Get into the frozen corpses of deers

[theZiafe]

Just an idea

It has happened me while i play that i dont have tinder to set a fire on my backpack

and suddenly a winter storm appears and it gets so hard to look for tinder

specially when i have not find the hatchet yet

Prerequisite to use the corpse as a temporal (with more warmth bonus) bedroll

would be to make it empty, with no guts and meat.

maybe we could use the deer/bear corpses with a maximum 50% frozen to use them as a temporal

bedroll

other idea is to get tinder from certain bushes as well , maybe some type of grass (not the cat tail head that can only be found on rivers)

(english is not my main lenguage)

[toebar]

"And I thought they smelled bad on the outside.." Han Solo

I'm not really sure that climbing into a dead animal would actually work that well as a survival strategy. For one thing, you will get wet with blood and other substances. Wet is bad. Think about how great you would smell for the wolves when you climb out in the morning haha

I do like your idea for gathering dried grass as tinder. But, grass is currently so common that the existing tinder bundles would no longer be worth making.

Tinder is usually quite easy to find and stockpile-- all those newspapers...

[PPartisan]

You can harvest tinder from a stick, and even in a storm you can usually find sticks. Really, you should always carry a few tinder plugs with you too when out hunting - they don't weigh much.

[elloco999]

Just because

doesn't mean it's a good idea. In fact I would say if Bear does it, it's probably not a very smart idea.

[Maninpants]

The Revenant is a cracking film. If you play this game, check it out.

[Larkid]

Echoing what's already been said - you can craft tinder from a stick and it takes only a few minutes of game time. Tinder is the one thing that there's never a real shortage of.

[akodo1]

A tauntaun is much bigger than a deer.

Besides, sheltering inside an animal body to avoid freezing to death doesn't really work.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/5931217/science- ... auns-belly

[toebar]

lol thanks for that link

edit: I wish they showed the math in that article-- I'm not certain but it doesn't seem that they took the insulating effect of a tauntaun's hide into account? a fun read nonetheless

[oldsoldier181]

Realistically, climbing into a frozen carcass isnt practical, for a host of reasons. Foremost, the carcass of a deer is far too small. Second, if its frozen on the outside, its frozen on the inside. You would expend a LOT of energy making a hole to get into. Third, if its been scavenged, theres little left in the way of shelter.

You'd be better off simply digging a hole, to get out of the wind, and build a small fire.

For the record, Hugh Glass (the movie Revenant being about him) never crawled into the carcass of anything, to my knowledge. I certainly do remember him doing that in the books about him. Its simply not a viable survival option.

[Wasteland Watcher]

And remember what Han said, "Just going to put you in here to keep you warm **until I get the shelter up.**"

Interesting post.