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.
Ah yes, the best way to build up fire skills. Also great at setting my computer alight, so it must be working.
Related story: when I was relatively new to this game and wasn’t really sure what supernatural elements there were to it (the auroras are vague enough to count as that, and that bear bullshit in the storyline is absolutely a cryptid) I was walking in the wilderness and saw the trees in the distance leaning dangerously before suddenly moving upright and sprouting branches. Gave me the willies for a second before I remembered I was playing on my toaster of a laptop, but I kind of like seeing that lag now. It adds to the sense that the world just isn’t right out there.
