Four days ago I started the Hunter campaign. I've been stuck in the ||Farm Arrays|| for all four of those days. I don't know how to make progress.
I'm not saying that I don't know where to go. I have a direction in mind. I'm at the ||gate|| that takes me to ||Outskirts||, which seems like it should be the path of least resistance towards ||Five Pebbles|| or ||Looks to the Moon||. But I can't get past it. The ||gate is karma locked at karma level 2||, so I need to survive for a night before getting through it. Then I need to survive the next day too, finding a shelter on the other side, and there aren't any nearby shelters . I've been trying to get past this part for three days now, with a death counter currently sitting at 32, and I'm nearly at my wits end.
The first hurdle is finding food on the ||Farm Arrays|| side of the shelter. There's a ||popcorn plant|| right outside of it but I prefer to save it for when I get food another way, so that I'll have a full belly when I cross the ||gate||. There are the ||fat headbutter flies|| outside of the shelter, but they're unreliable and will fly away often. On the other side of the open area there are some indoor rooms which often harbor ||scavs|| and ||lizards||. The ||scavs|| hate me for some reason and will often stab me the first opportunity that they get. If I'm lucky, I may be able to stab a ||lizard|| or ||centipede|| and eat their flesh. But more often than not, they'll kill me instead, and there's not really any other source of food as far as I can tell.
About a third of the time, I'll get a successful hunt. But my remaining attempts are usually cut short on the other side at the ||scavenger checkpoint||. Sometimes there'll be a ||king vulture|| there camping the ||checkpoint|| and keeping me held up until it starts raining. Sometimes there'll be a ||lizard|| that they're fighting off-screen, and one of them throws a spear that impales me. Sometimes I'll ||give them a pearl|| and after I pass through ||they stab me anyway||.
Out of a little more than 40 attempts, I managed to get past the ||scavenger checkpoint|| four times. Twice, I fell into the ||bed of eelgrass||. Once, I got ||electrocuted by a centipede.|| And only once -- on my very first attempt at getting through everything -- did I make it any further than that. (I got eaten by a ||dropwig||.)
I'm not sure what to do anymore. I've managed to power through (Downpour campaigns) ||Artificer|| and ||Spearmaster||, agonizing as those campaigns were. But this one might break me. No other campaign has demanded so much of me so early on, and from what I've heard, it doesn't get any easier. There has to be something I can be doing better.


looks like you actually have the downpour dlc enabled. Please either disable it, or if you want to keep it on then migrate to the Downpour forum rather than the Vanilla 