u/KeyEnergy1803

so for one thing. I’m several hours in and combat is still a harrowing ordeal. 90% of the time I’m desperately running away, and when combat is unavoidable/I get confident and try and take on the aggressor. there’s an extremely good chance that it’s going to be a total Wipe and I’m loading a previous save.

now I already have hit on the realization that more dudes will even the fight a bit. so now combat has a 75% chance of wiping out my entire group and a 25% chance only half will be KO’d and needing to be dragged to an “injury ward” (aka: bar/inn) and spending a day or two in recovery.

as you can imagine, this makes travel difficult, and making coin even harder. So far I’ve been having to make money by chipping at ore, or stumbling onto battlefields and scavenging the dead (once the victor moves on) and I’d like to have the option to either pick my own fights, or at least have the option to fight my way through an obstacle rather than flee from it and hope that it doesn’t give chase.

I figure better weapons and armor will help, (like an idiot I‘m over 5-hours in and only just now found where in the weapon’s stats it actually says how much damage it does) (armor stats are a bit… confusing, too much information and No idea what the data all means, I was busy running for my life during the tutorial). But also probably better skills would also probably improve my survivability, but that would require getting into fights, I think, does the training dummy I see in some NPC buildings actually help improve melee combat Skills? Or is it purely decorative?

Also, secondary question: after I was done with the camp bed, I dismantled it (so I could set it up somewhere else later). But couldn’t find the sleeping bag afterwards. I found and got back the fabric I used to make the mercenary tent after dismantling it. But not the sleeping bag. Is it normally destroyed after use? Or is there some known but infrequent glitch with the camp bed where it doesn’t always return the material components when disassembled? Or does it always give the sleeping bag back and I just lost track of where it spawned?

when starting a new game, when dealing with the water reservoirs that is your starting fresh water source(s): is it best, in the long run, to convert them into cisterns (basically turn the whole space into a “U” shaped structure with pumps at the top to pull out water as needed)? Or to, at the first opportunity, pump all the water out and store them in clean water tanks? Both kinda have pros and cons in my mind, so I was wondering what the community thought?

also, I realize that geysers are largely the only sustainable source of water. but that water is often hot, so how best to cool it off so as not to turn the whole base into a hot house and render it all uninhabitable?