Keep doing what you're doing. Upgrade your gear, unlock new food (wheat and flax must be grown in the plains), and be careful with the enemies. They hit hard, and the fulings will swarm you hard. Piercing weapons work well on the Lox, if they don't bite your face off or crush it first.

And drain the tar pits. The good tar is at the bottom.

look and listen till you get familiar with foes....oh a favourite of mine is to fire any arrows at stone plains buildings to hear the furlings complaining :-) and know they are there. Oh and maybe not run in a straight line away from certain baddies

Originally posted by Suzaku:

Keep doing what you're doing. Upgrade your gear, unlock new food (wheat and flax must be grown in the plains), and be careful with the enemies. They hit hard, and the fulings will swarm you hard. Piercing weapons work well on the Lox, if they don't bite your face off or crush it first.

And drain the tar pits. The good tar is at the bottom.

Me and my friend tried to build the ground up with the hoe. It didnt work. How do you drain tar pit?

Think of it like a bowl. If you can't fill it, empty it. (fluid physics)

I only drain tar pits that have a nearby stream or a near a coastline. I prefer to dig backwards from the water, which is going to eventually be the lowest point of the ditch. For some reason digging backwards is a more effective way to get a slight slope without bumps. Dig towards the tarpit, try to chose the straightest route that has no large rocks with their tops just peeping above the ground. Make a gradual inclining ditch towards the tarpit.

WARNING: Make sure to begin this project immediately after killing all the growths residing in the target tarpit.

Once you reach the tarpit remove the final wall of ground and wait a few minutes for it to drain. There will probably be a small pool left in the tarpit, in which case remove some more material where the tarpit meets the ditch. It may be necessary to do some more work on the ditch to remove high spots or increase its overall depth.

Most tarpits have a low point, with a depression in the ground that runs to a water source. This is the most common sense route to dig one's ditch, so look for the slight ravine that runs from the tarpit to the coast or the creek.

Draining a tarpit will not eliminate the 2-3 growths that live there, so be cautious when approaching tarpits you have drained as the growths will respawn every 2-3 game days.

Prior to writing this I drained 2 tarpits and got 173 tar. It is best to take a look at the tarpit with your eyes level to the surface. Look to see if it has big balls of tar at the surface and/or just below. Tarpits with lots of these big globs will provide the most tar. The ones with the big globs can provide around 100 tar, ones without 18-30.

Originally posted by Complaintdesk:

I only drain tar pits that have a nearby stream or a near a coastline. I prefer to dig backwards from the water, which is going to eventually be the lowest point of the ditch. For some reason digging backwards is a more effective way to get a slight slope without bumps. Dig towards the tarpit, try to chose the straightest route that has no large rocks with their tops just peeping above the ground. Make a gradual inclining ditch towards the tarpit.

WARNING: Make sure to begin this project immediately after killing all the growths residing in the target tarpit.

Once you reach the tarpit remove the final wall of ground and wait a few minutes for it to drain. There will probably be a small pool left in the tarpit, in which case remove some more material where the tarpit meets the ditch. It may be necessary to do some more work on the ditch to remove high spots or increase its overall depth.

Most tarpits have a low point, with a depression in the ground that runs to a water source. This is the most common sense route to dig one's ditch, so look for the slight ravine that runs from the tarpit to the coast or the creek.

Draining a tarpit will not eliminate the 2-3 growths that live there, so be cautious when approaching tarpits you have drained as the growths will respawn every 2-3 game days.

Prior to writing this I drained 2 tarpits and got 173 tar. It is best to take a look at the tarpit with your eyes level to the surface. Look to see if it has big balls of tar at the surface and/or just below. Tarpits with lots of these big globs will provide the most tar. The ones with the big globs can provide around 100 tar, ones without 18-30.

So what your saying is build a ravine or trench to a nearby body of water if there is one?