The Long Dark

A couple observations:

• Sewing needs some kind of quality buff. The percentage condition boost you get from repairing is almost always partly wasted, and higher levels only increase the wastage.
• The amount of effort needed to get to level 5 mending merits a much better reward. In Interloper, you aren't ever going to be leaving your gear to 50% condition before repairing. I don't know what such a buff would look like. Maybe you use less cloth when you hit level 5, or maybe you can repair your gear to 120% instead of 100%.
• Sports socks are gold if you're just aiming for level 5. 0.10kg, and very fast repair time. Hoard them, haul them with you until you have level 5. You can consume a lot of cloth fast.

Couple of my favourites:

• Archimedes: https://www.youtube.com/@ArchimedesLP
• Zaknafein: https://www.youtube.com/@Zaknafein
• Grind This Game: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6STTjHxnSXp-r8NPQIutAQ (though he hasn't done TLD in quite a while, I think. I like his Oxygen Not Included streams as well).

Any other good watches? I love this game for background atmosphere.

Cooking a moose and working on "Skilled Survivor", really enjoyed this screenshot from a cave in Bleak Inlet.

Also, I've found that if you really need a very fuel-efficient cooking method, having multiple fires going lets you use one stick for like 25 minutes of runtime, since stuff still cooks during "Embers" and pauses for a while afterwards. A pile of sticks can cook a ridiculous amount of meat by doing continuous relights among a bunch of fires. It's a lot of work, but if you're short fuel, it might be worth it.

Saw this while mapping in HRV. Very pretty.

TLD-adjacent. Maybe moose and bears should fight each other!

There's that one spot in PV in the birch forest where they both spawn. That should be a bit of a bloodbath. Also, maybe free meat?

In case this community catches on, I'll need people to help moderate. Preference given to people with a proven record of moderating Reddit or Lemmy communities, and preference also to active posters on /r/thelongdark.