Timberwolf mountain for beginners

[Lt.Head]

I'm about to make my first trip to the region and was wondering what are the essentials to bring. I read on the wiki that the hacksaw opens up containers at the top so i'm bringing that and wearing my warmest clothes with a bearskin bedroll. I was wondering if I need to bring my own mountaineering rope and what things are unncessary, so I can ditch my prybar etc if I don't need it.

[Lenny Rat]

You don’t need the prybar. You don’t need rope. You can survive with only a normal bedroll, even on Loper.

Take warm clothes and cattails for food, but keep your weight low. Pick up any coal you find along the way. Plenty of firewood at the top.

[SBlack]

The prybar can be useful if you want to fish. But there is plenty of other food so you don't really have to

Bearskin bedroll is complete overkill. The caves are plenty warm

Also, containers aren't just on the summit. While the best loot is on the top, there are some containers further down the mountain too and some have nice stuff. Bring a 100% condition hacksaw and you'll be fine

[wiarumas]

Ditch the prybar. Ditch the rope.

You don't need much. There is a cabin that makes a good base camp in the beginning of the zone. Fishing, hunting, trapping, firewood... all nearby.

Just bring warm clothes, matches, and enough food to make the trip.

Also, I think its worth noting that you have to climb to get into the zone, so you can't be encumbered.

[Giovanni Siegelring]

Originally posted by Lt.Head:

I'm about to make my first trip to the region and was wondering what are the essentials to bring.

As Lenny wrote: Keep your weight low. I would bring a bow and at least three arrows, playing on stalker. Because it is TimberWOLF Mountain. There might be other dangerous wildlife, too.

[TRICKY]

Not many would suggest to climb right away to the top (summit). just bring a hacksaw, coffee (for climbing), bedroll and cattails. and head straight to the top. you will find many crucial items there, they will help you a lot to survive and explore the whole area. on the way down. you will find more containers. after you return to the hut, you will be fully prepared to live there. just hunt and fish. there are many cattails too. dont need rope. you will find 2-3 ropes on TWM.

[pbmax]

Hacksaw. Whatever clothes you're wearing.

Unless you spawn in on Interloper everything else you'll need is there already.
Hacksaw is often there too, just not worth risking it.

Food, clothing, tools, weapons and materials are abundant in the containers.
But you'll likely get attacked until you know where the animals are well enough to avoid them.

[abonamente]

Timberwolf Mountain for (true) beginners: basically bring everything you can carry, as you would in any other unexplored region, at the limit of weight allowed by the climbing rope in Pleasant Valley. There are, however, a few particularities you might want to keep in mind:

- the region promises untold treasures, but it doesn't give you the tools to acquire them - you probably won't find here a hacksaw, tools or any metal (scrap or otherwise); plan accordingly

- the biggest, richest treasure is at the top of the mountain, which, unless you are shamelessly lucky, you'll find at the end of some arduous exploration work; if you are a normal person who plans to live through that experience, don't bet on luck; simply try to find your way at first (might take several days); leave the treasure for a second trip (and probably a few others, depending on your game settings), when you are familiar with the route; don't worry, it'll be still there;

- weather on that difficult terrain... be prepared to change your best made plans in an instant; blizzard caught me shortly after climbing some rope - so - tired, hungry, wet clothes, without a real possibility to find my way back and climb down, not knowing a thing about possible shelters or food in the new sub-region and I could see a wolf not far from me before the storm hit; let's just say you may need to apply some problem solving skills more often here than in other regions;

- this is the region where I really learned patience and... to give up; just forget about going straight for the mythical treasure; take things step by step, think them through; if it's dusk, or the weather changes, might be a better idea to go back to a base camp you supplied with a bedroll, emergency food and firewood; you can always push forward another day, under better circumstances; plus... this may be the wrong way; any legendary treasure is elusive by definition;

- from all the above, it is easy to derive the golden rule: keep it light while treasure hunting; however, that implies preparations in advance, establishing base camps, marking them visibly on terrain if your orientation skills are low (think fog, or blizzard); if you are not sure, you could also make a trip back to Pleasant Valley and bring some more tools, weapons, clothes, whatever you think you might need, BRFORE trying to go treasure hunting;

- without false modesty, the best advice you'll ever get: DO NOT, and I repeat - DO NOT take seriously any advice that begins with the words 'you only need' or 'you don't need'; that kind of statement obviously misses the point: you embark on an adventure in a difficult, unknown region, based only on a legend that untold treasures lie there, nothing else; you don't even have a treasure map marking the spot and the treacherous road to that;

(End of the otherwise common sense pocket handbook for Timberwolf Mountain)