Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24208224-20131201053921/@comment-24108228-20131213233347

Just went and lived on spire to prove a point.

It was quite fun actually, I was solo 100%, and at one point someone sneaked into my base and mined the mithril there. They then thanked me for letting them mine, and said they owed me. I got some mithril not long after.

Eventually, I had no idea what I was going to do with my ores, so I made 5 crossbows, and went around duel welding crossbows and owning noobs who did something mean until they left. One of them had pyroed a friendly village on bento, so I chased them around the map, and when they docked on mainland to eat, I blew up their sailboat with gunpowder. By the time they left, I had them at Gunpoint crossbowpoint at my base.

Soon, I had to go, so I used the 5 bombs I had made when I found myself with a ton of coal and sulphur after mining, and blew up a small wooden settlement. The owner of the village reported me for "Rude or mean behaviour", so I reported them for "False Reporting Me", which they were not pleased about :/. (Its a PvP game, your going to get attacked if you put your settlement next to a large mountain with a stone stronghold on it...)

This is going off topic, so lets get back on track. Any strategies we may use? After my recent experience with crossbows and explosives (I've used them, but not that many at once...), I think I may use a different strategy.

Make an iron pickaxe using the trick shown in my post above, and make gunpowder so I can get wheat for my own forge, and live on spire. Then just make a ton of bolts, duel weld crossbows so I don't have to use a quiver (lynx murderers...), and make a huge amount of bombs, and a catapult. If they come towards me, they get blown up by bombs launched from my catapult, and survivors get crossbowed. Ill just keep to myself, and they can send wave after wave of mithrilite troops, and run out of mithril. They will leave eventually, after they realise that sending 8 mithril geared troops at a single person, and failing is rather noobish.