What Items Do Not Degrade (Excluding use)

[Dad]

So, I'm trying to manage my storage space and I've looked around a bit but cannot find some sort of list of items that do not degrade over time (i.e. Wood). Does anyone know of a list of items that don't degrade over time by simply not being in a storage?

Secondary note: I've recently done a test run of Cooked Meats, storing one in a storage locker, one on the floor inside, and one of the floor outside. The two that were inside (on the floor and in the storage locker) seemed to degrade at the same rate. The meat outside seemed to degrade significantly slower. This is because of the cold I presume..?

[iwasa]

Things that do not degrade as a matter of course include cured hides and gut, cloth, cured leather, lanterns, ammunition, fuel, fishing tackle, snares, OMB wound dressings, antiseptics, and emergency stim.

The list would be expanded if it included items that don't degrade per se but get used up in the course of normal use - prybars, knives, hatchets, can openers, hand flares, torches, whet stones, cleaning kits, sewing kits (fishing tackle used in lieu of a sewing kit is used up), tool kits (simple and quality), heavy hammer and hacksaws.

Raw and cooked meat preserve best outside. They decay about 1% a day. Inside, raw decays about 6% and cooked about 3% a day.

Packaged food (energy, granola, chocolate bars, sodas, condensed milk, peanut butter, etc.) decay at sometimes very different rates. Being inside or outside can also affect that.

I have seen two sodas (orange and summit, if you were interested) inside the Quonset garage on a shelf, degrade about 2-3% over an almost 100 day period while two same brand sodas exposed outside degraded about 18-20% in the same time period. An energy bar and granola bar outside, exposed, degraded 9% and 1% respectively.

Not sure what is going on, but I get these results from all over the place. I had assumed that things would tend to decay along a 1,000 day slope. It seems like it is a yes and no situation.

YMMV

[reggiedunbar]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=558517894

[Dad]

All great information, thank you for the responses!

[Bomoo]

Remember: buy the game and support a cool indie developer if you enjoy it.

[Dad]

I've bought it on the Xbox, that's why it's not in my Library. But yes, cool game so far, very much hope they're able to continue development!

[rolypoly]

Originally posted by iwasa:

Not sure what is going on

Maybe someone came over to nimble while you weren't looking? :D