Level 2 Woe

[Babylon_Saul]

Is anyone else stuck on level 2?

It took me ages to get water from this ice world, only after I cheated (google is cheating) did I see a youtube vid of some dude melting snow underground. My Dwarves were pretty much stone age savages for the first dozen undead invasions, they are a huge problem that I cannot defend against without using the click defense, which I consider to be cheating (exploit?).

The constant attacks, day or night, by those blasted yeti monsters have just completely retarded my dwarven development, is level 2 supposed to be hard as hell or am I missing something, I'm sick of cheating (click defense+google) so I'm on the verge of rage quitting this game completely if my next plan fails.

My next plan is to relocate my dwarfs to an underground bunker far as possible from the stockpile and just sit out the next invasion and abandon the fort to the undead during each invasion til I can get decent gear for my poor drawfs.

[HuggernautNL]

Fences and water slows monsters down tremendously.
In combination with lots of wooden towers at first, and (if you manage to quickly build out the tech tree) you can replace those with lots of tesla.

The skeletons drop coins, with those coins you can buy tesla towers before you can even officially build them.

Also, another simple but labour-intensive tactic is to build snow/sand walls with a spike after it.
The monsters will destroy the lower 1 or 2 blocks, then will go for the spike, getting killed by falling snow or sand subsequently.

Good luck man, it's quite hard indeed.

[iNol]

Put your main doors on left and right of your stockpile (same level) and equip most of your dwarves with bows, when your dwarves idling around stockpile they will autoshoot yetis who come attacking your door (if range is close enough). Putting an X blockade in front of door also help.

If wave is too strong, simply use horn spell to relocate your dwarves deep underground before wave starts. The wave will wreck your doors and some walls perhaps, once morning go back and repair stuff. I did that on 3rd world campaign coz the gargoyles have ridiculous damage there, brick wall like paper. A lot easier to simple leave rather than trying to fight the wave.

[Babylon_Saul]

Cheers for the advice guys, I avoided using traps because arent resources finite, since when they're destroyed the invested resources are lost?

[pnartov]

To got water on level 2 you must take snow or ice and put it few meters under the ground. After a while you'll got water - and you can collect it with barrel.

[Babylon_Saul]

Using traps was the key to defending my stronghold, I'm now quite comfortable and now that I can brew health potions I'm pretty much invulnerable to invasions.

Now I can just sit back and hunt down the Keepers.

[stylez]

Originally posted by Mad_Saulot:

Cheers for the advice guys, I avoided using traps because arent resources finite, since when they're destroyed the invested resources are lost?

Technically, between the shop and unlimited invasions, everything is an "unlimited" resource. It's just a matter of how easily obtainable they are.

In the 2nd world, wood and ice are very easily obtainable infinite resources. So, use ice spikes and wood traps. Snow falls regularly, plus you eventually get the magic weather spell that forces it to snow. Just keep collecting snow and combining it into ice.

To get ridiculous amounts of wood, aim toward the Farming category, so you get the Forest spell, ASAP. Create multi-level strips of land like:

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X = earth
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Cast the forest spell, and trees will grow on all 3 layers. Try to watch your exp bar, and just before leveling up, drain your entire mana pool on the forest spell. When you level, mana replenishes. And you will easily get hundreds of wood to use for planks or coal.

Alternatively, you can spend 2 gold for 3 Mana pots (15 mana). Good bargain IMO, compared to how late in the tech tree it comes, and the rarity of the materials required to make it.

[Babylon_Saul]

Wait, you can combine snow to make ice?

lol I feel there is a lot to this game that they just dont teach you, which is kinda cool in an old school sense, cheers for the advice dude.

Shi'hulud just payed me a visit, that giant worm scared the crap outa me, whats the deal with that thing!?

[Father Ribs]

It's big, it's hard to kill, and it will make a mess out of anything you make. Avoid making any gathering stations where the worms travel. You don't have to kill them to finish the world and they're more of a nuisance than a threat.

The ice recipe is in the tech tree.