Setting up Shop at Camp Office

[piddy3825]

At this point of my play through, I have finished looting Mystery Lake, Forelorn Muskeg, Broken Railroad and Mountain Town.  I collected a ton of stuff and although I did use some stuff, mostly I brought it all to Camp Office.  It was lots of trips up and down the ropes between Milton and Trapper's.  Lots of trips...  anyway, I hope you enjoy my tour of an alpine inspired working camp and survival gear store.

 

Welcome to Camp Office Outpost & Outfitters!  A working home base and trading post.  Ready to provided for anything and everything you could want or need for extensive cold weather survival under one roof!  

The place really gets to hoping on Aurora night!  

Welcome to the lobby area.   As you enter you'll be welcomed by an army of 2 liter pots.  Can't have too many pots in the apocalypse, am I right?

Feel free to look around, there's a lot to take in.   As you turn to your right, 

you'll find our featured beginner adventurer package.  Most everything you'll need for a successful hunt under serious weather conditions.  This load out features an expedition parka, thermal long johns, work cargo pants and your choice of blue wool mittens or Hunter's orange fleece mittens.  You also get a rifle, with 10 rounds of high quality ammo, a fully fueled lantern, a tin of coffee and two tin cans.  Rope is recommended, but optional in this package.

As you move to your left, you get a good view of our working gun collection.  8 working rifles, each at 100% condition and at least 150 rounds of ammo and a dozen cleaning kits.  Get a free box of herbal tea with each 2 liter pot purchased.

Moving past the counter, you get to the kitchen/larder and food prep area.   We got a pretty good assortment of goodies going here.  Not too much of any particular thing, but a little bit of everything.  If your hungry we can cook you up a great meal in no time!  You should try our brook trout glazed with our grape soda reduction sauce.  You've never tried anything this good.   lol, most things are good when you're hungry enough, right?

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glancing back to the door, you wish there was a little more shelving... wonder what happened to that chair?

as you round the corner you come to our workbench and hardware collection. ( This whole labor of gathering everything started when I couldn't find a single hacksaw when I spawned here on the Mystery Lake Map.  Now I got about a dozen of everything except the heavy hammer. )  There's pelts on the floor and guts in the drawer, for your crafting needs and desires.  Got anything that needs fixing, scrap metal just to the right of the pelts, just outta the pic.

As your finish rounding the corner, you find yourself behind the counter.  Here you will find  curing maple and birch saplings, fishing tackle, improvised axes and a closer view of guns and ammo.

as your gaze sweeps down the counter, you see the under stock where lantern fuel and flares are stored.  The lanterns themselves are being used to provide needed lighting until such a time that power is permanently restored.  Since that isn't going to happen any time soon, it sure is convenient that we can harvest fish oil to fuel our assortment of lanterns.

Clerks view from behind the counter.  Just waiting all day for a customer to come in...

a quick turn about view from the back door.... still no customers...

as you pass by the woodstove, you can check out the food prep area,  Here you have access to knives and can openers.  Love the fact that I can keep beverages warm, that means there's always a hot drink anytime you visit.

Checking out the larder, you have found the canned goods section. mostly coffee, pork n beans and dog food.  Don't have any good recipes for dog food, so am saving that til the absolute last.

Here's the dry goods section.  Got a good assortment of crackers, crunchies and dried jerky.  Got a few MRE's as well.  Got a ton of water set aside, it was easy to do considering I had all those 2 liter pots.  I made 7 fires in a row and brewed 14 liters a shot.  made like 4 batches, enough to last for a while at least.

There's a pretty good soda supply under the counter.  Stacy's grape soda is by far my favorite, followed by orange soda.  For some reason Summit soda reminds me of an really inexpensive brand of lemon lime soda in a familiar looking can.  But I can taste that orange right now!  Tastes like sunshine!

Looking back into the larder, a broader look at all the yummies...

Looking back to the front door from your vantage by the wood stove, you see even more coffee tins pointing you up the stairs to your right.

as you climb the stairs, you get another peek at the larder through the broken balister. 

as you reach the first landing on the stairs, the room spreads out for a better view.  The upstairs mezzanine area holds assorted clothing and health related sundries.

A little higher up the stairs and the view continues to fold out some.  The red fire light reflecting on the floor is neat.

 

At the top of the stairs you find an assortment of hand crafted items, including a bear skin sleeping back, wolf skin coat and a few pairs of deer skin boots.  Nearby is our sharps table with holds a variety of cutting utensils.

Hatchets, Knives and improvised axes.  Everything you see has been sharpened to 97% or better.  At this point whetstones are worth their weight in gold.  I wish I had as many whetstones as I do rifle cleaning kits. 

As you come full circle to the top of the landing, you get a good look int the upper gallery.  There are some handcrafted items stored here.  Deerskin pants and some rabbit fur gloves.  Down along the bottom of the rail you can see lots of boots and along the top is a nice assortment of hats and scarves.

Down the left side of the wall you can find some handy self help magazines and books.  There's Guns Guns Guns, Surviving the Outdoors, Stay on Target not to forget Wilderness Kitchen and the Frozen Angler.

  

Next to the literature section, you can find a display featuring everything archery.  At Camp Office Outfitters you can get pre-fabricated bows and arrows.  Or you can use our crafting bench and make your own.  There's an abundance of materials here as well as plans, books and hands on guidance.

Stepping back from the archery display, you see the shared sleeping area.  Staff claims the bottom bunk, the top bunks are always available for visitors and the weary.  We try to keep this fire going, so if you are going to stay here, it's everyone's job to collect firewood.  

As you pan right from the wood stove, you see the infirmary and medical supplies display.  

A close up look reveals a plethora of antibiotics and pain killers.    Just gotta harvest some mushrooms, rose hips and lichen and we can supplement these man made chemicals with natural holistic herbal medications.  

following the banister you find clothing and boots lined up in a row.  The bottom features fully repaired and in new condition clothing made out of nylon and cotton.  Clothing items on the top rail are all wool or otherwise of organic materials.  The boots however are arranged by condition as each shoe requires cured leather to fix and there is definitely a limited amount of cured leather to be found that would be needed to repair all these boots to new condition.

Boots, Hats and Scarves and a couple pairs of deerskin pants

Looking back down from the top of the stairs walkway.

Looking back to the stairway, can you see Waldo hiding in the back corner there?

Where's Waldo?  Get back to work, deadbeat!

Well thank you taking the Camp Office Outpost & Outfitters Tour.  I hope you enjoyed the frivolity of it all.  At least as much as I enjoyed making it.  

Love to hear your comments, questions and feedback.  Thanks for reading!

[stratvox]

I dunno... not sure you've got enough stuff there.

[Kauffy]

"What do you call your approach to organization and location?"

"Ummm... 'Ritual Serial Killer'."

[codfish107]

My eyes hurt from the interior lighting.

[piddy3825]

1 hour ago, codfish107 said:

My eyes hurt from the interior lighting.

yeah, eight lanterns can make it pretty bright.  That place has never been lit up like that for sure.  I'll make sure I got my light meter handy next time around.

 

[Goodzilla]

Wow is this the loot of all maps?

I shall buy all the coffee and the books please!

On 7.10.2018 at 7:03 AM, piddy3825 said:

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[hoppyfrog324]

It looks so warm and cozy, I love it!

[piddy3825]

7 hours ago, DerpyLemon115 said:

You my friend put way too much effort into this and I love it.

Thank you, it was fun putting it together.  for some more frivolity, check out my post on turning the CH Quonset Hut into an indoor firing range.  

 

 

[piddy3825]

19 hours ago, Goodzilla said:

Wow is this the loot of all maps?

I shall buy all the coffee and the books please!

 

No, this was only about half the world map looted.  Roughly 45% of the area discovered.  Lots more stuff to collect before this walk through  is completed. 

[RandomPlayer]

Holy Moley,

who collects that much stuff in this game?

[Stinky socks]

On 10/7/2018 at 10:40 PM, codfish107 said:

My eyes hurt from the interior lighting.

Sore eyes? Not to worry, lad! Mr.Piddy got you covered(pun) with wide assortment of eyewear! 

[DiscoJonny]

Wow, were on Gods little island did you find all that stuff?

I'll take the Grizzled Survivor Starter Pack please.
and can I get two extra boxes of bullets with that?
maybe throw in an extra whetstone and a bottle of lamp fuel oil...