Is there some way to keep the cannibals off you for a while?

[Joseph Sneed]

I am only on like day 4 and am trying to build a base and I am getting attacked like 2x a day by 3-4 cannibals. There is a very small camp somewhat close but I doubt it is generating this many. I am trying to build my base near the lake that like 4 rivers feed into on the part that is technically an island close to the lake right next to the waterfall. Is there something I can do to help keep them away while I am building as I have not even been able to get the main structures first floor finished before getting overwhelmed.

[Ataxio]

They stop bothering me when I kill them.

[threethreethree]

spend your early building time building a few traps instead. Spike sticks, and flyswatter. Be mindful of where you locate them. This will thin them out some when they arrive, and you just have to deal with what's left over. When they arrive, move yourself among your traps as bait, attacking with your traps instead of an ax or bow. This way, you aren't trying to build completely 'helpless' and exposed. Sometimes you can continue a building activity for additional moments even though they are present.

Build a construction site protective area with spikes and traps.

[Joseph Sneed]

Is there some way to arm Kelvin? Honestly that would help.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

Is there some way to arm Kelvin? Honestly that would help.

No unfortunately not. You can only arm virginia.

[AlphaWolf_AZ]

I had a similar problem at an approximately same location. I know which lake you're talking about and I am not far from it.
I had 2 - 3 times a day an attack of 4 - 6 cannibals.
Killed them all. After a few days of repeat, they simply don't show up that frequent anymore.
It is almost a little boring now. I get maybe 1 or 2 every other day. And sometimes I get a "big raid" of 5 or 6 cannibals, but it became very rare. Same with Mutants. I had the fingers show up on regular basis. Now, after killing several of them, I haven't had any for the last (in-game) week or so...

[shmodzilla]

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

I am only on like day 4 and am trying to build a base and I am getting attacked like 2x a day by 3-4 cannibals. There is a very small camp somewhat close but I doubt it is generating this many. I am trying to build my base near the lake that like 4 rivers feed into on the part that is technically an island close to the lake right next to the waterfall. Is there something I can do to help keep them away while I am building as I have not even been able to get the main structures first floor finished before getting overwhelmed.

Thats where like 90 percent of people are building for some reason. Anyway theres a spawn area right there. If you are at the lake looking towards the fog/camp ,to the right by the wooded area they spawn. I know this because every game I join where people have a base there I sit there as security dumping them as fast as I can reload.

[Ataxio]

Build a decoy shack and name it Sneeds Seed & Feed.

[Joseph Sneed]

Originally posted by shmodzilla:

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

I am only on like day 4 and am trying to build a base and I am getting attacked like 2x a day by 3-4 cannibals. There is a very small camp somewhat close but I doubt it is generating this many. I am trying to build my base near the lake that like 4 rivers feed into on the part that is technically an island close to the lake right next to the waterfall. Is there something I can do to help keep them away while I am building as I have not even been able to get the main structures first floor finished before getting overwhelmed.

Thats where like 90 percent of people are building for some reason. Anyway theres a spawn area right there. If you are at the lake looking towards the fog/camp ,to the right by the wooded area they spawn. I know this because every game I join where people have a base there I sit there as security dumping them as fast as I can reload.

The reason everyone is building there is its a fairly resource dense location that is also defensible once you actually have the structure built. There are not as many good defensive points in this game compared to the last one.

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

Is there some way to arm Kelvin? Honestly that would help.

No unfortunately not. You can only arm virginia.

Speaking of is there just one of her or if she dies will another show up? She got hit bad in one of the attacks. idk if she got killed as I got the one attacking her off her but he landed 2 good hits so its possible another one killed her but idk.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

Speaking of is there just one of her or if she dies will another show up? She got hit bad in one of the attacks. idk if she got killed as I got the one attacking her off her but he landed 2 good hits so its possible another one killed her but idk.

Don´t worry. Kelvin and Virginia can´t be killed by mutants or cannibals, only by the players hand so be careful to not accidently hit them when they are wounded on the ground since this would finish them off. Other than that you can pretty much ignore them. No need to heal them either, they´ll get back up on their own.

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

Is there some way to arm Kelvin? Honestly that would help.

No unfortunately not. You can only arm virginia.

This makes absolutely no sense at all. You (the player) and Kelvin are sent to this island on a search and rescue mission and not armed with some kind of weapon? I dont think the devs really thought this through very well.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Buckshot:

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

No unfortunately not. You can only arm virginia.

This makes absolutely no sense at all. You (the player) and Kelvin are sent to this island on a search and rescue mission and not armed with some kind of weapon? I dont think the devs really thought this through very well.

Ikr, it´s a weird decission from the devs. Doesn´t make much sense to me either.

[Buckshot]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

Speaking of is there just one of her or if she dies will another show up? She got hit bad in one of the attacks. idk if she got killed as I got the one attacking her off her but he landed 2 good hits so its possible another one killed her but idk.

Don´t worry. Kelvin and Virginia can´t be killed by mutants or cannibals, only by the players hand so be careful to not accidently hit them when they are wounded on the ground since this would finish them off. Other than that you can pretty much ignore them. No need to heal them either, they´ll get back up on their own.

Perhaps it was just coincidence but...
In one of my early savegames I accidentally injured Kelvin by throwing a couple logs at him. It was late at night and was hard to see anything. I had Kelvin cutting trees. I was carrying a couple logs and I wanted to tell Kelvin to take a break for the night. The logs shot out of my arms and hit Kelvin in his face. Since then (at least in that savegame) Kelvin would just sit around and do very little. Maybe it was a coincidence that maybe it was a bug within Kelvin that made him lazy.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Buckshot:

The logs shot out of my arms and hit Kelvin in his face. Since then (at least in that savegame) Kelvin would just sit around and do very little. Maybe it was a coincidence that maybe it was a bug within Kelvin that made him lazy.

Oh don´t worry he ate many logs from me the same way. I don´t believe you can make him somehow even more lazy lol. For me he only has two purposes. Gathering sticks and bringing the radio to my base. He is of no use for anything else.

[Ecanoya]

I assume they have patrol routes like the first game, and the big lake is one of the ones they patrol frequently. I noticed I had a lot show up to see what I was doing. Eventually, I just restarted and made my base in a less patrolled area. Their visits became much less frequent.

[Balls]

Originally posted by Joseph Sneed:

I am only on like day 4 and am trying to build a base and I am getting attacked like 2x a day by 3-4 cannibals. There is a very small camp somewhat close but I doubt it is generating this many. I am trying to build my base near the lake that like 4 rivers feed into on the part that is technically an island close to the lake right next to the waterfall. Is there something I can do to help keep them away while I am building as I have not even been able to get the main structures first floor finished before getting overwhelmed.

I'd recommend building a parameter of sticks and stones. Place 1 stick in the ground, cut it towards the outside of your base area and put three stones beneath it to reinforce it. Most cannibals will kill themselves on them.