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StrongAxe

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What to rob?
« on: March 22, 2010, 03:58:23 pm »

I've noticed that most of what I kill doesn't carry money or valuables (wolves, bears, cougars).  What can I kill that will have something of value, without angering a town that I might want to do business with later?  Also preferably things that don't mob me with arrows.  Arrows kill ...
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2010, 04:00:37 pm »

Since when wolves wear jewelry or coins? :P

If you want jewelry, go to a shop and buy a bone ring or amulet in exchange of your socks.
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2010, 04:31:47 pm »

Some caves are filled with items, but I guess that's not quite as satisfying.  Also, if you get people to join you and then you lead them into dangerous fights and they die, you can take their stuff.
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2010, 04:46:08 pm »

Rob everything at night.
Then proceed to the next human civ on the line to sell your wares.
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2010, 07:59:59 pm »

The consensus here seems to be: There is no such thing. If ya want lots of loot, you'll need to raid the villages or plunder your past forts.

The only alternative I can think of is the occasional megabeast/semimegabeast that has a history of stealing from a nearby village. They'll often have trage goods scattered around their cave, often for hundreds of yards out. Still, thats hard to find, I've only seen it once that I can recall.
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2010, 09:04:01 pm »

In my experience, most caves have some sort of valuable loot in them, it's just a matter of finding the cave itself. Ask locals about the surroundings, they'll tell you about caves in the area. If you're lucky, you might find yourself a kobold cave; those contain lots of loot as well as easy-to-kill kobolds who can sometimes carry GCS silk clothing, which is ridiculously valuable.

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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2010, 12:11:38 am »

Find someone who is wearing something that you want. If they are on top of / next to a tree or a bush, light it on fire (using the pickup command). Once they die, you can loot them. Also, you can pick up clay, pebbles and sand and sell them.
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2010, 10:58:22 am »

If you want jewelry of your kills retire in a goblin fort have a diffent
Adventurer visit then re start the first Adventurer,
youl get loads jewelry hand from your kill list,sell this.
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2010, 02:53:40 pm »

Dark fortresses often have lots of armor, weapons, and random goods in them. Also, if you don't mind annoying the dwarfs they have the crazy valuable GCS silk. Besides, the dwarfs don't really do anything. It's much easier to get quests from humans.
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2010, 09:36:36 am »

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Dark fortresses often have lots of armor, weapons, and random goods in them.
Maybe I'm just new, but I don't know what a "Dark fortress" is.  Is it a modded feature?
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2010, 09:55:16 am »

It's a home of goblins - a purple (or dark grey), tall 'pi' symbol on the world map.

They're built at the edges of mountain ranges, and consist of one to three obsidian towers, sometimes also a temple./
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Re: What to rob?
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2010, 11:57:30 am »

Hmmm, last time I messed with a Dark Fortress their lovely human archer decided to pop up out of a stairwell unannounced and send his quarrel directly into my unarmored beating heart.
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