The Main Base - What does it look like after 1000 days in The Long Dark?

A walkthrough of what a main base looks like after 1000 days on interloper.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:50 Trapper's Cabin - Why this location
03:11 The exterior of the base
04:47 The interior of the base
15:22 The locker storage
22:10 Closing remarks
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[@joshscollections]

My favorite base so far is the camp office. Good storage, a lot of space for guts and skins to cure, it's very close to the fishing huts for food, and I have a corpse upstairs who is my room mate. I call him Bob.

[@j0hndobile802]

I called him Teddie.

[@jakehunt3392]

You can stack hides & guts so space doesn’t really matter but camp office has a lot of LIGHT, fishing hunting, trapping & plenty of lumber around as long as you have a mag glass there’s almost no reason to leave,

[@joshscollections]

@@jakehunt3392 I don’t like stacking some items on top of each other. It ruins the aesthetic. I will stack sticks and logs though because it looks like a nice little pile.

[@ryanmaris1917]

You also have that cave that’s sits above the lake of you need to fend off cabin fever for a couple of days.

[@ToyotaTrucks9]

Imagine you come home to the base and Bob is gone.

[@snowpaw7573]

I love how you have so much natural food that finding a scrap of 'real life' food is just a memento at this point. just a faded memory. One final can of Summit Soda...

[@jakehunt3392]

Once you get going it all stays in storage til you make your next move 😏

[@jeffreyfulstone7763]

Personally, I'm a fan of the Farmhouse in PV on all difficulties. It's close enough to anything I want/need to use, has plenty of resources and tons of storage space. Plus, 6 burner stove for mass cooking/water

[@Marcy2200]

The Farmhouse in PV is my favourite base in the game. It's central, has a 6 pit stove, a workbench and it feels really cosy and homey. I love it.

[@Marcy2200]

@@konstantinoskountousias3099 What is your prefered main base then?

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

fh pv is great as a hording base, I prefer one of the lookout towers but that's because they're comfy, not convenient lol.

[@ireilly2000]

@@konstantinoskountousias3099 there’s a car outside the farmhouse that helps with cabin fever. But also, that fire pit is probably the most valuable to me.

[@jeffreyfulstone7763]

@@konstantinoskountousias3099 there's a cave just across the road by the barn and fishing up the road a bit. It's not quite as convenient for fishing as Cabin in ML, but just as close as Trappers or Dam

[@yorickmori7735]

It is truly disturbing how cold the world becomes over time, wearing two bear coats and still being cold????

[@Fox_Onii-san]

well, each bear coat gives you the whole 5c of warmth. So technically to survive -10 you'll need to of those.

[@yorickmori7735]

@@Fox_Onii-san but obviously you are going to wear more than just two bear coats hahahahaha.

[@themainman2827]

​@@yorickmori7735 that would be a problem for the bear.

[@whyareusobad3528]

Yea two bear coats snow pants and deer skin pants Two wool longjhons two climbing socks rabbit skin gloves rabbit skin hat balaclava and two thick wool sweaters and your still cold

[@greg1569]

this genuinely seems like a vlog from a real survivor that is confined on great bear island and found ways to avoid boredom, so proud of the can he found like it was a big event 😂so fun

[@ChristineRoquet]

What an amazing base. You've made me consider bears as a resource to pursue rather than run from screaming. Multiple fires, fish trophies, the value of worn out fishing tackle: my mind is blown. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@azimuthclark462]

This looks like my game! On PILGRIM! Impressive. You make interloper look pilgrim. I've been learning a lot from your videos, thank you! I tried interloper...didn't go well. I'm having a lot of fun just learning maps. Walking around. Making things. I'm trying to improve my hunting skills, and earn some badges.

[@tomh8379]

going on pilgrim to learn everything is smart honestly .. that's what I did and then even after gaining quite a bit of knowledge i still got my ass kicked in the upper difficulty levels .. right now my mod run on voyager id my fav. I really do need to try some more stalker tho . but def helps.to learn amd get badges . hard to grind for skills when your getting chewed on lol

[@charlesbrown4483]

@@tomh8379 I jumped straight into stalker and died once, but then got the hang of it and I'm now on day 60ish and I'm set for life basically. My advice is on a new save go straight for the carry weight items. Get a rifle and some decent clothes and go to TM to get a moose. After you get it, let it cure in the cabin while you travel to AC to get the backpack, then once you get back to TM you can make the moose bag and all the sudden you have tons of carry weight which makes doing everything else much easier.

[@samljer]

@@charlesbrown4483 1 hundo this. Carry weight has a bigger effect then new players realize.

[@CroneLife1]

@@samljer, can confirm. I've gone back to The Long Dark to play the Wintermute thing and somehow lost my Well Fed buff for a brief period. That 5Kg reduction in my carrying capacity was crippling, even in that mode of the game.

[@Tettzz]

If you want to enjoy and explore the game at least try voyager. Pilgrim should be pretty much used only for testing

[@kathyreeves1560]

I leave my extra prybars in the fishing huts to break the ice. Love this stash of items at your main base. Thanks for sharing!

[@whyareusobad3528]

I prefer heavy hammer over pry at because it’s repair item is renewable

[@neooblisk0084]

​@@whyareusobad3528 very fair point, I personally use crowbars just because I have so dang many of them and dont mind if most break, of course I do use the hammer too.

[@whyareusobad3528]

@@neooblisk0084 I’m really like scrooge the duck when it comes to anything in any games that’s not renewable I just hate that EVERYTHING has a shelf life(in TLD) Even a military coat hung in IDEAL conditions will degrade within a year or two

[@neooblisk0084]

@@whyareusobad3528 that is completely valid. But I think everything having a shelf life is part of the charm of the long dark. Once you use something up you cant get more of it.

[@whyareusobad3528]

@@neooblisk0084 it’s fair to have a max repair amount of times or non renewable objects but objects just breaking for no reason is dumb

[@joshscollections]

I just wanted to say "Thanks!" for releasing these long form videos. I JUST found out about this game and finding resources for it was hard. I came across your videos and LOVE how you intricately explains your thought process throughout. I haven't finished the story mode yet, I am at Blackrock. I decided to try out survival mode to take a break from the main game and now I am hooked on it! I haven't played on interloper yet, I am playing on Voyager to get the feel for the game. I am just over day 100 on my first run-through and am having a blast! I am thinking of making the jump in difficulty because my main issue is boredom. The only time I feel threatened is when I make a silly mistake or push for something that I should have just waited for.

[@ericcartman9594]

For me is stalker the minimun dificulty worth playing. You can aldo try different challenges, wich are quite fun

[@AlexWhiteUkraine]

My favorite base is Town Hall in PV (I play on Voyager and sometimes Stalker). It has 6 cooking spot stove, lots of storage locations (one of them is 200 kg wardrobe) so I can put different stuff in different storage. But my favorite part about it that even if I come back there during night time I don't need to use any light source to get from entrance to bed on the floor. There is a cave nearby where I can sleep to get rid of the condition when you can't sleep inside a house, few rabbit spots, lots of deers around and one of the biggest birch bark spawning areas in the game nearby. Bear and moose may also spawn there, and if they won't there are many other locations where they can spawn in PV. Fishing spot is somewhat far but it's ok - I rarely use it. The only thing that this base spot is missing to be absolutely perfect for me is a crafting table. It's not far in the Barn but there are wolves around, or I can go to the safe one in Farmhouse but it's a little bit far away. Overall PV is my favorite location in the game so it's a win-win for me :)

[@CroneLife1]

200 kg wardrobe!! What *is* that thing - a portal to Narnia? Dayum!

[@incog_nizant]

I think that Hinterland during a next big update should add a "Level 6" to at least some of the skills. For mending it should be that once you repair something to 100% it will stay at 100% until it is damaged either in a fall or during an animal attack. For the Archery Skill, you should be able to make a Sling Shot and launch stones to kill rabbits and bullets to scare wolves. For Fire Starting, 2 stick should be enough to start a fire; just rub them together if you have the fire pit set up already. What do you guys think?

[@shadowdeslaar]

a slingshot would be easier to use then a sling. But definitely if they added a sling it would be enough to kill a wolf. Scare a bear. And absolutely ADD THE ABILITY TO EAT CROWS.

[@CAlin-ro8dy]

And for Cooking level 6 you will be able to eat trees. Astrid keeps asking for it.

[@shadowdeslaar]

Perhaps we could Kill and Cook Crows..

[@PythonTP]

I think rubbing 2 sticks together would not work that is too unbelievable imo since I believe a fire drill can’t just be 2 random sticks and they’d be very wet as well in winter. Im not sure though

[@incog_nizant]

@@PythonTP It might be a bit ambitious, but I think that a "Fire Starting Level 6" should eliminate matches, firestrikers, torches, etc. With a stick and a cedar firewood piece, I know Les Stroud can make a fire.

[@Estie_cz]

I recently decided to make the camp office in Mystery Lake my main base, my other favorite building is Pleasant Valley's Thomson's Crossing, the community centre (the six-burner stove is a big plus and I like the building itself, light and spacious) and I also love the Farmhouse there for the same reasons). My favorite region is Coastal Highway but it's very poor regarding the locations that can be made bases. I have a secondary base there in the coastal house (the green one), but it's very dark and I cannot be inside without a lightsorce which makes it difficult to manage stuff. I only make main bases in areas where I can fish. And I only choose a bulding as a base if it doesn't have a corpse inside. In my first gameplay the camp office had a corpse that made me uncomfortable so I had my base in the Trapper's Cabin. Now in my second run, the corpse didn't spawn there so I'm good.

[@greyfur8005]

I play a bit different I'm more of a nomand run I have bases on nearly every map but their less bases and more way stations I mostly travel light but I aways keep ether a pistol or rifle on me (I died once to a moose it scared the shit out of me)

[@munixi9351]

I love graymothers house (as trippy as it is after playing the story), it has a 6x burner stove and a metric butt-ton of storage

[@briarrose8631]

My favorite base is the Mountainer's Hut on Timberwolf Mountain! It's prefect for a chill playthrough style like mine, fishing hunt right outside, along with tons of cattails for an early headstart on food. Bunny and deerspawns right outside, so I get to see them walking around when the sun comes up and it's gorgeous. Tons of wolves, a beer, a moose I occasionally see, and about 3 good caves in walking distance. There are also plan containors that you need a hacksaw for that are full of supplies. The hut itself is very nice with two beds, floor storage, work bench, and a beautiful fire place. There's a giant hole in the roof but as long as you keep a fire going during a blizzard you're fine. I've been living here for 76 days now and I am very content to just stay here indefinitely with occasionally going to Pleasant valley and Ash canone for more manmade supplies. :)

[@homerocolombo1142]

Great video as usual man!

[@testfire3000]

This is amazing! Love the details.

[@jameswoodruff7095]

This video convinced me to buy this game, what an awesome base. I will be going back and checking out the other videos you have on this game.

[@Zaknafein]

Thank you! Hope you enjoy the game. It is amazing!

[@cyrus05w]

I found out yesterday by accidentally hitting the wrong trigger on my controller something amazing that you do in your videos!!!!! I found out I can manually move stuff around after dropping it, I am so hyped about this because I'm going to be able to set up my own main base and every zone base I got... Oh my goodness that radio tower in pleasant valley looks awesome although the trek up there with all those blizzards as you mentioned there are a lot of lizards there.

[@furiousapplesack]

Once I figured that out, I meticulously stocked every shelf of the PV camp office with items. So much food went bad on the shelves, but it looks cool and I have no regrets.

[@Error_404_Account_Deleted]

I stumbled into the Camp Office after leaving Pleasant Valley where I lived from Day 3-40 something. Glad to know the general area is really good. Been there for about 20 days now. Got a moose, found a revolver a few days later…phew. More wolves than my stay in Pleasant Valley which surprised me. Only seen one bear here. Pleasant Valley was loaded with them where I was. And the weather was a little worse.

[@SnowyRains]

Appreciate this now I got an idea of what to put in a base

[@anyap1799]

My personal favorite bases are Jackrabbit Island in CH, the Community Center in Thompson’s Crossing (in PV), and the Camp Office or Trapper’s Cabin in ML. I always play on Voyageur because I’m actually not too good at video games, even though I love playing them. Also voyageur is hard enough lol.

[@greg1569]

that's the spirit! You'll get better over time... keep grinding

[@yoosh9034]

@@Holy_Discourses It’s not really a gimmick, some people just want to be challenged. Voyager is fun but it’s extremely easy imo. You can basically do whatever you want and are never really punished for making mistakes

[@Thevideofish85]

I’ve found that Stalker is not that much more difficult than voyager. The animals are a bit more aggressive but not anything a torch and a stone can’t fix, and loot is less abundant but it’s not a huge leap to stalker.

[@CroneLife1]

I hear ya there, anyap1799. Voyageur is about as far as I can manage. Some of these guys make Interloper look like Pilgrim. I can make Pilgrim look like anyone's definition of Hardcore. I know my limits! :D

[@SpookyRumi]

Bro I have over 500 hours and can't survive more than three days on interloper! That is insane, well done!

[@AmplifyChris]

It’s not that hard when you follow a couple of rules: 1. Find matches 2. Collect all Cattails 3. Find shelter 4. Light a fire and grab torches to fire chain the Fire and save matches 5. Never stay in a region or try to start a base till day 30-40

[@SprocketWalker]

I really enjoy your videos. My favorite are the NOGOA series you do. I get the feeling you don't enjoy NOGOA that much... but you're really good at it, and the difficulty makes it quite interesting. Thank you for the videos! Here's my vote for more NOGOA.

[@Zaknafein]

Thank you! Yes, NOGOA punishes exploration a bit much for my liking, but it's a great challenge. I hope to record more of it soon.

[@demonomancy88]

Awesome prybar collection mate!

[@Sleepyjew]

Super cool video dude. Thanks for keeping this content going. It really inspires me in game and irl.

[@frogstamper]

Amazing video, double kudos for surviving so long, I've been away from the game for about a year now and came across your video for a few tips before I start a new game, its been very helpful. If you do read this I'd be interested to know how many near deaths you had on this run.

[@Zaknafein]

Hi frog. Thank you for your kind words. There were many near deaths. In short, I almost died from wolf+moose on Day 250, timberwolves around Day 411, surprise wolf Day 424, blizzard and rope around Day 650 and ice+surprise wolf Day 970. Probably others. If you watch my 500 Days video and 1000 days video, you can see most of the near deaths :)

[@siegfriedschmitz5260]

wow, impressed by the notes

[@yellowdracula9912]

GG good video I love that u use the note for anything I usually base in the farm of pleasent valley but i play stalker

[@ggplata]

I remember finding this game in early access back in the day, was so impressed at the immersion it delivered. I haven't played it in quite a while but have fond memories. Surviving 1 day, let alone 1,000 days on interloper difficulty is quite difficult, this is impressive. I personally liked doing custom settings, making it easy to start out but having the world get increasingly difficult as time goes on.

[@igorz3551]

Do you lose everything if you die???

[@confusedturtle183]

@@igorz3551 you lose the whole save

[@igorz3551]

@@confusedturtle183 that's toughh

[@confusedturtle183]

@@igorz3551 it is. But I also like the idea of death being permanent and unavoidable.

[@ibpositive757]

Holy shit, I can't believe how much you've collected here lmao. This is amazing!

[@ansuz444]

You have a very catchy and uplifting into.

[@adriaandoelman2577]

I glitched myself into the river near the dam after about 300 days. Don’t ever try to get under the little bridge near the dam.😭 My favourite spot is the mountaineer’s hut at Timberwolf mountain.

[@marcusdonahue7124]

There’s a spot in mountain town, between the church and the farmstead where you can become glitched into the snow hills. Just ended my 50 day stalker, still pretty sour about it. One thing Hinterland should do is ad in a stuck fix of some sort, maybe you could check it as an option in the settings then save and quit and when you respawn it could give you five meters of free walking. Yeah it could probably be manipulated and bugged, but it would be hard to break the meta of the game if you had to save and reload. And hell, you’d still have to be able to use a bedroll to save which I don’t know if I even had one on me. Sorry for rambling, I just know that it’s so frustrating to be stuck “dead” when you’re at full condition and know exactly where you are and what you wanted to accomplish.

[@scott-richards]

good work. kudos.

[@Ericadams-yj7oj]

hahahahaha i havent played this game in years and dont remember too much, but as soon as i saw that cabin I remembered the entire landscape near it and the entire storyline. story mode took me so long

[@xAnAngelOfDeathx]

Great work. Awesome game.

[@jeremygonzal8603]

can't wait for the survival mode expansion!!!

[@demi5137]

Amazing base, and still so much resources after 1000 days geez! I am sure things respawn after a certain number of days, I went to summit at day 40, its now day 300 plus and I went back up there and found a firestriker at 88%! But yeah Amazing and congrtaz on 1000 days really amazing! 😀

[@Zaknafein]

Thank you! That firestriker is a guaranteed spawn on the Summit, so you probably just missed it the first time :) Things don't respawn, except if a patch hits and something is changed or introduced. The only things that respawn naturally are coal, wood, stones and animals (and beach combing items).

[@benezen]

great job :D

[@alexroselle]

Impressive setup! As for my favorite base: after over 900 hours of game play time, I still don't have one favorite base above all others, because each has positives and negatives. But my top 3 are the ML Camp Office (almost perfect except for the yuck factor of an indoor corpse), the PV Community Hall (has everything but a workbench, but several are nearby), and the CH Quonset Garage (CH Garage was my #1 until I graduated to playing Stalker difficulty and the wolves got too bothersome). Other spots I would like a lot better if they were in regions I felt like staying in longer: TWM Mountaineer Hut, AC Angler's Den, and BR Old Substation.

[@nugsnjugs9954]

The camp office is my favorite spot too. Right now I am at the farm in Pleasant Valley but Mystery lake is close enough to get to the ammo workbench in Bleak Inlet which is about a two day one night journey for me if I get the aurora right too I can use the milling station for my equipment.

[@pulkmees]

Trappers Cabin was the goto spot in 2014 too. Not surprised you stayed there.

[@PhunkJoaquin]

U surely are a project manager in real life... Genius organisation - i love it hahahaha

[@katinwelly]

Today i learned you can balance tea on the armchair! 😂 awesome collection. Edit: also, Trappers is my favourite base too though I’ve also spent a lot of time based at the fishing huts in CH. 👍🏻

[@RachDarastric2]

Idea, what if they added a cave slate, and a chisel, and what you do is carve new whetstones out of the cave slate, and over time the cave slate grows back, like it did in that one cave when they cut some out to make a place for a wheelchair ramp?

[@glassmoustache]

I have a few main bases but my favourite is the house across the road fro mthe garage in Coastal highway. Its got a nice fire and lots of storage and feels likea home

[@furiousapplesack]

I like to use both that house and the garage together. The garage for curing and tool/crafting stuff, house for food/clothes/etc, and they're close enough to run between them safely.

[@CarlosCooksChi]

Bro isn't surviving. He's thriving

[@chriswood4510]

I recently moved from the camp office to the hunters cabin near the maintenance shop aways out. But omg it’s been amazing for furs out that way. I’m on the easy mode so it’s not too difficult out there

[@avex1025]

Just started my 1st interloper run after playing the game for 4 years never thought it would be hard lol

[@jeremygonzal8603]

it's a whole different game at interloper. i envy you and the time I just started playing that difficulty. :) right now, just waiting for them expanding it.

[@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan]

I had no idea you could catch a 13 pound fish that's insane.

[@karkim3608]

Hi Fantastic video, i have to try the game congrats A lot of sucess

[@aben8192]

I laughed really hard when I saw how he stored his herbal teas on the couch

[@tjbarke6086]

My long runs always eventually die to my ADHD after I accidentally go AFK for too long...

[@lilstrats944]

I got a crazy story. I got back from Milton and I was stockpiling food to finish Signal Void. I was hoping for a doe but I got a bear. I went back to Milton and got more stuff, I got back to Trappers and there was a moose!! I went to get the backpack, when I got back to Trappers.. another bear!! Bear, moose, bear at Trappers within three weeks!!

[@TheTeufelPenguin]

I use the cabin on the lake in the Wolf area. Easy to sleep close outside for cabin fever, good amount of wood around. No stove is the only downside

[@jaytee3557]

After 3.5 years? Wow count me out

[@CleoHarperReturns]

Hoarder Cabin! Not surprisingly after 1000+ days of solitude there are a lot of parallels in the behavior.

[@SirWilliamOlsen]

Nice work. I use Camp Office. Just lived there for 100 days.

[@markknight5178]

Spray paint... there isn't any real use for them, but I just started collecting them anyway. Now, the cabin fever makes sense.

[@shadowdeslaar]

I like Caves, Branches, and anything that is outdoors!

[@superspider64]

I remember reading on TVTropes that there's a Beachcombing mechanic of some kind for finding resources that are normally non-renewable like matches, maybe you could use that to get more flare rounds for your flare gun

[@Zaknafein]

Thats true but you cant get flare shells from that

[@superspider64]

@@Zaknafein Aw beans I thought you could, nevermind lol

[@canis39]

@@Zaknafein I actually just found a flare shell while beachcombing at Coastal Highway!

[@chriswood4510]

I had a moose spawn directly across the trappers cabin. But yea just like you 1 time….. he got away

[@badutmasakini2312]

hmmm I want to know more about fishing and and some tips about fishing in the late game interloper zak. i wish you make a videos about fishing. 🙏🙏🙏

[@Zaknafein]

Maybe one day - its pretty straight forward :) Just fish whenever you need oil, pretty much.

[@Noicul]

May I suggest Gear Decay Modifier. Great mod to make decay more realistic. Also, Place Anywhere makes it possible to stack items or put hides on walls. Cheers.

[@ironicprofilepic6367]

I know it probably isn't the case, but when you say you can place hides on walls, I'm just imagining an animation where you just throw the hide against the wall and it sticks to it with a wet slap.

[@arneoestringen6660]

I use the garage, just for the shelf storeage.

[@michaelkey9549]

Cool name. Love RAS's books.

[@pure_starlight661]

Hey Zak, i got an idea for your "things to do" list. first time i have been in the mines at ash canyon (backpack n craboons), and after i looted everything inside the mines, i decide to check again the front area outside before leaving. so im taking this walk by the river to check if there is a body close to the waterfall, as you spoke of in your AC video, and why not, check the view to the lower levels from there. so here i am standing to the edge of the waterfall. Hell this looks like an easy way down, going from one rock to an other like a real goat. why dont i give it a try, and if it turns i cant, then i ll hit esc, and reload back in the mines cave. first little jump goes fine. plenty of space to move, i could even put the bedroll down and take a nap with the sound of falling water in my ears. second jump down and boom. strain ankle and saving. F@ck. i can't go back. So i got to climb all the way down, and in the end, if i make it alive, there are 4 wolves waiting for me just in time for dinner. i wont say to you if i managed to get away alive, its just an idea for your list. climb down the mines waterfall in ash canyon.. bb

[@rhyshirah9822]

I have 3 that I go to though one of them is a bit weird. 1- Trappers Cabin 2- The Viken 3- Tail of the Plane in Timberwolf (I use the hut on Crystal lake to cure things).

[@gam3ove472]

Me: Survived a week in the long dark. Him: Survived 1000 days Me: 👁️👄👁️

[@r.i.t.randominterestingthi4031]

cool video's now show us what does it looks like after 2000 days :D

[@sethhouston362]

Always was the trappers for me but then my current run is at the camp office just hit day 101, other than that I lowkey like the farm house in paradise valley but that’s just because I liked the size of it with fireplaces

[@ireilly2000]

So fun to watch, learned lots of little tips from you. All I can offer you in return is an end game use for prybars 😂 I leave at least one at all my preferred fishing spots, so I don’t have to degrade tools I care about.

[@Zaknafein]

Thank you! I use hammers for fishing, since they just require wood to repair :)

[@jeremygonzal8603]

@@wnchstrman that's true. I've never had a real use to always lug a hammer since they're dreadfully heavy and an axe is great defense against wolves and actually kills them. true, in the endgame, very little use for wolves for anything, but that's still one less wolf on that area for a few days.

[@slidhomes3439]

There is a spot behind the rabbit hill where a fire will never blow out.

[@FutureFocusTraders]

Just my first game longer than 5 days.... both pilgrim and voyager........ see you in 6 years when I do the same in interloper :))

[@thebeautifulfamily8938]

I’m just downloading this game and hoping that it’s a fun little game I love survival games so praying this one is actually good.

[@igorz3551]

@Hey there! Hi there! It's free w game pass and I'm thinking of download it is it hard??? I usually find survivor games that have hunger/thirsty or climate damage hard

[@dp9ch]

Nice base, looks crowded though. Maybe you want to move it all to Camp Office and keep the second story neat and comely. It's not the longest haul imaginable. Regarding "backup tools because they cannot be repaired anymore": I think you could repair them at the milling machine.

[@Zaknafein]

Thank you. I don't mind it being cramped, as long as it is organized. Yes, you can repair it at the milling machine, but BI is my least favourite region. I've only repaired them once there.

[@marcinburgund3644]

My middle name is „just in case” but when I checked it in the dictionary I saw „Zaknafein” as definition 😁

[@Cabledawgphoneg]

Im liking the maintenance shop at broken railroad has the outside area and I can kinda cheat on the wolves there and shoot down at the bear from the cliff by the cabin, whatever the 2nd difficulty is what I'm playing as now

[@nicholasjayaputra5754]

I mostly spend my time in fishing huts, because I personally think that most indoors are pretty creepy

[@TheEldritchGod]

Hold it. You don't know of the windproof spot up against the world wall? Leave Trapper's. turn left. Go to the world wall. Turn Right. Go until you look up and there is a fallen tree HIGH above you. There should be a 'V' spot up against the world wall where you can place a fire. Careful. There is exactly ONE pixel you can put the fire on. The spot is wind proof EXCEPT, if you go in an out of transition zone while the wind is blowing hard enough to put out the fire You can put a bedroll on the ice shelf to the left of the fire, if you are facing the world wall. You can climb up on the shelf above the fire by climbing to the left then jogging back to the right. From the shelf, if you crouch, you can reach the fire and the bedroll. I will store up all my wood and crap until cabin fever hits, then go out there and camp in the open for a few days while making fifty liters of water and cooking everything all at once.

[@Zaknafein]

Sounds like a hassle if its just one pixel. Never seen anyone ever do that before in all my years, but I might follow your description and try it out one day :)

[@TheEldritchGod]

You just got to search for it. Trust me. It shows up eventually.

[@gil7068]

i play on pilgrim and my favorite base is the quonset, there's a bear and moose spawn right there and there are fishing huts convenient.

[@MemoOrdilalenguota]

My personal favorite Is Hibernia Processing in DP, at least for the fiest months in the game. Rabbits, deer and wolves spawn nearby so I never run out of food, forge Is nearby, lots of resources in there and if I ever have to change of región I can move fast through the mines. Only con Is that I can't fish un that zone so lantern Fuel Is an issue

[@rockabillly88]

Fish anywhere now

[@louisgroenewald4581]

My favourite main base is the bunker at pleasant valley.. or more of a main storage area my main base is the cabin up at timberwolf mountain..

[@MrNobody-zx4jz]

I m proud of you son

[@gkr2189]

Riches for days!

[@scsangler9373]

Does clothing deteriorates at the same rate whether stored in a container or just laying on the floor or on a shelf?

[@spangboy303]

Yeah I think it does. I have a feeling the only difference is whether the clothes are inside or outside.

[@Zaknafein]

Yeah it makes no difference, as long as they aren't exposed to the elements outside.

[@crimsonsakura2184]

Wow. I thought that the maximum amount of days possible to survive is about 2 000, but when i saw all of these cured saplings i understood that it's about 3 000 or even more, bcs. the fire is infinite (mag. glass + sticks), water and food is infinite too, the outlayer clothes are made of animals and pretty much infinite too. They only finite thing is scrap and cloth, so the biggest problem will be wildlife encounters and tool management. (Kinda sad that moss bandage doesn't treats bleeding. it would be great) I'm always trying to set the base at camp office, bcs. it's pretty much the best due to the resources around - a lot of wood, deer, fish and rabbits with not such a huge threat of encountering wolves. But if the camp office wasn't existing i would choose the milton town, bcs. it has pretty much of the resources needed for survival, but there's always a chance to encounter a wolf when running from church to the home or from the home to the gas station. Also, Milton is pretty good because there are a lot of cars and houses to store loot inside.

[@nevar108]

You can also do "beach combing" which will extend you late game almost indefinitely.

[@markmontreal7815]

Well fire is finite they run out and mag degrades…. Maybe can you use lantern to make fires? But then scrap metal will run out and so will lantern…

[@crimsonsakura2184]

@@markmontreal7815 I don't think that mag lens can degrade, it just has different condition upon spawning but i never saw it changing. About lantern - no, you can't use it for starting fires.

[@markmontreal7815]

@@crimsonsakura2184 I’ve seen it degrade like 2% after every use…. I’m very sure lol, haven’t loaded the game in a while

[@reitairue2073]

​@@markmontreal7815No that's the Firestriker. The mag lense stays good unless hit by bear or moose.

[@tracydeclan1198]

What do you usually do when you get Cabin Fever at Trappers? The only reason I don't use trappers for loper runs is because caves/fishing huts are too far and dangerous

[@Zaknafein]

I usually go on my next adventure when it happens, and it gets cured by travelling. Or I go to the Lake Overlook cave by the camp office.

[@winterwolf8046]

After watching this, I'm going to start hoarding random bits that I've left everywhere. Also, why not carry the coffees with you all the time, you never know when they might save you.

[@mehmethacioglu2092]

He survived 1000 days man

[@martinlatvian5538]

My main base is always Coastal Highway Gas Station

[@TheGallicWitch]

what were you tracking in the journal, was it the weather? I'm always super interested in what other veteran TLD players keep track of in their journal, i'm a serial note-taker in TLD lmao

[@Zaknafein]

Yes, it was crows and weather, to see if there is a pattern (doesn't seem like it so far)

[@markmontreal7815]

Can you use the lantern to light up stoves and campfires? I figure fire and bandages from cloths would be the first expended resource that would cause your death. I guess you can live past your last matchstick if you’ve cooked a ton of meat and boiled also a lot of water, but ultimately you’re dead because you ran out of fire. But the you’ll be doomed when your last lantern can’t be repaired from depleted metal scrap. And finally I figure running out of cloth, hence bandages, will get you killed from bleeding out open wound eventually…

[@Bearmauler]

Both cloth and scrap metal can be found via beachcombing. Also you can start fire by maglens .

[@benhayes1972]

I'm only ten days in to my challenge but have set up my camp at Milton house

[@exj8363]

Yo I was steaming last night with the title need tips for interloper and I couldn’t see the chat until after you left and saw you joined that’s crazy good video man

[@Zaknafein]

Oh yes, I remember. No worries - I will pop by another time :) And thank you - if you need tips for interloper I got several videos that might help.

[@HLLTAF]

I think you beat the game dude

[@MashBro]

You're insane... I love it.

[@ahmadfitri7976]

I still play it since 2017

[@George_Shonia]

Dude have so much resources that it's enough until developers release their next game

[@thearcane4533]

Lets goooo

[@JonathanRossRogers]

I distribute resources to multiple bases.

[@Joe-3.]

so a moose spawned for me near trapper's homestead, but i didn't have anything to hunt it with. came back later when i was ready and it was... gone? i checked everywhere but i couldn't find it, not even a carcass, any explanation?

[@Zaknafein]

Moose will spawn and despawn somewhat randomly. Having found it does not mean it will be there later. However, if it was not killed, then the likelihood if finding it again soon is much higher. Just check again here and there

[@Joe-3.]

@@Zaknafein Alright, thank you for the tip Zak!