Cave bears/lions attacking

[Merlin69]

How do you get your hunter to make a hasty retreat rather than fight and get killed?

[Marstil]

So far I have just paused and tried to run, but it has only worked if I get them moving before the animal hits them.

[Merlin69]

Seems odd to me that the people are only supposed to hunt the less wild animals but yet seem to want to fight a bear/lion -must be a bug with the AI?

[Panterich]

If more than 1 enemy is already attacking you it is better to just stay. At least you will fight back.
Otherwise try to catch a moment when you get hit (hp starts to drop) then quickly pause and queue an escape by double clicking right mouse button.

With a bear you can run away even if you don`t catch a good moment. In that case wait 1 second after unpausing, pause again and double right click again. But don`t repeat it for the third time whatever the result is.

Lions/wolves are kind of non-retreatable from.

[Xx*SPQR*xX]

The way I deal with bears/cave lions is I gather up a group of 3-5 hunters (Hold "h" down and drag mouse around camp to only get persons with hunting weapons) and hunt/kill/destroy entire groups of bears/lions that are hanging out around a reasonable distance from your camp and they will stop coming around. I do not know how to make them run away on their own without having to do it yourself.

[d102_KoT]

Cave bears are mean. Always send at least 3-4 villagers and try n lure one to rush you so you're dealing more one at a time. And never attack them with wood spears. I've lost plenty of guys trying to take them on. Cave lions aren't so bad individually but i'd send a 3-4 person squad to deal with more than one adult.

I've been micro-managing hunts more in my recent game. Splitting teams up 2x2 and attacking in a pincer movement (or with less aggressive prey, getting one guy to make your quarry run into a river/lake and have 2 other guys on the other side to spear it to death). It's rather fiddly, especially initially getting all the villagers together so they attack at the same time but it's a lot more effective then just sending guys to hunt and hoping for the best.

[Mugzz]

I usually just watch and laugh as he dies.

[saber fan]

Originally posted by Mugzz:

I usually just watch and laugh as he dies.

a true overlord

[David]

Originally posted by Merlin69:

Seems odd to me that the people are only supposed to hunt the less wild animals but yet seem to want to fight a bear/lion -must be a bug with the AI?

Humans can't outrun predators even in real life. I don't see a problem.

[Merlin69]

Thanks for your help, I know we can't outrun predators but in this game, surely we shouldn't be looking to take them on? Seems the trader doesn't get killed on his travels!

[OKOK]

If they r hungry and your guys r walking around. They get targeted as prey.
In this case death is hard to avoid unless they r near to friendly. Usually kids got higher chance to live as their default action is run away.

That why when they spawn near to town or my activities zone. I will hunt them down with massive hunters squads.

[Merlin69]

thanks

[d102_KoT]

Originally posted by OKOK:

If they r hungry and your guys r walking around. They get targeted as prey.
In this case death is hard to avoid unless they r near to friendly. Usually kids got higher chance to live as their default action is run away.

That why when they spawn near to town or my activities zone. I will hunt them down with massive hunters squads.

+1. Never trust a predator around where it can't be easily overcome (lone gatherer/miner/fisherman/children etc). If you can't, sometimes it's better to 'recycle' the object rather than risk a stroll through cave-bear country, especially if they're children.
If the predator nor it's cubs are hungry then they don't pose a threat (and young will never attack as far as I can tell) but you need to take into account how long it'll take to gather resources.
If you can't afford to delete the objects then you can move them around manually in a more circuitous route, running past the scary beasts. Sadly though, once you've manipulated their auto-gather route you need to force adults to pick up more than one item per trip (children unaffected as only able to gather one item) and they will usually drop sledges when running (I haven't worked out why they do/don't always drop them).

[Valar Morghulis]

While it won't help a solo hunter, it's worth noting that enemy AI is dumber than a box of rocks and will fixate on whatever hits it first. This makes it easy to kill things like cave bears, rhinos, mammoths, etc with minimal numbers.

Have your person in the lead hit it and then run like hell back through the rest, allowing them to kill worry free. Good ol' kite strats making a return in 2019

[TresChicago]

Originally posted by Merlin69:

How do you get your hunter to make a hasty retreat rather than fight and get killed?

how do you grow your colonist enough to have 4-5 hunters?

i just started a few days ago

i'm use to games similar to Minecraft and Colony Survival

and so this was a jump for me huge

but i like it, i like it a lot

if only i could keep enough food on hand, enough food to grow the colony, ans colonist, enough to food that'll feed, gather, hunt, craft and build to help grown

[OKOK]

Look at the star at the huts and spiritual building. These will draw more people in.

Next for dont put too many flag and dont increase number of people for each flag. This will reduce workload.

Select a group of animals and select hunt. Look out for people going out to hunt. Manually group them up then go hunt . 2 spear guy togethers can down most non predator.
4 hunter can down most animal.