The Long Dark: Extra Supplies Walkthrough

The Long Dark: Episode 1 – Sidequest: Extra Supplies Walkthrough & Guide.

The Long Dark: Extra Supplies Walkthrough

This sidequest is activated by picking up the weather notice that appears on the bench after you finish getting food and fuel for Grey Mother.

If you read the note, you’ll see it’s supposed to reach record cold temperatures for the next few days, and Grey Mother’s going to need a lot more supplies to survive until help comes.

To complete this quest, you’ll need to put a total of 36 hours of fuel into the woodbin and 20,000 calories in the fridge. Thankfully, the values stack from the first time you got food and wood for Grey Mother, so it’s not as big a hurdle.

The fuel should be the easy part, since you’re presumably using Grey Mother’s magic fire to do any cooking. You can find some more coal in the ruins of the old schoolhouse, and there’s plenty of abandoned furniture that you can break up for reclaimed wood. You can also go to the woodlots on either side of Milton and chop branches there. Just be on the lookout for wolves; they blend it with the tree stumps.

The food is where this quest gets tricky. If you haven’t already, clean out the gas station and Barker’s Farmhouse (you’ll need to progress in the story to gain access to the Farmhouse). You can also complete the Highway Robbery sidequest for about 3,000 calories. My other recommendation is to spend some time hunting rabbits or using the wolves to hunt deer (run a deer towards a wolf, and then scare the wolf away using a flare/torch). As a last resort, hunt wolves by undressing and then getting in a fight with the nearest one. Use a bladed weapon, and then just stalk the animal until it bleeds out. By placing raw meat in the fridge, you gain some extra calories for the quest since you would normally cook that meat for yourself (which causes some calorie loss).

Once you finish this quest, check the bench where you first found the note. There will be a nice Mackinaw Jacket for Will, one of the best outerwear pieces in the game.