A Treatise on the Darkness

[LeftyRighty]

Totally missed this thread the first time around, but someone linked it... permission to blatantly steal it onto the wiki?

[milonti]

Totally missed this thread the first time around, but someone linked it... permission to blatantly steal it onto the wiki?

Just credit him to having wrote it and provide an external link to the thread.

[ShadowAtlan]

Totally missed this thread the first time around, but someone linked it... permission to blatantly steal it onto the wiki?

Sure, use it in whatever guide or wiki you like as long as you give credit. I contributed a lot of the information to the current darkness page, but it's much easier to just write out a little guide here than to bother with all the wiki jargon.

[MvGulik]

Oops.

Thought The Darkness was something that was just as visible as terrain changes.

Ventured into The Dark (got in game message about it) but, as I was clear of the dark terrain(type) near me, I figured that as long as a staid on the green's I would be ok. ... Traveled a view more tiles further into the direction I was traveling. ... Than, as it was late(RL), I logged off. ... Bad move ... Logging Back in the next day, I was quickly struck down(KO) before I figured what was happening. (all humour's being drained with a vengeance.)

Darn, that's going to be a long walk again.

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[Feedzor]

Well done I can say .
But what is there really to do in the darkness? I've been over the border walking straight in for about 1 hour and 30 minutes, seeing nothing but exactly the same landscape and animals as I do in my own area.
Also my humours only went down 0.2.

[LeftyRighty]

you weren't very far into the darkness... i tend to turn back when they're dropping by 0.3 per tick even though you're regenerating from eating... to answer your question "what is the difference" ... erm.. right now... not much...

[Sevenless]

In the future there will be unique forageables, nasty monsters and possibly high end player settlements for witches.

Right now... your base is better defended. That's about it.

[Feedzor]

Hehe, yeah that's what I thought . Hey to just ask one follow up question, any idea when there will be a few new things ingame? I mean, it's in beta and all and I've been in for 4 weeks almost but haven't really noticed anything new

[Sevenless]

Currently they're implementing multiple server support, absolutely crucial for a game like this to grow beyond 500 or so people I'd say. However, loftar is but a single programmer, so the work is pretty slow.

Your guess is as good as mine unfortunately.

[MvGulik]

Setting your homestead in a humour draining area is a bad idea
When respawning at a lean-to in a humour draining area, you will immediately be KO'd again. You will then be presented with an option to respawn in Boston.

Mmm. I have a Lean-to in the border area of the Lumberwoods. But I did not see any option being presented to respan at Boston.

Case Location: Lean-to located one or two map-tiles away from where a [5,5,5,5] character will start to see a active drain.
Case 1: Forgot I had Wander speed active. [KO],[Respan at Lean-to],[KO again at Lean-to, after a small delay],[Respan at Lean-to, and pressed "Travel to Boston" ASAP], [Boston, pfew ...]
Case 2: Fell asleep while character was studying stuff near/next to Lean-to ... when I woke up. (4h+). The Character was (still) in the [KO'ed]+[Respan at Home] loop, with all humours (first number only, BDSalem client) at zero.

Lucky that Darkness-KO is not giving any learning-points damage (yet).

Any tips/thoughts on other ways to detect if your in a low humour draining area ? (other then building a Lean-to, and checking if you get KO'ed again.)