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Author Topic: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way  (Read 43302 times)

Slayerhero90

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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #255 on: August 05, 2012, 07:44:46 pm »

313. If you might die from it, you probably will.
314. Trolls, while seldom found, are very dangerous, especially if you are a kobold or other brittle race.
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Re: 200 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #256 on: August 06, 2012, 10:50:56 pm »

266. Don't EVER try to teach yourself to swim with no prior skill.
Especially in 7/7 water.
You'll drown.


Taught myself from Not Swimmer to Legendary in a Murky Pool. Whenever I started to drown, I quickly went back to the surface, up until Novice/Adequate. Then at that point, I managed to wait, in the water, for three days, gaining swimming skill, without freezing. To this day, I have no idea how that is possible, but you CAN teach yourself to swim with no prior skill, it's just tricky.  ::)


(I did this on current 2012 version of Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode, so it isn't a previous version bug.)
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #257 on: August 07, 2012, 12:54:49 am »

Yeah, I've taught a couple adventurers now from no skill up to novice or so, so they can cross rivers without sputtering and flailing.  Quite possible.

I still tend to plunk 5 points down on getting novice swimmer at character creation, because it really is just greatly tedious...

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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #258 on: August 07, 2012, 11:31:27 am »

315. don't ever go to a tomb. ALONE.

316. if you slay a companion (even my accident) Don't bother going back to the fort you got them from. they will gut you..
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #259 on: August 08, 2012, 05:47:54 pm »

288. Swimming in frozen environments, and at night-time in temperate environments, is suicide.

289. If you ever get pulled out of fast travel and feel uneasy, it's a good time to start sneaking. Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean the crossbowman can't see you.

It had to be done. Those missing two were getting on my nerves a bit.
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #260 on: August 10, 2012, 05:57:35 pm »

318: If you ever feel safe, you will die as violently as possible within the next few minutes.
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #261 on: August 10, 2012, 09:04:22 pm »

319: any time you have a  character with a kill list that take a few minutes to scroll to the bottom to it will die in the most anticlimactic way possible
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #262 on: August 13, 2012, 06:57:54 am »

320: Do not Surround yourself with trees/campfires, get bored, and light the trees.  Boogeymen will not be your greasy problem then.
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #263 on: August 13, 2012, 01:26:09 pm »

320: Do not Surround yourself with trees/campfires, get bored, and light the trees.  Boogeymen will not be your greasy problem then.

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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #264 on: August 13, 2012, 08:24:19 pm »

Start a new adv.  go find a tree, or a spot adjacent to several trees.  light all non tree spots on fire.  Get bored, light trees on fire.  Watch! !!you!! have fry like bacon...
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #265 on: August 13, 2012, 08:35:15 pm »

321: boogeymen can kill titans. -_-
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #266 on: August 13, 2012, 09:30:07 pm »

321: boogeymen can kill titans. -_-

They're not on the same team? And bogeymen vanish upon death so you couldn't have thrown them...
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #267 on: August 15, 2012, 03:40:20 pm »

322: Hooves are more deadly than teeth or claws. A goat could mess you up as easly as a wolf, if not more.
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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #268 on: August 15, 2012, 03:44:43 pm »

323: That goblin macemane you didn't see can be the equivalent of a death sentence. That ledge he made you doge off into four pissed off bandits can be considered a curbstomp battle.

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Re: 500 Things about Wilderness survival that you learnt the hard way
« Reply #269 on: August 15, 2012, 06:10:29 pm »

324. giant sponges are party poopers , your companions will fight them until they drown or get pushed to death .
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