I think I'm permanently stuck at the Sky Islands / Farm Array border

[Strangle McDangle]

I died a couple of times there and now I can't go through to farm array, but because of eating and dying too many times all of the bats and popcorn plants are gone. I let go of my beetle to grab the popcorn plant so it also doesn't look like I have any way of backtracking at all, not to mention if I do manage to build up a level of karma I just get ambushed by the vulture on those big long stick areas and I'm pretty sure there's no way to avoid it there.

This is getting insanely frustrating. This door really needs to be a level 1 karma because farming in this place is basically impossible.

[solamon77]

Can you head back to Chimney Canopy?

[Strangle McDangle]

I tried but I think I need one of those big flies to hang from to be able to make the jumps back there, and I let mine go and can't find any others around.

[solamon77]

Do you have any Passages?

[Strangle McDangle]

Good call, I could use those. Man what a pain in the ass though considering I'll have to make it back here again.

[Krag]

You can backtrack all the way without a Cicada.
It's not really obvious, but when you exit the karma egt and go the leftmost area, you have to climb a pole then jump and grab another that is right at the edge of the screen.

I also made the mistake of going to the Sky Islands right from the start and restarted because it was too much of a pain to backtrack.

[Strangle McDangle]

Oh I can make it all the way back up to the big floating platform with the big gaps in it, but I cant make it back across the top. My leap won't let me hit the tiny little sticks poking out of the side of the middle column. (hard to explain this area lol)

[Llywelyn Ap-Pudding]

I was stuck here too! If you post a screenshot of where you're hibernating I'll be more certain of where you are, but I think I know.

I did a lot of bat farming/mini-centipede farming. If you go to the left (just before the large fields of tentacles and spider moose), those mini-centipedes spawn quite rapidly. I would say one every 2 hibernations or so. By doing that and waiting for bats in underground areas I managed to farm up enough karma.

However the latest patch should make it a bit easier, food will start spawning each time you die now.

[Strangle McDangle]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=900256765

[Strangle McDangle]

So I ended up going with Solamon77's suggestion of using passage to return to an earlier area, but then I realized passage also fills up your karma so I used a second passage to return to sky islands and was able to hit this hibernation point with a full stack of karma.

So if anyone else finds themself in this position, just use passage to teleport to the area you're currently in and you'll spawn with full karma.

[solamon77]

Originally posted by Smooth McDongle:

So I ended up going with Solamon77's suggestion of using passage to return to an earlier area, but then I realized passage also fills up your karma so I used a second passage to return to sky islands and was able to hit this hibernation point with a full stack of karma.

So if anyone else finds themself in this position, just use passage to teleport to the area you're currently in and you'll spawn with full karma.

Careful about overusing Passages. They are rare, limited, and very usful later on.

[RAWRmonger]

I stopped at this point yesterday with just enough karma to go through.
I am tempted to make a backup of my save just in case I screw up.
I had this kind of trouble entering Sky Islands just before.

[Strangle McDangle]

Don't worry, just make sure you head to the right once you get to the bottom after the gate. As long as you're careful it's not particularly dangerous on the way to that hibernation spot.

[bogs]

Sir, I did this route backwards. I went outskirts>farm arrays>sky islands>chinmney. It was intensive pain, I literally had to backtrack through ALL of the farm arrays to get enough karma. Didnt realise this was a problem both sides.

[DonGheritch]

I've been in exact same trouble and I've managed to bactrack to food and here's how:
So, the troble there comes when slugcats leap isn't enough to cross a sertain gap (don't have a screnshot of that part, sorry). But, if you have a spear, you can stick it into a wall just below the edge you tried to reach. If you throw a spear right at the moment when you hit a wall slugcat will still hold it when it sticks into that wall.