Mystery lake...where is everything?

[akluis]

Looking for hatchet...

Checked all the ice fishing houses. checked the 3 burned cabins by the lake, checked the burned out house by the three trailers, checked the burned out house by the tree stumps, checked the forest lookout, checked the damn, checked the lake house...

Only place I have yet to check is maxes last stand.

Problem is...no crowbar either...

Not in trapper's cabin, not at the outhouse door by the tiny cabin, not under the bed in the watchtower, not outside the 3 cabins and burned out house, not in the lake cabin, not in any fishhouse, not in the dam

also, no rifle.

not under bridge. Not in forest lookout, not in trapper's cabin, not behind the last cabin on the lake, not on the path behind the main cabin, not in the traincar.

[RebelSandGaming]

The dam

[PowerOn]

Custom game perhaps?

BRA low don't spawn hatchet and knife.

[canis39]

What level are you on?

I'm also in ML at the moment (Voyageur), and I've found five hatchets, five prybars and two rifles.

[akluis]

did find the hatchet at maxes,

found the crowbar at the tunnel to muskeg, but no rifle anywhere. Ast leat now with hatchet I can make a bow and arrows.

[iwasa]

The only places for a rifle that were not listed include the dam and the destroyed lookout.

[akluis]

I did find the rifle at the broken tower. First time finding it there

[kamikazi21358]

I had the same problem but ironically “Max’s Last Stand” IS the place I found a hatchet.

[kamikazi21358]

Also you can try your luck and see if the weapons bunker spawned: if it did spawn 2 rifles are garenteed and you can find like 15 rounds of ammo and cleaning kits, with knives, hatchets, along with food and water and more.

[Nil Desperandum]

Found rifle at Destroyed Lookout about 3 hours ago.

Did you try Dave's Quiet Clearing - top of the right hand branch off Lake Trail?

[kamikazi21358]

I found a corpse on that trail with a rifle one game on my first day, if not there one place that usually doesn’t disappoint me is Trapper’s Cabin, almost always has a rifle on the rack. There is always the lookouts and there is one that might spawn behind one of the small cabins on the lake with a corpse.
I heard the dam might spawn one too, but I don’t go to the dam so I wouldn’t know, and like I said if the Weapon’s Prepper Cache spawns, there is garenteed to be 2 rifles in there, with weeks of ammo.

[kamikazi21358]

And then at the end of the day, if you have trouble finding stuff in Mystery Lake, Forlorn Muskeg is right next to ML and I know at least the train cars are close by, or you can trek your way to the Spence Family Homestead. Second option would be make your way to coastal highway, the lookout there has a rifle often, and it also has plenty of rifle chances; it is also very rich in loot. Finally, I am unfamiliar with the terrain, but there is the cave that leads to Mountain Town (Milton), the one time I was there it was pretty abundant in resources.
And if you use the dam passage there is Pleasent Valley, a lot of people hate PV apperently but I never do bad there; the farmstead is filled with loot and could be a base if you desire, the signal lookout is where I would recommend though, I have not not found a rifle there yet; I am actually really tempted to try to live there actually some game instead of the farmstead, since it has plenty of lockers and metal shelves for storage, workbench and bunk beds, fire barrel outside and it comes with it’s own paremeter fence. The reason I don’t think about PV though when in ML is the other route is a long trek to coastal, otherwise you have to go through the dam. From what I heard she has been removed in this version, although tbh I think that might be temporarily, but I am used to associating the dam with Fluffy and I really don’t want to deal with her anytime soon; expecially since I like to play Custom difficulties now and I often set wolf struggle values to Interloper standards, and Fluffy on Interloper from what I heard is the closest thing you can get in TLD to a boss fight.

[IFIYGD]

Fluffy was removed from the Dam before the game went to full release. She hasn't lived there for a long time now. You are avoiding the Dam for no reason.

[emmietiie]

There should be a prybar by the hidden cabin's outhouse near the nameless pond.

[Nil Desperandum]

No Fluffy in the dam anymore but 'BEWARE' the Aurora, the electric cables in the dam - especially the ones on the floor - come alive during an Aurora. I hear they have a penchant for 'uman flesh, they cruzzle it to a cinder and there is one more character to mourn. :)

[Nil Desperandum]

There is a definite rifle spawn in Scruffy's cave in Desolation Point - a long way from Mystery Lake but worth the trek imo. Scruffy is a wolf spawn to the long since - banished Fluffy - who jealously guards the 'loot' in the last cave - the cave under the broken bridge, in DP. I hear and know that he is petrified of fire and is not half as scary as Fluffy - in my experience. :)