So last night went pretty well.
First off, we have a new tower build between Ark Tower and the Vault. It has some pretty ingenious internal security measures, hats off to g0nzo for designing it! We spent a chunk of last night finishing that building, getting doors and locks on it and establishing tool cupboards.
Well Tea and I were out resource running to supply the tower project, we almost simultaneously noticed a new base with an active furnace just around the bay from us.
After the tower was secure, we geared up, set up a base camp and approached the base. Let me begin by saying that our greatest weapon is not C4 but shitty architects. In addition to a critical design flaw that we found later sheet metal walls were facing the wrong way and there was a wood door with a key lock on it next to a armored and code locked door.
As we were sitting around the base deciding how long to siege it, a person came running up and met g0nzo (I think) - the new person did not last long. He had been returning from a resource run and basically filled g0nzo's inventory with raw materials.
At this point, Tea, g0nzo and lambchop went up on some rocks and were able to use a two man boast to get Tea onto the roof. And then we find out the roof had a wood section...
So 1 C4 later(and that was our only C4), we had breached the building. Tea pretty quickly cleared the building of two enemies I think.
One other enemy tried to make a run for it, but didn't survive and gave us the keys to the section of the house accessible from the wood door which was filled with more miscellaneous resources including sulfur. The runner also had a quarry, a bolt, and 4k sulfur ore, 6k metal ore, and ~60 HQM.
As we were leaving with this haul Tea got hit from the valley below this house by an enemy with a bolt. g0nzo engaged at extreme range and took the hostile down.
As I looted the body (full of metal armor, more resource, the bolt, ammo, semi auto pistol, and other gear), another enemy with a bolt wounded me. As the enemy approached for the kill, Tea (who had spawned at our sleeping bag and a garbed a sword from the container we left by them) took him out with a sword.
We looted all the bodies and returned home. Then we returned, found them repairing and broke into their house again... No new loot, hopefully just dissuading them from setting up shop around here. After a quick patrol we returned back to the Vault up several thousand sulfur, several sets of armor, three bolts, a quarry, thousands of metal ore and tons of other random loot.
This (and the encounter with russian base last weekend) demonstrates three good lessons learned:
1) Sleeping bags in place before a battle are key
2) Houses with shitty design can still be full of loot and are comparatively much more profitable to get into
3) In fact folks that do not have C4 yet are likely going to have large stocks of sulfur compared to groups that have C4 and are expending most of their sulfur.
While we continue to work throughout this week, plan for some big operations this weekend! I hope to see more folks hop on Rust - all are welcome.