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Gameplay questions / Re: Catching a glutton - advice?

« on: February 24, 2018, 11:11:17 AM »

I've never had problems with animals raiding my cellar. Part of this is that I like settling on small islands, but I also don't place any traps near to my home. I think traps spawn animals (it certainly used to, and I think even after Sami changed animal spawning they still do), and for me the bother of dealing with animals raiding my cellar and my home is larger than the benefit of catching a few more animals, especially since I normally have quite enough catches in my other traps.

The same goes for my fields. I don't put traps around it (I do fence around it), and for the most part animals leave it alone.

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Bug reports / Re: Ending up far up on land when using punt

« on: February 21, 2018, 11:16:07 AM »

This happens to me regularly, though thankfully a lot less since the way rivercraft work has changed (the same patch where you can't move onto land with a rivercraft from the zoomed-out map). I have a save available where I can recreate this every time.

This happens, as far as I can tell, because the borders between land and sea are not quite hard and there is some leeway where tiles on the border of a water tile can have some land on it, and vice versa. When you zoom in, it tries to put you at a sensible place, but that process doesn't respect the fact that the border between land and water is fuzzy.

This used to be far worse when the same behaviour didn't leave you a few tiles inland, but did things like dump you in the middle of, say, a cliff tile 

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Gameplay questions / Re: Infection - does it exist?

« on: February 21, 2018, 11:09:29 AM »

My experiences mirror PALU's. I do still try to treat wounds even if I've received the best treatment result, except if the wound is very bad, simply because the chances to train Physician are relatively hard to come by (well, come by safely).

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Gameplay questions / Re: How to hunt seals?

« on: August 24, 2017, 01:40:40 AM »

As you can see from the amount I've posted on the old forum about this, I've made it a bit of a personal mission to perfect seal hunting as it exists in the game at the moment.

The advice here is good (I concur for instance that it is possible to hunt seals without traps with some regularity, though perhaps more effort than it's worth), but one thing to note is that the best trap for catching seals isn't pit traps (spiked or unspiked) but heavy deadfall bear traps. They easier to construct, can be moved, and are more than sufficient. It's also worth saying that seal don't respond to bait at all.

I can confirm what others have said that you can see seals on the zoomed-out map before seeing them on the zoomed-in map. This is very common if you spend a lot of time in the archipelago around Islander and Driik territory.

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General Discussion / Re: How did you discover UnReal World? -- 10 choice poll

« on: April 25, 2017, 12:09:40 PM »

I first heard of URW on the Roguelike Radio episode about it.