Best Start Yet, YAY

[autumnalequinox]

So on like my 20th playthrough (crashlanding to an untimely death) I have finally been dealt a wondrous hand. As I have finally started to memorize all of Mystery Lake's secrets, I was spawned right next to the camp office. A quick run around the lake, dodging wolves and grabbing food. Woot! A hatchet. Then a knife. Then ammo.

Then wheel into the camp office, tons of medical, a lantern, etc. Then with gathered wood, I warm up and crash the night. Early start, off to Trapper's! I find bullets on the way, then over the crest..into my warm abode! Rifle! Yes! MRE! No locked locker! More ammo!

Extra knife, and tools!

Wheel back out, take a deer on the way back to CO. Chase it down, nearly to the lake, and meat! A blizzard starts, and I crawl back up the path and get inside.

It's now Day 3, deerskin boots in the works, tons of venison (easily 2 days) plus a few more days of food. 9 rifle rounds, and a sweet, sexy wolf-slayer! I'm on top of the world. I can now begin the loot from base camp, down the tracks, logging camp, and I shall then face The Fluffy!

Stay tuned. I think I may finally get my 5 day coin LOL.

[autumnalequinox]

Oh and with any luck, I'll report that on Day 4 I am taken by a wolf I didn't see.. get chewed into a bloody pulp, swinging my fully loaded rifle with futility.. it's happened twice before

[autumnalequinox]

So far. I may have gotten some details wrong in the narrative.

Day 1:

2:16 PM Discovered Lake Trail.

2:29 PM Discovered Mystery Lake (Western Access).

2:34 PM Discovered Lake Cabins.

3:01 PM Discovered Lake Cabins.

3:20 PM Drank Orange Soda.

3:28 PM Discovered Lone Lake Cabin.

4:25 PM Discovered River (Southern Access).

4:34 PM Discovered Mystery Lake.

4:38 PM Discovered Camp Office.

4:53 PM Ate Beef Jerky.

4:56 PM Drank 0.05 gal potable water.

5:11 PM Started fire.

5:27 PM Ate Pork and Beans.

7:26 PM Went to sleep.

3:05 AM Dehydrated

5:25 AM Woke up after sleeping 10 hours

5:27 AM Drank 0.18 gal potable water.

5:27 AM Not Dehydrated

5:28 AM Ate Tin of Sardines.

5:33 AM Ate Pork and Beans.

5:53 AM Discovered Tunnel Collapse.

6:18 AM Freezing

7:59 AM Discovered Trapper's Homestead.

8:10 AM Started fire.

8:13 AM Not Freezing

8:36 AM Ate Venison (Cooked).

8:41 AM Ate Energy Bar.

8:44 AM Drank 0.08 gal potable water.

10:18 AM Drank Summit Soda.

10:20 AM Went to sleep.

12:20 PM Woke up after sleeping 2 hours

12:33 PM Discovered Max's Last Stand.

1:21 PM Killed a Stag

Distance travelled during day: 4.53 miles

Distance travelled during night: 0.00 miles

Day 2:

Made it to day 2

2:13 PM Freezing

2:33 PM Encumbered

3:20 PM Ate Candy Bar.

3:23 PM Drank 0.10 gal potable water.

3:38 PM Not Encumbered

3:38 PM Encumbered

3:43 PM Not Encumbered

3:45 PM Not Freezing

3:47 PM Failed attempt to start fire.

3:51 PM Started fire.

4:17 PM Ate Venison (Cooked).

4:50 PM Ate Venison (Cooked).

4:52 PM Drank 0.05 gal potable water.

5:41 PM Drank 0.02 gal potable water.

6:03 PM Went to sleep.

4:02 AM Woke up after sleeping 10 hours

4:05 AM Drank 0.16 gal potable water.

4:11 AM Ate Venison (Cooked).

4:14 AM Ate Granola Bar.

5:56 AM Freezing

6:44 AM Ate Candy Bar.

6:47 AM Drank 0.07 gal potable water.

8:28 AM Started fire.

8:32 AM Not Freezing

8:57 AM Ate Venison (Cooked).

9:20 AM Ate Venison (Cooked).

9:22 AM Drank 0.07 gal potable water.

Distance travelled during day: 1.37 miles

Distance travelled during night: 0.01 miles

Day 3:

Made it to day 3

2:44 PM Drank 0.10 gal potable water.

8:21 PM Encumbered

8:52 PM Ate Venison (Cooked).

8:54 PM Drank 0.13 gal potable water.

8:59 PM Ate Salty Crackers.

9:03 PM Drank 0.07 gal potable water.

9:05 PM Went to sleep.

9:24 PM Not Encumbered

5:05 AM Woke up after sleeping 8 hours

[Alvinius]

What to do with a very strong start?

I will probably manage to be killed by a wolf before it matters..

In Brief: Stalker

Spawned 3 PM, not sure where I was I went to high ground and stumbled across a hatch. Took water, knife rifle and 5 ammo, I left another rifle, 5 ammo food and matches? untouched. I was able to search almost all of mystery lake before dark. I looted a basic coat and scarf not much else, left matches untouched.

Left Camp office starving but very good condition at 3 PM for trappers. Trappers was fogged in with a wolf howling, as I approached the door from the back I see in the fog a wolf in pursuit of prey. The wolf killed right at the bottom of the path. Okay dead wolf and fresh kill nice!

24 hours later, my 3rd combo wolf/deer kill. Okay i did lose the trail of one wolf, the carcass is surely out there somewhere. All of this happened between the cabin and the barn. How am I going to find the time to cook all this meat!

48 hours into the game I found a nice bunker, 3 full deer carcasses, 2 definite wolf kills and have consumed 1 candy bar. I am not even sure of what is all in trappers.

[autumnalequinox]

Oh wow! I think you know you have a good start when you can just race around the map and hit the juiciest spots on Day 1. Like... a sweet 5 am start and clear skies all day looooong.

But starting late and then just wandering up onto the hatch? Doesn't get better then that.