Plains | Notion

Strategy guide

Look for:

Black Metal Scraps: Dropped by Fulings and found in chests within their villages. You must build a Blast Furnace (requires an Artisan Table) to smelt these into usable bars.
Barley & Flax: Found in Fuling villages. These are the most important crops for late-game progression; Barley is used for top-tier food and fire resistance, while Flax is spun into Linen Thread for Padded Armor.
Tar: Collected from Tar Pits. Be extremely careful of Growths (tar blobs) nearby; they apply a severe slowing debuff that makes you an easy target for other enemies.
Cloudberries: Scattered across the biome. They are essential for taming Lox and crafting Stamina-rich salads and meads.

Combat:

Deathsquitos: They only have 10 HP but deal 90 pierce damage. Unless you are good at hitting them right before they hit you, you can easily block and counter attack: block their attack with any shield (even a wooden one works) and hit them immediately while they are stationary.
Fulings: Never fight a village head-on. Use a bow to snipe individual Fulings or Shamans (who provide shields to allies) from a distance. Try to do this without alerting Fuling Berserkers so that you are not swarmed while fighting them.
Lox: Highly resistant to most damage but weak to Pierce. Use an Atgeir or Frostner to manage their large health pools.

Taming: You can tame Lox by sneaking up and tossing Cloudberries near them. Once tamed, you can equip a Lox Saddle to use them as high-health mounts for traversing the open plains safely.

Armor: Veterans often continue using the Root Harnesk (chest piece) from the Swamp. Its Pierce Resistance reduces Deathsquito and Fuling spear damage by 50%, making it safer than Padded Armor for exploration, provided you carry Fire resistance barley wine to counter the fire weakness. The Fenris Armor Set is also good with its speed bonus and fire resistance buff but you may want to switch to a Padded Armor when attacking larger enemies with melee weapons. The Vilebone armor set is a high-risk, high-reward choice for the Plains: you can deal massive amount of blunt and pierce damage with the Porcupine, but missing a parry will cost you dearly due to the 25% vulnerability to physical damage.