is the Burning Forest dangerous?

[EvilNecroid]

i just ran in there and didnt see anything

[Cattrina]

https://kenshi.fandom.com/wiki/Burning_Forest

Let's say not any more dangerous than other areas XD

[~ Fabulous ~]

it is tamer than other place, I would not call it safe thou

[bunny de fluff]

It has acid rain. Everything else is just like the swamp

[EvilNecroid]

strange that i ran across the whole area and the only dangerous thing i saw was a spider in a lab

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Sometimes it be like that. Nothing for days and days and then a 8 way brawl in Heng involving the cops, manhunters, traders guild, nomads, western hive, outlaw farmers, sand ninjas and skimmers.

[tikiman572]

And then a couple of Beak Things wander in to pick off the survivors.

[Red Bat]

There's far far more dangerous areas. The acid rain is a problem, but that's a problem in a lot of areas. The spider spawn rate is very high but there's other areas with higher spawn rates of even more dangerous stuff. Spiders do tend to hit far far harder than otherwise comparable enemies but they have very little health as well, making them easily taken on with polearms even using very weak characters. Their attack range is absurdly high, likely due to an oversight, which is why many people recommend using a mod to reduce it... Or to make it the same as ranged weapons if you want a lulzier playthrough.

The problem is there's very very little reason to go there. Combined with the high spawn rates of spiders and no spawns of anything that could help you out or even any enemy worth looting, it's very much an area you want to avoid except to check out the one lab there. Even if the risk is managable, there's simply too little there to be worth the bother. At least The Unwanted Zone and Gut spawn things worth looting even if both are far more dangerous.

[cougar206]

Blood spider attack range at one time was 70, but was reduced to 17 some time ago. The mod makes it 27 so now the mod makes the spiders tougher than vanilla. (numbers may not be exactly right but they are close)

[EvilNecroid]

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

It has acid rain. Everything else is just like the swamp

um i decided to try live in the burning forest to see what its like and im on day 11 and still havent seen any rain?

[Red Bat]

Originally posted by EvilNecroid:

Originally posted by bunny de fluff:

It has acid rain. Everything else is just like the swamp

um i decided to try live in the burning forest to see what its like and im on day 11 and still havent seen any rain?

Are you sure you are actually in the forest? When you are on the edge of two zones sometimes weather, spawns, and town events can get real buggy.

I think it's supposed to be constant acid rain but I've never been there for more than a day so IDK, maybe it stops.

[EvilNecroid]

im right in the middle next to the lab

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by EvilNecroid:

im right in the middle next to the lab

Could be mod.

[Shidan]

Best guess is you're in the off season. The way the weather in Kenshi works is it cycles between all local "seasons" over the course of 100 days. The Burning Forest has two seasons, which are each 50 days or so. One bone dry with not a drop of rain, and one that rains the entire season without stop (only half of which is acid rain).

[bunny de fluff]

Originally posted by Shidan:

Best guess is you're in the off season. The way the weather in Kenshi works is it cycles between all local "seasons" over the course of 100 days. The Burning Forest has two seasons, which are each 50 days or so. One bone dry with not a drop of rain, and one that rains the entire season without stop (only half of which is acid rain).

Learn some new things about this game today. I Appreciate it Shidan, thanks.

[EvilNecroid]

Originally posted by Shidan:

Best guess is you're in the off season. The way the weather in Kenshi works is it cycles between all local "seasons" over the course of 100 days. The Burning Forest has two seasons, which are each 50 days or so. One bone dry with not a drop of rain, and one that rains the entire season without stop (only half of which is acid rain).

cool :)