Quartering VS Harvesting | How To Survive The Long Dark 

When you store your meat. Leave it on the ground outside. That makes it last much much longer

One underrated mechanic is storing meat inside cars, because while inside a car it's possible to be freezing in a perfect condition double bearskin coats layers which means storing meat in a trunk of car can keep it fresh a long time

It takes 13 hours to harvest that bear because its frozen, if you build a fire next to it untill its fresh again it would take a lot less, like 3 or 4 hours.

“Look, ma! I’m roadkill! Haha!” Get it?

If you cook small pieces while harvesting the next ones on a nearby fire, you can really boost your cooking, harvesting skills quickly, so it can be an advantage for a newish character

Should be noted, if your kill dies close to an object such as rock or tree, there is a very high chance that quartering it will clip some of your items into the item and you won’t be able to retrieve them. It’s very possible to lose two or three bags and the hide/guts when quartering next to an object. Only quarter a kill if it’s downed in an open area!

So, basically, for larger quantities of meat (especially when it's frozen), it's better to start a fire, quarter it, and bring it back to your base piece by piece, but if it's a smaller amount of meat and takes less time, you should probably just harvest it in one go (but also with a fire). Right?

Even carrying a deer from the kill location in real life can be a workout.

1. You don't need a fire to ward off wolves because while you are harvesting you are immune from attack so long as it it processing. Also, if you take cuts of meat in small increments you won't be stuck for long periods if a storm comes up. 2. Making a fire near the carcass causes it to deteriorate faster. 3. If you harvest the meat of a 100% frozen carcass with the hacksaw it goes much faster than the knife on all skill levels except master.

I read about some guy saying that he always left 1 gut in wolf carcasses so they don't respawn so quickly, might be another advantage of harvesting the more dangerous and aggressive animals instead of quartering them.

Thank you! You explained everything better than Steam forum, Reddit, and the wiki!

Thanks. Bought it 1 hour ago. I'll play after work. Im psyched. Was on 7 days for years. This is 100% new buddy. Great vid.

Ahh this is video i wanna find for long time

On interloper, unless the animal died in a very advantageous spot, I almost always quarter. Way safer to be able to harvest the bags indoors as opposed to trying to do it outdoors and have a blizzard blow your fire out.

I usually choose harvesting over quartering. On a high difficulty like Stalker (what I choose most of the time) it's pretty unnecessary to quarter any carnivore for the reason of parasite risk from their meat, however at Moose cases it's more than useful. If I happen to kill a Moose nearby any shelter-like area, then it's more effective as I can cary all the remains of a Moose carcass and store it one by one kg of meat. As I reach my destination with all the resources I just immediately harvest the meat of the bags and put them outside the shelter. With perfect cooking skills and the cold outside will together help your food keep it's quality long enough to eat all of them safely.

8:13 I see what you did there

You're videos are really insightful!

Another thing to note. If you aren’t at master harvesting take meat out in the smallest possible increments. Experience for meat is 1 exp per 2.2 lbs item when harvested in bulk. If you take 1.1 items this doubles the experience at the cost of more scent penalties. This also helps with rationing.

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If you first harvest all the meat, hide and guts, and then you quarter, you get more experience, even if there isn't anything more to harvest.

Wonder why I'm not able to quarter any meat at all, because I've tried with all tools, hacksaw, hatchet, hunting knife and by hand. Are there other tools I need to quarter it?

I suppose at cooking 5 there is little concern over the food condition. So long as you get it back and cook it up, no problemo. Early game, big problem. I've gotten to day ~80, just recently capped cooking. So not having to worry about wasting antibiotics on rotten candy bars is nice.

For anyone reading not only it takes less if you have a fire around but also as soon as you cook it the quality will go up to 100% and if you leave it outside it last for up to a month or months depending on the difficulty you are playing

So it sounds like in Pilgrim mode it usually weighs out better to Harvest since danger is so much less and you can always do it in smaller stretches to get the most out of it.

Four years later and this video is still useful, just shot a bear on day 14 of my survival playthrough and somehow landed a critical after missing my first two shots, how I missed them I have no idea.

Where is the menu for quartering? When I kill an animal, only option in the menu is harvesting....?

Something I believe you may have forgot to mention was that harvesting by hand is a huge benefit to quartering. I would rather use my hands rather than dull my tools.

I sometimes use it to get my meat to a more sheltered location. But as only really with moose

Thx for advice, I never quartered before as I hate wasting any single piece. Got no axe to butcher 2 deers, 1 wolf and 1 rabbit bc everything's frozen;/ But from what I see quartering is kinda faster. Shouldn't have panicked from lack of wood since gray mother gives perma fire so I already broke 2 hatchets but heard about fishing camp or a cottage where i could find the 3rd one

How do I do research to build skills. Can I do the same in story mode? Can you rank up skills in wintermute?

i normally do it like this if its a deer or wolf harvest it bear or moose within running distance of shelter i would harvest it if not quarter it take its hide and 1 or 2 quarters

If an animal is frozen beyond capability of quartering, can I start fire and thaw the animal to quarter it?

I got a base in the mountainclimber hut its my main base i broke my shoes when i got stuck in ash canyon while trying to get the cramplers and the backpack i would say i was stuck in ash canyon for about 2-3 hours everywhere i went was the same after i found the exit i marked it for next time jesus i almost thought i was gonna lose this 10 day save and btw i climbed twm to get the juicy cargos only to realise out of all of the food i could only get 2 mre cuz of my carry weight and my sleep so yeah that also wasnt really fun since i almost died by fall dmg right at the end i actually think the long dark is a fun game if you know a little bit cuz if you start to play survival/sandbox you dont get the map fully explored you need to explore it yourself with the use of charcoal which you can gather after a fire has gone out 1 hour =1 charcoal charcoal can be used to unlock the map there are 5? Regios i think and if you are up for it you can try to unlock them all with the use of charcoal am playing on custom settings rn just to make the game a little challening cuz there is a problem you can only save by sleeping the game autosaves every time you sleep it doesnt need to be a specific time 1 hour will autosave so unless you got a bedroll or shelter you are on a risk of losing everything untill the last time you slept which could be 1 2 3 4 5 a lot of days ago so be sure to always save before going outside oh and here my last tip if you are playing on interloper i would advice you to get the blackrock ballistic vest with a carry weight of 4kg and a reduced movement speed of 40 so this vest is pretty damn heavy if you dont have any movement slowing clothing your looking at a ok 60 sprinting speed only equip it when ur getting attackes cuz this thing will save your live and because its pretty heavy so its not worth the slow movement speed if your not in great danger thats all good luck ;).

think I'll try luring them to my doorstep lol

Rabbits have one gut and deer has two guts

Lemme just harvest this Moose and Bear

So do you get the pelt from the bear with quartering? I've always been afraid of quartering so I've never done it.

Is that a #4 Enfield?

I wish you could drag a kill. I killed a bear by a cabin by shooting it and hiding like a bitch and I still need to start a 13 hour fire even though he is at the door

wow never knew quartering was even an option

I quartered a bear on the ice near the lighthouse, carried home a two bags each trip, harvested and cooked them in the processing plant, rinse repeat, my cooking skill is 5 so I got perfect condition bear steaks from every bag. Quartering is for chefs it seems.

Do the quartered meat bags also smell like raw meat?

It be funny if you harvest a kill and it brings a wolf so you kill it and have other kill to harvest

Is there summer in this game

Lmao that bears too thicc

Idk if it's just me but quartering seems a lil annoying sometimes. Like I'll quarter a deer get like 4 sacks that have only 2 1 kg of meat however the sack itself weighs like 4 kg so it's doubled the weight. Just for that reason I prefer harvesting personally.

13 hours to harvest a bear are you joking ive harvest a bear in real life and it didn't take no 13 hours

Why Would They Make The Bags Heavier Then The Meat Inside It. That Don't Make Any Sense... They Should Fix That So You Carry What You Take. How Is A Bag Heavier Then It's Contents... Smh Very Stupid. But Game Looks Nice And Nice Vid bro.

Damn, get to the point. Ramble, ramble, ramble...

in the end long dark is so bs game. to cut all meat from bear takes around 3-4hours also why cant we use livers and heart for food they are good food.

Dude you need to speed up your videos. You ramble on and on.