How do you deal with phirana when swimming?

[MythN7]

theres a few areas that have these and bodys of water between gaps of land.

Is there a way to safely swim, or fight them in the water?

Or are these placed in x spots on purpose as a sorta do not cross wall from the devls?

[Make Byzantine Great Again]

you could put on some armors to protect you from getting wounds, but it doesn't prevent actual damage. A little bit annoying, but 99% of my play time I don't need to bother with this.

[nextgengranny]

Near the fishing dock, there's a spot where you can safely wade, not swim, across to get to the bamboo. As for swimming w/ piranha, I don't recommend it w/o fairly good armor, as they can kill you if they get in enough bites.

[ONSLAUGHT]

The Piranhas are on the game only near the green hell map boarders, is the way that the developers found to evitate the players to try to get out of the map swiming, if you enconter a piranha, you are going the wrong way

[nextgengranny]

ONSLAUGHT a écrit :

The Piranhas are on the game only near the green hell map boarders, is the way that the developers found to evitate the players to try to get out of the map swiming, if you enconter a piranha, you are going the wrong way

This is incorrect. They're also found in the river that flows past the fishing camp.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

The fishing dock , at the large ship river system and in the swamps where Omega camp is you can actually see them and use a fishing spear to catch them.
Adding one not mentioned is the stingray he is in the smaller rivers creeks he's light colour and spots to be like cameo style and hard see.

[nextgengranny]

Jaunitta 🌸 a écrit :

The fishing dock , at the large ship river system and in the swamps where Omega camp is you can actually see them and use a fishing spear to catch them.
Adding one not mentioned is the stingray he is in the smaller rivers creeks he's light colour and spots to be like cameo style and hard see.

Ah, your post reminded me that I fished for piranha w/ a rod in the mangrove forest when playing SoA part 1. As you say, I could see them flashing about.

Once I know they're there & how they path, I like having stingray nearby for spearing. They're especially good to have around in the early game, when you might not always have time to hunt.

[MythN7]

well, the reason i posted this was cause in SOA, on jakes boat you first go to.
if you dive off the boat and try to swim accross there, or swim along the cliff wall to the waterfall, you get chewed up.

and the coords the wiki gave me for the weapon rack, ponited that way, but i guess, it was for the weapon rack in non SOA, as i noticed some time later there were 2 sets of coords for what mode your playing in.
Thus the game wanted me to swim accross that large river when using the wrong coord, ment for the other game mode lol.

[nextgengranny]

Sounds like you did what Onslaught said, & swam into "the end of the world". ^^

[ONSLAUGHT]

nextgengranny a écrit :

Sounds like you did what Onslaught said, & swam into "the end of the world". ^^

Yes the fishing dock, near the omega camp, jake boat, and the steam boat, are near the edge of the world, the piranhas are there for this ,an example of this is that in the fishing dock, piranhas only appear if you swim to the left of it (in the direction of the beach that a caiman spawns), if you go to the right (source of the river), they do not appear,
And the fishing trap and rod, can capture a piranha ever if aren't piranhas on the river, it's randon acording the size of the trap, and the bait

[Jaunitta 🌸]

fishing rod with fat maggot or lava
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1591349962
Fishing rod trap
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1652099925

[ONSLAUGHT]

Yes, i captured a lot of piranhas with my fishing rod trap in waterfall oasis, even without have piranhas in the lake

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Yeah funny that

[nextgengranny]

Onslaught, I'm not following you. Are you still saying piranha exist only at edges of the map? Sorry to press the point, I just want to be sure it's understood that piranha do occur in many other places, & can kill you if you get bit by enough of them.

[ONSLAUGHT]

You may not believe me, but I've spent over 300 hours playing this game, so I have a pretty good idea of ​​how this game works, you can even try to get attacked by piranhas at any other point in the game, but they'll just show up to attack you if you are at some point where you can try to leave the game world

[nextgengranny]

ONSLAUGHT a écrit :

You may not believe me, but I've spent over 300 hours playing this game, so I have a pretty good idea of ​​how this game works, you can even try to get attacked by piranhas at any other point in the game, but they'll just show up to attack you if you are at some point where you can try to leave the game world

It has nothing to do w/ believing you or not. There's a quest in SoA part 2 where you have to swim among piranha, & you can be killed by them if you don't use armor & sustain too many bites. And no, it's nowhere near a map edge.

This is why I've been adamant about correcting this.

And yes, you can be attacked by them in other places, such as the mangrove forest & the lake Anaconda Island sits on. The first time I was personally bit by one was while wading around by the fishing camp. The wound type they give is "scratch/abrasion".