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  1. Hi gang, Having looked at the discord channel for mods, it seems currently for computers. Are there any thoughts or plans to make mods available on console, similar to Skyrim? I play on a PS5 which should have enough power to use them easily. would love to have access to them!
  2. What an amazing 51 day journey & learning experience! Long post warning & hope you enjoy - it has been one of my best gaming experiences in 35 years, thanks Hinterland Team 🥇 TLDR: Epic 51 day run - ➡️ML➡️PV➡️TWM➡️AC➡️PV➡️ML➡️FM➡️MTB➡️MT➡️HRV➡️ MT➡️ML Death at every corner - loot & scoot, flare gun blasting 🧨Moose & 🧨 Bear - freezing most of the time. Early TWM summit, Ash Canyon Gold Mine & HRV cave diving /scrambling on low health 🥶 was great atmospheric fun! Yes interloper is horrible and unforgiving - I hate it ‼️ - starting a new survivor soon 😝 ———————————— The Fearless Survivor met his end early this morning, after an epic romp of 51 days - 49 of them without a bow and 28 of them without forged tools. After stopping in The Mountaineer’s hut to make the Moose satchel (was an error should have made the coat) and picking up both Ear Muffs and supplies; the Fearless Survivor pushed through PV (gathering coal) to the Dam to chop up metal for forging in FM - thanks to @ManicManiac suggestions. Stayed the night at Trappers - dropped off all extra gear and skins (deer/rabbit/wolf) for the return crafting session! The trip to Spence forge started well in bright but cold weather; loads of cattails are found and a pitstop at Poachers to warm up helps, but fog rolls in and tests my ice pathing knowledge. The crampons keep me dry, but a wolf spots me, growls and starts trailing me - red flare to blue fare and a second 🐺 joins in the chase across the 🧊 I make it to the forge and use an accelerant to fire it up as my health and marine flare starts to sputter! 18 lumps of coal make for relaxed tool creation. I make 2 x knives, a hatchet and 12 arrowheads plus lots of water. A blizzard rolls in and I am forced to use my last food & wood to sit through it. The lack of warm clothing is hurting me, health hovers at 60% @manolitode‘s warning rings loud in my ears. Fog rolls in again and I can hear the wolves waiting on the ice for me ... lots of arrow heads but no bow or shafts available (a mistake). I need to move as I am down to my last stalks ... so I decide to move north along the lake towards Mountain Town, though I have not been this way often and it’s unfamiliar to me. Soon I hear then see a 🐻 and dash across some 🧊 to the next safe spot, the crampons keep me from falling in thankfully. I have no emergency flares left just my torches and flare gun. A wolf appears but I sneak past and cross the tracks heading to the transition area of Hat Creek - some stalks and coal see me through that night. I push through to Milton basin snacking on some deer 🥩s and make it to the Hermit’s camp, a blizzard strike and I sleep in a cave. Next morning the push to Paradise Farm ...kill some rabbits & narrowly avoid a wolf, so far no attacks suffered! I creep through town and hope for decent clothing treasure at Grey Mother’s home, but nothing to wear - found a second mag lens. I find a crow bar in the bank which will be useful, but Orca gas station is uneventful, as is the Picnic overlook. Clothes are in short supply, Blizzards are making things hard and I 🥶 a lot! Once back at the farm, I have enough rabbit and deer skins but no cured guts (have avoided carrying them), the three on the floor are not ready yet. What to do - food is getting low and I need at least another night before I can make warmer things? I decide to check the crafting hut up past the church and scoot past the frozen pond & wolves to get there. Nothing of note in the hut either - I have an idea, I need food and warmer clothes‼️ Off to HRV I go, there are ice caves and fires, which have treasure 🎁 this is where I perhaps should have gone back to ML to consolidate and craft! The connector caves give me plenty of coal and I have some deer 🥩 stolen from a wolf kill. As I step out of the cave, HRV greets me with clear skies but a strong wind, 🔥 has not been an issue for me and this continues, I chain torches and pick up stalks on my way down to reclusive falls. I arrive full of sticks, coal and with 20 stalks - ready for adventure 🤞🏽 The free 🚿 is refreshing and the first cache has ✨combat trousers, another ear muff (my 3rd set) and a shirt✨ What a super start! After 2 days nosing around the dark and a few brief forays out, nothing further of note found apart from an arrow head - the hoped for bow was not in the ice cave. I decide to leave and hit a blizzard, the freezing waterfall exit does not help ... I scramble my way back inside and wait out - using the last of my food and hot drinks. I need better clothing! Unfortunately the next day is cold and though I get back to the MT cave connector, I can’t afford to stay and look for the Mackinow jacket or dead moose - it’s too 🥶 . Back in Mountain Town, in true Fearless Survivor spirit I push further north to hunt the bridge 🐻 ... It’s exhilarating, I stalk him twice but miss twice, escaping half dead to the cold - in worse shape than I when I started, with no mountains of meat or hide‼️ Cabin fever risk growls, so I spend a freezing night in a cave, condition loss is bad but I make it to the farm. I gather my belongings, craft a bow, some arrows and move as I am out of food. The trip to Trappers is uneventful, no Moose or Bear around; so I push to Camp Office where I now have a lot of crafting material and stay in the Cave overlook to mitigate Cabin fever for the next day’s clothing crafting bonanza! It snowing hard when I wake, wind blowing out to the lake - so I drop down the rope instead of trudging into it. The plan is to pick up a few more skins stored at the dam, the Office Camp is nicer to work in (this was a mistake, I should have planned to craft there and brought my materials with me). At the bottom of the rope, I am greeted with a growl - my first wolf battle ... I line up a shot and hit him, but he comes on and we struggle, a few hatchet hits and he runs off. I bandage and apply Old Man’s beard, health down to 60% with a blizzard starting and wind blowing from Camp Office to the lake - won’t be easy! As I round the corner I see not 1 or 2 wolves but 3 blocking my way! I can’t make it and change plans as I am 🥶 I was in rough shape, 40% health, low temp, no food & sideways snow! So I cut across the rabbit section & climb over the slope to the lake to get to fishing hut & stove. As I come across, I see the bear on the lake ‼️ So I duck into the hut, start a 🔥 to warm up and drink some warm rose hips (for 🌡) I gain fire starting 5 💪🏽. Decision time - I need food - so I can try to 🎣 in freezing temps, which will likely kill me or get the lake cabin, but won’t have enough calories to survive the blizzard. High risk, high reward it is - Flare Gun Bear Hunt! I can’t depend on a long shot - so have to creep over, position myself into his path as the wind is coming from behind him and he won’t be able to smell me. Wait a nerve racking long amount of time, seeing his head get bigger & breathe freezing as he exhales - memories of the Moses in Ash Canyon flash by 👀 . On and on he comes, I aim ... shoot him directly in the head 🤩 he lights up red and charges right at me ‼️ I’m a goner 😱 but he keeps on going 🙏🏽 I run to the closest cabin and see him running about the lake - glowing red and he dies an hour later near the cabin, the wind has died down and wolves are no where to be seen! I field dress the carcass, hit cooking level 5 💪🏽 as I do - 20kgs of meat, a hide and loads of guts 🏆 life is about to become very easy. I sleep well in the cabin belly full of greasy 🐻 🥩 The next day I head to the Camp Office and decide to leave the meat for later. I craft deer boots + legs and rabbit gloves + hat & 8 more arrows - now we are talking! Time for more bear 🥩 and rest, health is at 100% for the first time in weeks - I have weapons and will hunt here until I can make a 🐺 jacket then onto CH! The evening is in a similar heavy ❄️ , as I cross the ice a wolf growls and comes at me - full of confidence I shoot and miss, he attacks and instead of choosing the hatchet, I draw my knife - we struggle and to my horror it continues because my stamina is so low. The savage 🐺 avenges his beloved friend the 🐻 and leaves me torn open on the lake close to the where bear blood still stains the ice... Thanks for the inspiration to start this @ManicManiac and the advice @manolitode @jeffpeng @Syraith @darkscaryforest and the many others here who have posted their interloper stories.
  3. I have killed a lot of them & they have me too! Most satisfying was yesterday on interloper, as it was a do or die situation. I had just suffered my first 🐺 struggle (50 days in) at the bottom rope of the Cave Overlook (ML) and could not get back to the Camp Office due to 3 prowling wolves. Blizzard was incoming of course ... I was in rough shape, 40% health, low temp, no food & sideways snow! So I cut across the rabbit section & climbed over the slope to the lake to get to fishing hut & stove. As I come across, I see the bear on the lake ‼️ So I duck into the hut, start a fire to warm up and drink some warm rose hips (for heat). Decision time - I need food - so I can try to fish in freezing temps, which will likely kill me or get the lake cabin but won’t have enough calories to survive the blizzard. High risk, high reward it is - Flare Gun Bear Hunt! I can’t depend on a long shot - so have to creep over, position myself into his path as the wind is coming from behind him and he won’t be able to smell me. Wait a nerve racking long amount of time, seeing his head get bigger & breathe freezing as he exhales. On and on he comes, I aim ... shoot him directly in the head -> he lights up red and charges right at me ‼️ I’m a goner 😱 but he keeps on going 🙏🏽 I run to the closest cabin and see him running about the lake - glowing red and he dies an hour later near the cabin! Now have a enough food, a hide and loads of guts 🏆 A day later, in a similar heavy ❄️ his 🐺 friend avenges him and leaves me torn open on the lake, not far from where he fell ...
  4. I had this quite a bit on my PS 4 lately, I have done a power clear (unplug & restart) to no major improvement? this survivor has a lot of stuff in the pack as on max carry (tech/moose satchel/ wellfed) Suggestions would be welcome @hinterlands?
  5. @Mosey Burns The Quonset Hut wolves tell a story about how the dumb wolf Carl was killed by a human with a revolver. They then all laugh about how Granny Wolf Carla disembowelled that human a few days later‼️
  6. Early on when I first started The Long Dark, I got lost in a blizzard heading from Camp Office to Trapper’s Cabin. I had a vague memory of where to go and watched my health plummet due to exposure. I sprinted all over the place, looking for what I thought was the cabin, to find nothing but the freezing cold ... health, stamina and food all on red. I injected myself with a stim and ran some more, I spotted a structure and was sure I was saved 🙏🏽 Pleased with myself I walked over to to realise it was a shed of some sorts with a deer carcass, not the cabin 😱 I had no idea where I was. Luckily a bit more headless 🐔 chicken sprinting and I stumbled into Trapper’s with 10% health left‼️ Now, whenever I stand at the cabin’s ledge and look across to the barn, it makes me smile to remember the terror of that night and how close I had been! 😁
  7. Off to the Gold Mine My ribs are finally healed and I have gorged my way through 30 kilos of moose meat - praise the spirits of Bear Island for providing me with precious meat. I have stocked up on birch bark tea, made the last of my coffee and taken two slabs of moose steak for my climb. Remembering the advice of @Syraith about coming back to find a moose lurking and @darkscaryforest about the dreaded long climb - I remember to ensure I have my last stim & trusty flare gun with me! Waking early, the ☀️ greets me and I use the mag lens to brew a hot cup of java - well rested, I head to the ropes. The climbs up are long and tiring, but I make the top without issue. I wander over to the overlook ridge and see the mine below ... however there is no rope to climb down? I decide to walk around to the cave close by and grab a nap, I fear it will be a treacherous climb down the left ledge soon. But the treasure awaits! A howling blizzard greets me when I wake and mindful of dwindling food supplies, I push out into the snow. It’s slow and tough work, I sprain my hand sliding down the rocks and in pain make it to the mine entrance! I am inside and remember to strip boots off to wade through to the middle section - to my relief I find enough coal, wood and snacks to keep me comfortable. As I feel the way along the rocks I see the abandoned sleeping bag and technical pack! Next to them on the ground are the crampons ... I have made it to this rare treasure! Giddy with delight, I brew up some tea and warm the moose 🥩 before I fall into a deep sleep! Next stop the barn in Pleasant Valley to pick up the heavy hammer and then the long trek to a forge to craft arrowheads and tools! I hear the gale outside and worry the broken ribs have put me behind the creeping cold which will freeze me, if I don’t start crafting some warmer clothes ... Next decision I need your help with ... Which forge to travel to - Desolation Point with a dangerous wolf gauntlet to avoid or Forlorn Muskegee which is closer, but full of thin ice, bears and wolves? Friends I could use your wisdom ... @ManicManiac @jeffpeng @manolitode
  8. Meat glorious meat‼️ The moose was dodged again and as he blundered past, the Fearless Survivor took careful aim and shot him between the antlers. With a loud bellow the moose falls to its knees and stops breathing - a flare gun one-shot kill , the stuff of legends! I quickly build a fire using charcoal to ensure it burns hot and start carving the moose. This is done carefully as not to attract wolves, 36 kilos come off the thing, but most importantly the hide - which will make a good satchel. The next days are tedious -> gathering firewood, birch bark ans cooking 🥩. There is not much else to do but wait for the ribs to heal ... Blizzards become more frequent and I start to run out of coal & larger pieces of wood. A foray to the Angler’s cabin is cut short by a pair of wolves, one of whom is particularly nasty. I don’t try it again - another close call with death. 120 hours never seemed so long, until you are stuck in a cave 🤪 the meat however is divine, after eating stalks for so long, this is the way to recuperate! Gold mine here I come ...
  9. Ash Canyon starves you ... unless ... The Fearless and now Broken Survivor crawls back to the cave he saw earlier. Wounds are bandaged and painkillers eaten, both thankfully found in the Summit treasure. It is a long and painful night, with the wind howling and the temperature dropping. That night a realisation ... broken ribs means no climbing for many days and I am trapped ‼️ There is no way to back track to the Mountaineer’s hut - nor a climb to a cliff top house here in the Canyon. The Angler’s hut is hidden below amongst wolf trails - that would be suicide! Apart from birch bark, there is no sustenance and already low on health, is this what happens to my epic journey? Slow cold death in a cave, crushed by a vegetarian beast? In a pain induced haze, a vision comes to me - with bright searing clarity, I can see it plainly. I must light a glorious 🔥 on the head of the moose. Revenge is the only way ... I must leave Pacifism behind and become death 💀 I clean the flare gun and check the shells, I have 7 and I must be focussed. I crawl out of the cave and stalk the moose, it is tense - a missed shot means certain death. Lining up a headshot is difficult as the vile Moose moves constantly ... the deer dung I have smeared on my body works, the beast can’t smell me as I crawl towards him. After an eternity, he lowers his head , I take a deep breath and shoot the flare. At the last moment the Moose moves 😱 the flare misses. The beast is enraged and runs in the opposite direction, looking for me. I crouch and reload but it’s too late - the ravine is narrow and he has heard the click - he is now charging right at me ... will my crushed bones will be found here in this foul place ...
  10. Bear Island is wicked‼️ Firstly for all the reasons @jeffpengsuggested, and particularly because I did want to make the trek back to this region for many moons - the Fearless Survivor plunged headfirst into the fabled Ash Canyon in search of more treasure! Day 13 Rested, well fed and full of confidence, I left the Deer Clearing Cave with 15 cat tail stalks, water, 4 boxes of crackers & a good attitude! The ☀️ is bright, good things to come ... In the connector cave, I stocked up on 7 coal and am set for the next couple of days at least! The frozen swamp and low sections are known to hold terrors, so the plan is to move fast and carefully through the Pillars Footrest, then straight to the long ropes which lead to the Gold Mine ridge. I have coffee & tea from the Summit. Out into a ❄️ day, where has the ☀️ gone? I grab a few more stalks and scoot along picking up sticks and birch bark, stopping every so often look for for wolf or bear signs. Luckily there are none, so I keep pushing through the snow & wind. Visibility is limited, which heightens the stress; I stop and make more hot drinks to help keep me warm, thankfully the wind is blowing from behind me. I notice the Stone Shelf Cave on my left and wonder if I should stop there for the night or at least a coffee, but fearing a blizzard I keep going. There are two deer in front which is always a good sign, I run at them to push the further forward, to attract any predators. As I bank left past a log I heart a loud snort & stop to crouch. It’s not a bear, perhaps a wolf has killed a deer? I can see the rope ahead of me about 30 meters away, I have enough stamina to climb. My heart drops as into view comes a furious moose - I am a Pacifist and can’t shoot it! What would @ManicManiac do - I crouch, throw my torch and slowly turn, but the thing lowers its head to charge 😱 I run for the rope and as I reach it, the moose reaches me! It pounds away at my chest, ribs crack and blood pours out my mouth ... the evil beast snorts hot stink into my face, walks away and leaves me in a broken heap. @manolitode’s warning rings in my ears as my life force ebbs to less than half.nI bandage and crouch walk away from the trumpeting moose, the last thing I need is another trampling in this narrow space. In what seems like forever, I slowly creep past the foul monster and limp back from where I came. To further madden me Bear Island summons a blizzard - further sapping my energy and damaging my spirit ... Does the Fearless Survivor die in the snow, does treasure lust undo him ... stay tuned!
  11. Need your advice or taunts‼️ Well I have had a fun and epic 13 day journey so far with this Fearless Survivor 😎 This is my second loper run of significant value, first one ended at 23 days. Great Bear Island reminded me that a bow, arrows and hatchet means nothing, if respect is not shown to its lupine hunters. No crafted weapon/tools yet (inspired by @ManicManiac), trying for the Pacifist and moving fast with chain torches, no skinning of anything yet. At a serious decision point, read below (TLDR at the bottom too). The journey Spawned in FM and went to Spences found matches & food, slept a night and then moved quickly to ML with over 30 cattails. Straight to Camp Office where I found a bedroll, then to Lookout Tower (a favourite) where I found a mag lens, then straight to the Dam - quick looting, but no useful clothing, was still wearing battered dress shoes as I moved the next day! Off to PV -> narrowly avoided a grumpy wolf in the Winding River, had a quick roasted rotting deer steak in the cave before rushing to the Radio Tower, where I found combat pants and more matches. Slept there, eating found food and then roped down to get to The Farmstead, found a heavy hammer and food, basic parka & outer layer. Grabbed a pot and headed to Outbuildings found a saw (left the hammer), and XRoads where I got work boots and matches. Blizzard walked to Draft Dodgers - rested, eating stalks and found food. Moved same evening to crashed plane hopping for sweaters, found none and a second blizzard struck. Waited for a day, ran out of coal/wood so blizzard walked to Skeeters basement, got there almost frozen & rested! Pushed around the back to Prepper’s Cache and dodged a bear on the way 😰 thought I was a goner! Had to skip a bunch of 🔒 lockers, to my frustration, no pry bar found yet. Next day the weather was bad again, so skipped the falls cave and pushed through to TWM for treasure. Uneventful travel to Mountaineers cabin, found matches, flare, ear muffs and a ski jacket. Consolidated gear, boiled water and left a bunch of stalks - ready for the summit push the next day. The plan was to go up the rope via Andre’s Peak route to Cave C-D to get coal, then around back via Deer Clearing to Secluded Shelf Climb to Cave hop B-A to climb to summit! Delayed by due weather and almost getting munched by a wolf while returning to the hut in fog, holy crap that exhilarating - it ignored a thrown torch and followed me all the way back as I back-pedalled with a burning flare 😳 The next day the Summit plan worked well, found 4 cans of food in wreckage debris, which kept me warm on my trip. Avoided wolves and a bear to make the Plane Tail in thick snow 🏆 Treasure was new Trail boots, Combat boots, 2nd ear muff, wool cap, flare gun, food and my first loper summit - glorious achievement for me! The return was a bit more difficult, currently holed up in Deer Clearing Cave healing after running away from a bear and falling off a ledge as a result - did not want to shoot him as that would ruin the Pacifict try. TLDR - loper newbie - with a lot of luck, stalks and torches have had fast epic run from FM to Summit on medium gear with no bow, knife or hatchet, but now have a flare gun. Decision time: BE SENSIBLE - head to CH & DP forge to make tools and arrows + craft deer & bear clothing? GO FOR IT - head to Ash Canyon (never been) for pack, crampons & fun filled terror? Let me have it straight and why 👍🏽
  12. Sorry @straffin, how annoying‼️ I fell off a cliff after attaching a climbing rope today in TWM ... had just finished the summit and was feeling smug. Was sure I’d see the death screen, but luckily had 10% health left after landing 😰 managed bandage and to limp to a cave after narrowly avoiding being munched!