When you are in a party, and someone goes in a cave their arrow disapears.
I hate to give bad ideas but what if this happens?
I murder a whole bunch of people, steal their stuff, and then go back to my base in a cave. Could they track me or would the scents not work unless they are underground too?
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novaalpha
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Re: Scents and caves
Scents will work as if you are above ground all the time, but it's not very hard to figure it out when perp/hf is underground.
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Foarl
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Re: Scents and caves
Some guy stole from me and my scent tracking pointed to a random piece of dirt. I was puzzled, but there was a building post nearby. It was a minehole. Found a brick walled cave entrance nearby.Ziggyzog wrote:When you are in a party, and someone goes in a cave their arrow disapears.
I hate to give bad ideas but what if this happens?
I murder a whole bunch of people, steal their stuff, and then go back to my base in a cave. Could they track me or would the scents not work unless they are underground too?
I assume this means his HF was underground.
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MagicManICT
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Re: Scents and caves
Foarl wrote: Some guy stole from me and my scent tracking pointed to a random piece of dirt. I was puzzled, but there was a building post nearby. It was a minehole. Found a brick walled cave entrance nearby.
I assume this means his HF was underground.
You assume correctly.
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Ziggyzog
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Re: Scents and caves
Ok, well I know a place DEEP in a cave where I want to live, that includes crossing deep water >=)
Would this be a good hiding spot if I decide to be a criminal? I also checked the cave for entrances.
Would this be a good hiding spot if I decide to be a criminal? I also checked the cave for entrances.
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MagicManICT
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Re: Scents and caves
If someone wants to kill you bad enough, they'll just drop a mine hole.Ziggyzog wrote:Ok, well I know a place DEEP in a cave where I want to live, that includes crossing deep water >=)
Would this be a good hiding spot if I decide to be a criminal? I also checked the cave for entrances.
I guess if you're deep enough in a complex enough mine system, they might give up.
With that being said, I think I might dig out a maze for the fun of it.
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Ziggyzog
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Re: Scents and caves
Sounds cool, but I heard you can't drop mineholes from to surface into caves. My friend says it gives you some sort of message.
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cobaltjones
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Re: Scents and caves
That's only if that particular area of the underground layer is already occupied by an object.Ziggyzog wrote:Sounds cool, but I heard you can't drop mineholes from to surface into caves. My friend says it gives you some sort of message.
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Ziggyzog
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Re: Scents and caves
Hmmm like what counts as a 'type of object'?
Also lets say I drop a minehole while in my cave. Will it lead to another cavern or will I have to dig things out myself?
Also lets say I drop a minehole while in my cave. Will it lead to another cavern or will I have to dig things out myself?
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MagicManICT
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Re: Scents and caves
Ziggyzog wrote:
Also lets say I drop a minehole while in my cave. Will it lead to another cavern or will I have to dig things out myself?
A mine hole always leads to the next lower layer (until there are no more layers to go to). If it's on the surface, it goes to layer 1 (L1). If it's on L1 (in a cave), it goes to L2, etc. I forget if there's 5 or 10 layers under the surface total.
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