Treasure Stag

[Merlin69]

Had a few of these appear but never got to one -what do they do?

[Clawyer]

They run to one of the nearest dangerous or forbidden glades. The glade it runs to will start glowing. You then have a short amount of time (~ 3 minutes) to open that glade, if you manage to do that the stag will, for the remainder of that time, exist as an event in that dangerous glade that gives you a reward. You choose one, accept the reward, done.

In essence this is meant as an incentive to open another glade when you just did, you have to be fast, so mark a direct way through the trees and set your woodcutters to "only marked trees", but don't forget to set them to your default afterwards ;)

[mostly willing]

here's how Treasure Stags were introduced in the update that added them:

Treasure Stags - mythical beasts found in the forest. Once discovered, they flee to a nearby dangerous glade, where they stay for a short period of time. If you open the dangerous glade within the required time limit, you will find them and be rewarded.

the reward they provide is similar to Dullahan's chests, minus the resources. If you choose the Corruption option, the reward is greater, but you suffer a penalty like losing a random perk.

Originally posted by Clawyer:

They run to one of the nearest dangerous or forbidden glades. The glade it runs to will start glowing. You then have a short amount of time (~ 3 minutes) to open that glade

I'm pretty sure they jump into the nearest dangerous/forbidden galde and give 4 minutes to pop the glade.

[arjensmit79]

Rather than a incentive to open another glade when you just did, you could also consider it a n incentive to open a small glade before you open a large one.

As a rough guess, it seems about 20% of small glades have a stag. So this is a very viable consideration. Now the rewards are not worth 5x15 = 75 hostility, but considering this is only one of the things you can gain from the small glades, it surely helps making the small glade viable.

Surely when you have quests that ask you to open x glades, think about this. Prepare any large ones you plan to open, but open nearby small ones first.

[Lil brekky]

Last 2 stags I reached, I chose the "be nice" reward and they simply gave me 0.5 reputation and like a +1 or 2 resolve buff.

[Samseng Yik]

reputation + 2 resolve buff is something very good.

[Lil brekky]

You think so? I find it so unimpactful that I have returned to the previous standard approach of ignoring small glade "specials"

[Lukker]

Originally posted by arjensmit79:

As a rough guess, it seems about 20% of small glades have a stag.

To be exact, there are three treasure stags on every map, one of each type (Black, Golden and Royal Treasure Stag).

[arjensmit79]

Originally posted by Lil brekky:

You think so? I find it so unimpactful that I have returned to the previous standard approach of ignoring small glade "specials"

I think it depends what you are looking for.

If you need caches, i have learned to totally ignore the small glades. I am not sure but i think they contained many more in the past but the chance for these has been reduced dramatically to make place for the new stuff.

If you need fertile soil, they seem to be quite ok. Probably half the chance as a dangerous one for half the hostility cost.

Mostly of course, if you have a quest that asks you to open say 3 glades, you could either just leave it be until the final year, or you can do it now. And this is where these things like the stags come into play, they make it more enticing to do it now imo.

I have also found meself opening very many small glades with certain corner stones (like getting tools for opening glades) and a fox firekeeper.

All together, no just purely by themselves, small glades are not worthy of opening, but there are many factors that can situationally make them more favorable, and i think the stags should not be ignored in that whole picture. Their rewards are good and the chances of making it happen are not too bad.

[mostly willing]

another thing to consider is the archaeologist in Scarlet Orchard. if you pop a couple of small glades nearest to you, you have a decent chance of finding the small glade excavation. that allows you to keep the first level buff from the archaeologist's office. if you happen to also get a stag in one of the small glades - you are in a great spot.

[Merlin69]

Thank you.

[Dark Sun Gwyndolin]

While we're on the topic, I just encountered my first Stag while running a Glade-opening build (30 insects per glade, +5 temporary resolve after opening a glade). And the rewards are... oddly vague. So many other stuff in the game is very clear about the positives and negatives, but the Stag just states platitudes like "queen will be pleased, forest will be displeased" for greed. It's a green-and-white stag.

Can someone clarify exactly what the benefits of greed vs empathy are? If it helps, I'm only on Settler, and I have plenty of resolve from the glade cornerstone.

[sergeev]

I recently reached P20, and have NEVER met this stag. Why?
Now I chose the Mist Pierсer perk, and started looking for these stag all over the map. And I found three of them! Gold, Black and Royal. All three are in adjacent glades, at the very edge of the map.
Now it finally became clear: I usually finish the game much earlier than I reach the edge of the map. And even in these cases, I am no longer interested in opening small glades.

[mostly willing]

Originally posted by sergeev:

Now I chose the Mist Pierсer perk, and started looking for these stag all over the map. And I found three of them! Gold, Black and Royal. All three are in adjacent glades, at the very edge of the map.

their placement is random. the stags just happened to spawn in the furthest small glades. there are only 3 of them for all of the small glades on the map, so it's unlikely for you to find one in a game where you don't pop small glades en masse.

Originally posted by Fear Denies Faith:

Can someone clarify exactly what the benefits of greed vs empathy are?

If you choose the Corruption option, the reward is greater, but you suffer a penalty like losing a random perk. that's all there is to it.