Map Strategy

[hqeq umop apsidn 10]

Here is a map tip that might help people have a more stable start to their games.

One thing I do is I always start a game with a cartographer run. I only collect enough materials and food to survive and spend most nights running with the torch, following every road. (It appears that when a road ends, it marks the end of the land. An end of the road seems to mark a dead end on the map).

If I find points of interest, I will reveal more of that map (beefalo, wormholes, wooden thing, reed swamps, pig towns (especially if there are bush farms), pig king, graveyards, spider biomes, bee biomes, etc). After I am content with what I find, I go to my map, zoom out and screencap. I then promptly kill myself and retry (when you retry it uses the same map) for a serious run.

Example of my cartographer run (+ photoshop):

This way, I know where everything is, and I can beeline straight for the resources I want first to have a stable base as soon as possible.

Fortunately on this map. The graveyard had a wormhole that went fairly close to the Pig King. I was able to dig a ton of graves and then run to the wormhole and cash out for about 2 stacks of gold in one go.

also, if you are looking in a position that you might die, quickly open your map, zoom out, and screenshot. If you have photoshop, you can then layer your new map over your old one and erase the fog of war from one or the other to combine both maps.

Edited February 24, 2013 by hqeq umop apsidn
figuring out how to post images

[cejoga 19]

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[hqeq umop apsidn 10]

Err hopefully it works now. For some reason the [Attach config] tag was showing as a link instead of an image so I tried to tag it.

[cejoga 19]

Err hopefully it works now. For some reason the [Attach config] tag was showing as a link instead of an image so I tried to tag it.

Try imgur.com

Look for the BBCODE url there.

[archblue1206 9]

at night,running with a torch will decrease your chances of finding chester early..just saying..

[hqeq umop apsidn 10]

Thanks, yeah I tried to BBCode the attachment URL that the Klei forums use for attaching images. I think it needs to end in .imgformat extention for it to work

[hqeq umop apsidn 10]

at night,running with a torch will decrease your chances of finding chester early..just saying..

Do you mean chester will not spawn, or you just wont see him due to short ranged vision?

[archblue1206 9]

its hard to spot the eye bone with such short ranged vision...

[kilozombie2 31]

The Eye Bone tends to spawn in the swamp, but sometimes it can spawn basically anywhere. Keeping an eye out for the eye bone is probably best, but using torches explores the world the quickest.

[blitz4 10]

You had me at hello, but lost me at

I then promptly kill myself and retry (when you retry it uses the same map) for a serious run.

it would be time better spent to not restart but do another world and map it again and again and again until you find out how the random world gen system works so you'll have a better idea what landmarks to look for when building that perfect base.Tips for scouting out the perfect base location as fast as possible. Edited February 25, 2013 by blitz4

[Palpetinus 839]

Oh, you and your fancy strategies. I'm all about "Just do it."

[hqeq umop apsidn 10]

You had me at hello, but lost me at

it would be time better spent to not restart but do another world and map it again and again and again until you find out how the random world gen system works so you'll have a better idea what landmarks to look for when building that perfect base.

Tips for scouting out the perfect base location as fast as possible.

The idea behind this strategy is to map out exactly where all the resources are to optimize your first few days. So you can hopefully get up to alchemy tier and starting turbo farm plots by day 2.

[Silvi 29]

Just travel by roads, all the good stuff seems to be close to roads and your travel speed is faster on them. win win. Following that strategy I lately always have a ready base going on before day 14