Used black blood tools, pick got none, ax got loads. I’ll wait for the respawny and check with the clever and skinner.
I’ve had arguments with one of my favorite frenemys about the effectiveness of the pickax.
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Ok great, will try again with a hatchet.
Pickaxe is great for overall versatility but it just doesn’t yield as much, and possibly in this case, none for certain items. I’ll use it for stone and wood, but skinning nuh-uh.
However, I do remember getting black blood and ridiculous amounts of it with a skinning knife or pickaxe plenty before 
Try a pick. That’s what I used.
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Have you tested of the enc perk for rare sources makes a difference?
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Not yet, last I used that it was for the Jhil caves actually trying to see if it would give more arrows. It did slightly, quite a bit of BB too.
Started the companion quests yesterday. Freya somehow broke into my completely sealed base XD
I left for 5 minutes to go see Liu Fei and come back to her on my first floor instead?
Do we have any update on the Falling Through the Floor bug?
I’ve moved my regular followers to the hard ground around my well.
I wish there was some reconsideration about the Companions visiting your base during the quests to attain them, not only is it hard to locate them IF they come, they do not remain stationary. Even IF they remain stationary, it can also be a huge bother to do renovations.
I cannot remove him, I cannot do anything about him since he is currently bugged in progression for me.
Freya’s requirement of a Tavern Bar on top of it is just requiring players to slap it down if they don’t like bars (I DO NOT LIKE THE TAVERN BAR).
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This is getting more and more annoying by the minute -_-
I cannot go through this door because of him.
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Had luck with the black blood pick and hatchet. Tried again twice with the SM pickaxe and nothing?
Ran some tests in SP with control groupings of 10 each. Used only SM and BB tools.
Starmetal
Skinning knife X
Cleaver X
Hatchet ✓
Pickaxe ✓
Pick ✓
Sickle X
Black Blood
Hatchet ✓
Pick ✓
Sickle X
Skinning knife X
I must be incredibly unlucky or something was wrong because when this was occurring last night I only used the skinning knife after the pickaxe wasn’t working XD
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Thought i was going to have issues find the 0.0 spot on the beta map. Nope, thrall drops from the sky jerks around a bit vanishes and drops from the sky again. Must be the spot 
Fraya’s camp is starting to look like sinners 
Fraya is still returning home after a week and I still can’t find the boar to kill or any way to move the quest chain forward. I can get a second image of her to follow me hunting but that changes nothing. I’ve killed every boar in the highlands and the ones in range of where she will follow about 10 times with and without her following. I don’t really care to start a new character over one quest. Anyone figured out a fix to something similar?
The settlement system is totally wrong but I’m not sure it’s bugged or broken. I think it’s set up the way it’s acting with crafters doing what they want and not working for a living. When mine wander off, my tables say I should recruit thralls to get the buffs. When they return they don’t always show up on the tables where I want them. Sometimes they don’t return at all and die and other times they are floating in the air in the highlands. I was a strong supporter of some activity within my settlement but I was thinking more along the lines of fighters and pets wandering around like the bear cubs do. Most times I have no one at the crafting tables even if I give them an order to make something when they are standing there.
I have found that I can put one on follow then go outside and start killing creatures and the thrall does gain experience from my kills even though they aren’t with me. If I wander far enough away they do show up beside me until I return home but they fist fight with any enemy I target. They can be leveled up to 20 but only get some health and armor from grit and nothing else. Leveling them like that does cause them to abandon the table they were at and some other thrall might fill their spot while they are with me and can’t easily be removed to make room for the T4 I spent a long time searching for in the first place. I dread to see what is coming when it all goes live.
I suppose the good news is that if you have both Companion quests going at the same time and they’re ready for the next step, they can co-exist at your base simultaneously?
I dont see nothing wrong here
the thrall are just trying enter in the oven hole to clean it it might be a new secret function from the update 
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Today I intend to finish my raidme base and start “purges”{ 
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If anyone has been running purges what’s your results been?
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Same point that you’re at, currently doing a bit of farming for my army. I bought a bunch of cheap fighters and archers from Buc Bay and outfitting them with regular regalia, epic weapons, gas masks and the archers with a variety of special ammunition. I bought them because I cannot reliably test with converted fighters/archers as they disappear. I am not sure I have enough to afford an X purge as I’ve needed to use my gold for so many other things. But I have been keeping treasure.
I’ll report on any anomalies or bugs tomorrow when I believe I’ll be ready.
Setting out my fighters/archers I noticed they had spiced dried fish. I haven’t made any, there is none in my thrall pot, so where is it coming form.
I don’t have my fish farm up and running because I haven’t unlocked the good traps yet.
ETA: Armoring up my fighters; comb redeemed and guardian armors, and
4PM central us.
How do you tell player on the beta server you’re not thinking about them with out saying it. Give them 0 warning the server is going down.
I just need to set up a PC alarm to remind me.
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