Old Forest
"Midway upon the journey of my life I found myself within a forest dark"
You are lost in an old dark forest, far away from civilization. Can you survive all its dangers and find your way out?
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Did 2 playthroughs as a scholar. Died after a few nights of no food (even once after having caught a deer that gave me an extra night). Loving it but I must be missing something.
One more run as a hunter. I can easily keep myself alive forever. I seem to have run out of things to do, though.
You got a good thing going here. I look forward to future progress
have you checked the quests tab? It should have hints on how to get the endings.
Also, it should be fairly easy to survive so long as you hunt at leadt once a day. can you say what went wrong during the first two playthroughs?
I guess I didn't realize I needed to hunt so often. Now that I'm eating spiders, survival got a lot easier. I also had a bit of an issue mismanaging my wood, made to planks and not saving for the night.
(warning: spoilers ahead)
I check the quests tab and I see I'm missing something exploring the woods but I have no way of just exploring other than hunting. I found the swamp, went at night. It told me I got a sharp knife but I don't have the knife with me and that didn't open any new areas or activities.
Once I cut young trees in the glade and it told me it was bad luck but that bad luck never materialized in any explicit form (although I did die of hunger that time)
I'll definitely do a few more runs and try doing things differently but I'll take any hints you feel are appropriate.
Check the tree tab every time you move into a new location. They all have different traits and recipes and you definitely missed some
also, spoilers about the cutting trees thing: there aren't actually consequences, it's just supposed to make you uneasy
Ok. Found what was tripping me. In the tree tab, some icons appear behind the box for descriptions and crafting. One needs to scroll the tree around to see them and there's no way to reach them at all if one is zoomed all the way out. That figured, I used the knife and got one of the endings. Not sure what to suggest to make that more obvious or a non-issue
After the ending, it offers me to start from the last save but I don't see a way to save. If I choose to restart from the beginning, then the icons from the previous run are still visible in the tree tab even though they don't function.
I really have no idea what to try to reach the two other endings. I see there are still two icons in the tree tab that I haven't gotten (the foot and one more tree just next and below)
Are the different characters really any different? I do think the description for the runes in the standing stones was different from what I remembered but wasn't keeping track of what it was and what character
> icons from the previous run are still visible in the tree tab even though they don't function.
Well that's a bugger. I thought we fixed that bug
> Are the different characters really any different?
They each have their own special trait that has a lot of recipes attached. Most of them are just text but a couple have mechanical effects as well
> I really have no idea what to try to reach the two other endings
Have you found all the locations? There's one ending in the river location (it should be fairly clear how to reach it once you look at the traits there) and you can get another ending by exploring some more after unlocking the river location (in fact, there is a quest that tells you to do it).