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[Rallan]

I've been puttering around with it for a few days (I finally decided to see what's going on when you aren't building a fortress), and i noticed that there's virtually nothing on the wiki for Adventure Mode players. So anywise, what are some good standard tips both for starting out and for Adventuring in general?

Because about all I've found are
a) keep restarting until you get a Bronze or Iron weapon
b) it's better to pump loads of points into your weapon skill rather than splitting between your weapon skill and Fighting
and
c) recruit new dudes whenever possible because meatshields cut back on the amount of dudes you personally have to fight in an ambush

[Lovechild]

Buy a helmet. If you don't, you'll die to the first deer you run into.

[Vlad]

get gauntlets and metal boots to protect your hands and feet.

[runiq]

Armor stuff I recently came upon on the forums:

• Breastplates don't protect your shoulders (upper arms), mail shirts do. Wear a mail shirt if you don't want to get your arms lopped off.
• Helmets protect your head and neck.
• High boots protect your feet and lower legs, low boots only the feet.
• Greaves protect your lower body.
• Gauntlets protect your lower arms and hands.

What else...

• Look at the bottom of this page if you want to see what metals to use for weapons/armor.
• Yellow squares = towns with markets, white squares = hamlets without markets.
• Fighting bandits early on makes more sense because they have more stuff you can trade for better weapons.

Okay, I'm out.

You might want to put the stuff you get in this thread into a wiki page of your own, really.

[Deon]

Breastplates don't protect your shoulders (upper arms), mail shirts do. Wear a mail shirt if you don't want to get your arms lopped off.

Better wear both.

Also always travel in pairs if you go far away. Better get two companions or more. Otherwise you will be annoyed by boogeyguys.

[Rallan]

get gauntlets and metal boots to protect your hands and feet.

Oh I'm on top of that. I've lost so many early starts to either a chopped off arm/hand (no longer worth playing!) or a leg/foot injury that stops me from walking (can still fight, but gets gangbanged any time I run into dwarves). I've taken to layering every bit of clothing (especially leather) that I can find until I get my hands on metal armor, and even then it's a matter of cycling out the cloth and keeping the best metal.

[Deadly Lamarr]

If you lose the ability to stand, you can use crutches to regain it. You need a very high level of Crutch-walking to have any kind of good speed, but it's better than being prone.

You can train up Ambusher and steal from bandits first thing to build up items for barter. Also mod dwarves to have towns so you can buy steel. Why settle for less than the best (that you can get without starting a fort)?

Training in general turns a hit that would kill you into a miss.

Take two ranks in swimming at the start. You can usually hide in a murky pool, sneak, then climb out and travel if you're ambushed. Also, dodging into water won't drown you. Your speed in water can be higher than your speed on land with enough skill.

Never forget to manage your combat preferences. Never. This is an easy way to dodge yourself off a cliff or charge ineffectively at something and wind up stunned and/or prone.

This is all advice gleaned from others, but it has served me well.

[Stone Wera]

If you're not playing the newest update then this is probably one of the useful tips I have.

Pump points into shields (not all of them, but a considerable amount), get as many shields as you can, ( press r to) remove them from your pack and wear twelve to an arm for maximum protection.

[sirquote]

- Throwing is Great, do it. (Grab some rocks from the ground, equip them, then knap them into sharp stones = great free ammo)

- For wrestlers, the easiest take down will involve Grabbing the enemy by the throat and strangle to knock them out, then proceed with an open knife to the throat.

[Shook]

Attacking peoples feet is extremely effective if you can't get a clear shot on the head. If they're bipedal, you just need to injure/sever one foot before they're left prone for good, and two if they're quadripeds. Prone enemies are much slower than standing enemies, and are much less likely to dodge! (though they can still attack)

Also, if you want to be really effective against smaller enemies, charge them. Even if your attack misses, you'll probably still knock them over if they don't dodge. A succesful charge also stuns the foe, which lowers their speed even further. Be careful with charging if the enemy is in front of an obstacle or river/lake though, since you'll end up slamming or falling into the hazard if the foe dodges.

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[Rallan]

If you're not playing the newest update then this is probably one of the useful tips I have.

Pump points into shields (not all of them, but a considerable amount), get as many shields as you can, ( press r to) remove them from your pack and wear twelve to an arm for maximum protection.

You can wear multiple shields? Right, this changes everything.

[Stone Wera]

If you're not playing the newest update then this is probably one of the useful tips I have.

Pump points into shields (not all of them, but a considerable amount), get as many shields as you can, ( press r to) remove them from your pack and wear twelve to an arm for maximum protection.

You can wear multiple shields? Right, this changes everything.

If you're not playing .19.

[ZioAnthros]

Create a new adventurer, walk into an armour shop and pick up/equip everything you can.
Then retire, restart and recruit this fellow. He (probably) won't even be a criminal.
Rinse and repeat as desired. =D

[Rallan]

Create a new adventurer, walk into an armour shop and pick up/equip everything you can.
Then retire, restart and recruit this fellow. He (probably) won't even be a criminal.
Rinse and repeat as desired. =D

Ooh now that's fiendishly clever. Even without knocking off a bunch of loot, having a party of demigod-level NPCs is probably gonna be a vast improvement on the kind of guys you can recruit at forts.

[Deon]

If you're not playing the newest update then this is probably one of the useful tips I have.

Pump points into shields (not all of them, but a considerable amount), get as many shields as you can, ( press r to) remove them from your pack and wear twelve to an arm for maximum protection.

You can wear multiple shields? Right, this changes everything.

If you're not playing .19.

Crap, did Toady  REALLY fix "multiple shields" bug? Noooo, it was there from 2d version...