TiffTastic

3 hours ago, Blizzard Walker said:

I have the boat at the same location just off Jackrabbit Island.  The problem is that the boat and the canoe underneath never despawns.  It has been present for about 300 in game days playing at Voyageur level.  Unfortunately even trying to enter the boat activates the thin ice mechanics - I don't care to get dunked trying to search the boat.

The boat only appeared the one time for me. Don’t remember how long it stayed for, i died shortly after lol. I think i got dunked too. Havent seen it since. My current run ive found at least 10 hatchets and 20+ arrows lol

14 hours ago, PilgrimReaper said:

Cairns seem to be the "last" thing to try and achieve... have some of you found them all? I would guess so?

Ive gotten nowhere close to getting all the cairns

7 hours ago, ManicManiac said:

Once I got proficient with my survival tasks and learned to evade and avoid predators... my runs have been able to last as long as needed to achieve whatever goal or personal challenge I'd set for myself.

Sure, there have been some runs that ended due to instant kill-walls (in some rather unexpected places)... or getting stuck in terrain... or content updates that required a new save to integrate those features... but most often, I've just achieved what I set out on the run to do.  Since I do very much enjoy the early game struggle, I'm never averse to ending a run and starting again.  

I had intended for my run "Memory Lane" as a way to gear up in all the familiar regions of Great Bear Island for the purpose of getting ready for my first expedition into the Far Territory... but then Scurvy happened (and I knew I just had get that new bit into the mix), so I finished up that run and started again for my current run, "The Ghosts of All That Was."

I do love that early game struggle too. Its my favorite part.

7 hours ago, NoPogo said:

mine was 2890 days... then the big Update and now day 1193...

Wow thats a run! What did you do during the last 2k days? How did you keep from being bored?

My current run just made 365 days. This may not be a big deal to some but for me it has been 3 years since my last 365 day run. This is probably due to my strange and unwelcome affinity for bear mouths, coupled with some tendency toward impulsiveness. My question is, how many runs on average do yall do before hitting a year on average? And just curious, whats your longest run? Mine is 502 days, set in 2017 lol.

10 hours ago, Leeanda said:

I like the idea of a ghost town,similar to the Quonset area,that doesn't have the same vibes as Milton though.. maybe the dark from the story seeps in more ,or it's just too cramped ..I don't know,it just feels horrible there..  soulless I guess..

 

Hrv I think takes a lot of getting used to, finding your way round can be a nightmare , especially if the weather turns..

HRV has grown on me lately. I now try to set up in the caves near mammoth lake and explore once I got some deer killed. Just spent 56 days there. Only left due to stupid scurvy risk and a bit of boredom. Its really pretty and once you get your bearings theres a TON of wildlife to hunt. And theres a moose satchel and a full moose carcass 

10 hours ago, Leeanda said:

I know what you mean...    

Though I'm not counting Milton basin in that..I like it down there really..  the only parcel of Milton I don't mind so much is the pond behind the church.. 

I wonder if it's because there's too much there and because of the story..

I do love milton basin, and will stay there a week or two whenever i am in MT. As for the town itself, i think its seeing the all the dark empty homes. Part of me thinks the town would be better had it all burned down. And something about St Christophers creeps me out.

My usual is a custom stalker with weather turned to max horrible and cold, item decay to low (i hate the super fast decay), and wildlife respawn rates to high (empty void worlds depress me lol)

5 hours ago, Leeanda said:

The rope climb only can be a pain,which is a shame considering how much loot Milton has in it...  I personally will only take what I really want from there and just leave the rest behind rather than multiple climbs..

I also think Milton is depressing and dark ,and messy..

There certainly is a dark atmosphere about milton. Its like living in a shipwreck (like a big cruise ship not the riken)

I generally avoid bears as they eat me a lot. But my current run is on day 318 and ive finally brought my bears killed number to above “times mauled by bears” number. Killed 11, mauled 10 times. Dont judge. Me and bears, we got history.

42 minutes ago, Blizzard Walker said:

To date I have not taken on Blackrock or Forsaken Airfield.

Mystery Lake, Milton, Coastal Highway, Pleasant Valley, Timberwolf Mountain, Ash Canyon, Broken Railroad and Desolation Point all serve as a comfortable, long term well provisioned bases of operations.  Bleak Inlet and Hushed River Valley are tolerable despite the timber wolves in the former and the lack of structures in the latter. I have learned to safely transit Forlorn Muskeg on the way to Broken Railroad, Milton and Bleak Inlet but otherwise spend little time in that region.

The same cannot be said for the newest regions.  I am loathe to try to master the complexities of Blackrock and I am put off by the vastness of Forsaken Airfield.  ZOC sounds like another level of scary.

Are there regions your character(s) seldom, or never, visits?

For me it is bleak inlet and forsaken airfield. FA is overwhelmingly vast and featureless, its like wandering the void, and i am not a glimmer fog fan. Bleak inlet cause it seems like every part of the map wants to kill you, with nasty pointy teeth…

55 minutes ago, Blizzard Walker said:

20+ day campfire is seriously impressive. 😃

Ty. It required some planning, but the cool thing about the shed is there is just tons of reclaimed wood in those pallet stacks. Also I tend to try the marathon fires late game when its colder. Combine cold with level 5 firestarter and fuel lasts a long while🔥

4 hours ago, artmunki said:

I've seen hooks that had no loop to tie to, and instead the end of the shaft was flattened into a sorta tiny flat spoon shape - I guess you bind the line tight around the shaft, and the slightly wider spoon bit stops it from slipping off. I have no idea what those hooks were meant for, but it seems like they'd be a little easier to pull through than doubled-over loops, if you used them for stitching.

I can think of ways to make em but it would require metalworking a good bit above the level that I know how to do

On 3/26/2024 at 1:38 PM, turtle777 said:

I just learned that you can have a campfire inside the Maintenance Shed Office.

WOW. Makes it even stronger.

-t

Yup. The shed office is the site of my longest campfire, 530 hours.

On 3/25/2024 at 7:21 PM, artmunki said:

Never used a proper suture myself, but after a clumsy accident a few years back I got to watch in fascination as a charge nurse stitched closed the very neat slash I'd managed to give myself on the back of my thumb. Before the stitches I could see the pink bones of my moving thumb joint, so the whole experience is kinda indelibly etched in my memory. And of course, is now often recalled when I think about using a hook & gut to mend stuff in TLD. 

I could suture with a hook if I needed to, but I have no idea how to get the line to stay on there without making a knot or metal loop that would make the pull thru brutal and crude

2 hours ago, artmunki said:

Stim hidden under the snow?

Or a different kind of “snow”….

2 hours ago, artmunki said:

Aye, but mending is a kinda undefined skill in the game anyway, so you can imagine it covers broader applications, and using fishing tackle for sewing does at least make it just a little bit more like suturing. 

Those are good points. Especially with the fishing tackle. 

They are definitely tweaking. Maybe they found something stronger than coffee….

I tend to wander a lot. I rarely stay in a region for more than 30 dats, and since I like to be eaten by bears (jk i hate that part but it happens a lot) I dont live that long most times. I like outdoor bases. Currently I am in a cave in HRV with 75kg of moose meat and 3 deer and about a quarter of a bear. Probably stay another two or 3 weeks just due to the mountain-o-meat. But other “homes” for me are the mountaineers cabin, Hermit’s cabin in milton basin, the church in desolation point, Spence family homestead in FM,  and my favorite late stage home, the office in BR. If i gotta stay indoors the farmhouse in PV or camp office in ML. Oh, and Jackrabbit island.

Something about staying outdoors feels more real, and the having to upkeep clothes adds a challenge to the game for me. Plus I like seeing the Aurora lol. I play a custom stalker based game nowadays. I dont want the brutality of loper but voyageur is a bit too easy.

On 3/22/2024 at 10:30 AM, acada said:

I think it could go from the mid of the Mystery Lake to third of the Ravine. Not far, but it is something.

That would make a great episode in the hopefully one day upcoming netflix series

On 3/23/2024 at 3:27 PM, artmunki said:

Mending?

I can attest that besides patching the odd hole here and there, usually in kids’ stuffed animals, suturing doesnt make for good sewing. Maybe I could be immune to bloodloss or something….

1 hour ago, artmunki said:

Ooh, I'd almost forgotten about the pending wildlife refresh. Can't wait to see what's changing.

Yeah I wonder too

If you are on a map with a bunch of bears, is it possible to lure one bear into the territory of another? If so, what happens? Do they just ignore each other or is it bear deathmatch right away?

This happened about 30 days into my current 260 day run. I was in TWM and I had just killed a deer, shooting it on crystal lake. It ran off, but while chasing it I heard it die. It died on one of the little hills where the moose and bear patrol near those two cargo containers. I looked around and saw nothing. Cut up the deer. After the cutscene, there was Mr. Bear, craving tiffburgers. Apparently I was too slow in leaving, and got mauled again. Panic dropped the deer meat, stopped the blood loss, emergency stim and booked it out.
 

The very next day, shot a deer again on crystal lake, quite near the mountaineers cabin, and it dropped. cut up the deer, and after the cutscene Mr. Dam Bear was there and mauled me again. I dropped pretty much everything and ran, but got mauled 3 feet from the mountaineers hut. This bear had a taste for my blood I guess. This time, stopped blood loss, emergency stim, rifle, boom, and it dropped. 
 

I had no shoes, no pants, no hat, one of two expedition parkas ruined, no gloves. 
 

So I made new clothes out of all those animals I shot. But the fact the bear mauled me 4 times in two days, the second two times in a place ive never seen a bear go, scared the bejesus out of me. It was like vengeance bear or something…

The veterinarian dispatched to take care of the wolves was eaten by the wolves…