stone golems and drakes everywhere

[Mrtoast29]

recently i've been trying to build a base in the mountains and everytime i go to build either a thousand drakes attack me or a stone golem spawns nearby and wreaks my ♥♥♥♥ does anyone have any advice to help

[adritheonly]

Build on the side of a cliff with only one access point or on top of a mountain that golems can't access. Don't build close to drake eggs or where the drakes respawn. Drakes are easy to one-shot with arrows.

[sibbs]

Bow kills Drakes and Golems with ease, use wooden arrows for a 1 shot kill on Drakes and if you've got them use Needle arrows on Golems for a 7-8 shot kill.

[WildLynx]

DO NOT kill the golems. They will respawn. Instead, lure them to an old and empty silver mine, then use the harpoon to drag them in.

[knighttemplar1960]

Drakes spawn more frequently near drake egg nests. Make sure there are none in the area. Golems spawn near silver veins and abandoned cabins so make sure the silver is mined out and avoid the cabins.

You can dig under a silver vein and not mine it out. If you get lucky enough for depth you can build a workbench under the deposit and it counts as sheltered. You can the plaster the area with work benches for spawn supression.

To be completely honest I've never built a lodge on the mountains. I usually repair or build a stone tower at the foot of the mountains, dig a taming pit for the wolves there, and then just chuck the silver ore over the edge of the mountain in the direction of my lodge and scoop up the sparkles once I get down the mountain.

Edit - Also DO kill the golems. They drop crystal that can be used to make transparent windows in your lodges that will still keep bats from raids out of your lodge.

[Exodite-Dragon]

Another note about stone golems: I also advocate killing them, but would recommend against using your bow. They are highly resistant to piercing damage, but incredibly susceptible to blunt.

What you want to do is bring an iron mace along, preferably as upgraded as you can make it. Bring an iron buckler or banded shield at the least, also as upgraded as possible. What you want to do is parry the one-handed attacks used by either type of golem. When they're staggered, move in and combo them with your mace.

If you're quick enough, you can combo them again as they're coming out of the stagger animation, and stagger them a second time from the sheer damage output alone, finishing them off with another swing or two.

This is much, much faster than whittling them down piecemeal with a bow; the reason I also suggest the iron mace over frostner for this task is that the bulk of frostner's damage is tied up in frost and spirit, not blunt, while the iron mace offers more than double frostner's blunt damage.

[blprice61]

Trap them until you no longer will be working in the area. Then use your old crude bow with wooden arrows to kill him. Free legit skill training for the weapon that gains by far the most benefit for high skill.

[electricdawn]

I love it when drakes are in the area: Free target practice and a lot of frost glands that I can use for Eye Scream. Best all around stamina food up to Mistlands and very easy to make.

[sibbs]

Originally posted by Exodite-Dragon:

Another note about stone golems: I also advocate killing them, but would recommend against using your bow. They are highly resistant to piercing damage, but incredibly susceptible to blunt.

What you want to do is bring an iron mace along, preferably as upgraded as you can make it. Bring an iron buckler or banded shield at the least, also as upgraded as possible. What you want to do is parry the one-handed attacks used by either type of golem. When they're staggered, move in and combo them with your mace.

If you're quick enough, you can combo them again as they're coming out of the stagger animation, and stagger them a second time from the sheer damage output alone, finishing them off with another swing or two.

This is much, much faster than whittling them down piecemeal with a bow; the reason I also suggest the iron mace over frostner for this task is that the bulk of frostner's damage is tied up in frost and spirit, not blunt, while the iron mace offers more than double frostner's blunt damage.

I cannot see how this method is faster than using 7 - 8 needle arrows, you do realise that 8 arrows fired from a bow at max draw is about 14 seconds.

[knighttemplar1960]

Originally posted by Exodite-Dragon:

Another note about stone golems: I also advocate killing them, but would recommend against using your bow. They are highly resistant to piercing damage, but incredibly susceptible to blunt.

What you want to do is bring an iron mace along, preferably as upgraded as you can make it. Bring an iron buckler or banded shield at the least, also as upgraded as possible. What you want to do is parry the one-handed attacks used by either type of golem. When they're staggered, move in and combo them with your mace.

If you're quick enough, you can combo them again as they're coming out of the stagger animation, and stagger them a second time from the sheer damage output alone, finishing them off with another swing or two.

This is much, much faster than whittling them down piecemeal with a bow; the reason I also suggest the iron mace over frostner for this task is that the bulk of frostner's damage is tied up in frost and spirit, not blunt, while the iron mace offers more than double frostner's blunt damage.

As an aside timing a block is not easy with a golem but dodging to the side works very well. Golems turn slowly and they are handed some are left handed some are right handed. If you dodge toward the side he swings with you can get 3 good swings in with the mace before he can turn to swing at you again. Dodge, repeat. Much faster than a bow and no risk of a mistimed block.

[Exodite-Dragon]

Originally posted by sibbs:

Originally posted by Exodite-Dragon:

Another note about stone golems: I also advocate killing them, but would recommend against using your bow. They are highly resistant to piercing damage, but incredibly susceptible to blunt.

What you want to do is bring an iron mace along, preferably as upgraded as you can make it. Bring an iron buckler or banded shield at the least, also as upgraded as possible. What you want to do is parry the one-handed attacks used by either type of golem. When they're staggered, move in and combo them with your mace.

If you're quick enough, you can combo them again as they're coming out of the stagger animation, and stagger them a second time from the sheer damage output alone, finishing them off with another swing or two.

This is much, much faster than whittling them down piecemeal with a bow; the reason I also suggest the iron mace over frostner for this task is that the bulk of frostner's damage is tied up in frost and spirit, not blunt, while the iron mace offers more than double frostner's blunt damage.

I cannot see how this method is faster than using 7 - 8 needle arrows, you do realise that 8 arrows fired from a bow at max draw is about 14 seconds.

No, I have never played this game. :oa

But seriously, man, if you're unaccustomed to fighting in melee, just say so.

[sibbs]

Originally posted by Exodite-Dragon:

Originally posted by sibbs:

I cannot see how this method is faster than using 7 - 8 needle arrows, you do realise that 8 arrows fired from a bow at max draw is about 14 seconds.

No, I have never played this game. :oa

But seriously, man, if you're unaccustomed to fighting in melee, just say so.

This game is made for the bow, as per my example of a golem kill 'you would still be walking to the golem and my target would be already dead'.
If you need bow lessons then you can always ask on these forums.