Haven and Hearth

Post by **Troy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:32 pm

Game Website

Tried this last night, it's free Alpha stage MMORPG.

It's like, Ultima Online combined with Animal Crossing.

Only, like 100x as hard.

Everything in the wild kills you but bunnies. Last night I played long enough to get killed by a bear walking carelessly in the forest. Oh, and because I was sucking badly, and was really low on my Overall Health, i got permanently killed.

I tried again, grabbed a bunch of bunnies and butchered them for meat (if you don't eat, you die, also, you have to eat to gain stat points)

Any time you do something in game you gain L.P. which you can spend on skills, that cost more for each point you put into them.

Built a Leanto, and some curing tubs. Dried out the bunny skins overnight to turn into leather to make a backpack.

You are supposed to build walls and a house and stuff to keep your work safe (but that would take like a day of effort cutting trees, probably more) So my stuff is sitting in the middle of nowhere, I can only hope it doesn't get stolen.

Also, the graphics are worse than UO.

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Post by **Troy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:37 pm

Oh I forgot, there is some ridiculous long skill tree to fight. But when you can, everyone is killable.

Come to think of it, some dude who is older than me could just walk up and shoot an arrow in me, I don't even have the skills to fight back yet.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:55 pm

Troy wrote:Everything in the wild kills you but bunnies.

Bunnies aren't cute like everybody supposes.
They've got hoppy little legs, and twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots; what do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?

Post by **Troy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:07 pm

GORDON wrote:
Troy wrote:Everything in the wild kills you but bunnies.
Bunnies aren't cute like everybody supposes.
They've got hoppy little legs, and twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots; what do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?

To catch bunnies, you don't even fight them (I couldn't anyway)

You run after them until they stop moving, sneak in really close, and then grab them into your pack.

Then you have a 2x2 grid bunny in your pack (4x4). You right click it to "Wring Neck" to turn it into a 1x2 dead bunny. Then you Butcher it to get Bones, Meat, and Fur. Haven't found a use for the Bones, yet.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:49 pm

That sounds like the most prosaic video game ever produced.

I look forward to more of your review. In the long run, is it actually fun?

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Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:37 pm

Wife was interested until I read "Wring neck". Then all interest went away.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:44 pm

Where are you? Any way of working together? I'm downloading it now.

Post by **Troy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:54 pm

There is... but i'm not totally sure how.

Try adding DTMan as your "Hearth Secret" when you make your character. It should let your hearth fire (log in spot) near mine.

If your wife is a builder, I think she would love this game.... seems to be all about planting and stuff.

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:19 pm

I dont have Java installed.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:40 pm

I have a ton of axes now.

I don't suppose there's a town you can sell in?

Post by **Troy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:42 pm

None. Also, there isn't any money.

Post by **Troy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:43 pm

Fastest way i've seen to gain L.P. is to do tree/Board/Buckets.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 11:00 pm

Only way to delete and recreate your character is to die.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:47 am

I tried it from my computer today that has Java. could not connect to server.

Post by **Troy** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:52 am

I think I will move down the river a little into the middle of the wooded area and build a palisade wall.

It will require killing a large number of trees, but should be worth it, to keep us fenced in from baddies.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:21 am

I can't even pick up a bunny.

Post by **Troy** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:34 am

TheCatt wrote:I can't even pick up a bunny.

You gotta get right next to it(literally on top of it). Turn on running, make sure you have 2x2 free, and right click it.

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:06 pm

A warhog ran over and killed me. Before I could stand up, it killed me again. It's just hovering over my body ready to kill me.

This is the stupidest game I've ever played.

Post by **Troy** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 12:35 pm

TheCatt wrote:A warhog ran over and killed me. Before I could stand up, it killed me again. It's just hovering over my body ready to kill me.

This is the stupidest game I've ever played.

I sort of agree.

It's really dumb, but I really want to build a house and some crops, so I'm at least going to do that.

Also, you learn to avoid boars and bears, at some point. I got gored to death on day one, but haven't been hit yet on the new character.

Post by **Cakedaddy** » Tue Mar 30, 2010 3:01 pm

I had to chase the boar to have it kill me. It would leave and I had to hunt it down again.

I read that people like to throw rocks at people from boats to kill them. So, moving in land will help. I have a dowsing rod, so, we can find water. But, you've probably already got one too.

Didn't play very long last night though. Lag was too thick.