Martin Prchal

The lack of medical teas will not kill you first. Reishis you never have to use once you get cooking 5. Rose Hips are a luxury for sprains and broken ribs are avoidable. Birch Bark respawns. Old Man Beard could probably run out if you wolves attack you daily but that is also avoidable. Trust me, there are a LOT of these medical things on the map.

Ok thanks, that's not area I find myself in very often, but I'll keep an eye out for it. Maybe I'll send a Pilgrim survivor over there. It's weird to me that there are places on the map where you can get stuck like this, it seems to me that the map is usually pretty well made.

Can you tell me the exact location of this so I don't go wandering over there like an idiot.

I've found that if I stay in a zone for too long blizzards start appearing almost daily. That usually tells me to get out of that zone quick.

Really? I guess I've never starved enough to see this happen. That's pretty cool.

I agree with your 4th paragraph. The effects of starvation need to get progressively worse the longer you starve. I think something similar should also be implemented with fatigue. You rarely end up with the fatigue bar in the red for extended periods of time, but it would be cool if the character's vision got blurred and it would be hard to perform even basic tasks after lets say, 48 consecutive hours of starving or being fully fatigued. Another idea I just got off the top of my head is to have an affliction that is essentially the opposite of well fed. The amount of starvation could be calculated like cabin fever and once the risk gets too high, you can get a "malnourished" effect. Something like, "you have been starving for 48 of the last 72 hours, you are finding it hard to do physical labor". Carrying capacity could be reduced even further, fatigue would drain very fast, and you would become very susceptible to the cold. I'm basically just spitballing, but I think this would make consistently starving yourself day after day very punishing.

I really try to keep my sleep schedule. I try to get indoors before dark and sleep/pass time until the sun is completely visible on the little clock to avoid the morning cold. This obviously leads to a lot of extra passing time. I like to think of days where I end up passing time more as "rest days", where the character gets to recover from pushing the last 3 or 4 days, even though my condition or fatigue does not need to be replenished. So my point is, the extra passing time does not really bother me most of the time.

The bear cave is shown to be somewhere in the Skeg if you go into the map while in the cave. Anyway, I would really like to see the bear cave in Survival. Not saying I would ever go in there, but it would be interesting to wander past it and listen to the bear shuffle about.

On Voyager it is surely worth it for me because it is really easy for me to keep it. I always carry 30 cattails in case I can't kill a deer in time, but I rarely have to cut into my supply. I haven't graduated to Loper yet, so I cannot put any thoughts into it from that perspective, but basically all streamers I watch keep the well fed buff, so it seems to me like it is worth it in most cases.

Ok thanks!

So you are saying they are acting like longitude and latitude?

Are the numbers on the Whiteberry and Straywolf maps distances in meters? Why do they go both positive and negative?

Bears and moose cannot be killed in struggles. But yes, getting to a forge is rather essential in Loper

It would make sense for Perseverence Mills to connect to PV, given Episode 3 will be in PV

Thanks for getting in touch with the community every week like this. I really like seeing the game from your perspective, especially the challenges and decisions you face as a developer. I really look forward to these every week.

Would be hard to implement, but a scene like this in the 'Skeg would be unforgettable. Maybe it would actually make me visit the place.

"The Thin Ice" by Pink Floyd isn't bad either. "Don't be surprised when a crack in the thin ice appears under your feet" always hits home when crossing the skeg. To be honest anything by Pink Floyd has the same relaxing atmosphere as the TLD soundtrack.

No, I never got to meet Fluffy. I have heard many stories about her for sure. However, I have met her cousin in HRV.

I happen to own one of those small camping stoves that runs on propane tanks. It has a mechanical striker that eliminates the need for another source of a spark. However, it broke fairly quickly and I generally have to use a lighter to get it going. I have never really used lanterns though, so I cannot speak for the presence of strikers there like in TLD.

Are you like me and playing on such a potato that the starting screen lags for you? I had like 10 fps (steam counter) in the start menu when I first started the game and the audio was also very laggy. I had no problem getting to the settings though.

I feel like they are rather against being able to make a shelter wherever because it makes the game significantly easier. However, it would be nice to make shelters with supplies in them in strategic locations and have places you know you can come back to. I would really appreciate being able to make a shelter around a campfire so you wouldn't have to worry about the wind while cooking up a bear.

I came after the cooking update and I have to say I don't know how you guys did it the old way

Being on Voyager, I really like spending time in the wilderness regions. I spent like 10 days just in Milton Basin or in the Valley Cave in HRV. Really chill to just look at the beautiful landscape sometimes.

Wow, now I remember it from Story Mode, but I still cannot recall looking at it in Survival. I guess I was always sprinting over to Trappers too quick to appreciate this. So that is the area where the plane crashed?

Today I noticed something weird. I was going from Milton to Mystery Lake in the little canyon with the waterfalls. Really close to the cave to Mystery Lake, I noticed a pretty little view to the left side that I had never noticed before, even I have gone this route before. Was this always here?