Skill ideas, crafts, new to forums!

[Kurdain]

 

First I'd like to say that i enjoy the game, but honestly play in short spurts as it is very slow paced and I get antsy and make poor decisions if i play a long time.
I took a break for about a year and am back playing again and have again enjoyed the game.

Reading others posts while awaiting my account to be authorized I realize some of the items I thought of have been suggested already, but I still thought I'd give my take on similar subjects.
The amounts and numbers I posted would obviously be open to balancing, I just felt it was a good place to start the thought process on what factors could affect said skills or items.

My take is that I am an out-of-shape video game player that crashed in the wilderness and I feel if you spend 30, 60, 90+ days surviving you should be in better shape, move more efficiently, craft long term survival items, etc.

Thanks!

So....(my formatting was completely hosed with the copy/paste so hopefully it's still readable.)

 

 

MUST be able to look around with your head independently of your body. I hate strafing or staring straight ahead all the time, missing out on a lot of the scenery.

 

Must it be a blizzard and snowing all the time? I lived in mountain climates and when it snows...it snows, but there are many, many days of nice, clear, sunny, but cold days. I feel too much is placed on it being a blizzard and crappy constantly.

 

Backwoods Backpacking.

• New skill and skill book, tiers 1-4.
• Allows for better inventory management.
• Skill advances naturally by a combination of distance traveled and weight carried on average per day. Might be a better way though.

Tier 1: Encumberment limit raised by 5%.

Tier 2: Encumberment limit raised by another 5%

• Penalties for walking while encumbered reduced by 5%
• Allows for the crafting of Cloth Backpack which raises carry weight by 15%
• Weighs 2 pounds
• 1x Sewing Kit
• 4x Cloth
• 1x Scrap Metal
• 2x Reclaimed Wood
• 4x Hours to craft

Tier 3: Encumberment penalties reduced by another 5%

• Enables ½ of the requirements for the crafting of a Cargo Sled
• See Hiking the Himalayas for the other ½.

Tier 4: All items weigh 2% less due to better “pack management”

• Allows for the crafting of the Animal Skin Backpack, raises carry weight by 30%.
• Weighs 4 pounds
• 1x Sewing Kit
• 1x Cloth Backpack
• 1x Cured Deer Skin
• 1x Cured Rabbit skin
• 1x Cloth
• 2x Cured gut
• 4x Hours to craft
• Workbench required

 

 

 

Hiking the Himalayas.

• New skill and skill book, tiers 1-4.
• Allows for faster and efficient travel through cold weather.
• Skill advances naturally by distance traveled. Might be a better way though

Tier 1: Walking and sprinting speed increased by 5%

Tier 2: Walking and sprinting speed increased another 5%

• Incline movement penalties reduced 5%
• Wind movement penalties reduced 5%
• Calories and thirst while moving reduced 5%

Tier 3: Enables ½ the requirements for the crafting of a Cargo Sled

• Allows for the crafting of Snow Shoes.
• 10% increase walking speed outdoors only, sprint unchanged.
• Incline and wind movement penalties reduced by 10%
• Weighs 3 pounds
• 1x Sewing Kit
• 1x Basic Tools
• 4x Fir Wood
• 4x Stick
• 2x Scrap Metal
• 4x Cured Gut
• 6x Hours to craft
• Workbench Required

Tier 4: Incline and Wind movement penalties reduced another 5%

• Calories and thirst while moving reduced another 10%
• Encumberment speed penalty reduced 3%.

 

 

Cargo Sleds: Requires tier 3 in both Backwoods Backpacking and Hiking the Himalayas.

 

Tier 1: Childs Sled

• Increases weight carrying capacity by 20%
• Increases fatigue, caloric and thirst rate by 5%
• Reduces walking speed by 3%
• Cannot sprint
• Outdoors only
• Encumberment movement penalties doubled when in use
• Cannot use hands for anything else
• Takes a few seconds to ‘let go’ or ‘grab’ the pull rope, exposing you to risk
• Must access inventory separately, like a container
• Going up or down steep slopes can result in sprains
• Crossing small spaces, like fallen trees, it must be emptied, packed up, carried across, unpacked again and refilled with your items; or left behind.
• Packing is 20 minutes
• Unpacking is 20 minutes
• Weighs 6 pounds packed, 1 when deployed
• 1x Sewing Kit
• 4x Reclaimed wood
• 4x Cloth
• 2x Scrap metal
• 9x Hours to craft
• Workbench Required

 

Tier 2: Outdoorsmans Cargo Toboggan

• Increases weight carrying capacity by 40%
• Increases fatigue, caloric and thirst rate by 10%
• Reduces walking speed by 5%
• Cannot sprint
• Outdoors only
• Encumberment movement penalties doubled when in use
• Cannot use hands for anything else
• Takes a few seconds to ‘let go’ or ‘grab’ the pull rope, exposing you to risk
• Must access inventory separately, like a container
• Going up or down steep slopes can result in sprains
• Crossing small spaces, like fallen trees or caves, it must be emptied, packed up, carried across, unpacked again and refilled with your items; or left behind.
• Packing is 30 minutes
• Unpacking is 30 minutes
• Weighs 12 pounds packed, 2 when deployed
• 1x Basic Tools
• 1x Childs Sled
• 2x Fir Wood
• 1x Cured Deer Hide
• 3x Cured Gut
• 2x Scrap Metal
• 9x Hours to craft
• Workbench Required

 

Fire Starting (existing skill).

Tier 2: Campfire spit

• Enables you to build a spit for your campfire, reducing cooking, melting and boiling times by 30%
• Requires lit campfire
• 1x Knife or Hatchet
• 4x Sticks
• 10x Minutes to craft

Tier 3: Reclaim old campfires

• Enables you to scavenge old campfires
• A good way to clean up the piles of old campfires that accumulate
• Chance to find tinder
• Chance to find reclaimed wood
• Chance to find stick(s)

 

Archery Aficionados.

• New skill and skill book, tiers 1-4.
• Does the same thing for archery and bows as the other skills do for rifles.

Tier 1: Allows for the scavenging of crow feathers, or a bonus to finding feathers.

Tier 2: Allows the crafting of flint arrowheads

• Requires new loot item: Rock
• Returns 2 arrowheads per rock
• 1x Basic Tools
• 1x Rock
• 2x Hours to craft

 

 

Canadian Hoarders and You.

• New skill and skill book, tiers 1-4.
• Affects different aspects of what you find in containers
• Raises each time you search a new container
• Raises each time you search a searched container (once per day, per container maximum)

Tier 1: Increases likelihood of finding items in containers and bodies by 5%

Tier 2: Increases likelihood of finding items in containers and bodies by another 5%

Tier 3: Increases likelihood of finding random ground loot by 5%

• Allows you to search beds, recliners, and other large furniture for items

Tier 4: Allows items to rarely respawn in containers and locations, think ‘I missed this last time I looked”

• 2% chance of any random, empty container/location respawning an item. Not sure the # of spawn points per map so this would need tweaking.
• Probability is rechecked once per day

 

 

 

[Kurdain]

Well the formatting changed again upon submitting but I think it's ok...MUST...NOT...OCD...FORMATTING!!!!

[GorillaDust]

Welcome to the forums!

While I've never been a fan of introducing sleds of any kind (for travel or for cargo) I really like the idea of adding new craftable items to the skill trees. Super well thought out post - thank you for the ideas!

[Kurdain]

Well my thought was that they were a specific use item, made inconvenient enough to warrant a thought out plan as when to use them.
I also felt they had enough negatives with them that you'd go from A to B and that's it, not something you'd tow around constantly.

I feel they could be balanced and really if I were surviving and I had 20 pounds of cooked meat I couldn't carry...I'd be darned if I'd leave it...I'd fashion something up to take it with me.

I appreciate the props!