The raiders way!

[stelagel]

These days i had the privilege to meet in the Playstation section @Egis511. Apparently we share the same madness and he seems to enjoy challenging gaming on pve.
So what a surprise i had today to accept a message from him on psn asking me to participate in a challenge similar to the one i made the August of 22 before the great change of this game with the age of sorcery.
It was the “build a house without crafting tools” challenge that you had to build something only from looting tools and weapons.
This one however is different, Egis511 called it “The raiders way”. You can only loot chests and dead npcs, you cannot use tools for harvesting among other things you’ll see down to the list. I gladly accept the challenge and i will choose a random official server to start a new character. Thanks a million @Egis511 from the bottom of my heart m8, you really fixed my week .
Let’s see the rules a bit…

1. Only looting, no harvesting is allowed exept aloe leafs.
2. No personal crafting menu is allowed, exept the building hammer (the crafting sequence will automatically fix twines if you have fiber too) . That means no torches, no bedrolls, no healings from your personal crafting menu. If you happen to loot a torch you can repair it back to your base in a crafting bench, but not in your menu.
   Same goes with healing items, you can fix them only in an alchemist bench, but not on your menu.
3. No legendary weapons allowed, only crafted weapons in the blacksmith bench. Yet how you’ll get star metal or obsidian? Only looting of course and then dismantling bench.
4. No pets or thralls allowed, including dancers, only crafters and a horse, but just one, keep it alive (that’s a joke ).
5. Only gold and silver merchants allowed, no blood crystal merchants allowed.

Objectives!

1. find at least one named crafter of each category
2. Build a complete tier 3 base with all the tier 3 benches.
3. Accept a purge
4. Gather the necessary to escape the lands.

So with this rule set i am about to begin.
Let’s go Bella, duty calls!

[erjoh]

Soooo about up to level 40 in sepermeru and then complete your ways in Mounds to get the end game armor and weapons.

[Crompox]

…

“Incorrect handling of c*cks!”

Now that IS a crime!

Good luck on your latest madness!

[stelagel]

That’s a great part of the plan correct, will you participate?

[erjoh]

I’ll try it out over the weekend and see how far I get. I see lots of stomach issues since I don’t recall cooking fires being in the loot tables so food poisoning is just a way of life.

[SpherisCore]

Fat Grubs are your friends, use a tool on them, don’t handpick them!

[stelagel]

You can’t harvest anything than aloes, not even meat. You cannot loot with hands from the floor, so fat garbs are out!
You gain only the raiders way, no other way!

[erjoh]

you do realize your t3 base will take about 3 years to make, right? No plant fiber farming, no resin harvesting, no bark, no skinning. You will be lucky to get one foundation piece made each week.

[SpherisCore]

Oh… You’re mad

[stelagel]

I just recreate character, i accidentally fixed twine, so i had to recreate character! No cheats allowed

[SpherisCore]

The Evil Twine

[stelagel]

It was @Egis511 idea, i am just enjoying it .

[sestus2009]

@stelagel I’m not going to say you are Masochistic but you’re Bella is definitely a bad influence.

[Egis511]

She definitely is

[stelagel]

It’s my fault!
I got over exited and i didn’t think all the parameters correct!
I will have to do one small change to make this challenge flow better. I did manage both on official server and on single player barbaric mode to find twines. On official i got supreme lucky on Darfari chests. On single player i got a bearer lvl 2 that she gave me twines. Yet it was not fun at all, not even challenging. So yes, you can leave your crafting menu to fix automatically these twines so you’ll have a building hammer.
The challenge is ruined by this little detail, and no matter how fun it starts, the twine seaking in exile lands is ruining it!
I believe @Egis511 will agree with this too.
Tomorrow i start fresh on a better official server, the one i randomly choose is a bit ruined .

[stelagel]

I accidentally placed yesterday my day one on my other topic lol.

Challenge! How many tier 4 crafters i can gather in a week in Siptah island only from camps

Today is my second “day first” . I checked a couple other official servers, but the situation was similar. So without further delay i went sp barbaric mode and i’ll leave the official effort for another day. I started really good, fortunately the starting river is clean and a player can proceed lvling and gearing easy. A fast raid on the Darfari abysmal camp is giving you stone weapons to be able to fight in the starting river. Tessa and the other beloved fellows are giving you fast and easy me…

Anyway, my day 2 will be posted correctly…, i think let me check again… Ok!

Today i didn’t spend a lot of time in this challenge, @SpherisCore gave me interesting things to which i am great full and i spend most of my time there. Thanks Spheris .
Yet our objective now is this challenge so let’s give some answers to some guestions…

@erjoh

No plant fiber farming, no resin harvesting, no bark, no skinning

Darfari camps are giving plenty of fiber in simple raids, so fiber won’t be an issue at all.
This is an hour farming around the Darfari. Lvl 40 still and i loose time on “pointless” fights because i need to do my lvl up too. So when 60, you just run from camp to camp with your horse and you gather in way less time .

Bark now seems like an issue, but not really, dogs of the desert is your raid for bark and iron. Later on with end game bench and named carpenter you can create bark from wood, so this will be covered too.
Resin from driers, so this wont be and issue as well.
What will be a difficult task is hide and skins. I will have to use a solution i hate, but unfortunately it will be the most efficient way to get skin.
I will go and farm baby pets to put them in the compost so they’ll decay fast and give me carcasses to place in the fluid press. This way i’ll get my extra skin. Of course black hand has numerous drops of feline pelt and rhino hide and i will use this option too. For elephant hide i can kill frost giants, they drop a lot. So eventually everything will be settled, worry not my dear @erjoh .

Other than that, i saddle my horse today, i finally got lvled to start crafter hunting too and i slowly started my resin production.

Tomorrow my plan is to take my way to jungle. I will search for @Fia (i had some time to say hello, ) and lvl up the best i can. Plus i want to go to Teimos camp for argosean dream dust. I still didn’t find any torch and the nights in the north are pitch black. Plus i believe that i will gain and some feline pelt.
That’s all for today, see you tomorrow .

[erjoh]

Lol. I tried it and dammit I kept getting arrows as freaking weapons. There is only so much bare knuckles can do. I got frustrated and put down the controller. I can’t rely on RNG because the fates and I aren’t speaking anymore… something about how they don’t appreciate me trying to get a group thing on…blah blah sisters blah blah jerk blah blah curse on you and your descendants

[stelagel]

Rng will always be the god of this game, like @Onomog said a few days ago in a post. Lifting you to the skies or digging you in the grounds from despair.
It’s very difficult in the beginning to gain weapons. Then you may look for a day about something and never show up. That’s the challenging part however. @Egis511 was trying to gain a single piece of twine the whole day with an inventory completely full just to fix the building hammer.
So having an inventory full, difficulty to find weapons and then again with broken durability, at the time passes you get despaired. That’s why twine for building hammer only should go out of the equation. The meaning of gaming, challenging or not, is having fun above all. And the twine seeking was not fun at all.
Anyways!
For a good start i always use skulker end, or something like it, the Darfari camp in front the Abysmal dungeon. The agro now is so damn lazy, the population of this camp has a huge reduction and it’s unbelievable easy to go in and loot fast the chests with a correct strategy. For some reason i will always find at least one stone weapon. Then i go above to the other Darfari camp and i raid the same way. In the very beginning i don’t hold in my inventory anything than weapons, armor pieces and salted berries that you gain a lot from Darfari camps. So in maximum 20 minutes i have stone weapons and play in the starting river to lvl up a bit and go further decent.
Unfortunately this cannot happen in official servers! People build like crazy there, destroying both spawns and performance. Same goes with Sepermeru, you’ll be lucky to find a spot to build a small cabin. But the lags are truly frustrating, you simply want to quit. That’s the part of me that was agreeing with @DeaconElie on save the oasis of nekket.
For me the solution to this will be to bring back the blitz servers but for pve. So people can enter and play challenging with excellent performance! One in each region would be more than enough! I believe that streamers need these common battle grounds even for speed runs online. I cannot do a speed run because i enter galamans tomb and the crocodiles are not there in single player. I have to go there times in and out until they spawn. Then again in volcano you may have to repeat the fight because the boss vanishes . On line these are always there, always work properly. Not to mention the extremely slow reaction on loading screens and all the rest. PlayStation is absolutely not for speed runs.
Thanks for the Sunday morning chat Erjoh, it’s always a pleasure m8 .

[SpherisCore]

@stelagel

So when 60, you just run from camp to camp with your horse

But uh… Why do you have a horse?
You picked up a foal, doesn’t that count as harvesting?

[stelagel]

And aloes are allowed to be harvested. In the rules…

@stelagel

No pets or thralls allowed, including dancers, only crafters and a horse

How will you gain a horse if you ain’t harvest one? But generally “stealing” babies it’s the raiders way, so it’s not harvesting it’s stealing , you just stole a baby from it’s mother . There for all the babies can be stolen!