Beasts of Bermuda Guide

Oryctodromeus Burrow Guide for Beasts of Bermuda

Oryctodromeus Burrow Guide

Overview

This guide will teach you how to survive and thrive as BoB’s smallest dinosaur, whether you are playing solo or in a group, this guide will teach you the tips and tricks that only the Oryctodromeus has at its disposal.

Introduction:

Many players on Beasts of Bermuda look down on the Oryctodromeus; it has low HP, it’s not very fast, and can easily get one-shot by any dinosaur.

The only thing that the Orycto has going for it is its unique ability to dig burrows underground. What many players don’t realize is that this burrowing mechanic– if utilized to its fullest potential– can essentially be used to terraform the surrounding ecosystem.

In this guide I will show you the stepping stones to creating your own mini-civilization.

Section One: Farming

While other herbivores must forage for their food, Oryctodromeus can actively farm potatoes as well as comfort crystals using their digging ability.

One trick that not many people know is that if you dig a block of dirt, then replace the dirt and then dig it up again, you can change what spawns in that square, enabling Oryctodromeus to set up specific burrows for different resources, or decorate a burrow however they wish.

The only obstacle is that different objects have different chances of spawning each time you dig a block. Thankfully potatoes spawn fairly often, so it shouldn’t take more than a couple rounds of digging and refilling the same block of dirt before a potato pops up.

NOTE: If you are doing this method, and are getting the same object spawning over and over, wait a couple seconds before digging up the dirt block, you might be digging too fast!

Here’s an example of me changing the object that spawns. See this block of dirt? Dig it up using left-click by default.
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Now that I have a bit of dirt, I can just replace the dirt by right-clicking and dig it up again by left-click. Doing this repeatedly changes what spawns in that square.

Potatoes are one of the more frequent items to spawn when digging up a block of dirt, which makes it easy to set up potato farms. Not only that, but Orys can create their own comfort crystal farms as well!

Now, keep in mind that potatoes do not provide a lot of food and don’t provide any Satiation. So if you plan on making a potato farm, make it big! You’ll need it if you plan on spending extraneous amounts of time below ground, and even then you may need to take trips to the surface world to fill up on greens, so it may be a good idea to make a stockpile of them in a separate burrow chamber.

Section Two: Burrow Tips

A rule of thumb to all Oryctodromeuses, never build a burrow in plain sight. If you can, dig your burrow in tall grass or among the crags of hills and mountains, or even tucked away beneath a tree. Just be careful! Adult Apatosauruses can uproot and eat almost any tree, and if there are any nearby, they may yoink your burrow’s cover right off.

While active burrows do produce an easily detectable scent, no dinosaur is just holding down the smell button all the time (waste of ability stamina), so hiding your burrow significantly lessens the chances of predators finding it when they are on the prowl.

Warren plans: Now before you go excavating a vast network of tunnels, be aware that high tides and extinction floods can occur, so it is important that when you choose your burrowing site you make sure it is within digging distance to higher ground; preferably near a mountain. Why?

Because you can only dig so deep before hitting sea level, and tunnels that run deep underground are going to be flooded first during the high tide, making them uninhabitable until the water level lowers.

However, creating a tunnel system inside of a mountain or hill can provide significant advantages during extinction events as well as whenever a large predator is stalking about.

However, be mindful about your dirt deposits! Each time you dig, your little jar of dirt fills up, and eventually you have to empty that jar of dirt, which you can do by exiting your burrow. The downside to this is that the more dirt you deposit outside a single burrow, the bigger the amount of “evidence” you leave behind.

So, if you plan on digging A LOT, I suggest you have either a designated burrow where you always exit through whenever your jar of dirt is full, or you evenly disperse it through multiple burrow entrances if you plan on being stealthy.

To be Continued…

Since Beasts of Bermuda is an Early Access game, changes are sure to occur. So it is likely that this guide will change along with it, so long as I am an active player. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions to make, feel free to comment below!

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