Monkeys and Tools

[Siyu]

Hi is it possible for monkeys to take tools from chest once the one they are uses breaks?

[Mx.Kaisho]

Push.

I want this, too. so annoying.

[FattyMooMooMan]

Actually I find using monkeys for combat to be the worst for bad durability - weapons break far too soon, go exploring and get a few adds and the monkeys stop fighting. I wish devs would enable to monkeys to fight using martial arts or broken weapons at a reduced damage amount rather than stop completely as running up to them on controller and giving new weapons mid-fight is a pain (thats if you have spare weapons to pass on).

In my view once you arm a monkey it should last for a decent trip, then you should only have to re-arm it before heading out again.


In general I think the durability of weapons is far too low, tools need a bit of improvement and only the crafting tool seems ok for durability. I can understand the initial stone tool sucking as its a stop-gap but I am constantly re-tooling or re-arming my monkeys distracting from actual building or exploration.

[FattyMooMooMan]

Maybe have a proper monkey inventory also you could load with a few spare tools/items. Maybe even different ones so you could assign one monkey other tasks with ease while out and about.

[Rous]

Teach a monkey to give tools, he will be there pending when it breaks. Fill a chest with tools and weapons and he will take them from there.
Give him order to learn - take a tool out of the chest - give a tool to someone who needs - he will imitate you

[FattyMooMooMan]

Great idea when sat in your base if that works but little use when out exploring. Still does not get around the poor durability on weapons or the generally shoddy task assigning system. Plus when there's a raid or you get that monkey to do something else then you need to teach it again.

I can imagine it now heading out to explore with one monkey carrying a chest, another handing out weapons to the others from that chest, wow cool idea, or not. Pretty poor work around for something that can be fixed with a few tweaks. You also forget that the one with the orders to hand out probably did not follow you from base while his services aren't required and is not handing out weapons on the front line. You could ask him to follow then teach him mid-combat to hand new weapons out.

Increase weapon durability, allow monkeys to fight unarmed if their weapon breaks at a much reduced capacity - still better than sitting there doing nothing while you get killed trying to give them weapons, oh wait the other two that could be armed and fighting are carrying a chest and trying to hand weapons out (if he remembers to) reducing your fighting squad.

Remembering a lesson that its taught and being able to enable and disable that while still able to be told to follow you without losing what they were just taught might help as well.

Some of these tricks work ok in a static base or location but I do not think they were tested well enough when out doing other things like sailing to another island and exploring.

Its early days yet and I am hoping the devs read these forums and figure out better ways to implement the monkeys.

[Calimarfornian]

Originally posted by Rous:

Teach a monkey to give tools, he will be there pending when it breaks. Fill a chest with tools and weapons and he will take them from there.
Give him order to learn - take a tool out of the chest - give a tool to someone who needs - he will imitate you

Are you saying this works? Because it doesn't work in the (switch) demo and this is the reason I haven't bought the game.

[Rous]

Sure it works, in the demo I did not get to test this, but in the game 1.0 it works. It's wonderful haha

[Talamarie]

Originally posted by Calimarfornian:

Originally posted by Rous:

Teach a monkey to give tools, he will be there pending when it breaks. Fill a chest with tools and weapons and he will take them from there.
Give him order to learn - take a tool out of the chest - give a tool to someone who needs - he will imitate you

Are you saying this works? Because it doesn't work in the (switch) demo and this is the reason I haven't bought the game.

I confirm what Rous said, it works.