Hardstuck Island 3

[SeLveX]

I'm on island 3 right now and no source of income. My defenses are solid.

I have one deer on the right end of the map and I will not waste my time trying to bring that thing to my base (which would probably take 2 hours considering the behaviour)

I can't do anything.
Was enjoying the game so far, but after 2 hours I suddenly can't do anything but - what seems like to be the solution - kill myself with 7 gems, which I will never get back.

Any solutions?

[Xxanno]

Is it snowing? If yes, try to recruit spear men. They can fish. If it is not snowing should you clear some forest and let the archers hunt.

The winter ends after about 14 days.

[SeLveX]

Not expanded enough for spear men.
I cleared a lot of forest and that didn't help. The next rabits I found are extremely far out, approximately 5 walls I would have to built until there for which I don't have any money.

I can't even cut trees right now because I'm at 0 coins.

[Xxanno]

Originally posted by SeLveX:

Not expanded enough for spear men.
I cleared a lot of forest and that didn't help. The next rabits I found are extremely far out, approximately 5 walls I would have to built until there for which I don't have any money.

I can't even cut trees right now because I'm at 0 coins.

Then the deer it is. Either that or a total reset. Seven gems is a lot.

[JamesLaw]

You are pretty much screwed. If you dont prepare for winter, its game over.

Few tips:

Winter happens Day 49 roughly. That's overall, not just per island. Hit escape and check top right to see what day it is.

Get the banker if winter is coming and start pouring coins into him. It might not seem important now, but that small amount of interest can make the difference midway through winter.

Spearman upgrade is I believe the one after the knight upgrade. Its imperative that you get that upgrade ASAP.

If day 49 is approaching, just stay on your current island and alt tab. Its boring as hell (hopefully they tweak this) but it wont be auto game over.

Cheers.

[SeLveX]

I don't know about all the implications of winter, but I'm pretty sure that in my specific case winter is not the problem; just spawning somewhere without any rabbits or any other source of income.

I was rich af on the previous island but could only expand a single wall outward on this one before being stuck.

64 ingame days without a single coin and still far off from being overrun.

[Crusher Von Splattenheim]

This is how it works:

1. Rabbits spawn from rabbit thickets. They're these bushy looking things in fields of grass.
2. Rabbit thickets spawn in fields of grass.
3. If there is no field of grass? There is no rabbit thicket.
4. If the field of grass is too small? There is no rabbit thicket.

Two major exceptions:
1. Winter kills all grass. No grass? No rabbit thicket. (Don't worry, it'll come back in Spring.)
2. Rabbit thickets are only allowed to spawn outside of your kingdom. See those background walls that appear every time you build a defensive wall? That's your kingdom. Your territory. Rabbit thickets will not spawn anywhere in your territory.

Even if you had a field of grass that was spawning rabbit thickets and rabbits like nobodys business for days, the second you expand past it? It will immediately despawn all those rabbit thickets. (rabbits will stay until hunted.)


Here's how to manipulate grass:

1. Grass wants to expand as much as possible.
2. Grass is blocked by everything. If a tree is in the way? It will stop spawning right at the forest's edge. You cut that tree down? The grass will grow up to the next tree. So on and so forth.
3. Grass is blocked by everything. You build a wall? Unless the greed knock that wall down and it stays down for awhile the grass will stop dead in it's tracks. If you ever want a gigantic grassy field spawning rabbit thickets and rabbits make sure the grass overtakes a mound you want to turn into a wall by quite a bit before turning it into said wall.

[SeLveX]

Thanks for the tips. Especially the last one, I realized that on my second playthrough.
... Which I started by now. I just reset the last one as I couldn't do anything. I don't use the griffon anymore but the deer mount instead, so that I can bring back deer for hunting. I've cleared two dock portals already and am now headed towards the metal upgrade to destroy the cliff portals.

[Silvi the Bun]

Not sure if this was mentioned but I believe new rabbit thickets down't spawn in autumn so despite it not being winter you might be screwed regardless. I found this to be the case in one of my playthrous where I had to wait till after winter to finally get bunny bushes outside of my wall.