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  1. 10 minutes ago, Admin said:

    Lost and Found boxes for items placed outdoors that are affected by scene changes will appear either outside the Farmhouse or the Store at Thomson's Crossing (Rural Crossroads). Your items will be in whichever of those two boxes is closer to where the items were originally placed. 

    For interior locations, the Lost and Found box should appear by the door to the exit, inside of course.

    Thank you!!!

  2. Where does the Lost & Found box spawn in Pleasant Valley?

    I have an ongoing Stalker game where I'm in Pleasant Valley, camped in the barn-with-the-fire-barrel at Three Strikes Farmstead. Before the game updates to Crossroads Elegy, I was in the midst of cooking deer steaks, and had some packaged food lying in the snow inside the back room of the barn. All of that is gone. I had no food on my person. So the food stores I had planned to have - upon waking up in the middle of the night, to continue cooking - are gone.

    I've looked in the barn and around the barn, as well as in and around the other two buildings at Three Strikes Farmstead. I'm not finding a Lost & Found box.

    I can strike out from where I am now, and hope to find food that I left back at the farmstead, or maybe scrounge for cattails not yet harvested. But I would much rather head straight for wherever the Lost & Found box is.

    I'm posting this in the Forums, rather than submitting a bug report to Support, because I'm guessing I just need a pointer on where to find it. If this is actually a bug - e.g. "it should be within 10 feet of you" - then I'll submit a bug report.

  3. 13 hours ago, ThePancakeLady said:

    Made it to Jackrabbit without issues, but could not loot the fishing hut nearest the weak ice, due to a wolf camping it. Made the mistake of going to the open door hut instead, to fish, cook, and loot. You guessed it, the wolf caught me.

    Did the wolf actually come inside the hut? I've not had that happen - and they seem to avoid me once I'm in a hut (though, usually I'm crouching in the hut). But if they *can* come in, that would be good to know...

  4. So, I'm up a couple ropes somewhere in Pleasant Valley. Spent a few days there, managed to take down a deer and cook all of it. Go out the next morning to explore and encounter a wolf, who does enough damage to me that I spend the rest of the daylight recuperating. 

    So, I notice I'm low on water and think I'll get some firewood and spend half the night melting snow and boiling water, as you do. I've gotten in the habit of crouching while chopping wood, just in case a predator shows up - and I'm thinking that's a particularly good idea since a bear den is just over the ridge from the cave I'm using.

    I finish chopping up a cedar limb, and hear crows along with an odd animation effect just as the limb-chopping circle finishes - the effect is kind of like having crows flying right up to me, or maybe their shadows flying over me.

    If only...

    I get full control of myself and see a bear starting to walk away from me, *easily* within charging range. I back up. It turns around. O.O

    Please note I am still crouched at this point. The bear seems to home in on me, but isn't attacking, as such. And so we proceed back towards where my cave is. Once I get there, I have another peek - and he's still there... O.O

    I crept back to the back of the cave, lit a fire, and boiled water for half the night before sleeping. With that save point in place, I quit the game. {panicked breathing}

     

    Crouching AWAY from a Bear.gif

    Bear Still Following Me.gif

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  5. 40 minutes ago, ThePancakeLady said:

    Wolves bleed out fairly quickly. If it wasn't dead by the next day, it isn't likely that it was bleeding out at all. Might be a bug, might be a new behavior for wolves. maybe they get sprains too, and non-fatal injuries like we do? I wonder if it will heal over time? Makes me wish we had a paintball gun, so you could mark it to be sure it is the same wolf. (Did you check to be sure your wolf kill count did not go up in your Journal?)

    Ooo! Good point about the Journal. I hadn't thought of that. Will check.

    So far, it's still limping, so that's my identifier at present. It also patrols a specific area, which may help with identification if the sprain heals.

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    52 minutes ago, hozz1235 said:

    Likely.  

    I have observed that once wolves reach a certain % of "injured", they won't attack you anymore.  Limping?  I can't recall if they have always done that or not but good observation.

    That's what I'm expecting, but not so far. I slept overnight and went looking for it, found it, and then it ran off yelping when I got too close. So probably not a concern that I'll end up killing it in a confrontation. Went another day after that, and it was still out there, limping along. Doesn't seem likely to bleed out at this point.

  7. Never thought I'd see something like this in the game!

    I went out to hunt a deer I'd seen near the barn in PV. I spooked it twice, getting too close with bow & arrow. The second time, it ran towards an approaching wolf. I've seen a wolf take down a deer before, but not this close, so took a bunch of screenshots. (See the 'Wolf v Deer' gif.)

    With the wolf pre-occupied, I thought I'd shoot the wolf, and then take the deer I'd planned to hunt. My arrow hit, but only wounded or scared it, and it ran off yelping. I quartered the deer and started back with all of it to the barn. And then the wolf showed up, stalking me the whole way...

    I made it in safely, though not before a second wolf came in from another direction!

    Later, while cooking the deer steaks, I was outside, crouching, when I saw a wolf *limping* past. This is what surprised me. o.0 The devs actually wrote this into the game scripts?!? Is that the same wolf? Did I injure it in the leg without killing it? Did it fall after I shot at it and injure its leg? O.o (See the 'Limping Wolf pt 1' gif.)

    After finishing cooking, I went out to collect more wood before night fell, and the limping wolf was back! I chopped wood, crouching, within sight of the wolf, revolver at the ready, but it just limped on by. (See the 'Limping Wolf pt 2' gif.)

    Now, I'm hoping I can avoid a fatal encounter with this wolf. We have the kernel of a story developing here. I want to know where it goes...

    Wolf v Deer.gif

    Limping Wolf pt 1.gif

    Limping Wolf pt 2.gif

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