How do gathering pits work?

[Gisborne]

How do gathering pits work? are we supposed to place em outside base at copper mines etc or what? it says they will decay.

[Lucifer]

You aren’t limited to a single bonfire.

[Gisborne]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

You aren’t limited to a single bonfire.

But won't they judt be killed and captured while farming around one? My tribe keeps getting captured by enemy and sacrificed... Despite bronze gear and g
Weps they shoudleasily combat a few stone tribe people but they seem to lose everytime when I leave then to do stuff

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by Gisborne:

Originally posted by Lucifer:

You aren’t limited to a single bonfire.

But won't they judt be killed and captured while farming around one? My tribe keeps getting captured by enemy and sacrificed... Despite bronze gear and g
Weps they shoudleasily combat a few stone tribe people but they seem to lose everytime when I leave then to do stuff

What combat settings are they on? Do they have a supply of bandages? AI is also really bad at focusing one target when facing a group, so they’re probably still going to get overwhelmed is outnumbered when not being possessed.

[Gisborne]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

Originally posted by Gisborne:

But won't they judt be killed and captured while farming around one? My tribe keeps getting captured by enemy and sacrificed... Despite bronze gear and g
Weps they shoudleasily combat a few stone tribe people but they seem to lose everytime when I leave then to do stuff

What combat settings are they on? Do they have a supply of bandages? AI is also really bad at focusing one target when facing a group, so they’re probably still going to get overwhelmed is outnumbered when not being possessed.

I give them spear and shields mostly. Although I don't thin they seem to use shields the ai

It just seems like it's much easier and quicker to run to the mine, hardest 1k and stick on mount and run back then try to manage a pit...

[Lucifer]

I find it more used for gathering materials you need in abundance for building structures, like stone, than materials in dangerous areas, like iron or copper.

[Gisborne]

how do you set an NPC to guard a place?

[Lucifer]

There’s a guard tower and patrol markers you can set in later techs. Not sure you can do it prior to that other than having one with aggressive attack settings nearby.

[Gisborne]

Originally posted by Lucifer:

There’s a guard tower and patrol markers you can set in later techs. Not sure you can do it prior to that other than having one with aggressive attack settings nearby.

I set up the pit in an area sesne in tin and set stone and flint off and Im watching him run back and forth past 30 ton nodes doing nothing lol? This ai is very bad

[I]

What is the point of pits when you can just place a bonfire and let tribemen to farm on marker? I did this with Tin ore and salt so far (salt is guarded but my dudes are equipped)

[Gisborne]

Originally posted by I:

What is the point of pits when you can just place a bonfire and let tribemen to farm on marker? I did this with Tin ore and salt so far (salt is guarded but my dudes are equipped)

I think they just store materials, but i tried a pit and my man wouldn't harvest, bug? he just ran back and forth past all the mines doing nothing lol, also fire is 30m and pit is 60m gather range.