While waiting for the deer carcass to thaw you could have boiled water. That's literally free water. If too heavy, excess water could always be dropped somewhere. Water doesn't spoil and gets consumed constantly, you'll be glad to find free water later on.
💬 *Tip of the day:* If you're going to travel don't drink to full during the day - leave enough empty stomach space for the future hot teas you'd need to chug. Teas replenish a good amount of thirst on their own. For this reason my thirst level typically oscilates around midway during the day.
I personally don't bother picking up burnt torches to harvest later. - There is plenty enough new sticks lying around - A burnt torch in the inventory is a dead 0.3kg weight until harvested. You can collect two new sticks off the ground in its place for the same weight. - Harvesting torches is a tedious task - Finally, it's immersion breaking: you get a torch for 10mins of campfire time, then you burn the torch (varies from max 45mins to 18mins), then you break up a BURNT torch to get a stick which gives 7.5mins campfire burn time (which is then increased by fire starting skill, on lvl 5 you get 11.25mins of burnt time from a stick). Kind of silly.
I normally only pick them up later in the game. "Who littered there???! Oh... yeah, it was me. Guess i'm cleaning that up now". Not for practical reasons xD
With the new safehouse customization update, you can actually move an existing workbench from one location and build a new one at a new location -- but I think you need unique "woodworking tools" in order to build the new workbench. But this means you could move the outside workbench at the prison, into one of the warm interiors (like where the ammunition bench and milling machine are). Then you wouldn't have to worry about needing a bunch of firewood in order to craft clothing. It's a pretty cool feature .... but I haven't yet tried it myself, as I haven't had enough time to play this past week (and it's been really buggy for those of us on Playstation)!
Yeah, I remember seeing that in the recent update video! I think you're right that it requires woodworking tools so I don't think I'll be able to take advantage of that any time soon 😞
@mayasaurus Funnily enough, community came up with all kinds of assumptions about what flyby crows signify over the years. Flying in a direction of a carcass was one of them. I mean it's logical, because crows circle above carcasses. Another myth was that they predict that the blizzard must come soon. But no, there is a line in old game update notes that I found recently, indicating their connection to the immediate weather change, but not necessarily to a blizzard. 😄
While waiting for the deer carcass to thaw you could have boiled water. That's literally free water. If too heavy, excess water could always be dropped somewhere. Water doesn't spoil and gets consumed constantly, you'll be glad to find free water later on.
💬 *Tip of the day:*
If you're going to travel don't drink to full during the day - leave enough empty stomach space for the future hot teas you'd need to chug. Teas replenish a good amount of thirst on their own. For this reason my thirst level typically oscilates around midway during the day.
I personally don't bother picking up burnt torches to harvest later.
- There is plenty enough new sticks lying around
- A burnt torch in the inventory is a dead 0.3kg weight until harvested. You can collect two new sticks off the ground in its place for the same weight.
- Harvesting torches is a tedious task
- Finally, it's immersion breaking: you get a torch for 10mins of campfire time, then you burn the torch (varies from max 45mins to 18mins), then you break up a BURNT torch to get a stick which gives 7.5mins campfire burn time (which is then increased by fire starting skill, on lvl 5 you get 11.25mins of burnt time from a stick). Kind of silly.
I normally only pick them up later in the game. "Who littered there???! Oh... yeah, it was me. Guess i'm cleaning that up now". Not for practical reasons xD
With the new safehouse customization update, you can actually move an existing workbench from one location and build a new one at a new location -- but I think you need unique "woodworking tools" in order to build the new workbench. But this means you could move the outside workbench at the prison, into one of the warm interiors (like where the ammunition bench and milling machine are). Then you wouldn't have to worry about needing a bunch of firewood in order to craft clothing. It's a pretty cool feature .... but I haven't yet tried it myself, as I haven't had enough time to play this past week (and it's been really buggy for those of us on Playstation)!
The best setup is to have both workbenches at a place: one inside, one outside. Helps with Cabin Fever.
Yeah, I remember seeing that in the recent update video! I think you're right that it requires woodworking tools so I don't think I'll be able to take advantage of that any time soon 😞
Fly by crows indicate that the weather has changed. Nothing else.
Good to know! I must have just gotten lucky this time 😂
@mayasaurus Funnily enough, community came up with all kinds of assumptions about what flyby crows signify over the years. Flying in a direction of a carcass was one of them. I mean it's logical, because crows circle above carcasses. Another myth was that they predict that the blizzard must come soon. But no, there is a line in old game update notes that I found recently, indicating their connection to the immediate weather change, but not necessarily to a blizzard. 😄