That new blue bar...

[Ghostlight]

Hi All, I am returning to the game after a long absence. Could someone explain to me what the new blue bar just outside and beside my stamina bar (to the right of the stomach) represents?

Also, I noticed that when adding cloth to a weapon so it can be lit on fire, there is always the option to add extra booze as well. Is it worth doing? Even on Fire Arrows?

Once I have made a firey version of a weapon, is there anyway to reset the burn timer cheaply?

Many thanks.

[SergeTroy]

The lighter blue bar that is on the inside arc of the darker blue bar is your Energy level. It is the first bar that will drop as you run, fight, chop trees, etc. The Darker blue bar that is on the outside is your Stamina, which determines your maximum energy and will go down as you use more and more energy throughout the day and as the day progresses. Stamina can be recharged via the Energy and Energy+ herbal mixes, sitting on the wooden bench, and just getting rest. Energy can be juiced up by all of the above as well as the soda pops.

Unless you are using an older version of the game (current version 0.73b), than Booze cannot be added to increase the duration of burning for a weapon. This has been confirmed a thousand times over. The only thing you can do with Booze is add the Glass Shard upgrades to your weapon (with sap) for twice the bonus in damage as Teeth, at twice the cost in Speed.

Adding the fire upgrade can only be done with cloth, and only reset with cloth. I honestly can't remember if you can add cloth to a weapon if it's only burned through half of it's unseen "counter" but I wouldn't. Cloth can get very expensive even with super frequent raids on cannibal villages.

[Ghostlight]

Aaaah. I assumed the Booze was adding to the burn. Glass as an upgrade is new to me. Is it better than Teeth?

[SergeTroy]

Originally posted by Ghostlight:

Aaaah. I assumed the Booze was adding to the burn. Glass as an upgrade is new to me. Is it better than Teeth?

Uhm, yeah, it can be. When adding booze as glass for damage upgrade, be aware that its 4 or 5 shards per bottle of booze (you can tell which when another bottle in the inventory disapears) and it's the number fo bottles that determines how many glass upgrades have been added.
So, if you add 8 or 10 glass shards to you weapon, you'll have used 2 bottles and thus only have 2 glass upgrades.

There's an app you can download, it's called (appropriately) 'The Forest App by Zebulon' and it's opened through 'Open as App.' If you want a better understanding of the way the upgrades work, especially in scaling as you add more of this type or that, I would download that to your phone, tablet, whatever, and play around with combos. Also, remember to leave one upgrade slot (you have 30) empty so you can still add the cloth for fire.

[SIDEKICK]

Originally posted by SergeTroy:

The lighter blue bar that is on the inside arc of the darker blue bar is your Energy level. The Darker blue bar that is on the outside is your Stamina

i might be too late for this but actually the Lighter Blue bar inside arc is your Stamina. its the other way around.

[Freddy]

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