WHAT DA HECK IS THIS THING
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Lew Zealand
Helper
Did the Strange Capsule appear on your farm within the past in-game year or so? And more importantly, did you leave the Capsule out until whatever was inside decided that outside might be a bit more fun?
Because that 'whatever' seems to have taken a liking to your Train Station area. Maybe if you build a Forest there it'll stick around, though now we're wandering away from the game into my headcanon.
Because that 'whatever' seems to have taken a liking to your Train Station area. Maybe if you build a Forest there it'll stick around, though now we're wandering away from the game into my headcanon.
Lew Zealand
Helper
What?
What??
Seriously what. There's an opossum? What opossum. Where do I get an opossum? I'm running frightfully low on marsupials and I never knew there was an opossum in the game??
Ereo
Helper
here you can see a video of someone chasing it: https://youtube.com/shorts/I07mUgZNJ4M?si=Xy1kXRkrDp9AImeR
let me know if you manage to catch it and put it in your coop!
Bawby
Farmer
I'm still on 1.5, so I know nothing about opossums. I'm just here to give you props for the Princess Bride ROUS reference.
REtroGeekery
Farmer
I've seen the opossum multiple times, but the other day I caught it just waiting at the edge of the screen to be noticed.
It looks like it's off stage waiting for it's cue, lol.
smor145
Sodbuster
As a theater major, I love this
Draconifors
Planter
Yep, definitely the opossum.
I've tried chasing it, like the person in that linked video, but it's rather fast.
I need to keep an eye out when I'm out after dark.
I've tried chasing it, like the person in that linked video, but it's rather fast.
This I've never seen! I only ever spot the creature when I'm already too close and it gets spooked.
I need to keep an eye out when I'm out after dark.
FilthyGorilla
Local Legend
Ha! I’ve seen so many similar reactions to the opossum and they never fail to crack me up.
it’s a new ambient creature like rabbits, quite a fun addition, even if it serves no direct purpose.
it’s a new ambient creature like rabbits, quite a fun addition, even if it serves no direct purpose.
Lew Zealand
Helper
We have lots 'round these parts and I got punked by one a few years ago. We had some feral cats who visited now 'n then that we'd occasionally feed and of course cat food = possum food so we'd get a juvenile possum on occasion. One evening looking for the cats in the pervasive bushy undergrowth, I find a dead opposum.
Dead opposum. Wow, what killed it? Ew, I'm not touching that!
Dead opposum.
Hello brain, you there? Are possums known for doing things? Hello???
Nope. 'Ew, dead possum' is brain's final conclusion. Meh I'll clean it up later...
Much later. Maybe an animal'll 'clean it up' for me.
Gross.
Dead possum in my backyard. Loser.
Go out later that night to look for more cats and no possum, no blood.
Huh that's weird.
No. You're just an idiot. It was playing possum and you're as easily fooled as all the predators of North America's only extant marsupial.
May all the opposum's natural predators go just a little hungrier as it continues to carry out its very successful strategy:
Quando omni flunkus moritati. When all else fails, play dead.
Words to live by.
REtroGeekery
Farmer
The first time I encountered the opossum, my farmer was rushing back from the mines to avoid being robbed or billed for medical expenses. It jumped up as I exited the mine cart at the bus stop, which just looked like something big coming at me so I slashed my sword through it a couple times and it ran away. Naturally, I then ignored it in favor of rushing home before pass-out time.
The next couple of times I chased after it and tried to interact with it or the shrub it disappeared into. Then, I figured out it was like the rabbits or squirrels only bigger.
The next couple of times I chased after it and tried to interact with it or the shrub it disappeared into. Then, I figured out it was like the rabbits or squirrels only bigger.