10 Tips on Surviving INTERLOPER in The Long Dark (early game)

[@TurkeySteam]

I counted the cat tails and it's over 1600. My number one tip for interloper is "Don't get attached". This was great thank you.

[@YuNo232]

My first 3 Interloper runs. 1: Spawned in the middle of nowhere, froze to death 2: I don't know where I am, a wolf chased me down a cliff, I fell and died. 3: Pack of wolf hunted me after 2 minutes of spawning. GG

[@SamusV4]

Lol my first run was pretty much number one until I found out where some shelter spots were

[@Seriously_Unserious]

I'll 2nd Zaknafein's tip on the emergency stims. I've saved my run a few times from those things. The most extreme was when I was in Hushed River Valley (another great source of cattails, btw), and wasn't paying enough attention to the development of hypothermia risk and slowed up avoiding a wolf and a bear on my way between camp sites and got full hypothermia. Any remaining vitality I'd had left was gone in a heaertbeat and so was my remaining cnd. I was in the red and my survivor was starting the drunken stumble. I knew there was no way I'd reach the warmth and safety of my camp -- unless... I popped a stim. The 15% cnd recovery and just enough sprint to run to the camp site (camp fire sheltered by rocks on most sides and a snow shelter), got a roaring fire going and rested in the snow shelter until the hypothermia ran its course, coming out only long enough to stoke the fire when necessary, or grab some more food or water. That's just one example of how good this guy's advice is on emergency stims.

[@markoap91]

"Must have been the wind.." caught me off guard. Holy shit. Getting real Skyrim vibes where he returns to his post with an arrow in his head.

[@Tomato_Dragonzord]

With no much experience I decided to try with my first Interloper run. I thought Voyager was fun but this is something else. I'm loving every second of it, every second of being aware that everything around tries to kill me. I got out of the verge of death twice so far, I'm probably gonna die on my way to Forlorn Muskeg forge but who cares, lol.

[@recarsion]

Starvation is actually a debatable strategy even early game. You absolutely can support the Well Fed buff even before you are able to hunt if you're moving fast enough and use every little bit of calorie available. Atheenon for example goes for it right from day 1. Another thing I also learned from him is to drink down reishi and rosehip teas to about 15 calorie bits, that way you won't actually activate their healing effect but you get almost all the water and calories out of them and can carry a ton of those 0.01kg teas with you. Doesn't work with herbal and birch bark tea though, with those the effects are proportional to the amount you drink. You can do a similar trick with canned food where you eat it down to a tiny bit then you can cook it later and still get the cooking skill points. May be cheesy but this is the kind of thing you need to do to maximize your chances. Also one personal note I want to add is that if you spawn in Desolation Point, don't expect a fun time lol. There's very little food and wolves are placed in critical choke points (as per the bad habit of this game), and unless you can find a bedroll, getting out of this region is a pain. I personally just quit and restart as soon as I see DP spawn.

[@Zaknafein]

I agree - I go for well fed bonus from Day 1. Its fairly easy when you know where to go. But since this video is aimed at people either trying or struggling with interloper, its a tip that may be useful. But yes, Well Fed from Day 1 is perfectly doable :)

[@recarsion]

@@Zaknafein I didn't think of that, in that context yes it's a useful tip!

[@cheezemonkeyeater]

as the novelty coffee mug says, "You don't need a bow to survive interloper, but it helps."

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

6:40 LOL the "listening to zach" joke gets me every time

[@katharinemelanson1330]

I have been watching your videos for about a year now. It took me a lot of tries, but today I made it to day 34 on Interloper! I died after getting parasites and then attacked by a wolf, but I am proud! I had the bow and was living in the harsh FM. Thanks for all your tutorials, Zak! I am back watching this video again today to see if there is anything else I can be thinking about for my next run. Love this game!

[@yappi84k]

1:30 When you re lost under bad weather. Quick cheat is to reload the game. It will load you from last savepoint unless you suffered wound, you will be at your last wakeup or indoor point. My tip in addition. Dont bother farming world spawn deer carcasses 1. You wont be looting anything in the beginning phase of the game without fire 2. It is a good landmark and sound tracer(when using stereo) so why erase it.

[@incandenzahal]

Always a pleasure, Doctor Z. One of these days I’m just going to have to man-up and give it a go myself. On the positive side, maybe I just don’t hate myself enough yet...

[@tinkertailor7385]

I find fishing good. Keeps you outdoors a lot so no cabin fever, make lots of water, cook plenty.

[@roxxkat7784]

Great job Zak! Informative and funny. 10/10 will watch again!

[@rcsibiu]

I got to about 200 days on Interloper but somehow managed to get hit by frostbite and I am thinking on ending this pain. Also I got to Ash Canyon to take the crampons and backpack and I have no idea how to leave that area now lol 🤣🤣

[@DemonLordGamingAC0]

First time Interloper I died of hunger after 2 days. Didn't have a single struggle, but I couldn't find food for the life of me. Loper really forces you to go hunting ASAP. You can forget looting for food. I was about dead on the first day but I got lucky and I was strong enough to carry myself for another day.

[@GrammarPoPo]

I think the meat thing to get ur skill up is fine cause if you were to practice more with smaller pieces you’d learn to not make mistakes quicker than messing up less times with more meat

[@JonathanRossRogers]

I used to starve myself while awake, then stopped when Well Fed was added. You're probably right that it's still a good idea early in an Interloper game.

[@superfuntoyz123]

Just did 21 days on inter, i ran out of matches, had 2 magnifying glasses but the weather was overcast for days. With my last bit of life i launched myself off a gorge. I wish you could sleep anywhere, as in real life, just curl up in a moose carcass. Love this game Great vid

[@cherrypie9390]

you don't NEED to craft a bearskin bedroll, it decays so fast and gives +12 only when used. i recommend you to craft bearskin coats which gives +6 warmth bonus, has a great protection and even if u get into a struggle or mauling it takes so little damage. there is a guaranteed bedroll in Mystery Lake that has 3 possible locations. this means the bedroll will definitely spawn in one of those spots. the spawn points: in the hunter blind near Carter, in Camp Office upstairs or in the closest fishing hut to the bear spawn on the Lake. And the Forlorn Muskeg forge counts as outdoors, thats right. but there is so little amount of scrap or fuel there, so you gotta carry those to forge. i recommend u to use Broken Railroad one, because you can just go there with only hammer and hacksaw and get tons of fuel and scrap. also theere is a warm outdoors bed that you can sleep to get rid of cabin fever that you got while getting all those firewood, metal or forging your items.

[@Zaknafein]

Great tips, and the strategies used depend on playstyle.I prefer the bear bedroll before the coat, because it gives more security towards sleeping outdoors. Similarly, I have seen people die on the outdoor bed by the BR forge, so it is risky in the early game. That being said, you are right and there is nothing wrong with going to BR rather than FM, and crafting the bear coat first is also a big win. PS: The bedroll can also spawn in Trapper's Cabin in ML.

[@cherrypie9390]

@@Zaknafein you might die if you do not be cautious and sleep like 10 hours or 6 hours straight. since you dont have a proper clothing in early game, it's normal for it to be under 0 C if a blizzard starts or in the coldest time of the day (which is dawn). you just need to be careful.

[@shadowdeslaar]

150 calories for 1,000 tail stalks=150,000 calories.....

[@DystOptimist]

Nice. Always fun to been shown at my absolute peak of surliness :) It's my schtick.

[@Cconkyy]

This is so well put together.. I remember watching this a long time ago when I first started playing interloper. Im watching it again just for fun and I'm feeling like Im getting that sense of desperation I once had back before I knew what I know now. What a trip it's been!

[@Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal]

Tried to play interloper for the first time today ( haven’t explored all the maps yet cause apparently I like to make things difficult for myself) spawned in Timberwolf mountain and managed to make it to the mountaineers hut and ruined building in pleasant valley. It was going well in the beginning but I ran out of food on the way to pleasant valley and my last few hours were spent desperately searching for cattails and backpacks. Ah well, there’s always next time

[@greezyhammer764]

Canadian northern wilderness is definitely something to which I can relate. Going to give this game a try. Thank you for the great tips!

[@niketuck9687]

First round I spawned in a ravine and I had to climb my way out. I found myself at a prison where I eventually died to the cold. This is my first time playing but it’s so interesting already. My second time I spawned at the top of Mount Everest in a blizzard. I ran around frantically until I found a small mountain hut in just the nic of time. I struggled to get the fire going, as every second counted, on my second try I finally got the fire going.

[@toadcreature]

Loved the stick joke, thanks for that

[@CarlosPEnis]

What I really hate is when the weather is perfect so you decide to take like a 2 hour nap outside in your sleeping bag and you wake up lost in a blizzard

[@MissingmyBabbu]

Never done an Interloper run before. I usually do Voyager or a custom, slightly-harder-than-voyager difficulty. Seeing all this makes me want to work up to Interloper

[@rosscooper3889]

This is a great video. Also as you know there is also a 3rd Flare Gun now in Keepers Pass North down the rope.

[@G00nTTV]

CANT WAIT FOR PART 3!!!

[@FutureFocusTraders]

Got the game a week and decided to play interloper yesterday, instead of Pilgrim. First game 2 hours alive, second game 4..... i'm progressing and outsmarting the sh*t out of this game :))

[@Acubens22]

This is great guide vid for who just tarted playing interloper ! Thumbs up ;)

[@Tibor0803]

Well, I have survived a day for the achievement but not so long after that I died. Interloper really wants to kill me and the most common way I die is frozen to death.

[@jason3714]

This is probably the most difficult and unforgiving game i have ever played. I have died so many hundreds of times over some of the silliest things but i am so hooked. I am on a good interloper survival run now, I have the best of everything and will probably die doing something stupid any day now lol

[@skourge891]

Whether a bug or a feature, you will always completely remove and reset cabin fever risk whenever you are at the back of a cave

[@Zaknafein]

That is a feature, because it is outdoors :)

[@skourge891]

@@Zaknafein Good to know 👍 Cheers

[@RavenMobile]

I've been struggling with Interloper. Thanks for the video, some new tips in there for me. Like crafting a snow shelter, different chances to start fires based on what you burn.

[@samuelhepfner]

The stick around bit got me

[@agamersjournal]

LMAO the water bottle hanging on the handle of the fridge. Sooo much water LOL

[@fufumccuddlypoops5502]

16:04 another useful coal collection place is the cannery worker residences in bleak inlet. It’s tough there so good to know easy coal is there

[@HanaFilms1]

8:37 literally happened to me last night trying to get Faithful cartographer achievement done 😢😢 I wanted to look over the cliff edge to find a path down and... yeah. 20 hours down the drain

[@FilmFanLocation]

I know TLD from the beginning on. I always play on Interloper long term. My last run was approx. 1.200 days. If you have lived for more than 100 days the problem is not storm or the hostile wildlife. It is the late game which is boring as hell. This video is good. I can confirm most of your thoughts. thank you.

[@ericcartman9594]

So what's the point of playing it then?

[@FilmFanLocation]

@@ericcartman9594 I have no TLD run currently.

[@ericcartman9594]

@@FilmFanLocation okay, but as I said, what's the point of playing a game once it's all done, it becomes boring and the only thing last to do is waiting for a certain death?

[@FilmFanLocation]

@@ericcartman9594 I tried to run for 10.000 days or more, to See what will go first. I thought matches go first, but after surviving more than 1000 days and several updates , in my opinion it will be cloth. The 2nd point is that I was interested in how fast wildlife will reduce and the decreasing of temperature. But after all, it makes no sense spending so much lifetime to get this Information.

[@Moz29]

​@@FilmFanLocation 1200 days yeah right buddy highly doubt it

[@ifuckinghategoogle4376]

currently attempting my first interloper run after playing a few hundred days om stalker. ive died 5 times in less than an hour

[@Fierysaint1]

Yeah big gap between the two no doubt. Interloper is ruthless!

[@akirakirigiri7262]

I loved the moose part that was hilarious

[@ZSmith-yy4lv]

My first interloper run: Spawn in forlorn muskeg Try to find a shelter-can’t see any fall through the ice trying to cross clothes soaked and freezing find shelter Make a fire-oh wait-I don’t have any matches no matches? that’s a thing? Try to find matches find wolf spend three minutes backing away from wolf back to the shelter because I can’t run Condition is low-maybe I can warm up with the sleeping bag “You faded into the long dark”

[@Zaknafein]

Sounds like loper :)

[@docburn6189]

Thank you uncle Zak

[@Azcorban]

Awesome video, thanks for all the info!

[@Nord..]

most fresh intro on yt

[@xlag9964]

Interloper will get far more easier the more you play it you’ll get a lot of experience from it

[@jmiod2819]

Yoo just found your channel! I love your videos!

[@demonfox13]

Great video dude and some very awesome and useful tips. I always love to watch the different ways long dark players go about survival and exploring. I went finally to ash canyon and hated it the area but was a great experience and also learn you can climb down certain rope areas without the rope lol

[@InsaneMedicine]

I don’t know if it was a bug or something but I found a cowichan sweater at around day 60 :)

[@thef0urth326]

Every time I see a stick, I get a little bit of neuron activation.

[@atomicthunder1440]

Yooo great video i learned alot!

[@carelprinsloo8762]

The most important aspect of mastering Interloper is..mastering the bow

[@carelprinsloo8762]

Zak, all your advice means nothing if one is not able to be a bow master. It is the core of what it means t be an Interloper

[@Zaknafein]

Yeah thats why one of the tips is to level archery :) Although its perfectly possible to survive for a long time without the bow

[@carelprinsloo8762]

@@Zaknafein No sir, what killed me in Interloper was that 1(one) missed shot.

[@Qossuth]

Changes to cooking made by Hinterland in 2018 made "shredding" more attractive. Previous to the "new cooking" update you "paid" the same price in terms of time and fuel to cook a full kg steak as a 0.01 kg nugget. Some people still did it (I'd routinely harvest in 0.5 kg chunks, an option provided by the game), but overdoing it was obviously poor strategy, at least for Interlopers. Interlopers are wise to avoid "emergency snow shelters" or "pop up fires to cook a tea to warm up, etc." Just run through the weather, take a Condition hit if you start to freeze, and heal up in secure warm shelter on the other side. So "just keep moving" is not just for the early game, it keeps you safe for the whole game. Moving fast leaves wolves behind, too. Essentially you have 32 points of Condition to lose per day, so if you're not actually burning it, you're playing "inefficiently." At Trapper's I think it's 42 points of Condition regain because of its special bed? My memory is getting hazy, it's been a year and a half since I played and I never updated beyond 1.30 so this might have been changed (?). But a point about Bear Bedrolls is that they give you the full 32 points of Condition (if not more? can't remember) whereas the Cloth bedrolls only give you 26 (or so). This can catch the unaware player if they're trying to heal up from predator attack in some backcountry cave -- "why is it taking sooo long?!" I perfected Naked Interloper while playing my ML SQUARED run, which was Mag Lens only and Mystery Lake only. This started in the Muskeg, I fell through the ice avoiding wolf and barely made it to Trapper's with a few percent of Condition left and barely any Cattails. I had to run to Camp Office the next day and at least landed the Mag Lens but, as usual, not a Match was to be found on the entire map. I decided fook it, let's see how long I can last on this one miserable map, allowed myself a forging run back to Spence and then settled in for the long haul at Trapper's. Eventually around Day 800 I got bored and took my clothes off and after a few close calls figured out I could survive buck nekkid, and with just the Mag Lens to light fires. Made it past Day 1200 and eventually I started another run where I shucked my clothes off on Day One spawn, and eventually figured out how to travel the world, making it to Pleasant Valley where I managed to land a double frostbite just seconds from the door. Because the speed of the Frostbite Risk affliction depends on environmental conditions! If you get Hypothermia Risk, as long as you're below freezing, it increases at a set pace. -40C or -4C, it goes up at the same speed. However, Frostbite Risk goes up FASTER, the colder or windier it is. While I had learned this about TLD's weather system before I had made the move to PV in my NAKED FROM SPAWN run, the especially harsh conditions in PV caught me a little sleepy and my guy took the double hit. I was planning on taking him to the Summit (naked) as the final test and I'm sure that even with the double hit I'd have gotten him there and back again but my focus shifted to different challenges.

[@oleh3415]

Real asf

[@kishi_knight_ritter8176]

I have been going over tips because this will be my first time playing and I am trying hardest game mode on first try

[@jantokar9211]

Nice video, bro. Is very helpful.

[@aseroxd]

Learn the maps. It's the best tip of them all. Which is why you should never jump into interloper as a beginner.

[@LittleBallOfPurr]

I've only ever played on Interloper and think new players should consider it. You can never, ever go back and have that experience, the challenge alongside such an unknown. The combination of desperation and hope as you turn every corner and cross every ridge, you're always lost, it's great, a purer survival experience.

[@realsteppa1675]

Just got the game yesterday I love it

[@moondog393]

absolutely loved this video thank you

[@finnethew]

Great video, very informative! Thank you!

[@clarkkent1177]

I die on pilgrim due to ailments/freezing/hypothermia. I die on Voyager from wolves bears or blizzards. Regardless of any tips I'll never be able to play on interloper. The longest I've been able to survive was 12 days.

[@Silentash3358]

I’ve never played any other difficulty, and I still don’t 100% know the mechanics, so this is pretty helpful 😅

[@lukasvasiliauskas6873]

Tryed Loper spawned in Desolation Point looted lighthouse prosesing etc but didn't know how to leave the region so i decided to feed my self to Boris the bear

[@JurikoSann]

My problem as a newer player who wishes to punish myself with interloper is, no matter how many times I spawn, I can never seem to reach any of the shelters/houses anywhere. I've been trying to follow some tips on what to gather up on, but with no shelter it's nearly impossible. I need help.

[@Zaknafein]

On this channel, there are guides for every interloper spawn, except Blackrock. That might help. If you need specific help, you can also ask here, on my Discord, or submit clips to the coaching videos

[@Stuart267]

Survived over 100 days. This game is insanely addictive, every time I die I insist I won't be coming back but I always do. This is the longest I have survived on the highest difficulty.

[@omnipotentpumpkin9755]

Quality video, thanks!

[@kkkutas]

i think coal is the only sorce to get the needed temperatur for the forge

[@Zaknafein]

Yes thats correct - forging can only be done with coal. You need a minimum of 4 pieces to do it, but more is easier.

[@sean4929]

You say to pick up all sticks and keep moving, looting all along the way, meanwhile using the starvation mechanic lowers the amount you can carry. So how do you manage to carry everything until you get a bow/set up a home base? Do you leave certain stuff at locations as caches or just not loot all things as you pass.

[@Zaknafein]

Starvation tactic does not decrease carry weight, but well fed increases it after 3 days. If you get heavy, leave items behind in central locations that can act as regional bases at a later stage.

[@aboloththebuffalo7050]

Zak, do you know any tips on how to one shot the bear with a flare gun? I keep on hitting the bears and having them bleed but I don't have a harvesting tool and wolves are in the way of the forge I am trying to go to.

[@Zaknafein]

There is no sure way to do it, because when the flare hits it will roll a die on whether it is a critical hit, similar to how you CAN one-shot a bear or moose with the bow or rifle, but it won't happen every time. In my previous video, I give an explanation on a technique you can use that often works. See this timestamp: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqDQeplvjZqEnNk

[@aboloththebuffalo7050]

@@Zaknafein Thanks for the help, I finally got the bear.

[@rickfish4527]

TK man

[@frasson1225]

what FOV do you use?

[@Lorentzo13]

Moosli cereal.... XD

[@cnaeuspompeus3188]

Any tips where to find some interloper prybar - in CH, PV, TWM? Im at day ~65, started FM, had prybar but foolishly left it in ML.Office... and niw i suspect there is a good loot in locked lockers in PV/cache... Also - till when is worth summiting TWM? In terms of Decay of clothes, is it ok on day 100?

[@Zaknafein]

Clothes decay relatively fast. I usually summit quite early, but yes - if you go before Day 100 you should be fine. I went on Day 86 and it was OK. I have yet to log all the prybar locations, since there are around 15 of them on interloper. There is often one in the PV barn or farm basement. Check cars too. In TWM its usually in the hut or fishing hut. In CH it can be many places, check all cars and cabins.

[@cnaeuspompeus3188]

@@Zaknafein found the prybar in CH - next to higher and closer of two bodies north-west of Fishing Huts, Bearcreek Campground direction :)

[@coolwolf506]

What's the difference between stalker and interloper besides guns not spawning.

[@Zaknafein]

Interloper has less loot, colder weather, deadlier wolves, fewer items spawning, drains your meters faster, and you have to craft knives and hatchets.

[@YoStu242]

I should be this great survivor, even though I can't jump and I can only climb in a few places and the map is like it was designed for a wheelchair patient with ramps

[@marjoriemabras123]

Perfect zero dislikes

[@jesicad.685]

For some reason, interloper is the only difficulty I actually enjoy, even though I haven't survived past 50 days yet. Anything else is just too easy and I get bored. Best game so far is a custom interloper run that has some settings turned down, such as the world gets colder a little slower, no cabin fever, and I can sleep as much as I want. That one is up to 170 days, but still feels a little too easy. Apparently I'm a masochist.

[@oboebuddy15]

lol I only play on the easiest difficulty so idk why i'm watching this xD

[@allangabriel4137]

15:55 🤣🤣🤣

[@Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial]

I'M A MOOSE LOL

[@allangabriel4137]

@@Thor_Underdunk_Caballerial Moosli cereal 🤣🤣

[@siddbastard]

i'm incredibly happy this game blossomed into what it is today. The only survival game i still play today and the only one without bullshit, only true nature survival.

[@jacob127w9]

As far as cooking goes, u do the same in real life. I didn't learn flavors and searing methods by cooking entire steaks at a time. I practiced on small pieces to learn flavor creation.

[@t3hb0ss]

What about freezing to death in 10 seconds?

[@Zaknafein]

Highly recommend avoiding that!

[@autisticbird1671]

I dont know What to do stalker and voyager feel to easy but interloper feels pretty hard

[@Zaknafein]

Maybe a custom interloper?

[@mr_pukish]

I love the DP spawn (on the ice near the sea). But the game stopped letting me spawn there for some reason. I spent over 30 minutes just purely rolling spawns to get a spawn there. Why just they wont add an option to choose the spawn!?!?! i dont like interloper anymore! 😥

[@goon5757]

ive only played interloper all the other levels seem too easy

[@jasonhilts2661]

Why would you eat 6 cat tails before sleeping? if you only need 675 calories to sleep 10 hours that works out to 5 cat tails = 750 calories, 6 =900. is this a mistake or is there a reason for extra calories at this point?

[@Zaknafein]

Hi! From what I remember when making this video, I unfortunately used footage from a character who had the Efficient Machine perk on, which reduces the amount of calories spent during sleep. Without this feat on, you need 6, because you burn 750 calories during sleep (with the feat it is 750/10 = 75 = 750-75 = 675 calories). 5 cat tails will be enough still, assuming you sleep right away when finished eating, but even then you will probably miss out on 1-2% health gain. So you need 6.

[@veljkojovanovic9638]

14:13 :)

[@data-0151]

8:25 Ooooor: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iXe7ZqVtgauWptE&ab_channel=GunTech.

[@Zaknafein]

Yes, there are other routes too. Both GunTech1 and kimiota have managed to climb down, and both said its not worth it: the rope climb is better. Many of the tips here can be discussed or added additional information, but I didnt include it due to length. But yes, definitely check out GunTech1, who has climbed all over the game :)

[@jackbean757]

Yeah boi 0 dislikes!

[@pastor3271]

Am i the only one that needs a goal to play this game?

[@Zaknafein]

My next video will actually address this :) It's all about setting your own goals

[@TheGamingCrow]

4:12 there definitely are more than just 1000 cat tails in the game. Look, I play TLD different than you do. Regardless of the difficulty level, I only consume meat, fish, water, birch tea and everything else that respawns. Means I burn fir, cedar, coal and stick, but never reclaimed wood (doesn't usually respawn). I do use matches sometimes, I use sewing kits but when they break, I keep them. I collect everything else anyway and bring it first to my regional base, and to my HQ later on to put everything on display. Yes, that includes books (I even carry them one by one not to lose their different covers) I never burn them. It also includes, food, medication, clothing, etc. I never break them down or consume them. I loot them and carry them over. My HQ usually looks like Walmart with all that stuff on display. In my current game however I already have two stone caches loaded with 30 kg of cat tail sticks or heads. Both contain about 600 each. And I only have completely looted MT, HRV, ML, Winding River, the Ravine, Crumbling Highway and DP this far. Went to AC getting the backpack, and by heading there I crossed PV and TW. But haven't looted them yet. I'll let you know how many cat tails I found (not counting beach combing, I don't do that) once I'm done - might take a couple of months, though. Edit: forgot, I also put 5 stone caches in each region (including transition zones), and I hunt from the very first moment by collecting stones and going for rabbits. And when it comes to scrap metal, I barely use it to repais tools. I also carry car batteries to my HQ for displaying.

[@Zaknafein]

No worries - there are 1936 cat tails in the game, not including the Far Range. It was counted on Reddit about a year ago

[@PixelatedPeach]

First time in interloper: I spawned to the sound of a wolf howling and then growling. I walked around to the other side of the boulder I was next to, and was immediately attacked and killed. Back to voyageur!!!!

[@Tibor0803]

You gotta listen to the direction of where the sound is coming from because the wolf will be there. You suppose to escape to the opposite direction from the sound.

[@bison1203]

Sounds like me. I finally made it to the forge to create a knife. Was cold and had low health, but all I had to do was make it back to the Trapper's Cabin. Topped a hill and a silent wolf jumped me. Dead. At least I tried.

[@realglutenfree]

I made it to day 20 and then dared to eat one single fricking piece of wolf meat because a deer ran away with the last of my arrows sticking in it and I couldnt find the stupid thing. Of course I immediatly got worms and had to treat that. Twenty days later I got rid of the parasites but I was tired, only had two arrows and no meat left. I died at day 40 in a blizzard trying to find the damn deer that I just shot a minute ago.

[@NinjaOnANinja]

Similar happened to me. The only difference was I literally spawned during a storm while there was a wolf around the corner. Was also on a nap I never been in before so I had no idea where to go or what to do. I was like, "nope" and started a new game. Btw, the game seems harder now than it was then because I have been looking at a few games and they have clear skies. I never seen a clear sky. I got about 5 days under my belt and I dream of walking to new locations and gathering things but I freeze. Barely even have a chance to get wood. I can't see anything and get lost if I head out too far. Can see only 15 feet in front of me. It's silly.

[@radsterplays]

Yes, this exact thing happened to me too.

[@stasiakuz421]

I knew I gonna love this video from the first sentence! "So, fellow survivor..., you decided you hate yourself". lol Awesome!!!

[@blackcatredriver5878]

The biggest surprise for me, going from Voyager to Interloper, was that campfires didn't necessarily warm you up at all (and that different types and amounts of fuel were needed to get the fire to offset the ambient temperature). What are your best tips/suggestions for ensuring that you have the materials needed to make a fire that will actually cure your hypothermia...? It is a big let-down if you think you can start a fire anytime, but when you actually need it, it fails to increase your body warmth!

[@Zaknafein]

Always carry a couple coal pieces if you can. If not, sticks are your friends. Carry at least 20. One stick = 1 degree warmth

[@cameronlamb1869]

Wait what in what world is putting sticks on a fire gonna heat you less than logs lmfao immersion broken

[@cameronlamb1869]

Wait what in what world is putting sticks on a fire gonna heat you less than logs lmfao immersion broken

[@dr.lexwinter8604]

@@cameronlamb1869 In a world where you can only wear one pair of gloves, two beanies, two pairs of socks, etc. :P A lot of their stuff is absurd. Like the 9 kg rifle!

[@Lithar1987]

I am around 751 days old and from day 3 I still have buff well feed. In my opinion, it is not worth starving, because lifting capacity is more important. Good video

[@Zaknafein]

Yes, but as I mentioned in the video, the starvation tactic is only for the early game until you are able to provide food for yourself. Veteran players often do not use it. Personally, I don't use it: on a regular interloper run I go for well fed from the start. Like you say, the carrying capacity is worth it. However, I often hear from players that they run out of food, so the starvation tactic is a good survival strategy until you get the hang of loper :) Grats with 750 days! I am on 710 myself.

[@Lithar1987]

@@Zaknafein hi again, about the hunger mechanics, I found a cool mod that changes the hunger system;) github.com/zeobviouslyfakeacc/HungerRevamped try it

[@AzureTheAvian]

I like to think of shredding as literally what it is. Taking apart an animal into very small pieces, and experimenting with those individual chunks instead of the whole animal at once. That way, you can learn from your mistakes quickly and don’t waste a bunch of meat in the process.

[@OwODonut87]

as a veteran player (since beta) I am ashamed to say that my longest interloper run only lasted 55 days xD

[@guildardaze1438]

I honestly had reverse learning experience. I tend to play interloper because it sounds cool. But I get in and I focus on immediate survival. It forces you too look every mechanic and bonus you can imagine in that need fulfillment. Spend all that run in that one meter and die. It's short it's sweet and it teaches you things like clothing mechanic deeper. After an interloper run I tend to take a normal run for my sanity and enjoyment. And I simply apply everything I learned and see how far I get. By alternating the two you get a really good feel of what's the thing your not taking care of well enough and killing you. As well as the easier run to explore and try things out. But yea. Map knowledge is earned over time. But good decision making can be learned way faster then you can explore the map that way. And it's useful for blind map exploration.