The name Europa was quickly forgotten and soon it merged into the ever expanding Great Hunting Ground, which, by the events of Mortal Engines, would stretch from roughly where Portugal used to be all across the North of Asia. The Candyland Hunting Grounds is medium-level dungeon that is rarely found but can be farmed indefinitely for loot. Tractionism began in Euope (the British Isles to be precise) leading to the fall of the previously powerful African nation of Zagwa. Perhaps Europe did indeed survive the intial conflict but was effected by nuclear fallout carried by air currents from other countries and overall changes in the environment.Ī notable such change was that the North Sea and most of the English channel dried up, turning into forested plains and marshy land respectively.Īfter the Black Centuries, Europe was a major place of coordinated recovery after the African Spring Cultures a hundred years earlier. Today, Europe is heavily populated (as shown in the image at the right) and is arguably a super-power (European Union).Īlthough Europe was technically not party to the Sixty Minute War, it appears either the American Empire or Greater China (perhaps both) bombed Europe. Attacked by Draksa, who added a mushroom biome. Instead acts as an Artifact to provide Spawn AP. There are various locations in these wild territories, such as abandoned mines, caves and ruins. Does not provide combat bonus to Artannon. The Hunting Grounds are a vast prairie, with several marshes and rocky hilltops. At present, it is inhabited exclusively by manifestations of Artannon himself. Unknown The Hunting Ground is an inverted sphere, with ground around the outer edge and trees and mountains reaching into the center. Dozens of devices have been made to cross this grim expanse, such as Pink's Screw-Propelled Mud Wagon however, trekking across the Great Hunting Ground isn't as hard as it seemed as fugitives - sometimes entire communities of them - survive on these barren plains.Īt the dawn of the Second Traction Boom, the Great Hunting Ground encompassed much of Europe (known at the time as Europa in turn an ancient name for Europe) rather than much of Russia and therefore Western Asia in later years as the idea of Tractionism spread across the world.Įurope covers the British Isles, the Iberian Peninsula, Scandinavia, and the Northern Mediterranean coast.įrom around the 1200s onward which built massive overseas empires. The Hunting Ground is the home of Artannon. Tractionists refer to it as the 'bare Earth' or ' Out-Country', which they fear and loath. Even the hills have not escaped mining towns 'eat' them for minerals, making the dismal plains even duller. Due to the constant movement of Traction Cities over the ground the ground has been reduced to vast muddy, scarred terrain.
The Great Hunting ground stretches across most of Europe and part of Asia. The Great Hunting Ground is the biggest hunting ground in the world and is the main setting for Mortal Engines and A Darkling Plain. The Hunter Master no longer allows cannons to be setup within his private hunting grounds.The Great Hunting Ground on Mortal Engines world map. This can be on par in effectiveness to "standing and shooting" (where you are to kill chinchompas with a ranged weapon when they escape). As your chinchompas will frequently escape, they will likely and promptly be caught by other players and then respawn next to you within 2 seconds. Having other players in the room, while it reduces the amount of times you will encounter the chinchompas which spawn near where the other players are positioned, it greatly reduces the time of absence of the chinchompas which spawn near you. Having a wall nearby reduces the amount of directions in which a chinchompa can travel to get away from your traps and also reduces the total number of tiles the chinchompa in question can physically move to, as they have a maximum roaming distance of 8 tiles (9 tiles, if you count the tile they spawn on).Ĭontrary to popular belief, players can use each other simply by being on the same world within this room. Because this area is enclosed, players can take advantage of chinchompa spawn locations which have a wall nearby.