Kondescending Kiwi

Wasn’t sure if this happened to anyone else, but I’ve always found myself having a bunch of extra tinder and having to leave it on the floor. Once you’re at a certain level for your fire starting skill, you don’t even need tinder in order to start a fire, making it pointless to carry. Maybe tinder could be added to fires to make them hotter for a certain amount of time. It would give players a reason to carry a bunch of tinder.

The snow shelter is good for waiting out cabin fever and for making an outpost, but with the higher difficulties, the 45 min build time makes it very risky to use the snow shelter in emergency situations without dying from hypothermia. Usually I’ll just find a cave or an indoor area instead of sleeping in a snow shelter because you can still freeze to death in your sleep (far less likely if you have a bearskin bedroll though). A one-man portable tent could be useful in emergency situations and make the remote regions more survivable on the harder modes. Maybe add the option for one of those portable tent stoves so that you can make a fire inside the tent. Both the tent and stove should weigh a decent amount so that the player must contemplate about bring them on their journey. The tent should take less time to set up than a snow shelter. One thing that could be added for use in a tent, building, car, or cave are mummy sleeping bags. They could be rarer then bedrolls but be warmer than them so that you have something better to use while trying to get the bearskin bedroll. Interloper is so much more difficult with the intestinal parasites affliction. In my opinion, it’s really unfair. If I forge tools, make a bow, kill a bear or wolf, and cook the meat properly, I should be able to eat the meat without worrying about parasites. The parasites aren’t prions or anything, so they should be killed when the meat is cooked. It’s frustrating being only able to eat one piece of meat per day so that you have the least chance of getting an affliction that can last 20 days or more. I understand why it was put in, but it maybe it should be an affliction for eating raw fish. Eating raw fresh fish shouldn’t give you food poisoning, but should instead put you at risk for intestinal parasites, making it viable to eat fish raw, while also allowing for the safer option of cooking it before eating it. Snowshoes have been requested already but I thought of ways they could be balanced. Snowshoes could make you walk faster in snow, but make it harder to run and make you walk slower up hills. They could be findable or able to be crafted with sticks and some sort of cordage (animal sinew). The findable/artificial ones should be better than the craftable ones (more durable or quicker movement). Snowshoes could allow for bigger maps and would be useful in Pleasant Valley.