So after starving and catching fish for several months I finally managed to build a house, contacted magical forest women with no results, got labeled a thief by accident after forgetting an unpaid piece of meat in my inventory and getting beaten up (now every village nearby hates me), hunted an elk and later caught a fox in a trap and made shitty clothes out of fur.What now? Winter sucks, can't dig holes and no plants to collect.
I think generally speaking it's preferred to bunker down in your heated dwelling and live off foodstuffs you've preserved, maybe checking traps or nets daily, but mostly not leaving home during the coldest and darkest parts of the year. It seems daunting/boring in a sense, but then, you can just skip entire days worth of turns almost instantaneously.Of course, if you've failed to stockpile enough food then you probably do want to try to find some more even if it puts you in danger of dying in a blizzard. First, you do want to live close to flowing water (it's easier to keep a hole in ice open than to just use rapids, although if you didn't settle close to rapids then gotta deal with that extra work). Second, you should absolutely construct yourself skis. Third, you can still do ice fishing, and while there are fewer animals around and they are leaner on account of burning through their fat reserves, they are easier to track in snow. And of course, as spring approaches, be aware of dangers of walking on ice.
>>743438953>foodstuffs you've preservedYeah that's only half of that elk and that'll last for maybe less than a month, I guess less work = less food wasted>maybe checking nets dailylol, game tutorial really should have an early "make a net, dumbass" taskThere's some elk walking around triggering my fox trap, wish I could make a hole because that route is predictable, I have no idea how to hunt shit in dense forests, everything escapes the moment I prepare to shoot
>>743439354This way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_oIf you manage to ambush the animal by wounding it with an arrow or a thrown spear then that's good (I believe approaching downwind helps, or not moving when it looks to your direction), and helpful in successful hunt because blood loss weakens it, but basically the idea is to keep chasing until it can no longer run. There isn't an option to "jog at a sustainable speed" but you can switch between walking and running such that your walking speed isn't decreased when you recover. With skis you also have an advantage in endurance if the the snow is more than ankle deep. Prey animals can outrun you but they'll have to rest, and the goal is to track them until they can no longer run. Tracking during winter is a lot easier because of clear prints left in the snow (although there can still be some confusion if the animal backtracks).Not all hunts are successful, but you don't have to down the prey with ambush. If you have traps set, or there's some natural obstacle, you can also chase the prey to that direction.
>>743440271Look at this, game just gave me a gift after all this complaining
I recalled this video of a moose (in Eurasia, so URW, called the elk) running through snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylCfXvKmdvUWhich is really cool, but even with its snow-moving adaptations aren't a match to skis over long distances.
