Share your unconventional tactics!

[Kitty Cat Meow]

Many think it's impossible to solo a ewecus without allies and/or tons of armor, but you can pull it off with no more than a log suit, spear, and a torch!

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If you time your kill properly, you can get the loot without it burning!

Note: Don't attack the ewecus with your lighter, The lighter has only a small chance of lighting up your enemies, while a torch has a 100% chance,

Eh, it depends on what you're trying to attack, but it's 100% for ewecus.

A similar strategy can be used to kill buzzards with little to no risk of being attacked, All you need is a torch, a weapon, and a meat item for bait.

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Sure, it burns the black feathers, but who needs those anyways?

 

[Mikeadatrix]

Good stuff! But judging by my luck I'd probably ignite the loot every time.

[GuyNamedChris]

To safely get loot from the Ewecus, you could recruit 2-3 pigs who can unstick you from the snot and wail on the ewecus.

[Scoobie101]

Hmm, who knew every problem in this game could be made easier with fire.

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[CaptainChaotica]

Who knew that?  Well, Willow, obviously. 

As for my own unconventional tactics...I really don't have any.  "Sneak around and get the game itself to take care of threats _for_ you" is the STANDARD way of playing this game.  : P

...Notorious

[Scoobie101]

Well, I guess if we're going for tactics, I know that if you have at least 3 people, 2 spears, and a pan flute you can have one person repeat play the pan flute while the other two whack Deerclops around with some spears. It's not very efficient, and very circumstance-y, but hey it works :T ( I've also been able to do it with only one person whacking Deerclops with a spear, but only cause for some reason after the last pan flute play the game bugged a bit and Deerclops couldn't be woken up. ) Another thing, if you tame a pig you can trap him in the corner of the world where he can't run away and gets trapped, then you can leech off his huge sanity aura. ( May or may not be my go-to tactic when playing as Wicker )

[minespatch]

6 hours ago, Scoobie101 said:

^{Hmm, who knew every problem in this game could be made easier with fire.}

Willow is the mastah of that tactic.

[DVGMedia]

On 8/13/2016 at 1:55 PM, Billiscool said:

Many think it's impossible to solo a ewecus without allies and/or tons of armor, but you can pull it off with no more than a log suit, spear, and a torch!

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If you time your kill properly, you can get the loot without it burning!

Note: Don't attack the ewecus with your lighter, The lighter has only a small chance of lighting up your enemies, while a torch has a 100% chance,

Eh, it depends on what you're trying to attack, but it's 100% for ewecus.

A similar strategy can be used to kill buzzards with little to no risk of being attacked, All you need is a torch, a weapon, and a meat item for bait.

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Sure, it burns the black feathers, but who needs those anyways?

 

i can also confirm that this tactic works with the spider queen aswell

[Kitty Cat Meow]

33 minutes ago, EsaiXD said:

i can also confirm that this tactic works with the spider queen aswell

The torch has a ~25% chance to ignite spider queens on hit, so it's not as reliable as using it against ewecus.

But it does slow down spider spawning during the fight, so that's useful.

[Bahlsen]

Lol at the youtube suggestion after I watched the buzzard hunting video http://puu.sh/qBkso.jpg

[WildWesternWilson]

Pillage the Pig Village so Webber can become the Pig King's loyalest subject.

 

Politics at their best. 

[CaptainChaotica]

Wait, I actually did this.  The Pig King was actually quite willing to trade with me (as Webber), I needed gold, I had stuff he'd want, and the village around the king was RIGHT in the way of my favourite mushroom-gathering forest area (and Glommer's statue). 

So I brought a hammer, a logsuit, and spear, and over the course of 3 nights hammered down every single pig house and MURDERED THEM ALL.

It also turned out to be the one and only time so far I've spawned Krampus*.  However, it was the night of the full moon, and he spawned in asleep!  : P

After that I was able to trade with His Porcine Majesty just fine.  (laugh)

...Notorious

Yes, I just don't usually get that many naughtiness points in a row.  Kill Glommer?  I don't need to, as the hounds will bite him in half as soon as look at him.  In fact, that's the other reason I wanted the pig village gone--Glommer kept dying, and every single time I went back for him I got attacked half to death.  I had more Old Bells than I actually needed!