Getting bored is there any player challenges?

[desertedone]

Anyone have any other player challenges ideas for survival?

[Guest jeffpeng]

For what difficulty? What have you tried? Little bit more to go on would be helpful.

[jhickie]

Here's a few to keep you busy, along with custom codes and challenge creators.

I've seen some pretty good challenges on your timeline as well, @jeffpeng 

[ajb1978]

Destroy everything.

EVERYTHING.

I mean you can chose to spare things of course, like I didn't break down Grey Mother's or Jeremiah's furniture because of sentimental reasons.  But like...the Carter Dam.  Destroy everything.  Every chair, table, and crate.  Every broken metal control box, every broken metal light.  (Hint: Some of the ones on the ceiling can be sawn up).

And yes...even the stuff in the lower cinder hills coal mine.  This means you will probably get stuck down there, so plan accordingly so you don't die of exhaustion waiting for the next aurora with full blown cabin fever.

[ManicManiac]

@desertedone

There are virtually endless possibilities for personal challenges, we just need to be creative.  I really like the fact that once we are proficient in our survival tasks that it's really up to us to decided how we live in the world Hinterland has provided us and for how long.

For example here is my current personal challenge:

On ‎11‎/‎11‎/‎2019 at 8:43 PM, ManicManiac said:

(I know I've spoken about my personally applied parameters for FC before, but I don't think I really outlined all my goals for this push I've been on - so I suppose I will take a moment to review).

Main objective is to survive for 500 days ("Will to Live").
In order to make life more interesting, I'm adding the following objectives and provisos:

1. Achieve Faithful Cartographer, with additional conditions.  Start a the run on Timberwolf Mountain.  I may not leave a region until I have cleared 100% of the charcoal map.  Specifically, no smudges on any part of the main map area, and clearing as much around the edges of the map area as possible.  When going to another region I may only carry my most minimal kit (generally 13-18kg of what I consider to be just the essentials to nomad).  This forces me to start over relatively fresh and reestablish myself in each new region I enter.  (I suppose once I achieve this - this particular thread will end, since that's the subject I started it on)

2. Once I have achieved "Faithful Cartographer," I will then concentrate on, "It was THIS BIG."  I will begin this endeavor with fresh water ice fishing.  Even though salmon are the only fish in the game that are capable of naturally being over 5kg... I want to test to see if the bonus to catch weight that begins on Ice Fishing level 4 will boost the Small Mouth Bass up over it's natural 5kg max.  If possible, I want to gain this achievement by catching a freshwater bass instead of just grinding salmon in Coastal Highway.  If that bonus works as I think it does, then this should be feasible (unless the bonus still respects the weight limit).  In either case, I will not be permitted to go salt water ice fishing until I've reached fishing level 5 and I've spent at least 30 days fishing fresh water at level 5.  (I just realized I'm going to have so much lantern fuel!)

3. Assuming I've not managed to achieve it while completing the other objectives... next I will concentrate on, "Wrapped in Furs."  I will not be permitted to earn the achievement until I have pelt crafted items in all possible clothing slots.  I will only use the bearskin bedroll to earn the achievement if I am wearing: a rabbit skin hat, rabbit skin mittens, a wolf skin coat, bear skin coat (plus a moose cloak in my inventory - that's my "extra blanket"), moose satchel, two pair of deer skin pants, and deer skin boots.

4. Assuming I've not managed to achieve it while completing the other objectives... next I will concentrate on, "Skilled Survivor."  I don't have any ideas on making this more challenging... so I guess this one is just going to be pretty straight forward. 
 

So in the event I never really articulated what the entirety of my personal challenge is... here it is  

[Addendum]
It's been my standing rule for these attempts that I don't use any badges.

[manolitode]

On 1/18/2020 at 7:11 AM, desertedone said:

Anyone have any other player challenges ideas for survival?

If you want to improve the interloper difficulty here are some examples:

Survive in Katie's secluded corner using only rocks as weapon. 

Stop using lights in caves.

Only hunt and eat moose and bear meat. 

Make a campfire burn for 50 days.

Stop using a bedroll. 

[jhickie]

10 hours ago, manolitode said:

Stop using a bedroll. 

I've tried this one before, it's actually pretty fun.

10 hours ago, manolitode said:

Stop using lights in caves.

Now this just sounds downright masochistic! 😂

19 hours ago, ajb1978 said:

Destroy everything.

EVERYTHING.

I've done a "collect everything" run before, but this sounds fun for a long run. The Dam alone will keep one busy for weeks.

[ajb1978]

2 hours ago, jhickie said:

I've done a "collect everything" run before, but this sounds fun for a long run. The Dam alone will keep one busy for weeks.

It does!  And you'll be burning a ton of calories too so you'll need to hunt more.  If I were to do it all again, I'd set up like 30 snares in the ravine and just let them do the work for me, while I focus on breaking stuff down all day.  Then when it gets dark head to the ravine, prep the next day's meals, and do it all over again.

[Martin Prchal]

Hunting the achiements kept me occupied for quite a long time and I had tons of fun doing so.

[Guest jeffpeng]

Personally my cup of tea is to survive in one region exclusively, basically "Snowballing" as @Drifter Mancoined it.

What I like about it is that you have to work around the limitiations of a very closed and limited system, and that your games have somewhat realistic expiry dates, even if you do everything right. At some point you run out of food, you run out of ammunition, you run out of clothes, basically everything, and on Interloper the world gets so cold it just wears you down eventually. Also the fact that no region on its own (except one of four loottables in Broken Railroad) allows you to craft weaponry and tools puts another difficulty in this.

Of course this works best in regions that provide a limited amount of resources to begin with: Timberwolf Mountain, Hushed River Valley, Forlorn Muskeg. Desolation Point and Broken Railroad might be "too" limited to really make this fun. Pleasant Valley, Coastal Highway, Milton and Mystery Lake are challenging on their own, but pretty much remove the timer put on clothing - and all offer plentiful opportunities to craft indoors and hunt rabbits with snares.

The good thing is you really "learn" a region, all the tricks, caveats and corners you can cut. Snowballing Forlorn Muskeg took me from some dude that got lost on the ice every other time to navigating the Muskeg in the dark with minimal visibility with ease, for example.

[piddy3825]

You could cover the entire upper walkway at Bleak Inslet with cured timberwolf pelts...

[manolitode]

On 1/24/2020 at 6:54 PM, jhickie said:

I've tried this one before, it's actually pretty fun.

Now this just sounds downright masochistic! 😂

 

Very masochistic indeed, doable on some caves during daytime as you know, though pretty darn hard in the coal mines and yes I have tried and died 😃