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[Lukewarm]

What's going to make the corpse any worse? It's not going to get killed by a bear again.

[pisskop]

Surprised how easy it was to survive once I got over the initial 'murder the everything' phase.

Disappoint at how having skilled axe-skill resulted in an asshole with a spear stabbing my face.

Also, by survive I mean 'live off subsistence fishing while I cobble together half a house over the summer, and make one trip into town, wherein I met a hobo who asked me to go to town with him and then he got murderized in a swamp by a redcoat Brit with a scimitar.  But the murderer fled and I was able to loot his body without the moral dilemma I had about murdering him myself, so yay.


Not to comfortable with the idea of trapping, and not sure how long Ill be playing.  For a 20 year old game it seems fairly repetitive and short.  what do after you make a house?

[scriver]

"Redcoat Brit"?

[Kagus]

Trapping is where the big bucks are (hoho, punnery!), both as far as trade goods and food are concerned. A nice pit trap can get you undreamt-of wealths of meat, fat, furs and even a little combat XP, all depending.

As far as what to do after making a house, you of course want to make sure that the house is equipped with everything you need to make it through winter comfortably (food, furs for the bed, skis, firewood). Once basic long-term survival is taken care of, it's mainly a matter of setting your own goals to achieve.

Most folks like to sharpen their weapon skills a bit and go raid the nearest Njerp camp, preferably under the cover of darkness. Personally, I've always wanted to get a couple cows/bulls and enough furs to build a full kota, so I can just load all the heavy furs onto the pack animals along with any other necessities, and then just take off for a long-term nomadic trip, cutting down new slender trunks and setting up the kota again wherever I decide to stop for a while.

[Mephansteras]

It is rather repetitive. Then again, life is rather repetitive. I find the repetition in URW relaxing as opposed to boring like most games, though.

And, yeah, other than survival all other goals are really your own. You could go around to all the nearby villages and make friends/do quests for them. You could work on building up enough food and gear to be able to raise small raiding parties and attack Njerp camps. You could go for the more challenging path of active hunting rather than fishing/trapping for your food.

[pisskop]

He's got a red coat and a scimitar.


I feel like he's a fictional entity based on a mixture of enemies rather than based on any culture.  Kind of a generic 'bad guy' whose lifestyle isn't really historically based, whereas the other tribes have this story to them, and theme (such as slash and burn farmers, island traders, western intermediaries, nomadic tundra dwellers, herders, or semi-intermediary farmers who function as a stopgap against the njerptz, who are, again, fictional entities whose cultural choices are at jarring odds with the rest of the game (and not just because they are always hostile).



Anywho, I dont mind the game thus far, Im just not sure about my motivations to come.  If I have to plan for food management (and lacking salt, or winter, or the side of a heated room I do) I also have to plan for the future in other ways.


I deleted this character, as I am wont to do in games I am learning.  Ive been gravitating to riverheads for the most part in my game, where I usually go in open world games I have the freedom to do so in.  But its so boring and peaceful, and there are absolutely less robbers and animals around.

[nomoetoe]

Well I got rather lucky, It's early winter and I was hunting seals, partially for hide and meat and partially due to me hating them since the incident. I had just managed to kill one and I didn't think I had a knife on me, so I go back home to get one. I already had one on me, feeling rather silly I head back to the now dead seal and there is a reindeer there now, I start shooting at it hoping to get lucky and kill it before it got away, it wasn't really running away though, it was kind of stuck on the corned of the ice sheet I was on and wouldn't run past me, after a few shots it ended up dying on top of the seal I just killed. So I skin them and get their meat and head back.

Later the next day an elk was in one of my pit traps and I was able to kill it to. I thought I was just going to get a seal, I really wasn't expecting to get a reindeer and elk to. Feels good man.

[Ametsala]

Sometimes the game just loves you

In my experience, when on a hunting trip there's nothing to hunt, and when on an exploring/trading trip there's elks and other big game everywhere.

I remember my latest character nearly starving to death because he couldn't catch any fish for days. Finally he caught a pike which takes hours to roast, and I was seriously expecting the character to die of starvation before the roasting was done

[Robsoie]

Forgot to check but in early april, they released for the public the stable 3.50 version :
http://www.unrealworld.fi/

the changelog for those interested to know the bugfixes and new stuff since the 3.50 beta 2 :
http://www.unrealworld.fi/350-changelog.txt

[Akura]

- fixed: milk from rams and bulls

I would hate to be the player who first noticed that one.

[Ametsala]

3.51 released on Steam and for Lifetime Members. Will be released for everyone later this month.

Spoiler: changelog (click to show/hide)

Version 3.51 (stable) changelog

** Saved characters from version 3.40-> are compatible with this version. **


- added: map of known areas (F6) remembering the toggleable settings to show or not to show cultural areas and map markers

This was once featured, but got broken somewhere along the way. The settings are remembered after exiting F6 map view and persist until toggled otherwise. The display for both cultural areas and map markers is on by default when the game is first started.

- added: ask NPCs to find quest related persons in villages

You can now ask villagers if certain quest related persons are around. This is done by automatically appearing chat options within the common greet dialog. For example:
"Is Sampsa around?" or "Where can I find Tornia?"
All the quest related persons, including the original quest giver, are covered within these chat options if you are aware of them.
There are some exceptions though; NPCs who are involved in quests themselves can't be asked for others whereabouts, but there are always enough common villagers around to assist you.
When it comes to finding quest related persons in other villages the chat options become available only when you are in the right village where the person can be actually found. This can be considered slightly gamey in our standards, but it is more helpful that way.

- adjusted: no more multiple villagers with same names

Possiblity of two NPCs having the same name within a single village has been removed. In seriously crowded clustered villages it is theoretically possible that villagers might run out of unique names, but real chances for that to happen are practically non-existent.

MIGRATION NOTICE: Within villages created in the previous version two persons with same names may still exists.

- added: dozens of new northern names

Due to aforementioned adjustment it was necessary to add lots and lots of new names for northern men and women.

- improved: NPC name randomization routines

NPC culture has more distinguishable influence to their given names. There's noticeable variation between the eastern and western names, but especially the current wider range of northern names now appear unique from rest of the world.

- added: light a torch with another torch

If you are already carrying a lit torch a new torch can be lit of it. This is done in normal fashion by [a]pplying the torch to be lit.

- balanced: forest spirit's attitude in regards to hunted animals - size and significance matters

When an animal is felled the forest spirit's mood change and need for compensation by sacrifices now depends on the size and significance of the animal. Previously almost all the killed animals were valued equally by the spirits which resulted in small game hunters often receiving unreasonable disgrace. Now it is far more tolerable to hunt smaller game and get along with only casual sacrifices every now and then.

- fixed: only one sacrifice allowed per day

If any kind of sacrifice to any spirit was performed even the different kind of sacrifices during the same day were considered excess. This was not intentional, and is now fixed back to normal:
You can perform multiple sacrifices on daily basis as long as they are targeted at different spirits, ie. forest or water spirit, or if the act of sacrificing is a part of unique spell.

- fixed: spoiled food items were seemingly accepted as sacrifices

Now it is foolish to try that sort of sacrifices.

- fixed: former companions never agreed to be hired again

Despite of their "maybe in the future" responses former companions did never reach proper status to be hired again. This is fixed now and companions can be rehired after a varying NPC dependant timespan from few months to full year.

MIGRATION NOTICE: Rehiring possibility timespan may appear glitchy as companionship date information was broken in the previous version. For most succesfull rehiring of former companions try it at villages that were visited long time ago.

- fixed: skinning young animals mistakenly gave adult animal size skins

Now skins obtained from young animals are more or less smaller depending on the cub/calf actual age and size.

- fixed: village items getting easily corrupt upon crash

Crash security improvements added in version 3.50 are hereby improved/fixed in regards to certain crash vulnerable village items.

[SaberToothTiger]

ptw

[Robsoie]

bump for greater justice.

UnrealWorld 3.52 has been released a couple of days ago
http://www.unrealworld.fi/urw_downloads.html

Changelog :
http://www.unrealworld.fi/352-changelog.txt

[Madman198237]

PTW, grabbed the latest version and am starting a new character now.

Anyone have recommendations for a good metalworking mod, if there is such a thing? I haven't found one quite to my liking though I'll admit to not searching all that hard. Anyway, having one would increase my enjoyment of the game substantially.

[Robsoie]

As i play without mods, i can't recommend any.
That said, their current board have a modding section and the thread at the top of it currently features a mod that has some iron working amongst many more things :
https://www.unrealworld.fi/forums/index.php?topic=1957.0