What's some stuff you can do with spray cans other than their intended use?

[Tuffilaro]

So I keep finding a lot of spray cans in Interloper (about 10 spray cans in 6 days) and I feel like marking locations is not of much use to me.
What are you guys doing with your spray cans? Got any ideas for a 'creative use' of them or are you just discarding them like tin cans?

[Terminator]

I've been marking all the caves and other places with the "danger" icon. To me it looks like Will's initials, so its like I am leaving little clues for the next guy.
The only practical use I've gotten out of them is marking lines from fishing huts so I can easily get back in blizzards.

[_I_]

Originally posted by Terminator:

The only practical use I've gotten out of them is marking lines from fishing huts so I can easily get back in blizzards.

^ this

iv spent too many nights in the lake cabins instead of the lodge

[iwasa]

If not for the "promise" that eventually the paint marking will degrade over time, I would use the marks to denote passages of safe ice in Forlorn Muskeg. I use to use cattail heads for that purpose but Lost and Found, "helpfully!?!", collected them all and put them in the regional lost and found. I went back to using campfires for paths that I used regularly.

I suppose that, when I ever visit Hushed River Valley, I would use spray marks for there to save on building campfires, except for critical locations, and having to carry things that weigh me down and/or will be swept up in another Lost and Found event.

[Nanc]

Marking paths on ice, and marking spots where I've put rabbit snares that were productive.

* wonder if you can spray paint Methuselah... ,(story mode)
would he show paint at his campfires 2 & 3, then?

[FRANKDREBIN]

I use it a lot:

- Mark rocks and trees on maps that I don´t know too much to find my way back home;
- When there´s a lot of houses (like in milton) I mark the doors of the houses I already looted;
- I spray houses that I may want to use as a secondary base;
- If I need to drop some decent loot behind like a spare rifle or nice clothing I mark the house door too (I also used the in game notes for that... like extra whetstone at Orca MT... after months playing I wouldn´t never remember)
- When I see a bear or I´m attacked suddenly by a wolf near a car or a house I paint a danger sign on it;

But I only carry one can with me, if I don´t have it I don´t get desperated... and when I´m gonna loot a big place like the Dam, I only pick the sprays if I have plenty of space to carry... if not I just leave´em there...

[Chris P. Bacon]

I know all of the maps pretty well, and already have the mapping achievement, but I wanted to try out spray paint for my most recent stalker run, so I have been mapping as I go. I have to say that mapping is much more entertaining than it used to be.

The polaroids hidden around the island really help map large areas at a time. Higher elevations help a lot now too. I find myself always looking for the next big hill to climb and it has been pretty satisfying.

As for the spray paint, I have used them to mark my bases (storage symbol), bear spawns (danger symbol), and moose spawns (hunting area symbol). It isn't really "necessary" since I have been using most of these bases for a long time now and know them by memory. The bear and moose spawns can be helpful though since those change between saves.

[_I_]

Originally posted by Nanc:

Marking paths on ice, and marking spots where I've put rabbit snares that were productive.

* wonder if you can spray paint Methuselah... ,(story mode)
would he show paint at his campfires 2 & 3, then?

no paint in story mode, yet
same for rock caches

[FRANKDREBIN]

I was killing time so sprayed some arrows on the wall pointing to the dead guy inside Camp Office. Also filled his body with 60 sticks (I think he can handle a bit more).