Silent Hunter/Pacifist Achievements

[Fury]

Has anyone got any tips for a novice to do these achievements (I know the last "exploration" one is bugged :()
From my first 55+ day playthrough, I'm just racking my brain on how to do these.
Something like:
start in coastal - way more food to find in the houses, and way more clothes
chase a deer into a wolf, then take its guts, repeat for like 20 snares
set up camp on jackrabbit island, survive on snares

That might do the 50 day without firing the rifle, but do snares count as killing?

Does killing wolves if they attack count? If the only way is 25 days of just herding deer, then thats a real PITA.....

[Cpt. Dotterbart]

Yes, snares count as killing, looting dear carcasses do not! I would prefer Mystery Lake. Loot all food and tools and take only one box of matches, rest when needed and don't ever touch another box of matches or it will degrade real soon and is gone forever. Stockpile food at camp office, forage 5 cedar wood, 20 fir wood and cook 20l of water in one strike. Drink water, take off cloth (feeled temperature above +1°C!) and sleep until condition is down to 30-40%, drink, eat about 700 kcal and sleep 9h. Drink and sleep again 3h and your condition should be restored to about 90%. Repeat that cycle and you should be able to survive for at least 50 days. If food runs out watch for deer carcasses or buildings you have not entered before. It's not that difficult, 700kcal lasts for at least 3 days if you are doing right;)

[fraq]

I honestly think everything counts as killing except, MAYBE, getting rid of a wolf letting him get away and bleed to death (insta or with combat), but if the outcome of combat is the wolf dead at your feet it's a kill.

I tried to do every achievement in my second run on default(called voyageur after update), and managed to get everything except Pacifist and Exp. Game.

Jackrabbit Island (as i think everyone understood at this point xD) is the perfect place to get deers on a silver (and quite cold) platter, you just scare the wolf off if you have a flare, but most of the times i just went at them with the knife (make sure you have 100% condition ofc).
Never crafted a snare in all my runs, but i do think they count as killing, as well as fishing.

To get the Pacifist quickly i started a new run on pilgrim and reached 25 days. On voyageur it would be a pita mostly cause you might always run into a hidden/just spawned wolf, and you might end up killing him.

[@ndy]

Surviving 25 days without killing anything is very easy, just eat all the stuff you find..there really is plenty.. + a deer carcass here & there. Snares are killing, as is fishing. You don't need a rifle to survive 50 days...eat everything you find + snares & fishing. On Pilgrim mode it should be a cakewalk for both achievements.. gl

[Bud]

So these achievements don't have to be day 1-25, or day 1-50? Can it be like day 75 to 100 or 75 to 125 if you fired a shot or killed something on day 74?

* I answered my question by trial. Unless it's my difficulty or a bug. I went from day 63 to 95 by power napping (well over 25 days) and didn't get the achievement. So you can't fire a weapon or kill anything in a single save, not just for the amount of days it says after doing the action.

[Fury]

Duh, so used to playing on medium/normal difficulty that I forgot that you can do this on the easy setting and not worry about constant wolf attacks - thanks guys :)

[Fury]

Well, that was so easy it felt wrong, took the longest having a side trip to harvest leather for some boots. The water/food consumption is halved, the fatigue was more than halved, and the weather I'd never seen so damn easy. 2 days I'd cleared mystery lake, and still had only 50% fatigure tops. I must be used to having to consume 4000 cals per day and walking only 5 hours on medium.

Easy mode was like having food thrown at you - finding a random packet of jerky on the rail road, plus 3 deer carcasses with around 5kg in just half the mystery lake area was almost silly.
But those who want to cheese this, go coastal highway - the town itself has enough food to last 25 days on its own.

[fraq]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Fury:

Well, that was so easy it felt wrong, took the longest having a side trip to harvest leather for some boots. The water/food consumption is halved, the fatigue was more than halved, and the weather I'd never seen so damn easy. 2 days I'd cleared mystery lake, and still had only 50% fatigure tops. I must be used to having to consume 4000 cals per day and walking only 5 hours on medium.

Easy mode was like having food thrown at you - finding a random packet of jerky on the rail road, plus 3 deer carcasses with around 5kg in just half the mystery lake area was almost silly.
But those who want to cheese this, go coastal highway - the town itself has enough food to last 25 days on its own.

yeah pilgrim is really a joke when it comes to survival :D, but it's not for that, it's just for exploring not having to look around every corner.
Even if wolves do not attack you they even lowered massively their number around both maps so i actually thought that in late, super late game (like probably 300 days or something, no more canned food, no more ammo), that would be kinda hard, to get a wolf kill a deer

[WildKarrde]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von the_mi8ty_b0osh:

Surviving 25 days without killing anything is very easy, just eat all the stuff you find..there really is plenty.. + a deer carcass here & there. Snares are killing, as is fishing. You don't need a rifle to survive 50 days...eat everything you find + snares & fishing. On Pilgrim mode it should be a cakewalk for both achievements.. gl:p2wheatley:

Thats what I'm doing right now, pilgrem mode for achieves, then I'll try surviving wolves.

[Cpt. Dotterbart]

Aw come on! It isn't that hard in stalker. Only difference is less food and more wolves = more fun and thrill - heh heh!

P.s. And the weather may change in an unappropriated behavior...

[WildKarrde]

Hearing the wolves howl still freaks me out though, even though they all currently run from me, lol.

[Cpt. Dotterbart]

You have already that "Wolve Jacket"? Might be the reason!

[WildKarrde]

Currently a pacifist, for another 20 days or so, lol. Died after over 15 days on my first playthrough cuz I tried to sleep in a car.

[Cpt. Dotterbart]

Sounds like Roxettes last silver Single-LP:D "Sleeping in my car..."

[Crazy Ivan]

If you are just interested in getting the Achievements and do not care what all these badass players think start a easy game in the costal region boil a lot of water. Chase deer towards a wolf when the wolf chases the deer chase the wolf then steal the meat do this repeatedly until you have a lot of food go in a house and eat drink sleep repeat for 50 days and you get the Achievements.