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Re: Poems of the Fallen Njerpez fallen

He was a starving redshirt,
oh, a Njerpez do I mean
Hanging 'round my island's outskirts
Unaware that he'd been seen

So I took my fine broadhead
and my longbow in my hands
By nightfall would he be dead
His stain cleansed off my lands

He was a starving redshirt,
oh, a Njerpez did I mean
He bled out on the frozen dirt
Where he's ever since been

October 03, 2017, 07:02:40 PM
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Re: Poems of the Fallen The (not-so-)sage

Once I believed a sage had to be wise
then I saw this fool standing on rather thin ice
The ice broke and so fell he straight in
Got frozen and soaked right down to his skin

The bitter cold addled his quite feeble brain
And he got so tired he could have slept in the rain
Tired enough that on that spot fell he asleep
And drowned in a puddle barely three inches deep.

October 05, 2017, 02:09:11 AM
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Re: Blocking Weapons and Assorted Combat Discussion
(presuming one lives)

This is the important part for me, I make no qualms about essentially playing this game wrong, but that's the best part about it! I pretty much just pick fights with anyone Spiritually safe to do so with, pile up the loot and farm animals, trade for food til I have the basic smokehouse and trap fence, and see how long I can go before I drown or something else stupid (of me). I pretty much don't die in fights anymore, I used to easily and early with better set up characters, so it's worth practicing. My one save scummed character was a really great way to experiment, kept testing the same situation for better and better outcomes until I could handle it safely anytime it comes up.

I usually have at least two characters active between which I switch. One is for surviving and playing it safe, the other is for when I'm more in the mood for risky behaviour. Gives me the best of two worlds.

October 05, 2017, 02:19:00 AM
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Re: Blocking Weapons and Assorted Combat Discussion And this right here is what I love about the Unreal World community: we all play the game our own way, and that's not only okay: it is welcomed and celebrated.
October 06, 2017, 02:19:59 AM
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Re: Anachronistic swords
I absolutely agree. I avoid swords completely because of this :(

Broadsword, bastard sword and battlesword definitely need to be reviewed. I would also check that the two-handed battleaxe is accurate. Is that supposed to be the Dane axe? From what I recall it weights too much for that. To have a glaive would be interesting, although the Kaumo spear is already close to that. No halberds though.

This is a good article on Viking swords. Seems like Viking swords never arrived to anything close to the "bastard sword" (very rarely up to 100cm, but more commonly less than 90cm) but I'm not sure about other cultures.
Mwa. Battleaxe could be a Dane axe, weight-wise, albeit somewhat on the heavy side. It's 4lbs in-game and a Dane axe averaged 2-4lbs, from what I can find. Certainly not as off as the swords are, at least. (Even if 3lbs or so might be a bit more realistic)

October 06, 2017, 10:13:13 AM
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Re: Blocking Weapons and Assorted Combat Discussion One way to handle that issue it to equip a single-handed weapon on main hand and use the other to throw javelins or rocks. That way if your enemy closes the distance before you expect it, at least you don't lose yet more rounds to switch to melee weaponry.

Working with a double two-handed set (bow&arrows for distance, two-handed melee weapon) is a perfectly valid method as well but timing becomes a *lot* more tricky and you will frequently end up giving your enemy a free round either to attack you, to close the distance/maneuver in such a way that they, not you, will likely have the first attack, or if not will see you forced to attack/counterstrike with a double-handed weapon used single-handedly for a turn. Because of this, it's mostly viable for characters with good dodge, good armor, or both.

Judgement of when to move towards an enemy or when to move slightly away/to the side to increase chances of the first attack being yours once it comes to melee is useful as well.

October 07, 2017, 09:53:59 PM
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Re: Returning already eaten food
Yes, it is little odd, but from my experience, if you keep doing that, your relationship with said village is going to deteriorate. It's possible to do it without anyone seeing that and dropping half eaten food. Not sure if in that case villagers are going to notice it later.

This got me an idea to try similar thing with bags of grain. But if I pour some grain into my container, container gets marked as unpaid even if I return the grain to the original bag. Changing that so you only have to pay for the grain you've taken could help starting farmers who need some seeds, but can't afford full bag of grain.

Most probably, what you're seeing there is the usual slight relationship-drop associated with not-actually-going-through with a trade after letting it get to the point they're demanding you to pay up; not something specific to the fact that eaten food is not actually returned.

October 10, 2017, 11:11:20 AM
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Re: Poems of the Fallen Of encounters unfortunate

An immense bear did once cross my path
the moment he spotted me, he got quite mad
Swiped at my head with his enormous claw
My eye started bleeding and limited what I saw

The bear pursued me as I fled towards my home
But after a while lost his aggression and started to roam
between slender trees and bushes of berries so red
I thanked the spirits the bear was no longer mad

So I was all alone as I wandered the land
had no dogs, no companions, when I encountered a band
of Vagabond robbers, five were they and oh!
No less than four of them were armed with a bow.

No longer bleeding but still could I not see
more than two-thirds of what was in front of me
And the injured eye not only limited my sight
The throbbing pain would also make it quite hard to fight

So there were five robbers, four armed with a bow
But they had not seen me so I hid and, real slow,
did I inch back away from these uncouth men
then when outside their presence I swiftly ran

And ran and ran until my home was almost there
Where I could recover from the wound dealt by the bear
But, alas and behold, 't was not to be
Less than a mile from my home a Njerpez encountered me

October 14, 2017, 10:16:42 PM
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Re: Partially constructed trap fence eats spikes Aye, I've also noticed this. Doesn't happen when the partial construction gets a good way in, from what I can tell. Just when the construction is (almost) immediately halted due to being ready to drop (not sure if the same would happen if starting construction at 99% fatigue, would have to test). Deconstructing the partially built fence does return the stakes, though, so that works as work-around: if it tries to consume more stakes, ESC out, deconstruct and rebuild.
October 15, 2017, 02:04:47 AM
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Re: Poems of the Fallen 'course it doesn't get things sidetracked, Sami. If anything, it gets more eyes on it and means yet more folks may join in. :) I'm very happy to hear you love it, too! Sadly, I'm no composer, musician or singer. :( If any are around, though: Feel free to use my poems here as text, as long as you credit me for it somewhere. :)

As to more poetry, though for once not of people fallen but of a live saved:

Spirits guide me

As snow kept falling from the skies
And water covered by thick ice
The spirits did send me a dream
So vivid I woke with a scream

The spirits warned of coming death:
My blood on the ground--running red
if I stayed well past snow and ice
For death would with coming spring rise

I left as spring melted the ice
as snow stopped falling from grey skies;
'fore life made green and young the lands
left I with my axe in my hand

I followed the river to the south
Until I reached its widening mouth
Where seagulls did in distance sound
Where sea replaced the frozen ground

As rain replaced the falling snow
The fear in my heart did but grow
Was I yet far enough from home
Were these lands safe for me to roam?

So I went from shore to sea
Upon a raft I built from trees
The seagulls squawked and screeched loud
As I rowed then yet further south

As summer then came upon me
Of fear was my heart finally free
And as the air around me felt warm
I looked for new lands I could farm

But no longer could I row south
The spirits' warning clear and loud
As further south I was not meant
to go, instead I westwards went

In sweltering heat I fell asleep
Above the waves so very deep
A dream the spirits did me give
Of islands where I'd happily live

I rowed and rowed then to the west
Found but small islands I could rest
on for a day and roast my catch
but nothing that my dreams did match

Eventually I found a shore
That was a sight for my eyes sore
A huge island in ocean wide
A green jewel in the sunlight

For the spirits had guided me
Across frozen lands and wavy sea
For the spirits had told me to flee
From danger into safety.


The spirits warned me.
I listened/I obeyed/I was rewarded.
May the spirits guide me forevermore.

October 23, 2017, 12:01:25 AM
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