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There are definitely some sneaky hiding spots! I once found a rifle tucked way back under the bed in the master bedroom in the Pleasant Valley farmhouse. I checked under the bed during my first sweep, but something caught my eye on a later trip many, many game days after that. My suggestion is to be super thorough on your first run, and to do secondary sweeps periodically even when you think you've found everything. My experience is that if you absolutely can't access an area, like it's too high up to reach, or a drawer doesn't open, there won't be anything spawning there. But there are occasionally areas that require creative thinking - there's a hidden backpack in Hibernia Processing in DP comes to mind. That said, your cursor *can* often reach farther than you think. I once found a pair of wool long johns trapped behind a cage of old bed frames at the Forest Talkers' cabin in Broken Railroad. It was so far back that it was almost impossible to reach, but I finally figured out the perfect spot where I could reach it while crouched. Some things just take some extra maneuvering.

I wonder if this is a semi-glitch due to the recent update - the truck beds used to be devoid of snow, and I would occasionally find items inside them. Since they were filled with snow in the update, I assumed that the items just stopped spawning in the beds, since I could only see the snow. Good to know they're still spawning. Thanks for the heads up!

Very early on in my experience of TLD, I started my first Voyageur game out in Milton and decided to venture into HRV, thinking "how difficult could this region be, anyway?" I ended up nearly frozen and starving to death in the Lake Cave on Monolith Lake. I had run out of bullets, but managed to find a bow and arrow, and discovered that Monolith Lake was the site of a moose spawn. I decided to roll the dice and shoot my one arrow at the moose, and killed it with a headshot on my first try. I'm pretty sure I still have that game saved. I refuse to end it, since it was one of my earliest games and I'm convinced I'll somehow be able to make it out of HRV alive with enough experience under my belt. I prefer playing on Pilgrim, so I'm not much better at avoiding wolves, but I do know the map much better now.

I've seen this before - I think it has something to do with the light at certain times of day. Like light is reflecting off of the soup itself, and it appears yellow.

P.S. @LowSpeedHighDrag this user also made a series of topographical maps using aerial "photography" of the regions: https://steamcommunity.com/app/305620/discussions/0/3223871682625401412/ They're not as helpful without the Whiteberry-style markings, but here are topographical maps of Mystery Lake and Broken Railroad which include the WB markings: https://i.redd.it/yksz1u5ddtl01.jpg https://i.imgur.com/nqK7s6sr.jpg

@LowSpeedHighDrag I keep a folder of bookmarks of each individual map, but here's a bunch of them: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=530202531 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1491002838

I had multiple issues around killing the bear: 1. Getting close enough to the spear to grab it - I found that when I started from the upper entryway platform in the final cave, I could simply walk across the cave wall to the right, and "mountain goat" all the way around to the room with the spear in it. All I had to do was start high enough on the wall to be able to pass the crack in the rocks in between the two rooms. When I got to those rocks, I would use a stim, jump down, run and grab the spear, then run to the nearest secure hiding spot to the right of the spear. Then I would wait for the bear to get in a position that was far enough away that I had time to set up the spear before getting mauled. 2. Once I speared the bear, my "fight meter" wouldn't fill properly, even after dozens of tries. I eventually realized that my graphics settings were so high that my laptop wasn't registering the clicks from my controller in time to fill the meter. Turning down the graphics was the only thing that worked, and I was able to kill the bear once I speared it 3 times in a row.

I once took it and left it in the ranger's station in Milton near the climbing area, and when I broke down the stool underneath it, it remained floating in the air. Was it a bug, or was it a miracle? We may never know.

At least you're well fed? 😂😬

I don't know for sure, but this seems intentional on the part of the game devs. A porch would be like the ultimate hunting blind otherwise.

Lol this happened to me too. Not sure why it took so long for me to figure out. I'd say keep the thread, since there might be more of us out there who are just too ashamed to admit it 😂

Seconding this, except I will typically craft the rabbitskin hat, deerskin boots, and rabbitskin mittens. It's easy enough to get a stash of rabbit/deer skins and guts, and they're basically infinite resources. The boots are on par with mukluks (which are very rare), and I can save my leather pieces for repairing the satchel. Even prioritizing warmth like this, my sprint meter is still at 75%. Not too bad since I'm protected from most weather, and it's still fun for me to seek out the rare clothing items.

Maybe I'll finally find out if humans respawn!

This has happened to me a few times in some older versions of the game - I found that transitioning between regions also helped, if restarting ends up not working sometime in the future.

I had reached lvl 5 on all the other achievements in my longest game, so I needed a foolproof way to get lvl 5 on the revolver or risk wasting all of that work. So I read 2 (maybe 3?) revolver books, and then killed pretty much every animal in Mystery Lake. This is sort of cheating, but I figured if I ran out of bullets, I'd be screwed. Like you said, since it was an older save, I feel like I ended up with less revolver bullets than I would have. So I restarted the game if I happened to miss a shot, and I ended up reaching lvl 5 pretty quickly.

Other than tasting like water mixed with the color brown, no ill effects to report! I'll let you know if I die later on though 😂

Lol too much mixing of religious metaphors? 😂

Worshipping Saint Branch as it ascends into heaven 🙏

New, safer meat storage options!

LOL. This is amazing - especially the entire dead wolf stuffed in the pack. Maybe this is why it always sounds like he's dragging an entire hardware store around.

At this time of day, since the sun is so far beneath the horizon, I don't think there would be a lot of illumination. I looked up some IRL sunsets and they seem to be similar to this shot. I also have the graphics set pretty low, so there might be some normal details missing...but in general, I agree they've made some very intentional stylistic choices that sacrifice some of the realism. Something I've noticed about the muted/subtle light is that it actually makes the game more challenging. If there were tons of light rays illuminating the scenery at sunset, it would be much easier to navigate the world and notice more subtle details. Like in my screenshot, you can barely see the Mountaineer's Hut in the bottom right.

Like ThePancakeLady said, not all of them can be removed. Truck batteries are a no-go, but unless a hood is damaged, you should be able to right click them out of cars. I would also like to invite you one of my favorite threads on the forum:

I hate HRV for the same reason. But if you're not against using maps, I find the Whiteberry Toarda-style maps to be really well made and very helpful. I decided it was more fun for me to use the map and experience the region, rather than avoid it completely. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/2481935065815131776/FA1519D7342C52D1A5DD1A0D193622893D96B7BB/

I was at Trader Joe's yesterday and stared at the "Apriums" and "Plucots" for a while - apparently one is more apricot-ish and one is more plum-y. That sunset makes me think of both. 😂

View from the plane - I don't think I've ever seen this kind of sunset before.