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The bow is extremely hard to use effectively. I think I only hit once when I was almost right next to a formican (which then killed me, but hey, it happens.) It would be helpful if I could see the arrows in flight so I can see if I'm shooting to high or too low without having to run over to the arrow and guess where my target was.

Some way to lock my buildings in place would be great too, I keep grabbing the walls and floor by accident when I'm moving other things around. And sometimes it seems a bit touchy for getting things just the way I want them... Alternatively, a pre-built home option would be pretty good too. Cost a lot of resources but it has everything inside it all ready to go. Something along the lines of the huts I found in the map, that have the fire pits and things but can't be moved or altered.

Will there be farming down the road? And do resources grow back?

Threshold Seven6 years ago (1 edit)

Hi ratgirl34,

You have to hold right click first to knock an arrow, then while still holding right click hold left click to draw the arrow. The longer you draw back the arrow the farther it will fly when you release left click. If you eat a blue cap mushroom your arrows will become illuminated when you fire them for a limited time so you can more easily judge their trajectory. You can toggle this with a hotkey found in the options.

Locking the building pieces and prebuilt huts will be added in the future.

There will also be farming. Resources do not respawn as of now.

Thanks for testing Windstone.

Edit. You also do not have to wait for the knock arrow animation to complete before drawing back. You can start pressing left click as soon as you hold right click to quickly knock and draw back the arrow. You can rapid fire very quickly at short range this way if you left go of left click as soon as you start drawing back. Takes a bit to get used to but the dynamics of the bow are supposed to have variation: Fire far at a slow rate or near at a fast rate or anywhere in between.

ratgirl346 years ago

Oh, I figured out how to knock and fire. It's the aim that I'm having trouble with. The blue mushroom helps me find them after I've shot them, but as far as seeing them in flight it does not help even at night. I tried out the rapid fire though and it has helped me take down fornicians without having to rely on the blow darts.

Could be I'm just not a ranged person in this game, which is different from how I usually play.

And as a side note, I was doing really well. Made the longest run so far, decided to explore the mountains... Got lost and died. Like, I swear there were pools of water and stuff every time I was starting to get worried, then somehow I found the one spot that was super far away from everything to camp. If I'd had the glider I would have been fine... I died ten times trying to find my way out. It was hilarious all the different places I found to die, and terribly frustrating that I didn't have a save outside the mountains. Eventually just gave up and started over. Live and learn. Or die and learn...

BU4U Gaming6 years ago

It takes a little practice with the bow. Remember to hold down the left mouse button to pull back the string and shoot further. I am hunting them in this video (go to around 11:45 if you wanna see, how I take them down):

I am not good at seeing the trajectory of the bows/darts either...the light from eating blue mushrooms is only helpful during the night or when trying to find arrows on the ground after missing. But yeah it just takes practice to get used to it.

Ryan will be making some changes to the building system in an upcoming update - I complained about picking up building pieces by mistake too LOL

Resources don't seem to grow back, but farming is planned for the future from what Ryan has said previously.

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