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Camouflage your settlement?

Postby Dolby3d » Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:49 am

Is it possible to camouflage your settlement on the map so raiders dont spot it? I've noticed digging causes the the spot on the map to turn into the color brown. If you dont dig or lay stone but still build houses and farms, would you be invisible on the map? Note that i'm a noob atm and have not yet even build a house.
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Re: Camouflage your settlement?

Postby Dallane » Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:51 am

Dolby3d wrote:Is it possible to camouflage your settlement on the map so raiders dont spot it? I've noticed digging causes the the spot on the map to turn into the color brown. I've you dont dig or lay stone but still build houses and farms, would you be invisible on the map? Note that i'm a noob atm and have not yet even build a house.


There is no way to hide on the map atm
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Re: Camouflage your settlement?

Postby Vibe » Fri Dec 14, 2012 11:51 am

The dirt is overgrown by the surrounding terrain overtime and you don't need to pave, so you can basically hide your settlement, yeah. Or I might be wrong. Not sure what needs paving and what not.
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Re: Camouflage your settlement?

Postby Dolby3d » Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:02 pm

Dallane wrote:
Dolby3d wrote:Is it possible to camouflage your settlement on the map so raiders dont spot it? I've noticed digging causes the the spot on the map to turn into the color brown. I've you dont dig or lay stone but still build houses and farms, would you be invisible on the map? Note that i'm a noob atm and have not yet even build a house.


There is no way to hide on the map atm


How will we be able to hide it in the future then? And how do you even know this?
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Re: Camouflage your settlement?

Postby ULGMsean » Fri Dec 14, 2012 12:07 pm

Actually you can hide yourself from the map,
mine is invisible from the map now. I just waited for the ground tiles to regrow back to its former terrain.

Vibe wrote:The dirt is overgrown by the surrounding terrain overtime and you don't need to pave, so you can basically hide your settlement, yeah. Or I might be wrong. Not sure what needs paving and what not.


No structure needs a pave floor afaik,
though most structures actually just need a dirt ground to be able to build them.
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Re: Camouflage your settlement?

Postby Sevenless » Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:53 pm

It's possible to do for certain, but the time it takes to regrow dirt into grass is rather large. Once it happens, if you avoid all paving you can upload minimap files to the map and the lack of terraformed land will show up. This takes months to do though for any even medium sized towns.
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Re: Camouflage your settlement?

Postby Potjeh » Fri Dec 14, 2012 6:28 pm

It goes a lot faster if you don't level everything, but rather just the minimal foundations needed for buildings.
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Re: Camouflage your settlement?

Postby harflimon » Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:27 pm

My little hermitage has gotten to the point where there are only a few brown patches left where I dug. I don't know if the new Townhouses show up on the minimap, but I've got a farmer's house and basically everything else and it doesn't show.

It's not perfect camouflage, but someone skirting the edge of my area might pass by without seeing my claim on the minimap. I'm happy with that, much more than having the "aesthetic" of paving everything.
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