do we need a throw away miner?

[jpublic]

So we getting deep into our village mine. my bud said he was going to make another mine char, in case troll gets this one. I said that with new mechanics, you will get a chance to hearth back or log off even if you get jumped by a troll.

Am I right in this or should we begin to make another mine character?

[Wonderful]

Generally yeah. You should just be KO'd and be able to hearth unless already severely damaged. If it's ranged though it might just cave-in over you which can kill you instantly.

[jpublic]

hmmm, I never have seen a troll, but I assumed that when one pops up its from the part your mining

[Granger]

As long as you didn't bring a horse you should have enough time to run away.

[Wonderful]

hmmm, I never have seen a troll, but I assumed that when one pops up its from the part your mining

You'll know when you spawn one cause it'll scare the hell out of you.

[Headchef]

Yeah unless you select an area to mine and then stop paying attention..

With horse in view range (or render distance not sure) troll will attack significantly faster.

If you spawn it on foot and start running (have plenty of water) you can outrun him on 4th speed and get to safety most of the time.

But generally it's good to have a character devoted to mining so you can purely eat strength and not fuck up the distance between attributes you're interested in/your hunger bar, as miners will have to eat for energy at times.

[infectedking]

Yeah unless you select an area to mine and then stop paying attention..

With horse in view range (or render distance not sure) troll will attack significantly faster.

If you spawn it on foot and start running (have plenty of water) you can outrun him on 4th speed and get to safety most of the time.

But generally it's good to have a character devoted to mining so you can purely eat strength and not fuck up the distance between attributes you're interested in/your hunger bar, as miners will have to eat for energy at times.

It's a clear line of sight that they need to aggro (Trolls/Players) other aggressive wildlife have aggrod me over walls plenty of times.
But I do agree having a devoted char for mining is the fastest way of progression early on in the mining industry, plus lets you focus on raising Masonry (caps stone/rocks/coal).

[Thedrah]

i've mined one out myself. they agro you (start battle) but don't attack and just do 'jazz hands' for 30s or you attack it. unless you have a horse of course, i'm told

while it's doing 'jazz hands' you can build stone stockpiles around it to cage it until someone comes and kills it, but be quick with the cage as it will violently attack if in LoS or still in combat with you

and they can't kill you now afaik. they can only do 30% of your hhp unless they cause massive cave ins which they can. in case of 30% of hhp, just hearth after being KO'd