Cave beast problem

[FISZER.05_PL]

The cave workers do not dig for ore because beasts keep appearing and they escaping from the mine. How to get rid of them (beasts ;-) )?

[Ciri]

I heard that you can set the patrol near the cave for now. Not sure if it will work

[Ciri]

But it's definitely the big issue in game. Crawler keeps attacking villagers and you need to micromanage this by killing crawlers again and again

[marhaulte]

depends where they spawn. since the caves can branch different directions you could mine out all the walls where there are crawlers so the villagers won't go that way. If they spawned near the front I guess you're out of luck unless the patrol will kill them. Otherwise just bring a Cart with you and you can bring back 20+your inv space which should last a while.

[Addamz]

Set a patrol flag outside the cave entrance so when the miner runs out the soldiers kill the cave spiders.
You can go in and kill the cave spiders yourself, it's not difficult if you follow this simple rule, run sideways round the mob so you are constantly at it's side while it's turning and whack every now and then, aslong as you take them on 1v1 they're not a problem, the baby's are even easier, just do a heavy jump hit on them first and whack them as soon as they get back up.

Having garlics and onions with you can help with heals, better still if you have garlic soup and onion soup.

[Ciri]

@adahmz: so, another micromanaging task then. crawlers keep spawning every other day. And you leave all other task to save your villager

[Addamz]

Originally posted by Ciri:

@adahmz: so, another micromanaging task then. crawlers keep spawning every other day. And you leave all other task to save your villager

Not really, if you have 3 barracks soldiers patrol the entrance the miner will kite the mobs out into them, and they die pretty quick. You don't actually have to do anything.

But you can if you want too.

I built my base around the first mine. The second mine I cleared out myself and ran the ore back to my village, the 3rd mine is a little far away so I built a fence round the entrance, with a warehouse and two standing torches and I take my cart, fill the warehouse (3 boxes only) then ferry the ore with my inventory and the cart full.

Point is, once you have an iron weapon it's really quick and easy, just take a couple of torches and pickaxes.

[Ciri]

yeah that works i guess. but let's say between village and mine, i have elite enemies. the villager either get killed or spooked. guess there is no way for village to avoid an enemy area.

[Elidrin]

The babies are 1 hit wonders with an iron weapon.... The queens, are tougher.

[Chaos]

A trick to make sure your villagers avoids enemies and running into spawn areas is to build a road. They will always prefer a road over running through woods or such, even if it's a longer path. In this way you can kind of control how they path even over long distances and avoid the agro range of most enemies (camps/wolves/draug/bears/etc)

[Ciri]

@chaos: never thought of that. xD i will try

[Stormquiver]

have someone working there, with steadfast resolve.

[Saltysugar]

Build a barracks near by or send/ make a patrol to the cave and set the amount of time to hang there. Name the partol post. it makes it easier for setting up a partol for the villagers.