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Dec. 18th It's a cold and snowy morning. The top of the island gives me a good view of the wolves having a group meeting. It's easy to be all sneaky when I need to go in the opposite direction towards a fishing village. Lo and behold! In the nearest fishing hut, I find what my heart and freezing limbs desired - a full sewing kit! I leave some coal, cedar and other burnables in the hut with many thanks, and depart all smiles while carefully listening for crows. Mr bear is indeed a frequent guest in this area. Keeping my eyes peeled open for Mr bear, I nonetheless spot another big but sneaky item tucked away. Mr Forge, I have a future with you now. Hopping inside the fishing huts offers reprieve from the biting wind. I'm eager to warm up while I work on repairing my clothes. I've prepared for this moment by being the curtain terror in all visited homes. I put them into solid use repairing all but my boots that require leather. The fishing village must have good reading to offer. I finish the last chapter of the Frozen Angular and leave it in the hut along with a fishing hook and a cup of herbal tea. Don't forget the champ sports socks to boot! The weather clears up into a beautiful evening as I crouch and peek out of the fisherman's house. No sight of Mr Bear but I keep hearing crows that accompany me even when I leave the huts behind and travel uphill to take a shortcut through the hills and forest, perhaps too optimistic that this bear won't be hiding around the next hill. In an effort to go around the bear camp ground I circle too wide and end up missing a small rabbit grove hut on a slope. When a bridge appears, I advance past the rustling waterfall and decide to spend the night at a trailer. Tomorrow, I will cross the Ravine and enter Mystery Lake. Repaired mittens offer my hands protection. It sure would be nice to tear up the leather gloves and repair my boots. But, I only found one pair of gloves at Coastal, someone might appreciate them. Four hours of morning reading go under my experience belt until the weather becomes warmer to travel a long distance. At the coastal trailer, I left a pair of new driving gloves for the next survivor. May they keep frostbite at bay. Here passed my fourth sharing day.

While the Qunset Garage vigilant guard wasn't being vigilant enough, I've taken the opportunity to pop open a few empty car trunks. I wasn't too disappointed because great many valuable objects were waiting for me inside the garage. Among them, atop of the table stood a well worn storm lantern. May the forces of light go with me! In the red drawer lurked another prybar and behind a table hid a red toolbox. May one of these prybars serve the next survivor as well as one of them serves me. A few water purification tablets and coal to sweeten the deal before off I crouch across the snowdrifts to a comfortable house nearby. Beware toilet water, I shall have half of you along with this much appreciated food! My regeneration doesn't quite allow me to starve all day long. I do need nibbles here and there to keep my recovery above minor health losses, even starvation. Thanking this cozy house, I leave another granola bar on the doorstep and follow the highway. The evening is warm indeed. The temp at -3C opens the door to go sliding across the ice in search of a few fishing huts that offer me two hooks. The wolves are also enjoying the weather. They're scattered across the ice in multiple packs, pawing and sniffing the air and letting me weave a complicated path across the frozen sea among them while keeping off their radar. I leave reclaimed wood and sticks in each hut to keep fishermen warm. The weaved path eventually takes me closer to the Jackrabbit island. Since the sun is scraping the horizon, I choose to spend the night on another house island. I sneak very very carefully, more alert than rabbits for any sound, hence I need no repeat of the fluffy encounter. Luckily, all barkies are having fun on the ice and I make it inside unchewed on towards the glorious worn wool socks tucked under a grand bed. Another chapter of frozen angular and I'm ready for bed. This Coastal Highway sure is stingy with matches. I've yet to find a box. Upon this consideration, I leave my new red flare for the next survivor to build a fire, place two painkillers into the first aid kit and don't forget those nice, new sports socks! All survivors must be styling in them! Astrid is doing well. Her health is around 70% And I'm still hunting for that sewing kit. This is how went my third day of sharing.

Thank you, Murph. I thought the person who spoke up about leaving small things behind expressed a kind idea. I haven't mentioned, I'm running two feats this playthrough: efficient machine and cold fusion. Dec. 16th At the coal mine entrance, I dropped my only red flare to light the next survivor's way. Off into the tunnels I go! A ragged pair of jeans and a big pile of coal will be waiting for them at the tunnel exit. The crumbling highway wolf was enjoying a rabbit snack. He was offered lots of room to eat, while I sprinted towards a ruined building basement. I've left behind a blue toolbox and ragged sports socks, the only things available to take. But I am very fortunate. I've been worried about my stamina and freezing for this long journey leg. The weather is very kind, mild snowflakes are spinning through the air at the temperature of -4C. A snazzy green windbreaker I found sure is great! Farewell, Crumbling Highway. Greetings, Coastal Highway. Crouching among trees, I passed by burned down homes where wolves like to camp and headed for the nearest available shelter on an island situated on the sea of ice. The wind picked up to -12C. This island sure is treacherous. Travelling uphill with great many rocks for the wildlife to hide behind sure leaves one open to a sneak attack. Steady... steady... preserve my sprint even if this merciless cold had caught up to my heels. I jumped out of the chair at the loudest howl narrowly on my right. When I landed back into the chair, the wolf cut off his howl and I heard paw falls full in pursuit. Waawhh!! Uphill! Put that sprint pedal fully to the metal! The sprint ran out several steps from safety. CHOMP! Go, Go, Gadget prybar! The wolf left me chewed up at 20% health and ran off. It's a good thing the house is nearby hence my fatigue is bordering full red. I made it to safety a couple of hours before dark. This is a good place to stop for the night. Waking up the following morning, I've discovered a pair of driving gloves. No more frostbite nipping at my fingers. My health is back to more than half. In gratitude for the island house giving me shelter, I've left a granola bar on the doorstep and a book for the next survivor who hopefully will avoid this wolf. The morning greeting me was beautiful if very cold. Crossing the ice back to shore brought me to the loveliest house. This house sure had a very big and completely bare kitchen, just like the rest of it. Socks in the bathtub and half of the toilet water shall be the fair share for the next fellow man to come by. Hope their feet will be very warm with many many layers of sports socks. I'm keeping optimistic with a goal in mind. The gas station is nearby. I sure hope I will find a sewing kit soon. My poor clothes weren't doing so great before the wolf and now they have lots of nice holes begging patch up. Away I go. This was my second sharing day.

Greetings everyone. I hope you are staying safe and healthy during these trying times, and finding joy in Christmas season no matter what. I've been watching my favourite TLD series by Accurize2 where one of the commenters left an interesting idea about your survivor having optimism and heart. They would travel around, leaving at each location something small of value just in case another survivor happens to stumble upon the same area and looks for the means to keep going. I liked this thought and I've decided to create a Christmas Empathy Run. I'm using Custom Interloper as a template. I've lowered health to no daytime recovery and low night recovery, no cabin fever and set wolves to medium. Dec. 15th My journey began a couple of hours pre dawn when the stars were still bright in the sky. Far in the distance lay the lighthouse. Rabbits frolicked around the island where I came to be. They sprinted far off as soon as I picked up a stone. Unwilling to freeze in this chase, I curbed around the island and headed for the outlines of a ship. When I made it aboard, it was too dark to find a way to a bed. Hence I didn't want to keep going, I gritted my teeth and took hypothermia hit by playing cards for an hour until it got bright enough to search the ship. I've left two pieces of coal and a newspaper for the next survivor, taking one coal with me, a can of peaches and a red wool scarf before moving on to Hybernia. As I exited the ship, the local law keeper was between me and the place where I needed to go. As I curbed around the bear, I also heard a wolf howling on Hybernia grounds while I snuck in through the backdoor. Hurray! Hybernia was very generous! I found a pack of much needed matches and started a fire. My health at this point reached about 30% A pair of very old work boots was tucked into a corner. The place was generous with food. For the next survivor, I have left one match, a can of sardines, a couple of reclaimed wood obtained by breaking boxes at the trailers, and a pair of leather shoes. As I finished removing hypothermia effects and boiling water, a blizzard picked up closer to the evening. I ventured to a trailer and read a fishing book for three hours until dark. Then I crafted a bandage out of a single cloth found. Having eaten and drank some water, I had a comfortable eight hour rest that raised my health above half. Then I napped a bit more before deciding to leave the area hence I am unarmed and poorly geared. Risking a moose, I travelled across the bridge and went to the upper path to avoid the wolves below the Church. Since it was so cold, I was freezing again, and started another fire while I searched the place. For the next survivor, I've left a Frontier Shooting Guide. Perhaps, the next survivor will be a hunter who will be trilled with the find or a fire start up material. Having warmed up sufficiently, I made torches and headed for the mine connected to the broken highway. The mild fog setting in without wind helped me preserve the torch fire until I entered the mines, leaving Desolation Point behind. And that was my first sharing day.

Hello everyone, I'm enjoying the Ash Canyon update and I was very much looking forward to an unknown map where my Astrid would get to visit the Long Dark lots and lots due to being lost. I play Interloper and chose Ash Canyon as the starting location. I wanted to ask elite survivors how they found the experience in terms of their chances of making it off the map or establishing at least some form of survival. Are there matches ANYWHERE on the map, or a lantern or at least one flare? First attempt, I bumped into the canyon exist, but I had zero light and I simply cannot travel through the dark caves. Searched the area and found a large number of big caves, but at best they had one cedar in them, which I found lackluster even for Interloper. Found empty blue box and a spot with a green backpack also empty. Second attempt, at night, I started climbing everything. Made it up 4 ropes to some top landing and snow shelter which didn't have any matches either. Eventually, died of fatigue/thirst and cold while hobbling over some bridge. Also ran into empty caves. Third time I found a hut with a work bench, which is a big looting spot, but once again without matches my girl was doomed. I ended up entering a crazy dead end with a pack of 5 wolves corking the entrance and a rope. I actually rammed through the pack without any weapons and grabbed onto the rope, but Astrid didn't have enough stamina to make it up. So, that's my question, if you're starting ash canyon on Loper, are there any places that could give you bare essentials to make it past couple of days? I just found it extremely bare, except for the workbench house, but once again, it's great that I found a black pot, but I can't melt water in it due to lack of fire.

I've managed to collect 7 pages by starting at Desolation Point, went CH, ML, Muskeg, RR, then ML again and Milton. But it had taken me insanely long time to get across Milton. Approximately by the trailer one way, the fog caught me and I was running through the connecting cave to HRV while my health was draining from the fog. The entity got me at HRV after I found my HRV note, but I was trapped at this point. I feel that maybe we should have more than 1 charge of this stuff. Just because having 1 will limit too much which paths you can take. You don't want a singular route to be the only way to do it. Perhaps having 2 or 3 charges would give us a bit more flexibility. The fog will ultimately catch up to us all.

Thank you Manic. Uff that's pretty tuff, considering that you need to walk through some zones few times. Milton zone is huge, the fog starts as soon as you exit the cave connected to Mystery Lake, so you get the rope climbs in too and if you want to return it's not real.

I don't understand what's going on with the toxic fog glyph. Is it bugged? I had several sprays 25% to 100% and none of them were working. I could do the other two glyphs, but not the fog one. Are we allowed to use it only once per game? I had successfully used it once during a run and then it stopped working I couldn't use it no matter what. I ran into wolves in hurshed river valley and milton. After I found 6 notes, I feel the pressure from death walker went overboard. He was literally back on my butt as soon as the lure marks were running out.

ajb thank you for getting to into this conversation That's the thing though. I thought World Decay and Item Decay are NOT the same thing.

Slow rate world decay is the only thing I want from Pilgrim. I'd like to know, if I go to custom, select pilgrim, but then crank everything up to high difficulty if this will give me slow world decay but hard everything else in terms of survival.

I started on voyager and skipped stalker entirely in favour of moving to Interloper, precisely because I wanted to get mugged less by wildlife while advancing difficulty vs environment. After I began experimenting with custom, I pretty much favour it. I enjoy harsh conditions and less wolves so I can explore more without making it a wolf obstacle course. When you turn on custom, it lets you choose stalker - this will give you base stalker stats - then you can go to the wolfs tab and bears tab and switch them from high to medium or low and keep the rest of the stalker settings. ☺️

Hello, To my knowledge, every game difficulty deteriorates world items at a different pace. I wanted to ask, what if I select pilgrim as my base template in custom and then alter individual sliders to highest difficulty and toggle wild life on. Will this deteriorate items at 75% rate or whatever pilgrim rate is? Reason being, I would like to play the Long Dark Year game, but I don't want to do a mad rush at the beginning to collect every map. I would like to find items later in the game, but I am used to playing on Interloper or higher difficulty. I'm also aware there is an individual slider that adjusts item deterioration rate, but if I'm not mistaken this setting is when you already own an item and it means how fast it breaks while you're using it. If I set it on low, I'm guessing this won't slow down world decay. Please let me know if that's the case.

I had a 220 day voyager run under my belt before I was ready for Interloper and had to be comfortable on Loper before advancing to Deadman. 😀 I must say though, I do have great fun seeing people experimenting with voyager too hence these are my best moments when I was just starting the game and didn't know how to craft tea to save my frozen rear. Here is my 8th Deadman episode. Unfortunately, my recording quality isn't so great. My computer simply isn't powerful enough to both run the game and record smoothly. https://youtu.be/f9xn1dOKwrU

I've been able to survive 30 days on Deadman, but I have died more than once too while doing this challenge. You need to travel during Aurora to gather that comp data. That's exactly when the wolves are active. Going to that radio tower in the Muskeg at mid-night when you know a pack is guarding it = nom nom. I figured it's best going there daytime and shooting the wolves first, and then sleeping inside the closed cave and coming back at night. In any case, three hammers seems underrated to me unless you're good with ranged weapons, which I've never been. 😅

I'm glad you're having fun with the episodes. I didn't think people continued watching the later episodes, but I do have two more left. I guess I could upload and post if someone is interested. Yep! Deadman really is difficult for me. There is always a race to craft the tools in order to start living off the land. Strangely enough, the biggest pressure I experience in Deadman is food. There are some members who are amazing at playing this mode and who can go over a hundred days. For myself, I had set a goal to survive a month, which I had done in the past, which was a huge challenge. I still haven't completed As the Dead Sleep episode either. I've gotten as far as the third marker, but that's about it. I think I will resume this winter if I have the time. Currently, I've been taking it easy with this game.

This is more so valuable because so many companies instead of helping are using this pandemic to fatten their wallets. I tend to update steam each week and I've noticed that so many games have sharply tripled their prices and then said it's amazing 80% off (and the price is higher than it was before that 'off') while they haven't said a word about donating anything to anyone. This made Hinterland stand out even more, especially since it was full revenue and not a fraction of it.

🤭 I wish! I'd love to see the next episode of Wintermute. Their teaser was quite effective since the Coastal looked very much survavourly, like a frozen shipyard. Buuut we will need to wait a while since the third one just came out. Alas, as stated in the description at the start of the first episode, it's just my custom game modified from Interloper difficulty.

I hope everyone had wonderful Easter. ☺️ Episode 4 is ready. https://youtu.be/GVavIcGtycA

Episode 3 is ready. https://youtu.be/BNX3ydbnrN8

Episode 2 is ready. https://youtu.be/bWgZafNdEX4

Hey Everyone, It's been a while since I played. Hinterland partnering with UNF to help the World Health Organisation is a generous act. For a week, starting March 24th, Hinterland donated all of its revenue to the social distancing fundraiser. This prompted me to do a run to thank them for it. I find it to be a good deed. Well done, Hinterland. https://youtu.be/sJPzXjIwfug

Good adventure.

I'm mourning over the fact that I won't be able to rob Scruffy so impudently at DP where food isn't plentiful. I've heard somewhere that this one got named Frosty. 🤔

Merry Christmas! 😊

I'm pretty sure several months ago I've recorded this experience in my Newbie thread. It was mixed in with my long voyager log. It's too bad my computer simply doesn't pull off the recordings. This would have been one crazy experience to youtube. It was extremely contrasting, one of those games where your bacon gets magically saved two minutes from utter demise only to find that demise several game hours later. I'm pretty sure if this was my start in one of the current games I would have simply deleted the character after two perma frostbites, but that was one of the first Loper experiences and it hit my stubborn streak to get as far as possible. Deadman experience is challenging, but I also find that it doesn't really let me relax much. I tend to make easier mode games for that purpose or I send my voyager survivor into dangerous zones too to explore and get the Rambo feeling. I LOVE puns.