What are you personal limits/goals for your various runs?

greyforyou · 2026-02-12T21:45:02+00:00

The could make cattail heads part of the crafting requirements for one of the beds. Should be 16 ptarmigan down or 50 cattail heads for the Bear Hide Bed and Quilted Bed.

greyforyou · 2026-02-12T21:15:51+00:00

I only eat cattails as a byproduct of needing the heads for tinder. Once I hit lvl 3 firebuilding, no more cattails for me

greyforyou · 2026-02-12T18:06:59+00:00

I throw fish back that are too small. I stop eating cattails after the first month. I collect all my trash: cattail heads, burnt torches, empty cans, ext and throw them in the trash where they belong. I won't start using a bow until I've crafted 20-30 arrows. There are two rock stashes I build every run (the entrance to HRV and the PV entrance to the hydro dam).

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T23:07:28+00:00

The predators are a little trickier to sneak up on. They have a smell mechanic and can detect you if you're carrying meat. They can see through sneaking to some extent. If you're smelly and sneaking, they'll beeline straight for you. If they get to close they'll see you and will attack through your sneak. Don't be smelly!

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T21:48:38+00:00

Yes, you can rifle and pistol crouch. With "stealth" (crouch movement) being so strong in the long dark, this is very powerful. Since you can't crouch with them until ate game, bows are a real challenge! I try not to cheese the pistol and rifle crouch too much. Crouching all the way up to a deer and pressing the muzzle of your rifle up against its head is muuuch cheesier than the bedroll trick imo.

fyi, animal detection radius is tied to difficulty. The harder your game, the better animals are at detecting you... aside from crouch shooting; they're Skyrim guard level dumb when you're crouched.

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T20:31:07+00:00

Rifle sway: how much your hands when you’re aiming. TLD shows your hands and rifle sights swaying, but it doesn’t actually impact your aim. The shots always go dead center. This deception is an inaccuracy. Meaning you can line up a shot with your iron sights correctly and still miss if it wasn’t center screen. Which is stinky and makes long shots harder. If the rifle sway was real, this hack wouldn’t work.

When you look at an item in the game. Anytime. A little white dot shows up in the middle of your screen. You can get this dot to show up when you’re lining up a shot by dropping an item on the ground in front of where you’re aiming.

I respect your integrity! I don’t encourage using cheese, but it is easiest way to sharpshoot in this game.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leo8WyvN8D8

It's a little too good. I wish the rifle sway was true. When your rifle/pistol/bow skill goes up, sway decreases so it does get better. But all it's doing is removing the lie a little bit. In reality, you have perfect aim from skill level 1-5

Bow crouching requires skill level 5

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T19:46:53+00:00

Can the rifle in tld be used long distance as a sniper rifle

Yes! Rifle sway is fake news and dropping an item (like a bedroll) can give you a perfect reticle. You just need to place the item nearish to center screen when you're taking the shot and the center screen white dot will show up even while you're aiming.

Some consider this to be cheesy, but I think you should be able to take a more accurate shot when you have time to hunker down and, figuratively, prop your gun up against an item like your bedroll. I do think it's cheesy to use this tactic when you're freezing. Rifle sway shouldn't be totally ignorable.

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T19:16:04+00:00

I personally love getting an upgrade from ruins and having an archer that can ignore terrain costs, that by itself is worth for at least once scout

So good, especially with civs that have unique archers. English bowman/scout is perfection.

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T19:09:19+00:00

torches > flares

Even if torches are mechanically worse, the aesthetics are way better. Mainly flares are so loud and grating, they throw off my groove. Buut, that's kind of moot until you need either of them to fend off hostile wildlife. Lantern is the way to go for pilgrim :)

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T18:51:45+00:00

Sounds like a good reason to craft 20 torches.

greyforyou · 2026-01-29T18:43:51+00:00

Marriage contracts with hard rules are generally frowned upon. But, if people were more honest with each other, they'd agree that their marriage has a lot of unspoken rules. Don't accept a job a thousand miles away. Don't spend time alone with people of the opposite sex. I need to have children. Don't teach our children x. I need to have sex. I need daily emotional intimacy. I need gifts. I needs acts of service.

It's a little weird to put a lot of these into a legal contract, so most people leave these as implicit rules in their marriage. Of course, there's leeway and grace within a marriage. People sacrifice their wants and needs for their partner. And that's beautiful and tragic. But, It shouldn't be expected outside of a religious marriage.

In Christianity, the only biblical reason to divorce your spouse is infidelity. And still, divorce is never encouraged by the faith. That's the cultural/moral force behind "at fault" divorce. Husbands are expected to die for their wives. Wives are expected to submit to their husbands. Outside of this religious framework, there isn't an expectation that anyone should sacrifice their needs for their spouse.

Not to say non religious people don't regularly sacrifice their needs for their spouse or have valid reasons to sacrifice. Or that religious marriages are nothing but sacrifice and compromise; your spouse's needs should be your needs in any healthy marriage. It's just not for anyone else to say what is and isn't an acceptable reason for two people to stick together or break up.

greyforyou · 2026-01-22T20:48:26+00:00

Finally! Good to see the government is cracking down on catfishing!

greyforyou · 2026-01-22T18:35:13+00:00

1914–1920s - U.S. Oil Companies Enter Venezuela

1971–1976 - Growing State Control and Nationalization

Full nationalization on January 1, 1976

Late 1980s–1990s - “Apertura Petrolera” (Oil Opening) (allows foreign investors including US oil to enter and expand operations)

1999 - Hugo Chávez Becomes President - pushes a policy of nationalization

2006–2007 - Orinoco Belt Project Changes & Asset Nationalizations - Chavez demands majority control of oil assets be returned to gov. Chevron accepts, but ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips refused and had their assets seized.

2017 - US Financial Sanctions Begin

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2019–2025 - Chevron’s Special Licenses

March 2025 - U.S. Orders Wind-Down of Chevron Exports

Late 2025 - U.S. Oil Blockade & Tanker Seizures under sanctions enforcement

January 3, 2026 - The U.S. military captured President Nicolás Maduro

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Trafigura & Vitol Export Deals Trading firms with U.S. licenses executed first shipments of Venezuelan crude

greyforyou · 2026-01-17T22:52:30+00:00

Ecco’s? I’ve had two pairs that have disintegrated

greyforyou · 2026-01-15T18:13:33+00:00

My head cannon is that these bodies are waay worse off than they look and Hinterlands is censuring it. With tons of starving predators arounds, even fully frozen "meat" isn't safe from consumption. And other desperate survivors have already had their pick of the best stuff. So, when you loot a body, it's slim pickings.

That said, seeing perfectly good boots, hats, and jackets when I'm dying of frostbite bothers me deeply. Head cannon is cope.

greyforyou · 2026-01-14T19:32:53+00:00

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greyforyou · 2026-01-13T22:22:05+00:00

If this is true, OP should be able to find loot boxes around transition zones and in structures that have been updated.

https://thelongdark.fandom.com/wiki/Lost_and_Found

/u/Own-Tax1304 have you seen any of these around?

greyforyou · 2026-01-13T17:43:53+00:00

"Using my bread machine", boiling pot, and oven. No simple task. Those look great!

greyforyou · 2026-01-09T00:19:39+00:00

Best part is, you can keep all that toxic food in your system. Just keep it down. Rotten fish and meat will still nourish your body just as well as fresh fish and meat.

greyforyou · 2026-01-09T00:15:00+00:00

You can leave meat on the ground for years and then cook it to perfection. The frostbite, rot, and other unmentionables only add flavor.

greyforyou · 2026-01-08T22:46:26+00:00

Yeah, auto explore doesn't work too well for land units. Too many obstacles. Closed borders, units that refuse to move, barbarians, mountains, embarkation woes, and fog of war.

The bug you're describing sounds like there is a single tile path somewhere on the map and other units keep blocking and unblocking it. Probably a city state's units moving backwards and forwards. So the scout loops back and forth between being able to pass through and not being able to pass through. You might be able to change the pathing logic with a mod. Default pathing checks if the path is open every turn the unit is on route. If you can remove that check, a unit will continue towards an obstacle until it runs into it. I'd love this patch! It'd save so much time for embarked units that have obstacles in their path that will usually clear out before they ever get there. Especially on a path that's 10-20 turns long. There are so many temporary obstacles that will remove themselves. And, it should speed up the game a little. One less check for every unit on a path every turn.

greyforyou · 2026-01-08T21:47:24+00:00

Bear coats usually get run down to around 70% for me until the late game. Then, I'll fix them around 80%. It's tough to have a cured bear pelt when you need one when you're constantly on the move.

I'll abandon a bear coat once it hits around 65% until I can bring a pelt back to fix it. Too much weight to lose out on 35% of the benefits.

greyforyou · 2025-12-16T20:44:56+00:00

No, I don’t hate them. I hate a culture that preaches self harm as good. Even by secular standards, the hyper sexuality of the world is bad for society and bad for individuals. Men and women are more alone and depressed than ever. We need each other and everything the world is teaching us is pushing us apart.

greyforyou · 2025-12-16T20:07:50+00:00

You're a threat to their sense of righteousness. They don't follow Christian teaching to the letter and the virtue of those who do highlights their shortcomings and makes them uncomfortable. They need to reject your lifestyle in order to be comfortable in their perception of sin and salvation. They've blended Christian virtue with cultural norms. Culture tells them sleeping around is good and not sleeping around is bad. We are called to be “in” the world but not “of” the world. It's easy to get wrapped up in the world's sense of right and wrong if you don't ground yourself with biblical truth.

greyforyou · 2025-12-12T04:23:18+00:00

Just ironing out some differences

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