Need tips on how to advance

[Mereni]

Don't bother with a town bell. Save your silver for glass for potions and the like. For one thing, the idea you need a town bell is one people have carried over from way before the reset; with the way defenses are now, you are perfectly safe if you simple design your braziers and walls properly.

Also, there's this: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10721&p=148437#p148437 If the developer of the game is telling you he's going to change things in a couple months so that town bells aren't something hermits will want or need, you should listen.

[alloin]

a claim can be bought over with a townbell though

[Feone]

Don't bother with a town bell. Save your silver for glass for potions and the like. For one thing, the idea you need a town bell is one people have carried over from way before the reset; with the way defenses are now, you are perfectly safe if you simple design your braziers and walls properly.

Also, there's this: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10721&p=148437#p148437 If the developer of the game is telling you he's going to change things in a couple months so that town bells aren't something hermits will want or need, you should listen.

A few months is a long time, in the meanwhile I'd say it's worth it for an active player to have a bell.
Only if you are active though, if it'll take weeks to get the money for a bell it might not be worth it.

[Mereni]

a claim can be bought over with a townbell though

I've never understood this argument. Yes, it's possible, but who is going to want to spend the 2500 silver for a bell, get compacts on an alt because you're not going to run your main out to a base to put the bell down, spend double whatever the claim is worth which is sure to end up in the thousands, all for a random mystery claim that might be full of mainly boxes of wood choppings? The tribe has never townbelled anyone for the loot. It may have been done once or twice for political reasons, but it's been a very long time as I can't recall a specific occurrence.

According to the roadmap, the pvp patch is the next one after this, so late next month? Hardly any time at all.

Getting back to the subject of the thread though, a few things are up in the air with the food and purity patch right now. So, you don't want to start any purity grinds or buy any purity items for pots or whatever as that will be changing completely in a couple weeks. You also might want to cool it on humor advancement if you're not enjoying that aspect of the game as that is about to change completely. Other than that, what you do once you get past the early stages of learning skills you have to learn and such, is mostly up to you. Me, I've always liked the leathercrafting, so I'm working my way up to getting Fine Leathercraft. I also really enjoy hunting, so I take frequent hunting forays to areas I've found have good supplies of animals. I also am storing up hay to third tier a few fields, that's a project that can take a good bit of time depending on how many tier 3 fields you want. Some people maintain trade threads, that's a job and a half, I'm sure. I've heard right now you can smelt tons of iron and make a profit on the seasonal stall if you have the skill to make halberds and sell them.

[DarkNacht]

I've never understood this argument. Yes, it's possible, but who is going to want to spend the 2500 silver for a bell, get compacts on an alt because you're not going to run your main out to a base to put the bell down, spend double whatever the claim is worth which is sure to end up in the thousands, all for a random mystery claim that might be full of mainly boxes of wood choppings? The tribe has never townbelled anyone for the loot. It may have been done once or twice for political reasons, but it's been a very long time as I can't recall a specific occurrence.

The tribe may not do it but it happened several times on Jamestown.
As long as you don't leave any scents, or piss anyone off and no local raiders get bored you should be fine with just a p-claim, but there is always a risk.

[Thor]

Seconded, besides it's very easy to piss people off in this game, even unentionally.

[Tammer]

who is going to want to spend the 2500 silver for a bell, etc

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10684

[Mereni]

who is going to want to spend the 2500 silver for a bell, etc

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10684

Yeeeeaaaaah, scroll down a few posts: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10684#p147416

To a wandering raider that base just screams 'I've got 10k silver in this 99% mine and I wanna keep everyone out'. :/ Random new player bases don't look like that.

[royalcheesecake]

I had a p-claim get belled over on Jamestown. I think just because it was a really nice base and they wanted it. You better believe once I have the money I always put up a bell!

[Everburning]

Thanks for the tips guys.

I think I should try heading out to the darkness now then. Any tips for someone new to it? Like which direction is it in and would I be killed on sight in the darkness lol.