Also - the Camp Office is a great HQ location.

It is, but I got tired of it. I hated crossing the railroad just to get to the Rikken forge and I also never had a good place to put my snares nor a good place to forage for wood.

On voyageur. I don't have good luck at Mystery Lake. Of course with four days of dark I wander around and can't see a dang thing. I've had blizzards every other time I wake up. It's great with 10 hours of rest and a raging blizzard outside.


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Agreed it is a pain, but you know what I call those days? Clothes and water days. You should always have firewood on hand and you can stay inside with a sewing kit and repair your clothes and bed roll.

The only place I can't cook inside is Jackrabbit island, so they are mainly clothes days for me, but I stockpile every article of clothing I can find so I always have cloth on hand. You can also sharpen your blades during this time, repair oil lamps, and clean rifles  .

Still working on getting the 500 day survival challenge.

Just some long term survival tips that I've found out.

Always stock up on water. I like to keep around 10-15 litres in my home base at all times. if you have food poisoning or hypothermia, needing to go outside for wood can be a killer.

Save matches, use magnifying glasses. If the sun is out, you can use them while inside a fishing hut, which grants you the benefit of being mildly sheltered and not having to use up those precious non-replaceable resources.

This one will be controversial, but If you're really good on food and water (meaning you can stay indoors for a little bit), you don't have to take antibiotics to survive food poisoning. It caps your health at 15% and then will not affect you anymore. I like to save my antibiotics for when I have stuff to do that day. Stop the ill effects of the affliction, sleep 10 hours, then be on my merry way. For instance, if I just killed and packed a whole bear but got food poisoning from that dog food I needed to get rid of, then I'll probably just ride out the affliction with out using up any antibiotics.

Beach combing is not the best right now. You can get a birch sapling, a piece of cloth, or log of fir wood, but if you fall in you get hypothermia and frozen/wet clothing. To take care of my joining the polar bear club, I took refuge in a fishing hut and made a fire with the wood I had stocked there. It took about 4 hours to dry all of my gear  . I was overzealous and threw enough wood for an 8 hour fire in there and found out that even with that raging fire, the fishing hole that is not even 3 feet from the wood burning stove still remained 100% frozen.

Which brings me to my last point. Fishing is a time and resource draining sink hole. You have to bang up your tools to gain access to the fishing site, you have to have wood well stocked and use up your precious matches, and you have to always use up scrap metal to make the hooks. The only reason I would ever fish is if I was really hurting for lantern fuel, as the only naturally renewable way to get more is via fish oil.

Use snares. It costs you no time (because you can do other things while the snares do the work for you) and no wood other than cooking the meat. If a snare breaks, you harvest it and get your reclaimed wood back, the use the gut which you've gotten from all those delicious rabbits to make a new snare. In effect, the snares renew themselves because bunnies give supplies for new snares, which snares catch bunnies, which give the supplies needed to make snares, etc, etc, it is a self fueling process. Hell, if you are fast enough of them, you don't even need a knife to harvest the rabbits, as you can harvest it by hand if they are below 50% frozen. Then you can use all of the scrap metal you saved from not fishing to make arrow heads.

If you use snares and make 10 arrows, you can live a very long time  . Just find yourself a bear and get him in 1 or 2 shots and you have over 30 kg of meat.

I ran an experiment and set out about half a dozen snares just to see what I could get. After sleeping for one night, I cam back to my previously empty snares and found 4 fresh rabbits waiting for me.

Happy survival!

3 more months gang!

I was working in getting the 500 day challenge badge, but with the new update they have reported doing a save wipe. Damn.

Oh well, here's to starting over again, I suppose.

I haven't even looked at my game yet to confirm the damage.

Maybe it's time to try the game again... I've not played it in some while... But I had over 250 days going last time I did.  But it got to the point of being more tedious than fun or even interesting anymore.

The game play is set on a bell curve. The beginning is fun and exciting because you start with nothing. The middle several hundred days is boring, tedious because you have abundance, than the last part of the bell curve is exciting because you are running out of things. Cloth, ammo... Even scrap metal.... It's all going away with no hope to replace it. That last part is what I look forward to for a challenge.