Dolby3d wrote:-snip-
Also, is it still possible to bash down palisade with your fists? I probably will never get my hands onto a steel bar as a hermit so palisade will have to do...
It is still possible with the right STR (Sledgehammer) - Hermitting doesn't hinder you to get your hands on steel -
sure the refueling times makes it much much harder for hermits but as last resort you can trade for it (if you miss refueling too often)
Urgent Hint: when you found a place to settle - keep it very small in the beginning - check your neighbourhood - think about how much you might cross their plans when settling there (i.e. chopping , pclaim stopping animals from spawning, too close to next claim ...), try to make contacts and ask about the area and settling there ...
The worst new settler mistakes i see every few days : spawn somewhere, settle but not check more than a few steps, chopping larger amounts of trees at one spot, building large area fences, spam runestones with "blablas place" or such , pave and start to build houses and stuff without having anything claimed ... then either never login again or worse having angered the neighbourhood that much that someone destroys everything ...