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Thanks for the questions. We're going to skip this week, but keep the questions coming and @Raphael van Lierop will return!

Please try to keep on track. This is a thread for the posting of questions for Hinterland (and The Long Dark) Creative Director @Raphael van Lierop. Please ensure that what you are posting is a question. If you see that someone has asked a question that Raph has already answered then you can direct them to the Dispatch where he addressed it with a link. Raph may decide to expand on the question anyway. If you want to debate someone's question further, start a new thread elsewhere on the forum. Thanks.

He may decide to speak to the specifics you've referenced by @Raphael van Lierop addressed a bit about new regions in Dispatch 2.

Raph spoke a little bit about the inspiration for TLD in Mailbag #1 and #3.

S - Z Sardines - 7 Sasquatch / Bigfoot - 5, 37 Save Files - 25, 37 Cross-platform Transfer - 37 Scent In Wind - 11 Wolves - 12 Search Bar ' Mechanic' - 18 Season 2 - 4, 33 Seasons (weather) - 2, 22, 31 September - 37 Setting - 25 Settings Custom - 12 Sewing Kit - 16 Shelters Customization - 5, 7, 11, 15 Signal Hill Podast - 28 Sitting Down - 34 Skills - 14 Skill Books - 37 Skins - 26 Skis - 13 Sky Colours - 34 Sleeping - 24 Sleep Deprivation - 4 Sling - 19 Smoker - 23 Snow - 35 Dynamic Snow - 35 Snow Shelter - 15, 17 Soundtrack - 2, 16, 37, 40 #SpartialOS - 36 Sprains - 17, 36 Stadia - 35 Stars - 41 Steam Achievements - 38 Cards - 38 Market - 34 Reviews - 26 Streamers - 36 Streaming Services / Game Streaming - 37 Sticks - 35 Storage Boxes - 17 Stores - 32 Storms - 21 Stove - 35 Stranded Deep - 15 Support - 26, 34 Survival Mode - 13, 16, 17, 21, 34 Goal Setting - 31, 32 Objective - 35 Random Events / Encounters - 32 Survival IRL / field tests - 21 Survivalist Review - 40 Switch (See also Nintendo Switch) - 3, 19, 35 Teddy Bear - 15 Temperature - 21 Terminal - 16 Thermos - 4 The Long Dark Changes - 6, 24 Collector's Edition - 6 Competitors - 38 DLC - 2, 15, 17, 22, 23, 31, 34 Experience Modes / Difficulty Modes - 39 Feedback - 39 Future Development Plans / Roadmap - 6, 8, 9, 17, 26, 30, 37 Improving - 39 Inspiration For - 1, 3 Lenght / Size - 7 Movie - 4, 7, 27, 37 Name - 37 New Game Mechanic - 34 Other Mediums - 37 Playing Cards - 41 Physical Release - 9 Size / Lenght - 7 Soundtrack - 39 Universe - 36, 37 Updates - 6, 8, 10, 16, 17, 26 World Size - 38 The Thing - 16 Thunderstorms - 26 Timberwolf - 37 Timber Wolf Mountain - 16 Tinder - 15 Tools Conditon - 34 Toilet - 36 Trading System - 7 Trailer Music - 11 Translations - 37 Community - 22 Video - 10 Trapper's Homestead - 23, 24 Travel inspiration - 40 Trust System - 36 Tutorial - 22 Ultima Underworld - 7 Unity - 14, 32, 34, 35 Updates - 14, 16 Unreal World - 41 UI / User Interface Progress Wheels - 32 VIGILANT FLAME UPDATE - 3 Virtual Reality / VR - 34 Voice Actors / Voice Cast - 17, 23, 35 Walk Speed With Weapon - 11 Warframe - 41 Warmth From Work - 40 Warmth Bonus - 35 Water - 5 Freezing - 40 Watercolour / Visual Style - 13, 31 Weapons - 22 Firearms and Guns - 13, 15, 17 Reflex / Compound Bow - 32 Revolver - 18, 25, 28, 33, 34, 37, 39 Rifle - 32, 38 Shotgun - 31 Targeting - 38 Well Fed Bonus - 40 Whetstone - 17, 18 Craftable - 18 Whiteout Challenge - 21 William Gibson - 36 Wind Direction - 15 Windows (OS) Windows 7 - 37 Windows 10 - 37 WINTERMUTE - 37 Opening Titles - 21 Other Mediums - 37 Wishlist - 7 Wolves - 14, 26 AI - 36, 37 Timberwolf - 37 Wood Wetness - 3 World Decay - 32 Wwise Audio - 18 Xbox Mouse and Keyboard Support - 32 One X Enhanced - 27

M - R Main Menu - 18, 35 Mackinaw Jacket - 31 Malnutrition - 11 Map Editor - 7 Mapping - 17, 21, 33 Markers - 12 Official Map - 7 Procedurally Generated - 4 Mark Meer - 23, 35 Max - 34, 38 Maya - 34, 38 Meat - 37 Mental Health (in-game) - 34 Merchandise - 2, 8, 9, 15, 36 Methuselah - 25, 38 Metro: Exodus - 23, 26 Microwave - 13 Military - 26 Milton - 28, 37 Milton Post Office - 24 Mines - 26 Mini Games - 3, 11 Mods Tools - 5, 6, 14, 20, 32, 35, 39 Moose Spawn - 20 Morphine - 18, 22 Movie The Long Dark - 4, 7, 27 Multiplayer - 25 Mystery Lake - 16, 33 Names - 16, 22 Narrative Design - 30 Negative Player Reactions - 33 Neuromancer - 36 Netflix - 36 Nintendo Switch - 3, 19, 31, 35 No Man's Sky - 39 Notes - 36 NPCs - 13, 19, 31 Objects Placement (see also 3D Object Manipulation) - 13 Interaction - 37 Pain - 38 Painkillers - 37 Pants Military - 15 Paralysis - 19 Pets Wolf - 19, 20 Phone - 40 Photoshop - 34 Pirated Games - 37 Plane - 13, 15, 16 Mysterious Sound - 30 Player Data - 13, 33 PlayStation 4 Pro - 27 Plants Growth Cylce - 34 Portage - 25 Podcast - 28 Practice Mode - 14 Prepper Hatches - 17 Pyjamas - 13 Rabbit - 20, 36 Hitbox - 41 Kills - 36 Radial Menu - 4 @Raphael van Lierop Bands - 22 Beard - 15 Being a Werewolf - 9 Being Will Mackenzie - 8 Career - 41 Creative Process - 37 Favourite Games - 33, 38 Favourite Item In The Long Dark - 26 Favourite Writer - 6 Games Played - 18 Relic - 32 Streaming - 16 Surviving in The Long Dark - 6, 10 Thing Most Proud of in The Long Dark - 10 Raw Meat (See Also Cooking) - 3, 6 REDUX - 17, 18, 19, 21, 28, 39 Real Life Locations - 10, 18, 19, 26 Wildlife - 6, 25 Regions Design - 36 Desolation Point - 17 In WINTERMUTE - 19, 22 Milton - 22 Most Popular - 33 New - 2, 12, 17, 22, 23, 28, 36, 39 Release Dates - 38, 39 Requirements - 28 Respawning Materials - 3 Rockslides - 13 Rosehip Tea - 35 Rose Hip Vines - 33

G - L Game Development (See Also Hinterland) Balance - 32 Becoming a Game Writer - 4 Becoming a Game Dev - 31 Being a Player and a Developer - 31 Crunch Time - 36 Design - 13, 37 Feedback - 13 General - 6, 13 Indie - 15, 31 New VS Improve - 32 QA & Testing - 10 Resource Creep - 26 Workflow - 39 Game Engine - 41 Game Streaming / Streaming Services - 37 Geomagnetic Event - 37 GO! Energy Drink - 39 GOG - 16 Graphics - 19 Gravestones - 34 Great Bear Island Location - 18, 19, 22 Naming - 32 Grey Mother - 38 Maintenance/Customization - 30 Half-Life 2 - 30, 35 Harvesting Bones - 7, 17 Cured Deer Hide (for Leather) - 32 Metal - 10 Manual - 11 Skill - 11 Hatchet - 41 HDR - 27 Heads Up Display (HUD) Changes - 22 Indicators - 8 Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - 18 Hinterland (See Also Game Development) Becoming a Game Writer - 4 Crunch Time - 36, 37 Development Philosophy - 33 Future - 36 General - 6 Growth - 25 Jobs - 34 Next Game - 34, 41 QA & Testing - 10 Status - 2, 23, 25 Studio / Distributed Development - 5 Support - 34 Tools - 34, 38 Vacation - 32 Website - 33 Workday / Work Environment- 37 Hobbs - 21 Hockey - 33, 34 Hoody - 14 Horror - 30 Horses - 15 Hunger - 2 Hunted, Part III - 35 Hunting - 31 Hushed River Valley - 12, 14, 23 Iceland - 40, 41 Infographic - 34 In-Game Art - 33 In-Game Challenge Editor - 34 In-Game Mysteries - 41 Inspiration Other Games - 41 Interiors - 23 Lighting - 31, 32 Temperatures - 33 Inventory Management - 23 Items Condition - 32 During Updates - 38 Jackrabbit Island - 33 Jackrabbit Transport - 33 Jennifer Hale - 23, 34, 35 Jeremiah - 20, 24, 25, 26 Letters - 36 Jump - 10 Key Bindings - 22 Kerosene Stove - 35 Languages - 37 Lantern Fuel - 15, 25 Late Game Survival Mode - 36 Leaderboards - 13 Loading Screens - 7, 23, 40 Location Detail / Region Detail - 35 Loot Tables - 22, 24, 32 Loot System - 35

Over the course of the Milton Mailbag @Raphael van Lierop has addressed a number of different topics. To help you quickly find information on a question you might have we've created this index. Below are the topics that he's addressed and links to the Dispatch(es) that they're referenced in. # - F #SpartialOS - 36 3D Object Manipulation (see also Object Placement) - 13, 34 4DoN (see also Four Days of Night) - 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 36, 38, 39 4K - 10 Accessibility - 15, 23, 39 Accessories - 23 Achievements - 18, 38 Skilled Survivor - 17 Afflictions - 28 Airplane - 15, 16, 17 Airport - 13, 17 Alcohol - 10 Animals - 19 AI - 25, 36 Behaviour - 20, 25, 30 Bones - 17 Carcasses & Bones - 11 Condition - 7 , 8 Female - 17, 25 Hit Locations / Organs - 3, 8 Migration - 19 New - 13, 17, 23, 25 Pet / Companion - 19, 20, 32 Spawning - 20, 26 Young - 17 Animation - 27, 32 Arabic Language Support - 19 Arrows Simple - 36 Arrowheads - 41 Art Book - 6, 32 Astrid - 14, 28 POV - 1 Aurora - 8, 13, 16, 20, 27, 31 Auto Saving - 18, 32 Ax Splitting Ax - 34 Backpacks - 1, 8 Basebuilding - 35 Bayonet - 26 Beachcombing - 28 Bear - 16, 22, 25, 38 The Bear (movie) - 41 Bear Spear - 1, 11, 17, 19, 20, 25, 27 Beard (Raph's) - 15 Behind-the-scenes - 31 Bigfoot / Sasquatch - 5, 37 Binoculars / Rifle Scopes - 7 Birch Bark - 10 Birch Bark Tea - 33, 34 Birds - 35 Bird Sounds - 34 Bleeding Animals - 31 Blender - 38 Blizzards - 35 Blizzard Lines - 17 Books - 17, 41 Brandishing - 7, 39 Brands - 18 Breyerhouse - 26 Broken Railroad Region - 15 Buffer Memories - 4, 16, 25 Buffs - 28 Well Fed - 36 Bugs - 25 Buildings Burning Down - 16 Buffer Memories - 18 Bushcraft - 15 Cabin Fever - 2, 20 Chainsaw - 36 Cairn - 23, 25, 33 Calendar - 13 Campfire Breakdown - 32 Camp Office Trophy - 41 Cannabis (see also Weed & Marijuana) - 14 Canadian Flavour of The Long Dark - 4, 8 Canadian Pronounciation - 23 Candles - 7 Can Labels - 36 Can Opener - 26 Carter Dam - 16 Car Battery - 23, 36 Car Visors - 8 Carcasses / Meat Bags - 35 Card Game - 10 Carry Weight - 8 Challenges - 2, 15, 25, 35 Character Breath - 13 Characters' Media Preferences - 8, 10 Christmas - 16 Clothing As Fuel - 39 Materials - 41 Crafting - 2, 16, 19, 27 Mackinaw Jacket - 31 Sweating - 31 Wool VS Cotton - 31 Cloud Gaming - 32 Co-Op - 8 Collectibles - 11 Collector's Edition - 6 Collectibles - 37 Community Communication - 3, 6, 16 Community Content - 14 Compass - 9, 21, 34 Competitive Mode - 13 Condition - 35 Consoles Console Optimization - 20, 34 Next Generation - 34 Constellations - 36 Cooking - 3, 6, 7 , 8, 11 Utensils - 17 Corpses Burrying - 7, 30 Cougar - 13 Countdown - 16 Crackers - 24 Crafting - 17, 25, 33 UI - 35 Survival Mode VS Story Mode - 32 Crashed Plane Site - 21 Crows - 34 Curring Guts - 21 Custom Ammo - 41 Custom Settings - 12, 17, 19, 20, 25, 32, 37 David Hayter - 23, 35 Deadman Challenge - 34 Decoys - 23 Developer Diary - 41 Difficulty auto-adjusting - 41 Digital Extremes - 41 Discord - 33 Diversity - 8 DLC - 2, 15, 17, 22, 23, 31, 34, 35 Dual Wield - 32 E3 - 36 Earthquake(s) - 13 Easter Egg(s) - 10 Electricity - 16 Emergency Stim - 40 Environments Storytelling - 13 Variety - 32 Episode 3 - 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 16, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28, 33, 37, 38, 39, 41 Episode 4- 33 Equipable Hatchet - 20 Experience Modesa - 26 Exploits - 11 Faithful Cartographer - 27 Feats - 8, 18, 36, 37 Fires Inside vs. Outside - 20 Firestarting - 17, 22, 31 Lighter - 31 Fishing - 11, 31, 32 Flashlight - 34 Fluffy - 23, 24 Fog - 13 Food - 15, 17, 34 Degredations - 34 Pre-Packaged - 37 Forging Forums - 27 Polls - 14 Four Days of Night - 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 36, 38, 39 Frame Rate - 11 Free-to-Play Games - 41 Frostbite - 8, 16 Frostpunk - 18, 21 Frozen Water - 33 Fuel Management - 34 Full Body Simulation - 8, 12, 21 Full Metal Jacket - 35 Future Games - 2, 4, 5, 6, 20, 33

For an answer on Full Body Simulation check Dispatch #8.

Hey @King Wasabi , we moved this question into the questions thread. This way it won't get missed, as opposed to it being off on its own. Thanks!

There will not be a Milton Mailbag this week. Keep your questions coming as it will return!

This seems more like a request for work to be done, and less like a question. To manage expectations these should be questions that @Raphael van Lierop can answer in sessions between other game development work. A decent video about making a game in Unity might take days and video creators. I'm sure there's a way to rephrase this to ask if there were any tutorial videos or resources that he could suggest - as opposed to asking us to create a Unity tutorial video.

Please make sure to keep all posts in this thread questions. Thanks.

There is nothing to announce about new store offerings at this point. We'll note the interest, however.

Hello community, Today we’re pleased to announce that The Long Dark is out in retail stores across North America for Xbox One and Playstation 4, as a result of our partnership with Skybound Games. If you’re outside North America the game will be out on September 7th. Each retail copy includes a downloadable soundtrack, as well as a printed Field Journal with a map of Great Bear Island. You can also still buy the game as a digital download for PC, PS4, Xbox One, Mac and Linux – see the full list of stores here. To celebrate our retail launch, we’ve released a brand new trailer for the game which you can watch above!

Update: @Raphael van Lierop is busy with game development tasks and isn't able to release a Dispatch this week. Please continue to post your questions here and he will be back next week.

Please ensure that all posts are questions. Please do not comment on or debate someone else's questions. We want to keep this thread as easy to navigate as possible. Thank you.

To help make sure this thread remains focused on collecting questions for the Milton Mailbag please refrain from posting anything here that is not a question for @Raphael van Lierop . Any other posts will be removed.

Welcome to the forums @paulrysavy and great first post!

I moved this thread to the Fan Art section because I think it deserves to be there - and that's where I keep looking for it. Keep up the good work!

Quick update with 2 items: Please ensure you're asking questions. Don't debate other people's questions or make "Wish List" type suggestions. There are other forums and other threads for that. Our next Mailbag will be in two weeks as the team focuses on the content announced in this week's Dev Diary. Please keep leaving questions as we think this has been valuable so far. Once again thank you so much for your support and your excellent questions!

Posts deleted. As a reminder please keep your posts brief and questions. If someone asks a question please don't respond unless you're directing them to where it was previously answered. If you want to debate a topic go to the appropriate forum and start a new discussion. Thank you all for the great questions so far.

Posts deleted or moved to Wishlist forum. Please keep your posts brief and questions. We understand that some setup may be required to frame your question, but try to be as succinct as possible. Thank you all for the great questions so far.

While this thread is getting long please do at least read the previous Dispatches as they have answers that may save you the time asking. We will be deleting any posts in this thread that aren’t specifically questions so please try to refrain from back and forth. Thank you.