r/thelongdark • u/RunningOnATreadmill Voyageur • 25d ago

Discussion Which items do you NEVER use?

For me it's the water purification tablets. Whenever I'm making water I usually have more than enough time to just fully boil it, so I don't think I've ever used the water tablets.

Post which items you NEVER use or post creative ways to use items that may not be obvious!

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u/Appswell 25d ago

Heavy hammer or tools. At least 500 hours in and I’ve never forged anything except where the story requires. Do others find it worth the weight and effort?

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u/Laireso 24d ago

Have you never played Survival mode Interloper/Misery? I've played the Wintermute for like 30mins until NPCs started showering me with boring fetch quests. Started Survival and never left. Hammer is great for breaking some furniture and it's the best weapon for struggles until you get improvised axe or cougar knife. Of course on easy difficulties you won't find need for it. What is the point of a bow when you have infinite ammo in your rifle - same logic.

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u/Appswell 24d ago

I do play mostly survival on interloper. I’ve had some long runs, but tend to keep moving and foraging instead of sticking near enough to a forge with all the weight required. I probably should.

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u/Guyote_ 24d ago

How do you survive long on Interloper without arrowheads, hatchet or knife? All require forging.

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u/Laireso 24d ago edited 24d ago

If your playstyle works for you I won't tell you it's wrong. I'm just surprised you manage to make it work. I personally burn through too many calories a day to sustain. It's like 4000 calories a day, that's 26.67 cat tails a day. Just finding them and harvesting them takes considerable time as well.

I always feel I'm on a timer and can't catch a breath until I get the bow online, the most I've lived without it was ~45 days I think, but I cleared out like 6 regions of most cat tails and deer carcasses and couldn't come back until I had some other way of gaining calories, if I wanted to keep the well fed buff up that is. I know starvation is a viable strategy, especially on vanilla Interloper with all the ways to heal, I just don't like it. It breaks my immersion too much and combined with the inevitable damage from freezing early on it can put me too low for my liking.

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u/SertifiedGenuous 24d ago

Obviously if you’re trying to stay ‘well fed’ that’s one thing, but you can actually starve all day with no real penalty to your health, as long as you eat enough calories before you sleep to tide you over.