attracting cannibals

[Satan]

anyway to attract cannibal attacks. Ive tried flairs and multiple fires but they havnt visited in a while

[lion]

Attack them. The best way is to kill them, if they are trying to escape let them escape to go back and tell the tribes what happened. More kill, more aggressive attacks, also leave bodies around for evidence

[Satan]

Originally posted by lyan:

Attack them. The best way is to kill them, if they are trying to escape let them escape to go back and tell the tribes what happened. More kill, more aggressive attacks, also leave bodies around for evidence

great response thankyou so much just what i was asking for!!

[NSP]

Very good, my traps are hungry and require more test subjects.

[lion]

Okay, since the game is updated, things change a bit now. Killing them is still the best, and letting a few run away is good. But these features happen randomly. Letting a mercy asker to go might bring more cannibals back or it might stop raids for a few days. It's random.

I found destroying cannibal camps completely, stops their spawning in that area, so don't destroy their tents and just kill them all. Revisiting camps, the next day, you might find only 1 cannibal, so i guess they need a few days to repopulate.

Also, there are different tribes in different areas, I noticed one or two tribes has been really passive, while others are really aggressive. I saw a cannibal with tint blue face, i never saw one of these before. Not full blue, just some texture.

Fires and leaving corpses, don't work in this game like the last.

If you kill a female, they will for more aggressive, so I think you can run and let them chase to your base after that.

If you find a single scout hit him but don't kill him.

Don't put head spikes and don't use any masks.

Advancing the day quickly, might bring them more often, as they have time to respawn. Also, If it's in day 40+ I assume there will be more frequent attacks and more mutants present in the map. I have been close to day 30 only but I'm still playing

Muddy cannibals have been significantly nerfed, as said in the patch. There are very few now and they hardly attack, but sometimes it might depend on the location, some areas might have more or less

*Important: Using guns or explosives will reduce their attacks considerably, as the sound and instant kills are very scary. I am not sure if Virginia's guns have effects

I also noticed that after reloading the game the "aggressive and raiding meter drops to zero sort of, as non stop cannibal attacks stopped in my base like permanently in that particular area in my base.

I went to the final bunker, golden mask, side of the island and walked in the beach road. I found 3 cannibal camps in a straight line, one with a watch tower. I went in with Virginia at night and killed all of them there at once, including using explosives once. It turned out morning soon and they still appear but only a few. Then we set out to the katana bunker but just a few walks inland we met 5-6 cannibals in a river upstream. They kept on coming in waves non-stop in that area, so we just enjoyed killing them. There was a flat forest land on the side of the river stream. And crazy enough that id*ot Kevin was coming in fast from half the map away in another base and went in the middle of our fire fight, anyway he was useful as i told him to clear 20 meters of all trees and plants and was going to make a base in this non stop cannibal spawn area.

From morning to night, he worked but the land wasn't cleared because he always ran away. Meanwhile from morning to night i used to chainsaw to hack off limps and heads, and I find it that cannibals hate that very much + I ate their limbs in front of them while they bleeding and in front of others. Leaders and red giants appeared sometimes but the most frequent were normal and muddy. At night however, a horde of mutants came in. 2-3 Fingers, 2 Twins monster, one slinky and about 5-6 blind cannibals, luckily Virginia took them out easily. Then i think I slept and as soon as i woke up a war band appeared behind my base area - 1 golden masked leader, 2 red giants and 4-5 normal ones. I killed them and other riverside, still a 3-4 of them will appear non stop. But then the worst thing happened, I was chopping a quarter size tree, a really tiny tree and i got hurt for no reason from the tree and I died. I used the firefighters axe. Terrible bug, so i did not like to lose my extra life in this save so i reloaded, and boom no cannibals, no raids anymore. I slept for 3 days before 1 or 2 scout appeared but that's it. My base is now very large empty grass land and i put a few sections of walls already with all the logs.

So, I think there is some crazy aggression meter if you kill to many cannibals at once and if a lot of them see you do it. Then they will appear non stop until you reload. Could be a bug but i guess we enjoy it while we can. Also because i have a nearly completed base, they might be driven out now. Best way to find out is to skip many days ahead. I was in day 24 ish.