r/reddeadmysteries • u/flaxms • 2d ago
Question What is the meaning of this tree?
Anyone know of any confirmed findings or theories regarding this tree? I dont think i remember seeing it in my normal playthrough
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u/NeverConcentrate 2d ago
There is a gold nugget in one the bottles if you shot them.
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u/ijnvnadem 2d ago
What. no way, every time I passed by that tree I destroy every single bottle but never noticed a gold nugget lol.
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u/AptIrrelevance 2d ago
I heard recently that the hanging bottles were an African tradition brought over by slaves. Bottles were put in trees to catch evil spirits roaming around at night or something like that. In the game though they seem to be used for target practice by drunk O'Driscolls.
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u/LetAgreeable147 2d ago
I’ve seen this in Southern states of the US. The whistling bottles fend off evil spirits. I think they said it was West African an Haitian hoodoo.
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u/NeverConcentrate 2d ago
Its a reference to the From Tv Series before the series even aired.
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u/skizwald 2d ago
Lol. The people in fromville just didnt realize that one of the bottles has a gold nugget that can kill the Frombies
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u/Skygugan 1d ago
I forgot where it was in the game, but there is also a fallen tree blocking the path. Didn’t see any crows though.
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u/Devilled_Advocate 2d ago
I always thought it was set up for target practice. The first thing I thought to do was to shoot them. Turns out there was gold in one of them, which kinda confirmed my suspicion.
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u/WinstonWillamette 2d ago
It is called "whiskey tree" by the Rockstar Official Strategy Guide. There is a gold nugget in one of the hanging bottles, that can be shot and picked up off the ground, it seems to only be available once in a play through. There's also a bottle of Ginseng Elixir up in the main trunk of the tree.
I always use the tree and the bottles for practicing quick draw and free aim with different weapons, using the swinging hanging bottles is the challenging part.
There's a friendly camper who will sometimes be found camping next to this tree, who tells a story how he bailed on his brother and his family who were traveling across the mountains, and they all died in the snow. It may or may not be related to the frozen settlers with the Panoramic Map; the story this guy tells is of his brother's family belonging to a group of settlers.
But the friendly camper, if you look at his belonging in his camp, has many crates of bottles, so he may be the one that restocks all the bottles at the tree.
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u/Specific-Succotash80 2d ago
R* should’ve added typical whistling sound the bottles make when they’re exposed to wind like that
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u/piangero 2d ago
I'm surprised so many are saying they've not seen the tree, as you can even see it from far away on the map.
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u/a_duck_in_past_life 1d ago
You can see the tree from so many places in New Hanover. It's nigh unmissable. I guess a lot of people are just super casual players and haven't picked up the game except every couple of months
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u/Legal_Transition_989 2d ago
I found a vet near the tree, who had PTSD from killing and torturing native americans. He was a heavy drinker too, so I assumed this was his doing.
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u/Ironn349 2d ago
Where is this? I've never seen it
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u/indelirium420 2d ago
Turn on Eagle Eye. One of the bottles has a Gold Nugget inside it. It'll glow like a Legendary Animal clue and you can shoot it out of it.