Winter

[Queck]

Honestly this just may be the worst implementation of winter I have ever seen. I would argue most player will be outright unable to get clothing for themselves before the first winter arrives let alone clothe their villagers enough so that they retain functionality and not spend whole day near fire. No matter what I did my hunters outright did not do anything throughout the entire winter since they were freezing before reaching any animals and ran back to the campfire.

Either tell people which wood is wet/unusable or delete the wet wood feature entirely. If I create a campfire with wood in snow around me the campfire can be lit up, if I add some of the same wood I picked earlier and add it to the fuel now there is wet wood and I cannot light it??? Make it make sense.

I could also do ♥♥♥♥ all since events constantly attacked my base while I had no stamina to fight them off due to the constant blue debuff that should arguably just be deleted. This blue debuff can only be counteracted if you know of it beforehand and stock up on proper foods for it which needs huge farms established. Once winter arrives it is too late to adapt to this never ending nuisance.

Essentially the experience boils down to sitting near a fire with ♥♥♥♥ in my hand watching everything around me collapse and villagers starve to death. What the actual hell are the designers thinking here?

Also figured out halfway through the winter that villagers outright starve since they are unwilling/unable to eat food from storage in warehouse for some reason???

I will restart with winter in mind since it may be counterable if I sperg out about being very efficient about it but the main point I have is that you CANNOT expect someone playing through the first winter solo to be able to deal with it.

[Greg]

I didn't have a problem getting to clothes when I chose to play smarter, not harder. Kept the fires lit in the cottages, set farms up for flax, had the workshop making clothes, and the hunter hunting as soon as I could. Was pretty easy winter.

[Ceangailte]

Had 7 Villagers at first Winter. Each got only the Upper Body Cloth. Winter went awesome.
Lost no one. Enough food and warm Cottages. Everyone did they job with small brakes to warm themself up.

[Addamz]

Originally posted by DontKnow:

you cant just venture out without freezing

You can but you have to take enough supplies to build and campfire and elements cover to plonk down when your cold level reaches exactly half. Warm up and leave the fire there but turn it off. Place another down at the next spot repeating for as far as you want to go. Only problem is getting back to tend to the village because the AI isn't great enough to leave them unattended throughout a day since they won't replenish the fires around the village, and are bad at food/resource management, and defence.

Point is if you needed to leave the village in winter you just have to prepare yourself first, but you can do it.

[Greg]

Originally posted by Adahmz:

Originally posted by DontKnow:

you cant just venture out without freezing

You can but you have to take enough supplies to build and campfire and elements cover to plonk down when your cold level reaches exactly half. Warm up and leave the fire there but turn it off. Place another down at the next spot repeating for as far as you want to go. Only problem is getting back to tend to the village because the AI isn't great enough to leave them unattended throughout a day since they won't replenish the fires around the village, and are bad at food/resource management, and defence.

Point is if you needed to leave the village in winter you just have to prepare yourself first, but you can do it.

Have to agree. The villagers' ability to keep their own fires going is minimal and doesn't always function. I've seen them lay in bed complaining about freezing to death 2 feet from their own fireplace they can't be bothered to put wood in. I have to do it every night in every cottage. Forget the torches, too busy to do everything myself, they will just remain unlit.

[shabu sniffer]

anyone else notice that when the smokyr/rabbits event happens they steal all your food no matter if your defending the food stock areas i had 106 mushrooms before the event im up on a cliff / raised ground so they have to path around to get into my village i didnt see a single rabbit near my hunt then event ends all my food is gone is this intended? coz it's severely punishing if thats the case

[SUwUMaBUwU]

Literally on my first winter now. I am doing nothing but keeping the fire lit. Pretty boring. Luckily I have about 10 villagers. 2 farms growing crops for soup. I built my base near a wolf pit and I have those little robbing rabbits constantly popping up so just shoot them. Plus my hunter goes for them, so getting meat too. But not being able to do anything is extremely boring.

[QueenbeePlayer]

Im on my second winter - or rather second playthrough where I have got to first winter.

First playthrough I had 10 villagers or so, cottages built for everyone - warm food, no deaths or desertions but I have to say I didn't check their happiness,

Second playthrough, first winter, 12 people, all have hats and I have a full set of clothes. All have cottages, all have 2 hrs leisure morning and night, all have cooked food, only 1 is unhappy right now and we are part way through.

[Kryten]

In second summer now, I have not noticed them ever stealing anything...if they did, it was not much. Got some lights, hunters and barrack patrols, maybe that keeps them away?

[Menzagitat]

Originally posted by joker team:

anyone else notice that when the smokyr/rabbits event happens they steal all your food no matter if your defending the food stock areas i had 106 mushrooms before the event im up on a cliff / raised ground so they have to path around to get into my village i didnt see a single rabbit near my hunt then event ends all my food is gone is this intended? coz it's severely punishing if thats the case

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3278731002

[Addamz]

Originally posted by Kryten:

In second summer now, I have not noticed them ever stealing anything...if they did, it was not much. Got some lights, hunters and barrack patrols, maybe that keeps them away?

Light sources keep the rabbit away as long as you can stop your builders turning them off during the day. The rabbits are classed as pests, so they will try and steal any food source, warehouse, gatherer, farm, fishery or hunter. Campfires are the better option until we get timers on lights, as long as you maintain the fuel, because the rabbit stay away from them, and the cook station.

For the guy that had a certain amount of food that disappeared, the rabbits likely pulled them out of storage before they was ruffled and ran away, they'd have been on the ground next to storage, and probably rotted.

[Arte]

Build cottages, keep fireplaces lit. Hunt animals for food. Build campfires add shelter thingy on them. First winter i had 10 villagers, 0 deaths. It was easy winter.

[brianclark2005]

I survived my first winter on my own as the bear had killed all my villagers. I had a fishing hut, a fishing rod, a shelter and a fire. I managed to crack the fishing skill and survived on fish and occasionally running out to get wood before I froze to death. I am now on day 38 and have just received the warning that I am to be invaded in 22 days time. Oh joy.

[Mervin]

You don't even need a farm to survive the first winter. Just grab blue stones, fibres and thatch at every opportunity. Gatherer, Hunter, woodcutter, stone cutter, cookhouse. Set them. Away with tasks and let them get on with it. My first playthrough didn't go as I wanted and I scrapped as I let things get away from. Second time I had looked at various guides first and found out how things worked with regards tasks etc. Now survived invasion quite easily, bear is not an issue and my only issue is when someone leaves a workplace and I forget to set the tasks again for the new person. I forgot to mention I had a workplace building 1 tool every time one was taken from stock.

[Mervin]

Originally posted by Mervin:

You don't even need a farm to survive the first winter. Just grab blue stones, fibres and thatch at every opportunity. Gatherer, Hunter, woodcutter, stone cutter, cookhouse. Set them. Away with tasks and let them get on with it. My first playthrough didn't go as I wanted and I scrapped as I let things get away from. Second time I had looked at various guides first and found out how things worked with regards tasks etc. Now survived invasion quite easily, bear is not an issue and my only issue is when someone leaves a workplace and I forget to set the tasks again for the new person. I forgot to mention I had a workplace building 1 tool every time one was taken from stock.

I forgot to mention cottages. I had 15 villagers in cottages by the time winter came and I just used a spare bed to heal or boost stamina.

[Lumberjack]

Originally posted by 【Jiba®oBo®icuA】:

My first winter i set all my npc's to sleep for entire season haha

Bears, i bet they ate a lot after it XD