Lost my first Karve to a serpent.

I've been beating serpents with flint arrows and a lv 1 fine bow for 100 hours just fine though admittedly there were some very close calls. Last night I had lv 3 or 4 iirc Hunters bow and bronze arrows and somehow still lost my karve to a serpent. (I killed it with a swing of my bronze sword after the boat broke and then drowned lol so it was very close to death when it broke.)

I have a feeling that this was because I accidently shot my own boat at least once, but just to make sure - are there starred serpents or larger, harder serpents currently in the game? I basically thought I didn't have to worry about them much and it turns out I'm dead wrong.
2:13 am, April 11, 2023
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Veseljko replied to Lost my first Karve to a serpent. April 10, 2023 @ 10:57:11 am PDT

no, no starred serpents in vanilla game. They are all the same.
You probably forgot to repair your ship or hit a couple of stones in shallow waters and started hunting with already damaged ship.
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DarthTanyon replied to Lost my first Karve to a serpent. April 10, 2023 @ 11:08:17 am PDT

this is tragic.. a Krave can take quite a few hits from a serpent.. it does sound like you probably hit your own boat once or twice or perhaps it was low on health from something else.... I stop and repair often.. with the weapon you had and arrows should have been easy work.
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morrokain10587 replied to Lost my first Karve to a serpent. April 10, 2023 @ 12:36:14 pm PDT

Ok thanks for the info. And yes my boat was damaged at the time because it was the second serpent I encountered on that scouting trip and I hit a rock at some point. Combine all of that and yeah I probably should have sailed to the nearby meadows and repaired before continuing.

But the mission was a success at least. I found my second large swamp and I'm hoping its filled with crypts hehe. And I got 20 serpent meat and some scale as a bonus. Luckily recovering everything was fairly easy.

The hit to skills always stings though.
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