Just finished my trapping for the winter. Now off to trade!
I got into a scuffle with a bunch of pigs out in a bog, all while I had a boat strapped to my back. I don't know why but I found it really funny.Thoroughly bored with my 1 year+ Driik huntsman-trapper and yet curiously inspired by your example, I set off to prove my heroism by KILLING a large game animal with a raft. First I built myself a raft, then tested m skills. As I could only throw a raft a single tile and I am not quite so masochistic as to try to run something down with only a raft as a weapon, I decided to use a crossbow to injure the animal and THEN run it down. It took a fair few attempts and a couple lost broadheads to do so as a raft is quite cumbersome, but I eventually crippled a nice, large elk and then ran it down. Be forewarned, would-be champions of raft combat: A raft makes a thrown rock look like a horrifically deadly weapon. Thrown rafts evidently can merely scratch a beast, and cannot even penetrate elk-hide over much of an animal's body. So I spent several hours throwing my raft at the beast. So herculean were my efforts that the ferocious crippled elk once regained consciousness after an initial downing and started trying to run away again! It took me many minutes of chase to catch up and thwack it enough times with my raft to bring it down again. Eventually I decided that the beast's skull was simply too thick and well-armored a target and thereafter went for body shots, hoping to score a lucky strike against thorax or abdomen. Armed with this knowledge, I finally slew the tasty yet dastardly beast. But my learning was not yet complete! For it seems that a full set of armor AND a raft make skinning and butchering such a beast so tiresome that I needed to rest and even sleep several times before I finished. Fortunately, it seems that raft splinters do not greatly damage animal hides, no matter how severe the beasting. And that, friends, is my tale.
I was on my way to a distant village to see their sage, and the best way to get there is to carry my raft across a wide open bog to a lake, paddle across the lake and then up a river. Well on my way across the mire, I ran into a herd of wild pigs. Seeing an opportunity, I tossed some javelins into the herd, lightly wounding one of them. I spent the next several minutes chasing pigs all over the swampy morass, eventually wounding another one and separating it from the rest of the herd.
I was still carrying the heavy raft during all of this, since I didn't want to drop it and forget where I left it during the chase. My character was tired, and I was trying to line up a killing throw against that isolated, wounded pig. Right at the exact instant I was ready to throw, I took a heavy blow from behind me. It made me jump in my chair. One of the other pigs had separated from the herd, charged me and rammed itself right into my backside! I didn't even know they could do that (I'm still fairly new to this game). It knocked the javelin right out of my hands. It kept attacking me as I frantically pulled out my spear, and it caused a pretty serious injury to my arm along with some minor ones. For a minute I thought I was gonna get torn apart by pigs, but I managed to stab it and it took off running.
I turned around and continued the chase against the other wounded pig, and even though I was injured and over-encumbered, I managed to keep up with it until it had exhausted itself, then finished it off. The mental image I had of my big burly Kaumo guy chasing and getting knocked around by pigs while running through a bog with a boat strapped to his back made me laugh.
The toughest squirrel I've encountered.
I don't think they exist. ;)The toughest squirrel I've encountered.
Shall we call it a... wait for it... R.O.U.S. (Rodent of Unusual Strength)?
the thing i always struggle with the most when it comes to multiple trap sites, is ensuring that they all stay baited. do you have a set schedule for replacing baits, and what do you use for bait?
600 dried meat and yet I keep my dog hungry, am I a bad person xDSami should make the spirits angry at you for this. :'(
Speaking of dogs, they should probably run away if they’re too hungry.
Trapped two stags and bunched one before skinning.You animal..
:'(
@Tom H , if your quarry turns away for whatever reason, [h]ide, then shoot for easy hit.
I’ve got skull (Bleeding) hit on forest reindeer stag. It took some evasive maneuvers, but I eventually found it about 200meters away, deceased.
One hit instant kills aren’t common by any means.
Only reasonably doable when sneaking on sleeping, and using battle axe or battle sword: Edge: neck or skull. The be not tried masterwork spear Point on skull.
The broad heads seem to do excessive damage to hides. With 1”-2” cutting edge, it’s bit exaggerated for it to tear up the hide same as edge hit with woodman’s axe.
edit : And a corpse I'm not sure what to do with?
Now I have a nice new northern bow, arrows, and a hunting knife.
edit : And a corpse I'm not sure what to do with?
Sounds like you’re making do in URW @Kels.
For future nomadic drying, build a shelter, and set the meat dry on the outside of the shelter. Very quick. Also, I like to mark the F6 map with blue marker “animal X drying, 3/7th pre-summer” the weeks count down, days count forwards.
Its skin is harsh quality (oops -- maybe throwing that axe at it was a bad idea), but it should still be worth a lot, as long as it doesn't get damaged more during tanning.Cool! Should still be worth 50% of a standard lynx fur, which is indeed still a lot. so definitely worth tanning.
How did the 2 end up plain 'dead'? Lured in to water and drowned?
Form posse of some hunters, woodsmen, peasants, adventurers from nearby village (after wounds healed) and go see the robbers again.
Form posse of some hunters, woodsmen, peasants, adventurers from nearby village (after wounds healed) and go see the robbers again.
Returned again with two companions. One was a grandmaster with axes who killed one of the robbers in a single hit -- yay! Though... we still got defeated. Maybe I should've hired more companions. I didn't think there were more than three robbers, but it turns out I was wrong.
They'll leave eventually... right? With 79% injury, it'll be some time before I can return anyway. For now, I'm more concerned about the bird thief quest that's about to expire. (I cast the spell but the thief still hasn't confessed.)
I finally finished the grand "Inn" for my elaborate trading post / outpost.
I'm trying to build a village (a creepy ghost village with no one living there, granted...)
Not much at the moment. I'm training my carpentry skills by making paddles from boards so that I can eventually start making my own arrows. Mostly to not waste the feathers I get. I may not have to make my own arrows though, if these robbers keep showing up to give me hand-axes instead.
Here's a cheese for robbers drop everything, I mean everything mark the map talk to them and do as they ask, you dropped everything thing remember nothing to give them. Leave come back and get your things later
Just finished my cabin, and while proudly admiring it I noticed for the first time the address::o
Appopera, or "Gapingrear".
:(
But the best thing is this: as you can see in the screenshot, Abi's misery is finally about to end!Those Plants that can full your belly and take one from starving to healthier, and normal state!
Following a fairly peaceful first two years in the URW, my Finn decided to spice things up a little and wreak genocide upon the Njerps. This had been going splendidly, until the last camp I hit turned out to be filled with Njerp archers, who turned out to be rather good shots. I took over 20 arrows, nine of which penetrated my armour. I was 60% wounded and unable to move, with the last remaining Njerp (who was not having a good day either) at under 20 yards away. We spent a hilarious ten minutes exchanging arrows, which we loosed off in all directions due to our wounds and fatigue. Finally I got the bugger in the neck, and the job was done. My hands were still shaking for a while after!I destroyed almost all the Reemi villages, because I want to see if Njerp will come to live in the area, or what will happen. At least a few villages have been repopulated by vagabonds.
Now I can look forward to a couple of weeks making stakes and withes while I heal up. Still, only three Njerp camps left to deal with, two of which are close to Reemi villages. Hopefully I can recruit some likely lads from them to help me out with the battles. I've never got this close to removing the Reds before, wish me luck!
Just had the game freeze and had to force it closed... the game erased two bulls and a cow that I had on leashes. RIP.
Just had the game freeze and had to force it closed... the game erased two bulls and a cow that I had on leashes. RIP.
Follower/animal status often gets haywire on forced close.
I tend to make backups maybe 4-6 in-game months.
Does your character still hold empty leashes or were the animals tied to trees/fences?
Just conquered a Njerp village (5x warrior, a peasant, two craftsmen, a maiden, a woman, a housewife and a child) and carried away my spoils on Conquest, Victory, Triumph, Honour, Glory and Pride, which are the two bulls and four cows those dead Njerpez certainly need no longer.