Talk:Vampire Bat/@comment-46.126.155.173-20190510133655/@comment-67.181.219.230-20190815000312

Boost your movement? Using road turfs and a stalking stick I expect even the slowest character can outrun them, and they tend to split up. Also, if you smuggle enough elephant cacti from SW, I mean a TON of them (You'd need the teleportato), you could potentially set up periodic batteries of 7 cacti (7 bunch up pretty tightly), I bet you could pack them in enough so they will all be in range of any bat trying to bite one of them, hopefully killing it before it even gets a chance to land the bite. Then carry around a bush hat and a cactus armor and skip from one cactus cluster to the next, like one might do with endothermic fire pits in Summer/dry season. I mean, I don't know if this is practical, or even if it would work, but there you are.

But I feel the best strat is just to set things up so that any resources you might need, or at least the ones you can only get from Hamlet, are close to an established base. Of particular note are the Aporkalypse Calendar and the End's Well, as they are extemely valuable resources, unique to the world map, and non-relocatable. I decided before I even made it to the Royal CIty for the first time that the location of my eventual home city would be RIGHT next to the entrance to the ruins leading to the Calendar, and to sort out the other resources around it, then set it up so that the only reason to leave, if any, would be to visit SW/DS/RoG. Then set up 4 batteries of 7 cacti and when the bats showed up, pop on my cactus armor, run to the center of this square of clusters, and hide under my hat.