Chillmonger's Guide for Everything

Disclaimer
This guide is still a work in progress. The tips are based on the Dread Hunger v0.6.1 Depending on your current version, some values and tips may be out of date.

Welcome to Dread Hunger
So you've decided to brave the Arctic winterscape. Here is what you'll need to know to survive / sabotage the expedition.

Objectives
'''Q: So what is Dread Hunger? How do you play? What is the objective?'''

Dread Hunger is a deception game, where you work together with your teammate(s) to either: escape the Arctic or keep everyone in the Arctic.

I recommend that you checkout TRNDSTTR's guide for some general tips.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2397201311

There are two teams: Crewmates and Thralls.

Crewmate's conditions for victory: the ship reaches the "open waters"; leaving the Arctic hell-hole behind.

Thrall's conditions for victory: keeping the crewmate stranded in the Arctic forever. This can be achieved by either sinking the ship or killing all crewmates.

Playing as crewmate
There are four main tasks you can do as crewmate to help your team survive the Arctic.


 * 1) Gather coal (or other fuel sources) for the ship's engine
 * 2) Carry or escort explosives (nitroglycerin) to the big, blocking iceberg
 * 3) Keeping the ship afloat
 * 4) Staying alive

Coal
Coal is the most common resource used to fuel the ship's engine, most commonly found in "coal sled". 1 coal sled will contain 1-2 coal. 1 piece of coal provides 12 seconds of fuel. Other items can also be used to fuel the engine, such as: wood, pistols, muskets, wood axes, ice picks, blubber, ??

Nitroglycerin and the iceberg
Nitroglycerin, also referred to as "nitro", can be found at the camp located the furthest from the ship's spawning point. Commonly referred to as the "cannibal camp".

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Stack of 99 nitro in each "explosives-sled". Be careful if a sled has missing nitro, maybe a thrall has stashed some nitro nearby.

Be careful while carrying nitro, if you run too much, the nitro will detonated.

The nitro-explosion is not instant after being activated, it takes about 2-4 (?) seconds for a crate of nitro to explode.

Protecting the ship
The thralls will do anything to keep their fellow companions in the Arctic, even go as far as to blow up and sink the ship using gunpowder. When a barrel of gunpowder explodes on the ship, holes appear on the ship. For example: A barrel of 15 gunpowder will damage the ship with 15 holes. These holes will need fixing, 1 hole requires 1 piece of wood to patch up.

The maximum damage one barrel of gunpowder can do is 20 ship damage, that is 20 holes. (Using a full barrel of 30 gunpowder will be a "waste" of 10 gunpowder).

It takes about 5 minutes to sink a ship with 20 holes.

Stay alive
The thralls win if all crewmates die. The thralls will usually have an easier time when other crewmates are locked up or dead.

Less eyes on the map.

More time to loot, ground coal, setup traps, totems and other nefarious schemes.

Heat
Keep an eye on your heat meter, especially at night. If you see an arrow pointing down next to the heat meter, then your warmth is depleting. An arrow pointing up means you are recovering heat. Multiple arrows means you are depleting or recovering more quickly. Once your heat meter is depleted, your health will begin to drain until you are downed and then killed.

You lose heat passively in the freezing cold Arctic and by swimming. Day is one arrow down, night is two, and swimming is three arrows down. On the day of the blizzard, the temperature will begin to drop aggressively. You must escape before the blizzard strikes.

To recover heat, hold or stand near an activated lantern. Campfires will keep you alive if you're stranded outside the ship.

Heat sources stack! Place multiple campfires around you to recover heat faster.

Consuming tea and stew will recover heat. Consuming human meat recovers heat for thralls (and crew???)

Caves and tents passively provide heat???

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