Awesome raid (that is, for my small camp)

[Kearn]

I was exploring in a boat that i stole (more like, repossessed from an inactive and rotting settlement, with broken down palisades) in farther regions of rivers when I stumbled upon a 4 house village. The claim-pole thing was destroyed (if it's possible to be destroyed) or there wasn't one, because I was able to go aground. The fences were rotting and the drying frames were mostly destroyed, but there were a massive complex of fences and gates across the settlement. I went in the cabins. The first had a basket in it with nothing in it. The second house had a bed and a cupboard. The cupboard eventually had the most valuable thing left in the camp: a stone bait. I continued to the third cabin. There were runestones littered about in front of the door. I went in through the door, and found a sleeping person, a hearth fire, a CORPSE, and a runestone that read, "WE STOLE FROM YOU *BEEPS* AND MURDERED YOUR LEADER." I was stunned and continued on to the fourth cabin, which contained nothing. I made my way back to my boat and continued up river, when I saw a tiny 1-house settlement that was BARELY on the minimap. Hoping the raiders had missed it, I went up to the house and found ridiculous amounts of crops ready to be harvested. The drying frames were almost destroyed from decay, but still stood. I went in the cabin to find about 15 cooked fish fillets and massive amounts of fish and A Beautiful Dreams. I harvested the crops and could not cram them into my inventory. I found a cart half-hidden behind the cabin and opened it. It contained FOUR empty crates. I filled them with crops, fish, fish fillets, seeds, and even tableware I stole from a table inside. 2 crates and a full backpack-increased inventory could barely contain all the plunder. I was so desperate for my best raid I actually stole items from an un-finished construction site nearby.

[Kaze967]

That's the beauty of H&H, most everything you come across is player created.
Every ruins and run down shack you encounter has a bit of history and intrigue to it.

[Kearn]

What amazing is is that all the storages, crops, and tableware seemed to be made for someone to steal it!

[Vodka]

I'm pretty sure most new players take whatever isn't nailed down with yeomanry. Got myself a nice soldiers sword and rangers cloak that way.

[saltmummy626]

this thread is now about stuff you find in the ruins of other settlements and those places themselves. i was doing the same thing when i came across a place called "bobs ranch." the place was empty, no hearth fires, no corpses, nothing, in fact every container i found was empty and the whole thing was unclaimed, across the river was another even bigger complex of ruins. quite impressive really.