Can thralls finally collect stuff for you? stone/wood/etc.?

[PikaTheChu]

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[raskolnikov_fd]

No, I suppose we'll have to wait until Friday now to get an inkling if this will ever be possible.
You can have a thrall follow you now though, and you can put things in their inventory. They have five slots so you can use them to carry an extra 500 iron, coal, wood, stone, whatever. they aren't very reliable in a fight though so you might want to tell them to hang back until you clear the area of creatures before you tell them to tag along.

[Game On]

Maybe they can collect, craft, kill for you, cook your meat, build your base. Did you actually want to play the game or just watch?

[Skeldarkday]

Originally posted by Game On:

Maybe they can collect, craft, kill for you, cook your meat, build your base. Did you actually want to play the game or just watch?

Lol

[crgzero]

I think someone misses how pets in Ark work.

[Bracus]

Dont bash the op. There were plans about thralls doing that. Among numerous other features wich porbably wont make it

[kirag-ig]

Originally posted by Game On:

Maybe they can collect, craft, kill for you, cook your meat, build your base. Did you actually want to play the game or just watch?

Building and fighting is OK, but grinding is just boring. That's slave labor is made for.

[mirasstone]

Originally posted by kirag-ig:

Building and fighting is OK, but grinding is just boring. That's slave labor is made for.

There was talk once upn a time, that there would be city live with folks doing there jobs and even a purge system with armies attacking these settlements, wich would make this a living sandbox game in SP and PvE maybe even for PvP.
Until there will be some news (tomorrow?) this is a game more for PvP and folks who don´t mind if all that roams about besides other players is pretty statik.

I remember a discussion about free NPC roamers joining your settlements if it has enough apeal so one would not have to take slave wich was something conan himselve worked against in all the stories anyway.

Again, waiting for official statement of the goals.

[PikaTheChu]

Originally posted by Game On:

Maybe they can collect, craft, kill for you, cook your meat, build your base. Did you actually want to play the game or just watch?

Grinding is not a fun experience, even in a survival game, further they did promise city-life with smart npc's. Well guess I'll have to check back in half a year again.

[ladycat65]

Conscripts. The greatest mod for SP. When you play online you can make a clan and build together, but in SP you will go old and bald before you get enough material to build something big of T2-T3. But you can get conscripts after some level. You will need lots of materials and 4-5 broken thralls for this but then you'll get rid of grinding. You will have your own "clan". It makes sense: you have thralls working at workbenches, you have thralls defending your base with arms and armor - so why can't you have thralls gathering stone and wood?

[drew.stvns]

Originally posted by Bracus:

Dont bash the op. There were plans about thralls doing that. Among numerous other features wich porbably wont make it

No, it wasn't. Joel said multiple times in the streams that thralls gathering wouldn't be a thing as it would defeat the whole point.

[Bracus]

Originally posted by drew.stvns:

Originally posted by Bracus:

Dont bash the op. There were plans about thralls doing that. Among numerous other features wich porbably wont make it

No, it wasn't. Joel said multiple times in the streams that thralls gathering wouldn't be a thing as it would defeat the whole point.

Can be. Maybe im mistaken. If its the case then sorry for spreading false info.
Today is the big announcement day!

[dragonFire]

Even if joel team dont include it in final product It doesnt mean that Modding community will just not make one.. hell I want one and ill figure out how to make it work...But the thing is until they start to get their Pathing and AI movement (Purge) mechanic better flesh out...Ill look into it but the only Hack-around I can come up with is to have a craft station that would be placed on the ground And have it fake gathering as in making node to be non interactive and making a chest to fill up...And maybe perhap to see about getting thrall to move it from that chest to a crafting station and you know SLave labor Aka Work order. But as far as getting thrall to whack that node Its impossible as being the resources that we harvest are on a foliage type and if you go a certain distance the foliage dispear and no longer can See it to harvest it. It how they are combating the Lag on server atm. The technique is How most game does it now a days....I know i want an FPS RTS style as well. But the problem isnt them....Its us. They have to cater to the Lowest common Computer spec players and the Powerhouse that the current server are able to output. Ugh there jsut so much work just to get this to work properly.

[Wikkyd]

Originally posted by Game On:

Maybe they can collect, craft, kill for you, cook your meat, build your base. Did you actually want to play the game or just watch?

Well yes actually... It is good to be the king ya know!

[crgzero]

A few items in the calamitous mod already have thralls collecting for you.

[drew.stvns]

Originally posted by Bracus:

Originally posted by drew.stvns:

No, it wasn't. Joel said multiple times in the streams that thralls gathering wouldn't be a thing as it would defeat the whole point.

Can be. Maybe im mistaken. If its the case then sorry for spreading false info.
Today is the big announcement day!

It's an easy mistake to make. From what I remember the most, he mentioned thralls doing things on a schedule the player would set up like going around and lighting torches/candles at set times, patrolling the perimeter of your base, going and getting food from storage you leave for them so you wouldn't have to keep going around and feeding them yourself.