Can you turn off bandits/hostiles to have a pacifist run?

[CommanderMark4]

Also, can you play this game without committing any crimes (I'm not a fan of the GTA formula and I like RPing)?

[Philtre]

You can turn off bandits. IIRC, you have to do this in-game, meaning there will still be bandits your first season, but after the season change the initial ones will despawn and no new ones will spawn. They are easy to avoid in any case.

I think if you want to complete all the story quests you need to do a few mildly dishonest things, but nothing particularly terrible. You can also ignore the story quests if you want, they are optional. It's not really a quest-driven game; the only quests you need to do on the Valley map are the Chapters quests (basically a tutorial) to raise your build limit, and on the Oxbow map you don't even have to do those.

[Mowglia]

Originally posted by CommanderMark4:

Also, can you play this game without committing any crimes (I'm not a fan of the GTA formula and I like RPing)?

If you want all the achievements then you'll have to commit some crimes, but that won't take long and you only have to do it to get the achievement(s). Similarly, you have to not pay taxes to get an achievement. Not sure whether you view that as a crime? :)

But no, I don't think you have to commit any crimes, and you probably wouldn't want to given it would be relatively pointless. Apart from achievements.

[hubbemattsson]

So, totally pointless then.

[Morri]

You can turn off bandits only in the Valley map, not in the Oxbow map.

You cannot turn off hostile wildlife, but I guess you could just run away whenever an aggressive animal spots you.
It will severely limit where you can go or where you can safely build though.

The only crime you can commit in the game is stealing, and you are not forced to do that.
Not paying your taxes on time is also a crime I guess, but that's also easy to avoid.

[Cr1ms0nJesslyn]

Build a few pieces of fencing in the area where the hostile animals/bandits spawn. They can't re-spawn after you hunted them down after that point. I learned the hard way, realizing I inhibited my ability to see them again after building a protective fence so I could hunt them safely.

[AfLIcTeD]

Originally posted by hubbemattsson:

So, totally pointless then.

Kinda like your comment really.