The Library Challenge


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26 minutes ago, Screenshot Pilgrim said:

If you've got the time, feel free to post numbers of books for each region, and we can eventually approximate a total for the island.
Here's everything I found in Desolation Point:
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that's nice!  sweet 3 standing books, too.  I take you carried each of these individually except the skill books.  Do the standing combine or do they corrupt combine and become the sunny cover of the encyclopedia sets? 

curious if there would be more books in Pilgrim mode?  

btw, are you gonna be transiting all these back to PV now?  whew... that's like 10 trips if I'm doing the math right.  

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44 minutes ago, piddy3825 said:

gonna be transiting all these back to PV

I think only 5 trips, using your two at a time book curling method. 🥌😀  The skill books don't affect anything except weight, and there's ten other books.  I didn't chance it with the standing books, and treated them like the others, one in my backpack, one curling along in front.

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I set up a nice field camp on the Old Island Connector, with meat in the car trunk and gear in the basement.  I've also got a pretty good cache of meat outside the mine at the Desolation Point end.  Wolves were really aggressive while I was there, so I ended up with dead deer and rabbits, plus wolf meat.
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Also had two close calls with the bear near Hibernia.  Had to bolt for the mine across the road and heard it chasing, so glad to have my sprinting at 81%.

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Leaving the Farmstead to fetch the last two books from Desolation Point, I was lucky to drive some deer through an opening in the fence and across the road.  A wolf was waiting and ran one of them down for a kill on the roadway.  I wounded the wolf, which died on the river ice behind the farm.  I continued on with my book errand, then harvested both and had a cookout on the next night.
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Well stocked at the Farmstead, I spent several days at Pensive Pond before travelling to Mystery Lake via the Winding River.
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48 minutes ago, piddy3825 said:

photo shop them into a small area in your library? 

It would be worth trying for a screenshot of them all together.  Maybe on the bench in front of the fireplace.

I think by the time I've got the Farmhouse Library completed, I'll probably have to make a short video, surveying all the rooms.  I doubt I'll be able to get them all in one screenshot.

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While gathering all the books and papers in Mystery Lake to the rear exit of the Carter Dam, I was searching high and low for a prepper cache.
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I had the last book on the way back, and was almost ready to give up looking, but then I tried one more slope..
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No books inside, but there were some newspapers, tools and other useful things.     A lot of sprains this week.  :painkillers:

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1 hour ago, Screenshot Pilgrim said:

It would be worth trying for a screenshot of them all together.  Maybe on the bench in front of the fireplace.

I think by the time I've got the Farmhouse Library completed, I'll probably have to make a short video, surveying all the rooms.  I doubt I'll be able to get them all in one screenshot.

Unfortunately they cannot be moved.  They either sit where you find them or disappear into side quest missions if you pick them up.  I had the same thought of bringing them altogether but the idea didn't pan out.  sorry

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48 minutes ago, Screenshot Pilgrim said:

While gathering all the books and papers in Mystery Lake to the rear exit of the Carter Dam, I was searching high and low for a prepper cache.
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I had the last book on the way back, and was almost ready to give up looking, but then I tried one more slope..
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No books inside, but there were some newspapers, tools and other useful things.     A lot of sprains this week.  :painkillers:

I was thinking that a prepper cache would make a great repository for knowledge.  Hidden away and preserved for future generations...
at least you gotta a lotta tools out of there, eh?

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Everything I could find in the Mystery Lake region -
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27 books, plus 10 skill books.  To get them out with covers intact, I have to set one outside the door, then walk across the dam to go in the window, then back through inside to grab another one.  Then it's curling time back through Winding River to Pleasant Valley.  It's not a bad trip, but I have to watch out for a bear on the PV side of the caves.

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During my Mystery Lake searching, I got the Coffee Badge.  During this challenge, I've been using up freely the coffee and tea, saving stims and energy drinks for the longer trips I'll be taking later.
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I've also changed my clothing setup a bit.  Found mukluks, so figured the extra warmth and durability was worth the small hit to sprinting.  Also, switched to wool underwear for better warmth since carry weight hasn't been much of an issue.  Multiple trips to and from means I can spread out any gear hauling I want to do.  I patched the clothes screen onto my pause page to show the feats I'm using as well.
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Fire master of course, plus some endurance feats. 

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On 11/15/2020 at 8:03 PM, piddy3825 said:

at least you gotta a lotta tools out of there, eh?

At this point, I'm leaving a lot of that kind of stuff behind.  There are more than enough whetstones already for me to keep my original knife and hatchet sharp until the end of this.  I have some extra tools, toolboxes, and various other things for display purposes, so don't see the need to carry back any more.  Jerry cans and lanterns might be the exception.  Been taking most of those back or at least making note of where they are.

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