The Biome Project (LF contributions, WIP)

i was writing a writeup for glacier but everything was deleted, im leaving my body

Ok so glacier writeup
Glacier is fucking insane. It is way harder than tundra to scout, requiring a wolf with 101 wisdom to scout and taking significantly longer than tundra with the same wolves despite being the same category. The end result is mostly worth it, though.

Glacier inherits many of my favorite Tundra encounters. The ribbon seal encounter (chance at 16 uses of food), the king eider encounter (the raccoon pays 5sc for crab legs for some reason) and the gyrfalcon encounter (6 uses of amusement). Glacier also has a lot of great encounters that are only found there, though keep in mind since glacier is Fucking Insane grouse house is missing some explore encounter results. For example, attacking the glacous gull has a chance of failure. I'd submit something to the grousehouse guide, but I keep forgetting to screenshot it so rip

Offering an acorn to a little auk gives 5 mollusk shells, or 10 uses of amusement. Following the polar bear cubs gives you whale rib bones (8 uses of amusement), Scavenging carefully at the walrus herd also gives whaleribs. Lastly, the glaucous gull I mentioned earlier can give a gull carcass (or playing gives a gull feather instead.)

On the other hand, Glacier is very isolated. It's missing almost every multi-biome encounter out there. In addition, it has no native herbs period, which means the only thing you'll find universal herbs. At least you won't end up with a shitload of useless bearberry like in tundra. If you move to Glacier, when your lead dies you're stuck in a very isolated corner. The first biome you'll have to scout out is Tundra, which will be pesky herbwise for a while. Like Tundra, Glacier is a Challenging biome, so even if your hunters are high prof and synergy you'll likely only find critters. Glacier also does not have any encounters to obtain acorns.

was exploring glacier today and discovered 2 new things, will update the post

The arctic hare encounter that gives seagulls 100% of the time if you select watch isnt just in tundra (i got a screenshot this time)

There's an encounter with a porpoise that gives 10 hp

stay in grasslands like me bc we're weenies with shitty hunters

What stats do your wolves need to have to explore the jungle? 

101 strength
my scouts 1 strength away from rainforest im going insane

Okay thank you. Yeah mine are so close to Jungle/Arctic. They just need to level up probablt one more time. 

subbing!!!!!

I've had my pack in the Rainforest for some time now and am mostly happy with the decision (mainly having to do with hunting experience)!

The Rainforest doesn't have quite as good healing encounters as the desert. There is a toucan encounter and coati encounter that each give a small amount of HP. It's okay but nothing beats seeing the hummingbird so far!

I do feel like I had more frequent battle encounters in the Rainforest and that I gain more SC through random encounters in explore. Lucky feet from the badger thing (RF encounter) helps! I feel like, all in all, Rainforest is just Swamp with more SC and battles. They even have the same energy refill.

I'm pretty satisfied with the herb collection in Rainforest, though! I don't have to exchange for Kava, Pineapple Leaves, Turmeric, or Feverfew anymore. I've even been able to sell my excess in tropical herbs.

ooo, I'm unlocking rainforest soon so thanks for the writeup