Epic as always! The Ashlands will change a man. I should add, with my group what helped us finally get a foothold was bringing a stonecutter and building a 4x4 wall around the portal. Then using a bunch of stone to raise the ground in a square around that. Raised ground is invincible. Grausten is extremely tough and will protect the portal for a long time.
William sounds so laid back I'm surprised he can see his screen. By the way, many Ashlands creatures can navigate up those larger rocks, so be careful putting your portal on top of them.
And here we see why vikings wanted to learn about fear: it lets you fly! Leland carrying this episode, great jumping. Love the creative solution 👍 My first useable base in the ashlands was also up on a rock. I built it just off the coast so the spawns were more manageable. So easy to get swarmed there, and you haven't even met the worst enemy for portals/based (at least in those episodes, I don't think). But once tou get a stable base, things improve. Just gotta team work, take out the big threats like ranged and dogs, the warriors are slow but deadly, they should be kited until everything is under control.
There is no reason to go to a smaller Ashisland. All Ashlands are mostly equal in difficulty, with some differences in what spawns at coasts and in the inland. But neither the coasts, nor the inlands, are really easier. So the only two noteworthy things to consider in choosing your landing site are: - What Ashlands are closest. - Where are the most resources. That is most of the time the central big one. The most important things to bring for an ashlanding, are: - materials for * several workbenches * at least one portal * at least one stonecutter - a hoe and some stone. Then on arrival: 1. Built a workbench, stonecutter, portal. 1.1 Maybe a shield generator. Especially if lava is near. 2. Encase everything with Grausten walls and roofs. Grausten can be found everywhere. (The stone, I recommend you to bring, is not for that.) The exploding growth and blobs are useful to mine grausten. Bringing grausten you already have, obviously doesn't hurt. 3. Raise terrain, using a hoe, so that your building is encased by a ring wall of terrain. That's what the stone is for. 3.1 Alternatively (or in addition), you can pickaxe a moat. But raising terrain is faster and with a moat, you need additional walls to break line of sight. What I did after my first Ashlanding failure, is training the landing operation including some of the base building at a coast on a more peaceful biome.
I find that bonemass is still really good in Ashlands, also keep spamming fire potions to neglect the weakness against fire the feather cape has. I dug a trench around a stone, then destroyed the rock around the edges so that enemies cant climb the stone, try to keep the fire blobs away since they will destroy the stone walls and rocks when they go off, then put the shield generator up and that has been holding up great so far.
Well done! Good that you brought those potions with you, otherwise that maneuver would have been impossible. I tried something similar, but naked and with a raft - I died very quickly, I might add 🤣
Fam, how many accolades are you tryin to get? Master of Trick shots, Boss of Sails, Bringer of Portals, the recovery was awesome! Those jump cuts had real Red vs Blue vibes, loved it! Keep pushin my guy. You and Bill got this. The Ashlands will NOT best The Boys! As always give our best to Bill. *For The Boys!*
@clayco77 heavens to mergatroid my friend, yall are not bad at gaming. Ashlands was just brutal. And I played it back on the PTB when in was just masochistic torture
@elgrifolorian I didn't even think about that for a clip! It's for sure going straight on the Tok. It was more so the frosty green leaves that were talking there. Bill built an absolutely incredible base before we learned of the fortresses, so it'd be a grand disgrace to leave it... we also haven't tamed the dogs yet. Our animal husbandry has lacked historically.
Well Fam,a most entertaining shit show...I have no other words ... (bit like Bill with words!) Trust in your captain indeed,luv it. Shout out to the Boyz!
Insanity. Mistlands can be stressful, but parts of it are nice and majestic. Not so with the Ashlands. It's all bad. The music is great, which is important to me, but the constant barrage of enemies is just too much.
@mitmon_8538 Mit, I remember a moment after we died a bunch in the Mistlands, killing Seekers and clearing dungeons. Bill and I had a moment where we were sitting on a rock chatting by a fire. It was lovely. I don't think you could do that in this place ever.
