Various wishes :)

[whiteberry-toarda]

A few things I'd like to see in-game. I haven't looked through all the previous posts, so pardon me if they are double.

FOOD

• Stew pots. Ability to create stews from meat, canned food, plants to create a more substantial / high quality meals by combining them.
  
• Bread. Ability to bake bread from stored flour.
  
• Honey and syrup to add to above for quality (pancakes, anyone?)
  
• Spices. Improve quality by adding spices.
  
• Stored rice, pasta, potatoes, seeds, vegetables - let's get some of those carbs

WEAPONS & HUNTING

• Spears. Ability craft a spear where you can sneak up on wildlife and try your luck.
  
• Digging traps. Ability to dig a larger trap for larger pray with a shovel.

EXPLORING

• Grappling hooks. Either found or crafted - to be able to climb up/down cliff sides (when not out of bounds).
  
• Cross country skis. There ought to be skis everywhere in this area. They should be equippable and make travelling faster / less strenuous.
  
• Tents. Either found or crafted where you can seek shelter in a tight spot.

WILDLIFE

• Moose!
  
• Sheep, cows, goats, chicken, horses, pigs. Where have they gone?

MISC

• Cutting down curtains should lower the temperature inside. Similarly it should be possible to craft or find blankets to hang up at windows to make it warmer.

[swissheart]

I am surprised that spears didn't make it to the game before crossbows did. They are more basic and somewhat more instinctual to craft. They should definitely be in the game.

I would also like more variety of food. It would be fun if there were different ways to prepare it or simply cure it, to preserve it longer.

I agree that curtains keep it a little warmer inside and that the temperature should drop without them.

[FrozenLiquidity]

I guess I have a different take on many of these.

While I wouldn't mind the addition of basic stews - honey, syrup, spice and a whole bunch of other additions of things that are not survival-minded seem out of place in survival simulator which you are struggling to live off the land, not wake up to pancakes and syrup every morning.

For hunting - spears wouldn't be terrible - as defense or for throwing, though it ought to be far harder to hunt and kill with a device such as this when compared to the other obvious options (rifle, bow, snares) - and far more risk as well. I would abandon a spear myself in favor of other methods ASAP. A bow transfers more energy to the arrow than your arm will to a spear. For defense, I'd take a hatchet or large knife over a crafted spear as a long pointed weapon is not conductive to defense at close range. As for pit traps, that would require an enormous amount of energy to create, I would think one is better off with the leg traps and other trapping mechanisms which be more efficient and easier to implement.

For exploration, I can't see myself ever using a grappling hook if I am trying to survive in this environment alone. One slip and it's almost certain death - no, I'll take the long way even if it means walking in the snow for an hour. Thinking that I'd climb a rock face with no safety gear and a full pack on my back seems insane. Skis may be appropriate, but snowshoes are probably moreso, as they don't require vastly different dynamics and I imagine would be easier to craft than a proper set of skis. Finally, while I would use a tent in an emergency in this setting, I think gameplay-wise it is far more thrilling to have to seek out proper or improvised shelter. In a recent session I was caught away from home in a blizzard and visibility and temperature dropped as the day started to wane. My salvation was a rickety open-air shack with a corpse next to it and I made it through the frigid night with howling wind only by starting fires few hours to warm myself up. It was a blessing to find myself alive when the sun broke and the wind died down in the morning. This is the kind of experience that I can only find in TLD - but if I had a tent I would have been able to put down in any old place and climb in without any drawback. Use it as a wind shield to light my fires, hop in and be sheltered whenever I need it. It would be crappy shelter in a blizzard and would not keep the heat in at all, but it removes one of the basic needs that ought to be the lynchpin of a survival game - finding shelter. You'll never be in that tight spot you mentioned if you have a shelter you can take with you everywhere.

Wildlife - more of it and a greater variety is good. Not sure where all the cows, chicken, pigs and sheep are coming from. They're domestic creatures that are completely out of place in all but Pleasant Valley and even then would die off rapidly in these conditions.

[DoctorKajita]

I generally agree with what FrozenLiquidity said above. I think the addition of snowshoes makes sense. There should be a penalty for walking up a steep, snowy incline without them.

There should be some way we can craft a temporary shelter in a pinch, but with all the shelter available in the game, I'm okay without it. I like the current risk / reward ratio of going out into nature.

[didacticus]

Definitely want spears. I'd rather carry around a relatively heavy spear to fend off a wolf with a well-aimed stab than torches. If you miss the wolf, it would pounce on you, and if you hit it the wolf could run off, but probably not die unless you stabbed it in the face or throat or something.

[swissheart]

Rifles and bows are great but you need to have bullets/arrows for them. Spears will come in handy when you run out of those things. I think hunting should be getting harder, not easier, and carry more risks as traces of civilization begin to disappear.

Can't imagine chickens and other domesticated animals in the game. Wolves would eat them for breakfast.

[quinch1199]

I think combining food items would be a good example, however…most of the items listed in the OP wouldn’t be available in the environment we have now.

However, even with what we have now in the game a simple stew is possible. Venison + cat-tail root is actually a variation of a basic meat and potato stew. We only currently use the stalks to eat and heads as tinder in the game but by use of the hatchet plus a spear in the game and harvesting of the roots becomes possible and they have far greater nutritional value.

A spear, whilst could be used for defence, can also be used to harvest and dig shallow traps.