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Hm. I'm on PC, and while they were there before the Redux update, they're completely gone now. Here's old style: Note the lines next to the shack. Here's new style: No lines at all. Are you perhaps not updated yet? Alternatively, is it possible a graphics driver update could fix it?

Nope, no glitch, just mountain goating my way around to try and make sure I get rid of All Of The Black on the map.

Playing my long game (now up to 540 days) and my guy's back in CH. I'm here to try and complete the map as I'm going to try and get Faithful Cartographer with him, and while I was creeping about going for complete map coverage I made my way to this spot up over the bridge halfway down the map. Nice spot.

A little cooking session. The sun set and the lights came out and I was barbecuing. Perfect. Later that evening it got better. Also windier.

You should consider linux. You have to exercise more care when buying hardware (I find that Asus, Samsung, Dell, and Lenovo are generally good options when buying laptops intended for linux; stay away from MSI and HP, and stay away from "budget" hardware), but after you set it up properly your install will be good for literally years, generally without the need to reinstall periodically to restore performance. When you set up linux, it stays set up. I'm a professional sysadmin (my main platforms are linux and solaris) so I definitely have the skill set, but you can get 90% of the way there pretty quickly if you apply yourself to overcoming the early learning curve. Oh, and get back to the days of using command prompts; there are certain things that are far more easily achieved with command prompts than GUIs. I'm serious about this; I'm still running the home that I first installed on a computer around ten years ago; as I've upgraded my systems I just move it on to the next machine and everything is as it was. This particular machine has moved from Ubuntu 16.04 -> 18.04 without needing reinstallation at any time. In my line of work, when we talk about stability, it's not just "not crashing" that we mean. Unix and variants are just a lot more stable than Windows installations... and TLD runs like a champ under linux.

I dunno... not sure you've got enough stuff there.

If you're talking about the Whiteberry maps, they're referred to as "Rabbit Groves", IIRC.

The thing is, there's lots of little nooks and crannies which can keep you alive through the night if you really need it.

So, I had to go find the hilltop cave. I started a throwaway pilgrim to start on ML so I can just jog over and start looking for it. Along the way up I came across the Clothes Bunker; first time I'd ever been in there. That place is great!

Ooh, right in the onion.

Was thinking I'd climb up to Milton today and grab some loot from the farm and some hides I left at the trailer, but apparently not....

Well that sucks.

If you use F10 to take a screenshot you'll get an HD version with no UI icons on it. I don't know what the key on XBox(?) is, but I'm sure there's one there....

Looking towards my current cave home from an island in Milton Basin. You can just see the warm cheery glow of the fire waiting for me to return to its heat.

This pic is from Mystery Lake....

Thanks for the kind words s7mar7in! If you go to http://thelongdark.wikia.com/wiki/Decay you can see the decay rates laid out for you. Bedrolls decay faster than most clothes under all circumstances, and quite a lot faster than some. Also the difference in decay rate between stored (i.e. rolled up) and deployed is stark. If you leave a bearskin bedroll deployed for 24 hours, you'll lose 1.6% of condition (0.068%*24), but rolled up you'll lose 0.274% condition. Stored cloth bedrolls decay more slowly than bearskin bedrolls, do, but deployed cloth bedrolls decay significantly faster (2.4%/day deployed). As noted above, there are modifiers to those decay rates based on game difficulty. Either way, I tend to go for the bearskin bedroll. Yes it weighs more, but makes nights caught outdoors much more survivable. Given that my guy seems to be sleeping ten to twelve hours a night the lower deployed rate helps it last longer. That extra 7C bonus can make even the coldest nights survivable in a cave and even be nice and toasty upon awakening. I had to spend the night on a ledge two thirds of the way up on that loooong rope climb on TWM, and the bedroll saw me through with no trouble. Yes, I got lucky, but even with getting lucky with the weather I'm pretty sure I'd've frozen to death with the cloth bedroll. When I got up my felt temperature was -9; bearskin gives you +12: result happiness. With a net -4 if I'd had cloth: result misery and probably death.

Yeah I noticed that too. There's a wolf carcass in the cave on my run, and it's weird because it keeps respawning when I arrive there after being gone for a few days or weeks, but is not harvestable. I figure that's what's bringing the crows: the reincarnating wolf carcass of Lake Cave. Even when it's not there, its potentiality keeps the crows coming back.

Aurora on Monolith Lake. I'm in the Lake Cave next to the waterfall. I go take some pics. Just outside the cave. I scramble up to get up to the lookouts. First I look down the valley: It looks like it drops off the end of the world. I look across. I move around to the other side and look down on the path that goes to the Pensive Lookout. I keep going on around until I can look back over towards the lake. That's all the views up here and I'm getting cold. I head back to my cave to sleep the night. The next day is snowy. I'm getting a little low on wood (I like to have a few days on hand if I can swing it). I go head over to the Pensive Lookout to get some wood; you can often find fir out there. The snow is pretty thick, but it's not too windy for a change. I look up the valley. I set myself to a fir limb. When I'm done the weather has gone downhill considerably. I start to book. The weather continues to worsen as I trudge upwind towards the Lake Cave. When I get down to the lake, I look west and catch the sun's last gleam through the murk. Beautiful, even with the snow blowing in my eyes. Just as I get to the cave, the snow stops. I look south over the lake. The skies are already nearly clear. It's amazing how quickly the weather can change up here. I sit in the entrance to my cave and look out at the clearing evening sky. The wind is just whistling out there, even if it's stopped snowing. The fire went out, so I thought I'd just look out without it... when I'm here it's usually burning so it looks quite different. The wind dies down so I decide to have some fun before bed. I light the fire, get a torch, and play with light and the waterfall. I yawn... at the late stage of the day I'm quite tired. I head to bed.

A gloomy evening in HRV.

That's too bad. Chalk that one up to bitrot I guess.

I have not seen that. Try grabbing a cured gut and going to a crafting table and seeing if you can craft the bow (i.e. little green checkmark). I've had a similar situation with coats because I'd dropped a gut and it was incomplete but in my inventory.

At 100% condition, the difference between +5C and +12C is pretty profound when it comes to surviving a night outdoors.

Hi. I'm pretty sure you're leaving it unrolled in the shelter or whatever during the day. Don't do that. Even if you're going to leave it behind in your shelter (cave, house, whatever) always pick it up in the morning and then drop it rolled up if you're going to not have it with you. If you leave it unrolled it will decay very very quickly. Learned that one the hard way...

"C'mon man... what's in the box?!? What's in the box man??!?"

Exploring HRV with my nearly 400 day survivor: First night, no cave or shelter found, but I found a good nook that helped cut the wind: Got some venison off a ravaged deer carcass, and here I am cookin' it up and boiling up some water while sitting and looking out over the valley: