed or placed a portal yet, so I respawned back home. I put on some of my old armor, grabbed my halberd that I don't usually run around with and rafted back over a narrow sea to get to the new continent and recover my corpse. I ran back on foot and as my grave in the river came into view the troll was still there and immediately started smashing up my boat. I managed to get the trolls attention in time to save my boat, but then realized that I wasn't going to win a fight with a troll with just my halberd, as I'm not very good at dodging in this game.
So I decided to bait the troll away from the area, sprinting away in a wide circle to try and loot myself before the troll caught back up. My first loop I get to the river, jump in and immediately start drowning because I had exhausted all my stamina. I panicked and started back for the shore without grabbing anything and the troll was on me again. I make another wide loop to draw the troll away and this time have the foresight to get into the river with some stamina and I was able to loot my good bow and a bunch of fire arrows off my corpse. Thusly armed, I shot that troll dead without too much trouble.
After this I check on my boat and it's got just a shred of health left, I get the rest of my stuff off my body, and then I see another troll on the other shore (and a troll cave up the hill) now coming after me. Thankfully I had enough fire arrows and this one didn't touch me, but wow I'm glad I noticed him coming when I did.
But yeah, back in the boat, got it repaired and on my merry way and I ended up finding a wonderful big wide meadows area on a huge cliff near what I think is a large swamp and a river intersection and that cliffside had a huuuge natural crack in it on the river big enough to sail my boat into and I hope hide there. I cut a path up to the top, built some stairs leading down to the crevice and am going to build a big base up top and it's going to be awesome.
Was quite an adventure! I love this game.
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
Update: building a cart path from one bas to another solo suuuuucks.
The upside is I'm already over halfway there so it's totally doable. But now I feel the urge to construct pathways to everything which even though I know is totally unnecessary is pulling at me far harder than I'm comfortable with.
It's like I playing Master of Magic and I know while I don't need to connect everything with roads I can so therefore I must.
Are you just hoeing out a flat path or are you actually paving a road?
Right now just leveling a flat(ish) path that if I had to guess is about 1.5-2km.
The leveling actually isn't that bad since it's almost all through the Meadows biome so at least I'm not having to deal with potential murder constantly. It's the brush clearing that's killing me because I can't just not haul all materials back like a obsessive compulsive monster.
I would pave it but this is only to transfer materials to a new site. It's just far too many materials for me to want to try and do runs on foot. Also part of me wants to give carts a try since I've never bothered with them up to this point.
I could also do portals to get it done but the old base still has value and I'm trying to keep my portal use to a minimum because I plan on setting up a central hub eventually so I'm avoiding using them for trivial things like just transporting stone/wood/etc.
Make the cart and load it as you go! It's only 10 bronze nails (like, half an ingot) and 20 wood. It has a ton of slots so you can just keep plunking your materials down in it and it shouldn't get so fuck-off heavy you can't move it unless you load it with ore.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
I need someone to explain how to make an easy supply depot so I can go about crafting better stuff. The building system just is a bit too finicky for me to wrap my head around and sadly I'm not allowed to just have a workbench out in the open.
That or accepting builder minion to do the work for me.
Try this:
Find someplace relatively flat in the meadows. Place a workbench.
- Set down a small wood pillar in the earth nearby.
- Snap the corner of a 2x2 floor to the pillar
- Snap a floor to the floor.
- Snap a pillar under the far floor outside corner.
- Snap a 2x2 floor to the new pillar
- Snap a floor to the floor.
- Snap a pillar under the far floor corner
Now you should have a 4x1 floor line with a pillar on either corner and one in the center. All the pillars should be in the ground. You can tell they are because if you mouse over them with the build hammer, they'll be blue instead of green. if they aren't, snap a pillar underneath, or use your hoe to level the ground under them.
Next, the long side.
- Snap two floors at a right angle to one corner.
- Add a pillar.
- Snap a 3rd floor
- Add another pillar
- Snap two more floors
- Add a final pillar on the outside corner.
Repeat this sequence until you have a square of 5x4 floors. Be sure that your pillars touch the ground whenever possible.
Fill in the center, repeating the patterns.
Now the walls:
- On your 4-floor side, snap 4 walls in a line. For aesthetics, put the crossbeams on the interior!
- Turn the corner and build two walls.
- Snap a door into the 3rd square of your long wall.
- Snap a wooden stairs to the outside floor leading to your new door.
- Build two more walls along the door side.
- Turn the corner and build four walls.
- Turn the corner and build two walls.
- Skip the 3rd wall square directly opposite the door, and build two more walls to meet your starting point.
Now the roof support:
- On your short side, place two 45 degree beams from the outside wall corners, in the same vertical plane as the walls, facing inward and up towards each other.
- Place two more snapped on the ends of the first, so they touch in the center.
- Do this on both corners of your door, and the opposite wall where you left the gap.
- Do this on the other short side.
Now you should have the roof beams to support the roof!
Fill in the roof itself:
- Snap a 45 degree thatch roof to one of your roof beams on the long wall, door side.
- Fill in the roof on the door side of the house, snapping to previous roofs and beams as you go.
- Repeat on the gap side.
Fill in the walls on the short ends:
- Snap 45 degree angle walls to the bottom of the angled roof beams on either side.
- Fill in the gap with standard walls.
Now the most tricky part - your fireplace.
- Go outside the building.
- Where your gap exists in the long wall, snap a wall at 90 degrees so your new wall extends away from the house, perpendicular to it.
- Do this on the other side of the gap.
- Place a 26 degree angled wall on top of each of these, oriented so that the open side of the angle faces away from the house.
- Place a 26 degree thatch roof on this.
- Take out your hoe and either level or raise the ground around this area so that it's as close to the interior floor level as you can manage without driving yourself crazy.
- Close up the gap by placing a wall connecting the two you built.
What you should have now is a protruding 1-floor square with a thatched roof on top that has an open gap facing away from your house.
Go inside!
- Place a fire on the open ground in your 1-square fireplace. The smoke will rise up and out the chimney you've built.
- Place a bed in one corner.
- Build a workbench inside, maybe near the door
- Break the original workbench
- Use the rest of the space as needed for chests, etc.
Further early upgrades: Place torches around outside, surround everything with a big fence.
Could you build a full scale chimney, just put wall sections up in a column on the outside of your home, and direct the smoke out that way?
That way, you wouldn't need the thatched roof section.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
Couple questions:
Is there a way to "grab all" when trying to get stuff out of your grave?
And how do you use the crossed roof pieces that look like X'es? Or the other roof support pieces. They don't look like they actually fit or do anything?
I need someone to explain how to make an easy supply depot so I can go about crafting better stuff. The building system just is a bit too finicky for me to wrap my head around and sadly I'm not allowed to just have a workbench out in the open.
That or accepting builder minion to do the work for me.
Try this:
Find someplace relatively flat in the meadows. Place a workbench.
- Set down a small wood pillar in the earth nearby.
- Snap the corner of a 2x2 floor to the pillar
- Snap a floor to the floor.
- Snap a pillar under the far floor outside corner.
- Snap a 2x2 floor to the new pillar
- Snap a floor to the floor.
- Snap a pillar under the far floor corner
Now you should have a 4x1 floor line with a pillar on either corner and one in the center. All the pillars should be in the ground. You can tell they are because if you mouse over them with the build hammer, they'll be blue instead of green. if they aren't, snap a pillar underneath, or use your hoe to level the ground under them.
Next, the long side.
- Snap two floors at a right angle to one corner.
- Add a pillar.
- Snap a 3rd floor
- Add another pillar
- Snap two more floors
- Add a final pillar on the outside corner.
Repeat this sequence until you have a square of 5x4 floors. Be sure that your pillars touch the ground whenever possible.
Fill in the center, repeating the patterns.
Now the walls:
- On your 4-floor side, snap 4 walls in a line. For aesthetics, put the crossbeams on the interior!
- Turn the corner and build two walls.
- Snap a door into the 3rd square of your long wall.
- Snap a wooden stairs to the outside floor leading to your new door.
- Build two more walls along the door side.
- Turn the corner and build four walls.
- Turn the corner and build two walls.
- Skip the 3rd wall square directly opposite the door, and build two more walls to meet your starting point.
Now the roof support:
- On your short side, place two 45 degree beams from the outside wall corners, in the same vertical plane as the walls, facing inward and up towards each other.
- Place two more snapped on the ends of the first, so they touch in the center.
- Do this on both corners of your door, and the opposite wall where you left the gap.
- Do this on the other short side.
Now you should have the roof beams to support the roof!
Fill in the roof itself:
- Snap a 45 degree thatch roof to one of your roof beams on the long wall, door side.
- Fill in the roof on the door side of the house, snapping to previous roofs and beams as you go.
- Repeat on the gap side.
Fill in the walls on the short ends:
- Snap 45 degree angle walls to the bottom of the angled roof beams on either side.
- Fill in the gap with standard walls.
Now the most tricky part - your fireplace.
- Go outside the building.
- Where your gap exists in the long wall, snap a wall at 90 degrees so your new wall extends away from the house, perpendicular to it.
- Do this on the other side of the gap.
- Place a 26 degree angled wall on top of each of these, oriented so that the open side of the angle faces away from the house.
- Place a 26 degree thatch roof on this.
- Take out your hoe and either level or raise the ground around this area so that it's as close to the interior floor level as you can manage without driving yourself crazy.
- Close up the gap by placing a wall connecting the two you built.
What you should have now is a protruding 1-floor square with a thatched roof on top that has an open gap facing away from your house.
Go inside!
- Place a fire on the open ground in your 1-square fireplace. The smoke will rise up and out the chimney you've built.
- Place a bed in one corner.
- Build a workbench inside, maybe near the door
- Break the original workbench
- Use the rest of the space as needed for chests, etc.
Further early upgrades: Place torches around outside, surround everything with a big fence.
Could you build a full scale chimney, just put wall sections up in a column on the outside of your home, and direct the smoke out that way?
That way, you wouldn't need the thatched roof section.
Definitely, and it looks excellent! The critical thing is that you need to put a slanted roof on top regardless, or else the rain will pour down your chimney and put out your fire.
Here's what some chimneys look like from the outside, on our current house.
I'm thinking we might put some pillars up between the final wall and the roof on those, just to see what it looks like and whether it still keeps the rain out.
Here's what one of them looks like on the inside:
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
Is there a way to "grab all" when trying to get stuff out of your grave?
And how do you use the crossed roof pieces that look like X'es? Or the other roof support pieces. They don't look like they actually fit or do anything?
If you have space in your inventory, it just grabs all for you.
If you don't have enough space, it makes you choose items to take
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Rear Admiral ChocoI wanna be an owl, Jerry!Owl York CityRegistered Userregular
Is there a way to "grab all" when trying to get stuff out of your grave?
And how do you use the crossed roof pieces that look like X'es? Or the other roof support pieces. They don't look like they actually fit or do anything?
Pretty sure there's a "take all" button on the upper left portion of the container menu, just below the lower left corner of your main inventory
But optimally if you can make it to your grave with no items taking up slots that were taken up when you died you'll just get everything all at once
The easiest way to make sure your inventory slots are free to instantly pick up everything on the gravestone is to just keep a bare inventory, no equipment, nothing - I do usually eat a good meal to make sure I've got stamina to run and health to tank a hit if I need
Is there a way to "grab all" when trying to get stuff out of your grave?
And how do you use the crossed roof pieces that look like X'es? Or the other roof support pieces. They don't look like they actually fit or do anything?
Pretty sure there's a "take all" button on the upper left portion of the container menu, just below the lower left corner of your main inventory
But optimally if you can make it to your grave with no items taking up slots that were taken up when you died you'll just get everything all at once
The easiest way to make sure your inventory slots are free to instantly pick up everything on the gravestone is to just keep a bare inventory, no equipment, nothing - I do usually eat a good meal to make sure I've got stamina to run and health to tank a hit if I need
There is definitely a take all button if you don't have enough room and it even seems to have a least a little AI involvement as the last time I did it all of my actual equipment (armor/weapons/basically anything crafted) was taken as top priority.
As far as crafting jankiness goes I'm not worried that they won't provide awesome continued support for this after my experience with Deep Rock Galactic.
*edit*
I forgot to ask: Has anyone had any issues with seeing the servers of people in their friends list? I was able to see both of my friends' servers but my roommate flat out can't see mine for some reason except I'm able to join his. We even tried restarting the game and nada.
Yes the server list is bugged or something and not all servers show up. If someone is online you can just join on them but now there should be a join with ip option or in Steam under Servers you can just add it as a Favorite and join that way.
Is there a way to "grab all" when trying to get stuff out of your grave?
And how do you use the crossed roof pieces that look like X'es? Or the other roof support pieces. They don't look like they actually fit or do anything?
Pretty sure there's a "take all" button on the upper left portion of the container menu, just below the lower left corner of your main inventory
But optimally if you can make it to your grave with no items taking up slots that were taken up when you died you'll just get everything all at once
The easiest way to make sure your inventory slots are free to instantly pick up everything on the gravestone is to just keep a bare inventory, no equipment, nothing - I do usually eat a good meal to make sure I've got stamina to run and health to tank a hit if I need
There is definitely a take all button if you don't have enough room and it even seems to have a least a little AI involvement as the last time I did it all of my actual equipment (armor/weapons/basically anything crafted) was taken as top priority.
As far as crafting jankiness goes I'm not worried that they won't provide awesome continued support for this after my experience with Deep Rock Galactic.
*edit*
I forgot to ask: Has anyone had any issues with seeing the servers of people in their friends list? I was able to see both of my friends' servers but my roommate flat out can't see mine for some reason except I'm able to join his. We even tried restarting the game and nada.
Yeah absolutely, the native server listing is pretty garbo honestly if you're not joining on a friend's open multi game directly
I connect through Steam's server interface directly, I've spoiled more direct instructions
From Steam's main window, hit View > Servers (should be five options from the bottom of the context menu that appears after View)
In the window that appears, look for the Favorites tab, should be the second from the left
From the bottom right of the window, hit Add a server, then enter the IP address for your friend's server - make sure you're getting the right IP and port from them, try incrementing the last number by 1 as well if you get no luck
From there I click the server's line under Favorites and Connect, from there you'll just have to input passwords and then you're home frere
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
Wood piles take damage outside, right?
If that's correct, can you make a shed outside to cover the wood and prevent that? Like in a real lumberyard? Just some poles holding up a roof over them?
So using the special leap attack of a fully upgraded copper knife, I can kill trolls in two attacks, if they both hit. Which make trolls caves into nice safe rest stops.
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.
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Goose!That's me, honeyShow me the way home, honeyRegistered Userregular
Is there a good way to mine copper? This takes forever and I keep attracting trolls
Antler pickaxe is gonna be the slowest one, as soon as you can, make a bronze one. That should help. Also, stand on top of the copper instead of on ground below it. Seems you do more damage (guessing bc leverage)
Then the more you mine, the higher your pickaxe skill becomes, the easier it will be to mine
So using the special leap attack of a fully upgraded copper knife, I can kill trolls in two attacks, if they both hit. Which make trolls caves into nice safe rest stops.
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It was a bit of a project actually. I built a little foot bridge (left it so I can re-feed the fire) out to a rock just off the edge of the coast, and burned a ton of stone using raise ground (and where I learned the trick I posted up-thread of building up easily) to get the rock big enough to support the structure and tall enough to clear the water, then laid the bonfire, then laid 8 stone tiles around it (think a 3x3 grid with the fire in the middle grid) and then pillars and arches around it. I'll try to nab a screenshot this evening, it was the first real "project for the sake of trying something for just decoration" but it is nice to use as a beacon when sailing in at night or in the fog!
My current plan is a pillar full of surtrling trophies (or cave mushrooms til enough trophies). Gonna be a lotta bronze nails tho
Twitch: akThera
Steam: Thera
Check the burial chambers found in the Black Forest. Eventually you'll run across a runestone that will guide your way.
I actually found a runestone in one of the ruined stone towers in the Black Forest once as well.
Ran into this: (big spoilers here re: special items and tier 3, click at your own risk!)
Oh yeah that spooky dude started appearing for me around day 70 or so. I have no idea who or what he is. I was focusing on leveling some ground, I looked up, saw his shape and he was gone.
Wud yoo laek to lern aboot meatz? Look here!
And the supports in the water are getting slowly (not that slowly though) destroyed by the river! what the fuck! The first supports were nearly dead by the time I finished the last ones. Guess I need to unlock stone building? Those probably last longer.
PSN ID : DetectiveOlivaw | TWITTER | STEAM ID | NEVER FORGET
yep I've seen that several times. Everything disintegrates until you get the roof on, then it stabilizes.
Consider, if you have them unlocked, stone floor / 4m log pillars with open walls / roof. I think that will give you the open pavillion look while also meeting the requirements for shelter from the weather. And let's be serious here, you don't want to be making armor in the driving rain anyhow! It'll rust!
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Hmm interesting. I'll have to check that later.
I do really like the freedom and creativity the extra building angles offer, but with all the ways the game hamstrings you it's hard to get the most out of it. Definitely excited to get better at it (and/or updates) so I can make some cooler stuff.
the plus side is that I think wood degradation is limited to doing 50% damage, so it won't break things on it's own. Will make them turn green though
PSN: Robo_Wizard1
Pretty sure it's
As I'm speeding down one of these rivers through a black forest along a nice straight stretch I see a troll right on the shore. I'm going fairly fast with the wind and the troll is a fair bit away from me and I figure that even if he gets close enough I'm pretty sure my boat can survive one hit and then I'll be out of range and home free.
Boy was I wrong! That troll strode through the water with ease, came right up beside my boat as I was zipping past him, and crushed my whole body with a single blow of his tree trunk. I probably didn't have much food up, but I thought he'd hit my boat!
I hadn't landed or placed a portal yet, so I respawned back home. I put on some of my old armor, grabbed my halberd that I don't usually run around with and rafted back over a narrow sea to get to the new continent and recover my corpse. I ran back on foot and as my grave in the river came into view the troll was still there and immediately started smashing up my boat. I managed to get the trolls attention in time to save my boat, but then realized that I wasn't going to win a fight with a troll with just my halberd, as I'm not very good at dodging in this game.
So I decided to bait the troll away from the area, sprinting away in a wide circle to try and loot myself before the troll caught back up. My first loop I get to the river, jump in and immediately start drowning because I had exhausted all my stamina. I panicked and started back for the shore without grabbing anything and the troll was on me again. I make another wide loop to draw the troll away and this time have the foresight to get into the river with some stamina and I was able to loot my good bow and a bunch of fire arrows off my corpse. Thusly armed, I shot that troll dead without too much trouble.
After this I check on my boat and it's got just a shred of health left, I get the rest of my stuff off my body, and then I see another troll on the other shore (and a troll cave up the hill) now coming after me. Thankfully I had enough fire arrows and this one didn't touch me, but wow I'm glad I noticed him coming when I did.
But yeah, back in the boat, got it repaired and on my merry way and I ended up finding a wonderful big wide meadows area on a huge cliff near what I think is a large swamp and a river intersection and that cliffside had a huuuge natural crack in it on the river big enough to sail my boat into and I hope hide there. I cut a path up to the top, built some stairs leading down to the crevice and am going to build a big base up top and it's going to be awesome.
Was quite an adventure! I love this game.
Make the cart and load it as you go! It's only 10 bronze nails (like, half an ingot) and 20 wood. It has a ton of slots so you can just keep plunking your materials down in it and it shouldn't get so fuck-off heavy you can't move it unless you load it with ore.
Could you build a full scale chimney, just put wall sections up in a column on the outside of your home, and direct the smoke out that way?
That way, you wouldn't need the thatched roof section.
Is there a way to "grab all" when trying to get stuff out of your grave?
And how do you use the crossed roof pieces that look like X'es? Or the other roof support pieces. They don't look like they actually fit or do anything?
Definitely, and it looks excellent! The critical thing is that you need to put a slanted roof on top regardless, or else the rain will pour down your chimney and put out your fire.
I'm thinking we might put some pillars up between the final wall and the roof on those, just to see what it looks like and whether it still keeps the rain out.
Here's what one of them looks like on the inside:
If you have space in your inventory, it just grabs all for you.
If you don't have enough space, it makes you choose items to take
Pretty sure there's a "take all" button on the upper left portion of the container menu, just below the lower left corner of your main inventory
But optimally if you can make it to your grave with no items taking up slots that were taken up when you died you'll just get everything all at once
The easiest way to make sure your inventory slots are free to instantly pick up everything on the gravestone is to just keep a bare inventory, no equipment, nothing - I do usually eat a good meal to make sure I've got stamina to run and health to tank a hit if I need
There is definitely a take all button if you don't have enough room and it even seems to have a least a little AI involvement as the last time I did it all of my actual equipment (armor/weapons/basically anything crafted) was taken as top priority.
As far as crafting jankiness goes I'm not worried that they won't provide awesome continued support for this after my experience with Deep Rock Galactic.
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I forgot to ask: Has anyone had any issues with seeing the servers of people in their friends list? I was able to see both of my friends' servers but my roommate flat out can't see mine for some reason except I'm able to join his. We even tried restarting the game and nada.
Bait the trolls into hitting the vein. It speeds things up some.
Yeah absolutely, the native server listing is pretty garbo honestly if you're not joining on a friend's open multi game directly
I connect through Steam's server interface directly, I've spoiled more direct instructions
In the window that appears, look for the Favorites tab, should be the second from the left
From the bottom right of the window, hit Add a server, then enter the IP address for your friend's server - make sure you're getting the right IP and port from them, try incrementing the last number by 1 as well if you get no luck
From there I click the server's line under Favorites and Connect, from there you'll just have to input passwords and then you're home frere
If that's correct, can you make a shed outside to cover the wood and prevent that? Like in a real lumberyard? Just some poles holding up a roof over them?
Antler pickaxe is gonna be the slowest one, as soon as you can, make a bronze one. That should help. Also, stand on top of the copper instead of on ground below it. Seems you do more damage (guessing bc leverage)
Then the more you mine, the higher your pickaxe skill becomes, the easier it will be to mine
EDIT
With or without backstab?