wilderness survival

[Aramara Meibi]

in the end product, i would like to be able to sustain a character living in the wilderness. Some things that would enable a character to do so:

1. hunt for food (already done with clacker meat, rat meat (not sure if that's edible), tefu lard, fishing, etc.)
2. cook over a campfire
3. forage (harvesting counts if more wild edible vegetation were provided)
4. perhaps, setting up a light, portable structure, like a tent, for shelter

add more at your leisure

[Gilrond]

+1.

I'd also add getting a water in a container (be it from the river, or the well in the city or etc.). Running to get water pouches from the city isn't reasonable in the wilderness.

[Karlyle]

Sounds like a cool idea to me 

[Sangwa]

First you'd have to convince these people to add hunger and thirst to the game.

[Mekora]

I don't know if there should be a death penalty for lack of foods and drinks, but maybe it would lower all your stats if you haven't eaten/drank in a while. Etc. If somebody has not eaten or drank in 10 hours IG your stats can go down 30% each or so until you eat where the food will replenish the stats.

[Aramara Meibi]

yes, this idea presumes that the game will take the basic needs of all living creatures into account.

mekora, i like your idea.

[Earowo]

The idea of Thirst and hunger has been discussed in several threads, I made one a good year or so back, Should keep suggesting ideas rather than discussing one of em >.>
It will happen eventually just wait.

[LigH]

I could well imagine that "Small tents" or "Medium tents" (like some of the installations in the Explorer Outpost and the Explorer Information Booth itself) may be offered in a GM sale event, before they may even be available as NPC stock. But before, woodworking and leatherworking may need to be developed too...

[Catlemur]

Hunger and thirst are the reasons I left Wurm.

[Sangwa]

Well, I don't care much bout that. Anywho, the way I proposed it, hunger wouldn't provoke death either. Just stat reduction, like Mekora said.

[Knightspark9]

I think roleplaying your eating would be far better, but that's just me.

[Aramara Meibi]

please return to the topic 

[Candy]

I'd definitely want to see the tents and cooking at least a few things over a fire (fish, clacker meat, maybe the grilled meats).

[Sangwa]

I think roleplaying your eating would be far better, but that's just me.

Unfortunately it's not just you. And the rest of us have to eat all this hacking and slashing icky goo because of it.

please return to the topic 

Food and hunger are 75% of your post.

I think the fire could work as a portable grill, can't be too much work like that. Tents would be good too I guess, for aesthetic purposes. Not something I'd give priority thoughl

[manonoc]

some years latter...

i've made a post in this sense, i would like to create a mod, or a new game, from planeshift (lots of c++ classes could be very useful i think), that would be a survival
the game starts in nature, and we have to construct all, like CroMagnon does (and perhaps, it's a good name for a game !)
make a rope with grass
stone + rope + sting = stone axe

someone interested ?