Portable bed is close to useless

[BladeofSharpness]

A good idea, but in the end, it is so "picky" in how flat the ground must be that it's just a chore to find a valid spot. It should have the same stat, except for the stamina 6 recovery, as the primitive bed. No need to require super flat ground. You already "pay" the cost with a weight of 2 kilograms. If that's not enough, then have it degrades each time you sleep.

[servile]

Just wait for leather portable bed, very useful for stamina even health

[BladeofSharpness]

If you can't deploy it, then it won't help. IDK if the leather portable bed is less of a pain to deploy, but the leaf one ... Oh my. The smallest declivity and it can't.

[Michael]

I find them both to be very useful. The only places I usually have no luck are very steep hills. The game seems to care more about bulges in the middle of the bed than gaps between the head and the foot. I just spent the night on a boulder in the jungle with only the head and foot touching anything. If all else fails, most places in the game are a short run to a beach, and it's very easy to find a spot there.

[Romain]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

A good idea, but in the end, it is so "picky" in how flat the ground must be that it's just a chore to find a valid spot. It should have the same stat, except for the stamina 6 recovery, as the primitive bed. No need to require super flat ground. You already "pay" the cost with a weight of 2 kilograms. If that's not enough, then have it degrades each time you sleep.

I came to post those exact same feedbacks.

+1 then

[Gyger]

Never tried the portable leaf bed but the sleeping bag is both lighter and better than the (non-portable) bed of leaves. I have no issues finding valid locations to place it.

[Nate Mc Bow]

The sleeping bag does not give me much grief at all. Usually do not bother with the tier 1 portable bed as i am busy working into basic hide tech.

[Ras]

how do you use the sleeping bag? I put it on the ground, but when I press T it still says I'm "sleeping on the ground" with the same bonuses as if I didn't have the bag. There is also no "R" or "Q" when you highlight the bag, only "E" to pick it up.

I am surly missing something here...

UPDATE:

Ok, I'm an idiot, you have to "place" the bag from inventory, not "drop" it on the ground.

[Cougarific]

Somebody's never been camping.

Set up your tent / sleeping bag on a slightly uneven or sloped area and tell me how well you sleep.

IRL portable hammocks avoid this problem entirely (and are much safer in terms of snakes & insects).

[BladeofSharpness]

It's a game, silly. The portable bed is judged within the self-contained world of FOY, not against reality. I was sleeping in a sleeping bag 35 years ago while doing my military, so refrain from patronizing me, thanks.

[Cougarific]

and ^that's why there are so few realistic survival simulators on the market.

"Doesn't matter if it's realistic or not, just make the game easier please."

When you used a sleeping bag 35 years ago did you set it up on the side of a hill? Or did you find a nice flat spot for sleeping?

[BladeofSharpness]

That's not the point here. Indeed you'll want your sleeping bag to be set on a flat area IRL. What you need to check here is the item cost versus its practicality. If by design it can't be used anywhere except on the beach and a few spots tedious to find, then it's a useless item. A game is a very simplified and abstracted version of reality, compare the item versus other similar things within the game perspective.
Another way of looking at how balanced an item is in a game is how much players use the item. If it is not much used, then chances are there is an issue with it.

[Shawn]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

If by design it can't be used anywhere except on the beach and a few spots tedious to find,

Expect you are the only one with this issue.. stop trying to put your bag on a 90 degree hill and put on flat ground like you should and you wouldn't have a problem.

[SAS-Vet]

You want flat ground everywhere...just have a building kit, a stone and a hammer in your back pack all the time... Place a foundation and presto you have a bit of flat area to place a bed.

[Alex]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

A good idea, but in the end, it is so "picky" in how flat the ground must be that it's just a chore to find a valid spot. It should have the same stat, except for the stamina 6 recovery, as the primitive bed. No need to require super flat ground. You already "pay" the cost with a weight of 2 kilograms. If that's not enough, then have it degrades each time you sleep.

+1

There are a ton of places you can't place it but you should be able too.

[Thakard Gaming]

Just make Coffee or a Berry Compote and forget about sleeping when on a resource gathering mission.