Today was a weird trip.

Amon · 2019-03-10 17:16:08

Small intro:

If you are going far away. Especially if you have valuable goods with yourself, make a home marker!
If you don't have an advanced internal trigonometry mapping thingimajig GPS in your brain, don't go out without a home marker. Don't. Just. Don't. No nope, don't. u-uuhh.

Well, okay I am one of those people that probably made a home marker... -bobs head- on fewer instances than I have fingers on 1 hand. How many times have I gotten hopelessly lost?
2 times. And I almost remember them vividly. I was still very new to the game back then. My friends get crazy about my navigations skills in games and in life...

Well anyway, mother popped us, obviously, enough didn't have a home marker, I followed her nicely until she popped two more kids and I asked how far? Slowly enough I would not be able to depend on her on food and she had one pie left...She sold me she doesn't know and probably west north...why were we going northeast then?
So I just... left...her...left everyone behind.
Probably I wanted to die but then somehow went for a hermit lifestyle after I waltzed into some interesting things...

This is the only place I randomly waltzed in, and only because it seemed to only be this location here. Possibly an eve? All other locations were found via resource depletion.
But damn looked crazy though, who died here? what transpired here? What about the snow haha...

These guys had a shovel and everything! Nice farm too. I nicked a ruined backpack from them. So... 6 hours ago it was made. Was almost tempted to make a living here, make some pie to take along, it was all almost set up right.

Next, I found a location that only had a home marker and a basket + two skeletons, didn't take pictures since I long since passed that hoping it was just some outpost. The berry bushes were picked clean as well a trail of yew branches... It took me a bit to find it at first but... hm... Interesting. I found no other things there other than those two things and some other residue like flint. It was recently abandoned I think. At least 10 minutes ago was my guess from the berry patches...
And whyyyy would dear Amon take screenshots of a stupid stick in the floor with a basket? Why? Do you take pictures of some basket and a stick in the ground?

I am unsure if these traps belonged to the next village or not, the distance between this location and the next was absolutely massive... However on this instance, I was unable to find any form of settlement, just some picked bananas and then nothing for a good while. But then again I was not all too keen on following a 'cold' trail. There very much might've been an actual village nearby or very very far away. But honestly, I did not bother after a while of scouting for further clues, I only found some devoured bananas and nothing else in that direction.

If this is really you Toxic. (the dead person to the right) You owe me one. Decided to stay here and take care of the kids so I didn't need to 'give me the shovel' as my last words to troll my mother that I actually did find a town...while everyone else perished...
Well I did find a town. So...

Finally a name for me. Thank you Siddhartha! For whatever reason the girl I raised didn't want to name me.
I'm totally gonna name my future kids Kratos, it sounds lit and is legit.

No I'm not using file fiddlery or the zoom mod for finding these. And luck only makes part of these. I start tracking down a village no matter how far the traces of civilisation are.
I see a banana on the floor? Well time to sniff around! And well enough I stumble into a town.

How much luck based is this? Very. You need to find traces of human activity first before you can even begin. There is no in-game way to find those traces, you just stumble upon them, but to notice them and how to track them requires some finesse and attention.
The most important to note is, when you first stumble upon a trace of activity, it will gradually increase towards the settlement.

Missing berries: someone was very recently here.
Picked bushes: Super hot trail, the thing is the closer something is to a town, the more, used up it is. This is a good way
Missing bananas: could mean plenty of things; if there are some missing and some not, go in the direction of the missing bananas. If plenty of bananas have only a few missing it means it's mostly a location where people passed through every so often. Picked clean bananas mean a higher population is nearby. None of these sighs is a guarantee that a living population is nearby.
Rabbits: Rabbits can be somehow be used to track activity. Often enough if people are around and you see a trap... it's a trail. The distinction between the amount of abandoned, family and rabbit holes can... roughly give you some directions where to go.
A big badlands biome with lots of iron. If a village is nearby, it's probably small, but generally, a sign that no big town is nearby.
Banana peels: SUPER HOT trail. the culprit may still be around. That's how I found the snow town as an eve.
Cut tule reeds: Hot trail. There was actually somebody within one hour there. Hot hot hot trail.
Sound: when you are close enough you'll quickly find out if it's alive just by the sound. But this is like right before you see them situation.
Picked trees. Also be mindful of regeneration timers. You can generally follow the intensity of pickedness and lack of trees right into a village too.
Sharp stones, flint chips, picked branches are a good indicator of settlements, but a bad indicator if the settlement you will waltz into is still alive.
Oddly empty biomes: Can be generated so naturally, but a strange lack of resources caaaan lead you to a village.
Mispalced eggs: Again people activity.

Those are some of my tips, but it's also part of intuition, you kinda have to set yourself back and see how much destruction you do as a player to the environment.
I found these locations because I wanted to... of course none of them are the town my mother wanted to return to... but oh well! I originalyl wanted to die of super old age in a jungle by banana patches, heck, the kid in the last town wanted to go with me.

Last edited by Amon (2019-03-10 17:32:08)

Toxic · 2019-03-10 17:26:03

Hey my man Amon I was wondering if you would post that story. That was so cool how you found us lol. It is easy to find dead villages but finding a populated town like ours without using exploits is hard. I give you my thanks for caring for the town.

And I do owe you one ?

Amon · 2019-03-10 17:34:55

If I see a track and I want to find it, I'll find it. I'm pretty amazed I was able to find so many villages, even a very recent eve spawn. I mostly posted cause i'm curious if anyone would be able to identify any of those locations (mainly the peculiar snow scene!)

I kept your niece and nephew alive, of course! Your daughter died like shortly after haha. Why did you have to leave anyway?

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Today was a weird trip.

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