Murphy’s Laws of The Long Dark

[conanjaguar]

21. If you have just started a new run, there is a wolf around that corner you are about to turn.

[Looper]

On 7/23/2022 at 10:13 AM, Carbon said:

~ No matter which direction you travel, the wind will be at your face.

This! - so annoying they made a feat to counter it. 😃

[Leeanda]

When you need an aurora it doesn't turn up.  When you don't ,there it is.

[conanjaguar]

On 8/9/2022 at 2:18 PM, Leeanda said:

When you need an aurora it doesn't turn up.  When you don't ,there it is.

Aye.

22. If you are relying on using torches to scare off wolves, and there is one right around the corner, then the wind will suddenly pick up.

23. When you drop a torch to throw a rock, every rabbit within miles will run away from you.

[Leeanda]

When you try to herd deer in one direction ,they run at you instead.  If you hunt them ,then they run away.

Edited August 11, 2022 by Leeanda

[conanjaguar]

1 hour ago, Leeanda said:

When you try to herd deer in one direction ,they run at you instead.  If you hunt them ,then they run away.

So true!

[Gooner77]

24. When you are trying to get an FM interloper spawn and it rolls DP 8 times in a row. 

[Semple Fi]

On 7/20/2022 at 6:29 PM, conanjaguar said:

11. Whenever you really need/want to find a moose, it will not show up. The moose will spawn at the exact instant that you use up the last of your ammunition.

On that same note, every time I’m leaving TWM to go achieve other things, the moose shows up at the landing gear wreckage.  Then I’m stuck between choosing another ten days at the hut or letting it go.  
 

and I’ve usually left the rifle back at the hut too….

[conanjaguar]

BUMP

25. The prepper bunker you desperately need to be stocked will always be empty. You will find that bunker 100 days later when you don’t need the stuff anymore.

26. The wind will shift and out our the fire before the potatoes cook.

27. Everyone can eat raw meat. Once.

[Nalliah]

28. Pausing to map the landscape in Pleasant Valley triggers an insta-blizzard every time, even if as you began, there was not a cloud in the sky and it was warm (relatively speaking).

[A Big Red Dawg]

70% sardines WILL give food poisoning

[ajb1978]

When you accidentally eat raw meat, then panic and ESC-cancel in some futile attempt to avoid food poisoning...you will not get food poisoning. So you may as well have just finished eating it.

[artmunki]

When you forget to pick up your sleeping roll or cookpots, you won't realise you left them behind until you're at least two regions away.

[twyn1]

#32 (I think) -- If you take a prybar with you, you will find one in the new region almost immediately. If you decide to leave the prybar, it will take you days of searching to find another one.*

*(this can also apply to rifles, revolvers and other heavy but helpful/desired items)

[conanjaguar]

33. If you’re in the mine in CH waiting for an aurora, it won’t happen. The aurora WILL show up the next time you walk through the Dam while exhausted and overencumbered, pleading for the aurora to not show up.

Edited July 16, 2023 by conanjaguar

[conanjaguar]

34. The blizzard will always last one hour longer than you expected… and you will have one hour less firewood than you thought you had.

[SpanishMoss]

35. If you're looking for rocks, you won't find any. But when you're not looking for rocks, they're everywhere 

[Retro Seamstress]

1 hour ago, SpanishMoss said:

35. If you're looking for rocks, you won't find any. But when you're not looking for rocks, they're everywhere 

Ditto sticks

[Mistral]

3 hours ago, Retro Seamstress said:

Ditto sticks

Sticks are never useless whereas rocks can be. You shoule never stop collecting sticks unless horrendously overweight or on lower difficulties

[Leeanda]

1 hour ago, Mistral said:

Sticks are never useless whereas rocks can be. You shoule never stop collecting sticks unless horrendously overweight or on lower difficulties

You stick need to cook,boil water  and keep warm in caves during blizzards...   plus fire hardened arrows now for the birds.

[SpanishMoss]

8 hours ago, Mistral said:

Sticks are never useless whereas rocks can be. You shoule never stop collecting sticks unless horrendously overweight or on lower difficulties

Hence why I referred to rocks sense you aren't typically looking for then unless you need a rock cache or something 

[conanjaguar]

19 hours ago, Retro Seamstress said:

Ditto sticks

Also…

*inhales* accelerant, ammunition, acorns, bedrolls, bears, books, burdock, bunkers, birch bark, birch saplings, clothes, caches, canned food, carrots, cattails, cloth, cured leather, cooking oil, cedar limbs, deer, fish, fire strikers, flare guns, flour, fir limbs, feathers, rabbits, replacement fuses, rose hips, reishi, reclaimed wood, rifles, revolvers, heavy hammers, hacksaws, lanterns, lantern fuel, moose, mag lenses, maple sapling, matches, oats, potatoes, ptarmigans, prybars, salt, soda, scrap metal, sewing kits, transceivers, toolboxes, and wolves.

Did I miss anything?

[Retro Seamstress]

I mentioned sticks as I recently attempted the As The Dead Sleep challenge. Starting in Bleak Inlet I swear there was not a single damn stick on the ground from the lighthouse until I was close to the cave to Forlorn Muskeg (at which point the Timberwolves got me). Even on subsequent runs I've noticed there are hardly any sticks around. I don't normally spend much time in BI so I don't know if that's normal. 

[conanjaguar]

11 hours ago, Retro Seamstress said:

Starting in Bleak Inlet I swear there was not a single damn stick on the ground from the lighthouse until I was close to the cave to Forlorn Muskeg

Did you check around the woodcutter’s cabin, or whatever it’s called? I got lucky with positive FLT over there and scored 60 or so sticks before I started getting cold.

[Chaos Theory]

On 7/20/2022 at 5:25 PM, hozz1235 said:

When you really need something, all containers are empty - opposite true.

So true, one time I desperately needed antibiotics and couldn't find any in the whole Forsaken Airfield area. By the time I got some reishi mushrooms, a wolf attacked me while I was harvesting them, and that was that.