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MuseOD

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Cold Places and Blood
« on: January 15, 2013, 03:02:16 pm »

In cold places, where your water freezes, how do you not starve?
I spent A while carrying a cage full of water but that slowed me down to about 200, when it froze and became ice. Since I have a quest to murder a roc, this is rather irritating. What are your suggestions to
a) make me go faster while carrying a cage with 100 water in it
b) help me find a way of bottling a substance that doesn't freeze.

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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2013, 03:14:25 pm »

Just make campfires around you, but make sure to make one square free so that you won't get potentially stuck.
And then lie down and wait for it to melt.

Also, carrying a cage is about the worst thing you can do. What you should've instead done is filling your backpack/a bag with water. It'll last a while if you ever spend time slaughtering stuff. (Drink spatters instead of your water supply.)
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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2013, 03:18:23 pm »

So the water will melt if there are enough fires around it?
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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2013, 04:05:27 pm »

The water in your containers, yes. The water on the ground? No. Also, I think that vomit never freezes. I could be wrong, though.

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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2013, 04:07:03 pm »

The spinning frozen vomit strikes the Polar Bear in the head, jamming the skull through the brain and tearing the brain!
Polar Bear has been struck down.
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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2013, 04:12:45 pm »

Oh well, there goes my plan for trekking across the mountains sustaining myself with nothing but handfuls of vomit.

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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2013, 04:37:07 pm »

I usually find that the blood from all the monsters/small helpless furry creatures I slaughter makes a great thirst quencher.  I guess I haven't done a lot of traveling in VERY cold areas though.  Does blood freeze right away there?  Assuming that there are animals around and their blood doesn't freeze to fast, I suggest skipping the water and just drinking blood.  You can drink all the blood smears off your weapons, clothing, the ground, etc.

Also, I'm not sure if just sitting around near a campfire will cause frozen liquids to thaw.  You can definitely interact with a container of frozen liquid (shift-I) and then warm it on an adjacent campfire to thaw the liquid inside. 

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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2013, 06:59:56 pm »

Yeah, make a campfire, stand next to it, shift+I and select frozen liquids, or the container that the liquid is in. You can also pick up snow from the ground and then heat it to get free water, so you REALLY have no excuse for dehydrating... or for carrying around a cage with 100 units of water. ;)
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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2013, 07:19:53 pm »

1:jump from a cliff.

2:drink your own blood.

you don't need to carry liquids, your body gives you all you need.
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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2013, 11:28:26 pm »

3:suffocate from broken spine
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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2013, 10:02:16 am »

Make a campfire using g and then stand next to it, press shift + i and select your ice and select the option to melt the ice, and then viola you will have water.

If there is snow on the ground I'm pretty sure you can also melt that into water If you can put it in a container.
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Re: Cold Places and Blood
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2013, 07:17:30 pm »

Oh well, there goes my plan for trekking across the mountains sustaining myself with nothing but handfuls of vomit.
you need to mix up blood and vomit, in to vomitus blood and bloody vomit because they don't freeze.

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