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General Discussion / help with hunting and trapping
« on: November 26, 2021, 11:10:53 PM »
I need serious help with hunting and trapping. I've read the trapping guide and various posts on these forums and reddit regarding active/persistence hunting, but I cannot keep myself from starving. I've created about 5 characters and all except one has died to starvation.
I'm trying to build my character specifically for this: very easy custom with high endurance, speed, spear, tracking, trapping.
How many lever traps should I be placing and how close? In one game, I probably placed about 50 of these on various water coasts and across land restricted on both sides by water. I was usually placing them in a rough line 3-4 tiles apart. I can't bait them though, because i did not get enough food to even feed myself. On a good stretch, I would get one bird every 2 days, but eventually the traps seem to stop producing food. Is there a good way to figure out where to place these? The trapping guide seems to suggest that this should bring in lots of ducks, but I cannot find much success.
I tried active/persistence hunting, but I rarely even find big animals to try to track/hunt. In my most recent game, I wandered around for 2 days and found nothing. I try to get on top of high ground to look in all directions. Occasionally I do see an animal on the zoomed out map, but entering the animal's tile does not trigger an encounter, and using tracking doesn't result in finding any tracks. So I move around a bit but then the animal seems to just disappear.
My only two almost successes:
* I encountered an elk, but could not chase it/fatigue it to kill it. I think I chased its tracks for a full day before my character just dropped to sleep. I don't think I was carrying too much, but I could not even catch up with it to see it. I was running/walking trying to keep myself from getting too fatigued.
* I encountered wolves. I was so desperate to try and get something that I tried to get one. I had javelins and threw and hit one and followed it until it fell down. I was able to eventually bash its skull in (after like 10 attacks on the unconscious dog -- killing blow shots need some serious buffs in this game) I then got killed by the other wolves.
Any advice would be great, as I started playing again after like several years off, but I don't see myself sticking with the game much longer if I can never catch food. My longest game was the wolf death game where I had traded boards for food, which seems to be my only real success acquiring food, but that's not really fun.
I'm trying to build my character specifically for this: very easy custom with high endurance, speed, spear, tracking, trapping.
How many lever traps should I be placing and how close? In one game, I probably placed about 50 of these on various water coasts and across land restricted on both sides by water. I was usually placing them in a rough line 3-4 tiles apart. I can't bait them though, because i did not get enough food to even feed myself. On a good stretch, I would get one bird every 2 days, but eventually the traps seem to stop producing food. Is there a good way to figure out where to place these? The trapping guide seems to suggest that this should bring in lots of ducks, but I cannot find much success.
I tried active/persistence hunting, but I rarely even find big animals to try to track/hunt. In my most recent game, I wandered around for 2 days and found nothing. I try to get on top of high ground to look in all directions. Occasionally I do see an animal on the zoomed out map, but entering the animal's tile does not trigger an encounter, and using tracking doesn't result in finding any tracks. So I move around a bit but then the animal seems to just disappear.
My only two almost successes:
* I encountered an elk, but could not chase it/fatigue it to kill it. I think I chased its tracks for a full day before my character just dropped to sleep. I don't think I was carrying too much, but I could not even catch up with it to see it. I was running/walking trying to keep myself from getting too fatigued.
* I encountered wolves. I was so desperate to try and get something that I tried to get one. I had javelins and threw and hit one and followed it until it fell down. I was able to eventually bash its skull in (after like 10 attacks on the unconscious dog -- killing blow shots need some serious buffs in this game) I then got killed by the other wolves.
Any advice would be great, as I started playing again after like several years off, but I don't see myself sticking with the game much longer if I can never catch food. My longest game was the wolf death game where I had traded boards for food, which seems to be my only real success acquiring food, but that's not really fun.