Survival Skills | How To Survive The Long Dark

[@halonothing4210]

Definitely! Being able to harvest 100% frozen carcasses by hand is immensely helpful.

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Yes sirree!

[@cloaker7237]

One way to cheese the cooking / harvesting is a trick called "shredding". Basically, you select the meat in small increments, then cancel it, you'll get a super tiny piece of meat. Since cooking is quantity over quality, a shredded deer or even bear/moose can go a LONG way for leveling

[@recarsion]

I grind archery by shooting rabbits. It eats into bow and arrow condition but levelling up that bit faster is worth it. Generally my philosophy is that it's okay to be a bit wasteful in the early to mid game as long as it improves your long term survival chances. You don't have to worry about efficiency and saving resources until much later imo.

[@KaryoSentiko]

I've been doing the same, but recently had the realisation that that condition loss early on might turn out to be an irreversible problem later on, as there are only so many birch saplings in the game. So far, I rarely get beyond 50 days, so this has never been a problem for me. But when I hear about players on 500+ days, I start to wonder about how many resources could possibly be left in the world, since so many things do not respawn. Surely, a time will come when all of your arrows are broken and there is no more birch to craft replacements. There will be no food available then other than rabbits and fish, as packaged food will have been exhausted, and the rifle is likely to wear out even faster than the birch problem. It would be great if birch and maple would regrow or have random spawns over time. Not completely out of the question, I think, since animals have respawn rates.

[@oldveryveryoldmanfromthe1900s]

@@KaryoSentiko saplings can appear on the edge of the ocean

[@madisonjones4139]

You're very analytical and thorough. I appreciate these guides, and truly believe you would be fine in the real dark!

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Glad you like them!

[@seriouslyslinky1420]

One thing that I would recommend for a VERY late game run is to convert all revolver ammo into rifle ammo and use the rifle ammo to ONLY hunt moose and maybe bear, I say moose because moose don’t bleed.

[@dagayisi25]

Level 5 cooking was my primary Target. So İ did it. Before İ was eating lots of wolf meat and got parasite. Wasnt that Good experience. Now, İ dont even have second thought eating %0 condition food. İ dont even get sick when İ eat raw fish for 1 or 2 times. İn the 3rd time, u get sick ofc. My firearm, revolver and harvesting skills are level 4. But İ want to make my archery skill level 5. İ want to leave the rifle and carry more weight

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Bow is best waifu.

[@professionalgamer4858]

@@Lonelywolfofficial wait what

[@Seriously_Unserious]

Good advice, Lonely. Have you done a video on the weapons available in TLD and the benefits and weaknesses of each of them yet? If not that would be a good one to do in the future as choosing the right weapon for the right situation is a huge factor in surviving in this game.

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

I have in the past before the addition of the revolver. I'll be making a new one shortly.

[@toocleanpappas5397]

To boost your harvesting and cooking skills start carving off a one lb piece, once you start you will see the little timer circle filling up. If you hit escape when it is just a quarter done you will carve off a 1/4 lb piece. Instead of getting 10 harvests and cooking points from a 10 lb chunk of meat, you will get 40. Fastest way to level those skills. It is tedious though for sure.

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

You can do that as well, but as you said it's incredibly tedious and annoying. It's still a large gain to sit and boost with the 1.1 pound increments.

[@S_Black]

I got to level 5 archery relatively fast by liberally killing wolves. Doesn't take too many hits and it gives you freedom to move around

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Until they respawn... But yes, still a good strategy!

[@safehavenonice6431]

Howdy, Lonely. Just curious, what do you hope the devs will add in future updates, or alongside the Pleasant Valley rework? Anything from late game content, to new scenarios, to new items or wildlife, or just simple quality-of-life improvements. Been waning on my interest in TLD and I'm hoping to revive that when they release Wintermute Episode 3.

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

A few quality of life improvements would be nice, but there's a few things I'd love to see the most, and probably in this order: 1) Wildlife AI complete rework, and inter-species interactions re-balance. Tuned to difficulty as well :P 2) Loot table randomization and addition of more items, both craftable and processed. 3) Greater importance on resource management and difficulty tuning for post-100 day runs, to increase difficulty in a meaningful and engaging way besides wolves = everywhere and cold = always. 4) More 'targeted' regions, I.E Forlorn Muskeg was on low visibility via fog, and treacherous terrain via thin ice. HRV was no man made shelter and extreme vertical differences. I'd love to see more 'targeted' regions that seek to fill niches as well as larger regions overall. 5) Additional wildlife 6) more late-game enhancements and difficulty tweaks 7) mod support 8) Play as the wolf and hunt a survivor :P (this won't ever happen in this version of TLD but one can dream)

[@safehavenonice6431]

@@Lonelywolfofficial Quite a list, I agree with most if not all of these. I do know there's a game where you play as a wolf trying to find a mate and raise pups. The name escapes me at the moment. Of course if you played it you'd have to change your name. :P

[@Ratty_Mask]

@@safehavenonice6431 Hi very late to this as I only recently started playing TLD but the game is WolfQuest, a game made by a real zoo who tried to make it a realistic(ish) wolf simulator

[@lukey717]

Honestly I would like to simply be able to move and craft storage from reclaimed wood such as cupboards or a supply bin like you find under lookouts sometimes

[@clarkkent1177]

Start out with a tip for archery and making arrows but I don't have a fuckin bow.

[@lewys9204]

I'm playing wintermute on uh normal difficulty.. the campaign.. tried survival on medium and found it quite easy.. so earlier today I had around 15kg of meat on me.. was sat there when 2x wolves started running at me.. I shot them both.. still had 15kg of meat and now 5.3kg of meat per wolf.. so I got alot of meat now.. shame the frozen meat lasts a few days 🤷‍♂️

[@ansuz444]

Great video, thanks.

[@kkkutas]

the repair skill ist very usefull i didnt know u can skill it i just noticed when i sharpend an axe eacht 5% condition from the sharpeningstone gaine 3% condition for the axe after around 10 times it was 4% condition gain peer use but still 5% lost on the stone nice tips

[@NoahLavineASP]

The music at 1:35 sounds like the classic Minecraft music 🎵

[@legoose1380]

As I was watching this a wolf jump scared me and ended my run. 😢

[@tat2edsinner]

Thanks for the video on day 66 and I’ll be leaving Coastal Highway back to Mystery Lake unless someone knows a different area I should go from here. Thanks. Great tips. 👍

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

No problem! No one place is inherently better then another, depending on your point of view.

[@lewys9204]

Well mystery lake is considered easier to play in.. according to tbe start new game the map shows this info.. I mean the mystery lake has alot of open scenery.. Cabins north left and north right.. Loads of caves.. Has antibiotic mushroom.. Visitor cabin has a work bench and is centre of the map.. Lots of beds about.. unlike the other areas.. Prey are west of the visitor cabin, so you can lay traps or go hunting there everytime.. Fishing locations, east/southeast of map.. and is also close to visitor cabin and hunting/trail cabins..

[@realisticminecraftsteve4308]

@@lewys9204 visitor cabin?

[@adamjezewski5767]

Lonely, i was wondering your opinion on the gunsmithing update, will you make an additional video like you did with the revolver?

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

I might end up making a video on it at some point here.

[@jensb3946]

First! Love your stuff man❤️

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying!

[@lukey717]

7:45 where is that

[@tristen8089]

Timberwolf mountain region i believe the building lonelywolf is in is the climbers cabin. i could be wrong since i've never really been to Timberwolf mountain, well i have been there, but i choose not to go to that region

[@ckoanime7053]

What if making fishing tackles can raise the fishing skill?

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Honestly wouldn't be a bad idea per se, would just need to be balanced. It's not so far out of concept because making arrows raises your archery skill, though IRL crafting an arrow will do zilch to improve your aim or draw or anything. So it's not an inconceivable addition to have crafting tackle raise your fishing.

[@playnsay5880]

I hear two sets of dialog. I hear your voice and then also hear a background voice that sounds almost the same.

[@motosich9572]

2000 arrowheads???

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Haha don't worry about it. The save I use for running guide videos has been... modified to allow me to show things easily, rather than having to spend a significant amount of time actually playing to get the character to a spot I need or want to film the guide.

[@charlesbennett4449]

Why were you using other players game clips?but anyways good video

[@artemius8442]

What you are talking about? For example, the clip where the moose is killed... That was actually him, you can hear him shout "OH HE DED!". (watch his latest interloper run, episode 71 called Mr. Moose) ;)

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

These are all my own clips mate! Not from anyone else.

[@lewys9204]

I doubt it.. everyone gets the same appear like equipment.. we cant really customise on this game

[@Coffeeandacigarette]

Thanks for not ruining the surprises of the game. That's The fun part.

[@Lonelywolfofficial]

Very welcome mate!

[@deliastan1159]

you didn’t need to watch it dickhead😅