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you just need enough cold protection and with gildeing you can get anywhere outside of the shroud. voxel world with no physics for build objects remember.
The more frost resist you have the better. That only appears on the level 35 armor, that you make with warm padding. Warm padding requires wool (which is different then raw wool). You can get raw wool from yaks in the summit region. Killing them drops a few raw wool, or you can tame them.
I HIGHLY recommend you tame some. A tamed yak gives you up to 8 raw wool. You need at least 20 raw wool to begin even processing it into wool. Good news is it turns into 15 units of wool. That's a GREAT conversion rate. So 3 tamed yaks would give you 24 wool at max (they slowly accumulate wool unit by unit the longer you leave them).
There's a frost ring, which gives you +2 frost resist, and there are food items you can make that give you extra frost resist too.
Every pt of frost resist gives you X minutes of frost time, before hypothermia sets in. Hypothermia kills you in seconds. Overall frost is handled just like the shroud timer. You can even have BOTH timers running, as there are shroud places in the frost areas too. Get it as high as you can, because this dictates the amount of exploring time you have.
Highly recommend you carry around a pre-made flame altar, and be prepared to drop it as a fast travel spot. When you're frost is running out, build a flame altar, and return to your main base. Do NOT accidentally fast travel to any flame altar that's also in the frost area. I've done that twice, got there and watched the last few seconds of frost run out. Bam, dead.
One other bit of advice.
Eventually you will see a quest marker called the "coldest elixir well". It has a marker on a point of the map.
I went in circles looking for it. I didn't realize the marker is _under_ the mountain, reached by a very very very long tunnel. I kept starting my search from a location called the Forges of Obsidia (you will reach this place, it's pretty much required) which is high up on the side of the mountain. What I did not get was I needed to go literally jump off a cliff and go DOWN, southwest of the forges of obsidia. All the way down to a frozen lake way way down below. On that lake is a bridge that leads to the tunnel, and the tunnel leads to the elixir wells, where you fight the fell cyclops. The lake is so far below the forges of obsidia, that I can barely even see there was a lake down there. It's in a shroud area.
Attempting to reach the well marker by travelling towards it on the map will send you through a whole bunch of caves, etc and NONE of them lead to the well. Just trying to save you some clueless wandering.
last tip:
save every single bit of "gentian" flowers you find. Throw other junk out, keep every gentian you find. You need 40 of those to upgrade the altar after you kill the fell cyclops. I didn't pay attention, and now I'm waiting on several crops before I will have enough to finally upgrade to the next flame altar level.
Keep a stack of regular stone in your inventory. Place an altar. Travel further. Place a second altar. Transport to the first altar, deactivate, travel to the second, and continue. Keep placing, and deactivating until you reach your destination.
Keep in mind, you can only find granite in the summits, and limestone outside the summits. That's why you need to bring your own Stone.
Yes, i'm already prepared. Yaks and goats tamed, Full winter armor and the new plants...
Don't want to do the Boss (for Flame lvl 7) at the moment, so my concern was aimed at the success/failure of the free exploration without considering the main quest.
Although the long journey to the city puts me off a bit, let's see how far i get. Besides there are other great discoveries you can make along the way, except the caves with the giant spiders
Every biome has some loose stones on the ground where you can get stones to build an altar, i think only the desert is the problem, highlands im sure the loose stones are normal and not limestones. Same thing on the albanese, loose rocks are normal stones not granite.
The fell cyclops is a normal cave, but has 3 root trees inside, so a normal well, but instead of getting 3 points on one tree, the devs divided those, lots of enemies inside, some flying required to reach the boss too, and keep your eye on the cold clock.
that tomb with the spiders just so happens to be the best legendary farm spot. go get your free level 40 legendary.
There are certain areas of the summits, esp in the snowy areas, where you can't see the ground, and the loose stones are few and far between. Which is why it's best to bring your own.
I agree on taking an altar with you. In emergencies you can break those markers along the road, which can drop stone. It might take a few to get 5 though.
Is that the one directly east of New Cromville, with the double cave icon marked on the map?
its the one on the westside of the summits peak. forgot where precisely. pretty sure there is a guide for it somewhere by now.
Oh i agree, i always carry one, how hard can it be hehehe, but on a pinch, if you are on another server helping the host and the guy has no altar, can help to know what to do to gift him one.
No i mean the simple holes in the rocks.
However, i will keep my eyes open for those spots.
There is a series of caves to the NW of obsidia forge where it's CHOCK full of spiders. Like dozens and dozens, with several of the huge spiders the size of cars.