Tips and tricks

[Housatonic]

What are some of those ohhh-moments you encountered so far, discovering things that suddenly make life so much easier in the Animallica world?

I just discovered whacking things with a crowbar long enough lets you pick them up, such as the crates in the starter area barn.

[Elegant Caveman]

Oh, wow, that's really good to know, thanks! So I guess the crowbar counts as a hammer. Hadn't thought of moving those crates, either.

Don't have much to offer...

• The horse does have limited stamina, even if it's hidden; be careful when you're running around, or your horse might run out of stamina just as you rise a hill and find some enemies.
  
  
• Location of a crossbow and some other stuff, easy to get right from the start of the game: Head out the main gate, down to the water and broken bridge. To the left, there's a small island with a chest on it.

[Elegant Caveman]

Just found out about this:

Originally posted by sliceandkill:

Pressing middle mouse button on an item in inventory, also will consume that item.

[MotherChaos]

@Elegant Caveman, thank you for that "smacking it with the crowbar" tip - moved all those crates over to where I've set up my crafting shops last night and was blessing your name as I did so. :)

I've found that if I "sprint" while on the surface of the water, I seem to swim a LOT faster than I do if I submerge myself.

Also, this is probably a Captain Obvious moment, but: if you want to take a bit of a shortcut from the boat dock to your starting base, you can combine that trick with going up the back way - swim across the narrow channel from the side of that little town => up the hill => along the cliffs => there's an opening into one of the enclosures you can cut through (bonus: there are often loot-drops in the enclosure, such as rope / arrows / etc., that have respawned in the meantime), or, you can simply continue along the base of the cliff to your front gate.

I haven't encountered a monster up there yet in my game - no guarantees they won't wander up there eventually, but, for now it makes for a MUCH faster trip to store my precious mats.

[Elegant Caveman]

Thank Housatonic, not me, it was their idea. :)

I'll have to try out the swimming thing, thanks!

[:: Kemo ::]

If you're wondering to yourself, how do I get more money in this game? Well, I found a coin press somewhere, I believe it was at Kitsunes Den, so if you manage to find that, and make a Blacksmithing house, you can mint your own coins! Coins are valuable to traders and currently traders can't buy items off you so I would suggest try working toward making a Blacksmith and finding that Coin Press station.

Update :: There is another coin press in Corpse Harbor inside a safe in a boarded up house. There's also another toolset in there as well ;3

[CoLS Firestar]

It does not take too long until you have enough watter bottles to carry 99 of them. SO DO SO.

Ignore the water meter when it becomes full and treat them like stamina pots.

As soon as you can, build a water pump up near your storage so you have one up where you live and another near the boat. You'll never have to worry about walking slow again.

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First 30 minutes of the game

-Pick up stuff around the base
-Enter the lab
-Write down the ingredients for each potion thing on a card and keep it in front of you. Work on only one thing at a time.

Hopefully you've picked up enough stuff. Beeline to Corpse Harbor, pick up the two tool sets and make the following from the free workbench:
-Bone Breaker,
-Shaver
-Gold Digger to have the much needed tools in the first few minutes of the game.
-Waterpump
-Workbench
-As many crates as you can with the left overs.


Now go hack some boards off a nearby building and grab that coin press out of the safe!
Don't forget to climb up that sign for the tools2.

Haul everything back to base and get yourself set up for asorting system. Something like this maybe:
http://imgur.com/a/mjqRN

Your next stop should be kitsune den to work on getting a full stack of Tranq Arrows.
-IGNORE IRISES
You have a very limited inventory so it's important you grab the good stuff. Irises and other flowers are used for dyes much later in the game when you have a ton of other workshops built. Save your space for useful things like mushrooms. All the mushrooms.

[GamesmasherOO7]

does anyone know where knotweed is?

[benchmade]

Originally posted by 1199chaselight:

does anyone know where knotweed is?

For making Taming Potion? Find it in the water aroung the shore. Yellow in color with reddish top (I think). Alone on bottom like Seaweed is. Hope this helps.

[Blaze1961]

Middle mouse button lets you use consumables directly from inventory

[:: Kemo ::]

Holding shift and using the scroll wheel will allow you to cycle through your hotbar items.

[CoLS Firestar]

(Crossposting.)
Take screenshots with 'P'.
You'll find them in My Documents/Animallica/Screens
This will take off the HUD automatically.

[Exsilium Games]

Originally posted by Greater Dog:

If you're wondering to yourself, how do I get more money in this game? Well, I found a coin press somewhere, I believe it was at Kitsunes Den, so if you manage to find that, and make a Blacksmithing house, you can mint your own coins! Coins are valuable to traders and currently traders can't buy items off you so I would suggest try working toward making a Blacksmith and finding that Coin Press station.

Update :: There is another coin press in Corpse Harbor inside a safe in a boarded up house. There's also another toolset in there as well ;3

I found the coin press in corpse harbor - Oddly enough, while you can buy stuff there you cant seem to sell stuff.

You can also use a Maul to break chains on the fence inside one of the buildings to get at the stuff inside, as well as the animals inside the pens.

[Exsilium Games]

Originally posted by CoLS Firestar:

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More importantly, make yourself a Bone Breaker, Shaver, and Gold Digger to have the much needed tools in the first few minutes of the game.

Now go hack some boards off a nearby building and grab that coin press out of the safe!
Don't forget to climb up that sign for the tools2.

What exactly does a Shaver do? Gold Digger = T2 pickaxe....

I found a Fireaxe in Corpse Harbor that does 11 dmg, matches the dmg of the Apocolypse sword you can craft.

[Exsilium Games]

Originally posted by Greater Dog:

Holding shift and using the scroll wheel will allow you to cycle through your hotbar items.

Nice tip.

[CoLS Firestar]

Originally posted by Exsilium:

What exactly does a Shaver do? Gold Digger = T2 pickaxe....

I found a Fireaxe in Corpse Harbor that does 11 dmg, matches the dmg of the Apocolypse sword you can craft.

Shaver= axe for trees.