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I still wish for my lit torch to be listed first when starting a fire haha ❤️

I would say the game IS advanced but definitely restricted. It is a game after all. I love this game but I always wanted it to be more of a sandbox than it is. They've done some world crafting like snow shelter and some item placement but other than that you are pretty restricted in that regard. I mean you can't even jump, you sprain a wrist just walking on a slope and wolves act like you're a wounded rabbit lol. But yeah they tell you straight up that nothing you learn in this game should be applied to a real survival situation.

Seems like a great start and if you've made it 100 days before, you know what you're doing. My last run of 44 days had fuel problems that dissuaded me from chasing game I had shot and ended in me desperately eating wolf and bear meat and contracting intestinal parasites (14% come on!) which eventually led to my body littering some cave for another survivor to pick crow feathers off Keep the struggle and don't mess with the intestinal parasite Gods! lol. GL to ya

And sardines. It's the poor man's surf and turf with dessert and a soda to wash it down 😉

All modes below interloper are relatively easy I think once you have played enough. Interloper is a huge leap up from stalker and I play it (rather than customs) because I like saving my stats... I do wish I could choose the time of start without custom settings though. Starting interloper at night often crosses that line of difficult into annoying.

Exactly. To be fair though it's probably not a great benefit except in a few areas like quonset garage

Crouch when exiting any building. Travel on high ground as much as possible. Keep 50% sprint energy reserved. There are many but if I had to choose one golden rule it would be: Never travel without close to full condition unless absolutely necessary. #1 killer by far is death by wolves.

When traveling, try to chase bunnies (or deer...rabbits are easier) towards the direction you are headed and especially over ridges. This wolf was waiting just over the edge of my line of sight and I would have been his lunch had my fluffy friend not taken the hit for me

I think the best solution would be to design the order based around emergencies and logic. So anything already lit should be first priority. Second is firestriker. Then matches and finally lens. Would satisfy wolf encounters as well as prevent matches being needlessly wasted. The fuel priority should also default to highest % chance I think.

I may be freezing and starving to death.... but at least I have style and a nice smelling house! Nature is depicted beautifully in this game, but I think the interior spaces are wonderful as well and might be taken for granted sometimes (usually I'm too busy scrounging for loot )

Exactly. And your post is right about there being other inconvenient ordering issues. Some might say the team shouldn't focus on this type of thing yet, since the game is still changing. But I would argue that quality of life improvements like this should be very easy to implement. The team's time investment to game-improvement ratio would be pretty favorable.

Well it doesnt use up the torch more than about 7%. I would be interested in a change to firemaking. In the meantime, though, I keep lighting torches and then lighting the fire with another darn match

This is a small gripe but it would make me (and I'm sure others) happy. I wish that when I enter the fire starting menu and I have a lit torch in my hand that said torch would be listed first instead of matches. It is a common strategy to use a match to light a torch, then light the fire with your torch so as to not waste matches. This would save me a bit of clicking (and a couple wasted matches when I forget to check that the torch is selected as the starting item )

Spotted this on a reddit post and thought I'd share it here. It is best to store all food items outside with the exceptions listed below that actually decay faster outdoors. The interesting bit is to remember this list as "poor man's surf and turf" Sardines (surf) Pork and Beans (turf) Sodas (gotta have something to drink with your meal!) Pinnacle Peaches (dessert) **You can store tea, water, coffee, salty crackers and cat tail stalks anywhere you like as they do not decay**