

For example, a gecko can be easily dealt with when you have a weapon with slash damage. Each enemy you encounter will also have its strengths and weakness corresponding to the different weapon damages. These are mostly insects and maybe a lizard or two. Finding the correct NPCs are made easier by checking your quests in the compendium, and you can easily see which NPCs you need to travel to.Īs you travel around in Smalland: Survive The Wilds, you’ll come across different beasts. You have to explore and find the NPCs with the correct quest to continue the storyline and to get hold of stronger armour since you cannot make them yourself. The game does focus on having a non-linear story, so it’s not as easy as tracking a quest marker down, e.g., 7 Days to Die with its easily discernable quest markers on the minimap. There isn’t much in terms of following the storyline and oftentimes, it feels as if there is no direction to go ahead with the storyline.

You won’t have to face the puzzle again to get up and down the tree, as you have access to the Tree Butler, this being operates a small hot air balloon that you can use to ascend and descend quickly. Once you have climbed to the top and claimed it, you’ll have access to a large area where you can create a large base of operations with no insects, arachnids, or lizards nearby, making it a safe zone. These massive trees have a jumping puzzle for you to get to the top. If building a base near rivers or anywhere in the fields isn’t something you wish to do, all you have to do is to find a Great Tree. The map is large and offers much to explore and investigate, but having a stationary base is a godsend when you need to offload materials, upgrade, and repair as well as make a good home-cooked meal for your character. These are heavily encountered around the starting area and become scarcer as your travel further out from The Burrows. Littered around Smalland: Survive The Wilds are little owl statuettes, these statuettes give helpful information and tips that are useful for survival or about certain game mechanics. Once you have completed that, it’s just deciding if you are going to create a world just for yourself or join a friend to survive the harsh world ahead of you.

Some of the customization options are limited in what you can do, such as the face types and the female body just looking like a downsized version of the male body. When you start up Smalland: Survive The Wilds, creating your character is pretty easy but fun. Merge Games is an indie developer and publisher that has published other games such as Spirit of the North and Bramble: The Mountain King. Smalland: Survive The Wilds was developed and published by Merge Games. Smalland: Survive The Wilds is a challenging but incredibly captivating survival game where you must be careful as you travel the various landscapes. Poison Resistance Potions are also useful to help lower the lethalness of its poison.Smalland: Survive The Wilds brings a whole new meaning to a big adventure in a tiny world. In terms of Armor, the Bone Armor is a good suggestion due to its piercing resistance. Some good weapons to use include the Stinger Lance, Iron Hammer, Composite Bow, and the Lubber Mace or Morningstar if the player has explored the Ruins. Edged weapons and poison weapons are not recommended due to its resistance to them. The Black Hornet has no weakness to any weapons, meaning the player should bring their best possible weapons they can obtain. It does these attacks in no particular pattern, having the chance to do them in basically any order.Īfter beating the Black Hornet, the player can return its wings to Nok to be able to craft the the Ironwing Armor set, as well as getting the location of the King Stag Beetle. Its final attack is very well telegraphed with it leaning upwards and buzzling before charging forwards quickly in a similar way to the Dragonfly or Damselfly. Its second attack is a much faster and more powerful side-sting, in which it will lean and do a quick sting from the side, which also inflicts poison. It first attack is the basic sting of both Wasp and Hornets, which also inflicts poison like either attacks. The Black Hornet has the most attacks of any creature in the game, with 3 unique attacks.

One of its locations is reveled to the player by Nok. It is a very difficult boss to fight if unprepared. One is found on top of a dumpster in the biome and another near some trees behind said dumpster. The Black Hornet is the third boss intended in progression, found in the Greylands biome, with two spawns.
