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[ChildofSolitude]

(By the way, this is my first post on this forum, I just started playing the game about 2 months ago.)

I recently created the 'ultimate' world, putting all the settings to their max. It took a very long time to load. If your computer is sub-par, do not try what I did.
I've decided that the best way to explore was (For some reason) starting anew and making an epic adventure of penniless peasant to powerful, thousand-kill-list warlord. I've already made 1 fairly successful adventurer as a lasher that completed about six or so quests before I died from pressing the wrong button on a riverside.

I've more or less found out what threats you run from and what ones you can take, but my main problem is the darn boogeymen. Especially as an Outsider, they're almost impossible to survive. I've tried the mode about 5 times in the past hour or so, and each time my run was good, but I'd die from either boogeymen or some random warlord that one shotted me.

Does anyone have any good tips on how to do things right as an Outsider? The only way I see as to getting a bag is stealing it or raiding a tomb, and both are almost as dangerous as the boogeymen. My main problem is that either I explore and find a bandit camp to grab a bag from, or I stay close to the villages and never get anything good done.

Any good adventurers willing to give me tips, or should I just try something easier?

[BlackFlyme]

As an outsider, you start off with no backpack or armour. You don't even start with pants, it's just you and your two weapons; your spear and your dagger. So first priority is armour. The best place to get armour is from castles. They won't be hostile unless you've angered the civilization, and there is plenty of equipment that you are allowed to take, ranging from weapons to armour and clothing. The loot can be a bit random, but sometimes you will even find a backpack to hold your things in.

As for bogeymen, they only appear if you are alone. If you are traveling with at least one companion, they should not bother you. Alternatively, they will not appear on beaches or in mountains, so if needed you can camp out in one of these locations. They also won't appear indoors, and will disappear if their target goes indoors, so sleeping in a cave or a lair is also an option.

Speaking of companions, while having some around is nice, it will also increase the number of combatants that appear when you are ambushed, both by wildlife and by bandits. Fewer followers mean fewer enemies when you are ambushed. Though you can only be ambushed while fast-traveling or waiting/sleeping, to my knowledge.

Tombs are most definitely for advanced adventurers, due to the traps and the angry dead. The same principal goes for necromancer towers, but without the traps. Though if you are a night-creature (vampire, were-beast, necromancer, or thrall/husk) then the undead will ignore you. The necromancers might not be, but they will be less of a challenge without their zombie support.

I think that's all the info I can dump off of memory. Oh, one more thing, you can turn off bogeymen in the advanced world generator by setting their number of different types to zero.

[neblime]

you can also stop bogeymen by lighting a fire on every side of yourself before you sleep.
Just make sure you can fast travel away before you do this!

[Duuvian]

If your outsider starts as a peasant, a good idea is to find a beach near a city and look for crabs and horseshoe crabs. Not only are they weak, but they are also slow, so you can usually catch them before they escape into the ocean. If you use a blunt weapon, like a mace, they usually survive a lot of weapon strikes which help you become a better weapon user. You should probably find some clothing first though, as crabs can't penetrate clothing with their claws. Otherwise you will quickly accumulate small wounds which turn into scars and possibly even lose fingers and toes.

You should also sneak everywhere that won't slow your game down too much, and consider practicing throwing by picking up a whole bunch of rocks and then throwing them at your feet.

First of all though, you should learn to swim, because of all the above methods to becoming stronger it's possibly the most dangerous.