Cruel is when you manually hack off body parts from each corpse to maximize return on investment on flesh.
(Takes way too much time though.)
Are there weapons/armor beyond the bone shield and the iron sword? I see there are diamonds for weapons but im not sure how to get there nor do things like beat the 2 poachers when playing Yuna without some sort of massive damage boost.
Iron shield is the ideal no-skill "armor" in the early game. It has 100% block mitigation when you're holding it up. The speed penalty is a bummer but that just means you leave it in your hotbar and swap it in combat only when needed. Bring spares and repair kits if you need them.
Later on once you get used to combat and can dodge and animation cancel and perfect block reliably, the iron shield series of shields become useless but until then they are a useful crutch.
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Diamonds are gotten three ways:
1. Random rare loot in chests in the dungeon
2. Random rare product of NPCs working mines in chaos (dark purple) land
3. Trading 2x fighter orbs per diamond at the Trader
Third way is usually the fastest but you need to defeat elite enemies in raids to get the orbs.
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I'm assuming if you reached the "Treasure Hunters", you probably defeated the Native Boss and have unlocked the Flesh Workbench. Go kill two rando male natives and hack off their legs to craft it. There are two natural upgrades for your weapon at this point: the Blood Sword and the Blood Knife.
The sword provides +22 attack (heavy attack explodes nearby corpses and heals you) and requires 4 Blood Stones and 2 Strong Bones to craft. Blood Stones are mined from rocks in the "Bottom of the Earth". To get there, head northwest from the Native Boss' village until you reach a road, then follow it until you see a funnel/inverted triangle shape on your world map. The road should lead to a cave called the "Exiles' Dump". Head NW again and there should be a hole inside the cave. Enter the hole to reach the "Bottom of the Earth". There are bloodstone rocks in the south and NE sides of this map. Enemies can be hard to defeat here so remember to plant a flag there so you don't have to walk all the way here again after you die.
Strong Bones are gotten from as a drop from Underground Men (at the Bottom of the Earth) and Skeletons (in the Dungeon), and as a semi-rare product when digging with a shovel in the sands of the desert (NW side of the island). I recommend digging in the early game.
If getting Strong Bones is too much trouble, you can instead craft the Blood Knife. This provides +17 attack and counts as a knife for butchering/cutting purposes (no need to craft the crappy Knife from the Men's Workbench). You only need 2 Blood Stones and 1 Iron Ingot to craft this.
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There is another upgrade option for you, the Cactus Sickle (+15 attack), crafted using the Sand Workbench for 10 cacti (drops from chopping down cacti in the desert or picking up smaller cacti). This requires you to head all the way through the desert until you reach a native village in an oasis near the northwestmost coasts of the island. A chest containing the recipe can be found inside. While you walking here, you might as well chop down a few cacti and dig up a few Strong Bones from the sand. I recommend using Man/the Male MC for this since you can also R-grapple a high level (~Level 60) native female from this village (pause the game during the grapple "minigame" if you have problems button-mashing to capture her) and use her as a strong bodyguard for Yona after you tamed her. I recommend giving her a bow. Then you can aggro the Treasure Hunters and just run circles around them while your follower native shoots them.
The Sand Workbench also lets you craft the Cactus Shield (again only using 10 cacti), which has 90% block mitigation and reflects 50% damage (before mitigation) to enemies on block. It also lets you craft Cactus Walls for 5 cacti; these have 800 HP and reflect 100% damage to attackers. You can't normally use these in boss fights like the Treasure Hunters, but you can build them if you turn off Build Block in the debug options, or build a platform inside the boss arena by chaining platforms from outside the build block area.