The Long Dark (UP)

Very easy. Started on the coastal highway. Set up shop in the gas station. Made a circle around the lake and looted food in every house which took 2-3 days. Then spent the day gathering wood and made a few gallons of water. Then wait 2 days so 2 24 hr cycles total then sleep 12hr and then eat and drink then repeat. I had a bunch of food leftover too so u can be generous.

Edit fishing counts as killing just eat looted snacks ect and avoid fishing until day 26

Only unlocks on Survivor mode, so don't waste waste precious time or resources trying to get this on Story mode.

The achievement itself isn't very hard on easy or normal snd should be combined with.

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its important to note that the criteria is specific to the FIRST 25 days of your game, so unfortunately if you fished, snared a rabbit etc in the first few days, you wont get the achievement.

Start on either Mystery lake or Coastal Highway. Make sure you have at least two bases of operation, where you store all your excess gear. For this achievement makes sure you manage your inventory well, collect all food you encounter and store it in one of your bases. Head to named locations first and loot everything, if you are going for Living off the Land achievement from day 1 head straight to frozen water areas and begin harvesting the Cat tail plants, you should get at least 4 days worth of food from those alone, plenty of time to stumble on a carcess.

The best tips I can give is remember to take charcoal from your fires and survey areas, even areas you have already surveyed, it will show you any fresh carcesses you can harvest or other resources. You are allowed to harvest dead animals as long as you didnt kill them.

Listen out for the crows and if you can't see anything survey the area and the carcess will show on the map. The crows really are your bestfriend for this achievement.

A hidden gem for food is the natural plants, eg the Old beard lichen, mushroom and rosehip berries, remember to go to the craftscreen and prepare them then cook them. Even though they are primarily medicinal, each time you consume them gives you 100 calories plus you get a good drink, this tactic got me out of a few hairy situations. Harvest as many Cat tail plants as you can I essentially lived off them.

id recommend for the first 10 days just living off tinned food, chocalte , energy bars anything you find etc, that gives you plenty of time to build up lots of stores of natural food. Once youve got a good inventory of natural food then work towards.



A few techniques to keep your stored calories high;

try not to sprint, sprinting decimates your calories and you'll find you have to eat multiple times a day if you have sprint for long periods.

try to keep your backpack as light as possible, anything over the 30kilo load begins costing more calories, if your pack weighs 40-50 kilo it slows your walking right down and costs more calories. My pack was usially between the 25-35kilo range. All excess items went into one of my storage bases.

cook raw meat asap, so you get the max calories from it, the longer it is raw the quicker it deteiates it. YOull find that cooked meat stays fresher much longer than raw meat.