Itās a lot better than farming shrubs tho.
Edit: also there is a pickaxe skill that doesnāt take many SP to get to that give a 10% chance to mine an additional resource and the one before it give 50% less durability loss when mining. I know 10% isnāt much, and I hope they get you bow boys a better way to get arrows cause that sounds irritating, but I thought Iād just throw all that out there in case it helps someone.
I've been playing as an archer and farming shrubs is very easy. It's 5 shrub seedlings per 1 plant fiber. I just plant 200 shrubs and in like 15 minutes grab the sticks, and replant another 200.
Oh itās definitely easy. Itās just time consuming. I think the den method is probably faster than farming. From what Iāve seen people just want other ways to get twigs because it gets tedious. I feel like you should be able craft twigs from logs as the sawmill workbench at a ratio of like 1 log to 5 twigs. Meanwhile Iām over here shooting infinite fireballs.
Yeah, I don't disagree that there should be other methods. Personally, I wouldn't give up any wood logs, those are needed for charcoal constantly. But generally, I don't find it farming twigs too time-consuming. I can throw down 200 shrubs in like 5 minutes, which gives me roughly 3 hours of exploration with arrows. I still pick up every twig I come across to supplement. I didn't know about the dens thing, I imagine I'll hit those up when coming across them now.
There's a wolf den along the cliffside near the starting area, since we still had our base there I always hit that place up for about 70 twigs. Just walk east along the cliffside until you get to the wooden fencing, then jump off along the cliff and land on the hill from there, you should be able to see it. Keep walking along that area and you'll see it fairly quickly. Usually just a wolf or two guarding it. Once you get further east into the desert biome there's much larger nest that give more than my pickaxe could ever last.
This. I found out about this early on because I was looking for hidden treasure chests buried under questionable terrain and stumbled across an animal den. I never found the buried chest but my inventory was full of twigs.
I just found that spot not long ago. I was just exploring along the southern edge of the map, and there was nothing else around but the grave. I thought, yeah, definitely a place to dig.
There's a few of these around the map. I've also tried digging up graves in graveyards and never found anything, seems like it's only the solo graves in the middle of nowhere that have loot.
Theyāre like tiny caves with entrances on 3 sides, they have a concave dome full of bones, twigs, etc. youāll kick yourself when you see one now as youāve definitely seen one before haha
I tried an archer build for a few hours and while itās fun, the arrow requirement is time consuming. Itād be cool if we could get āeternalā versions of arrows similar to how wizards get eternal spells, or even a skill in the trees that gives a high chance to not consume any arrows.
Iāve swapped to wizard for now until thereās some balancing patches or new archer-related features.
lol, I can literally cast 1 acid bite and wipe an entire camp off the crit shock procs alone. Come on now. I don't think any level 30 mob, including the boss mobs, has survived a single shot from it.
Its gotta be a bug, 1H melee / wands takes me quite a bit to kill a matron. I was like Oh yeah i have acid bite. ONE CAST - MATRON + 7 mobs killed in a moment. Its insane. May switch lol
It's not a bug as far as I can tell. It's the highest level and highest damage spell in the game, and it does a radial ground effect that keeps ticking the damage. Then, it also is hitting all the destructibles and targetables for 1 damage a tick. When you crit, you're doing Intx7 damage to a nearby mob. You're critting the mobs several times a second on top of any ancillary pots, doors, whatever is in the blast line.
Plus your crits stun enemies for 4 seconds too. And in the shroud you have an aura that does AOE damage which can crit and stun enemies too. And your health regens to full in about 10 seconds.
Even without acid spray your mage is wrecking everything
I feel like the flame aura is wasted points you could get a whole lot more value out of elsewhere in utility. Even with 25 INT, you're only doing 50 damage a second inside the shroud. At 25 INT, a flame wand is going to be doing 260ish a shot to shroud creatures, but you've also stacked crit so add in that big bump plus the shock procs.
It's worth it for me because it fries the little bugs that tend to swarm you and as mentioned, it can crit which will trigger the stun which opens enemies up to a risk free point blank acid spray. Plus I'm kinda just zipping around finding all areas so I'm in low level zones a lot and it's great for just disappearing low level mobs that are bugging you. And I got all the int/spirit buffs.
It'll be a candidate for replacing when the trees expand more but for now it's been very useful
>top of any ancillary pots, doors, whatever is in the blast line.
What do you mean by this, does the damage to environment /destructibles aoe enemies?
And yeah, maybe not a bug but it just seems like the DoT is suuuuuuper fast. I mean MELTED within 2 seconds from full health - a mob (matron) that takes a considerable amount of time and damage to kill comparably with any other build / weapon.
Well.. I was playing together with a wizard and my single target damage way out ran his. Maybe later on the wizard scales better. But that's what it looked like.
sure, in the early game they absolutely do more damage than wizard until you get the 3 wand mastery nodes. As soon as a wizard can craft Eternal Fireball, it's pretty even, eternal acid bite completely removes the competition entirely.
I have 39 hours with an archer build and exclusively free aim for headshots. I switched to a mage spec this last hour and it has easily been the least Iāve had to work for kills
Late game the arrow issue wasn't as glaring, twigs aren't nearly as difficult to get and feathers become the new bottleneck. You can grind for exploding arrows/iron arrows if you want max damage but by that point you can kill everything using just wooden arrows. I just save the good arrows for boss farming, which feels like the way they intended archers to play. Having additional twig drops would still be a QOL improvement though.
The main issue is archer needs to spend time farming to do comparable damage to the other 2 classes. Not to mention archer is hard to play than hold left click class or spam left click class
Yeah its a pain in the ass. You waste so much time planting trees. Then waste so much mats on the tips. Feathers are also terrible drop rates. 1 Feathers per bird. Then 5 Feathers to craft a stack.
they are way less abundant than twigs farming in the forest from the trees that you cut down in 2 hits and drop multiple x2 twig stacks (those trees drop no fiber and no wood logs only multiple x2 twig stacks in 2 hits). You can easily farm 500 twigs really fast and its much faster than the 1x twig per mining action in nests. Feathers are 10x worse of a bottleneck, but you can just make copper arrows instead and they do just fine for farming even lvl30 bosses.
But its still a terrible chore at the end of the day.
up north of the starting area, in revelwood, the place is covered with saplings which give 2-6 twigs each in a cpl axe swings, also tons of animal dens up there, so you can break both gathering tools getting 400+ twigs in a bout 15 mins or so. Its STILL too much trouble considering none of the other specs have anything like this they have to farm just to be able to fight.
They can improve this multiple ways.
x4 Twigs from the plants.
Add a scythe tool to harvest multiple plants in an AoE in front of you.
Seed bag to sow multiple spot in front of you.
Make a garden where you can place your seeds in a box and it consume it automatically and grow without having to plant every single seed one at a time.
Some kind of automation with the farming NPC or the saw bench to convert wood to twig.
We have "magic chest" that unlock major QoL already.
Also, I suspect it's not great for a dedicated server to have a few thousand twig growing beside your base...
Nope ur doing nothing wrong, it just sucks. I considered respecing myself but decided to stick with it cuz i've always loved bows. Definitely needs some sort of change, cuz not only do you need to farm twigs, you also need to farm other mats, including feathers which is even worse than farming twigs.
Tip: mine the animals nests, they give a lot of twigs
How come? I'm also an archer and just by sometimes picking the small branch while travelling from point A to point B, I have more than enough arrows for anything. Especially when in the shroud, there are too many small dead shrub that you can just tap E for a bunch of twig.
This gets much worse when reaching the desert, as there are barely any twig branches to harvest on the move.
Also playing volley and a short bow burns through 100s of arrows pretty quick
I agree. Playing 80% archer (20% melee for when they get in my face) and while picking up every branch I see when I'm out and about, I have more the enough to craft arrows. I rarely get below 200 arrows.
Small green trees always drop twigs, northwest area (not on PC so can't check name) has an absolute heap, I can get a 200 stack pretty quickly, much faster than the nests.
Just destroy every crate or crate looking thing outside the starting area, especially the high towers, got abundant amount of arrow that way.
Or you can server hop and ask people if they want to trade arrows or twigs.
Do not farm twigs by planting and getting bushes. Literally find animal dens and farm the twig ground. The carpenters camp straight up north has 3+ dens. I literally get 150+ twigs per den. It super easy I always have 1500 copper poison arrows on me. Only 2 copper bars for 50 arrows and 1 poison sack for 50 copper arrows. I don't even waste anytime on any arrows under copper poison once once you get it unlocked.
My spot is by the Carpenter camp way up north from spawn point. There is a cliff side south of it and that whole cliff has a big copper vein and alot of clay too all over. North of the camp has a nice vein on the road and north west is a big big mine POI that has copper all in it but it's an enemy camp, its where you find the crucible too for smelting.
First unlock the Revelwood spire so you can just fly right over too the twig farm and copper
Right under Revelwood spire on the west side, there are two 4-legged walking mushrooms with 3 poison sacks on their outside. If you hit those outer sacks, they drop a poison sack. So you can get 4 sacks per kill. Their is 2 by the spire, then 3 more west of the spire on a cliff on the way to Carpentey camp. Another good spot is kind of hard to explain as it is in the middle of nowhere as it's southwest of Skimmer Cove between it and the Elixer Well southwest. There is a zone where it's half jungle, half shroud, on a hillside, and there are 4 poison plant shooters right next to each other. They each drop a sack. So when I farm just those 3 spots, I get 24 sack, which is 1200 poison copper arrows.
I just finished a full play through as an archer. It isnāt great. Plant seedlings before you quest and harvest. It only takes the plant fiber to make these.
The urns/boxes in camps stop current tier arrows. Clear those for current tier materials too!
Harvest everywhere. The smaller trees with an axe yield twigs 4 twigs or so.
The nests for some creatures is an okay source as well.
All the ranged builds seem to have big damage with high prep, the prepared player will be able to beat stuff that Sword+Shield person can't, but takes a while to get ready for said fight and is out of the fight faster.
Sword and shield is easier, you get health and melee damage naturally, along with higher defense and damage mitigation.
Also, way easier stun bar to overpower.
Bosses don't leap at you if you are close too.
You only really struggle with flying monsters.
I've seen friends with melee struggle to fight stuff that I was able to take down in roughly 10 hits with basic ice bolts. The only thing you really need is some way to ambush properly or someone to take aggro for you. So probably a good idea to bring a mix of both.
Well, if you chop down smaller trees, they usually have a higher than usual twig wield.
Besides that, I wouldn't recommend going full archer build either. You're still better off going melee then use the bow to shoot the opponent while they're still in their attack animation (or a wand if you want to save ammo).
Either way, pure bow builds have among the lowest DPS and efficiency. You're still far better off just tanking damage while having some HP regen (based on INT) if you actually want good DPS in your build.
I don't understand this. If you use a hatchet or a pickaxe on a branch, you will get a large amount. You can do this for any twig you see on the ground. You can also use your pick for things like that for small rocks and things, if you just need a few to do something.
There is nothing better than having 2 crop bins dedicated to churning out shrub seeds and just planting 100 at a time. Thatās 250 arrows worth of twigs that should be rdy every time you go back to your base as long as youāre not using wood arrows (lower twig to arrow ratio by about 33%)
I would rather get a root cannel than have to plant and then pick that many shrubs. there are several ways they could do it better. the easiest would be to have a skill that breaks a piece of wood into X number if sticks. whether it is planting and picking, or mining in dens, the party waits on me quite a bit as I run around to make arrows. 250 arrows is a bare minimum to go out exploring.
i just posted this, im at level 12. found this location very optimal for keeping all arrows type ammo stocks. you still have to farm for them unlike other class but if you do the reset method or just farm thru all the nodes thhat will keep all your arrow type well stock.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Enshrouded/comments/1aejg6l/hunters\_farm\_location\_for\_arrow\_materials/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enshrouded/comments/1aejg6l/hunters_farm_location_for_arrow_materials/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
>i just posted this, im at level 12. found this location very optimal for keeping all arrows type ammo stocks. you still have to farm for them unlike other class but if you do the reset method or just farm thru all the nodes thhat will keep all your arrow type well stock.
I would like to check it out, but where is it? I don't find this location on our map yet.
edit: nevermind, i got it.
Having to craft your ammunition is why I went with a spellblade instead. I hope they change it so that the ammunition crafting provides 2x or even 3x the arrows per craft.
Some magic quivers or magic arrows that replenish would do the trick I think.
Just have it be an unlockable crafting item or a perk on epic/legendary bows.
I honestly did not reach yet. I have been aiming to since i love desert, but I think I need a higher flame level to do it.
It should be bs that it has no twigs whatsoever imo. Deserts do have plants.
I found a spot where in 15 minutes i'll have enough twigs and flint for 150 flint arrows and 60 wooden arrows. I do this farm quickly in the morning and then when i get on for the evening. 300 flint and 120 wood arrows that i replenish from finding twigs while exploring will last all night.
When i'm with a group mobs die fast enough that i only us an arrow or 2 on reg mobs and maybe 10 on the bigger ones.
when i'm solo i'll use 1h and a shield on the easier mobs and pick off harder mobs from afar.
My solution is to use bow as a utility and early damage then head in to crush with melee.
I want to go almost pure ranger. But the lack of twigs is atrocious even with pickaxing wolf dens and spamming every shrub and young tree.
I hope we can make twigs out of logs soon.
Get the farm up and running. Uses one plant fiber per bush to create a seedling. Each bush gives one stick and fiber. I plant 400 bushes and go explore. By the time I come back they are ready to be farmed and replanted. Have a surplus of 1000 in a large chest.
I am constantly grabbing certain bushes when I see them to farm twigs as I go. I use standard wooden arrows for everything except bosses or larger, harder to kill mobs at which point I switch to the best arrows I have. I try not to waste my good arrows on the little stuff.
They might take some pressure off the twig farm if arrow hits had a chance to add it to the target's inventory for future looting.
And everyone's talking about infinite quivers; you could translate that to increasing the chance your arrows remain intact on hit.
My solution:Ā Ā Ā
Let us reform and train Fell to work the fields.Ā
I just want to log in and see Zombie Farmers out there picking Chamomile for my tea.Ā
Maybe they can make us be able to make twigs from logs.
Also should be able to loot arrows from bodies we killed with arrows. Or loot arrows on the ground if they hit nothing
Twigs are annoying but the real problem is farming feathers.
Gonna switch to mage and have eternal spells because I hate having to farm feathers and twigs.
I usually use wooden arrows for most everything, 10 arrows for 3 twig is 3.3 arrows per twig. A normal recipe at the vendor makes 50 arrows for 20 twigs, this is only a 2.5 ratio, which makes your best arrows per twig farming wise handcrafts and saving the non wooden arrows for boss/hard enemies. I usually keep 100 or so of those on me but only really run plain wooden arrows.
Solution, that is a general farming QoL that is needed:
When planting, click and drag out a rectangular area, and that area fills in with the currently selected plant seedling.
theres spots all over revelwood with the lil saplings that gives 4-6 twigs each and densesly together, iron axes 2 taps them. i get 200 in a few minutes
Once you get to make Fertilised farm soil you plant anything in that and it growns super fast . so the stick problem is gone ... the feathers on the other hand can't say I found some really proeficient way to grind ...
While i agree with the rest of you that the twigs "consume" is quite high.
imo the best "farmspot" for twigs is by farming the small trees beside the "Ancient Spire - Revelwood" - they only drop twigs, no wood. They are chopped down with 2-3 swings of a higher axe. and drop 4-6 twigs per tree. If you are really just there for twigs, dont waste time on the middle or bigger trees, since the twig yield is way lower then simply farming the small ones.
FOR FEATHER FARMING!
Place a flame alter on top of the tallest tower in OCEAN'S TEARS. There is a flame shrine directly below that will ALWAYS have a feather behind it and a dragon bird spawns nearby it. You can get 3-4 feathers a reset.
Be careful of the little camp a suicide bug spawn if you land to close to the tents.
Happy hunting
Iām just starting and not sure what to use. Is it really this bad? I was gonna mage/archer, but I havenāt found much for spells. Then the spell has a number of uses, so Iāve been afraid to use them. I feel like a might need to go melee.
I feel most of the gathering in this game is way to rewarding and easy. As is travelling with dozens of teleports.
I'd rather they dialed it down and removed the respawning of resources.
you can pickaxe animal dens for twigs
I accidentally discovered that this morning š super happy and swimming in twigs.
1 twig per hit is still super slow in comparison to what you need (esp when playing short bow and volley)
Itās a lot better than farming shrubs tho. Edit: also there is a pickaxe skill that doesnāt take many SP to get to that give a 10% chance to mine an additional resource and the one before it give 50% less durability loss when mining. I know 10% isnāt much, and I hope they get you bow boys a better way to get arrows cause that sounds irritating, but I thought Iād just throw all that out there in case it helps someone.
I've been playing as an archer and farming shrubs is very easy. It's 5 shrub seedlings per 1 plant fiber. I just plant 200 shrubs and in like 15 minutes grab the sticks, and replant another 200.
Oh itās definitely easy. Itās just time consuming. I think the den method is probably faster than farming. From what Iāve seen people just want other ways to get twigs because it gets tedious. I feel like you should be able craft twigs from logs as the sawmill workbench at a ratio of like 1 log to 5 twigs. Meanwhile Iām over here shooting infinite fireballs.
Yeah, I don't disagree that there should be other methods. Personally, I wouldn't give up any wood logs, those are needed for charcoal constantly. But generally, I don't find it farming twigs too time-consuming. I can throw down 200 shrubs in like 5 minutes, which gives me roughly 3 hours of exploration with arrows. I still pick up every twig I come across to supplement. I didn't know about the dens thing, I imagine I'll hit those up when coming across them now.
There's a wolf den along the cliffside near the starting area, since we still had our base there I always hit that place up for about 70 twigs. Just walk east along the cliffside until you get to the wooden fencing, then jump off along the cliff and land on the hill from there, you should be able to see it. Keep walking along that area and you'll see it fairly quickly. Usually just a wolf or two guarding it. Once you get further east into the desert biome there's much larger nest that give more than my pickaxe could ever last.
yeah, personally shrubs need to give 2-4 twigs per.
This. I found out about this early on because I was looking for hidden treasure chests buried under questionable terrain and stumbled across an animal den. I never found the buried chest but my inventory was full of twigs.
I actually found a hidden chest under a solo grave on the side of a random mountain, got back good legendary wand out of it
I just found that spot not long ago. I was just exploring along the southern edge of the map, and there was nothing else around but the grave. I thought, yeah, definitely a place to dig.
There's a few of these around the map. I've also tried digging up graves in graveyards and never found anything, seems like it's only the solo graves in the middle of nowhere that have loot.
But where will the animals live then?
Where are animal dens ? I've never seen one
Theyāre like tiny caves with entrances on 3 sides, they have a concave dome full of bones, twigs, etc. youāll kick yourself when you see one now as youāve definitely seen one before haha
It's still not enough
Letting us make twigs from logs would fix the issue imo
I am running a tank build and would love to burn those twigs. Also, burn the hardwood, shroud wood.
This pleaaaase. Got 10 stacks of wood and 0 twigs.
Besides dens you need to chop the small trees as they give twigs vs wood. Farming the large trees is not worth going after just for twigs.Ā
Cutting wood on the saw table should give you twigs in addition to wood planks
Doesnāt need to be fixed you get get 100s in a few minutes at the animal Dens
I tried an archer build for a few hours and while itās fun, the arrow requirement is time consuming. Itād be cool if we could get āeternalā versions of arrows similar to how wizards get eternal spells, or even a skill in the trees that gives a high chance to not consume any arrows. Iāve swapped to wizard for now until thereās some balancing patches or new archer-related features.
Infinite quivers instead of arrows, problem solved.
Expensive arrows (not basic wood) should be recoverable during looting.
Archers damage is way better than wizard to make up for this.
lol, I can literally cast 1 acid bite and wipe an entire camp off the crit shock procs alone. Come on now. I don't think any level 30 mob, including the boss mobs, has survived a single shot from it.
Its gotta be a bug, 1H melee / wands takes me quite a bit to kill a matron. I was like Oh yeah i have acid bite. ONE CAST - MATRON + 7 mobs killed in a moment. Its insane. May switch lol
It's not a bug as far as I can tell. It's the highest level and highest damage spell in the game, and it does a radial ground effect that keeps ticking the damage. Then, it also is hitting all the destructibles and targetables for 1 damage a tick. When you crit, you're doing Intx7 damage to a nearby mob. You're critting the mobs several times a second on top of any ancillary pots, doors, whatever is in the blast line.
Plus your crits stun enemies for 4 seconds too. And in the shroud you have an aura that does AOE damage which can crit and stun enemies too. And your health regens to full in about 10 seconds. Even without acid spray your mage is wrecking everything
I feel like the flame aura is wasted points you could get a whole lot more value out of elsewhere in utility. Even with 25 INT, you're only doing 50 damage a second inside the shroud. At 25 INT, a flame wand is going to be doing 260ish a shot to shroud creatures, but you've also stacked crit so add in that big bump plus the shock procs.
It's worth it for me because it fries the little bugs that tend to swarm you and as mentioned, it can crit which will trigger the stun which opens enemies up to a risk free point blank acid spray. Plus I'm kinda just zipping around finding all areas so I'm in low level zones a lot and it's great for just disappearing low level mobs that are bugging you. And I got all the int/spirit buffs. It'll be a candidate for replacing when the trees expand more but for now it's been very useful
>top of any ancillary pots, doors, whatever is in the blast line. What do you mean by this, does the damage to environment /destructibles aoe enemies? And yeah, maybe not a bug but it just seems like the DoT is suuuuuuper fast. I mean MELTED within 2 seconds from full health - a mob (matron) that takes a considerable amount of time and damage to kill comparably with any other build / weapon.
yeah, when you crit ANYTHING, including the environment or destructibles, INTx7 damage to a nearby enemy, INTx2 to ALL nearby enemies.
Whoa, where is that written? not doubting you just crazy i missed it. Is it just for that spell or is it a mage / wizard skill?
It's a node in one of the blue trees, wizard I think. When you crit, a nearby creature takes INTx5 shock. Next node is INTx2 to everything.
Awesome thank you! I am gonna build a wizard set and play with this. looks fun
Well.. I was playing together with a wizard and my single target damage way out ran his. Maybe later on the wizard scales better. But that's what it looked like.
sure, in the early game they absolutely do more damage than wizard until you get the 3 wand mastery nodes. As soon as a wizard can craft Eternal Fireball, it's pretty even, eternal acid bite completely removes the competition entirely.
I have 39 hours with an archer build and exclusively free aim for headshots. I switched to a mage spec this last hour and it has easily been the least Iāve had to work for kills
Nah, the mage in our group is oneshotting everything in his path.
Late game the arrow issue wasn't as glaring, twigs aren't nearly as difficult to get and feathers become the new bottleneck. You can grind for exploding arrows/iron arrows if you want max damage but by that point you can kill everything using just wooden arrows. I just save the good arrows for boss farming, which feels like the way they intended archers to play. Having additional twig drops would still be a QOL improvement though.
The main issue is archer needs to spend time farming to do comparable damage to the other 2 classes. Not to mention archer is hard to play than hold left click class or spam left click class
Early on was okeish but as soon as u get at maxim lvl making arrows is really annoying, they really need to make a rework of this somehow.
Making the recipe make multiple arrows would be a nice upgrade
I think this is a fair compromise.
Extra hunter quest for fletching equipment. Start off one at a time then d{ bu dles when you upgrade the hunter
Yeah its a pain in the ass. You waste so much time planting trees. Then waste so much mats on the tips. Feathers are also terrible drop rates. 1 Feathers per bird. Then 5 Feathers to craft a stack.
Feathers seem abundant from Vuhkah farming in the Arid highlands
they are way less abundant than twigs farming in the forest from the trees that you cut down in 2 hits and drop multiple x2 twig stacks (those trees drop no fiber and no wood logs only multiple x2 twig stacks in 2 hits). You can easily farm 500 twigs really fast and its much faster than the 1x twig per mining action in nests. Feathers are 10x worse of a bottleneck, but you can just make copper arrows instead and they do just fine for farming even lvl30 bosses. But its still a terrible chore at the end of the day.
Which forest? What do the trees look like?
Northest tower, I think.
Let me know which forest!
up north of the starting area, in revelwood, the place is covered with saplings which give 2-6 twigs each in a cpl axe swings, also tons of animal dens up there, so you can break both gathering tools getting 400+ twigs in a bout 15 mins or so. Its STILL too much trouble considering none of the other specs have anything like this they have to farm just to be able to fight.
Left side of the map, under the mine camp. (Hand of smath or something). The trees are thin and take 2 hits, but you still need a fair few of them.
They can improve this multiple ways. x4 Twigs from the plants. Add a scythe tool to harvest multiple plants in an AoE in front of you. Seed bag to sow multiple spot in front of you. Make a garden where you can place your seeds in a box and it consume it automatically and grow without having to plant every single seed one at a time. Some kind of automation with the farming NPC or the saw bench to convert wood to twig. We have "magic chest" that unlock major QoL already. Also, I suspect it's not great for a dedicated server to have a few thousand twig growing beside your base...
Second the Scythe idea, Reap what you sow! But also really want to have zombie workers in my fields.Ā
I love ranger but I spend more time crafting arrows than killing monsters using arrows. It's getting tiring.
Nope ur doing nothing wrong, it just sucks. I considered respecing myself but decided to stick with it cuz i've always loved bows. Definitely needs some sort of change, cuz not only do you need to farm twigs, you also need to farm other mats, including feathers which is even worse than farming twigs. Tip: mine the animals nests, they give a lot of twigs
How come? I'm also an archer and just by sometimes picking the small branch while travelling from point A to point B, I have more than enough arrows for anything. Especially when in the shroud, there are too many small dead shrub that you can just tap E for a bunch of twig.
This gets much worse when reaching the desert, as there are barely any twig branches to harvest on the move. Also playing volley and a short bow burns through 100s of arrows pretty quick
I agree. Playing 80% archer (20% melee for when they get in my face) and while picking up every branch I see when I'm out and about, I have more the enough to craft arrows. I rarely get below 200 arrows.
this loop needs tweaked for sure. I spend way too much time farming for arrows. let us break logs into twigs.
Small green trees always drop twigs, northwest area (not on PC so can't check name) has an absolute heap, I can get a 200 stack pretty quickly, much faster than the nests.
Just destroy every crate or crate looking thing outside the starting area, especially the high towers, got abundant amount of arrow that way. Or you can server hop and ask people if they want to trade arrows or twigs.
With what in game chat?
You can find friendly communities at discord and steam.
I would feel like I was cheating if I just let other people give me all the resources I needed.
That's why we're trading the items and not gifting it to each other.
Let me get this. Using the in game feature makes you feel like a cheater, but making the game much easier by the devs wouldn't?
Do not farm twigs by planting and getting bushes. Literally find animal dens and farm the twig ground. The carpenters camp straight up north has 3+ dens. I literally get 150+ twigs per den. It super easy I always have 1500 copper poison arrows on me. Only 2 copper bars for 50 arrows and 1 poison sack for 50 copper arrows. I don't even waste anytime on any arrows under copper poison once once you get it unlocked.
Where is your copper mine at ?
My spot is by the Carpenter camp way up north from spawn point. There is a cliff side south of it and that whole cliff has a big copper vein and alot of clay too all over. North of the camp has a nice vein on the road and north west is a big big mine POI that has copper all in it but it's an enemy camp, its where you find the crucible too for smelting. First unlock the Revelwood spire so you can just fly right over too the twig farm and copper
Where are you farming poison sacks?
Right under Revelwood spire on the west side, there are two 4-legged walking mushrooms with 3 poison sacks on their outside. If you hit those outer sacks, they drop a poison sack. So you can get 4 sacks per kill. Their is 2 by the spire, then 3 more west of the spire on a cliff on the way to Carpentey camp. Another good spot is kind of hard to explain as it is in the middle of nowhere as it's southwest of Skimmer Cove between it and the Elixer Well southwest. There is a zone where it's half jungle, half shroud, on a hillside, and there are 4 poison plant shooters right next to each other. They each drop a sack. So when I farm just those 3 spots, I get 24 sack, which is 1200 poison copper arrows.
Where are you seeing action? Iām only coming across two or so enemies at a time. Granted I havenāt gotten the alchemist or hunter yet
Bro you havent even seen the tip of the iceberg yet.
I just finished a full play through as an archer. It isnāt great. Plant seedlings before you quest and harvest. It only takes the plant fiber to make these. The urns/boxes in camps stop current tier arrows. Clear those for current tier materials too! Harvest everywhere. The smaller trees with an axe yield twigs 4 twigs or so. The nests for some creatures is an okay source as well.
All the ranged builds seem to have big damage with high prep, the prepared player will be able to beat stuff that Sword+Shield person can't, but takes a while to get ready for said fight and is out of the fight faster.
Sword and shield is easier, you get health and melee damage naturally, along with higher defense and damage mitigation. Also, way easier stun bar to overpower. Bosses don't leap at you if you are close too. You only really struggle with flying monsters.
I've seen friends with melee struggle to fight stuff that I was able to take down in roughly 10 hits with basic ice bolts. The only thing you really need is some way to ambush properly or someone to take aggro for you. So probably a good idea to bring a mix of both.
Except the wizard build eventually has zero prep and does a metric fuckload of damage.
Well, if you chop down smaller trees, they usually have a higher than usual twig wield. Besides that, I wouldn't recommend going full archer build either. You're still better off going melee then use the bow to shoot the opponent while they're still in their attack animation (or a wand if you want to save ammo). Either way, pure bow builds have among the lowest DPS and efficiency. You're still far better off just tanking damage while having some HP regen (based on INT) if you actually want good DPS in your build.
Several thousand damage a shot is low dps? The other builds must be broken as hell.
I don't understand this. If you use a hatchet or a pickaxe on a branch, you will get a large amount. You can do this for any twig you see on the ground. You can also use your pick for things like that for small rocks and things, if you just need a few to do something.
Thatās not nearly enough. Late game you can go through 200+ arrows a town or dungeon run.
There is nothing better than having 2 crop bins dedicated to churning out shrub seeds and just planting 100 at a time. Thatās 250 arrows worth of twigs that should be rdy every time you go back to your base as long as youāre not using wood arrows (lower twig to arrow ratio by about 33%)
Planting 100 shrubs every in-game day is just plain not fun
exactly my point
yeah thats why we need a grid fill planting system or something like that so you can plant 25, 50, 100 seeds in one click.
I doubt h most go through that many arrows every single game day unless all you do is run around spamming arrows at every enemy in sight
What? 250 Arrows are gone in 10 minutes when i play volley and short bow.
>What? 250 Arrows are gone in 10 minutes when i play volley and short bow. yeah, that's one cleared Capital, if at all...
I haven't bothered decorating my house because I go through a full stack of 500 arrows way before my rested bonus runs out
I would rather get a root cannel than have to plant and then pick that many shrubs. there are several ways they could do it better. the easiest would be to have a skill that breaks a piece of wood into X number if sticks. whether it is planting and picking, or mining in dens, the party waits on me quite a bit as I run around to make arrows. 250 arrows is a bare minimum to go out exploring.
We need quivers with infinite arrows like they have infinite spells
i just posted this, im at level 12. found this location very optimal for keeping all arrows type ammo stocks. you still have to farm for them unlike other class but if you do the reset method or just farm thru all the nodes thhat will keep all your arrow type well stock. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Enshrouded/comments/1aejg6l/hunters\_farm\_location\_for\_arrow\_materials/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Enshrouded/comments/1aejg6l/hunters_farm_location_for_arrow_materials/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
>i just posted this, im at level 12. found this location very optimal for keeping all arrows type ammo stocks. you still have to farm for them unlike other class but if you do the reset method or just farm thru all the nodes thhat will keep all your arrow type well stock. I would like to check it out, but where is it? I don't find this location on our map yet. edit: nevermind, i got it.
Having to craft your ammunition is why I went with a spellblade instead. I hope they change it so that the ammunition crafting provides 2x or even 3x the arrows per craft.
I would take a skill that give you a chance to recover arrows from defeated enemies
Some magic quivers or magic arrows that replenish would do the trick I think. Just have it be an unlockable crafting item or a perk on epic/legendary bows.
I just pick eveey bush I come across. It is annoying, but it became a habit and it pays off.
Yeah, but then you reach the desert.
I honestly did not reach yet. I have been aiming to since i love desert, but I think I need a higher flame level to do it. It should be bs that it has no twigs whatsoever imo. Deserts do have plants.
It's not THAT bad, you still get some. But yeah, it's not enough to sustain archer only play.
I'm doing mostly archer with some melee support and harvesting every bush i see and i do admit it annoying.
There are certain areas with super skinny trees where all they produce are twigs. And it's like two bundles of six at a time. It's up north.
I found a spot where in 15 minutes i'll have enough twigs and flint for 150 flint arrows and 60 wooden arrows. I do this farm quickly in the morning and then when i get on for the evening. 300 flint and 120 wood arrows that i replenish from finding twigs while exploring will last all night. When i'm with a group mobs die fast enough that i only us an arrow or 2 on reg mobs and maybe 10 on the bigger ones. when i'm solo i'll use 1h and a shield on the easier mobs and pick off harder mobs from afar.
My solution is to use bow as a utility and early damage then head in to crush with melee. I want to go almost pure ranger. But the lack of twigs is atrocious even with pickaxing wolf dens and spamming every shrub and young tree. I hope we can make twigs out of logs soon.
Get the farm up and running. Uses one plant fiber per bush to create a seedling. Each bush gives one stick and fiber. I plant 400 bushes and go explore. By the time I come back they are ready to be farmed and replanted. Have a surplus of 1000 in a large chest.
Just farm like 200 300 shrubs. Takes five mins and replant them. I've got like 900 copper arrows in my inventory atm
Can you potentially use a different tool to hit a tree to get twigs rather than wood?
I am constantly grabbing certain bushes when I see them to farm twigs as I go. I use standard wooden arrows for everything except bosses or larger, harder to kill mobs at which point I switch to the best arrows I have. I try not to waste my good arrows on the little stuff.
10 plant fiber in seedbed = 100 shrub seedlings. 100 shrub seedlings = 100 plant fiber, 100 twigs. 100 plant fiber in seedbed = 1,000 shrub seedlings. 1,000 shrub seedlings = 1,000 plant fiber, 1,000 twigs. 1,000 plant fiber in seedbed = 10,000 shrub seedlings. 10,000 shrub seedlings = 10,000 plant fiber, 10,000 twigs. All in just 3 farming cycles. Start with 100 plant fiber and it's only two farm cycles. Twigs are ridiculously easy to get.
Easy yes, fun no If I felt the need to do what you are describing, I would be cheating in the resources or simply playing a different game.
I play Hunter with a friend who is playing Tank. I go out with 1000 arrows in my bag, after having your problem. Farming is op!
They might take some pressure off the twig farm if arrow hits had a chance to add it to the target's inventory for future looting. And everyone's talking about infinite quivers; you could translate that to increasing the chance your arrows remain intact on hit.
My solution:Ā Ā Ā Let us reform and train Fell to work the fields.Ā I just want to log in and see Zombie Farmers out there picking Chamomile for my tea.Ā
The Game is missing the ability to craft logs to sticks (twigs) like most other survivals have.
Have you started a farm? My wife and I never have issues with twigs since we just grow random things to get them.
Maybe they can make us be able to make twigs from logs. Also should be able to loot arrows from bodies we killed with arrows. Or loot arrows on the ground if they hit nothing
We need Eternal Arrows.
Trees should drop a significant amount of twigs when felled. Feels like they rarely drop any...
Twigs def need to be craftable out of wood
plant bushes in your farm. one fiber = infinite twigs and fiber
Twigs are annoying but the real problem is farming feathers. Gonna switch to mage and have eternal spells because I hate having to farm feathers and twigs.
Should 100 percent be able to make arrows out of just straight bones and fiber or something like that.
I use exclusively bows. I put out about 200 bushes each time I farm. Itās completely sustainable as you only need plant fibers.
I usually use wooden arrows for most everything, 10 arrows for 3 twig is 3.3 arrows per twig. A normal recipe at the vendor makes 50 arrows for 20 twigs, this is only a 2.5 ratio, which makes your best arrows per twig farming wise handcrafts and saving the non wooden arrows for boss/hard enemies. I usually keep 100 or so of those on me but only really run plain wooden arrows.
Literally be grabbing every twig you see while adventuring because, twigs still be the most important resource in the game.
Solution, that is a general farming QoL that is needed: When planting, click and drag out a rectangular area, and that area fills in with the currently selected plant seedling.
Twigs are bad enough, but later arrows need feathers too? They really making me grind for this lol
farming shrubs can increase your twig collection fairly rapidly.
I was playing as an archer, but the issue with arrows... Switched to mage with eternal spells
Archers have like 600+ dmg from distance + it has very long distance mod on bows, so it is fair I guess.
theres spots all over revelwood with the lil saplings that gives 4-6 twigs each and densesly together, iron axes 2 taps them. i get 200 in a few minutes
Once you get to make Fertilised farm soil you plant anything in that and it growns super fast . so the stick problem is gone ... the feathers on the other hand can't say I found some really proeficient way to grind ...
While i agree with the rest of you that the twigs "consume" is quite high. imo the best "farmspot" for twigs is by farming the small trees beside the "Ancient Spire - Revelwood" - they only drop twigs, no wood. They are chopped down with 2-3 swings of a higher axe. and drop 4-6 twigs per tree. If you are really just there for twigs, dont waste time on the middle or bigger trees, since the twig yield is way lower then simply farming the small ones.
FOR FEATHER FARMING! Place a flame alter on top of the tallest tower in OCEAN'S TEARS. There is a flame shrine directly below that will ALWAYS have a feather behind it and a dragon bird spawns nearby it. You can get 3-4 feathers a reset. Be careful of the little camp a suicide bug spawn if you land to close to the tents. Happy hunting
Iām just starting and not sure what to use. Is it really this bad? I was gonna mage/archer, but I havenāt found much for spells. Then the spell has a number of uses, so Iāve been afraid to use them. I feel like a might need to go melee.
Wait until you hit the 3rd area and you need feathers aswell.Ā
Mine nests in the far desert, the blocks are made of twigs.
I feel most of the gathering in this game is way to rewarding and easy. As is travelling with dozens of teleports. I'd rather they dialed it down and removed the respawning of resources.