WolfQuest: Ultimate Survival Guide

Rules

 

• Play on accurate (this is to realistically represent the struggle of the survival of a wolf!) However, if you are really afraid, challenging is doable!
• The wolf must be an Ironwolf!
• Mate permadeath must be on!
• You may play on any game map (Amethyst Mountain, Slough Creek or Modern Lost River) except for the Classic Lost River (due to such a small map size and the inability to have pups in that map.) You also may move any time! (Start a new game on a different map, except for Classic Tower Fall after completing the full set of quests on the previous map.)
• Your pack name must be creative! (Dancing Fireflies, Dawn Sky, Blue Moon etc.)
• If the whole litter dies, redo the litter, like a storybook, this shouldn’t happen, so pretend it didn’t happen, and go back in time to winter. You also lose 5 fitness points as a punishment for failing. (I know this is not realistic that all litters have at least 1 pup surviving, but there is nothing I can do about it until The Saga comes out)
• If your wolf dies when raising pups, it is over for that wolf and the wolf is unable to gain any more fitness points. Play as one of the pups and start over!
• If your wolf dies without pups, it is over for that wolf! They are unable to gain any more fitness. If they have littermates (not from different litter), play as one of them! Or else, create a new unrelated wolf and start the legacy over! This is considered a game over for the previous legacy! The new wolf must have a different pack name. Also, the wolf starts with -5 points due to failing to establish the pack legacy.

There are five prey levels.

 

• The first level is the easy level. This is for the hares, and elk/deer/pronghorn newborn calves and fawns . Gain 0.25 fitness point for each
• The second level is moderate level. This is for cow elk, cow elk/mule deer calf/fawns and mule deer. Gain 0.5 points
• The third level is the hard level. This is for beavers, spike elk, pronghorn fawns and moose calves. Gain 1.5 points.
• The fourth level is the very hard level. This is for pronghorn does and buck mule deer. Gain 2 points

There are five competitor levels

 

• The first level is the super easy level. This is just for red foxes. If you chase one away from a carcass, you get 0.10 fitness points (the lowest fitness point gain in this challenge!)
• The second level is the easy level. This is for coyotes (chasing away from carcasses) and feral dogs (if you are in Lost River and if you are chasing away from a carcass.) You gain 0.5 fitness points for chasing them away.
• The third level is the moderate level. This is for coyotes and feral dogs (chasing away from pups.) You gain 1.5 fitness points. Note that you only gain the points if none of the pups are killed from the attacks.
• The fourth level is the hard level. This is reserved for rival wolves (chasing away from pups and battles for territory), cougars (chasing away from pups) and golden eagles. You earn 2 fitness points for this. Note that you only gain the points if none of your pups are killed from the attacks.
• The fifth level is the very hard level. This is reserved for grizzly bears (both chasing away from carcasses and pups) and cougars (chasing from carcasses). Gain 3 points. Note that you only gain the points if none of your pups are killed from the attacks.

Choosing the best mate (the mate with the highest diversity) is crucial for gaining as many fitness points as possible. Also, genetic pairings are also important. You would want to avoid Black X Black pairings, because it would result in a few pups being born (due to some dying as stillborns as KK wolves), even though they are the most disease resistant. Gray and Gray pairs are also not ideal, because the pups are likely to be sick. The pairing you want to go for are Gray and Black pairing pairings, due to a high number of pups and pups being more resistant to disease.

 

The fitness points are as follows: 0 star wolf pairings give you no points, 1 star wolf pairings give you 0.5 point, 2 star wolf pairings give you 1 point, 3 star wolf pairings give you 2 points, and 4 star wolf pairings give you 3 points!

In addition, if you are in a Gray and Black pairing, you gain an extra 1 point ( 4 points if a 4 star pairing).

 

When playing as an Ironwolf, your goal is to have pups as quickly as possible, and raise them until the end of the Slough Creek episode. That way, if your ironwolf dies, you can play as one of the surviving pups and carry on the legacy of your wolf pack. If you fail to do that, when your wolf dies, you would have to play as an unrelated wolf, and start at -5 points due to not establishing a wolf pack legacy. So you want to avoid that at all cost!

When you have pups, each pup born will grant you 2 fitness points. And when you complete the Slough Creek episode, each pup surviving to the end will also grant you an additional 3 fitness points. If you lose the whole litter, you lose 5 fitness points, and you have to start over from winter, because “it shouldn’t happen”.

This will be the main source of fitness points income. Your goal is to rank up as many points as possible by choosing a mate with 4 star diversity, and protect your pups from predators. There is nothing you can do from sickness unfortunately except to spend as much time with the pups as possible, until your wakefulness reaches 0%. Record all of it in the google excel tables.

That is all for my WolfQuest challenge! I hope you enjoy the challenge! 🙂 I will update this guide when The Saga comes out.