i got 99 problems and a weapon ain't one

reginaphalange · January 3, 2019

My crappiest run yet. Wanted to fart around on Pilgrim and started in TWM for a change... My gear was absolute sh*t so I couldn't stay there much longer for all the snowing it did. I was able to make a rabbitskin hat at least while there. Fled to PV in hopes to find better gear. I did, but not good enough (no coat still). Will have to search more. But my sad haul, which is getting way too heavy now, includes:

7 crowbars. 5 knives. 2 hatchets. 1 hacksaw.

6 arrows, 7 bullets

5 sewing kits

3 rifle cleaning kits

3 quality toolkits.

rifle? nope.

bow? nope.

I need to find either a coat or a weapon or a maple sapling. A coat would at least let me travel warmly to a better fishing area. But if I had a weapon I could hunt for more hides. A maple sap I could make a bow.... But it's too dang-diddly cold for me to go looking for saplings (without cheating with a map or my memory of zones). Too cold for me to really go much of anywhere.

I'm also running out of food. I had no choice but to eat 17% quality peanut butter. Got the food poisoning but at least it filled my belly.

At least on Pilgrim I don't have to worry about animal attacks. But yeesh.

hozz1235 · January 3, 2019

Did you open any cargo boxes? I'd think you're bound to find a clothing one...

s7mar7in · January 4, 2019

18 hours ago, reginaphalange said:

I need to find either a coat or a weapon or a maple sapling.

If still playing in PV, the best mission for the next fair weather day would be a walk up to the Signal Hill radio tower.
The walking is very easy and the chances for top tier loot is very good, (even if cold, your survivor may recover once at the tower).

Drop all that gear in a cabinet at the Farm House, (then pick-up (1) of each tool, (2) sewing kits, and harvest curtains for cloth).
The radio tower is visible from the front porch of the farm house, (follow driveway powerlines to main road, cross road and walk uphill...)

Once you are familiar with the route(s) from the farm house to the tower it is not difficult.

You are doing well @reginaphalange, that green windbreaker jacket is just not enough protection my friend. :coffee:

Pillock · January 4, 2019

I'd suggest taking fuel with you when you go out exploring, or pick up lots of sticks on your way. That way you can stop and light a fire to warm yourself up when you get close to freezing. Maybe take some tea or coffee or heatable canned food with you too for quick warmth boosts.

UpUpAway95 · January 4, 2019

I've got kind of an opposite problem this round on pilgrim... a ridiculous number of rifles (7 of them, all in relatively poor condition) and I've found only 3 rounds of ammo so far. It also took me several days to find a single rifle cleaning kit. At least my clothing is somewhat more decent (I do have a ski jacket), although it also took me the longest time to find a second pair of underwear.

reginaphalange · January 9, 2019

On 1/3/2019 at 6:19 PM, hozz1235 said:

Did you open any cargo boxes? I'd think you're bound to find a clothing one...

Not sure I found any, and if I did, I didn't have the proper tools to open them. My clothing was too bad to waste more time on Blizzard Mountain but I can go back there now that I have slightly better gear. I ended up at the cabin by the lake in TM.. no gun........ and the moose was there.

I didn't even get a crowbar until I got deeper into PV. missed out on 2 lockers in a survival hatch I found that saved my cold ass.

I finally found a maple sapling while wandering in the blizzard in PV, so I'm just waiting now for it to cure. In the meantime, I've got like 25 cattails, and keep trying to hunt rabbits but,,, aiming!?? what is that!??..... and it keeps blizzarding so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Found a dead deer though so got food for a day from that. I have a ton of arrows. Made 2 from 2 broken ones, and there were 4 good ones in the PV house target.

The bear is around the PV house now. deer very close. Wish the bear would kill a wolf or deer for me..... lol. *loudest sigh in the world*

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

devamadhu · January 12, 2019

I've been playing on Pilgrim for ~370 days and just circled back through PV on a trip to stave off boredom. Found a rifle tucked far under the bed in the master bedroom of the PV Farmhouse. I had somehow missed it on my first run through there. Just wanted to mention that in case it spawns there for you - it was surprisingly hard to see!

Morrick · January 14, 2019

On 1/3/2019 at 9:51 PM, reginaphalange said:

But my sad haul, which is getting way too heavy now, includes:

7 crowbars.

You're travelling with 6 prybars too many, that's why.

reginaphalange · January 27, 2019

On 1/14/2019 at 9:30 AM, Morrick said:

You're travelling with 6 prybars too many, that's why.

Hey man, I waddled my way to the PV farmhouse just fine.

reginaphalange · January 27, 2019

On 1/12/2019 at 5:18 PM, devamadhu said:

I've been playing on Pilgrim for ~370 days and just circled back through PV on a trip to stave off boredom. Found a rifle tucked far under the bed in the master bedroom of the PV Farmhouse. I had somehow missed it on my first run through there. Just wanted to mention that in case it spawns there for you - it was surprisingly hard to see!

alas...

thanks for the tip, though. I checked all beds, but all I had missed was a piece of scrap metal.

reginaphalange · January 27, 2019

So, it came the day where I was down to just 27 cattails in my pocket. Many deer out in the yard, a bear roaming, wolves.

Still no weapon, though my maple sapling was something like 65% cured...

So I braved it. I went outside in the blizzard, and used my vague memory of where the path to the control tower base was.

With these as my clothes:

Not terrible. Not good. But I knew I had to try. The control tower usually has a good stock of food if not other supplies.

I went the hard way, forgetting there are two ways up, at least. But I'm trying to play without maps/memory on this new save file... and, so, in the pale of a gusty blizzard I found a very tall mountaineer rope. I climbed. I got very cold. I wandered and wandered, figuring I should just go straightish... slightly uphill...

I don't know how I made it there, but I did.