After my frustrating experience on Balboa Island, I thought it was time to merely sail my raft around, collect resources, and go fishing. Mostly I wanted my llama to produce a tonne of wool so I could craft a full set of armour and I wanted to level up my trading post tiers so I could buy all the things!
Checking out my handy dandy receiver, I noticed that there was a green island blip just a mere kilometre in the distance. It was time to set forth, catch a bunch of junk out at sea and throw it into my recycling machine, and hopefully I would have a tonne of trash cubes ready for trade by the time I got to the island. Plus fish, of course, to sell for reputation.
To my surprise, the island I approached looked markedly different to every other island I had been to! For the first time, the island wasn't green and lush but was brown and desert-like, and, instead of a raging boar, there was a raging pig!
And for some reason when I killed the raging pig, it didn't give me any meat. Just leather. I mean, leather is welcome... but, really, no meat? What a useless creature.
I stayed there for a while just fishing and selling said fish until I ran out of bait and maxxed out my reputation. I'm kind of confused about the point of buying tier 3 bait to catch more fish to sell for more rep, when once you hit tier 3 you're maxxed out anyway? It does give you a few more currency tokens, but, seems kind of pointless really.
Although there were a few interesting things in the Tier 3 section to buy, there wasn't anything I reeeeeally wanted. Most of it was cosmetic and I would prefer to buy stuff that I needed rather than fancy looking hats and things.
I ended up buying an advanced scarecrow so, whenever I eventually made my crops, they wouldn't be hassled by unrelenting seagulls, and some more herbs for my recipes that I can't obtain anywhere else. AND some titanium ore to research. Huzzah! Not that I have any recipes to use it in yet...
Now... it was onwards to the next blue quest blip on the receiver! Caravan Town.
Here I came across my first "white screecher." Which is basically the same as the annoying boulder-dropping bastards on the lush islands, but white, and far easier to kill. It moves slower and has less health than the normal screecher. I much prefer these ones. They're still boulder-dropping-bastards, but, since they're easier to kill, they're better. xD
Before exploring the hulking heap of caravans, I thought that I would explore the waters first instead. So I cooked up a Salmon feast to increase my lungpower for a few minutes, killed the shark, and dove down into the depths.
What I wasn't expecting was to find a pipe that led further and further down into the depths, and as I followed it, it led to small breathable pockets as you continued your descent. At the bottom was a blueprint to create a metal detector and some crates of goods. Score. There were also fifty thousand puffer fish. I ended up wishing that I had chosen to go swimming with an extra salmon feast, extra swimming flippers, and an extra oxygen bottle. And an extra bow. At least I now had plenty of explosive goop!
Due to not realising the above though, I freaked out a heap because my flippers broke and my oxygen bottle disintergrated and I had to rely on these small pockets of breathable air to get the hell out of there. As we know, the thought of drowning deep under the ocean terrifies me, even in a game, so that situation was a bit squiffy. xD And I had to craft more things so I could go back down there and retrieve various loot I had to forego.
With that underwater adventure out of the way, I could explore Caravan Town!
Here I discovered so much scrap and plastic and everything stashed inside drawers and cupboards, plenty of stuff for my recycling machine to regurgitate into trash cubes! Also some notes by some kid who seemed to be a little scientist. And then some notes about the crazed guy who had owned the luxury cruiser and bred a mutated army of rats!
After seeing his notes I was expecting to come across the evil little beasts, but didn't find any. Instead, I discovered that the new pigs I had been coming across were of his mutated creation too.
Caravan Town was a bit tricky to navigate. Honestly, I ended up looking up a walkthrough guide to work out just where the heck a couple of components were. It's not entirely evident, to be honest. But finally I got through it all. And it was a good thing I killed twenty million pufferfish too, for I needed their explosive powder to set off a rocket!
Phwoar.
At last, Caravan Town had been pillaged, looted, and all the discoveries had been made. While I had to look at a guide, I'm grateful that this place wasn't a giant place, easy to get lost in, easy to lose my raft in! like Balboa Island was.
Now we follow the trail onward to a little place called... Tangaroa.
Until next time!! :)
Posted from Kaelci Games with Exxp : https://kaelci.games/2022/08/16/raft-desert-islands-and-caravans/