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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: October 03, 2017, 02:04:01 AM »

RIP

My character passed away in an unfortunate drowning incident during his second winter as a man.

Damned shame, I was doing really well but got a little cocky going over ice.

I'm going to start again, this time modded, any recommendations? I'm currently using...self sufficiency I think?

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: October 02, 2017, 08:46:37 PM »

For most of the areas I managed to go a couple of tiles deeper, into the forest so I could dig pit traps. For the rest, I will use bear traps, thankyou. Will bear traps, out of interest, kill wolves?

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: October 02, 2017, 01:41:53 AM »

Following on from my marsh screw-up....I made such a big mistake. I just made a MASSIVE trap fence, going around 7-8 overworld tiles to fence off the entire peninsula I'm in. Then, excitedly I come to build the pits and....NOPE.

If it wasn't so funny I'd be devestated.

Oh that's so painful. Well at least you have a giant protective fence. If there are any areas you can add pit traps, it's still useful because it will funnel things into them. If any parts of the fence are near diggable terrain, add some pits a few squares from the fence as well, and add a mini perpendicular fence.

F
F
Ffffffffffffffffffff
F              T
F


F = Fence
f = perpendicular fence
T = Trap

Animals of all ilk tend to travel along the fence for stretches so this can still work.

I, too, love building ridiculously big fences, though I often have more success with smaller fence/pit setups placed in more places. If you notice a couple reindeer herd in an area, you can build a small setup (maybe 12 fences, 3 pits) in the area, and actively try to herd them into it. I've had a lot of success with those. More often than not, I can come back in a month and find a random elk in them too.

Some of it was on the border of a forest, so I just made a little funnel to extend the trapfence in a couple of tiles, but a large stretch of it is between two sections of marshland in the middle of the forests I was bordering off. It's certainly not a total loss, just a little frustrating.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: October 02, 2017, 12:42:15 AM »

Following on from my marsh screw-up....I made such a big mistake. I just made a MASSIVE trap fence, going around 7-8 overworld tiles to fence off the entire peninsula I'm in. Then, excitedly I come to build the pits and....NOPE.

If it wasn't so funny I'd be devestated.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: October 01, 2017, 08:29:14 PM »

Good news - Frost cleared!

Bad news - I burned a 10x10 area before realising I can't farm on marshland. OOPS. Time to do some deforestation.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: October 01, 2017, 06:54:44 PM »

Another question.... This one I'm really struggling with.

It's currently late swidden month and when I've burned firewood on the ground I still can't prepare it, it says the ground isn't warm enough. I've watched a couple of youtube vids and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Is there a step I'm missing?

I'm putting 3 firewood on each tile, burning it, waiting until the fire's out then trying to prepare the ground.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: September 30, 2017, 03:51:15 AM »

I actually feel like a bit of a fool that I never thought about trading away my meat 

I wasn't aware dried/smoked meat would ever spoil so thankyou for the heads up on that, I would have ended up very cross seeing my preserved meats waste away if I'd not known!

Once I've relocated, I'll make a structure like you described. I'm hoping to have my main home completely surrounded by a trap fence and other general traps so hopefully the two combined will keep my cattle safe. Bears I'm not too worried about though, in fact I've not seen one in months and months. I'd love to encounter them!

I've just done some trading with foreign traders and wow, furs don't go very far when buying their exotic goods! Got a masterwork battlesword and a masterwork crossbow though.  And yeah.... I don't really have the skill for either (At all) but they might come in handy down the line!

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: September 30, 2017, 12:04:17 AM »

Thankyou guys, some great advice!

After switching from smoked meat to a turnip and fresh meat in each trap, I've had so much more luck with my traps, I'm up to 1785 smoked/dried meat in the middle of "Center month" and I'm so warm in all this clothing I don't even need a fire. I'm genuinely struggling to work out what to do with all of this meat/fur now, it's way more than I need. I've got around 300lb of furs just sitting there collecting dust and this meat will last me right through winter of probably next year!

For hunting, I'm still having the most luck when I just let the dogs loose, though at the cost of hide quality. That being said though, most of my quality hides come from traps anyway. I'm getting better at wearing them down but I find a legshot with an arrow works better for me usually.

All this being said though, I'm still thinking more about relocating, preferably to somewhere with more open fields/plains. Is it up north I'd need to go for that? I'm currently in the southwest.

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As a side-question, what's the best way to protect livestock left at a camp? I got my cow killed by a wolf who scaled the fence. I had two dogs in the pen too, but they were unwounded so I don't think they got involved, but I was out of the area so I'm not sure.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: September 29, 2017, 04:45:42 PM »

I have one piece of information to add to PALU's excellent active hunting advice: only hunt in pine/open mire. The increased visibility of potential prey is good zoomed out, but once you're on the ground endurance hunting, it's downright overpowered. Your prey will have difficulty getting completely out of sight range, and the large number of odd shaped water features are as useful as fences for coralling a fleeing animal.

Yeah, I've noticed when I've been hunting in the forest unless I have dogs with me, I almost always fail. The issue I'm having though is there are almost no areas like that anywhere near me. Should I be considering relocation? I'm currently between Kiesse and Koivula lands, settled by a lake surrounded by Lichenous pine forests and Heathland, with some spruce mire to the southeast (Very small amount and there's almost no animals there. My bear traps have literally never caught anything there)

I don't mind relocating honestly, I use a Kota and have a bull so it's fairly trivial to do so, though I'd need to make a new trap fence. Better now if I need to rather than after I build a log cabin.

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Gameplay questions / Re: Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: September 28, 2017, 02:49:13 PM »

Thankyou, that was all very, very helpful!

The bait issue explains why I'm having such an awkward time attracting animals into my traps. I've just replaced all of my bait with fresh meat and will hopefully get some major results soon. Winter's just around the corner and I'm weirdly suspecting it will be the best time for me, with bait taking much longer to expire and the meat I do get being able to be dried on my Kota. I'm not sure if there are less animals in winter though, or if carnivores will get desperate and try to hunt me.

Driik land wasn't too far away from me and I managed to find a bull, much to my delight, so thankyou for that, finally I have a way to haul back my kills when I'm hunting further from home. I'm guessing it's not possible, but if I buy a cow too (Not that I can afford one yet, the bull cost me a whole lot) will they breed?

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Gameplay questions / Few questions about trapping and a couple of misc questions

« on: September 28, 2017, 12:23:12 PM »

I've decided to survive as a hunter/trapper and for the most part this is going well. During spring I got a lot of elks, stags and the odd wolf and bear wandering into my trap fence (Two world map tiles long, with a non-spiked pit every 6-7 area tiles apart, not sure if this is a decent setup or not) and I didn't even have to bait it, every few days I'd have a new prize. These early successes have faded though and I haven't had an animal caught in it for over a month, nor in my bear traps in spruce mires. I have no bait for herbivores honestly, since I read it's turnips I need and although I have a box of turnip seeds, I missed the right time to plant them and will have to see winter through now.

My trapping skill is 65% and though I'm not sure if it matters I make sure to be reasonably unburdened, unfatigued and fully fed/watered when setting my traps. I've baited them all with smoked meat, though I can't find ouit anywhere if this works as bait.

If anyone could run through some trapping tips or point me toward a good trapping guide I'd really appreciate it.

Following on from this I do have a couple of minor questions I couldn't find the answers to.

Where can I buy cows? I've searched a good amount of Reemi, Koivula and Kiesse villages though admittedly haven't been able to go further yet. I've found pigs, sheep and dogs but no cows/bulls.

For actual hunting my strategy has been, against animals that flee (Stags, elk and reindeer) to command my dog to attack, fire a couple of arrows at the target while it's fleeing, then chase the tracks in a walk, switching to a run when I hear my dog barking. Is there any way I could improve on this?

Finally, my agriculture is at 0%. Is it worth just ignoring farming altogether with that in mind or will I still get a reasonable harvest at 0%? Or, does the skill raise fast enough to make it worth pursuing?

Thankyou to anyone who can answer any of these.