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You don't get experience from crafting fire hardened arrows.

I have not purchased the DLC but I wanted to make a few notes and suggestions on the features added into the free stream. Beachcombing 9/10. I really enjoy the fact that you know 100% that the items on shore have been refreshed after a blizzard. The objects like containers, boats, and harvestable items like pallets, planks, etc. are an awesome addition. There are two things I dislike. 1) ammunition can be found. There is already a lot of ammo in the world and having an infinite amount via beach combing defeats needing to preserve your ammo. This is the only item I wish wasn't able to be found while beachcombing. 2) The fishing boat disappears during blizzards. If you are beachcombing and a blizzard is starting, naturally you would take shelter in the fishing boat if it was there. Nobody wants to get stuck out on the ice in a blizzard. But half way through the blizzard it just disappears from under your feet. If possible, it would be nice if it only disappeared while you are not close to it. Besides that, I absolutely love the new beachcombing! Acorns Acorns right now don't really appeal to me for eating. I don't know if I will ever find myself having to eat them because I have no other source of food. I would save them for coffee instead. But the process of shelling the acorns, cooking them, grinding them, and then finally brewing them can take over an hour in-game for one cup of coffee. There is enough manufactured coffee in the world that spending the time to make acorn coffee doesn't make sense. They would only become useful once normal coffee runs out, after over a hundred or two hundred days of survival. Solution: allow acorns to respawn or add more per tree. I assume they don't respawn because we make a mess under the tree of dirt and snow. Even if more acorns were added, I still wouldn't use acorn coffee much but it's nice to have that option if you can't find normal coffee. But nevertheless it's a great addition. Fire Hardened Arrows 8/10. Easy to craft and serve a basic purpose: rabbit hunting and scaring off wolves. It's a great way to earn archery skill too. They are balanced as they are, but I was hoping for a little more punch from the arrows. I was expecting to be able to cause damage to animals, but never get critical hits. But by the looks of them they don't do any damage whatsoever; sometimes the wolves just walk it off after they get hit. Suggestion: allow the arrows to cause minor damage. Like the hammer in a wolf struggle; it damages the wolf but doesn't cause any injuries or bleeding. It would take multiple arrows to kill a wolf or a deer, but bears wouldn't take damage. I don't usually go for bunkers in a lot of my survival saves so I don't have anything to say about the new ones. I haven't found any yet. Overall the update is pretty awesome for getting it free. I hope acorns get tweaked to make them more worthwhile, but everything else is pretty balanced and useful.

I think the old sound was a free sound anybody could grab from online. I've heard it in multiple games before. I wonder if they changed it simply to make it more unique or using their own sound (just an assumption, I don't know why it changed.) But I agree that the old one sounded more like crows.

The update video is premiering in 8 minutes so I presume the update is being rolled out either now or very soon

I generally just have one base which usually just holds my tools, food, and firewood. Everything else I leave behind when I don't need it. Once I loot all of the regions, I usually go to the Camp Office in Mystery Lake to grind the rest of my days. Fish and deer hunting there, and a day trip to the forge in Forlorn Muskeg. I usually take occasional trips to Bleak Inlet for more bullets too but that's about it. If I ever go to another region, I just take a hatchet and bow/rifle to gather wood and food whenever I need it.

You can see what time of day it is by pressing tab on computer. If you're on console then you can look in options at your controls to see which button shows the "quick stats." It shows your condition, time of day, and scent (if you have any) on the screen.

We need to remember that the studio is in Canada and it is currently still the 29th in North America. They have over 24 hours to fulfill their promise yet. And no, you really shouldn't take off work for a game. This update will be here tomorrow and it will be here next week; no need to play it the minute it comes out.

No harvestables respawn. Plants and saplings don't return once they are harvested. However, in 2.06 you can find cat tails, birch saplings, and maple saplings while beach combing. But reishi and rosehips are a limited resource, but so abundant that you probably won't run out of it. I say 2.06 because I don't know what changes to loot and beach combing are coming tomorrow with the new update.

I go with cold fusion and the calorie consuming one (I forget what it's called lol). I had a good Interloper run die to starvation and I started choosing it ever since. Hunger also seems to be an issue for a lot of my runs.

The hammer scares the wolf away the quickest, but does not injure it. The hammer will damage the wolf but it won't make it bleed out. The second best option is the hatchet. When you are charged by a wolf, aim your bow down farther than you would originally aim. You'll either hit the wolf or land the arrow at its feet, which may scare it away (but doesn't always). If you hit it at all, the struggle will end a lot quicker. If you don't, you might scare it away before the struggle.

I couldn't figure out which crow picture was better, so I sent both. Epic sunset at Signal Hill (or was it sunrise... I forget now lol)

Going for the acorns for sure; then I want to see if you can make fire-hardened arrows on the Hunted Part 1. Finally got a bow and I want to give the Old Bear some pay back without wasting precious arrows. They might just make him mad though, lol

Interloper day 1, sprained ankle, dark, heavy snow, and the last thing you want to see is this, lol.

The healing buff from a cup of Birch Bark Tea overcomes the condition loss from exhaustion. Your condition will rise during those two hours. Just found that out and it really surprised me

I thought fire-hardened arrows were going to be added to the free version; the roadmap shows that we will get fire-hardened arrows without buying the expansion pack. Is this still true? Will it be released to us without the DLC later in the future?

Sunset in Hushed River Valley

Once you grab the spear, you can survive one attack. I'm not sure if you can survive it without using the emergency stim but as of 2.02 it was no longer an insta kill once you grab the spear. I would be surprised if that was changed afterwards. And I'm 90% sure I got all of my stuff back after completing the cave. I don't drop stuff in the cabin, and I had all of my food and tools after getting out of the cave.

You do get your stuff back AFTER the bear cave, but not during it. If you've found the emergency stim, use that right before the attack if possible. If I'm not mistaken it gives you enough health to survive one bear attack. I could be wrong though; maybe that is only after you pass a certain part of the cave. When you spawn, is the bear literally on top of you or do you have a little time? Bears make very wide turns so it is easy to juke him if you run to his side and then run for safety while he is turning around. If you need help finishing the cave, the best advice I can give is either get through the cave as fast as you possibly can, or take a lot of time and wait in the crevices of the cave until you are 100% sure you can run to another crevice without the bear catching you.

Yes it is still the case. Just tried now and the bear stops 100% of the time. He will stay there for a while before eventually running away. The only case I could see a bear ignoring a fire is if it is already too close to you by the time it notices the fire. If you have a fire out in the open between you and a bear (whether it is charging or walking, I tried both), it will always stop. This was on Stalker. On Interloper he did not stay forever; he stayed for a few seconds and then charged, which is normal Interloper bear behavior. But I've never seen a bear completely ignore a fire all together

Yes +1 I used to have the same issue. My computer was trying too hard to run at an unnecessary frame rate.

I gotta say that Forlorn Muskeg is where I see some of the best sunrises.

Yeah I just tried it and it works! I backed up Perilous Constraint using the time capsule. I can play the current version through Steam and launch the older versions from backup folders.

I use Windows 11 and yes it runs. I don't have any problems running The Long Dark on Windows 11.