ThePancakeLady

But they kind of are- with the milling machine. We can repair hacksaws, hatchets and knives there, and repair or restore all of the firearms except the distress pistol. Rather than adding a new mushroom, I would rather see them add schist to specific mines or caves, or at the base of some mountains or large rocky outcrops. Not a common find like regular stones are, but a more uncommon stone found in those locations. Use it to sharpen hatchets or knives, or use it like a regular stone to bean a bear in the head with (be ready to runnnnnnnnnnnn!). It would basically tie into this note- -and would make sense in the game. A primitive sharpening stone to replace a worn out whetstone. Much more limited uses than polypores could possibly have, so less chance to end up with something that could end up being very redundant or OP (and that people who insist on "realism" would yell about if it didn't have every possible use added into the game). I agree with @artmunki on this.

Did I mention- Pancakes??? I know I mentioned them before, but the *one* *specific* *favorite* *thing*: 🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞 That is all.

Spoilered in case any new players see this and don't want any spoilery information about Wintermute Story Mode:

Since I just got back, I am catching up on threads and saw this one. I have a game I suck at, but am really enjoying anyway. It's not really a survival game, but has survival elements to it in some ways. City/colony builder, some customizations to the three difficulty settings, plus a Pacifist Mode hat removes the hostile wildlife and constant attacks by Raider camps. Similar to TLD- "easy" to learn, but hard to master (if you aren't using mods to give you God Mode or unlimited gold to buy everything instead of producing it in your town). Farthest Frontier by Crate Entertainment. I tried Banished and once upon a time I tried Settlement Survival, but neither really stuck with me and made me want to keep going back and trying again to see if I could do better. Farthest Frontier has been similar to The Long Dark for me- I really wasn't into survival games, let alone ones with permadeath- but TLD caught me and held. FF had the same effect for me- a genre I never really enjoyed before, but one game just grabbed me and held on. (It's still in Early Access, so it's still changing and growing, also built in Unity, so it can have many of the same Unity quirks as TLD at times, but still- nearly 300 hours in for me, and I keep wanting to go back and keep playing.)

The only use I have found for using fishing lures is trying to catch the new rare fish. Fish with fishing tackle + bait in the ice hole, have 2 tip-ups with lures set up to try to catch Rockfish for Dockworker's Pie. And I've had fairly good luck with that. If I don't want or need Rockfish or the other more rare fish, I stash the lures and just use bait harvested from the lowest condition fish I catch or find washed up. Lures increase your chances to catch the rare fish, bait increases the chance to catch bigger fish. Again, I use bait fairly often, I use lures only if I really want or need Rockfish for Dockworker's Pie (which has a reasonably good amount of Vitamin C, and is honestly just something different to cook that is more interesting than just plain cooked fish). YMMV, of course.

It's always extremely satisfying to me to climb the broken stairs at the Destroyed Forestry Lookout and get lucky enough to find this, after the rest of the location has almost no loot (over 100 days into this save, so... I wasn't expecting much). Not glorious or grand, just a nice "Yippee!" moment that made going there feel good. Until the blizzard hit, lol.

I have to say- I like the travois (and associated increased Maple Saplings spawns)- mainly to give me a way to haul a big kill home or carry a lot of sticks and firewood back to base in one trip, provided the wolves aren't watching. The new maps are amazing. Brutal, but amazing. And of course- the new cooking and foods. (Pancakes!!!!)🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞 The Oak trees are a nice addition too, and I really like the new clothing items and the enhanced beachcombing- I never was a fan of beachcombing before, but now I am all over it. Not a *huge* fan of Scurvy, but don't hate it either. Still getting used to dealing with it after years of having the same basic playstyle and strategies.

Ah, I have been here, just not posting. For a long long time. Just a lot going on IRL, and most of my time is on the Steam forums, since I am already there and logged in to play this game and to try to work away some of my huge backlog there. Thank you for welcoming me back here @piddy3825! I appreciate it! Now I just have to find it somewhere deep inside myself to *want* to be active again, anywhere (not just here). The every growing negativity (waves arms wildly) everywhere these days has made me step back from the forums here and on Steam. It's nice to have a familiar person welcome me back, and I kind of regret not being active here for so long. Be warned- I have *tons* of screenshots... encouraging me may result in most of them flooding this thread. I'll try my best to be good and hold off. For now. Maybe. 😬

Yeah, I am still here, still playing, finally coming back out of Lurk Mode- life has been busy, far too busy. I find time to play the game, but never seem to have time to actively post here. I'll try to be here more, but make no promises. Meanwhile- some screenshots from my recent travels in the game:

*comes out of Lurk Mode* Hi! Lovely day up here. Would be lovlier if the 2 really angry wolves down below would let me leave without a fight... *goes back into Lurk Mode*

A beautiful day in my favorite region. Wait. Bad doggie! Bad! Go Away!

Just some random shots... (I love the lavender skies...)

@ManicManiac- heh. One fellow on the Steam forums played The Hunted Part1, and thought outside of the box on it. He traveled the entire Great Bear Island (prior to Bleak Inlet), or at least a great deal of it, to see if the bear would follow him, and hunt him in regions outside of the "normal" Challenge regions. He went to the Summit in TWM... and yep. Reported the bear appeared at the Summit. I played Nomad, and dragged it out by going everywhere but where I was supposed to stay 3 nights at. At least the non-timed Challenges can be really fun to try in completely different ways, no timer ticking away. Speedruns are a possibility too. I know several have posted incredible times on As The Dead Sleep, and some really impressive times for Whiteout and Hopeless Rescue. Not sure custom Settings would be good for Challenges since there is an achievement/trophy for completing all of them (except As The dead Sleep). I like that we are all on an even playing field, no one being able to turn settings down to "easy peasy" and play them in "almost God Mode". Would love to see some new challenges someday, though. Either from Hinterland, or from modders, after we get official modding support. I am sure there are some really good ideas for new Challenges floating around out there.

Nothing personal @Gazbeard, but not everyone watches streams of the game, some of us just play it. And I am guessing reports were filed through the Support Portal, and their QA people were able to reproduce the crashes. I haven't had any crashes either, but that doesn't mean they weren't happening for some players on some platforms. Or they would not have needed to be hotfixed, lol. I expect we'll see a few more hotfixes as the next few weeks go by, there were a number of reports of various issues, by a number of people on the Steam forums. None of which I have experienced either, but again, that doesn't mean these bugs aren't happening for some people. Just like I have never had the "levitating bear melee on weak ice" one in FM. Apparently you have. Thanks to Hinterland for working hard to fix any and all bugs, as they get reported.

I suspect that when her daughter died, she may have done something to herself. Whether that was a literal "clawing her own eyes out" in grief, or a failed attempt at suicide, that left her blind (OD on pills?), or some sort of fight with her ex husband that resulted in her being injured and blinded. So many things that it could be. The dead prisoner in the shed... I suspect the bullet holes are from he and perhaps Hobbs breaking in, and her shooting at them. She hit at least the one, for sure. Interesting question. I suspect we may never know the answer, but are left to form our own thoughts on it. I think I am going to go with her clawing her own eyes out in grief when Lily died.