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English:Manhunter Base · Locations

The only location the Manhunters control, wedged between the Slave Markets and Slave Farm South. It produces nothing; its job is dragging runaways back. Kill two slavers and the sign over the door changes to the Mercenary Guild's.

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Manhunter Base lies in the Hook and serves as the headquarters of the Manhunters — and it is also the only location the faction controls. Their entire footprint on the map is this one dot.

Why it is there

The base produces nothing. Its position is the whole point: it sits close to both the Slave Markets and Slave Farm South. The English wiki's inference is straightforward — this outpost exists to supply both of those facilities with labour and to make sure that nobody who runs gets away with it.

In other words, this is the link in the slavery chain that handles recovery. The slave farm consumes, the slave market trades, and the Manhunter Base chases.

The place contains Manhunters and nothing else — no unique characters at all. You will not recruit anyone here and you will not negotiate anything here. The only thing you take away is loot.

What you can take

The base's generators produce:

The HQ building holds a full spread of supplies, mostly food and drink: Greenfruit, Water Jug, Water, Grog, Sake, Gohan, Cooked Vegetables, Dried Meat, Foodcube, Meatwrap and Dried Fish.

TipFor an early squad the real prize is the crafting stock — armour plating and steel bars. One raid beats hours of mining in the Hook, at the cost of taking on an entire faction's fighting strength.

Under the Mercenary Guild

If both the Slave Market Master and Slave Mistress Grace are killed, the Manhunters lose the site and the Mercenary Guild moves in. The overridden version is classified in the data as ruins.

The Manhunter Base after the Mercenary Guild takes over
The Manhunter Base after the Mercenary Guild takes over

Under new management the place is actually more useful than it was:

NoteThis transition is bound to the world states of the Slave Market Master and Slave Mistress Grace: with both of them gone, Manhunter and slave hunter patrols disappear from the Hook as well.

Trivia

See also

Buildings and shops

The unique Mercenary Travel Gear, The unique Mercenary Smithy, Swamp House x2 (For Sale: 16,000 Cats), Small Shack (Collapsed) (For Sale: 1,500 Cats)

Sells

Vendors here stock 63 items in total, grouped by category — every entry links.

Nutrition

Bread, Chewsticks, Cooked Vegetables, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Dustwich, Foodcube, Gohan, Meatwrap, Ration Pack, Rice Bowl

Items

Advanced First Aid Kit, Advanced Splint Kit, Armour Plating, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Book, Skeleton Repair Kit, Sleeping Bag, Splint Kit, Standard First Aid Kit

Medium Armour

Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Iron Hat, Masked Helmet, Mercenary Leather Armour, Plate Jacket, Plated Drifter's Leather Pants, Plated Longboots, Police Helmet, Rusty Chainmail Tagelmust

Weapons

Desert Sabre, Guardless Katana, Holed Sabre, Horse Chopper, Mercenary Club, Ninja Blade, Ringed Sabre, Spiked Club, Staff

Backpacks

Bull Backpack, Garru Backpack, Large Backpack, Medium Backpack, Small Backpack, Small Thieves Backpack, Thieves Backpack, Wooden Backpack

Crossbows

Bolts Heavies, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Junkbow, Ranger, Spring Bat, Tooth Pick

Shirts

Leather Hive Vest, Rusted Hive Shirt, Rusty Chain Shirt, Rusty Chainmail

Light Armour

Cargopants (sneaky chain), Ninja Mask

Heavy Armour

Tin Can

Mercenaries

Mercenary Plate

Vendors and stock here

Compiled automatically from the wiki's vendor data: shops that can appear in this settlement and what they may carry. Actual stock varies with world state and randomisation.

Mercenary Smithy

Armour Plating, Armoured Face Plates, Armoured Hood, Bolts Heavies, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Cargopants (sneaky chain), Desert Sabre, Guardless Katana, Holed Sabre, Horse Chopper, Iron Hat, Junkbow, Leather Hive Vest, Masked Helmet, Mercenary Club, Mercenary Leather Armour, Mercenary Plate, … (35 items in all at this shop)

Mercenary Travel Gear

Advanced First Aid Kit, Advanced Splint Kit, Authentic Skeleton Repair Kit, Basic First Aid Kit, Bolts Heavies, Bolts Regulars, Bolts Toothpicks, Book, Bread, Bull Backpack, Chewsticks, Cooked Vegetables, Dried Fish, Dried Meat, Dustwich, Foodcube, Garru Backpack, Gohan, … (31 items in all at this shop)