Wisconsin, North carolina crafting

[Jimpovich]

My first region with crafting is Scandinavia. How much more crafting can i expect from Wisconsin and NC and how much can i tone down/avoid crafting in those areas when coming to the second map?

Yukon is off my list, i've had enough of snowmaps after Kola and Amur and not really in those crazy order Yukon have.

[Ixia Irisborne]

It's been a while, with Wisconsin, but here goes: I think you can skip a lot of the crafting, if you're willing to go allllllllll over the place looting half-built houses for stuff. Most of it is on the first map anyway, if I remember correctly. That means a lot of slogging through submerged mud, and doing sketchy trails.

But, a fair chunk of the Wisconsin crafting is fuel based, and getting tankers of fuel to those generators isn't all that bad. The worst part, IMO, was that I don't recall there being a great source of infinite logs (for crafting wooden planks), other than this one spot that is up a wretchedly sketchy trail. Again, there're tons of log camps that have finite logs, but I always hated dealing with finite resource sources.

[Ixia Irisborne]

Also, Yukon isn't anything like as bad as Kola and Amur. My methodology was to break it into two parts and have different trucks for each of the two parts. You'll have your mud sloggers for most of the first map, and then ice road haulers for most of the second and a little of the first. Before I started using mods (and thus having tires that could do both mud and ice), I wound up doing a lot of the cargopocalypse style tasks with semi-trailers, and just passing the trailer from one truck to the other so that I could haul the cargo into areas with icy roads.
There's breakable ice in Yukon, but it's one of those things where you're generally able to avoid it.

[Denniss]

in my last Wisconsin playthrough I emptied all houses so I had very little planks and bricks to craft. There are two craft stations requiring fuel so rather easy.
On the second map you need to craft rail section so a lot of driving to empty houses all over this map, getting steel beams from metal rolls is rather easy after unlocking some warehouses