Enhance The World via Eggs

[LordStarwalker]

Greetings! I am really enjoying playing The Long Dark on both my Xbox One and my PC. However, after surviving Mystery Lake for 20+ days on my Sandbox1 (Xbox) and 9+ days on Sandbox2 (PC) games, I have some feedback.

The world of The Long Dark would be greatly enhanced by the addition of one key object, the egg.

Think about it, we have cans of beans and peaches, energy bars, granola bars, cans of coffee and jars of peanut butter. On my Sandbox2 game I was lucky enough to find both coffee and peanut butter! However, we seem to be missing a key object in this world, the egg. Surely the people of Canada eat eggs!

The benefits of adding the egg object to the game, off the top of my head:

• Make the world more real, as a world with no eggs is just silly.
  
• Obviously once we have eggs in the game we should be able to cook with them at a fire (omelet, fried egg, scrambled egg).
  
• A new achievement: Egg Hunter - You collected 120 eggs (12 dozen) in a single Sandbox mode game.
  
• At some point in the future, if cooking is ever expanded to include more complex recipes, having eggs as an ingredient is a plus.

[Salty Crackers]

They would have to be wild eggs, as normal chicken eggs would probably go bad. Maybe you could look for a crow's nest?

[toebar]

2 things.

Birds do not generally lay eggs in winter.

The power is off. Chicken eggs have a pretty long shelf-life, but it's not indefinite. Considering there's no flour, sugar, salt, pepper, honey, cereal, ham, etc etc etc, I'm not so worried about the lack of eggs

Also--It's possible there are eggs in some of the fridges, but the character ignores them since they have spoiled.

[EternityTide]

You know, I never keep eggs in the fridge. Where I live, in the spring, summer and winter, the ambient temp is pretty low, but even in high summer, the eggs keep for at least 2 weeks outside of a fridge.

[cekivi]

Remember though that if the ambient temp is too low than the eggs will freeze solid and crack

Neat idea but not as a scavenged item. There are farms in Pleasant Valley so finding chickens may be possible... but for the time being I think not having eggs is fine.

Now if you want to add powdered eggs and milk that's something else entirely. Actually, that would be really cool: light weight, high energy food but inedible (for powdered eggs) unless cooked! Then you'd be adding something to increase variety and choice in the game.

[EternityTide]

...Now if you want to add powdered eggs and milk...

Sounds a bit too much like World War II rationing for my taste. I tend to stay away from that kind of thing . I think something like that would only be found in the preppers bunker.

[Sinthoras]

Sounds a bit too much like World War II rationing for my taste.

Seeing as there are already MRE's in game I don't feel like this is a huge concern

[cekivi]

It does sound a lot like rationing but it's not as far fetched as you think. Homes likely wouldn't need powdered milk/eggs but cottages and remote areas might keep them since they're non-perishable. If you're planning a week long trip to the cottage that doesn't have electricity (for instance) than powdered eggs for breakfast is a lot more appetizing than no eggs at all

[Hotzn]

The last thing I'm missing in the game are eggs.