Is it possible to stay hidden?

[Stealth]

I heard that the enemy patrols were always in your direction and that's a big turn off for me. I just wanna live in the world and not be the center of attention. If I build in a remote location, is it possible that they will never find me or will the game eventually put them in my direction?

[Regyptian]

Interesting question...
There used to be places where you never got harassed by them. But I have the feeling things have changed with the last update :-)

Still, you can retreat on one (or more) of the small islands that are around and you'll be perfectly safe there

[Kavalrie]

I think so. I've survied about 8 to 10 days on my current play through so far, an they haven't found me yet. The enemy is attracted to things like light, chopped down trees, and structures.

Try living in or near the shipping containers I've lived there for over 10 days with out being found in the past. (could have been much longer if I didn't get bored of it) That was several updates ago though so it may not work anymore.

Also try only choping down trees some ways away from where you're staying, that way the enemy has less chance to find or base. An try placing your camp fire behind a large rock or something, so the light is obstructed and has less chance of being seen.

[Phlog Service]

also, make stealth armor out of lizard skin, and leaves, no armor bonus, but decreases the range to see you.

[<color=#CD3210>Lunatic]

As of v0.18 all enemies will engage the player directly, byt that i mean they will always spawn within range at night now, and do not think about trying to skip the night by sleeping, they will raid you, wake you up, and your only choice is to kill them, and now if you kill enough of them and leave their body's lying around, the cave mutants 'Armsy' and 'Legsy' will spawn to hunt down whomever is responsible for shortening their food supply ie cannibals.

Now in answer to your question, yes stealth works, at present you can hold down crouch 'ctrl' i use 'x' because its easier to reach and still move around. Legsy the 6 legged femal mutant will not see a player who is crouching, remain crouched and yu can walk right past the her, as for armsy he wont notice you right away, he's slow as balls and only if his chest is open, you should worry.

To be perfectly stealthy i suggest finding 5 lizards to kill and skin, then get about 75 leaves, add 15 leaves and 1 lizard skin to make one piece of 'stealth armor', each piece reduces the distance all enemies will notice you, 5 pieces makes it virtually impossible for enemies to notice you aslong as you are crouching. As for stealth killing, it's not possible yet, the dev's are working on it.

If your having difficulty playing the game with enemies abound, you can either

A: stealth armor it up and full upgrade the modern axe (found on a shipwreck yacth on the eastern beaches) *sigh* (east is where the sun sets) and upgrade the modern axe with 18 bottles of booze and 12 feathers, each piece with sap.

B: Get to the coastline (anywhere) and build a raft : logs, sticks and 4 ropes, you can make rope with 7 peices of cloth, then sail for a small island, a miniture patch of land just big enough to build a cabin on, if you drop logs onto your raft or even a log sled onto your raft, you should be able to transport the logs over the ocean. Enemies will not spawn out there.

C: type in these words on the main menu, you don't need to press enter and only the image of 'the forest' will change if entered correctly. ||| veganmode : enemies will not spawn during the day ||| vegetarianmode : enemies will not spawn at all anywhere ||| ironforest : your buildings are indestructable (usefull if you just want to wait the night out in your secured walled off base)

Other then that my strongest piece of advice is to build a wall of standing fires, they cost 4 sticks and 3 rocks each, and if you place then about 2 placement spacing apart in a long perimeter wall, and light them up before sundown they act as a WALL OF FIRE, and dumbass enemy trying to walk past them is going to catch on fire and burn to death in a matter of seconds, thus dropping their loot and you wont have to run for your life or fight them. Cave mutants on the other hand take several instances of being burned, my advice for them is to build a platform 6-12 feet high and after add a climbing rope to it, then place 4 standing fires on each side, when the muties get close to attack it, you just spend 5-10 sap repairing it from up top, and they burn alive from the fires. Simple enjoy!

[Stealth]

^ lots of info, thanks :)

I like the threat of enemies but hate the idea of them spawning near you at night. I find it breaks immersion when they come after you simply for existing when they shouldn't even know you're there if you're careful

[BRT Cobra]

yes it is combine leaves with lizard skin then stay hidden in bushes till they pass on by

[Regyptian]

@ Lone Survivor:

- I think stealth kill already works. At least I saw someone do it in a video.
- You cannot transport logs on the raft. (didn't try the logsled yet)

[LoveTruffle]

I've found stealth killing with the club is very effective. You press the attack button once and swing the weapon twice from side to side on their back and it kills nine out of ten times. But you have to crouch walk all the way up to their backs as they'll hear any standing movement if you get too close.

[M4rt1n93]

Originally posted by Lone_Survivor:

C: type in these words on the main menu, you don't need to press enter and only the image of 'the forest' will change if entered correctly. ||| veganmode : enemies will not spawn during the day ||| vegetarianmode : enemies will not spawn at all anywhere |||

I agree on most things you say, but you have mixed little bit there, veganmode is when they dont spawn att all and vegetarianmode is when they spawn just att night.

And yeah, I really liked the canibals more before(even if it was to few of them somewhere...) its not fun when they always know where you are. If you are behind a mountain wall or whatever then they will just run around and attack you, since the KNOW you are there that is not fun. They way it was before when they spawnd in the caves and villages and have routes they were walking etc was way better then how it is now.

Before you could play as you want, try to stay hidden as long as possible with building on a good place where they don't have many routes, but now that is impossible. Since they just spawn near you and know where you are and normally you have to fight them allready the first day or first night

[LoveTruffle]

I suggest building a camp with a high tower or hang out on top of the planes tail to observe their numbers and movements. I did this last night and it didn't seem so bad. I think the worst of it is that they don't make a sound anymore when they're onto you. Before v0.18 when they spotted you it would make a sound and you could see where the individual or group was then duck into hiding before they made the choice to attack. Now when they see you they creep closer weighing their options on an attack while you have no idea.

It makes for a nice co-op role to have someone in a watch tower telling people when to hide from a hunting party heading towards them. Now we just need co-op to be less buggy.