Relative Consumption Time for The Long Dark

This is a mod for The Long Dark by Hinterland Studio, Inc.

Description

Every consume action in The Long Dark has a fixed duration, no matter how much is actually consumed. If you eat 1/10 from a steak or the hole steak, it all takes the same duration. This mod is a small Quality of Life mod which changes the absolute duration into a configurable relative duration. If you now eat half of a food item because you just can't pack any further calories, it will also only take half the duration! It now also includes something similar with waiting times. No more hours spent outside in seconds without being able to react. There is now a configurable relative duration for many actions, like: Surveying, carcass harvesting, breaking down, crafting, fishing, inventory actions (clean, harvest, etc.), snow shelter, passing time (including cooking) and rope placing.

Settings

There are several new settings in the Mod Options:

• Relative Consumption Time Multiplier:

  Every consumable is now relative. This is the amount it is multiplied with. A value of 1 is orientated to the vanilla game. I.e. drinking half a liter and a value of 1 will result in the vanilla duration.

  • Drinking Duration Multiplier
  • Food Duration Multiplier

• Absolute Minimum (in seconds):

  This is the absolute minimum time to consume an item.

  • Drinking Minimum Duration
  • Food Minimum Duration

• Minimum Threshold to Apply Multiplier

  For items which have a low calories count, e.g. the cat tail stalk or a tea, the multiplier unnecessary prolongs the consume duration. With this option you can specify a minimum calories count for the multiplier to apply.

  • Minimum Calories

• Relative Waiting Time

  Lets you enable relative waiting times

  • One Hour Waiting Time

  Specify the waiting time for one ingame hour in seconds. E.g. if set to 1 second, you will wait 1 second for every ingame hour passed.

  • Minimum Waiting Time

  Specify the absolute minimum waiting time in seconds

  • Maximum Waiting Time

  Specify the absolute maximum waiting time in seconds

Recommendations

I am currently using:

• Drinking Duration Multiplier = 1.2
• Food Duration Multiplier = 1.2
• Drinking Minimum Duration = 1s
• Food Minimum Duration = 1s
• Minimum Calories = 160 (150 = cat tail stalk)
• One Hour Waiting Time = 9
• Minimum Waiting Time = 1
• Maximum Waiting Time = 14

However, the values are so easily changed and applied right away you can try and modify to your likings.

Installation

1. If you haven't done so already, install MelonLoader v0.2.7.4+
2. If you haven't done so already, install ModSettings v1.7+
3. Download the latest version of RelativeConsumptionTime.dll from the releases page
4. Move RelativeConsumptionTime.dll into the Mods folder of your The Long Dark installation directory

Uninstallation

The mod can always be uninstalled. Just delete the RelativeConsumptionTime.dll from the Mods folder.

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