Bunkers, a look at the firewood hatch

[piddy3825]

Stumbling about in the snow the other day fairly early in the morning , look for the  carcass of the deer I had shot the day before.  I finally located it high up on steep slope so I worked my way up and around as best I could and finally was able to reach my buck.  As i was cleaning it, the weather changed and I got disoriented in the heavy fog.   I oriented myself the best I could and started heading in the direction I thought was Trapper's.  After a couple of multiple sprains, I was out of bandages and pain pills.  It was gonna be a long walk back and I couldn't take any more complaining from my character nor could I take any more jerky screen motions as I was starting to feel motions sickness coming on.  I decided the best thing to do is just sleep it off, so I found the flattest piece of ground I could find and rolled out my sleeping back.  

 

5 hours later, I woke up to clear skies and this!

I made my way over to inspect the hatch.

I popped it open and clambered down inside

At the base of the ladder, I found a file cabinet and a couple of lockers nearby.  there were a couple of chunks of wood, one cedar and one fir

continuing to turn to my right there was a shelf in the corner with some gunpowder and a pack of matches

to the right of the shelf, on the ground was some more wood, a cardboard box and a couple of flares

there was short hallway connecting to another room.  it slanted downs every so slightly.  newspaper bundles, some tinderplugs and a beat up old lantern were haphazardly scattered about on the floor

Peering thru the gloom I inspected the adjacent room.  To my immediate left were a couple of lockers... (off camera, sorry!)  A wooden crate with some firelogs on it.  A file cabinet , couple of metal shelves and and old bed.

I broke down the crate, nothing in it...

I checked the grate, nothing in it

It was hard to see, so I grabbed the lantern.  It was rough and had just barely enough fuel to get lit, but it did help to illuminate the dreary drab dungeon of a room.

 

There were some food items, a couple more flares, a box of revolver bullets and a box of rifle bullets additionally a couple of revolver bullets were on lower shelf.  Surprisingly the flash light was practically new.  The bed was pretty comfy with a +5c rating.  The file cabinet held a couple of pieces of charcoal and some more newspapers. Storage container was empty as well.  The edibles and the rounds were useful as were the few medical supplies.

 

By far this was the least impressive of the bunkers to be found.  The food hatch blows the roof off this place, imho.   

Have you found any bunkers lately?  

[odizzido]

It's still quite cool to see. That looks like a fair bit of firewood. Thanks for posting I wish stuff like this could spawn with low loot settings to give more incentive to explore but oh well.

[piddy3825]

8 hours ago, odizzido said:

It's still quite cool to see. That looks like a fair bit of firewood. Thanks for posting I wish stuff like this could spawn with low loot settings to give more incentive to explore but oh well.

You should jump over to the fan fiction section and check out my story about Five Finger Freddie.  I think you might enjoy what I did with the place.

[turtle777]

I have found multiple bunkers, but none of them had this long hallway. Interesting.

-t

[piddy3825]

1 hour ago, turtle777 said:

I have found multiple bunkers, but none of them had this long hallway. Interesting.

-t

A first for me too.  I've found the weapons cache, food and medical caches but this one was different.  I liked the slope as it kinda gave you a distinctive sense of moving from one space to another.  In retrospect, my only issue is that I felt the hallway should have sloped upwards instead of down keeping the ladder area as a "cold well" considering that the hatch had to stay open and cold air was wafting in constantly from above.  

[odium]

i would like to see these bunkers on loper, i love the random spawns.  obviously the loot would be much less but it would still be fun

[piddy3825]

57 minutes ago, odium said:

i would like to see these bunkers on loper, i love the random spawns.  obviously the loot would be much less but it would still be fun

at the very least they would provide you some protection from the elements and predatory wildlife for a bit.  

[UTC-10]

Any cache I find is welcome but the wood cache is about the least useful.  Replace all the cedar and fir wood, and the firelogs, with more food and water and some tools and I don't think a lot has been lost. Maybe have a pile of birch and some maple saplings in the cache and that might be much more worthwhile.  Maybe a few arrowheads as well.  Wood I have plenty of.  If the wood cache did not exist, I know I would not miss it but others may. 

[piddy3825]

26 minutes ago, UTC-10 said:

Any cache I find is welcome but the wood cache is about the least useful.  Replace all the cedar and fir wood, and the firelogs, with more food and water and some tools and I don't think a lot has been lost. Maybe have a pile of birch and some maple saplings in the cache and that might be much more worthwhile.  Maybe a few arrowheads as well.  Wood I have plenty of.  If the wood cache did not exist, I know I would not miss it but others may. 

You should jump over to the fan fiction section and check out my story about Five Finger Freddie.  I think you might enjoy what I did with the place.