Finally found extra wool underwear, but...

[ingrobny]

I wasn't happy for long, why? I have looked everywhere for a second wool underwear, but no luck until TWM summit and i found 3, but all 3 was ruined and couldn't be repaired , it made me really sad and i tried to die by jumping down the mountain side, but i survived and ended up where the engine is, by the Andre's Peak, so instead of doing someting irrational i turned off the game, i haven't been to Milton yet, so i could find one there.

But the problem i think is that i spent too much time in Mystery Lake, almost 200 days i think, because i didn't know the item decay started for all zones when you started a survival game, i though the decay was for the zone you are in, but i was wrong, i learned about this when i entered CH, but in TLD you can't rush and i spend a lot of time in PW, and because the weather there is a bit rough, it took a while before i had been almost everywhere before travling to TWM, so to new players i will say, don't stay too long in one locations, if you do you will find a lot of stuff that are unusable, mostly medicine, clothing and food.

A hard lession learned after 300 ++ days of survival .

And i wonder what other survivors  here would do, i'm torn between start a new game and not spend too much time in each locations, so the clothing i find will not be ruined, maybe start in TWM and get to the top as soon as i can or play on and hope i will find a wool underwear in Milton (MT) ?

[ingrobny]

I think i can answer myself on if i should start a new game and not, you might not have two wool underwear, but you just found a second  cowichan sweater in Milton and it's not sure you will find a second one i a new playthrough, so maybe use what you got now and see if you can survive for 500 days, only 170 something days left .

[hozz1235]

Unless you have a serious infatuation with wool underwear , there are plenty of other undergarments!  No need to start over.

I can see it now, "Ingrobny's endless search for those pristine, non-Hershey-Highway, Wool-Skivvies."

Reminds me of the lines from the movie Strange Brew, "I was the only one left on the planet after the holocaust, eh..."
"...so I spent most of my time looking for beer."

[Riotintheair]

I'm always jealous when folks talk about their Cowichan Sweaters these days. I just yesterday found a second thin wool sweater in Milton, and I'd walked over 1200 kms and  survived 400 days. It was at 2% condition but I saved it and finally have 2 shirts again (I don't consider shirts less than thin wool worth the cloth cost to maintain and the one I was wearing is the only one I'd found anywhere in the world).

I didn't get any of the good, rare clothing rolls in this Interloper game, but it's been kind in regards to optional match spawns.

[morgellons]

My strategy on interloper now is to loot as much as possible as quickly as possible...skip crafting items entirely to save on time and weight. I try to loot TWM before day 50. Anything after 40-50 days and you start finding ruined stuff or empty containers. Should be able to loot 3-4 zones in the 50 days. After that, you can take your time again.

[belthize]

15 minutes ago, morgellons said:

My strategy on interloper now is to loot as much as possible as quickly as possible...skip crafting items entirely to save on time and weight. I try to loot TWM before day 50. Anything after 40-50 days and you start finding ruined stuff or empty containers. Should be able to loot 3-4 zones in the 50 days. After that, you can take your time again.

That's going to be mine on future runs.  I'm currently in day 64 where I only hit PV farmhouse + tower, the Dam and ML.  I have a single pair of sport socks (which need to be damned or at least darned), a single pair of regular long johns and random other mid range gear plus crafted rabbit, wolf, deer bits.   With only a +17 rating and -30 day time temps it's very limiting what I can do.   I ended up in this predicament in some part due to searching for a bedroll in ML which I never did find but in truth I always focus too soon on crafting gear. 

I'm pretty sure I can make it to 100 but it's going to be a sad, cold miserable experience getting there.

[Beng1981]

On 1/16/2018 at 11:16 PM, morgellons said:

My strategy on interloper now is to loot as much as possible as quickly as possible...skip crafting items entirely to save on time and weight. I try to loot TWM before day 50. Anything after 40-50 days and you start finding ruined stuff or empty containers. Should be able to loot 3-4 zones in the 50 days. After that, you can take your time again.

i found this really helpful, thanks for your advice. will definitely try this out and see how it works. may i ask you questions in case i would have some? thank you!

[morgellons]

21 hours ago, Beng1981 said:

i found this really helpful, thanks for your advice. will definitely try this out and see how it works. may i ask you questions in case i would have some? thank you!

Absolutely, happy to help if I can. I'm having my best interloper run ever right now...hope it continues.

[omoon66]

On 12/21/2017 at 5:16 PM, hozz1235 said:

Reminds me of the lines from the movie Strange Brew, "I was the only one left on the planet after the holocaust, eh..."
"...so I spent most of my time looking for beer."

Haha! I loved that movie! A classic. “It’s a jelly, eh”