A few tips for alpha players!

[Falcon Development]

Hey everyone, figured I would share just a few tips that you might find helpful as you play the alpha.

1. Hotswapping Items: You can use the tertiary key (R by default on keyboard, R Shoulder by default on gamepad) to quickly hold the first item in your inventory. If you keep pressing it, you'll cycle through holding all the items in your inventory.

2. FancyLight: If you're experiencing framerate drops or feel that the game is running sluggishly, try disabling FancyLights in your video settings. This will drastically improve performance at night or in areas with lighting effects by disabling shadows.

3. Artbook: Did you know that the artbook, which was sent out with the alpha keys, includes a number of tips and tricks?

Feel free to share more tips below!

[shian]

Rocks that have gems in them will have a sparkle animation every 5 seconds or so, so take the time to stop and watch the rocks. You may find what you're looking for right away.

Also, the artbook mentions things that glow. Fireflies light up areas nicely but gems don't.

[Falcon Development]

Jul 2, 2017 13:45:04 GMT -5 shian said:

...Fireflies light up areas nicely but gems don't.

Gems won't light up the mine, but they will light up your den/caves/other dark areas.

[shian]

Hmm... I couldn't get the gems to work. I'll grab some more and try again. Maybe grab a screenie of what I'm looking at. Fireflies work well at lighting up the area so long as there's nothing else nearby. I've decorated my lair with the white, yellow and red fireflies.

For an ingame year and a half, I've been racing back to my den at 7pm so I could sleep at 9 or 10.
Turns out, you don't really need to do that... I've been wasting so many hours that could have been spent hunting!

[Falcon Development]

Jul 2, 2017 15:05:20 GMT -5 shian said:

Hmm... I couldn't get the gems to work. I'll grab some more and try again. Maybe grab a screenie of what I'm looking at. Fireflies work well at lighting up the area so long as there's nothing else nearby. I've decorated my lair with the white, yellow and red fireflies.

For an ingame year and a half, I've been racing back to my den at 7pm so I could sleep at 9 or 10.
Turns out, you don't really need to do that... I've been wasting so many hours that could have been spent hunting!

The fireflies have a "glowing" effect, and they additionally bring up the ambient light in indoor areas like your den. Gems don't have that "glowing" effect, but they do contribute to bringing up the ambient light in indoor areas, if that makes sense. Try emptying your den of all items, then dropping 10-20 gems (Topaz/Sapphire are easiest to get) and see if the den seems brighter overall.

[Sarcastic Lynx]

whoa didn't know about sparkly rocks, i'll keep an eye out the next time I record! Thanks

[castiron]

Here's my tips:

My cat eats mostly berries, they're easy to find and heal around 25% of health. I sell most of my prey, as resell value for berries are 2 mews while most prey is 3+

You can eat up to 150% fullness and you'll be able to move faster.

Not sure if it's just me, but you move slower in snow.

Maxing out on hunting and foraging makes it easier to passively locate food and herbs, which accumulate to lots of fast experience gain.

Sleeping gives 5 experience and heals 50% of health but once you get hit 5 points in hunting and foraging I'd say it's more beneficial to stay awake spring, summer, and autumn.

Once you get around 5/10 points in hunting, whenever you go into sneak mode an arrow will pop up when prey is close by. The color will determine what kind of prey it is.
Black: hare, crow
Gray: field mice, gray squirrel, dove
Brown: harvest mice, brown squirrel
Pink: rabbit
Green: frog
Gold: toad
plus others I've missed.

I hoard food for the winter then sleep through it. There are no insects or herbs, no fish because rivers are frozen, and prey is harder to come by.

If you don't have many points in swimming and you want to cross water quickly, wait until there's prey across the river or close to the opposite shore, when you jump you'll skip having to swim across. Watch out for currents.

Hoard marigold, it heals twice as much as goldenseal

[Frog]

Jul 3, 2017 5:41:25 GMT -5 castiron said:

Here's my tips:

My cat eats mostly berries, they're easy to find and heal around 25% of health. I sell most of my prey, as resell value for berries are 2 mews while most prey is 3+

You can eat up to 150% fullness and you'll be able to move faster.

Not sure if it's just me, but you move slower in snow.

Maxing out on hunting and foraging makes it easier to passively locate food and herbs, which accumulate to lots of fast experience gain.

Sleeping gives 5 experience and heals 50% of health but once you get hit 5 points in hunting and foraging I'd say it's more beneficial to stay awake spring, summer, and autumn.

Once you get around 5/10 points in hunting, whenever you go into sneak mode an arrow will pop up when prey is close by. The color will determine what kind of prey it is.
Black: hare, crow
Gray: field mice, gray squirrel, dove
Brown: harvest mice, brown squirrel
Pink: rabbit
Green: frog
Gold: toad
plus others I've missed.

I hoard food for the winter then sleep through it. There are no insects or herbs, no fish because rivers are frozen, and prey is harder to come by.

If you don't have many points in swimming and you want to cross water quickly, wait until there's prey across the river or close to the opposite shore, when you jump you'll skip having to swim across. Watch out for currents.

Hoard marigold, it heals twice as much as goldenseal

There's blueberries in winter just pointing this out, and they actually fill you up really well (around 20 percent I believe I'm bad at math though)

[shian]

At level 7 of hunting, prey shows up on your minimap.

If you chase prey off the map or kill one, a new one will spawn on the map.