Impending DOOM "the gods will test you"

[David V]

just got out of winter and now I am told the gods will be testing me in 23 days, anyone know what this is or how bad it will be because the bear than 4 skeletons was bad.

[Danyel]

You have 23 day to finish everything and if not done in time the Gods will delete your save and make you start over.

[Brother Frank]

Don't think anyone's made it that far yet. I'm building walls around my base just to be on the safe side. I have a few of the runestones from bosses made too.

Originally posted by David V:

just got out of winter and now I am told the gods will be testing me in 23 days, anyone know what this is or how bad it will be because the bear than 4 skeletons was bad.

[David V]

Originally posted by Brother Frank:

Don't think anyone's made it that far yet. I'm building walls around my base just to be on the safe side. I have a few of the runestones from bosses made too.

Originally posted by David V:

just got out of winter and now I am told the gods will be testing me in 23 days, anyone know what this is or how bad it will be because the bear than 4 skeletons was bad.

well Im 10 days off now, max population all getting combat trained, looks like the fight is in the winter so its going to be rough, wish me luck

[pvt_Pyle]

tell us how it goes

[ArgonGas]

I survived the invasion. I built two barracks and one archery range and cycled the villagers through them to try and get at least half my town with some combat skills. I also posted extra people to the watch towers I built, and put everyone's activity cycle to night so they'd be awake and ready. The village defenses didn't do too much as my warriors just ran out to meet the incoming monsters. My invasion was undead and there was one unique type of undead with the invasion.

I only lost 1 villager to combat thankfully. However, since my attention was focused on prepping for it, I was not as prepared for winter and ended up losing 3 more villagers to starvation.

[Ralathar44]

Invasion is bsaically just turbo blood moon. You'll get the normal skeletons and draugaur but you might also get wights, wolves, and importantly: Revenant Elites. The elites are basically berserkers and once they start hitting they wont stop and they incflict a very low damage bleed with each it. They also jump into combat and have a couple AOE attacks.

Hit and ruin with the berserkers like its a dark souls enemy if its focusing you but kill them as fast as possible as they are the most likely to hurt/kill your colonists with their non-stop swipe attacks and AOEs.

That being said, so long as you have at least 3 people in your barracks you should be good. But to be safe you prolly want a second barracks and have 6 guards. Even if you just switch them back to normal jobs afterwards. 3 guards is just the bare minimum, doesn't mean you can't lose with 3 lol. Get a kennel as well and train up 2-3 puppers :D.

The attack goes all day long so a healing hut is also recommended so you can heal up quickly and return to help your colonists.

[Brother Frank]

I was pretty disappointed by the invasion, by the time it arrives your military can be decked out in good armor wielding all iron weapons with high melee skill. With the water runestone buff running one of the ones I was playing with literally oneshot almost all the enemies with a 2hander.

It either needs to arrive sooner, or enemies need to be a bit tougher imo.

[richv68]

Originally posted by Brother Frank:

I was pretty disappointed by the invasion, by the time it arrives your military can be decked out in good armor wielding all iron weapons with high melee skill. With the water runestone buff running one of the ones I was playing with literally oneshot almost all the enemies with a 2hander.

It either needs to arrive sooner, or enemies need to be a bit tougher imo.

Well, my problem is that I just got this notice and still havent found an iron node even though I feel I've scouted quite a bit of the map, which means even if i find it by now, by the time I put a mine and reasonable supporting infrastructure and staff around it, and try leveling people and crafting, I fear the invasion may be ongoing. This is assuming I find one soon which hasn happened in several in-game days yet. Im thinking maybe i should start a new game hoping that a new seed puts a mine closer to my first base, right?

[Alsbeth82]

Usually you scout a seed before you put down a base ^^ Spawn at the wreck and then spend like 1-2 days exploring north and south of it along the beach and somewhat into the island. By that time you should have found a cave if the seed is not one of those with mines way more inland. If you found it and figured out a suitable spot for you camp you can restart the seed if you don't want to loose those 2 days. You can find the seed in the settings to copy and reuse.

A good starting seed is Worst2024, my SO and I play that atm. The cave is like a few steps inland from the wreck. You could'nt miss it if you tried. And the area is flat and a good starting point for a camp (deer, fish, plenty space for farm and a lot of thatch in easy reach) with no smolkers around until you explore further in. That said, the cave has the downside of not having the large boss-chamber. Until now we thought every cave has that. So we exhausted it now with about 52 villagers and 1 fully extended Longhouse + 6 Fighters and max Tier 3 Eye of Odin Militia with weapons. The other mines are a bit of a walk northwest (closer) and northeast (farthest) so we're currently building a small outpost at the closer one with support from the main settlement and a self sustaining little village for the other one.

It's still not too bad as we have about 100 nails in store and the iron weapons and tools leave the broken iron parts that are collected and reused by the smith. Most military is archers on towers with no need for metal parts except maybe better armour at some point.