Updated Kill Box / Temporal Storm Shelter Ideas

[assigned_dyke]

With the release of Shivers and Bowtorn, my old Temporal Storm kill boxes are just not cutting it anymore. Does anyone have ideas for dealing with the Bowtorn onslaught and Shiver-proofing pit traps? Shiver's extended range and climbing has made the footprint of kill boxes difficult to standardize to also capture our good friend the double-headed drifter.

Additionally, I've been farming gears and jonas parts in

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The Devastation

mostly on elkback, but the process is slowgoing and dangerous. I'm looking into kill box solutions for this area as well, but given the preponderance of shivers it definitely needs new data.

I'd love to hear how others are adapting to the new mobs!

[LadyWYT]

8 hours ago, assigned_dyke said:

Additionally, I've been farming gears and jonas parts in

I'm curious how you managed that, as I'm assuming you're hunting that area outside of temporal storm activity. Do the special enemies spawn there naturally? I know the place is crawling with higher tiers of enemies, and has little loot boxes scattered around to find that can include Jonas parts, but I've never considered going there to look for the special enemy spawns.

[Zane Mordien]

Yeah I was interested to hear you farm there. I got in and got out. 

[assigned_dyke]

3 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

I'm curious how you managed that, as I'm assuming you're hunting that area outside of temporal storm activity. Do the special enemies spawn there naturally? I know the place is crawling with higher tiers of enemies, and has little loot boxes scattered around to find that can include Jonas parts, but I've never considered going there to look for the special enemy spawns.

I haven't seen any special enemies, but it is crawling with high-tier Shivers and Bowtorn (mostly Corrupt). According to the wiki, Shivers have a chance to drop Jonas parts and gears so I've been trying my hand at it. Stressful as hell tho. Elk archery is the only reliable way to outpace the Shivers, and the fact you can accidentally skewer your poor steed makes even harder. Going back for the corpses is not easy.

I didn't actually know about any caches at that location! Besides hunting the outskirts, I got in and out fast.

[LadyWYT]

6 minutes ago, assigned_dyke said:

According to the wiki, Shivers have a chance to drop Jonas parts and gears so I've been trying my hand at it.

It would be the special ones that can drop the Jonas parts--that is, the deepslit/stilt/bellhead shivers. I know the deepslit shivers spawn during temporal storms, but I'm not sure if they can spawn elsewhere. The other two I've never seen, so I would assume they either spawn deep underground, or in that special area. Perhaps I'll rope my friend into some expeditions to see if we can find any. Normally I just grab the macguffin and leave the area as fast as possible as it's a little too spooky for me to want to hang around very long.

8 minutes ago, assigned_dyke said:

I didn't actually know about any caches at that location! Besides hunting the outskirts, I got in and out fast.

Most of the caches are relatively small and don't hold anything too particularly noteworthy; a lot of them are just basic things that you could find in ruins. The caches that hold the most Jonas parts are located on a set of large floating islands that spawns somewhere in the area. It's a jumping puzzle to access those islands, but they are there.

In regards to the original question of ideas for building monster farms...aside from building drifter kill boxes around hot springs or otherwise creating pits, arenas, or holding cells to trap monsters in, I'm not sure there's a way to really farm them. There's always going to be ways to exploit the creature AI, but I'd wager that trying to exploit AI weaknesses is usually going to be a slower method of dealing with monsters/acquiring goodies than just tackling them head-on.

[wildforester]

Here’s where I’ve compiled some of my ideas, you might find them helpful.