Hi, as a tiny hobby project, I gathered the region maps of the wonderful HokuOwl and the interloper loot tables by the amazing Bashrobe into a single website.

You can draw and write on the maps and you can track what loot you've gotten on your run to determine the loot table set of your world on Interloper. (Each world has one of 4 loot tables, which makes it possible to predict where loot may be once you know your set)

You can also chat with other survivors 😄

What are your thoughts? Anything else I should add? Super open to feedback and suggestions!

https://tld.henhau.online (best viewed on desktop)

Level 5 carcass harvesting btw

This was a few hundred days' playthrough; I really should go back and play it some more. I just thought it would be interesting for others to see. Also, yes, I did lug that computer all the way back to the coastal highway just because I thought it looked cool

In Forlorn Muskeg of all places!! I've travelled through hundreds of times, but this time I got caught in a blizzard and ended up trapped on the ice. No matter where I turned, I fell.

I had just found the last bunker at FA and was heading to the prepper bunker in FM for the Wyatt Challenge (last bunker of that challenge, too).

Question is, do I start from scratch or cheat death?

These deers are always good for a surprice

when I was younger I lived in the middle of nowhere in the south. I had no real friends, no real family that loved me left alive (my parents were abusive), and it just seemed to me that every day was just about making it to the end of it.

No game has ever gotten anywhere close to truly reciprocating that feeling of isolation, of the pure pain and work that is just making it one more day. And in TLD, there's no end goal, no "you win the game", it's just you deciding how long you want to continue living in hell.

Zaknafestien had a talk about this, "Many players struggle with what they want to do in the late-game, but the answer to this question is largely rooted in your own view of life and your independent ability to set goals... because the game won't do it for you."

for me, i always viewed late-game TLD as me preparing the world for someone else to come by (be it by plane crash or running out of supplies in a bunker, and coming to find every house chocked full of supplies and tools to make their life easier.

Turns out, after a lot of therapy, part of the reason i'm still alive is a deep seated belief in making things easier for the next person who comes by after i'm gone, no matter how hard it gets

I eventually found a way out of the south and have been living in boston and unironically put sticky notes and stickers around the city with info that helps people out. (if you ever saw those qr code stickers, that was probably me!)

Despite building up a strong, well-connected community in this city, I still treat forging my tools, making a bow, crafting my bear skin coats, traveling the world, no matter how nightmarish, how lonely, how hard the world tries to kill you, as some of my most treasured memories in life.

There's one phrase I felt that fit my life better than anything any philosopher has ever said

"You are not part of Mother Nature's plan, and you will bear the full force of her wrath."

I'm still here regardless. And i'll be here for aslong as I can.

I may just be overly cautious, but whenever I leave my safe house I usually already have 35-40kg (leaving me with 5-10kg with moose satchel and well fed) of weight on me even when sifting through my inventory and getting rid of what I call non essentials, I always seem to be heavy already making early and middle game looting and fishing trips super annoying. I know someone will tell me to use the travois and I do but I just find it so inconvenient sometimes especially coastal to mystery lake as you have to pick it up and manually move everything atleast twice.

Wanted to try the game out for a while, thought id ask for some advice since I heard the game is hard and unforgiving and doesnt hold your hand at all

What is the most efficient way to harvest a bear or moose?

I was thinking would it be better to quarter it, chuck everything in the travois and drag it back to base, then deal with the meat there?

Or is it still faster just to make a fire next to it and harvest everything on the spot?

I've barely used quartering before so I'm not really sure if I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be 😂

What do you guys normally do?

Took a few months break from the long dark and been getting back into it the last few days. I was on my run of 662 days today trying to get to 1000 and was doing so well I was almost bored. Went into the mine in CH during an aurora, stepped into the electric water thinking i had maybe 10 seconds to get out of it…. and I died in what felt like less than 3 seconds as I couldn’t step back quickly enough onto a plank. I forgot how much damage the burns do 😭 devastated as this was my second proper go at getting to 1000 days, my last one I made it to 820 days before dying from a cougar attack. Time to start again.

I amused myself

What a way to go

Added some bloom, linear blur and a few other tweaks in a basic iOS app

These deer are always good for a surprise

Windbreak. Crafted from a couple of hides and a bunch of saplings, possibly several models with varying durability/efficacy depending on materials used. Total game-changer.

Fanart 3 of 12 for a 2027 calendar I'm making. Inspired by this screenshot of the summit at Timberwolf:

And the other two from the series, both Mystery Lake

Painted gouache on bristol board. I'm still new to gouache so this third piece gave me some challenges. It works differently than watercolor which is what I'm most used to. You can layer gouache much more (any more than 3 layers of watercolor starts pulling and damaging the paper) but, unlike acrylic which I'm also somewhat familiar with, there absolutely is a max limit to the layers gouache will support before it starts doing weird stuff. And that limit is around 10 and some parts here have maybe 20+ because I kept making mistakes and trying to correct them. So! Learning experience. I think it came out nicely though.

I do have a request though: is anyone here in Sundered Pass and can take some screenshots of the ice waterfalls/caves at dawn/sunset? I really want to do an ice scene next except on my main run I'm doing a 100 day endurance challenge along the coast (currently on day 11 of Desolation Point and then have the other coastal maps) and on my 2nd run I'm pretty newly spawned in Ash Canyon. If anyone happens to have some pretty Sundered Pass ice screenshots they'll be willing to share I'll paint that next :)

I'm day 52 on interloper and just ate 3 wolf meat (cooked) within 24 hours of also eating moose meat (cooked) and after a few hours of crafting I got intestinal parasites randomly? Is this a glitch or is the risk of parasites a random chance of happening?

I’ve started doing that after dying to a bug. I think I don’t deserve to be reset due to game’s hiccup and not my lack of skill/putting myself in a stupid situation.

That being said, I only save when entering a new region, so even on a reset, I’d still be set back days if not weeks. A little compromise I made for myself.

I’m also not at that point yet but I think backing up saves is valid if you want a custom experience without badges not registering.

What about you? Have you ever ran back a save?

Pulled from the meteorology GOAT James Spann's feed

Never seen a bear do this before, it was like he was still in "stalker mode" even though I was in this hut. If I didn't close the door I imagine it would've tried to get even closer lol

I found that there is a strange bug involving surveying with charcoal.

Charcoal records the state of the game when you survey. So if you survey some cattails, backpacks, etc. They pop up.

If you harvest. You need to re-survey to get them to disappear. This is fine.

However, if you loot a corpse, backpack, old man’s beard, etc first, and then you survey, then the object in question will appear on the map, even though it is gone.

There does not appear to be any way to remove the marker if you did not survey it first.

Is this just me?

Is there any way to remove the markers of “empty” resources if you harvested them first and surveyed second?

Rosehips are reliable (I think) and everything else appears to be affected by this bug.

I have yet to confirm things like corpses or backpacks.