AfterWorld Survival Forum

I'm not sure if i spelled binoculars right. Currently in game, there are scopes for guns, but no other way to "zoom in" what you see. It might be useful to be able too see 1000 m in front of you as if you were there, without having to be there. This might be useful for locating or avoiding mobs, and the same with players. Especially if in the future there will be areas that the radar won't function, if you have to depend only on what you see in front of you. Your line of sight only goes so far..

And of course there would be levels of sight increase and so on.. I'd suggest going by something real. Idk anything about binoculars, but i'm just guessing 300m for the lowest and 1400m for the highest?

The Allfather

Edit: craftable, of course. would expand the crafting tree a little bit. lenses and so on for parts

good idea, but dont we have to look through mirrors to see you Vamp? 
You and your soc will be the reason for using a tool like that!

don't worry sifis, all you have to do is to walk in daylight. vampires either die on sunlight, or they start glowing and you will see them 100 miles away

I like this idea. It wasn't really needed in Alpha but I can definitely see it for Survival with all the trees, brush and tall grass in the world.

I like this idea. It wasn't really needed in Alpha but I can definitely see it for Survival with all the trees, brush and tall grass in the world.

Unless the Binoculars have x-ray vision - isn't the fact that the world is mostly forest and grass the thing that will make Binoculars less useful?

ya a good rifle scope is jsut as good.  And we can't see moving objects outside of our range (People ,mobs...) anyways so looking too far will only get you what u see in a scope.  Probably wouldn't be too hard takign a scope and making it work by itself.  In fact you could do that yourself if we could simply use a scope in our hands. Wouldn't even need a new item.  Just a new use of an item.

It was a neat idea. Heck, what use are clothes for that matter? There's none that I'm aware of that protect you.

The main points of why binocs are not needed is that


1. theres too much shizz in the way (trees, bush) to see anything anyway
2. you can't see anything outside of your radar range
3. already have scopes


so to address these-


1. nothing you can do about trees. depends on bushes too, sometimes they're just in the way. but pretty much all mobs are taller than the grass is. If you are in any open area, especially if you have an elevation advantage, you should be able to see.


2. the biggest problem. You should be able to see everything that is in range of the range of the scope/binocs. The reason for this is because the mobs don't actually spawn unless there's a player around (i think when there is no players there is no mob)


3. the point is to make something that the scope cannot do. besides i find it annoying to have to open and zoom zoom zoom (honestly i would have thought the scopes would "zoom" in more than they do


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What this could be really useful for is if (this adds a new suggestion/feature) -> if you could say, stand on a hill. Lets say you are hunting so and something. But theres other mobs around, and some of them you want to avoid. What if you could look around, and "mark" all the mobs you want to kill, so that when you get into radar range of them, they show up as a blue color (or color of choice) on radar, or if you had an arrow pointing towards the mob, and if you could look around and "mark" mobs you want to avoid, say for example razor queen, so when you get into radar range they show up as pink or color of choice on the radar.


so then you could avoid mobs and go for mobs easier. it would be like a small strategic plan and then you go execute. just a thought

Make binoculars, I need it very often, but it is not ((