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Carcass Harvesting: 3 Cooking: 3 Fishing: 4 Sewing: 1 Fire Starting: 5 Gunsmithing: 2 Rifle Firearm: 5 Revolver Firearm: 3 Archery: 0 I mean, I live on a ranch in rural BC... and I started my first friction fire as a kid in Cub Scouts in the 70s so it's literally child's play to me lol Wasn't sure about revolver - I don't have one but I'm quite proficient with my Glock.

Yeah, I'll pass on drama. It's always all the same & life's too short. Thanks for the honest reply! 🙂

Place anywhere, Use The Worst First And Drop Stone, Look anywhere in cars, gear decay modifier Also Dev commands, because it saves my butt when I get stuck in terrain or some other glitch happens, so I can just fly out of it.

No! Not cobra chickens! Besides, they fly south for winter.

crafting: charcoal, cloth, tin can. Need to cut the tin can shorter & also poke holes in the bottom. So must have a toolbox? Or just a knife. (hacksaw can cut but not poke holes)

That would be awesome & sensible. Probably too late to make a change that big, though, but I, for one, would love it. Sensible realism.

Yeah, I'd prefer they make it so a 3 inch slab of ice isn't an insurmountable obstacle. 🤣

"Wherever I sat, there I might live, and the landscape radiated from me accordingly." "...a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." "Our life is frittered away by detail." "Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary. My head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my head is an organ for burrowing, as some creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it I would mine and burrow my way through these hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining-rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine." The book is a goldmine. The above are excerpts from the opening chapter only.

One of my favourite books.

Unsure. The thing is it also causes sweat, which cools you down after. Perhaps have your clothes get wet, too. (slower rate than in a snowfall) It's why layering is so important when surviving in the cold IRL. Sweat-dampened clothes is a major enemy which leads to freezing.

There's a mod that gives you this ability and once you've used it you can't go back. So weird to not have that ability in vanilla.

I like the newer textures better, honestly. I think they balanced "realism" with "TLD style" pretty much perfectly. An update to the older texture areas would be nice... but certainly not on my top 5 list, so no biggie.

(old post I know, but only saw it now) Different sites moderate differently, that would be a big reason for many. This place is more "clean" or more of a "safe space" where dissenting opinions too often get piled on & moderated away. On the other hand, Steam discussions can quickly become a cesspool. Middle ground is pretty much impossible to achieve, IME. But for those who don't want an echo chamber, alternatives will present themselves. I've found the Reddit TLD sub to be the best, overall. How's Lemmy, BTW? I dipped my toes in quite a while ago, but ended up using Mastodon instead. I agree about Reddit's trajectory, BTW, but none of the alternatives have become satisfactorily populated as of yet, IMHO.

Those are downhill ski boots. Cross country skis are where it's at, for The Long Dark. I live in very rural BC, and skis are very common here. Best way to get around the back country under your own muscle power. Here's my trusty pair:

awesome stuff, I did a much more rudimentary version of this myself, didn't quite complete it tho I'm surprised as well that nobody's yet done a more "professional" map yet. Great job!

If beachcombing is a must then choices are extremely limited. Otherwise I'm all about Broken Railroad, now that you can fish there. Endless supply of wolf meat & safe + easy shooting from the shed windows. Every other animal is there, too. Forge. You won't get lost in a blizzard. I only like long stays at Bleak Inlet if Timberwolves are disabled. I don't agree with their mechanics at all. (I do customloper these days) Otherwise BI is really good. albeit not as "cozy" as other places.

RE: suffocation: I really don't like how the suffocation meter does not reset when you put on the mask. You're breathing at that point, not suffocating. Died that way myself. Luckily I always back up my save files, in case of weird stuff like this. Learning illogical game rules in that fashion is kind of dumb in a perma-death game.

Same here. I could be wrong but perhaps finding something before you start Buried Echoes kind of glitches it?

I really like it. I'd recommend doing what some others do in the mines, that is, marking paths & gas with spray paint (or whatever else floats your boat). There's a lot of canisters to be found within the mines, once you really start combing through everything. I'd still enjoy a way to make your own canisters, however, mostly for multiple return trips on longer runs. (perhaps a recipe that unlocks later on, IDK. Use charcoal + cloth + tin can?) I'm on "Customloper", BTW. Found plenty of ammo, skill books, more loot than I expected. Found a bear, no moose (yet?). Enough wildlife to survive, just need to travel a bit. Makes life harder. Good trade-off for having so many huge lootable shelters. Some areas feel like DP, others like HRV. Nice. A lot of "paths to nowhere", which can be frustrating, but is also more realistic. I'm OK with that. Because chemical boots aren't repairable, I run through chemical spills in bare feet. Cheesy, but I blame the devs for that I do wish we could map the mines & caves. Weird that we can't. Easy to do IRL. I make line drawings on a piece of paper when I play these days, because of this lack. I mean, it works but it's immersion-killing. Anyway, great addition. Oh yeah, the new tale was really good, if not a bit confusing at times. (missed signals, retracing earlier explorations, finding stuff before the story... IDK how to make all of that perfect tho)

I've always felt like the map kind of sucked. I do much better scrawling basic maps on birch bark when on backpacking treks IRL. However, it could be a better idea to unlock a better map once you attain the Faithful Cartographer achievement. Having said all that, I find the map pretty useless once one has memorized the world, as most of us do after a certain number of days per region anyway. Lantern fuel shouldn't degrade; at minimum, full unused containers should be fine for years. I have containers of fuel on rotation here, I use them after 5 years & replace with new. They always work just fine in my old Coleman stove.

Around here, early [month] = thirds: early, mid, late. Otherwise it's by week, half, or date. Personally & speaking from experience, I'm not big on announcing hard release dates for any software.

Ever heard of activated charcoal?

Camelbak bladders fit inside most modern backpacks. I routinely use one which came with my MULE pack in my Eberlestock hunting pack & also in my Gregory Baltoro 75L backpack. I've posted this idea a few times, IIRC. Hydration bladders could be a cool addition. Needs a downside, though, perhaps it would take an accessory slot (moose satchel, crampons).

There's been a few logging railroads built on Haida Gwaii, apparently (I had to look it up). All were for mining & logging. So that fits! I've added some historical pics which I've dug up, posted below. I think that 2nd last pic is them building the railway across Forlorn Muskeg! I think that northern/rural Vancouver Island residents would be pleased if the island split in half; I am well acquainted with some of those folks there haha.

BTW that last pic is an actual commissioned painting of me arriving at Foreman's Retreat.