The Long Dark

Quality of life:

1. Merge half liter containers of oil with kerosene jug and with each other.
2. Half opened cabinet/fridge doors can be closed to gain another storage area OR the doors can be removed fully and the area treated like a shelf.
3. Reading books in smaller chunks/time is cumulative; you shouldn’t not read something because you only spent 55 minutes on it.
4. I want to be able to clean out cobwebs and papers on the floor. :( The mod for that broke after the update.
5. Holding rightclick with no item held while near a cave wall puts your hand up against the wall, creating a sound as your hand moves across the stone, meaning you have a means of finding your way out if you lose all light sources.
6. If you’ve made it to the workshop in Bleak Inlet once, you can set up a rope to bridge the gap between it and the pier. You can set it from the nearby warehouse.
7. You should remember what you last used to build a fire and set that as default.

Equipment:

1. Draggable sled: with multiple pieces of hardwood, birch and/or maple saplings, deer hide, cloth and guts, can build a pricey but useful sled. Your movement speed decreases 30%, you can’t run unless you drop it, but you can store 75+ kilos, making it useful for processing large game and moving bases. You can’t take it over train tracks but you can take it over nonbreakable ice; breakable ice means you lose it immediately.
2. Hammer the candy machines in Milton for candy.
3. Make the horns of cars startle wildlife; all deer/rabbits, and any predator that hasn’t sensed you yet. Not sure about moose.
4. From Archery 3 and up, your survival bow can include an option to add a piece of wood sticking out of the front of it; a crude sight.
5. (Possibly controversial, but I like base building) If you can make arrowheads you can make nails, and thereby build furniture. Maybe not boxes/containers, but a table could be useful.

Issues:

1. I know there are cabinets that are facing the tail of helicopters, but because my character sits facing the tail, they can’t reach them. Need to add an option to face the front, like how you can move to the back in cars.

I’ll probably think of more at some point. I don’t want to fuck with the game TOO much, because the contemplative loneliness mixed with moments of high stress are what makes it fun.

@rbos My biggest gripes are mostly interface / convenience related.

I wish the mouse wheel worked in more contexts like the horizontal 'place' cooking menu (hate that thing - what I want is always at the far end).

I wish tool selection was 'remembered' so every time I break down a small branch I don't have to reselect 'hand'.

Agree that the recipes are too specific. Allow any kind of meat in stews. 💯

We need another utility slot.

Travel is just way way too slow. I always sprint.

Moar wishlist items:

• The water jugs that you find in bunkers and FA should be usable like the lantern fuel. Plastic bottles should have some non-zero weight like the spawned lamp oil. Quick experiment here with a yogurt container suggests 20g base would be reasonable.
• I wish we could "open" cupboards and drawers instead of having a search action. They pop open and items are on shelves.

Another cooking gripe: A lot of the new recipes don't use "prepared" versions of ingredients, like everything else. This makes them inconsistent with other recipes. Why rosehips and mushrooms and burdock, and not prepared rosehips, mushrooms, and burdock? Why is acorn bannock calling for acorn grounds instead of raw acorns?

For that matter, why aren't we preparing carrots, potatoes, and such? The entire "preparation" dial when you start a new recipe should be separated into steps done ahead of time, when you don't have to worry about your fire. The preparation for meat should be cooking it first.

Here's one: Cooking has too many recipes right now. There shouldn't be six different stew recipes, there should be one stew recipe that takes (say) meat, flour, oil, and vegetables as input. The resulting calorie value, and perhaps bonus properties, should depend on what you add to it.

Acorn flour should be able to sub in for old mill flour.

I'd also say fish oil should work in lieu of cooking oil. Maybe some fish give you lantern oil, some fish give you cooking oil.