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[sapphicrot]

the reason king vultures don’t exist in monk and survivor is because hunter kills them all

[sapphicrot]

I FUCKIN DID IT!!!!!

I GOT 30K!!!! I GOT 33K ACTUALLY!!!!!!! OH MY GODDDDD I WAS SO STRESSED WATCHING THE DAMN SCORE COUNTER TICK UP BUT I FUCKING DID ITTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sapphicrot]

SO UPDATE

this was probably my fastest hunter run ever LMAOOOO i had only 1 death and basically just speedran that shit

HOWEVER. NONE OF THE DREAM SEQUENCES OR ENDINGS PLAYED </3 the screen would either load forever, or the room would “load” a black screen. i kinda expected this bc of how bad my computer is, so no hate to the mod creators at all! i don’t rlly care lol i just wanted to get hunter home ;-;

if anyone has any suggestions or tips on how to get rain world to run better (in general or with mods), i’d love to know!!

[sapphicrot]

BLESSED HUNTER RUN!!!!!!! THE ENDING CUTSCENE PLAYED AND EVERYTHING IM SO AAAAAAAA!!!!!! THE GAME ONLY CRASHED ONCE!!! I GOT OVER 10K POINTS!!!! LETS GOOOOO!!!!!!!

[sapphicrot]

LETS GOOOOO I BEAT MY HIGH SCORE!!!

i’m so mad i didn’t get the wanderer but at that point i didn’t wanna risk it bc i was on cycle 1 but. hey. pretty good run all things considered, especially for my first official “points run” lol

hunter gaming moment

[sapphicrot]

I WAS SOOOOO FUCKING CLOSE IF I HAD BEEN ABLE TO GET THE MOTHER PASSAGE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN OVER FOR YOU HOES!!!!!! god i need to do gourmand x-x noooo

me: omg that was the worst run of my life

the run: literally my new high score

[sapphicrot]

Actually just sending an ask:

How many hours of rain world have you played?

This many!

Also because I feel like it I'm gonna explain how I do my Hunter runs so some tips n general shit below the cut :3

(just to preface this: even though I call these "score/points runs" I dont actually use the "official" score run rules, so I can't help you if you actually wanna be able to submit these to like a leaderboard or smth. I use karma caching and vanilla exploits and stuff, mainly bc im just doing this to have fun)

Okay so the initial setup is:

Get a king vulture mask on the first cycle. This makes it so if you die, you just restart and don't have to re-do a ton of stuff. Use the vulture grub in LF_A04 and fight them in that long room to the left of it.

You can feel the difference between a regular vulture mask and a king vulture mask. Getting a king vulture mask specifically is crucial.

Taming the blue lizard that spawns in LF_D03 with a noodlefly or centipede is pretty easy, although those motherfuckers are SO GODDAMN STUPID it might take you a minute to actually get them to cooperate. Or not die.

Den with your new friend in LF_S02. This is my base of operations until I actually...start playing the game lol. I use vanilla exploits and karma cache/starve cycle (whatever u wanna call it) until I have the survivor, the friend, the martyr, and the saint passages.

Next, I go and get the echos in subterranean and farm arrays, letting myself get teleported back to LF_S02 each time.

After that, I go up to sky islands and den in SI_S04, and the next cycle I get the sky islands echo.

This is where the run actually starts lol. Some tips I have are:

Rush Pebbles. Start working up to getting the monk passage by eating the poppycorn in sky islands, eating pebbles' neurons when you get to the top of the wall, eating the poppycorn at the top of chimney, etc and so forth. Getting the monk passage is WAAAAY harder than the hunter so I always go for it first.

Don't get the chimney echo the first time you pass it. When you're back down from Pebbles, go down to CC_C13 and grab the vulture grub, then go back up to CC_C09 and cheese vulture kills by summoning them and killing them while they're passed out. This also helps if you somehow lost your mask along your journey.

Let yourself kill scavengers. They're 6 points each and take only one or two hits to kill. You can always repair your rep in the later cycles of the game, it actually doesn't take as many cycles as you think.

Technically reviving Moon is sub-optimal, since it only gives you 100 extra points. I don't care I will never not revive her <3. However if you do actually wanna get like, the highest score possible, skip this. Shoreline is ass for spawns and you don't get many kills.

For me, once I'm done reviving Moon, I like hanging around Industrial, Pipeyard, Outskirts, and Farm Arrays to just start killing tons of shit. There are plenty of green and caramel lizards, which each give you 10 and 11 points respectively, and cyans are also everywhere. Just be careful in outskirts bc the red lizards there are free-roaming, unlike industrial where it cant get out of that one room.

My personal route to getting the wanderer is: Farm Arrays -> Sky Islands -> Skip Chimney go straight to The Exterior -> Five Pebbles -> Chimney Canopy (den near the echo) -> Industrial -> Shaded -> Shoreline -> Garbage Wastes -> Industrial -> Pipeyard -> Industrial -> Outskirts -> Drainage -> Subterranean. You will likely get the nomad easily doing this, I usually get it going from Farm Arrays to Pebbles.

BE BRAVE!! You have to kill in order to get points, after all! A death is only -3 points. Even if it's frustrating, you can easily make that up by killing a squidcada or whatever. Sometimes you gotta run headfirst at that vulture, man. You'll be surprised how strong Hunter actually is.

That's my advice, other than play the game obsessively for 700 hours LMAO. At this point I have hunter's spawns memorized so I know where to go to find stuff to kill. It also doesn't help that I have chronic lilypad hunterbrain so.........yeah!