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I got together enough grain to finally start a good farm... and the day after i plant it all these bugs showed up and started eating it all! They made off with half of it. Is there any way to keep these bugs from starving me?

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I don't realy know. I got the same problem. My crops cant grow to full size because after about 2 days I wake up and hear locusts eating my grain. They ate all the grain in my farm, and almost all the grain in the island
Lucky I managed to save some in the storage before that hapened

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there is currently no way to protect against this if you have a large number of grain. just keep the total number of grain on the island small.
if they come the only way to defend is to kill them. and yes: its actually meant to be as mean as it is.

if you want to build a big farm play the easy endless game (random island). there you will not face these problems.

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you really should do something to protect against them...

whats if you are hunting and have to sleep not in your base?

Then you will not be able to kill them, before they eat up all your grain.

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its 100% intended the way it is! otherwise the grain stuff would be too easy. do not plant so much grain and they will never appear.

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Thanks for informing me about this... on the upshot the locusts provide a load of insect parts to use as bait

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There not locusts, The're grasshoppers. Therefore u can build fences around your crops 2 portect them.

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Bloodshot has written
There not locusts, The're grasshoppers. Therefore u can build fences around your crops 2 portect them.
Aren't grasshoppers and locusts just the same? I'll ask Wiki... I quote from the entry for "Locust":
"Locust is the name given to the swarming phase of short-horned grasshoppers of the family Acrididae"
And anon, under "Acridae":
"The Acrididae are the predominant family of grasshoppers, comprising some 10,000 of the 11,000 species of the entire suborder Caelifera"
So, for those of us who have no particular interest in Insectology, it's the same. Most adult grasshoppers are refered to as Locusts.
Interesting detail: "Locusts are the only invertebrates that are considered kosher."
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munx whats in your map pack?

If you're so curious, why don't you just download it? And anyway, what do you suppose it is?
It's a bloody couple of CS2D maps, and before you've tried them, you cannot tell if you like them anyway.

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I restarted the map, developed it to the point where I could create a farm.
I made a sizeable plot clear from any plant or rocks, and entirely fenced it. I made each fence touching the next, which was a bit of a pain to achieve.
I also cleared an area outside the fence.

In the end I had a squarish plot about 6 by 7 fences.
I put as many seed in it as I could fit, the total was 102.

All grew without any locusts, even if I went doing other stuff while it was growing.
IMG:https://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4565/farm102plantssu2.th.png

I made a save with the crops ready to harvest, if anyone want to see that.
The harvest took a bit longer than a full rest period.

I also tried to see what happened if I left it.
After 2 more days with the crops fully grown, still no locusts :-]
edited 2×, last 07.09.07 06:17:39 pm

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Whew.
Respect, brotha. A shitload of work, but now you've got continuous nutriment for a whole clan.

I thought the locusts would spawn just beneath the crop... but it seems like I was mistaken there.

by the way: the free version of Fraps doesn't add such a stamp onto the screenshot. And the print key doesn't either.

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Yes, just found that the in-game screenshot key is the F1 key, here... quite unusual.

Replaced the screenshot accordingly
edited 1×, last 07.09.07 06:18:36 pm

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just curios,
but that 102 crop patch, is that made in the adventure or in a random island map on easy.
cause "they" don't appear on easy.
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