Originally posted by wizard_of_woz:

Originally posted by redgreen999:

Good to know. Just have to stay alive long enough to build it. Chopping wood brought 3 Draugrs, 2 blobs, 5 skels, numerous greydwarves and 1 troll. All curious to see what was making the raquet. Fortunately they didn't all come at once. That was 1 half days worth.

Now this is fairly near where Elder was. I have mined 3 copper mines about 300 yards form here. Been back and forth a ton and explored 4 burial chambers. Not 1 troll did I see all that time. Try to build next to the swamp and it shows up. I called it a day. Getting dark and its too busy with skels and Draugrs. Last then I needed was 2 more Draugr archers to show up about then.

I want to put in a moat also. I figure things will just sit at base of tree, out of bow range if I don't have a moat. But really a troll like this likely knocks me out of the tree if he comes in silent like he did. Without a moat I mean.

Pickaxeing drew more stuff out. Rethinking this location at edge of 2 biomes. Might be better further into Swamp where no trolls interrupt me and then no moat. Or I have to find where this troll spawns and take him out and finish the moat quick.

No reason to even cut down ancient trees, you will find more than enough inside the crypts.

Didn't know that, thanks for the tip. I now am set up with outposts at 2 crypts. Been incredibly lucky with the RNG in this world. Walked right up to crypts in both marshes I found. This last one can be seen from the black forest once as soon as you get about 30 meters in.

Got my walkway to the Crypt in. feel like I beat the game now. Time to start scouting a mountain biome.