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Title: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Mati256 on May 29, 2017, 04:13:36 AM
I'm bringing a classic back because I almost burn myself to death today. I was burning a field for herbs and walked near the fires while carrying the stakes to make the fence, the stakes caught fire under me... I was too fatigued to move and I panicked IRL for a few seconds until I tried to zoom out. That worked and saved my character.

(http://i.imgur.com/D4QmxGY.jpg)

Now my arm is useless and I can't prepare the soil I was burning or complete the fence...  :-\
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Labtop 215 on May 29, 2017, 05:46:19 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Fahom on May 31, 2017, 12:50:10 AM
I'm not really playing as of lately(because of school), but on my last character i made a fence trap where there was some 10 reindeer, 3 days later came back to check and they were all trapped lol. It took me more than a month in game to process all the stuff...
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Brygun on May 31, 2017, 07:06:28 AM
Got a Tablet computer recently. My now 5 year old laptop has issues running the newer Unreal via steam. It was one of the signs the laptop needs replacement. Long story short rather then get a new laptop I went with a Tablet as the current mobile computing platform.

Unreal world on a Win10 Tablet working fine through steam. Restarting using mods Boudia's (an update on Rain's) and my own (Added items).

Story line is a young Driik starting in winter. Pre-start  you were needed in the fall to help with the harvest. Now in winter it is you adult year. (that much could be for any culture). Winter for a while near home (villages close to your start position) to build up gear, tools and skis and/or water craft. Then travel to far and distant land to find and make a stead. If you travel when there is snow you can ski and have more spring time for planting crops. IF you wait for spring you can water travel instead but can probably only harvest turnips in your first gardens.

With the mod the young Driik will become a smith those nearby. This being my 'young smith' challenge. I prefer to aim for the large inland lake the maps generate to be south of the Owl, north of 2-3 other cultures and you can use the rivers to raid the Nerjpez.

Right now the new character made enough home crafts to get a shovel. An important part for agriculture, clay work and ironworking.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Weathereye on May 31, 2017, 01:56:26 PM
My current character has set out on a pilgrimage of sorts, with the goal to visit all cultures and do quests for each (travelling light - not a shopping run). I try to avoid settling down as that usually takes away much of the excitement for me, but I will take note of interesting places and perhaps come back to settle down. I set some limitations to keep myself from getting rich too soon and role playing reasons:

No stealing or borrowing and must pay for staying in villages overnight
No selling raw or simply cooked meat (must be dried or smoked)
No smoking meat in villages (gotta find a cave or build my own house)
No wasteful hunting just for the furs knowing tons of meat get spoiled solely for monetary gain
Bunch of role playing stuff such as keeping the room heated when smoking meat, finishing animals off quickly etc

Will be updated as I go. Started in spring and currently using the last few weeks of winter to dry some meat to munch on and trade with. Got unlucky with the 'Not all who wander are lost' scenario (I mean on top of the bad fortune of living through that scenario) as all of my father's equipment had burned. Next short term goal will be getting an axe and may have to get by with a stone axe for a while because the area I started in (deliberately) seems rather poor.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: shorun on June 13, 2017, 01:49:17 AM
i've just moved to the most norther part of the Mainland i can find. I come from the central part of the map near one of the mayor rivers leading to the coast. i moved there with all my precious loot and equipment as soon as the ice cleared up. i quickly built a small pasture and put my kota there, then proceeded in building a cabin. thanks to the masterwork tools and plenty of food supplies i already brought with me this was done in only 1 month, and i proceeded to raid the local coastline for ever more trees.

soon, the ice will form again, and i am already sitting on top of 300+ trees. they will be used to build a palisade wall around my soon to be farm.

in case things don't turn out so great, i have spare tools in my old house and i can get there relatively quickly, considering the distance. i've also got 2 reindeer, a cow, a sheep and 2 dogs to help me carry stuff.

-edit-

the ice has begun forming.. no more logs from the coast. time to sort out wich ones go where and fill up the remaining gaps with local wood!
Hopefully, before next summer, my homestead will be fully walled.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Kaleva on June 26, 2017, 06:23:12 PM
Started with the runaway slave scenario... Managed to escape without the scratch.. only weapon was rough knife... No axe. Had to trade all of my clothes plus the crappy knife to get an axe from a village.. i created the character to be skilled with timberwork so i made fine boards and traded fishing rod, seeds, fisher knife, food... Took a week to eat my belly full but now am good.. i just love this game! Too bad the ice is weak now, thats what always kills me, hypothermia.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bakkat on July 03, 2017, 12:28:38 PM
This fisherman got a new fine net (now has 3 - 2 from the scenario), a nice punt and began to build a small wooden place in order to smoke fishes at the south-west coast. Rather more lonely character, enjoys his free time to learn about plants and practicing to climb. Also learning how to swim better, but the waters are kinda cold still. He's seen a "perfect net" that he wants to have and several pots around. When the plants begin to blossom and to be mature enough, he'll get a pot, and a roundshield.

The area seems quite peaceful. Plenty stags around and black birds, also some hawk that always is heard but never seen. Some curious ringed seals as well, that watch him fishing. Dislike traps and doesn't know how to weild a bow properly. So he got really happy about hunting a big hare with the woodsman's axe. Now he's gladly eating some of its meat after so many fish diet and thinking about a belt after the dehaired skin gets ready.

 
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: caius on August 02, 2017, 04:46:42 AM
I just made it through winter and am putting in my grains, legumes, and herbs.  Going light on the turnips this season (I can take only so much turnip by the end of winter).  I'm excited because last fall, I scoured the surrounding areas and harvested about 200 yarrow seeds.  I've got those into special plats.  My two trap fences and small snares and traps kept me busy over the winter.  I now have an abundance of winter furs and leathers for trading once I have my planting done.  I'm hoping to establish a large herd of sheep this spring and get busy with weaving and wool clothing (thanks to Rain and Buoidda's mods).

Note, a few seasons ago, I stole my settlement from a family of foresters on a spur of land surrounded by lakes in-between Sartola and Koivula.  I constantly have birds in my snares at the edge of the lakes.  This settlement had three log buildings, 3 farming fields, several groves and pastures, and a well but were inhabited by two old men, 3 women, and child.  One of the old men must have been a warrior because he was kicking me in the face and almost took me down even after all the others were killed.  They are all buried in a spruce mire not far away. 
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Mati256 on August 08, 2017, 12:03:18 AM
Just finished my trapping for the winter. Now off to trade!

(http://i.imgur.com/R510rPD.png)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: bamv9 on August 08, 2017, 11:38:17 PM
Just finished my trapping for the winter. Now off to trade!


Wow, what trap setup did you use? Also, what are you wanting to get with all those furs?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Mati256 on August 09, 2017, 01:11:11 AM
I have like 8 or 9 spots with 4 to 8 fox traps in each. My primary target was Artic Fox. I also have some deadfalls that where responsible for the animals that are not fox.

As for trading, usually flour, grains, vegetables. I need a proper shovel because my last one was burned in the incident of the first post. And anything else I happen to come by in the masterwork category. And I have already traded a couple of fox furs for a dog.

I found this spot today. A perfect natural platform for diving. Sadly there is no splash sound when you move into water.

(http://i.imgur.com/AkatyQe.png)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Shadowdweller on September 26, 2017, 10:18:37 AM
My latest 1st year Islander had a pretty decent set-up with traps and camps spread over three good-sized Islands.  Despite my very poor dodging skills, I had killed a fair number of Njerpez and brigand invaders by attacking them the Islander way - from a boat.  A pack of wolves came to the island of my main encampment, and I was slowly trying to whittle down their numbers when I discovered that a pair of bears were also wandering about.  I set about five different deadfall traps before managing to get first one and then the other.  To mitigate my poor defenses, I had previously obtained a masterwork round shield.  In an effort to maintain the hide quality, I first shot each bear with a single superior broadhead, then closed in with my mace and tried to bring the beast down while hopefully learning to defend myself a bit better.  My poor defenses failed me once during the first fight, and I took a minor clawing to the side.  The second bear managed to immediately bite my neck during the second encounter, causing instant death.  First time in a long while that I've been instakilled (as opposed to a lucky hit causing unconsciousness and subsequent death).  Ah well, just another opportunity to start over :)

Note to self:  Despite the heavy encumbrance penalty, I should still have been wearing the armor I'd previously scavenged from Njerpez.  And maybe it would have been better to keep my shield high.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Naksu on September 29, 2017, 01:27:40 PM
1st year midsummer and I've got my sauna/smokehouse ready on an island in the middle of a lake. The trap fence on the lake shore ha so far netted me a couple of elk and a friggin' WOLF! I'll save that fur until I get better at hideworking and then it'll become an awesome winter hat... I just wish I'd catch more small game so I'd have leather for cords so I could smoke fish. Once the house is done I'll start exploring the network of lakes and rivers spreading running from the seaside inland. It looks like I could use it for travel and cover a larger area with trap fences.

So far I've been lucky, spotted bears and Njerpez before I've stumbled into them. An elk I thought was unconscious in a trap pit and bleeding to death suddenly lashed out and broke my hand but even that healed pretty quick. Soooo.... something horrible is going to happen pretty soon  ::)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Silenia on October 01, 2017, 09:55:38 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: LoLotov on October 02, 2017, 10:41:44 AM
Just walked into a badger looking for forest robbers with ~30% encumbrance from snow and armor, and had him decide to attack me. Entered the map tile very close to him, missed my first javelin (from the high penalty, he should have been toast...), tried to throw a second without wielding it, and he took advantage of my turn penalty to give me a 20% injury Serious Tear in my unprotected left eye, which I tend to imagine as a very badassly-permanent injury. Flailing with a hastily equipped handaxe, I missed three more attacks against him, answered by failures to penetrate my armor, and he ran off into the forest, unhurt, and without having broken a sweat. I had to limp home in embarrassment, unfit to fight bandits.

On the topic of bandits, the ones I'm looking for are Owls in Kaumo lands, and the quest givers were super racist about their tribal affiliation... Makes me wonder if the Reemi I usually trade with are thinking of me as "one of the good ones" behind my back, since I'm a foreigner in their lands. Anyone else notice this with other tribal combinations?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: MeerkatRabbit on October 17, 2017, 06:42:51 AM
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.

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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Shadowdweller on October 19, 2017, 01:30:08 AM
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.

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.
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.

Now if any animal rights groups come asking, please give them a false name and point them in some other direction, thank you.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JEB Davis on October 24, 2017, 02:32:40 AM
Unusual Njerpezit encounter... saw one on the zoom-map and went after him.
In the middle of a spruce forest. He was an easy kill, with no missile weapon.

As I was looting the body, another Njerpezit suddently attacked me, charging
out from the spruces only about 6 meters away!
Luckily he was not an expert fighter and I vanquished him, taking only one wound.

Not the typical encounter in Driik territory.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Shadowdweller on October 24, 2017, 05:44:33 PM
Had my first ever livestock loss today.  Went off to mess around hunting and fishing at my lakeside kota, leaving my little flock of sheep back at the cabin.  When I returned a couple weeks later, a lynx a broken in and was feasting on the remains of a murdered sheep.  Can only imagine the horror of its flock-mates watching their kin being slowly being devoured...while penned in with the monster.

..still recovered a harsh skin and a good 22 cuts from the partly eaten carcass.  So no big deal :)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Shades on November 01, 2017, 09:39:20 AM
I haven't been playing long, still on my first character. I finally found a spot I wanted to try settling and started clearing out timber to make a small house. Before I got any actual building done, the first snow fell and I decided I don't have time to finish a house before winter hits, so I cleared out my cellar, checked my traps one last time, and began migrating back north toward a cave I left behind during the summer.

Yes, I'm going north for the winter. lol

So far none of my pit traps have managed to produce any game, even after I baited them with turnips. I'm having better luck with light lever traps; I've actually snagged a few grouse with those. Other than that I've been surviving on fish I'm catching and various foods purchased from the many villages that I've visited.

I am sooooo not ready for winter. I will probably die.

Update:

After visiting a few villages on my way back and reclaiming a punt I accidentally abandoned outside one of them, I made it back to my cave, where I promptly baited the pit traps I'd previously dug near the mouth (I hadn't known how to do that previously). Went out to gather stones for a fireplace and a cellar, came back to drop off a load of stones and one of the pits had a reindeer trapped in it. So... I finally got my first score with a trap fence!   \o/

The raw meat is currently sitting in the cellar I just finished building. Hope I can build that fireplace and start smoking meat before it spoils... I have no idea when I'll be able to dry meat; I'm currently on day 1 of 2nd week before winter season.

Update 2:

After discovering that the cave will apparently not function as a smokehouse as it stands, I hauled my catch to the nearest village and borrowed the use of their sauna. I will return for my bounty in a couple of weeks; in the meantime, I am building walls in my cave to enclose the fireplace. This is proving to be a pain in the rump due to both the exhausting nature of building even a single wall and the absence of any reliable lighting besides the fireplace itself. I guess I'll try shoving more wood into it so it will burn longer. I would like very much to make this work so I can turn my attention to the business of extending my trap fence. There appear to be loads of reindeer wandering the grounds.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: LoLotov on November 08, 2017, 11:14:47 PM
(https://image.ibb.co/f6PJnb/The_Horror.png)

Deep in Njerpez territory, beginning of spring, out of healing herbs because I use them a lot. The left eye was stabbed by my own javelin wielded by a child approximately five days before this injury to the right eye, inflicted by a desperate woodsman's hunting knife. Sure wish I'd bought a spectacle helm before I left for the boonies...

Also this is the same character from my badger story, he has yet to be seriously injured anywhere but his eyes, and he's killed exactly 30 Njerps in the last week of in-game time. I'm tracking my data as a kind of census to help establish the range, details thus far in the population thread.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Plotinus on November 15, 2017, 08:07:46 PM
I put these in IRC. i'll put them here too. Teppo is 18 years old (two game years)

(https://i.imgur.com/lyDaoEt.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/8dt4RY5.png?1)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JEB Davis on December 21, 2017, 03:38:16 AM
The toughest squirrel I've encountered.

(http://i67.tinypic.com/b4aps8.jpg)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Helldiver on December 22, 2017, 02:09:44 PM
The toughest squirrel I've encountered.

Shall we call it a... wait for it... R.O.U.S. (Rodent of Unusual Strength)?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JEB Davis on December 22, 2017, 10:37:27 PM
The toughest squirrel I've encountered.

Shall we call it a... wait for it... R.O.U.S. (Rodent of Unusual Strength)?
I don't think they exist.  ;)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Roman Lodestar on December 27, 2017, 11:18:30 PM
Two robbers appear from nowhere and knock me out unconscious with only two hits and was well-armored, I take a look at the injuries and I discover a deep cut to the neck... I guess the long mail cowl I were wearing was made of paper because the severity bar is almost full to the point it could have been "Your neck has been cut in half", my PC almost had a year and was carrying some masterwork gear with me for a trade travel and the fact I got no warning (I didn't move adjacent to them in the world map) made me ragequit and quit living... Still I had a large stock of sorted furs and tools in home but there is something about in NPC robbers I find infuriating, dying to a bear or njerpez is one thing but losing your hard-earned stuff is aggravating...

I find ridiculous how numerous they are, no matter if their equipment is basic (handaxes, knives) or their skill is low they don't seem to flee if you kill one of their buddies or severely injure one of them and at the end they'll manage to knock you out soon or later, I wish there is a way to remove them in my playthroughts since I have more a lone wolf playstyle. Here in the UnReal World: more guys > gear & skill.

Time to drink some heather beverage for that swelling neck...

/EndRant/
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Seschwa on February 01, 2018, 08:12:37 AM
I haven't played in years upon years  :P I had purchased a lifetime registration.. feels like probably 10 years ago! And just remembered URW last week. Suffice to say, I've been binging.

I was just out checking traps with my dog and hoping to stumble across an elk or other large game.

Our cabin had just been completed a few days prior, thanks to the help of a neighbor who diligently cut down nearly half the lumber needed to finish ahead of time. Comfy but cosy, with basic amenities installed, i thought it would be a grand - if tight - space to winter, cuddling with the dog and stepping out for firewood every now and again. But I digress...

Finally set up to smoke meat we set out across the mire. Elieurnan, my wee pup, had been with me for two months now, taking up food and scaring off wildlife - but also proving incredibly useful, and much more loyal than expected.. IRL, my dog couldn't give two buffalo chips about listening to me when he sees a rabbit or other game.. but Elieurnan had become a very loved animal to see chasing me around and killing multiple lynx and badger without getting injured.

When we arrived in the small lakeside trapline I had set up while the snow cover was thick enough not to realize the mire prevented purposeful farming, there was a grouse stuck under one of the lever traps that I maintained - a loose word, as due to distance I didn't bother baiting them and we only ever checked them when heading to one of the nearby small villages. Excitedly, I figured that this was an opportune chance to try and get some practice with my bow. It's hard to justify breaking arrows shooting at logs, but some live meat is completely different.

After several clumsily unskilled shots, I found myself drawn into the method.. pull arrow, nock, aim, relax, shoot.. and I didn't notice Eliurnan, who was leashed onto my belt, had taken some interest in the critter...

The arrow hit him in the heart. He died within minutes - which, being turnbased, means I've just spent 5-10 minutes trying to figure out if I can somehow save him... tabbed back in, and dropped some food..

"Eat now, Eliurnan", I said in a hopeful, hushed tone. He looked at the meat, and back up to me with a happy look on his face :'(... and a wiggle in his tail :'(.. then collapsed, the blood pouring from his torso.

Devastated, I've decided that it's dog for dinner.

For real, I'm really upset about this. I pulled the arrow out.. is that maybe what killed him? Blood loss? I wish there was a proper way to staunch bleeding.. or break the arrow off, bandage it, and carry him back. I just really like dogs.. and I've grown attached to a little computer character. Suppose i'll have to be much more careful with the next dog I manage to trade for.. tie them off to a tree out of range of where I'll shoot the hell out of them while trying to practice archery...

Also URW is even better than I remember it was so many years ago! So incredibly happy that development kept up and has created this pristine gem.. beautiful game!

ED: Got a fine dog-skin.. fitting, from such a fine dog!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: koteko on February 15, 2018, 12:30:05 PM
Went to a Sartola village nearby to sell the meat of a freshly killed bear, and popped by the cattle enclosure to say hi.

Lo and behold, a section of the fence was missing, a lot of tracks were around.. and a small female bear was dead, but not much damaged, inside. I guess she might have tried to speed up the fattening before hibernation :P

So I skinned it, butchered and sold the stuff to the villagers. They should have done it themselves though!

5 stars to the animal AI and 1 star to the human AI, as usual :P
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: koteko on February 19, 2018, 02:06:43 PM
I started a new farmer/trapper character, a Koivulainen with decent rolls and skills. It's full winter and I'm enjoying my cabin in the no man's land northeast of the Koivula lands.

I've also, for the first time, started using multiple trapping sites instead of only trapping near my cabin. Not sure why I never did it before.

Essentially, I put 3 fox traps at the north bank of many 1-tile lakes, within 1 day walk of my cabin. I also put a shelter, a tree trunk and a rock there (to process the hide).

Every round trip I've made so far, I brought home one or two fox furs. Since it's working so well, I'm going to add one small deadfall to each camp and see what I get.

I'm also curious if different terrains will yield different animals. Right now I have coniferous, heatland and I think spruce mire.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Dungeon Smash on February 27, 2018, 03:03:47 PM
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?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: koteko on February 27, 2018, 03:39:02 PM
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?

I just go in a round-trip like once per week, more often on hot months. Trap reset twice per month maybe?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: mead on March 04, 2018, 01:32:28 PM
Just caught 2 bears within 1 week in the early spring. Now I got 48lbs of bear fur, 350+ cut of dried meat. Never felt better than this..
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Jakub-urw on March 09, 2018, 03:55:07 PM
^^
I know how you feel. I don’t do trapping, but I have killed bears and elk. The amount of meat you get is intense, I have around 600 dried meat stored in my cellar and like 50lbs of fur. Hunting is op if you know what you’re doing! :)

600 dried meat and yet I keep my dog hungry, am I a bad person xD
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JEB Davis on March 09, 2018, 10:15:12 PM
600 dried meat and yet I keep my dog hungry, am I a bad person xD
Sami should make the spirits angry at you for this.  :'(
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Jakub-urw on March 10, 2018, 12:50:26 AM
It’s not such a big deal! I tie him to a tree and go trading! If you put on enough headgear the barking,wincing and howling noises get muffled  :P
My character is an atheist anyway, so none of that spirit stuff worries him :D

Speaking of dogs, they should probably run away if they’re too hungry.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: koteko on March 10, 2018, 04:15:00 PM
Speaking of dogs, they should probably run away if they’re too hungry.

Or turn on you and eat you alive.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: LoLotov on March 14, 2018, 05:31:13 AM
(https://image.ibb.co/hOfoCx/backontop.png)

Pulled off a victorious There be Robbers! start for the first time this version, quite happy to be bathed in riches, and on my own little island no less.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on March 23, 2018, 09:37:53 PM
Nearly made it through a full year... had zero luck trapping any big game, but was surviving just fine nonetheless - until freezing to death in mid-January while trying to start a fire. Oh well. :/
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: nekot on March 29, 2018, 12:34:48 AM
Trying to complete The Challenge for second time. Luckily few days in game and rabbit went into ice that melted and rabbit drowned. 0.5 lbs of fur means stone axe from the beginning - that's like finding a treasure.  ;D
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Dungeon Smash on April 11, 2018, 04:11:05 AM
Just had an unusual event happen - was escorting a lost vagabond back to civilization, and ran into a squirrel on the overworld map and decided to take it for dinner.  I chased it up a tree and was throwing rocks, I had managed to hit it in the foreleg when all of a sudden an aggravated hawk swooped in, and knocked the squirrel out of the tree.  I threw my rock at the bird, and it fled.  I stomped on the big squirrel to put it out of its misery.  It had been gruesomely shredded by talons.  I wonder what it could portend...
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: mlangsdorf on April 18, 2018, 01:08:59 AM
On Day 1 of the 12th week before midwinter point, at his large cabin by the lake at "Black Rapid", Jarrold Kaumolainen successfully forged* a fine small knife on his second attempt. His two dogs, Spot and Rascal, were not impressed.

In the 9 months since his father perished on an unfortunate hunting trip, Jarrold has successfully colonized Black Rapid, met water spirits and forest maids, found milkweed, rescued two wounded adventurers' gear, felled a tree in the rain, passed weird messages between villagers, and done minor chores.

His notable kills include a 4 Njerpez, a lynx, a bear, a dozen forest reindeer, another dozen elk, and countless squirrels, hares, and small birds. He has travelled from his cabin on the edge of Koivula territory to the western shore of the Driik.

His next plan is to forge a fine carving axe, and he's considering an expedition against the Njerpez for next spring.

* Caethan's URW self-sufficency mod
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: MrMotorhead on April 19, 2018, 05:13:22 AM
I found this very secure house.  Is the builder still trapped inside?
(https://i.imgur.com/H4TYmJc.png)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on April 25, 2018, 10:10:43 PM
I lost a faithful companion on this sad day. Kolja the dog met his unfortunate untimely demise while bravely fighting a ferocious lynx during a hunting trip. May he be remembered for his loyalty, his bravery, and his habit of interrupting my sleep by barking at trapped birds.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: hantu1911 on June 18, 2018, 06:42:50 PM
Was going home from nearby village. Just bought 2 big bulls.  8)

Taking a nap in the middle of the trip. Wake up to strange sound. Saw a pack of wolf trying to eat my big bulls.
Went into berserk mode. Bring out the masterwork longbow and superior broadhead arrow.
Keep shooting at all wolf. Kill the entire wolf pack. Even enough to get the message "The forest seem hostile."
In the end, 1 big bull and 8 wolf was KIA.

(https://i.imgur.com/jOM0r2L.jpg)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Lurcolm1 on June 30, 2018, 01:23:10 AM
I thought it would be a fun idea to try and fight the robbers in "There Be Robbers!"

(https://i.imgur.com/9gyAGgO.jpg)

I decided to commit to this guy, crap and all. This is gonna be "Fun"
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: favomancer on August 23, 2018, 06:04:11 AM
I started a game with the There Be Robbers scenario, but instead of attacking me the robbers wandered into a Driikiläiset village and started a small-scale raid, so Eeva Kaumolaisen, my character, ran into the fray smacking people with a hand axe.

The proceeds let me buy fishing nets, a paddle and cordage for a raft, so she's living quite well on her riverside steadding, with a sauna and smokinghouse built, and a cabin in the works. Now if only I knew what those mushrooms did...
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: koteko on August 28, 2018, 12:58:21 PM
Started a new Sarto character in winter, and got a free cow. A bear breaks the fence and kills my cow, but I manage to kill him despite being poorly equipped. I dry the meat, skin the good hides, finish building a small cabin and go to a village. I'm robbed by thieves and this time I give them the stuff. Quite a setback!

I manage to buy back the essentials with the hides (winter bear is valuable), and complete a birds thief quest (first time - I shouldn't have been too honest at the end, I think :P). Went back to the cabin and a lynx has been harassing my traps and stealing birds from them, even from a small deadfall traps. Spend some time trying to chase it, but fail.

I setup a proper deadfall trap, using the hare's paw charm (reward from birds thief quest) and a hazel cut, and move onto the froken laze. A few hours pass, and there is the lynx.

Now winter is almost over and am ready to plough some fields. An interesting run :)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Moonlight on August 30, 2018, 11:08:28 AM
Just checked map and found the area near my settlement turned purple! I wandered around that area and found a njerpez war camp. This is interesting because the camp is not the camp of the run away slave scenario. This made my Koivulainen man worried and now he is preparing to raid the camp.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Shadowdweller on August 31, 2018, 12:58:42 PM
Have an islander going with a cabin built on a good-sized island.  Journeyed to Driik territory early on to trade my rough woodsman's axe and some meat for a far more serviceable masterwork handaxe and a fishing rod.  My hideworking skill is JUST getting high enough to be able to tan saleable (harsh) furs.

Anyhow, have had a couple Njerpez sightings on my islands, that I've mostly ignored.  My character isn't that much of a fighter - mediocre or at least unreliable combat skills, except for a 60% bow, no armor other than furs, 50% dodge, and mainly a shortbow / fine club for armament.  One of the Njerpez kept wandering annoyingly close to the trap line I've been trying to build around a small local lake.  So - perhaps unwisely - I decided to end him.   Enemy armored with several pieces of lamellar and holding a sizeable woodsman's axe.  I should probably have enlisted help but was too lazy.  Instead I tried sneaking around the woods trying to pepper him with arrows.  His armor kept him up for quite a few shots, but was able to back out of sight repeatedly and sneak around to maintain distance.  Good to have that guy gone.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Shrimp on September 03, 2018, 03:01:49 PM
There are some things interesting happening in my game right now.

Started as Kaumo, I was blessed with a lucky roll so I have nearly perfect stats. Started in the no man's land in the middle of Kaumo and Remi with hurt, helpless and afraid start in spring. I wouldn't have survived if the tutorial didn't gave me a fishing rod.

Anyways, after getting back on my feet and getting stuff I went to Remi land to trade for tools, dogs and a bull. The bull died after a wolf raided my camp, luckily I killed the wolf. The dogs are still around but they have received a lot of abuse while hunting, one even started bleeding but luckily it didn't die. With the tools, I started building a cabin in southern Kaumo, and while I was at it one day I found day old human tracks steps away from my building site. After tracking it down turns out there was a Njerpez literally in the square diagonal of my cabin, i'm very lucky he didn't attack me while I was working or sleeping and strangely enough my dogs didn't bark at all. I swiftly got rid of him.

After some time after that I noticed a sudden disappearance in Kaumo cultural territory, so I decided to investigate. While I was at it I was ambushed by vagabond robbers. thankfully, it was in the middle of the woods and the visibility was poor so I did the most sensible thing in the moment: Once the map loaded I turned around and ran until i got 100% exhaustion and I could exit to the overworld. I was not sure i could take them so I just went safe. My dogs were left behind but after some flanking in the overworld I recovered them.

My playthrough has been very lucky. Lady luck certainly gave me her blessing.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Ara D. on September 24, 2018, 02:04:57 AM
I love this game's program. My active hunter dropped in on a riendeer herd but there was a glutton too oh well sic the dogs on a deer and the hunt is on. Latter I hear barking to the north and a bawl of pain to the west? So I head to the west. To my surprise I find the glutton attacking the deer. I've seen small prey getting taken by birds of prey but this the first time I've seen big prey attacked. I love this games details
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: werepacman on September 26, 2018, 10:00:16 PM
I was checking trap fence with two of my dogs near the ford. I found fresh elk tracks leading to frozen lake.
I followed the tracks there were holes in the ice. Finally I found dead bull elk lying drown in the water.

This was very realistic!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on September 30, 2018, 03:40:32 AM
After at least 100 hours of play, I've run through over a dozen adventurers who, almost without exception, died from MY decisions. I learned some bad lessons early on. Small female bears/with cub leave one with the mistaken impression that bears are not TOO bad. Papa Bear will correct that fallacy. While the first five Njerpez may seem to be relatively soft, the sixth has uncanny skills with just his knife. Foxes can run on thin ice. Don't follow them. Robbers have a lot of friends.

My dead Father apparently took me hunting while barely clothed. Perhaps he traded most of my clothes for the Fine Kaumo spear and Fine knife? Anyway, with those, and a handaxe,  I set out.

So, the first year, mid-summer, on a new start, determined to avoid previous mistakes. Settled next to rapids on a long river. After many futile weeks of hunting just to watch my javelins run away in some wounded deer or elk, I stopped trying. It would soon be too damp to dry meat, anyway. No meat is drying, at all!

The plan was to build a cabin/smokehouse, then to trap and smoke what I could trap. I'd snare some birds, kill squirrels with rocks, and fish for daily food. Having completed building I FINALLY lucked out and killed a deer. I then wasted 180+ cuts after learning there were a few building flaws in my cabin. By the time I fixed them, the meat was spoiled. Well, another lesson learned- TEST your smokehouse, first.

Built a trap fence, nothing trapped so far. Built a shorter one. Ditto. Started building a trap fence around a small lake.

Bumped into my first Njerpez. Seen robbers once and avoided them, likewise bears. But, by this point, though, I was despairing of any success, so, I did not run. Killed him, taking 26% injury. Got his spear and some very damaged lamellar. But, the spear was the start of a good run of luck. Traded that and his iron helm for better tools. Found a quest treasure and with that and the Njerp loot, bartered for Master woodsman, hand, and splitting axes, a 'Perfect' shovel, a Fine Fishing rod, a pot, a Fine Carving ax, Master Longbow, nets, a dog, all the things I'd drooled over before.

On the way back from hiring my first companion, I found I'd finally trapped a reindeer. Huzzah!

So, I'm still working that small lake's fence, not even 1/4 completed yet. Just started the Advanced missions line. I used my rewards to improve Cooking, Carpentry, and Hideworking. ALL I have to do is avoid stupid decisions now...fingers crossed!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on October 11, 2018, 04:01:28 AM
Woohoo! I've survived winter! I'll have to wait a few weeks, yet, to start my island hideaway, although a lot of logs are already cut there. Once the ice is completely thawed, I'll return and make a new, more secure, homestead. The only downside is that there has been a lot of Njerp when I visit the area. Several are baiting my bear deadfalls...heh.

I've lost, and replaced, two dogs, one to a Njerp, one to a wolf. All my Companions have lived to return home. Lots of meat stored, lots of Njerp loot that I'd love to trade for some better tools/weapons. Sadly, many of the neighboring villages are truly poor. Even the Foreign Traders, who are hard enough to find, often have little of use to me. I've found myself trading for silver and copper goods, just to lighten my load.

Overall, it was a very safe winter. Never a hint of frostburn, a single deer stumbled into my defense traps, and nothing else even seen nearby. My trap fence, only an hour away, provided numerous elk, several rabbits gave up their furs there, even one fox! Spotted several bears across the rapids and harvested two large and a cub. One had a fine winter coat. A single wolf fell afoul of a deadfall. Even his harsh fur got me 10 Fine arrows.

It's a great beginning!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: tedomedo on October 13, 2018, 12:25:19 PM
I'm building my new settlement on rapids beach. With nets i get a lot of trouts and salmons. I have in chest 10 salmons (shown as one thing), this is 90 lbs. I will smoke them. This is easier food "shop" than hunting.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Edico on October 13, 2018, 04:21:58 PM
So I probably went a little overboard with winter fishing.  I got about 150 dried trout and 120 dried salmon.  Then I was able to catch a big bear (260 dried cuts) and two elks (350 dried cuts.)  I don't think I'll go hungry for a while.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: tedomedo on October 20, 2018, 09:15:00 AM
I have fence around borders of local terrain where i have house. I have trap pits with sharp stakes in every 8th tile. Why i'm postin this? Because i got 10 reindeers!!! I'm tired of hideworking and drying meat (yes it's winter), i have over 1000 meat. I have to make cords. An update suggestion: add coffee, alcohol and cigarettes to get some energy :)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on October 24, 2018, 12:54:39 PM
Yesterday, I was going to blunt strike a trapped deer. I clicked the WRONG direction and pole-axed my bull! Fortunately, he got up despite the SKULL FRACTURE he was suffering.

Today, I got confused while looking at one of my dogs to see if he was carrying the RAFT I thought I had loaded on my bull. For some reason, I instead shot him with my bow! My other two dogs, concluding that there was an enemy in our midst, attacked and killed the poor, trusting, animal.

So, on the return trip, I carried back a hare that couldn't resist a turnip, a deer I panicked into rushing onto thin ice, to break through and drown, and the ragged remains of the dog that deserved a better end...heh.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on October 31, 2018, 05:58:34 PM
I'm into my 2nd winter now. Last winter my trap fence was awesome! That and my smaller traps set at a small lake resulted in 11 elk and deer, 3 foxes, a hare, and numerous birds. Perhaps not strangely, since winter broke, all that area has yielded is a pair of foxes. From the 3 successful bear deadfalls elsewhere from that winter, all I've gotten since is one wolf and one elk. That's over the whole spring/autumn period. I know the Gods are not unhappy with me, so, where did my good fortune go?

I farmed a small 4x10 area that yielded about 500 turnips (had other things planted late season but I neglected them and all withered), harvested about 2K of lake reeds, gathered a hundred or so of about a dozen useful plants, some used for the several wounds I've encountered.

Anyway, I built a new settlement with a good-sized cabin and a barn, but I'm not using it yet. It's on a small island but I've built no defenses yet. I've traveled through this winter to all but one clan area, scouting and trading. Three dogs and the same small bull still accompany me, though all the dogs are replacements for their originals...bah!

I have enough food now to last a year even if I had no other hunting successes. Think I'll finally build that sauna now...lol. Time to relax!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Faurric on November 03, 2018, 08:23:11 PM
Midwinter of my first year. The ice was slow to freeze as the temperature rose and fell. That was lucky for me, as I found a drowned bear, boar, and adventurer over a month period. But everything is frozen hard now and the snow is about calf-deep. I went looking for another adventurer's shelter and heirloom trident and was able to trap and kill the bear that had mauled him. I'm hoping to spend the rest of the winter trapping foxes and other fur-bearing animals.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Ara D. on November 11, 2018, 08:36:16 AM
Spotted a wolf pack on the outskirts of a Reemi pasture dug a trap pit. I hired a hunter to watch my back. When we returned to the trap the other members of the pack attacked him nearly bit is neck in half first attack. Oddly the pack didn't come after me. I attacked the trapped wolf knowing that it's mates would come I a quickly backed into a tree thicket so they couldn't attack from behind. After a few attacks the pack scattered. I built a dead fall trap near by, and reset the pit trap with fresh *cough* meat. Over the next few days by my hands, hounds, or traps I took 6 wolves one attacked and killed a villager, they killed that one, for a total of 7 I think that is all of that pack
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on November 28, 2018, 10:57:28 PM
Having buggered my first guy that lasted through a few winters (Thank you, Father Winter, farewell, Wotan), I've got a new guy!

Acquired the flu in week one. Fortunately, I rushed to a village sage and the damage cleared soon. I, a Kaumo, apparently had a father (Unfortunate Hunting Trip) who was a Drik, so the crossbow I salvaged from his body is, of course, useless to me...lol. But, it did trade well for a Fine Longbow and a few other items! Now, I ask myself, why am I armed with a sakramaski knife? Maybe my mother was from the Seal tribe...heh.

I got a Wounded guy quest (gave him his daddy's axe, which I didn't have at the time...yeah), found the bear and backtracked it to the campsite. Set a heavy deadfall with a spoiled roach and bagged the nasty bear the next day! Woohoo! Fine bear skin! I've bagged two more bears, an elk and two reindeer pretty quickly, mostly in time to dry the meat (Springtime start).

 Own two dogs and have just entered the wet season. I'm presently nursing a 30% damage broadhead arrow to the abdomen. I'm sure it's a good omen...hehe
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Brygun on November 30, 2018, 11:15:26 PM
I have made pot!!!!

- Novrus



My stalwart inspiration for a self assigned creative writing has finally  made a cooking pot! Along the way he had to travel from his homeland, work for seeds, make fields, build traps, stockpile materials before the ice, make a house, harvest crops, make a smithy, build tools and now he has made a pot!

Wooo! About a 6 month journey to get here.

https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=4640.0

FYI the journal is long which I hope you will enjoy. I started a  little over 2 weeks ago and it has surpassed 30,000 words.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: veerserif on January 07, 2019, 08:33:25 PM
Long time no see! Was once a regular on the old forums in the 3.14-ish days, came back to the game after a couple years apart, and wow, there've been a lot of changes.

Just started up a new game to ease myself back. I'm really liking the new quests system, it saved my guy from starvation (lugged a lot of firewood back and just raided all their smoked meats.) :) Getting to work making a smoking shack, fields, and eventual pit-trap line. One day I'll get hardcore enough to do a completely self-sufficient character, but only once I've finished getting comfortable with the new additions.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Ara D. on January 22, 2019, 06:26:19 AM
Well I did something foolish but it paid off. I'm up around owl country exploring and looking for a likely trout stream when I see a nine member wolf pack. Normally I set some traps to deal with such things but it's been several days since my last hunt and I have no bait. So I leash my dogs load my fine heavy Xbow with a fine broadhead. I pat my master work battle axe knowing she's going to be needed  soon. If I can kill one and get out I'll have the bait I need. Early on I take a nasty bite to my belly, but i chant an incantation and stop my blood loss and mange to kill two wolves. Now a smart man would thank the gods and run but I'm just some dumb kamo kid who's got his blood up now. So I zoom out see the pack a tile away. Other than that bite I came out ok. I've killed two injured several more and feathered one badly in the leg. So I say why not go another round. Same tactics close rage shot then battle axe. I kill a few more. Go another couple rounds end up taking down 8 of the 9 last one high tailed it into a forest where I lost it's tracks. Then on the way back to camp I ran into a bull elk. I'll be busy for a bit, hope the weather stays cold.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: irontide on February 14, 2019, 02:05:14 PM
I'm back to URW for the past couple of weeks, after having taken a hiatus of more than a year. I'm currently weighing up moving my home base, even after having built a small cabin (my smoking house). I'm currently on a four tile island, with my home site in one corner and a farming site on another corner, both with ice-free access year round, while also not being accessible over ice from the mainland. That's my preferred kind of home site. There's another site half-a-day away which is three small islands with ice-free access next to each other, and I may move there. Ideally I'd have two one-tile islands like that, one for my home site and one for my fields (smaller islands attract fewer animal visitors, and I don't want animal visitors to my fields), but that has proven elusive. Maybe I'll do some more scouting; there is still time before I need to commit to one home site for winter. Or I could try something I've never done, not only play a nomad over the winter but a nomad travelling by watercraft, which is likely to be really challenging but I'm not sure if it would be much fun (long-distance travelling by watercraft when most water is frozen over can be very tedious).

The trap fence I set up for the Advanced Adventures course is rather unsuccessful, with only two elk caught after about a month in action, and one of those was only caught after I chased an elk into the fence (a very successful strategy I highly recommend, and closer to how trap-fences were and are actually used). After the changes to animal spawning ~2 years ago, trap fences need more thought, and I rushed into this one even though I had misgivings about this site I built it anyway. That'll teach me. My other possible home-site is further away from this trap fence, so I'll probably just break it down (or just trigger the traps and abandon it) and maybe not build a new one. My main meat source is seal, and I get enough of them to not need any more meat. I've already stopped setting out my nets except when I specifically want fresh food.

 I must admit one of the factors keeping me in my current home site is the fact that it is in an area called 'Sword Strait', and that's just cool  8)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: veerserif on February 17, 2019, 07:38:15 PM
Well, three stupid deaths in (never ignore how cold winter gets folks), and I get this cheerful trap line scene.

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/958608272199580436/5986CEFFE0273674818305B3B76658289A241462/)

Guess I won't have to worry about food for a long time! I'm busy using all the bones to make arrows and practice my archery -- running a modified version of BAC's self-sufficiency compilation, which suits me fine.

Once winter ends, I'll plant the little field I have set up, finish up my cabin, and I'm thinking of establishing a fishing camp to the far northwest of my current camp. Then, perhaps I'll do the advanced course just to force myself to move out of this comfortable Driik land.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tarwathiel on March 28, 2019, 03:59:56 AM
Today I fought my first njerp warrior.

I encountered him while transferring items from a logging outpost to a site I planned on building a permanent house. Luckily I was prepared. I had my longbow equipped and broadhead arrows ready. My 2 trust dogs leashed by my side named "pup pup" and "cutie". I immediately unleashed them and ordered to attack. Pup pup dashed towards the warrior, and cutie barked in dismay and refused to attack. My only choice was to fire upon the warrior. My first shot was lucky, piercing his hand and causing him to fall. Pup pup was on him and bit him with ferocity. Pup pup was brave. The warrior took his broadsword and swung it true at poor pup pup killing him instantly. I shot again despite my agony, and the arrow pierced his abdomen, falling him again. My lucky shots and the bravery of pup pup's sacrifice allowed me then to slowly approach the felled wounded warrior and slit his throat. I mourned pup pup. But being the pragmatist that I am, I butchered him to allow more food supply for cutie. Rest in peace Pup pup. I'm sorry.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Aerotinge on April 01, 2019, 09:13:39 AM
(On a daily routine training in my danger room)
arggghh MY BALLS!! That hurts! Deer,  Don't ever kick it.
(https://i.imgur.com/QFPnIt8.jpg)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tinker on April 14, 2019, 10:50:08 AM
As a new player, new to urw that is, I made some rookie mistakes. First was not reading anything much before I started.

Just seeing permadeath and wilderness survival was enough to hook me. I started as an Islander as they sounded interesting and fit my mood at the time, and I started in the home culture as that sounds as if it might make life easier to learn. I started with the Unreal World as that sounded most like a tutorial.

I found what looked like a good site to start, on the banks of a lake with lots of conifer trees around and some heathland nearby with other trees. I quickly learnt to collect firewood, built a shelter and learnt to fish. I tried to do anything I could using skills lists, I made a cup and bowl and some planks and as my fishing skill increased I built a cellar for food storage, nothing I made was very good quality as I only had poor tools to use and was getting fed up with eating fish so I spent a few days exploring where I lived, it was moving into summer and ice was melting when I found I had chosen to live on a small island, the lake I had been using as a water source was in fact sea water, the only other fauna on the island was a grouse who could spot me hiding from 20 squares away, even the javelins I had made fell short if I could throw them straight. I did spot a village at the limit of my sight once, on the far side of an ever widening sea, but until I find a way to make ropes I might be stuck here until winter, eating fish and drinking sea water.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Dungeon Smash on April 14, 2019, 04:36:32 PM
LOL @ the reindeer raking your balls.... ouch!! Hahaha
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on May 16, 2019, 04:47:52 AM
Went out hunting... ran into a njerp a few tiles away from my settlement. Now I can't walk. How fun.

(On the plus side, I thought I was a goner with how badly that fight was going, so yay for being alive?)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Purplemate on August 11, 2019, 04:01:22 AM
The worst thing that happened to my settlement was on my latest character , one that isnt dead yet , it was summer i was a lonely settler near kuikka tribe grounds , i found a river next to the sea. finished my fathers cottages as a hunting camp and made a house near the river 5 squares away in traveling map.

After planting , hunting until my cellar was full , for a few years , i had 4 sheeps 4 pigs 2 bulls 4 cows and 6 dogs.
One day i was coming back from skinning an elk in my trap fence , and i saw a bear heading straight for the bulls.
i was wearing only a linen shirt , linen trousers , mittens and boots.
The bear kicked in the damn fence , killed the bull , i ran inside my home to get my masterwork northern bow , came out and shot at it.
I sadly missed.

The bear rushed at me , i dodged. luckily i was near my dogs pen , 2 squares away. I kicked it in and they didn't even budge exept 1 heroic small female dog named Jade. Me and jade fought the bear , i shot it in the head , and before running away he completly tore apart my right arm.
The brave little dog chased the bear away from my sight , and finished it by itself. The dog was renamed Jade The Bear Slayer.

Sadly , the story is not over. My hunting camp at the time was feeding me wolves. When i processed the bear , which was a very awfully long process with 1 arm, i put the meat and skin on the remaining bulls and cows i had. Arriving at my hunting camp where my smoker was , i processed to smoke without closing the door. Next thing you know i hear some damn stumbling in the south... 2 wolves killing my cows and bulls ... i closed the door and hid and waited for them to leave but they did not. So i did what a man should do , i put one of the cows body outside and they fed on it and ran.
I managed to process the rest of the sad meat , that spoiled halfway trought.

Jade The Bear Slayer died 2 years later , when my war campaign agaisnt the njerp started. She fought with honor and skill for such a small pup.
Her body was burned with the rest of the wariors, as i don't skin and eat such pets.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on December 06, 2019, 02:35:11 AM
I'm on a long trek, trading far down south. A village has the wounded hunter quest. It's about the easiest one, so, I took it. I found a blood trail quickly and was searching the woods nearby. Saw bear tracks leading NE. Of course, the bear popped out of a copse of woods right behind me and immediately I was hit for 24% injury, a bear hug crushed my abdomen! With the load I was carrying, my malus was over 40%, but, fortunately, thereafter he spent most of his time trying to hit my dog, Racer. In the end, the bear died, Racer wasn't even scratched. But I was wounded and bleeding. I carry bandages and managed to stop the bleeding, get back to the village, return the hunter's spear, and find a Sage. That SHOULD end the story...

I'm heading home but still very far away. I dress the wound daily. It's been over a week. So, I start a new day, dress the wound, and start skiing. A bit later I notice that I'm bleeding profusely (in fact, I passed out). My last dressing had RE-started the bleeding and I had not noticed until it almost killed me!

So, I bandage again and stop the bleeding. My blood loss was huge. I start hurriedly trekking again, looking for a village to layover in. At some point, I realized I was NOT skiing. When I passed out from the blood loss, apparently I had dropped the Northern spear I was wielding! So, that's lost.

I did make it home. My wound is down from severe now but the blood loss is still bad. Cool as hell... ;)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: werepacman on March 06, 2020, 09:59:28 PM
Trapped two stags and bunched one before skinning.
 :'(
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: StefanPravda on March 06, 2020, 10:51:20 PM
Trapped two stags and bunched one before skinning.
 :'(
You animal..
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: jonottawa on March 11, 2020, 04:09:01 PM
Playing my 3rd still-alive character now. Trying to get used to eating, resting, and changing what I'm wielding in the wilderness map, even though that feels dirty.

Vaguely considering doing a Let's Play YouTube video as virtually all of the ones I've seen have been made by people who are absolutely terrible at the game or who use EZ mode mods.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: kullervo on April 10, 2020, 03:53:05 PM
Death. That's what  :'(

A njerpez appeared out of nowhere just behind my back while hunting and killed my char,
which I was hunting with and was ill prepared for a fight. This happened just one day after
I had bought myself a bunch of master grade fighting and building equipment AND dropped
them at my residence. The njerpez only had a knife and such, but my bow, mastergrade
handaxe and low quality clothes were no match for him.

I guess I have to start a new character. I was just fond of that one and been building him
for some time. And this time I wasn't even rushing into dangerous wild animals or robbers
or njerpez out of boredom and/or curiosity... *sigh*
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on April 13, 2020, 05:41:06 PM
Preparing 3rd settlement for winter. Mihku has plenty of meat, feathers, cords and rocks to fletch to get through the winter. And whenever he ever sees robbers, he stops what he’s doing and relocates to another settlement. He had enough when group took his tunic and trousers and he had to travel across the entire unreal world with his privates flailing loose. Cave cabins are his favorite, as they don’t usually need more than 7-14 felled trees.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on April 16, 2020, 04:18:41 PM
My oldest established character is now about 1300 days. He just built a new settlement on a long, relatively narrow island in a wide river. It's 7 hexes at its widest on the strategic map, narrowing down to one hex, and at least 20 hexes in length. It has 6 rapids areas, no fords. I like it for the security it provides when the warm weather arrives. It's a day's travel to the original settlement and there's a lot of villages in the area between.

Considering the isolation I was surprised to find a foreign trader band on it. Then I was surprised that they got off it, somehow.

So, now it's surrounded by two fences with many deadly pit traps between them. I plan to make this my fishing camp.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: kaumostardust on April 18, 2020, 06:57:49 PM
Killing the Njerps.

Though this last one caught me off guard. I was skiing back from a long trade haul and found him hanging out in my courtyard. I was exhausted and needed to drop all the newly bought furs, so I chased him off with a javelin to hunt him down later.

An hour later, I start following his tracks away from my home. They're heavily mixed with elk tracks to the point of being hard to find. Eventually, I track the bastard down and javelin him in the thigh and slit his throat. Standard fare. But in his loot, I find a harsh elk skin and some uncooked elk cuts.

I turn around and lo! there's a dead skinned elk carcass. I killed him in the middle of butchering a kill. Which felt like payback. My last character got killed that very way by robbers.

So, I scored dinner and a movie with one go!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: immortalartisan112 on April 19, 2020, 09:17:58 PM
manged to survive a a couple major injures including deadly poison losing both arms and legs or having to crawl to a village and no herbs have grown yet still alive and i'm doing fine
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on April 25, 2020, 09:26:39 AM
Previous character is still alive. Just realized I’ve not played farmer nor metal armored warrior in a while. So, I got Antti Sartolainen. 6’3” 208lbs max strength, great agility, eyesight and speed. Good Dexterity and rest.

Escorted some Kiesse craftsman to Sartola. Traded some rough short bows and dried fish for long bow. Headed back towards home to No-Mans Land between Kiesse-Koivula-Reemi. Saw some wild pigs in wilderness rummaging in heathland. Tried to catch them up. Ended up sneaking up on Njerpez warrior instead. Hid from him behind a spruce, dropped all the excess goods. Only kept longbow, arrows, short sword (claimed from a Njerpez at pine mire in Reemi), hunting knife and handaxe as backups. Heard him swearing. “Blyat something”. Nock the arrow. The Njerp steps in view mere 8meters away. Judging from his clothing; nettle shirt and fur overcoat shouldn’t be too much for even a rough arrow to penetrate and hopefully slow him down... with his bastard sword.

Relax the forearm muscles while still maintaining the back tension. Arrow is loose. But the rough arrows shaft must’ve been spined bit on the soft side. Maybe the rye porridge for breakfast was giving... bubbliness...?, and the arrow flew straight at the warrior, little higher than aimed for, hit his neck. And next the foreign invaders lifeless corpse hit the ground.

Antti was well pleased with his acquisition of initially seeming, over priced longbow. But it did pay back handsomely with bastard sword, hand axe, knife and some heavily worn clothes. Well suited for making into bandages and cords for fletching even more arrows. Only 4 more days to travel back to cabin under construction. Time will tell how much more wealth the longbow will accumulate.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on April 25, 2020, 08:14:45 PM
This guy has a cabin on a small lake. It's fenced on 3 sides, right down to the lake EXCEPT on the left, where I have a row of loopsnares at the lake's edge, with a gap between each trap. That's the only place where there's no fence blocking.
 
So, I'm working on a small hide in the cabin when I see through the shutter a large elk wandering the fence, inside, on the right side. He'd found that small gap and couldn't figure out how to exit! He's afraid to step on the thin ice of the lake(Winter is coming!) and is looking for a way out.
 
I arm my bow and Fine broadhead arrows and corner him against the lake and the fence, firing at point blank range, a mere two steps away... and I miss shot after shot. My rating of 91, minus 10% for encumbrance is no match for this elk. I shoot six arrows and throw two javelins (100% spear!) and hit ONCE with an arrow. Eventually I just wielded a spear and beat him down with the club end, while traveling the length of the fence. When I read the play-by-play, it says the elk DODGED my missiles...lol.

I recovered one javelin but the other is out on the thin ice. Strangely, not ONE arrow was recovered, not even the one that hit him. Not stuck in the fence, nowhere to be seen in the forest behind. Every arrow, just gone!

Same guy goes to check a fence/trap on another small lake. Dropping to the tactical map, he appears almost next to a wolf, behind it. He shoots his readied arrow, hits, and the wolf takes off like a shot, straight over the trap/fence, into the lake, breaking ice out about 20 moves, then expires. He comes back with a punt and just paddles out to the large, dead, wolf and recovers the easiest of kills.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on April 26, 2020, 02:00:43 AM
@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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on April 26, 2020, 03:09:15 AM
@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.

Hide? Wow! I wish I'd thought of that! The same guy got a one-hit kill on a Njerp. Chased after him in woods, lost sight, then came up directly behind him. Phwtt! Broadhead hits the skull, deadun!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 01, 2020, 05:50:10 PM
Antti returned from his delayed trade trip to Reemi, selling hides, meat and crafts, buying some rye, barley and round shield. Helped an old man get a new punt, hence the delay. But had extra time to harvest wild nettle, burdock, lake reeds, yarrow and other useful plants.

Finally got home and crashed to bunk. Spent next day threshing plants and cooking couple birds and squirrels taken on the homeward journey.
At late evening turning dark, remembered to go check traps around the cabin, 2 willow grouse and 2 black grouse. Saw fox run away, again. It has still not tried the bait on the pawboard. Turning around, saw a pair of boots, on someone sleeping under a spruce. A Njerpez warrior! Thought to myself “Ny perkele tulee sulle noutaja”. Continued, hiding, snuck up to the sleeping invader and swung the bastard sword to lob his head off. Stuck on spine..again.
Still need more practice. Or finer made sword. Possibly both.

Fur coat, fur cloak, fur footwear, leather trousers, knife, handaxe and Njerpez scimitar. Some roasted capercaillie and smoked wolf. Not bad catch.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 03, 2020, 12:06:58 AM
Antti went out to look for birds, hares, maybe even a ermine or pine-marten. Something else to put variety to the smoked wildboar, smoked elk and smoked bear.

Out of nowhere bumped into elk doe. Maybe 22-26meters away. Quickly grabbing a pointed arrow instead the blunt held ready, the doe turned to run. Not the best angle or range, but Antti thought to give it a try, it wasn't quartering away but closer to broadside. Lead the shot and relax the forearm muscles, hit the doe in spine and it tumbled over lifeless from shock on the nervous system.  :o 
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on May 03, 2020, 01:57:22 AM
Met foreign traders who had a Fine Long Chainmail hauberk. 3 Fine Winter bear furs, 3 Fine Winter Lynx furs, and a plethora of wolf, reindeer, elk, fox, and arctic fox furs, all Fine quality, asked and given, and I now have the most costly item I've ever traded for. Lord Knows what a Mastercraft version would cost!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 03, 2020, 03:22:28 AM
Nice! What's the long habergeon weight? 30lbs? Or is that the long hauberk weight, can't remember.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on May 03, 2020, 09:43:39 AM
I corrected that. It IS a hauberk...sorry! Aye, it weighs 30, 5 more than the one I'm presently wearing, which is NOT a Long.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 05, 2020, 06:31:27 AM
Holy mooses!

Excuse the pun, but got 3rd elk kill in 10days. 610lbs of elk smoking in the sauna, in early Fall month. Antti and big-dog Pena are set for few months... with 250m pit trap-fence completed between two lakes.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on May 07, 2020, 10:38:11 AM
My oldest character, Bul, is at his island stronghold, but it's winter now and the river's frozen over.

He found day-old human footprints and started tracking them. The intruder appears to be a woodsman because he's leaving fallen tree trunks. Using a big bull, he carted every one he found back to his cabin for future use. After a week and finding almost 3 dozen trunks, the tracks had petered out and he'd lost track of the intruder.

Then, surprise!, while out very early, he found FRESH tracks. Carrying a torch and stealthily tracking he literally bumped into a Njerp! The Njerp missed his first hack with his axe, hit with his second, then took a spear to his eye, knocking him unconscious. The dog pack finished him off while he was down. He was not a wealthy Njerp as all his clothing was well-worn and his few weapons, a woodsman's ax, a handaxe, and a broad knife were a poor legacy for him. At least I got a ton of tree trunks without annoying the forest spirit!

 
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 07, 2020, 08:36:59 PM
Maybe that Njerpez was tasked for felling trunks ahead of the rest coming in the spring to build a war camp..?

Antti was tracking a bear after local foresters housed a hurt adventurer. There’s no room for man-eating bear. Scouring the spruce mire with pine mire to the East, which is 1/4 of the nearest 15km every direction (other 3/4 of the region has pinemire in south, west and north...)
Spotted an invader about 700m away, in the open/pine mire. Annoyed by this interruption, Antti and big-dog Pena headed to greet him. Couple arrows in, the Njerpez fell, but managed to scratch Pena with his knife. Swung the broad sword and cut him square on the eye, killing him. Picked up the rest of the goods: lamellar hauberk, spear, some fur clothing. Headed to the cabin to drop the load off.
Bumped into an angry bear!
Could it be the same bear that had been attacking people in the region?
None the less, it was charging ferociously.
Block with round shield, deft strike on the standing bear’s knee got him fall over. Pena ferociously bit the bear on foreleg. That seemed to distract the bears attention to the dog. Which allowed Antti stab the bear in to skull with the sword. The bear was fighting a losing battle from that point.
Now it was getting late and Antti was getting weary. Bear’s carcass was way too heavy to lift. And way too far to drag it home. Resorting to trick he had learnt from his now missing dad, he chewed on some bear pipe leaves and started to skin the bear. Oh, it already had thicker fur. Winter’s close. Decent skin, finally the countless hares, birds and 9 killed elks harsh skinning and tanning jobs seemed to have worked. Next to piece the carcass for meat. 218lbs. With goods from the invader, and wearing armor, had to leave some meat behind for getting later.

Got to cabin, meat in cellar. Cleaned and rubbed the skin with fats, passed out of exhaustion. Woke up, left some bear meat for the Old Man. Headed back to pick rest of the meat and look for tracks, hopefully leading to the camp and the spear Olli’s dad had given to him.
Antti wondered if the man would’ve noticed if he gave one of the spears taken from fallen Njerpez instead. But rather than worry about having man-eating bear in region, it had to been done. Wait, whose dog is that? It hadn’t shown any sign of noticing Antti or Pena yet. Oh damn, another Njerpez. This one only wearing leather clothing. But carrying spear (that’d be 4th to Antti’s armory) and more alarmingly short bow and stack of arrows.
Slowly sneaking closer when he was looking away, Antti got to 12m and shot the invader in thorax. Didn’t kill him, but definitely slow him down with only the feathers showing, on this side of him anyway. While the swearing Njerpez was readying his bow, Pena was engaging that dog, somewhere behind.
Next arrow pierced the Njerpez left shoulder. Good, rather not let him shoot arrows. Drawing his sword and moving forward to administer “forest justice”, Antti fell sharp pain in his right knee. Turning around, sure enough the foreigner’s dog was defending her master.
Good dog, bad choice.
Stabbing the dog, it dodged effortlessly, but got bitten in hindquarters by Pena. The dog turned to flee, but couldn’t run. Swift cut on the head and it fell unconscious, bleeding from the deep cut on her skull.
Couple steps and decapitation of the Njerpez: still stuck on spine. Bludgeon the dog, skin and butcher it. That’d ought to work as bait if nothing else.

Cleaning the tear on his knee, it got Antti wondering, are the invaders planning a full on war? This is 9th warrior, in just 2 seasons. Maybe the winters cold will keep them away for couple more seasons. Better go alert Kiesse to the north-east. Maybe go get news from Reemi in far south-east 1st.
At least the wound wasn’t too bad and should heal in few days.

Finding Olli’s spear wasn’t too difficult... after killing 2 invading warriors, one dog and the angry bear. At least Olli taught Antti some new sword techniques for future battles.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 07, 2020, 09:29:58 PM
Side note: not cold enough yet. The whole bear batch got stale before I could get it to dry. Ah well, bland bear “jerky” it is then.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 16, 2020, 03:18:39 AM
No slowing down the rate of Njerpez scouts and occasional hunter.
Antti went to check the traps towards Reemi. 2 arctic foxes, one capercaillie across the 6 sites.
Bumped into Njerpez trapper? As he was armed with handaxe, knife and shovel. Disposed of him quickly. Got back to cabin and started tanning the catch. Sleep the night and go check traps further to west, towards Koivula. Nothing at first site, bumped into Njerpez hunter, he had hunting bow, hunting knife and woods man’s axe. Through the spruce mire to next pine mire section and 2nd site, Njerpez in the open, 200m ahead. This one was a warrior. Mail hauberk, lamellar leg armor, scimitar, round shield, knife and short bow. He hit Pahka, Pena the big dog by now is scarred and hard like a burl (pahka), Antti deemed name change was appropriate... to shoulder, before Antti hit the warrior’s arm, removing his ability to draw bow. He still managed to hit Pahka hard on the hind leg. Another scar to be, for the hound.
Check the traps, one fox. Nice. Turn back toward cabin and POW. Another Njerpez. This one was a logger, with woodsaxe and broad knife.

That’s now 24 Njerpez since Swidden, and it’s only early Winter month.
Need to pack some dried cuts and go on scouting for war camp in the region.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 18, 2020, 08:22:54 AM
Running traps lines, few foxes, more Njerpezes.
27th was a sleep when I met him, but he woke up to Grandmaster sneaking with -3% for winter clothes and weapons. Alert one!
The warrior equipped his mace and round shield. And he wore mail hauberk and leather shin guards. But a deft opening slash at his thigh got him running... he turned away, fatal mistake.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on May 18, 2020, 04:38:20 PM
Bul, in his 4th year, has completed the Bird Thief quest (First time any of my characters has done so!). Perhaps the site was easier to find with the ground covered by snow?

Another character, Kali, has taken to carting dead Njerp to a nearby mountaintop for the spirits to admire and his foes to be warned. There are presently 8 piles of human bones there.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 18, 2020, 09:35:46 PM
Mihku (on his 2nd year) distributes the fallen Njerpezes on across the mountain and hill tops.

Antti just leaves them where they fall. Funnily enough, haven't actively gone looking for any Njerpez and he has killed 31 of them Swidden-Winter month. Not counting the 4 killed by Pahka the big dog.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 18, 2020, 09:46:57 PM
And other trapping area..
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 19, 2020, 05:57:44 PM
Checking traplines again, blackgrouse at first site. The cunning glutton milling around 2nd site, but not taking bait. It's still limping from the previous meeting. But missed the shot.
It seems there's something going on around here, got a rush hour. 2 groups of traders and 2 njerpez ..
What are you doing at my swamp?? >:(

Pahka got the first kill, after Antti put an arrow to the archer's hip, 2nd to his chest. the large dog snapped the unconscious invader's neck with one swell shake.
2nd warrior, couple hundred meters to the north, tried to hide in the spruce mire, put did the mistake of checking what's going on with his scout partner. Only to be run over hail of arrows; hit elbow, knee... (just a scratch, he didn't even collapse) and 3rd through his neck.
Antti 32, Pahka 5.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: skyleaf on July 18, 2020, 08:39:52 AM
English is not my primary language, so there certainly will be tons of grammatical error :P
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Leafsky, a lost traveler from the far east, had a tough time surviving in this world.
In his first summer, he built a waterfront cabin.
In his first autumn, he learned not everyone in the world is friendly. All his belongings were looted by robbers when he tried to greet these people. He was beaten to unconscious, luckily, survived and still able to strive a living by using the fishing rod he left at his cabin.

He was then realised he had chosen a poor spot to build his house on his 1st winter. The water nearby would froze during winter and he can no longer fish near his cabin.
Due to his terrible physical attributes (low strength, low speed, 160cm lol), active hunting is nearly impossible for him. He cant help but get really frustrated after chasing elks in the region for several days and lost their tracks completely.
The stored smoked fish are not going to last this winter, he thought, and decided to travel back and forth between his cabin and the unfrozen sea to fish.

The first half winter was calm, he dried half of his catches every time he went to sea and enjoy the sound of fire cracking when he roasted another half.
When he get bored he often went to the nearest driikilais village in the north to see if anything he can help.
He helped them to build their sauna and do other chores, in return, one of the elders told him the tale of forest maid and he managed to met the lady several times. What a night.
Perhaps he was blessed by the spirits, he even managed to ambush a small elk behind a big rock when it is drinking water. Using the fur from his first prey, he made sufficient clothes to keep himself warm in the upcoming harsher weather. He was also surprised to found an elk frozen to death in an ice hole and this made him suddenly rich in food.
Luck cant last for ever, he thought, and he decided to take this opportunity to practice his hunting skill, and the targets are the seals inhabited near the unfrozen sea.
Most of the time he threw the javelin into the air, watching the seals dive in and out of the sea, sometimes got bitten in his butt.
It took him several weeks to actually hunt down a big and two small grey seals, tried him physically and mentally.
This is time to rest and chill, he through.

But he was wrong.

In the later half of the winter, he continue his daily routine: ski back and forth from cabin to the unfrozen sea, fishing, gather firewood.
It was until one day, on the usual route to the unfrozen sea, he discovered tons of weird footprint all over the snow.
Those footprints were parallel, disciplined, like the legion swept the area.
It was an army of wolfs. An army of wolfs hidden in the shadow of forest.
He was terrified because by no means he could win the fight with these killers face to face. Not a chance.
From that day, he decided to stay near his cabin, dig a hole from the ice to fish if really needed, completely avoid to mess around those beast.
He was scared.

One night, he was woke up by a strange feeling. A bloody smell in the cold air. He grabbed his trusty javelin, paying full attention to the environment.
Silence. Not even the sound of wind could be heard. In the darkest time of the night, he cant even see further than 2 meters.
Although he saw and heard nothing, he sensed death. His heart was beating too loud, he thought, whatever waiting him outside must have heard the pumping sound.
Second by second, time passes, moon began to shine on the shutter of the cabin. He saw something moving quickly.
Without thinking he threw the only weapon on his hand. The javelin flied straight into the dark and he regretted this stupid action, now he is unarmed and helpless. He sit behind the cabin door and hoping this would delay whatever outside intrude his cabin.
However, when the first light of sun finally shine on the ground, he found a dead lone wolf lying outside the window, a javelin stick on its' abdomen, teared a large opening and blood leaked all over the ground. The spirits must have helped him in that shoot.
He felt reborn.

Not letting his second life slipped away, he decided to do everything he could to survive from this large pack of killers. Information and preparation, that's all in his mind.
He cautiously go back to the site he discovered the footprints, observing the tracks: 1 big, 6 medium, 1 small. So there must be 7 wolfs left.
Being extremely careful, he follow the tracks and set up a big deadfall trap in the place he thought those wolfs would come back, baiting it with a cut of bird meat.
Retreating to his cabin, he chopped down every young tree he could find in the region, bringing all of the trunks inside the cabin.
He set up another big deadfall trap right in front of his door, baited it.
Then he change his sleeping pattern: Tracking and sleeping at daytime, stay alert and preparing javelin inside cabin at night.
Few days later, at daytime, he noticed the legion was migrating towards the direction of his cabin and he knew that, the war is coming.

But this time he is prepared.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: LoLotov on July 24, 2020, 11:11:50 AM
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I'm concerned for the health of my character. All one surprise fight with three robbers, except that shallow cut with the condition box next to it. 0km/h a quarter of the map from home will be problematic. Was knocked unconscious at ~60%, woke up at 72%, and kept fighting from an advantageous position. Killed all three AFTER waking up, so at 90%+ total fatigue.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Galgana on July 29, 2020, 05:58:47 AM
The last couple of messenger quests I received have sent me to vagabond villages with a single Driik resident. I initially thought that if I should meet one Driik then perhaps one-half of the population in town is Driik, but that wasn't true.

The messages exchanged between Boulderyclimb and Boulderland were: "The lake turned red" - "it is in the north"
From Passagesteep to Cloud wild: "The wind is raising" - "it is not ready yet"

(https://i.imgur.com/aabljyI.png)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on August 06, 2020, 12:04:12 PM
My newest guy, who has been able to get nothing better than a harsh skin or fur from the few squirrels, hares, and birds he'd trapped, recently chased down a lynx. One arrow rendered it unconscious and then it was clubbed to death. I had a Companion who claimed he had moderate hideworking skills, so, I told him to skin and butcher it. He couldn't do any worse than me!

Anyway, he produced a SUPERIOR skin! I rested up for every step in the tanning process, stripped down, and used his assistance. In the end, I got a Superior lynx fur!

This guy, whom I play as an indentured servant who was marooned in the deep forest far from home when his new master died from a fire (Not all who wander), has had some fortunate occurrences.

In the first village he found, he was asked to supply branches for fires and got the '5 squirrels' reward. Then he found a drowned bear which he skinned. He got the meat and some harsh bear fur armor from the skin.

Soon after, he found a wounded adventurer whose reward was a hidden treasure on an island. Coincidentally, he'd just gotten the 'Punt' quest. Using that punt, he found the island, recovered the rich reward, and turned in the punt. And now he has that excellent Lynx fur.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Yooper on October 20, 2020, 01:41:01 PM
Just as winter is setting in a dog came and was eating the hare bones outside. I tried to rope the dog but it just growled and eventually ran away. The next day as I check my trap fence I find the dog in a pit trap and try to rope him once again. Still no luck, so eventually I'm forced to turn him into dog steaks. Just as I'm skinning the hide an arrow flies by, then another, then I see a man on the other side of my game fence shooting arrows at me. I leap the fence, he strikes with a knife, I counter blow with my axe and down he goes.

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?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Gedeon on October 25, 2020, 02:08:31 PM
edit : And a corpse I'm not sure what to do with?

Just burn it.(drop some firewood on corpse and start a fire or push corpse on existing fire).
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: paulkorotoon on October 25, 2020, 03:40:37 PM
Noticed a goshawk that tried to kill a black grouse lately. It's the first time I saw a predator actually hunt.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on October 29, 2020, 04:02:12 AM
Late Soil month. Most game, apart from elks and birds seem to be hiding. Got thousands of feathers, ~1,600 cuts of dried elk, some smoked elk, some more of meat from bears and deer.

Traded stack of winter arctic/fox hides for fine battlesword.
Only game in steady supply are Njerpez.

Went scouting earlier for hunting cabin location in Kaumo lands. Slow progress, over a month but fun to explore in the dead of winter. Left some elk drying there too. Killed the largest bull elk to memory. 354lbs meat weight. Might need to schedule the cabin build for early summer after sowing rye and barley. As a side note, got so many Njerpez weapons and armor; wouldn’t need to hunt, trap or farm for maybe 6+ years. Maybe make a living as a “home guard”, for lack of borders to guard. 
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on October 30, 2020, 05:48:02 AM
—snip—
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?

Now you’ve taken the step to the dark side and taken life of a fellow human. And made a sizable profit with it. Next try to bag some njerpez, and get really wealthy... with a risk of death, but hey: low risk, low reward.

As for the corpse, most folks seem to pick them up, zoom out to Wilderness Map and drop on the spot for time and nature to clean the mess and leave 4 bones as trophies.
Some collect those bones later and add to their grim trophy pile at cabin site. Or leave them on the spot as reminder where a hostile fighter met, you.

Unless you’re couple days into starving, in that case, you *could* butcher the human remains and cook‘im for dinner.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Adamsor on November 01, 2020, 11:09:08 PM
Today I encountered robber and liar...

When I was checking my traps I immediately noticed one of them is triggered without prey inside. Human tracks were leading from it. After following those tracks I discovered "adventurer" as he introduced himself. Shocked I started conversation and he told me about Driik village. I checked my map and I was shocked that Driiks went all down to the Islanders territory but that had to be checked out. Instead of killing him I took my punt eager for new discovery. I knew two villages in that region so it wasn't hard to locate. Though after scouting rest new lands I found no Driiik village and now I'm standing bamboozled in my punt.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Privateer on November 01, 2020, 11:23:21 PM
Those are the settlements he told you about.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on November 01, 2020, 11:36:34 PM
Indeed. There’s a bug that causes NPC to refer the culture as their own. I.e. Driiks will claim any village they know location of as a Driik village.
Same goes for vagabonds and foresters.

The same bug manifests itself, in reverse, with for example “unfortunate hunting trip” scenario where character’s deceased father is of the culture where the game begins.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Adamsor on November 02, 2020, 05:06:16 PM
That's fine, settlements reference can be a minor bug. But that pesky thief was still wandering around my traps. Once I caught him red-handed there was no mercy. He killed fox inside my trap and fortunately for me that made him very tired. After piercing his neck and smashing his arms he became perfect short-term trainer.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on November 02, 2020, 09:42:16 PM
Another day at Windy Forest and Knockenwood. Antti went to check the north-east traps. One small fox. 2 black grouses. head back to cabin. Spot a Njerpez on the Pine mire, turn to intercept him/them. Solo warrior with scimitars, shield, spear and knife. And then I realize I left the hunting bow at the cabin. Oh well, the fine battlesword will have to do. Njerpez calculated his odds and decided to turn and flee. Smart choice. Except the snow in Early Swidden comes to the waist... couple scenic turns later, he manages to get to spruce mire.
Nice, little sport, not just straight on slaughter. Well.
Not really, Antti caught up, swung once, hit hard on his eye, he starts to bleed and falls down, drop the ski stick for better grip, Njerpez stands up. Hit him again, he starts to bleed profusely from his thorax and goes down again.
Time to see if fine battle sword will give clean decapitation. Nope, just stuck on spine, again. At least the Njerpez stays down.
Strip his belongings and dump his remains on a spruce as warning to other invaders.

Continue towards home. Spot another Njerpez. Huh, guess they don't learn. Intercept!
And in straight ahead, gazing at Antti. The Njerpez lays down to sleep. O-K...

And again, not a full decapitation. Got to keep working on that.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Ara D. on November 11, 2020, 12:01:08 AM
Less of what's happening in my unreal world and more UrW happening in my world.

So my wife just gave birth to our first child on Monday. Through the process of the induction and waiting for her to dilate UrW has been there during the down times, at least for us there was plenty of hurry up and wait. UrW has been great with it ability to quickly save anytime. It's allows me to pick it up and put it down as needed to attend to my wife and babies needs. Thanks to all the UrW team for being my emotional support person.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on November 11, 2020, 06:42:26 AM
It can be tiring and doubt infusing at times. But do your best to enjoy the time.
And if you have family close-by, let them help. (Mother might have baby blues and also be hyper protective for sometime. Try your best to do the little things, she’s likely extremely tired for a while.

Got 4 kids; 20, 15, almost 6 and almost 3. 2nd family. They’re all different.
No advise “kids this, kids that” from me. Some sleep, some don’t. Some eat well, others might have reflux. There’s nothing except your (parents) instinct to tell what’s best for your kid(s). Or simply trial and error.

Good luck! And let mom take a nap!
Title: You hear Koivula robbers singing to the west
Post by: jc_rabbit on December 04, 2020, 05:43:43 PM
It was early winter morning and all was dark but my torchlight. I was leaving my home base, a Koivula village, to start my day of fishing and trapping when I got the message "You hear Koivula robbers singing to the west". This is the first time I've seen this message. I hurried back into the village to hide until the day is bright enough to see around me.

The curious thing is that the village was only two tiles west of where I heard the message. I wonder what it implies... :)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Brygun on December 15, 2020, 10:41:00 PM
Tuukka who was on the Island Challenge (and did die a few times) has finally come into spring and paddled to the mainland. The first village he is in is telling to quest for a trident.

Now here's the thing...

In my Island Challenge attempts Ive been roleplaying Posedin as a "Foreign Sea Spirit with a Trident"

So uhh... yeah...

now that he got to the mainland he has to go rescue Posedin's trident. No biggie right? right? please agree....
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on December 17, 2020, 05:30:48 AM
Started a new character. Teppo Reemiläinen. Big guy, 223lbs. Trying to play him as home/border guard. Killed 2 Njerpez. Got decent condition (15lbs) mail habergeon. And traded for fine broadsword. Visiting a local village, there was wounded adventurer. “Find his lost handaxe in coniferous bordering heath”. Sure.
But darn, bumped into an very angry small female bear.
Managed to kill it. Barely. Took 81% damage in the battle. BOTH elbows with grievous wounds*. Luckily have some loot to sell for food. Couldn’t skin not butcher the mere 250lbs bear gal.

*Couldn’t angle, but could keep flopping the sword with those injuries. Strange mechanic. Other injuries were minor tear on thorax, minor tear on abdomen and fracture on left shin.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Brygun on December 17, 2020, 08:05:40 AM
Tuukka has been over on the long paddle east. I like to send people to the inner lake via the bay between Reemi and Nerjpez.

Wonderful looking river. Several rapids flowing so never freezes. Graceful swan as a sign of the spirit's blessings.

Place is name "Horses bottom"

What more could you ask for.

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Felius on December 21, 2020, 11:55:10 PM
A whole pack of wolfs, that's what's happening. On my bloody own settlement. With one of them getting stuck on a pit trap, so the pack wasn't leaving. Luckily the log cabin was complete, thus I had an enclosed space, so I managed to slowly kill them one by one, but not before one of them managed to nearly bite my arm off, preventing me from using bow and arrows, so I had to wait until they got just close enough and throw a javelin through the shutters. And make more javelins. And drag the dead wolfs inside, skin, butcher and start to smoke the damn thing, because this siege is taking literal days.

Finally managed to kill them all, costing me one seal fur that was in the middle of tanning outside when the wolves arrived and rotted, a bunch of bandages, plus some arrows that I couldn't recover. 7 dead wolves, 6 skinned and 1 rotted, 1 finally decided to actually flee instead of hanging around it's dead comrade corpse after I drug the rotting corpse inside and threw it inside the fireplace.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Brygun on January 05, 2021, 06:53:44 AM
Tuukka found a cliff with adjoining mires!

Wahoo!

Rusty mushy mire!

Now to bring over  a reindeer to load with bog ore! Wooot woot!

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 05, 2021, 07:01:52 AM
Took nearly 2 weeks to find a tiny island to get to meet the Waterman. Sheesh. Southern coast between Driik and Reemi. No rivers, nor rapids. The 2m x2m island is in corner of heathland towards lake.. oh well, finally found the spot. We’ll see if the spot works.

(OTOH 1 tile islands within pine mire nor open mire puddles, do not seem to work as summoning spots for Waterman)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Kels on January 05, 2021, 08:00:40 AM
First post. Been playing quite a bit over the Christmas break after buying it. I played the free version a while back but wanted to play again, so I bought it.

I re rolled many characters with the "there be robbers" start. I eventually succeeded in using my handaxe to sneak attack nearly all of the attackers and was rewarded with a big pile of gear.  I finally got a dog and was able to hunt two pairs of elk and calf, then later 5 reindeer in one go. I found 3-4 to be a reasonable max, even though I only lost 21 cuts of meat and two hides went "harsh". That was a tanning and meat smoking marathon for days to keep everything from spoiling. Big game hunting is the highlight so far. The payoff is great. Fall is starting to close in. My cabin is built, I'd like to finish my sauna, but fall harvesting is keeping me too busy. I'm at lower hunting capacity since two of my dogs were seriously wounded taking down an elk, they killed it, but took some damage that is taking a while to heal. Fortunately, my one big dog just healed and is ready to go. It seems like the big dog is more likely to tangle with game than the smaller two, but maybe it's coincidence. At any rate, I've played from an early spring start to now being within 2 weeks of winter season. One thing I've noticed about smoking is using a slender tree trunk and a few branches seems to get good results. It's possible that it's due to my increasing cooking skill, but using a slender tree trunk (50 lbs) kept my 540 reindeer cuts at only 40 "bland" compared to about half when I used several firewood instead. Went on a short hunting trip with a hired hand and got a small elk. Another 160 lbs  to smoke.

I started a new character in a totally different part of the map. I chose the "not all who wander" start and started with a Kaumo spear and a sow, among other things. I was able to track and kill an elk pretty early on. I drove it onto a frozen lake and then snuck close enough to land a javelin in its shoulder. I chased it back toward the forest, sow in tow when it was wounded and exhausted.  I decided to build a cabin wall section to start drying while it was still cold. It took a bit too long and I ended up with stale meat. I hope the dried meat is just "bland" and not worse by the end, we'll see. I'm going to keep exploring until I find a village with a dog to sell, then I'll slaughter the sow and trade the meat for a dog and supplies. It's a fun start, but I feel like I need to make things a bit more challenging. The "all who wander" start is fairly easy, given the extra gear and animal. I imagine a cow or dog start would be even easier, as my sow is just meat.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 05, 2021, 04:23:12 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Kels on January 06, 2021, 04:31:13 AM
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.

Thanks. I thought it had to be a wooden structure. That probably would've saved some meat. Ah well, next time. Will be very helpful if I kill a couple of animals far from home in the winter.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 06, 2021, 04:35:57 AM
You can also hang fish and meat dry on inside and outside of cave walls.
But those aren’t that common south of Tribes’ areas. Even when playing Kuikka-tribe, I still build shelter very close to the kill. Usually within couple hundred meters/yards from water source (up north, that’s likely pine or open mire).
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 06, 2021, 06:10:05 AM
I forgot that the summoning Waterfolk spell requires rock or skerry. Duh. Wandering most of southern coast in search of a watery rock.... and I doubt the watery tart will even lob a sword to me. Maybe the moist bint will make me into king of North instead?
Search continues
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 06, 2021, 08:34:53 PM
Hahaaah! Found ford with multiple suitable rocks, Old Man came swimming by calmly then dove underwater.

Expenses of the quest:
Several dozen cuts of smoked elk, supplanted with some squirrels, hare and grouses harvested.
6 Fine arrows (for a needy hunter... who already had long bow, 6 broad heads, 4 blunts and 11 regular arrows)
2 javelins (thrown at Njerpez who tried to use them to stab Teppo, but got blocked with a shield)
2 badger furs, 6 squirrel furs, Arctic fox fur and 3 fox furs.

Gains from the questing journey:
4 Njerpez killed, excess property used to purchase fine spectacle helmet, MW juniper bow, 2 nets, additional pot, long mail cowl, 18 dried salmons, perfect fishing rod, fine knife, silver chain bracelet and surplus Njerpez Scimitar, woodsman’s axe, 2 hand axes and broad knife.
2 spells: Rod fisherman’s sacrifice and Fisherman’s Springtime sacrifice.

Now... both of the fishermen’s spells call for using the first caught fish during open water... what if Teppo only gets one?  :-\
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 09, 2021, 03:01:02 AM
Went to check traps in the Northeast trail, approaching the short trap line, bumped into a female bear. Before Teppo could leash Ella, the feisty little dog decided to go for frontal assault against 270lbs bear. Ella failed to dodge the initial maiming and fell unconscious, Teppo running in closer, only to see the female bear break Ella’s neck. Lobbed 2 javelins in the bear, hitting thorax and abdomen, latter seriously bleeding. Blocked the bears attempts of maiming and biting, while cutting at it’s body and head. The beast went down. Teppo hauled his extra weight back to the cabin, then back to pick up the bear. The fur turned out decent and 168lbs meat smoked.

Next up was trek to get some salt from the coast and get a dog or two. Travel west to Driik was uneventful, gathering some burdock, lakereeds, bearpipes and nettles at overnight stops. Teppo found few villages, bought fine mail mittens, bag of salt, small knife, large female dog and small male. Homeward journey was uneventful too.

In essence, something is going to go wrong soon.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 11, 2021, 06:08:47 PM
Saw some suspicious movement pretty close to the cabin. Just 800-1000meters away on the far edge on the pine mire. Waited till early morning and sure enough, heard some singing about robbing people. Ah. Not in my neck of woods. Walked over to the nearby Reemi village that has 4 hunters. Asked Kaleva, Sampsa, Heimo and Olli to join for some “chores”. Heimo and Olli both carry longbows, so I gave 3 javelins each to Kaleva and Sampsa, so there’d be proper opening salvo and less friendly fire.
Met the four robbers, two armed with short bows and other two armed with double hand axes. on the pine mire, initial arrows hit the first robber, who was carrying short bow. The crook never got a chance to shoot his bow as Kaleva’s javelin hit hit him square in the chest, killing him. The other bandit archer was ushered in by Teppo’s 2 dogs to keep him from shooting in the melee. Heimo got hit in his left shoulder by one of the bandit’s axes. But he stood stern and swung his staff, knocking the bandit on his knees.
Elsa the big bitch knocked the archer down and pummeled him instantly while down. The bandit fell unconscious and Nappi, the small male, was on his throat like an enraged glutton.
Ganging up 5+2 vs 2 was over brief, but last live bandit managed to cut Teppo on his calf from the ground as last desperate attempt. He took woodsman axe hit to his abdomen from Olli and Teppo all but severed the bandit’s head.

Picked up the loot, walked the boys back to their village, gave knives axes and some better condition garments as payment for the brief, yet gory, work all done before midday high sun.

All the men from the village were expecting a longer employment, but were very thankful for generous pay.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 13, 2021, 07:24:27 AM
Saw another Njerpez while returning from NW trap line. He was armed with spear and club. No knife. Bastard must’ve been starving. As he saw Teppo moving through the pines at steady speed, well armored and armed*, he decided to turn face and try to run. Teppo lobbed his 1st javelin, hit him in the thigh. Swearing, the armored invader wielded his spear and turned to duel the savage local.
Teppo released Elsa (Nappi is still sequestered at the homestead with 6 serious wounds...), lobbed another javelin, hit him in thorax, solid hit, but only a minor wound due the lamellar hauberk he wore. Elsa, circled to the warriors left flank, while Teppo skirted left, to approach the invaders right flank. The Big Bitch (of Njerpez Doomsday) got to the warrior first, bit him in the hand, the spear falling down.
The warrior wielded his club and took a swing at the ferocious dog, Elsa dodging the mediocre attempt easily. Elsa charged again, but it ended in both of them fumbling. Teppo running in, saw a chance and went for low slash and cut the warrior in the calf. The warrior turned to face Teppo now, just for Elsa to bite him in the elbow, left, so the club was held on firmly. Teppo took a swing at the invader’s head, but swung low and hit his shoulder. The sturdy armor deflected the sword with ease. Elsa bit the warrior in knee and the warrior recoiled to face the gnarling dog again. Teppo had his chance to end the fight (hiding in multi-combatant melee is OP), took a breath, went for full swing at the opponents fur hood covered head; hit him HARD in the side of his face, killing him standing right there.
Looting the invaders still warm remains, Teppo was elated to find that the lamellar hauberk was near pristine, weighing 32lbs. Much better condition than his 15lbs mail habergeon. While the hauberk covers thighs, it’s sadly sleeveless and leaves upper arms somewhat exposed.
Well, better to have functional legs, to run away, if things go sour.


*for trapping runs he takes the 15lbs mail habergeon off and dons leather cuirass. While keeping the fine spectacle helm, long mail cowl, leather shin and arm guards, fine leather boots and fine mail mittens. Teppo sleeps with his broad knife and fine broadsword, also usually grab 3 javelins, sometimes shield, and if going against group of robbers or war camp, his masterwork spear or alternatively bow and 2 dozen arrows)

FWIW, sword skill is 84%, spear 75% and bow meager 37%.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on January 13, 2021, 02:55:12 PM
This morning, I slipped and fell on the ice, bruised my knee, and broke my phone screen. This was after several minutes of wandering lost-ish in the cold.

Then my URW character fell out of a tree. Now she has to crawl through the snow, and she's woefully underdressed for the weather. Suddenly, my morning doesn't seem so bad.

Thankfully, I finished my cabin in time for winter, though I think I've angered the forest spirits with all my tree-chopping. I've seen almost no wildlife for months, besides a brief period of bird migration. My traps are empty. Food isn't a problem (I catch plenty of fish), but clothing... now that Dead month is here, my linen trousers, woolen undershirt, and birch-bark shoes and cap aren't nearly sufficient.

I wonder if it'd be worth using part of my shirt to make a pair of mittens (I have Rain's clothing mod). Though apparently I'm unable to do that while injured. Oh well. For now, I guess I'll hunker down, keep fishing, and sacrifice herbs daily hoping to appease the spirits.

EDIT: Trapped a squirrel just after posting this. Fancy that! Between that and the hare furs I recently bought, I can finally make myself some mittens!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: LoLotov on January 14, 2021, 12:22:46 PM
I just saw probably the weirdest thing I've ever seen in this game... I started a new guy on Not All Who Wander Are Lost, marked the location of my dead father as is my wont. Played through to about the beginning of my first winter, and am now on the Salt From the Coast objective. Went to hit up the old homestead on my way to Driik, but spotted a village nearby, and stopped to buy a dog to haul my trade goods. Dog acquired and leashed alongside my trusty draft pig, I decided to check out the rest of the town's goods. First house I checked that had anything had a bunch of food and yadda yadda, but also a pile in front of the fireplace of a bunch of mixed men's and women's clothes, some armor, TWELVE HUMAN BONES COMPRISING THREE INDIVIDUALS, AND FOUR MORE HUMAN BONES FROM FOUR INDIVIDUALS. There were also two of the dogs that had been for sale locked inside, and I know dogs eat bones now. Another house across the town had another person's set of bones in a similar set up, sans dogs. Anyone else seen anything like this..? Seems like some pretty good world generation to mark this town as also having been hit by whoever killed my papa and kidnapped my mama.

Thinking about it, there were like three villagers, but plenty of dogs and food... were they generated as having stolen this whole town by murdering the occupants? Much like myself all those times... is this the game's revenge? The dark mirror held up to my actions in this innocent world I've sought to corrupt through bloodshed and avarice? We'll never know.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 15, 2021, 07:28:05 AM
@LoLotov must be cannibals. Best to be safe and kill everyone, plunder the goods and burn it all down.  :-X
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on January 15, 2021, 01:45:30 PM
It's early Center month, and it should go without saying that the weather has gotten perilous. Thankfully, I have warm fur clothing now. Bear fur! Not a full set, but enough for green warmth everywhere but head/face and neck. Drying and stockpiling huge amounts of fish really paid off. (It also cost me some other items, including a couple things I was more reluctant to part with, but it was worth it.)

Still nothing in my traps, not even the heavy deadfall trap I set up by fresh elk tracks (which was awhile back, and there's no sign of the elk anymore), until I caught sight of a lynx on the other side of the fence while fishing. Sure enough, the next morning, it was caught in a trap. 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. (And winter furs are worth more, right?) I'm going to try and finally buy that silver bracelet from the nearby village so I can do the spirit of the forest quest, which has been on my quest list for three months now.

(EDIT: Seems I can't get the bracelet without giving up my hunting knife. Time to go do some bulk crafting, I guess.)

@LoLotov My goodness! I've never seen that before!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: rudy on January 15, 2021, 03:44:49 PM
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: rudy on January 15, 2021, 09:41:46 PM
My current RP is that my main, large home island is sacred, and foreign traders are not permitted to walk upon it.

Some of them disregard the warning.

(https://i.imgur.com/XA8VagC.png)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 15, 2021, 10:33:01 PM
How did the 2 end up plain 'dead'? Lured in to water and drowned?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: rudy on January 15, 2021, 10:35:31 PM
How did the 2 end up plain 'dead'? Lured in to water and drowned?

They're all dead primarily by arrow, so not sure. Perhaps arrow to the eye does not harm the corpse?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: rudy on January 16, 2021, 06:13:01 AM
It's astounding, and a bit silly, how many critical tools and bundles of necessary grains and meat a village will trade away for a battlesword likely none of them know how to use.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 16, 2021, 08:07:35 AM
I feel like I’m robbing the villages when I dump off the Njerpez scimitars I keep finding in the woods and mires.
So many furs. So many punts. So many axes and knives.
So many bags of grains and flour.

Funny enough, my new character is aiming to do 1) farming 2) home guard vs Njerpez 3) some trapping for feathers. Yet half the time doing trap line runs (it’s middle of Dead Month/November) I keep getting Red Invaders, not grouse. And even my traps on this character, seem to be getting as many hares as birds. Some bunnies keep running in the traps baited with berries.

Did a side tour to a cave about day’s walk from homestead, now that there’s light dusting of snow. (I’ll post about that in the morning with screen shots)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on January 16, 2021, 03:01:11 PM
Ran into robbers while travelling. Yikes! I tried to stealthily get away, but the robbers kept approaching, so I dropped everything I was carrying and tied my bull to the nearest tree, since as far as I know, robbers will only take things you're carrying. I also marked the location on the map so I could return for my stuff later.

One of the robbers spotted me before I could finish taking off my clothes and skis. He demanded I give up my coat, footwear, and skis. I picked up one of my knives and fought him for it... and lost. I waited several days before returning, and in the meantime made myself a new coat and footwear. (I was fortunate a herd of reindeer passed by my settlement. I trapped two of them.) I don't know how many days passed by exactly, but when I returned to the place where I was robbed and used tracking on the wilderness map, it said there were old human tracks. Old is good, right? So, I zoomed in. Sure enough, my stuff was still there, right where I'd left it.

And around the area were very fresh footprints I'd somehow missed when zoomed out. I couldn't zoom back out, so I dropped what little possessions I currently had and tried to take off my clothes too, lest I lose my brand-new fur coat. Unfortunately, one of the robbers shot at me before I could undress, and I was robbed of my coat and footwear again.

At least I know I can reclaim my things eventually. But these robbers are a pain.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 16, 2021, 05:00:14 PM
Form posse of some hunters, woodsmen, peasants, adventurers from nearby village (after wounds healed) and go see the robbers again.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on January 17, 2021, 03:26:25 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: krikkit war robot on January 17, 2021, 03:27:14 AM
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.)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 18, 2021, 08:48:38 AM
The robbers might despawn, might not. They’re not as “mobile” as Foreign Traders. Leaving the generic area of the world (several regions) is likely the best bet. But even then, sometimes a robber band might be still around several months later after going to remote cabin.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 19, 2021, 09:23:35 PM
Moment of silliness:
Eagle owl hits capercaillie

(Didn't have anything on me except sword, broad knife, waterskin and the recently killed bird to chuck at the capercaillie.. the spot was too good to go scrounge for sticks or rocks)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Turbo on January 23, 2021, 02:54:43 AM
Just caught 11 Burbots at once in the lake next to my home. I just finished my smoker that morning as well, so the spirits clearly want to see me use it
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 23, 2021, 04:05:52 AM
11 Burbots is an insane catch.
Never caught that many in URW.

Only time I’ve caught that much+ was last millennia. And spent about 7h on ice.
Smoked burbot has never been my favorite, much prefer lightly coated with rye flour and pan fried in butter.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: rudy on January 28, 2021, 10:55:32 PM
I finally finished the grand "Inn" for my elaborate trading post / outpost.

I think I may be playing the wrong game sometimes, but I haven't found a better one =D

(https://i.imgur.com/agOOlXu.png)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on January 29, 2021, 04:17:46 AM
No way. Exactly right game. Just need to put in a suggestion for ability to lodge some visitors. Stay a night, get a cut of elk with flatty (rye or barley, lakereed or bogbean if harvest was poor.)
Hire that chatty and energetic maiden from nearby village to run the “front desk” and that simple, yet courteous, tribesman to serve dinner and buzz the tables after.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: rudy on January 30, 2021, 05:15:46 AM
Well, the unthinkable has happened in my main settlement trading post...

I'm getting warnings on reaching the item limit! O.O
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on February 01, 2021, 06:50:37 AM
Have not hit any limit warnings or problems yet. Anticipating the problem, though, I dug a cellar on a one-square island in some rapids and moved a great deal of my most valuable tools, weapons, and furs there.

 Likewise, At a day's distance is my first settlement with a split of my possessions, the rest being at a large, fenced-in fishing camp on an island that is approachable through rapids at 5 different points when winter freezes over.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: rudy on February 01, 2021, 04:30:23 PM
It is actually quite difficult to reach the item limit. I'm a *ridiculous* hoarder, and I'm trying to build a village (a creepy ghost village with no one living there, granted...)

I solved the issue by moving my main hoarding building about twenty spaces west, which put it in the next square, and moving some of my many fields north, also to the next (different from the first) square.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: paulkorotoon on February 05, 2021, 04:33:53 PM
I finally finished the grand "Inn" for my elaborate trading post / outpost.

Wow, looks great!

I'm trying to build a village (a creepy ghost village with no one living there, granted...)

Pal, you've really got a spirit. I'm recalling how long it has taken to build just a single big house for my character, and I feel proud of you.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: paulkorotoon on February 11, 2021, 01:09:56 PM
So, after a pretty long pause I started a new Owl-tribe huntress character (like usual, hehe). Found a nice place to live for a month or two in order to gather meat and furs and stuff supply before starting to wander around the world. A couple weeks later spotted wolf tracks nearby, set a trap. The next day a wolf got into it, and I hurried to kill it. But I forgot about an important fact... a wolf is never alone.

Spoiler: Screenshot • show
(https://images2.imgbox.com/58/45/Z1afxPmz_o.png)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: paulkorotoon on February 11, 2021, 01:15:50 PM
Another try. No food, no luck, 15% starved. Felt so desperate that killed and butchered an innocent adventurer.

Spoiler: MMMM TASTY • show
(https://images2.imgbox.com/9e/03/ee4scJPq_o.png)

That was so good... But spirits punished Fjari with madness for her misdeed, and a couple days later she killed herself.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on February 16, 2021, 09:41:20 PM
Patrolling the woods for invaders, keep finding the warriors on decent frequency.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on February 16, 2021, 09:43:37 PM
"He used to be a warrior, then he took an arrow to the knee".. or neck.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on February 16, 2021, 09:45:10 PM
Must be doing something right, as the Old Man has never been this generous to any of the ancestors.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on February 23, 2021, 07:18:13 PM
Contrariwise, I recently sought out the Forest spirit again with my oldest character and, though I was told he was happy he told me that the trails would not open to me anymore and there would be no game. I think that's his way of saying 'Don't get greedy!'.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on February 23, 2021, 07:31:56 PM
3 Njerp vs me and five dogs. Lost two dogs, two superior arrows and I took an ax to the eye. These Njerp groups have certainly made the Unreal World seem more precarious. They all had bastard swords so I can replace the dogs without cost, but, it's going to require some travel.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: mikestanley464 on March 07, 2021, 07:03:06 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on March 07, 2021, 10:00:50 PM
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.

If you set 4-5 sites with 3-4 Light lever traps each (can always also add paw board (fat or cut)and loop snare (turnip)at each site) baited with berries; you should have hundreds if not thousands of feathers every year.

Carpentry is sooo slow to improve, I boost it on character creation, just to avoid the tedious skill grind. 60s gives Fine with good success, 70s can give superior arrows even with decent cord and Fine knife.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Oli on March 22, 2021, 07:57:43 AM
I've been trying winter starts with the Hurt, Helpless and Afraid scenario and, after a few characters froze to death and one got boar'd, I've managed to get a character past the worst of winter. I started out far enough south that I was able to make a stone axe and a shovel before the ground was too frozen to dig. Trading my knife for a fishing rod kept me fed which I waited for my injuries to heal, and the stone knife works well enough for now. Recently my pit traps paid off and have bagged me a forest reindeer and a small elk which means I'm warm enough to step away from the fire and I've used to extra elk cuts to trade for a woodsman's axe. It was an important trade as the stone axe wouldn't cut it when it came to splitting boards to make skis. Just before I logged off I found the shelter of a wounded adventurer complete with the bear he warned me about and a bonus lynx prowling around, so hopefully the hastily assembled bear deadfall trap will pay off...
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tom H on March 29, 2021, 05:43:15 PM
One of my characters is nearly 19 and just found his first Masterwork Broadknife- in fact, he found TWO of them. Traveling from Kuikka lands down to Reemi lands, the only area he'd never been to, was very rewarding. His previous excursions were so exhausting that he'd just never gotten so far to the southeast.

Carrying a dozen furs, a handful of weapons, and 50 arrows for barter (and as it turned out, his Fine Northern knife and a linen shirt), he managed to trade for, at Masterwork quality, a broadaxe, a carving ax, the two broad knives, a small knife, and a shield. He also traded for a big boar (it just seemed like a must-buy!), a big dog, and a BIG BULL! In addition to the foot wrappings, for the coming cold, he bartered for enough dried and smoked fish and meat along the way to complete his trek. He'd found 37 Reemi villages and there was still a bit of their lands left to explore!

In the end, he returned home a week before winter with only 3 furs and none of the trade weapons left. His barn is looking pretty crowded with 5 dogs, 2 cattle, a deer, and a boar. All in all, the most successful trade trek I can recall.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Kels on March 29, 2021, 11:45:20 PM
My main character is settled in for the winter. He has a trap line that takes much of the daylight hours to run. It typically will yield a few predator furs per week. The rest of the time is spent tanning the fur and other basic crafting.

My second character is quite a bit more adventurous. His family homestead was burned in the "not all who wander are lost" scenario and is waging war on Njerp camps. He managed to wipe out a camp several days ago and is now focused on building a cabin and preparing for further raids. Once he has enough resources, he will take the fight to the larger towns.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Jephraim on April 04, 2021, 06:47:56 PM
I'm an expert at spears and so my hunting is always with javelins. I decided to practice my bow and arrow... it was real bad. I stood 5 tiles away from a trapped bird and couldn't hit it. :-[
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: immortalartisan112 on April 26, 2021, 07:34:03 AM
im currently at 99 percent grandmaster in stealth and still i get fucked over by robbers and lost my long bow and spears. at the very least im so good that despite being extremely injured (70%). i think im going to go back to my olf hunting ground and just sit in my shelter waiting for bird to javalin
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Ara D. on April 30, 2021, 01:35:58 AM
Popped up on a mountain top to look around 2 elk a njerp and one bear. Spoiled for choice. As it's a new character I'll go for red shirt, I need an axe.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: immortalartisan112 on April 30, 2021, 06:32:56 AM
during a trading trip while i was a huge weight pentalty i finally fucking killed some robbers take that you fuckers thats for my long bow!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: immortalartisan112 on April 30, 2021, 07:41:28 AM
and 20 mintues later on a hunting trip after i obtained a stack of broad head arrows as well as a master work long bow i still get fucked over by robbers... why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why. i dont want to deal with robbers anymore their just annoying at this point. im a fucking grand master in bows too my fucking god i hate this!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Ara D. on April 30, 2021, 06:23:38 PM
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
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: immortalartisan112 on May 01, 2021, 12:07:56 AM
i did that if only i knew where that was.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: immortalartisan112 on May 01, 2021, 01:16:00 AM
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

i did this came back and almost all of my gear was gone seems they patched it out
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on May 01, 2021, 02:31:28 AM
Drop your stuff on Wilderness map, mark it under F6. Go greet “adventurer” type.

Robbers will pick up goods on Zoom in view.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: immortalartisan112 on May 01, 2021, 04:21:09 AM
that doesnt work in this situation because it wont allow you to zoom out
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Anthony Fruend on May 25, 2021, 06:04:37 AM
https://ibb.co/tmLj8FL
Right now I'm creating a third cabin, this one on the ocean coast on the coast, and have my main 6x5 cabin way inland, with waystation along the way.

Once it all thaws I'm going to find more places to trade via punt.
https://ibb.co/mJg70DF

Happy Gaming!
AF

To any interested, this is my home base. It has stacked appliances in the NW corner, as described in the happenings :D

https://ibb.co/frzccNt
Each cellar door has a corresponding Inside door, dual/triple cellars so much easier to sort out and organize.

And yes, my pet pig, he makes the bacon, foxes are notorious pork eaters :D

I even have an unfinished 'Clay Pit' acting as a land fill for my leaky-ware pottery:D



And just now got in trouble, had to stop at a waystation as mentioned above
https://ibb.co/6YMF1zw


If I could 'add' 4 wheels I could name it 4Door_Autohaus
https://ibb.co/3d02n2g

I'm playing on a omgwaytooeasy setting, it's because I'm so old and want to experience as much as possible before I die:D
https://ibb.co/12w0fSD

Cheers

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: ineedcords on June 23, 2021, 08:49:49 PM
Same whisper every night: "If You Hoard & Build it, They Will Come".

Finally decided to go with it; hoarded all lynx fur I could find & afford, and built a central cabin. They are coming all right! Need more lynx fur, fast.
(https://i.imgur.com/k4GxK0u.png)



Edit: typo
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Vitowns on July 12, 2021, 10:26:57 AM
I never thought grabbing skillpoints for knife would save my life against a bear and her cub... I mutilated both of them without being hit ((Thx god)) using a broad knife....I feel like chuck norris
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: ineedcords on September 18, 2021, 01:07:45 AM
A blessed hunting session
As a newish character, having just killed an elk & traded some of the roasted meat for preserved ones and the rest for a fishing net, I am content...

I leave the village and find a forest reindeer herd, I aim for the biggest one, both javelins hit making this a very easy kill shortly after. Carcass processing begins...

Then a glutton shows up, attacks another reindeer just half-screen away, hurts it, knocks it unconscious - it is hurting and naturally my heart bleeds. I approach & put it out of its misery, move the new reindeer carcass next to the old one and skin/meat processing resumes...

Then I get interrupted by a lynx, clearly after some food but every time it gets close enough to spot me it just runs away - I ignore it & keep processing the carcasses...

In this very busy part of the forest, next visitor is a calf which clearly misses the two former members of the group and wants to join them. Poor thing, lacking the ability to speak, communicates its intention by standing literally next to me and who am I to say no? A kick later, it joins them happily having its wish granted...

Processing of the two and a half carcasses resume and I keep an eye for the next visitor, surprising nobody else showed up. Now I have a long way ahead to roast the 297 forest reindeer cuts, preserve skins, trade roasted meat before it spoils and so on.

When I am at the nearest village, I will leave a 5 star review for this hunting spot!


---
Edit: Here is the link to the video for the hunt (with a time jump to the relevant moment):   https://youtu.be/eSW8fpbzNh0?t=454
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: MigrantWorker on September 21, 2021, 11:37:58 AM
Abi is struggling quite badly.

He started Hurt, Helpless And Afraid at the beginning of summer, some two in-game months ago now. He found himself perhaps a day's walk to the west of Reemi with his right arm torn to shreds. He crafted himself a fishing rod, which caught a grand total of two roaches (which were promptly used for bait and lost). He had better lack with trapping, catching a small animal perhaps every 3 or 4 days. He kept going on sheer willpower and crowberries. Eventually the hunger became too much and he ate some wavy grass leaves, which turned out to be wolf pipe; he did not fully recover from the poisoning yet.

Abi's misfortunes are partly my own fault though. For this game I decided to stay in the zoomed in map all the time, except if I walk above the tree line. I can only zoom out when I'm standing on mountains, hills, lichenous pine forest, or cliffs. So the usual strategy of spotting big game from a distance was out of the question, and building a trap fence with only a wooden shovel and a stone axe takes absolute ages. Needless to say, I did not do any trade yet; in fact I have so few tradable goods that I did not even bother searching for villages yet. I specifically wanted to play a forager character, and well, I got exactly what I said I wanted...

But the best thing is this: as you can see in the screenshot, Abi's misery is finally about to end!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on September 26, 2021, 05:37:40 PM
Just finished my cabin, and while proudly admiring it I noticed for the first time the address:

Appopera, or "Gapingrear".

 :(
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on September 26, 2021, 08:19:04 PM
Just finished my cabin, and while proudly admiring it I noticed for the first time the address:

Appopera, or "Gapingrear".

 :(
:o

Hopefully that’ll scare robbers from approaching...
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on September 26, 2021, 08:43:22 PM
You completely ruined my weekend telling me robbers might still steal my stash!

Now I am considering whether to wall it up or hide it on some rocky outcrop in the river  8)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on September 27, 2021, 09:53:03 PM
Skerry, or rock in water, in rapids or sea tile is safe for storing almost anything. Ravens can still nibble foodstuffs.
Regular rivers and lakes do freeze.. then anyone/thing could walk right to your stash.

But having duplicates (tools, weapons, armor&clothes) at various alternative locations is good option.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on September 29, 2021, 03:27:14 PM
I'm living as a hermit on the north coast so the only tools I have are those looted from murder victims who got too close to my cabin - Seven handaxes and knives and a woodsman's axe where I got lucky one time!  It's all the fine winter furs that I am paranoid someone will steal.  I will put them on a skerry in an unfrozen sea tile.

I am in the habit of setting a light lever trap over my cellar whenever I go hunting, and one time I came home to find a small fox who's greed had overcome his caution trapped in it  8)



 
Title: A good day not to die
Post by: Tinker on December 13, 2021, 04:08:13 PM
I have been busy since midsummer getting logs and boards ready for my new cabin, in fact two walls were partly built. The net I had was providing a steady supply of fish and the traps around my camp were supplying several ducks and other birds a week. But this cabin building was getting boring.

I remembered a large patch of vegetables a cereals I had found a couple of kilometres away, just growing in no mans land, some must be ripe for harvest now and it would be less tiring work. I decided to take a couple days break and fill the cellar with vegetables. I stored my tools in a shelter and headed north with a couple of days food. The plants were full of food but would not be ripe for 2 days so I decide to explore further north. About 10 Km north I started to find villages.

The first one had some good quality tools for barter, a pity I was travelling light. I also found there was a cave a short distance north west, they are always worth checking and on the way there I passed through another village, also lots of interesting items and an injured adventurer.

I have never had any success looking for shelters left by these guys but had a chat with him anyway, it turned out his shelter was fairly close to the cave position so I could check out the two together, his description was one of the better ones I have seen, in heathland south of a river, even I could find a river. I set out straight away and soon spotted a river in the search area and I pressed on to the bank of the river full of hope. It was here I found a problem.

There was no heathland south of the river, but there was north of the river. At this point I realised that the descriptions given lose something in translation and I was always looking on the wrong side of the tiles that shelters were in. I still think the words said heathland south of a river but they actually mean a river south of heathland. I crossed the river to check and almost immediately spotted a bloodscape, moving towards it I spotted another one deeper into trees. At this point I realised I had always understood the description that said on the edge of actually meant in the centre of as that was about where I was standing. I could not see any more bloodscapes or a shelter, but just north of a big clump of trees there was something odd so I went to investigate, it was a mug.

I assumed this might be part of the adventurers loot but there was nothing more to see. I stepped south and was hidden by the tree south of me and I was standing on his missing spear, no sign of a shelter. By luck I found a narrow path through the clump of trees SW, SW,NW where I found a fishing knife, apart from going back the only way I could go was west and I was in the shelter which I still could not see. I collected everything, a paw board trap, some cord and a couple of days food. The next problem I thought might be the bear, but it seems the bear could not find the shelter either, I just exited to the overland map and moved away.

With a lighter step I started back to the village but was going to check the cave on the way, it was about 400m south, the surrounding area was pleasant, 20m from the cave entrance was a piece of heathland, plenty of building materials and firewood and the next square was a lake, this was looking good. I explored the cave, it was quite big on a couple of levels, this would be a good place to live but I got a surprise  in the back corner, a Nerpez warrior.

He must have been as surprised as me, I was wielding my fine spear and thrust it at his body, I missed his body but gave him a serious wound in his left thigh. At that point he seemed to wake up he drew his scimitar and made a clumsy swing at me giving a small bruise on the hip and dropping his weapon, I thrust my spear at his body again and missed his body but gave him another serious wound in the right leg and caught a major blood vessel. He attempted to pick up his scimitar and hit me with it while lying on the floor bleeding, he missed totally. My third attempt to poke is body with my spear also missed the target but I did hit him in the neck and the last of his blood ran out of the puncture.

There was a good selection of loot, a fine hunting bow with fine arrows and 2 broad arrows, a fine hunting knife and fine boots. Other useful items were a fur overcoat, as I had not yet got any winter clothing, food is always handy and I was in two minds with regard to the scimitar. Trade items were most of his clothes and armour, he had iron kneecops, a habergeon and lamellar rerebraces, I judged the armour to be trade items as they were heavy and did nothing to protect him.

I could just about carry everything but lightened the load slightly by having a good meal and I treated the bruise even though it would probably heal itself the next day, my physician skill was low. I returned the spear to the adventurer who gave me some sword training, I traded most of the heavy stuff and got myself some fine tools. I traded the rest of my surplus in the next village just before dusk, it had been a good day so I slept in a spare cabin dreaming of the next good day when I would start upgrading from fine to masterwork tools and weapons.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on June 09, 2022, 03:54:06 PM
I have set up home on a peninsula in the farthest reaches of the north east.  Spent a couple of weeks making a trap fence across the neck of the peninsula, to hopefully catch anything trying to get in or out.   Whilst revelling in a job well done, the fence claimed its first victim - me.  I fell in a pit and broke my leg, meaning I spent the next week crawling painfully about. 

When healed I set out to trade for a bag of salt from the coast.  I loaded up a raft and spent an epic month at sea, whimpering pitifully as the rain never stopped and I could hardly get an hour of sleep at a time.

I traded for a cow and walked all the way home.  Nothing is getting me back on a bloody raft!

Update:

My successes continue:

I walked a week to a river rapids for the "salmon and trout" part of the advanced game course, then found I had forgotten my fishing rod.  Had to walk a week back to get it, then a week back to go fishing.  I love how accurately this game simulates alcohol use!

Onto the "warfare" part of the course, and another week of footslogging into Njerp territory.  Scouting them out, I got frostbite in my foot and so another week to get back home and heal up.  I am going to be quite annoyed by the time I finally get back to Njerp lands again.

Yep, I arrived back in Njerp lands in an absolutely foul temper.  I scouted the villages, and saw they were filled with women and children - as well as a concerning number of warriors - and backed off for a rethink.  Thinking hard, I beheld a purple spot on the map screen, a camp! 

I approached it with my four dogs, and made a poorly planned and even more poorly executed attack.  I pinked a couple with my bow, then my dogs were blocking my shots.  The dogs dropped one warrior then got minced by the other six.  I beat a retreat, bestowing arrows into Njerp knees as I went.  When my arrows ran out I hid behind a bank and readied my battleaxe.  They came over the rise one by one, wounded and knackered, and I sent each to his maker. 

I was planning to use my dogs to help me haul my loot, but well...    So I had to walk fully loaded five days home, then all the way back again for the loot I couldn't carry in the first run.  Going to enjoy some well earned rest with my feet up for a while, I think! 

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on June 17, 2022, 11:35:32 PM
Obligatory healing after clearing camp #3.
It's always nice to see their last archer shoot their 2nd last warrior in the back to have him wheel around and beat each other up.

1st camp was 6, 2nd camp was 7 warriors. 3rd had 9.
As always, hauled the corpses to a pyre. Felling trees will be slower for a while, took a scimitar on the right shoulder.

Game complains to stop excessive hoarding, but I need to bring clothes to my neighbors' kids. They're running in the snow in trousers and nothing else.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on July 22, 2022, 10:31:58 PM
Finished building sauna at homestead. Next summer, after planting: either a barn or remote hunting cabin to complement the three locations with kotas.
Cleared Njerpez camp #4. 2 small Kota. Only yield 16 ragged reindeer hides for another 4x4 
3 Log buildings. Might take them down and rebuild to my own. Other camps have their cabins up. (Checking if camps stop spawning, so far looks like no effect. 5 spawned camps, 4 cleared and standing)

On homeward journey, traded most of the loot for winter lynx, -Arctic fox, -wolf and -beaver hides. And another dog and a big one too.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bakkat on November 28, 2022, 04:09:55 AM
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!
Those lake ones come to save the whole season forward on
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on December 18, 2022, 06:50:05 PM
Karma in the Unreal World:

A bug duplicated my masterwork battleaxe.  I neglected to make a bug report as I had no idea how or when it had happened.

I just walked drunkenly into the water and dropped my stuff.  My masterwork battleaxe, gone forever due to a typo and a moment's inattention.  But karma had already given me a spare  8)

In another example of you reap what you sow:

I planted 8 peas a few months ago.  I have just harvested 8 peas  :-[
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on December 26, 2022, 11:57:04 PM
I just raised an army of seven brave men and three dogs, and went to attack a Njerp camp.  Four sides of the camp were coniferous forest or thicket, so I decided on an assault from the heathland to the south.  Being lazy I went right up on the overland map then zoomed on an adjacent tile, then the bloody dogs started barking.  I had forgotten to feed them.

Surprise lost, ten Njerps came streaming through the trees at us.  My little army was bow heavy, as I had intended to sneak up and take them on in the open area of their camp.  The trees were riddled with arrows, and even a Njerp or two took some hits.  I was impressed with the new AI for bowmen, I didn't see any friendly fire from either my lads or the Njerps.  Mind, things were a little hectic to check so it might have happened.

I loosed off a few broadheads, dropping one Njerp and wounding another.  It was all too confused now, so I drew my battleaxe and launched into the fray.  I chopped one guy's arm off at the elbow then finished him, but one of his mates had got behind and absolutely ganked me with a spear in my back.  The lights went out; and when I came to some moments later I realised he had speared me in the throat while I was down, and I was bleeding out fast.  I let the dogs loose and managed to stop the bleeding as the fighting roared around me. 

I staggered up again and rallied the troops, finishing the last few Njerps.  I have named the camp Ilmari-Tommi, in honour of the two fine warriors who fell in its taking.  We built a fine pyre and cremated their remains.  The Njerps we shall leave for the crows.  My wounds are too grave to continue the campaign, I have dismissed the surviving men as I must return home to heal.  Let the Njerps know - I will return!   
Title: s
Post by: Melchizedek on December 31, 2022, 09:26:18 PM
What's happening in my Unreal World?

Well, a curious social phenomenon has taken over local communities: a massive amount of sixteen-year-olds are trading their places in villages, farms and coastal settlements for a life in the wilds.

They seem to be driven by what's described as "a sudden call for adventure". The majority of these young hermits fails to survive the winter, unfortunately.

Sages are aghast.

Seriously, though, I just started playing, and I also just found these forums. Nice to meet everyone.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on January 01, 2023, 04:41:34 PM
Welcome to the forum!  The chat's racy but never oversteps the mark.

I did enjoy how with your first post you tried to change the name of one of the oldest and most revered threads on the board  ;D

Keep us updated as to how your adolescent hermits get on in the Unreal World.  We especially like hearing about fails  :)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Melchizedek on January 02, 2023, 09:55:53 PM
Ow, sorry about that! I skept a beat and changed it unwillingly, hehe.
I'll make sure to honor the thread next time, while coming up with something a bit more spectacular (hopefully). 

Thanks!
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Felius on April 15, 2023, 10:08:19 AM
Currently, I'm, having a lot of trouble with a very first world problem: Been trying to finish my log cabin, but animals keep falling on my traps one after another. I have about half a dozen trap pits near-ish my intended home (in spots where I previously found an animal or tracks, instead of trying to hunt them down, put down a trap pit in some bottleneck. Occasionally bait with a meat cut or turnip to make it faster).

And now I can't find the time to actually do any logging and building, because of how many animals keep falling on the traps, sometimes multiple in a single week even. Currently I'm in the process of tanning a wolf fur, waiting on around some 700 elk cuts drying (just moved around the same number to the cellar too), and have two more live bull elks stuck on traps whom I'm letting be so I can keep up with it.

Thankfully I have enough clothing and firewood, because it's midwinter too, so when the day goes colder than usual, it really goes cold. But yeah, first world problems moment, really.  :P
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on April 17, 2023, 07:49:55 PM
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!

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!

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Bert Preast on April 19, 2023, 02:07:32 AM
Assaulting what I hope is the last Njerp camp now...  Some of them seem to have sensed that this is their last hurrah, and by God they are going to die hard:

https://ibb.co/nsyC9Qd

(https://ibb.co/nsyC9Qd)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Brygun on April 27, 2023, 06:20:23 PM
Decided yesterday to start into a unreal character blog again

https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=6953.0

He managed his first 2 weeks and helped an adventurer get his axe back by NOT fighting a bear.

Now he is thinking of going back there to build a bear trap.  :P

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Kouvostoliitto on July 13, 2023, 10:34:31 PM
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!

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!
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on August 25, 2023, 12:44:21 AM
Saw a badger shaped figure on small lake next to me on a way to cabin from trap lines.
Boy was I surprised to see dead badger and a squirrel running away once I took a look around...  :o

Spoiler: show
It was a rotting badger carcass and the squirrel just happened to be milling around!  ;D
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on August 29, 2023, 04:20:06 AM
Tracking elk from early morning, across spruce mires, frozen lakes, heathland, more spruce mires... To finally find the elk bull. Trapped in the bear trap 1 tile from the cabin. At least it's easy hauling for drying the meat!  ::)
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Pengu on August 31, 2023, 11:30:33 AM
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.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on August 31, 2023, 04:37:37 PM
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?
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Pengu on August 31, 2023, 04:52:45 PM
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?


Empty leashes. I can use them to leash another animal, but can't drop them ("its still in use")

I have a theory that the ZOOM files are involved somehow. One of the consequences of not following exactly the steps of exploiting the overworld files to refresh a village's stock includes missing animals. More specifically, if you delete the files while zoomed in, the game will remake them but will omit your animals. Restoring the original files will make the animals reappear.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on August 31, 2023, 07:06:41 PM
Can you please report the bug. Mention version you’re running, and the above. Sami likely wants to squish this bug.

Here’s thread of previous occurrence (https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=5303.0)

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Javelineer on October 13, 2023, 04:20:57 AM
Just die for the first time. See a Goldeneye floating on a lake while fishing, threw 5 javelins at it, all missed. Decided to swim out there and stab it to dead with my knife, success but can't pick it up. Get drowned while retrieving my javelins
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: JP_Finn on October 13, 2023, 04:54:46 AM
That’s rough.
Incase you don’t know: swimming skill is your maximum fatigue before drowning.
If you have 0 skill, the game lets you practice to 4 fatigue. If swimming nude, carrying nothing. Not hurt.
If you have encumbrance, the fatigue grows logarithmic.

Picking up those javelins likely pushed your total close or over you swimming skill.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Kivikallo on October 21, 2023, 06:42:19 PM
I have made a terrible mistake.

I've had a 23lbs elk fur in my inventory for a while now, incase I run into any foreign traders. I also keep with me a few pieces of leather from various birds I've killed to trade to nearby villages.

Today I went to trade some of those cheap skins for some meat because I was starving after only eating rye bread, turnips and nettle leaves all winter. I traded for 4 cuts of hare meat and when I paid for them, I accidentally used the 23lbs elk fur instead of the cheap leather. I've traded 23lbs of good quality fur for a two day meal.

I am in shambles.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Sotimieli on November 18, 2023, 08:15:41 PM
Before my second summer I decided to befriend an old forester man living alone between lands of driik and reemi. His name was Matti. I begun hunting on the heathlands around his settlement, bringing meats from my kills to smoke in his cabin. I gave half the meat to him in return for letting me use his cottage.

However, come fall I was preparing to return back to my own settlement before lakes begun freezing, and for some reason picked some dog pipes and such from his yard. This angered matti, and furious he attacked me while I was tanning an elk hide. Unfortunately for Matti, my six dogs tore him to death.

I gave Matti a decent burning burial and kept preparing my journey back home. One day wandering around I ran into a lost hunter whom I escorted to the settlement that I considered mine now. He settled there.

Now I have a settlement in the east and a hunting cabin hafl way to the west with a helping hand taking care of it while I'm away. I'm sorry for poor old Matti, but it seems things turned quite fine for me.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Sotimieli on November 18, 2023, 08:22:06 PM
After the incident and me inheriting Matti's settlement, I wet back home and found a njerp war camp to the north of my homestead. I gathered a group of brave men from a few villages and killed every single one of the njerp in the camp, piled up the corpses in a cabin and set it aflame. Two of my men fell in battle. I took the burden of taking their vbodies back to their home village for their own to see them to their final rest.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Senthe on November 25, 2023, 08:35:14 PM
It's finally winter, so me and my best friends - small ram Lehti and big reindeer stag Oksa - are currently going north to hunt for the juiciest winter reindeer furs out there, deep in the Owl-tribe lands. Who knows, maybe we'll get all the way West to the Seal-tribe, I haven't ever seen them so far. My biggest disappointment right now is the fact that I found ZERO master blacksmiths in ALL of the Kaumolais villages in existence and so I can't get the Super Spear that I'm most skilled at - but maybe I'll be able to trade for it, somewhere, sometime, we will see...

And my first character I left alone for now because it felt like I don't know how to explore more of the game with him. He's a settler/farmer from Reemi and usually doesn't travel far at all, he lives off bird traps and local plants. Sometimes he catches a lynx or a fox if they appear nearby. I rolled him 100% randomly before I even knew how character creation works, so the dude is bad at everything, other than being stupid lucky lol. Somehow he still managed to get super rich in furs etc because he got three different treasures from quests. He has a masterwork mail habergon now, and all the leather armor he could dream of, so does that help him in fights with Njerpez? No. Not really. I reloaded a fight with their camp many times, turns out that either I suck at this game very much, or maybe fighting 5 different people at once and solo wasn't actually a smart idea. I travelled West and got a dog, but that didn't help either, now I just don't want my new pet dog to ever get hurt. : D
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Cethegus on December 01, 2023, 01:05:07 AM
Well, I was away from this game and Modding it for nine years.. Will give a detailed description of what's Goin on when I caught up🍹
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Brygun on December 06, 2023, 04:31:55 AM
Now that Im updating BAC I need a non-story test character...

apparently...

he comes form the land of morons.

>>>>

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Pet94er on December 15, 2023, 08:41:38 AM
It's not common to draw a character and get a Kaumo with full speed, also best draws with maximum speed, it hasn't happened to me yet. But I admit that I usually spend up to an hour looking for best. In total, summing up all the drawings, it took me maybe even 10 hours, a few days ago I drew about 3 hours because the creator's character does not support the new version, and only later I found out that it is possible to do it differently with hex editing what I did.

Screen nr1 showing dense urban like area, would you settle in this forest in the middle?
Nr2 A cave right next to the village,
Nr3 6 deers fully enclosed by fence with no space empty, animal right defenders already informed!


https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/urwforum/additional-custom-character-portraits-t8343.html
here you can learn how to change only your character picture, if you want change starting skills you can find info here
https://www.unrealworld.fi/wiki/index.php?title=Exploits
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Pet94er on December 15, 2023, 09:11:52 AM
Nr4
Here is Taika on a trip who managed to find the twins' village, look at people in the cabin: 2 children, 2 woodsman and 2 women standing next to each other in the same directions, only the two men in yellow clothes in the right corner are not the same age, but how common is this supposed to happen?

And there is my second character and something finally goings on:
NR5
Maiden ask me for help, I don't remember if I refuse or I was still not prepered, but she menaged to travel alone. It was middle of the dark night, I was tired but was trying to save her as I know there was njerpz near the village. All my dark dreams come true very fast, I was chasing her when... here is screen
NR6
I wasn't even on time to get into combat, when 2 dogs finished fight after I crossed few tiles.
NR7 and NR8

I got buackup file I reloaded before she ask me for help. She didn't ask why we traveling in opposite direcion and thats how I kidnepped her and close in my cabin after removing door and placeing wall instead. NR9
She escaped anyway, this was small island but she wsa nowhere. So I reload backup file second time and did this mission.

Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Pet94er on December 15, 2023, 09:24:43 AM
Here are some fine places I saw in the game:
Bridge on river, yes it was a river and redhead is standing on natural bridge.
Bear drowned in the pond.

You see this small lake?
There was island on island, the problem is there is no way to got on it when ice is too week to hold but raft still can not pass.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Anna on December 24, 2023, 01:24:53 AM
My world is pretty quiet. I started in an isolated corner of my home culture. Just two villages nearby. I am focusing on farming and crafting. Started with the Agriculture start. I planted a ton of crops and now am spending my time trading/crafting and training up my skills. After using the trading board/loop exploit I have all the tools I need plus a few extra trading items. Even before I harvested my crops I have "made it".
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Kouvostoliitto on December 29, 2023, 11:42:12 AM
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.

I encountered a Vagabond hunter in the forest. The man was probably hunting a bird, because - i decided to continue my journey when suddenly I noticed a bird that took off. It had probably been the target of a hunter, because in his anger he attacked me from behind and struck me dead with an axe. =L
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Tsambo on January 04, 2024, 01:04:47 PM
Decided to be real smart about it and place my mini trap fence in a sweet narrow place across the lake. That way i would have easy access to the real wilderness with the punt without needing to walk for kilometers each way. Didn't think winter is around the corner. As soon as i finished my little fence, ice sets in  :-\
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: Harjus on January 23, 2024, 09:22:59 PM
Bled to death.

Treated a wound like I have been doing for the past week or so. This time the RNG gods decided that the wound starts to bleed after treating. Did not notice the warning text and started to tan a hide. Died in an instant.
Title: Re: What's Going On In Your Unreal World?
Post by: McKwack on February 17, 2024, 12:04:31 AM
I don't remember much about the details.. something about being exhausted after finishing another section of my island home and tanning that squirrel hide I happened to chance on my way to my shelter..

All I know is that, when I reached my shelter, I came literally face to face with an unsuspecting elk..  :o

(https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2542914689635963768/E13F97F141A6F277C2E2E7F31252C2A9D3C4FC6D/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false)

Neither one of us were prepared for the encounter.. save scumming hilarities ensued.. with me too tired to try hunting the elk and only have my club readied, I had no choice but to let the elk go..   :-\

Might be it will fall to one of my pit trap later..