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New/More Bear Encounters in Spring & Fall

New/More Bear Encounters in Spring & Fall
Posted 2020-11-03 10:16:20

Due to hibernation for bears, Spring is a very hard time for wolves once the bears start waking up, fall is also very difficult because the bears are getting desperate to put on weight before winter. Also prey that has died in winter and been covered up by ice and snow reveals itself in Spring so I was thinking of adding an encounter in Spring where you come up to a carcass, it gives you the option to try and take some chunks if you try you either succeed (due to high speed & agility stats) or you fail which opens a fighting encounter with a bear who had found the carcass as well. Your herbalist should also have a higher chance of getting Open Wounds or Infection while foraging since there's more bears out in Spring & Fall as well as scouts more likely running into bears during exploration resulting in Open Wounds or Infection in Spring & Fall. This could also play a role in hunting where instead of just failing a hunt you succeed in taking down the prey but the carcass is taken over by bears (during Spring & Fall) before your wolves have a chance to drag it home. I think it would also be neat to have bears try to raid your den, bears and wolves are natural enemies so it would make sense for bears to raid the den in search of food to take or pups to kill. Say there's an extremely low chance of you coming to the den page to a bear fight encounter, if you win, the bear runs off, if you lose the bear either takes a critter or small food item from your hoard, if you have pups there's a chance they could get wounded by the bear (as bears kill wolf pups to try to eliminate later competition), I dont think the bear should outright kill the pups but wound them so you can heal the pup if you have the medicine to do so. Puppy deaths should still only occur at rollover, but maybe flavor text for it being due to bears should be more prominent in Spring/Fall. Additionally I think bear encounters should be extremely less likely in Winter (with the exception of polar bears) due to the fact in real life bears would be hibernating.
Thank you for reading!


🧊IceOrthrus🧊
#15164

Posted 2020-11-07 14:19:17

I would love more dynamic encounters!

If not new Encounters, then maybe just make bears less common in the winter. It feels weird seeing the same amount of bears year round


Lily
#3016

Posted 2023-08-01 20:00:31
I love this and i support

I also find it werid to see bear during winter and feel that this should be adjusted to better suit the game.

Fangx
#12206

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