How do I actually stop from cannibals from raiding so much?

[Ratsteeth!!]

Im on day say,,, 10 at the moment and I've been swarmed multiple times throughout the day with no breaks. I haven't been able to build anything because of it. I have around 8 head stakes, and I have broken two camps near me with brutal anger. But still, its over and over. Big fat cannibals coming with an army of 10+ lackies. What am I doing wrong? (I have virginia with me, but she is coming near me, she is by a lake 24/7. She is hogging my gun)

Note: I don't dispose of bodies. Usually I leave them to rot if I'm away from my camp, but otherwise I burn them and occasionally keep some parts for myself to eat.

[Vote Quimby]

Well Cannibals don't like you. It is their homeland, plus you are too tasty to be alive.
On topic you can build a base somewhere place with weird pathing, but still with food spawning, water, etc.

[grinsekeatzchen]

Play the Story. Funny enough the more you Progress in the Game, the less Attacks Happen.
At least from what i read and what i myself experienced.
You will get ocasionally Mutant visits, but way more rare then the cannibal visits when you start Out.

[threethreethree]

You've been able to make head stakes. So you're probably able to put down some spike sticks. A lot of them around will give you more time to get something else done because the spike sticks can do some damage for you while you work some more or just help you kill visitors faster each time and you can make some progress.

[Ancient Oldie]

Custom game lets you set how aggressive they are.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Load game stand still and at your desktop simply type in cheatstick its invisibile, then your inventory opens close that you should have no mouse curser now then hit F1 and the devs cmd consol appears. If not repeat type in cheatstick
close inventory hit F1.
then type in godemode on press enter now you cant die. Give Virginia a gun and she will shoot them protect you a bit
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2955494671

[Ratsteeth!!]

I'm actually surprised with the amount of good feedback I've gotten. I doubled down last night and just pushed through the cannibal attacks and built a somewhat satisfactory wall. I have gotten my first mutant, which is fine. I have not done any story haha, I have gotten 1 gps locator and just didn't bother.

I have custom to slightly lower the aggression but I don't like altering the game.

Thank you.

[Ratsteeth!!]

Update: I went to go y'nkow ahahha go do a cave so I can get a gps locater. I stumble by a camp and there is like 7 mutants all after my blood. But this is a camp I already destroyed. Why are they back at the camp?

I might restart the save, even if I absolutely despise the fact I will loose all my progress. I can't handle the severe amount of cannibals that I am unprepared for

[BORG]

OK so here's the deal. Like The Forest, there are hot zones around the map that are a lot more hostile than others. If you stay in or build in a hot zone, you will get smashed. So, my advice is to build in a less hostile and patrolled area. This is very similar to The Forest.

[grinsekeatzchen]

Originally posted by BORG:

OK so here's the deal. Like The Forest, there are hot zones around the map that are a lot more hostile than others. If you stay in or build in a hot zone, you will get smashed. So, my advice is to build in a less hostile and patrolled area. This is very similar to The Forest.

And where is this safer area?
I build beside Camps, on the beach, in the forest with no Camps or roads. I build on the freaking Mountain and they where on EVERY place, wave after Wave. First muddies, than cannibals and then after entering a few Camps demons in masses. Althoug i didn't even play the Story trough so did not swe them.


At the Moment this game is a bugged tower defence ..
They spawn iby you. There is no safe place. Just a buggy spawning System.

[grinsekeatzchen]

At the Moment i'm building on a cliff side on MP, while my friends build on a big sea(where i endet a build, why moved). My friends where the ones who mostly killed all the stuff. And we are not far in the Story, just got the shovel.

Yet, i get visited by demons So often ~~. There is a cliff behind me, One in Front of me and i SEE them spawn in on this clliff before me...

Sorry, but for my games there Was never a safe place. The only Thing that i believe is really that the more trees you cut down, the faster they attack. That i can see, because in all my playtrough's i try to just ignore them, even when the cannibals attacked me. And they still where super aggressive.

I really wish someone had actual proof for all these statements who go trough the forum.
I know that one Person had the data of the aggression Meter, from which the tree cutting stuff came.
Everything else are just assumptions.

[JustinGayme.TTV]

Do you go out away from base to do other things? I find that if i do a little base building then head out to GPS hotspots and such, it really cuts bacsk on the cannibal activity.

IF it sit in my base for many in game days they just get biggger and bigger frequent raids.

[Ratsteeth!!]

I'd find that lakes are more 'hot zones' than others. I restarted, I'm doing great, no more raids are coming as frequently. I left my base a lot so now im focusing on winning virginia over. I live by a few streams at the top of the mountain. Ive done an intense amount of progress which i would say has helped.

[MadMax]

You said Virginia is hogging the gun, so I have to ask if you also have a gun? If not, do you know you can also go get the same gun again if you gave it to Virginia?

[BORG]

Originally posted by grinsekeatzchen:

Originally posted by BORG:

OK so here's the deal. Like The Forest, there are hot zones around the map that are a lot more hostile than others. If you stay in or build in a hot zone, you will get smashed. So, my advice is to build in a less hostile and patrolled area. This is very similar to The Forest.

And where is this safer area?
I build beside Camps, on the beach, in the forest with no Camps or roads. I build on the freaking Mountain and they where on EVERY place, wave after Wave. First muddies, than cannibals and then after entering a few Camps demons in masses. Althoug i didn't even play the Story trough so did not swe them.

At the Moment this game is a bugged tower defence ..
They spawn iby you. There is no safe place. Just a buggy spawning System.

Well, sorry. Not sure what to tell you then. It's a horror game. It's not supposed to be a safe space. You're not hiding from everything. Even on The Forest's map, there were enemies everywhere. Some areas were a bit more relaxed than others, but it was generally similar.

Originally posted by JustinGayme.TTV:

Do you go out away from base to do other things? I find that if i do a little base building then head out to GPS hotspots and such, it really cuts bacsk on the cannibal activity.

IF it sit in my base for many in game days they just get biggger and bigger frequent raids.

I can relate this. If you sit in one spot too long, they will bring friends, more friends and even more friends. Seems appropriate for a horror game.

[gsw mer]

i found that the smaller your base size than they more quickly run into spikes and die. But also i have seen the cannibals attacking walls that have spikes sticking out and not being damaged by the spikes.