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Gameplay questions / Re: Drying Food During Early Spring

« on: September 09, 2023, 09:51:55 PM »

Thanks! I will try it now!

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Gameplay questions / Drying Food During Early Spring

« on: September 09, 2023, 09:18:39 PM »

Hello! Is it safe to dry meat during the final days of cold weather in spring?  Or will it spoil if the weather turns hotter while the food is still drying?

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Suggestions / Pine Bark Eating

« on: September 08, 2023, 03:00:53 AM »

Hello! Coming back to the game after a few years, and I'm loving reading about the changes.

Recently I was watching a wilderness survival video (actually, URW got me hooked into this wilderness living thing), and the person was teaching about pine bark eating and pine bark flour used to mix with other food or baked into breads. The actual part that is used is a thin white layer called phloem.

Upon researching the subject, I found many sources claiming that the Sámi used to eat pine bark and make pine bark flour and bread as a source of food and calories.

Pine bark is actually quite caloric and sustaining, and was used by Scandinavian and North American natives, with some reports that some natives used pine bark as a staple food.

Pine bark has around 500-600 calories per 1 pound (0.45 kg), and is rich in vitamin C and other elements.

Any thoughts on adding pine bark as a source of food, since, as per my (rather shallow) research, it was very common among the Sámi?

I tried searching the forum but could not find any discussions on this subject.

Some sources:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2009_ostland_l001.pdf
https://survivalfreedom.com/can-you-eat-tree-bark-to-survive/
https://survival-kompass.de/en/tree-bark-eating-for-survival/
https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/survivalist/2011/11/survival-foods-can-you-really-eat-tree-bark/

Tks!

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Gameplay questions / Re: Assign hotkeys to items

« on: September 17, 2021, 12:00:48 AM »

Is it possible to assign specific letters to items? Like, I want to have my fishing rod always be the letter "f" on item menus (drop menu, use menu, ...). So, regardless of the amount of items on my backpack, this item would override letter placement and always be the same letter.

Tks

As far as I know, inventory alphanumerical characters is a dynamically produced menu and you cannot assign hotkeys yourself.

While currently it is not possible to do what you asked for, what is possible is working around the limitation by using two things one is the filters and the other one is pick-up time.

Filters
You can access your favourite item (fishing rod in this example) via the relevant subcategory like so:
Step #1: i (open inventory)
Step #2: tab (open 'filter inventory')
Step #3: t (filter for sub-category 'tools')
Step #4: a (fishing rod).

Pick-up Time Based List
A particular item appears under first letter 'a' because it is first in the order of pickup-time. This is the key to manually manipulating list-order (and thus alphanumerical auto-hotkey assignments). By dropping items and picking them back up you can manipulate the order they will appear within the filtered sub-category ('tools' category in this case).

Have a play with it and see if it helps...

Thanks! It it not exactly what I wanted, but your two workaround tips worked for me!

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Gameplay questions / Assign hotkeys to items

« on: September 14, 2021, 01:32:37 AM »

Is it possible to assign specific letters to items? Like, I want to have my fishing rod always be the letter "f" on item menus (drop menu, use menu, ...). So, regardless of the amount of items on my backpack, this item would override letter placement and always be the same letter.

Tks