Big Tip for Whiteout Challenge (spoiler)

[sallyparker237]

What took me 13 days of the whiteout challegne to discover (some of u are probably much smarter than me and figured it out right away):

You don't have to cook meat before you add it to the stockpile - the calories still count.

If this tip helped you, you're welcome! If this is 'well duh' for you - well, I guess I am stupid lol.

[Excorpion]

Jaja, yeah isnt necesary... but idk what happens if the meat dissappear...

can someone answer me that ?

[Excorpion]

And if you stored it.. and then dissappears ? keeps counting in the journals page ?

[DmcD_Music]

Just get the meat after everything else.

[numbertwopencil]

I collected everything except the meat, noting early on that, yes, meat decays fairly quickly and to avoid cooking it, it would have to be gathered last. I got lucky. Roundabouts day 12, I walked out the gas station door, shot the bear that was directly in front of me once and then found his body the next day on the road behind the gas station. I had to shoot one wolf (got really lucky there and dropped him from a distance with one bullet) while hauling the bear meat to the gas station but I finished in 15 and a half days. Without the lucky bear, I was looking at running the clock down . . . fishing (fish seems to decay slowly) and whatever deer wandered by. I did have a dozen spare bullets, several knives and hatchets, and enough medical supplies to survive a half-dozen wolf attacks by day 13 or so. I mostly stayed in Coastal Highway but I did vist the cave to Pleasant Valley (to pick up ammo and a spare knife) and the Ravine (for some reason I can't remember know but made sense at the time).

[Drooda]

How many calories does one "day of food" require btw? Or how many calories do you need in total to get those 30 days of food requirement?

[Excorpion]

Originally posted by Drooda:

How many calories does one "day of food" require btw? Or how many calories do you need in total to get those 30 days of food requirement?

It guess... that your days of food is calculated on how many calories you spend in an average per day... but im not sure about this... i just say this cause my first days i collect some food in a pasive mode, and i got 7 days of food soon... after that whe i started to search in all the map in fast exploration mode, my calories consumption went up fast, and my days of food went down during those days.

[sallyparker237]

I would assume 2500/day.