Martin Prchal

Shoot charging wildlife with it. It is the only thing that can scare a bear when it decides to charge you.

Sounds like I am looting Coastal and then booking it for the Prepper Cache. I am really excited to participate in something new in this game!!!

I personally go Carter Dam --> Signal Hill --> Farmstead --> Prepper Cache. I always got lost between the Farmstead and the Prepper Cache but the new shortcut @Serenity mentioned will make this section of the route much easier. Not to mention being able to stop at Draft Dodgers, Burned Ridge Cave, the plane and Skeeters for loot fairly easily.

I was missing the first one from the locals. Oh well, I won't mind playing the episode again at some point to get the achievement.

What?!? One is at the store?!? I literally looted the town like 3 times and never found it.

It took me less than 3 hours to catch it. Kinda surprised me, but I guess he was hungry if no one comes to feed him during the winter.

The fish was my favorite part of the episode. It was really nice going from almost 0 calories to 2500 at once when I ate him. I left part of him at the pond because I was not gonna carry 5 kilos for 200 calories.

My guess is they are assuming you have played the first two episodes and you are ready for something a bit harder. I really enjoyed it too, even though those timberwolves almost game me nightmares.

For me the hardest part was finding all the notes from the local and forest talkers. I was missing one, but after checking the map 3 times I decided to go ahead and finish the episode. Catching the fish really made my day.

I only tried once, but I think my shot was good and he didn't die. I doubt he can be killed.

Sounds like a great experiment to try on Will. It would be funny to have as many afflictions as possible and then sleep them all off. It would be really satisfying to have all the notifications pop up in your sleep.

I had the same problem at the same place

As far as the loot goes, what about things we left outside, like the 500 pounds of bear meat I have at the Farmstead? Will that be in the box, or will it stay?

Forgetting my bedroll at the summit. I spent a whole day and night searching caves, drinking 4 or 5 coffee before every rope. Eventually I found out I had another bedroll in the Waterfall Cave so it worked out fine. I haven't forgotten my bedroll ever again.

Hmmm... Then I really have no clue where my bear hide went.

Does anyone know if hides disappear if their condition drops to 0% because they were not cured in time? I am currently wondering why I do not have one of my bear hides at Trappers and the only thing I can think of is I accidentally put an uncured hide outside with my mountain of crap that doesn't fit in the cabin. If they do disappear, what other items do I have to worry about that do this?

You can survive on Birch Bark Tea alone. Kimiota did a challenge where he survived on Loper for at least 50 days drinking only 2 or 3 cups of Birch Bark Tea per day.

I hate it when the darn wolves just nibble at all of your clothes, so you have 5 or 6 items that should be repaired but nothing that really needs it. I wish they would just trash one or two items.

I've noticed this bug also when I go across loading screens and my weight magically changes. Maybe its because of the rifle, or more items undergo these changes when the game recalculates the weight as @StrangerFromTheInternet said.

Thanks, I think I will need that luck sooner than I thought. I just got caught at the PV farmstead with 50 percent cabin fever and no bedroll. I guess I will go and check the nearby caves and then build a snow shelter if none of them has a bedroll. Still no wolf attack though, its weird seeing almost no wolves or any other animals on the map.

To me it seems like Pleasant Valley will be highly modified or have some additions, because the town seems pretty large. I wonder how this will affect Survival games. Those timberwolves look pretty scary, but they seem to be running from the blue flare.

So after 200 days in my Voyager run and completing a few challenges, I started feeling a bit cocky. I wanted something harder, so I decided to try Interloper. I spawned in HRV at the point where you can cross the river close to the ice cave under the falls. I booked it straight out to Milton, where I spent the night in Gray Mother's house. The next day, I looted Milton (spending a lot of time in cars hiding from wolves) and spent the night in Orca. I woke up bright and early and ran to Trapper's where I spent the rest of the day murdering the local rabbits to get some guts and hides, as well as cooking up some reishi and rose hips. The next day I looted the Camp Office, all the cabins around the lake, and the fishing huts. I wanted to go up the Forestry Lookout in the evening, but wolves chased me back and was not feeling very brave. The next morning I went up to the lookout, then ran down to the logging camp and the Carter Dam. The following morning I ran through the ravine, and ended up pinned down by a blizzard in the cabin by the campground. The next day I got through the Fishing Camp, Jackrabbit, and Misanthropes, where my rabbit murdering spree continued. I was going to go the Waterfront Cottages but they all looked burned down from my vantage point and I did not want to run there only to run back, so I staying in Misanthropes. So now I am sitting in Misanthropes after 7 days with a few days of food along with 50 cattails, guts, saplings and rabbit hides in a few places ready to craft, a hammer and metal in the trailer by the dam. The only important thing I am missing at the moment is a bedroll, but I am not really planning on sleeping in caves any time soon. I am really proud of myself because I have managed my first Interloper week without a single wolf struggle! I am planning on finishing my looting in CH, then move on to PV, after which I will return to the dam ready to forge. After the forge, the summit awaits. Now that I wrote this, I know that all the wolves from DP to TWM will come after me as I try to loot Quonset.

This would be tough to implement. I like the idea though, it would be a nice place to come back too as you settle in. However, I like starting with nothing because it makes the start harder.

@peteloud That's weird. I thought that level 5 cooking gets rid of all parasite risk.

Does anyone know how many locations there are on the map? It tells me I am at 100% world explored but I know I am missing at least 4 locations.