Brew replied to ? Am I supposed to be here? January 9, 2022 @ 11:28:46 pm PST
Swamp comes next. Some of my ideas for swamp survival:
- Try making some poison resist potions.
- Use lots of arrows: Draugr move slowly; plenty of time to take em down when they are far away (but don't underestimate their ability to close the distance when they get close!). Try to do the same with blobs, to avoid their aoe poisons.
- Careful of water; you're safe from leeches on land. Look for circular ripples for evidence they're swimming around. Might want to take them with arrows too, from land where it's safe. Leech blood pouches make heal potions too; might come in handy!
- At first, don't enter the swamp at night. You will be both cold and wet; it really hurts your stamina regen rate. Wraiths spawn at night too (even tougher).
- If you kill some Draugr, grab their intestines; you can make good food with them. It's still my staple food since its ingredients are so easy to get. Always helps to have as much good food as you can get. Since you're always wet, I think stamina food has increased importance in the swamp too.
- If you see Draugr corpse piles, prioritize them. There are patterns to watch for: they are often in the abandoned stone towers. There are also flat spots with standing stones; those always have two corpse piles and one skeleton spawner. Shoot arrows from afar; they spawn Draugr fast and you don't want to have to deal with that onslaught (and they love to spawn the Draugr Elites... super nasty ones)!
- If you find and clear a ruined tower, if it's one of the two-story kind, you can usually build a really simple camp on the ground floor. The second floor acts as a roof, keeping the rain off and your fire lit. Put the fire under/on the stairway; the smoke will vent up through the stairwell. There is often a break in the wall on the opposite side for your entrance. You won't need to build anything except the fire, workbench, and bed. It's the cheapest camp I think I've found pretty much anywhere. It's not that much more work to put a roof up in the more hollowed out ones either. I actually look forward to finding those towers in the swamp now, since it means a pretty easy campsite. Keep that rested buff going!
- Pick turnip seeds and grow turnips. More recipes, better food.
- Get down into those crypts (use your crypt key to unlock) and get some iron scrap; that is the next tier of gear. It will make everything much easier.
- In the crypts, you can approach the rooms cautiously by burrowing out the goop from one side of a doorway, leaving an opening narrow enough that the room's occupants can't come through, but you can pick them off with arrows. Yeah, arrows again... (I've used a lot of them.)
9:13 am, January 10, 2022