Basic Fruit, Stone, Dung Walking Guide

[kosmos]

I see many people ask how they can make money in this game, or they say they never found fruit, stone, dung on the ground. I am making this thread to provide some basic helpful hints to help you if you fall into either category mentioned above.

In order to see fruit,stone,dung you have to walk. This is achieved by holding W on the keyboard. This can be cumbersome. There is a technique to make walking painless.


Your going to want "navigate with left mouse button" enabled if you don't have it that way already. To enable it Press O. You will see a menu that looks like this.



Enable it and then press O to exit the menu.

Find a spot that you want to start walking in and left click the ground. You will see a bouncing green arrow indicating where you will go to.



I like to right click and hold down the mouse button and move myself slightly in a direction. This keeps me in a auto walk mode. I am currently unaware of another way to enable auto walk ,but this works best for myself. This will prevent repetitive clicking to walk.

I suggest being in 3rd person mode to get a wider view of of the ground. To toggle between 1st and 3rd person you can use your mouse wheel or press 5 on the number pad on the far right of the key board.

Everyone's question is usually, how do I know what I am looking for? Look for flies (they make a buzzing sound) or butterflies, both are indicators of dung and fruit respectfully. Stones on the ground won't give any hints that their around. You have to have quick eyes and pay attention. Its worth it. These days a stone like rutol go for 1.2 PED each ... yes not pec but PED

Here are some screen shots of a few fruit dung and stones I have found.

Kaldon


Nissit


Dung



Fruits







Water Spawns

Things do spawn in water. It is easy to notice fruit. Stones have been found in water too. Just have to have fast eyes.



Lastly I wanted to mention that when you find something on the ground it is a good indicator there is more to be found. Some spots seem to be better than others. Some well known places to walk are treasure island, nuss lull, and port atlantis area. I am not providing specific directions to walk I will leave that up to you to find out. Also if you walk and see something then it disappears, guess what? You can walk back and it will be there.

Best advice I can give is walk and have fun exploring.

Edit....

Thank you alice for the pics of the missing stones I needed. The post can only have 12 images displayed so I am providing links only, or you can scroll down to see thumbnails in alice's post below.

Missing Stones


Brukite


Rutol


Sopur

Missing Fruit


Halmoros

Also easier auto walking can be achieved by doing the following.


You can press and hold W, press 'Enter', release W, and then press 'Enter' again.

Thank you for the contribution to help improve the guide Daina and Nobatbbi

Another edit as of Nov 15 2008

Added a bit of detail about distance of stone, dung, and fruit spawns.

Click here

Video of how to basically walk added Nov 22. Thanks Fishface for the video.

YouTube Video

Project to Reveal Spawn Locations
Understanding Market Value of fruits/stone

[sunjewel]

this should be a sticky!!!

jewels

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[byubi]

nice guide, +rep

[Kirov]

You can just click above the horizon and you will walk in that same direction forever.

[Gluepot]

Wooot! Who knew my pet newbie would have written a guide?
You earn a real +rep for this one

By the way, you can press and hold W, press 'Enter', release W, and then press 'Enter' again, and you're auto walking
The same works for walking backwards, with S, 'Enter', release S, 'Enter'.

[FireTafferKane]

Nice Guide! For that you get Rep!!

[Mandy]

Originally Posted by kosmos

This keeps me in a auto walk mode. I am currently unaware of another way to enable auto walk ,but this works best for myself. This will prevent repetitive clicking to walk.

Save up enough dung so that when you place it in your inventory it turns your weight count red and you cannot run.

You can then use auto run and navigate as normal, but your weight means you will walk.

Of course you don't need to use dung, and something like Lyst stones are equally good. Dung is simply the cheapest item and least useful for anything else.

[Nobatbbi]

Autowalk is achieved by holding w, press enter, let go of w press enter to get out of chat box. Voila`, you are autowalking.

I was shown a quicker method of foraging. The trick has something to do with fruit/stones showing themselves to you when you are within 10 meters (or feet, can't remember) of them. Thus, you only need to be walking within a 10 meter area for a period to see the object, then you can run to the "next" 10 feet and so on, sort of like how you cover an area mining. To do this put yourself on autowalk as above with the w/enter/enter, then while autowalking you can press q (or your self assigned run key) for a short moment to run to the next 10 meter area, walk a little, run again, etc. I've found that it turns out to be about 4.5 steps walking, then 2 running. so you do have to be pressing the run key on and off continuously. Now, some have done this with a keyboard macro but of course we all know that to be against the rules.....

[Zedrick Stone]

Great guide thank you for all Entropia. + Rep

[levithanikos]

VERY nice Tutorial..


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