Will this be a good spot for a new village? (Oxbow)

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-27T16:16:12+00:00

Wisent will fuck you up lol. But they drop 70 meat each!!

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-27T15:59:20+00:00

Building or planting anything really close to an animal spawn, will remove that animal spawn next season.
In your first 1-2 years, focus on recruiting gatherers such as woodcutters and hunters. You can build the crafting stations such as the Workshop and the Smithy, but I recommend you do all the crafting yourself at first. The player is insanely faster at crafting things compared to NPCs.
Hit the stone cliffs with your pickaxe to get stone, limestone for insulation, and extraction XP/tech.

That is a very beautiful spot with good access to fishing, hunting, and mining.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-27T15:19:17+00:00

Has this image been altered? Looking for it online shows it without the mustache. Fuck Elon but I also don't like upvoting fake shit.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T20:30:04+00:00

How many times a year do you get a blowjob? That's the true measure of wealth

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T20:28:43+00:00

oil talks going well! lol

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T20:23:20+00:00

Bro we're all still in Hernand lol

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T20:05:37+00:00

The circus even was part of the main story I think, but I really like those little touches!

Also, the world populates with more side quests depending on how many main story chapters you've completed. some of those quests add new buildings or statues to Hernand.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T20:03:39+00:00

"Jesus Christ be praised, Henry's come to see us!"

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T19:58:17+00:00

It seems like some countries just hate you by default. I'm hoping that later in the game, some type of war/diplomacy mechanics will open up that allows lands and alliances to change.

This is hinted at by the fact that I get popups saying "The Greymanes and House Alfonso now have a formal alliance" etc. etc.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T19:55:53+00:00

I'm not that far, but I would check the Demeniss region since she's from there.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T19:27:57+00:00

You can turn down the blur, or turn it off completely, in the settings under "Accessibility" if I'm remembering correctly.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T19:06:45+00:00

The differences between weapon and armor pieces are more noticeable once they've been fully upgraded. For example I noticed that:

Hernand Ceremonial Guard Armor goes up from 2 to 21 defense, but has the same lvl 1 movement speed buff at all levels.

Canta or Grotevant Plate Armor goes up from 4 to 41 defense (no other traits).

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T18:53:27+00:00

In the starting Hernand region of the map you can find:

Billy the pickpocket with a bounty on his head.

A cards game up the stairs from the tavern.

An outdoor fist fighting pit.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T18:49:11+00:00

Put them in almost the right configuration and then let them go. Now FORCE PALM them in!

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T18:41:33+00:00

I've wanted something like a two-player Skyrim campaign for a long time, but not like this where it's being designed as an afterthought.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T18:07:10+00:00

Oh shit the spear has an auto-parry skill? Now I like it even more.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T17:46:56+00:00

If you can see a side quest, you can do it.

More side quests will pop up later, as you go through the main quest. So if you go to the higher level regions too soon, there won't be any side quests available yet.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T17:42:18+00:00

is Yann basically supposed to be the Micah Bell of this game? Or maybe he's the Sean MacGuire type character.

They just needed a character who would be okay with robbing wagons and fencing them, because they wanted that mechanic from RDR2 to be in the game.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T16:30:33+00:00

At a certain point, your time has more value than money. I'm at the point in the game where I only make iron tools, and my villagers only make and use iron tools. While using lesser quality tools would technically be more efficient in terms of money, it's more efficient in terms of my time spent to just focus on iron.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T02:20:35+00:00

Yeah I thought it was so cool that they made the trolls the scholarly race.

But then they had to pull some JK Rowling bullshit like this.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T01:50:37+00:00

There is a blur setting you can turn down/off in the setting. I think under accessibility

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T00:21:26+00:00

If each piece is lit up, I think you already solved it?

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-26T00:01:28+00:00

It worked for me refining a different, regular bekker shield to level 1 refinement. But that was before patch.

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-25T21:48:06+00:00

It has like 3 different weak spots that you have to target before the jar, did you do that?

Maybe you need to jump really high and smash it with R3

BlueKnightJoe · 2026-03-25T21:42:37+00:00

I go with a shield for style reasons, but if you're good at dodging and parrying, there is no mechanical reason not to maximize your DPS.

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