Jerky / drying rack craft

[mr_1975]

Air dry fish and meat to make jerkey....would last longer and be lighter but would take longer to dry we could have to craft a drying rack of some sort to pin the meat to etc...

[RattleBonez]

I myslelf do agree this would be a good idea

[wutduh]

+1 really like this idea

[silentshad-w]

+1

[hinterland_community]

Were you imagining an indoor or outdoor drying system?

[silentshad-w]

Originally posted by hinterland_community:

Were you imagining an indoor or outdoor drying system?

During winter - indoor mostly. You need snow (water) protection, so caves can be useful.

[mr_1975]

Originally posted by hinterland_community:

Were you imagining an indoor or outdoor drying system?

I guess it would be indoors as the outside climate may not allow for it.

[AAAARGH!]

Fishing huts would do well as smoke shacks.

[mr_1975]

Originally posted by flaviusrex:

Fishing huts would do well as smoke shacks.

good point

[Black Knight / In memoriam :(]

+1 someone would say you can preserve food by placing it outside, but I would like to see jerky with less weight, and solid cal values.

[almbleamal]

+1
This (some sort of drying rack) is the absolut best feature/idea for me. It would allow us to plan fo the future, set up some sort of home in the wilderness and simply motivate everybody in the long run.

[Allison64]

+1. I find it strange that I can leave 200 lbs of cooked meat outside and it's still there after I've gone scavenging in another territory for a week or better. It makes much more sense to me to smoke/dry it and store it inside in a cold room, like an empty garage or an ice fishing shack. Since those shacks have stoves, I'd turn the whole thing into a smoker (as has been suggested by others many times) and just leave the door latched. Bear-proofing would be kind of too elaborate for this game but the fishing shack is still better than just leaving it outside my front door.

[AAAARGH!]

I wonder if they will ever add scavengers or pests...

[Allison64]

Originally posted by flaviusrex:

I wonder if they will ever add scavengers or pests...

What do you consider wolves and bears? I would expect they'd find the meat IRL and abscond with all of it. I'm amazed when they come by the Quonset hut and leave all those steaks just lying there.

[AAAARGH!]

That's what I mean. They don't scavenge in the game as in real life.

[PinHead]

I agree about scavenging. Wolves and bears should take food left outside.