How long do you think you could survive on a deserted island for?
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I play Animal Crossing. My character has been going for 3 months as of yesterday. She has more clothes than people who live on the mainland, and a two-storey house with a basement and several rooms. She's paid off the racoon (or tanuki if you prefer) so she has no debt. As far as food, it sucks because AC is a vegan fantasy game in which meat and meat byproducts simply do not exist, but hey, the trees and crops grow every 3 days and put out more than enough food for me, the racoon/tanuki and his two nephews, his girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend and her sister, and the museum curator... oh and the ten villagers I have... to survive and thrive.
Oh, you mean a real deserted island? I couldn't. But I'm about to get off the computer and go cross some animals because they won't cross themselves! (I know that makes no sense, but neither does the name, which it's a play on. FWIW, the game's original Japanese name means something like "animals in the forest." The English name, I think, is a play on "Railroad Crossing," but it's still kind of nonsensical. Just like our reasons for playing this game...
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I always have a lighter so I could make fire, I can forage and fish and trap if I have to, and I'm pretty good with bushcraft. I also usually have a couple cannabis seeds in one of those keychain style pill bottles so I'm in it for the long haul, I don't think I'd even want to get rescued
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24 minutes, I'm not an island person. Need my land to be at least a peninsula, maybe a cape but no island.
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If there is clean water and some food I can figure out how to harvest relatively easily then I like my odds.
Assuming it's not an Arctic island. Then I have until winter.
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Idk, I don't like bugs lol
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Assuming it's like a small-ish tropical island and i'm the biggest predator around, with plenty of fruits and also a pond with fresh water and fish i can eat, i'd say i'll die in the middle of the first night from hypothermia because i can't tolerate cold.
TIL tropical islands are freezing cold...
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Assuming it's like a small-ish tropical island and i'm the biggest predator around, with plenty of fruits and also a pond with fresh water and fish i can eat, i'd say i'll die in the middle of the first night from hypothermia because i can't tolerate cold.
Maybe it's a nice warm tropical island with perfect weather all year round.
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it would be just like Minecraft, so I'd make it till nightfall until skeletons and spiders murdered me
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If there is a source of clean drinking water? I would have a shot tonCastaway it..
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At most until my medication runs out. From then on, it's going down the drain...
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Solar still, or a transpiration bag.
Les Stroud said that the one thing he can count on in every survival situation, is finding trash.
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When I go ?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_threes_(survival)
You can survive three minutes without breathable air (unconsciousness), or in icy water.
You can survive three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold). You need shelter!
You can survive three days without drinkable water.
You can survive three weeks without food. But, many people have gone for over 40 days during fasting and have survived.
You can survive three weeks without food. But, many people have gone for over 40 days during fasting and have survived.
I dread to think what state your body is in by that point, it has to be consuming itself to keep going.
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You can survive three weeks without food. But, many people have gone for over 40 days during fasting and have survived.
I dread to think what state your body is in by that point, it has to be consuming itself to keep going.
You CAN survive, but the larger question is would you WANT to survive?
I'm assuming "can survive if you get immediate medical treatment at the end."
This guy went 382 days, but did have water and vitamins, just no food.
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Assuming it's a tropical island, I think I'd do well enough.
If it's of any size at all, there will be fresh water, and in any case, it will fall from the sky soon enough.
Even if there's nothing to eat on the land, unlikely, there's plenty in the sea.
Making fire would be my first and most difficult chore. Even guys that are practiced struggle, but if our ass is on line, it's amazing what we humans can get done.
Much depends on what gear I have when I get there. Not having any sort of knife would be hell. Having cloth is a big deal.
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TIL tropical islands are freezing cold...
People got lost in tropical forest and die from hypothermia all the time, night is cold especially when it's windy and it always caught people off guard because the day is hot.
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To quote xkcd, "On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases."
And ok, sure, the more recent ones haven't had to rough it, but if you go back just a few generations you get to someone who actually knows something about something. Still, I think I could suss out at least enough to keep going until I inevitably got injured or sick or mauled by a wild animal.
That said, I'm very aware that this might just be unearned and unmerited arrogance, like the guys who say they could take a point off of Serena Williams on the tennis court.
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I play Animal Crossing. My character has been going for 3 months as of yesterday. She has more clothes than people who live on the mainland, and a two-storey house with a basement and several rooms. She's paid off the racoon (or tanuki if you prefer) so she has no debt. As far as food, it sucks because AC is a vegan fantasy game in which meat and meat byproducts simply do not exist, but hey, the trees and crops grow every 3 days and put out more than enough food for me, the racoon/tanuki and his two nephews, his girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend and her sister, and the museum curator... oh and the ten villagers I have... to survive and thrive.
Oh, you mean a real deserted island? I couldn't. But I'm about to get off the computer and go cross some animals because they won't cross themselves! (I know that makes no sense, but neither does the name, which it's a play on. FWIW, the game's original Japanese name means something like "animals in the forest." The English name, I think, is a play on "Railroad Crossing," but it's still kind of nonsensical. Just like our reasons for playing this game...
wrote last edited by [email protected]meat and meat byproducts simply do not exist
There was an update with a bunch of food items, including sushi, roasted fish, clam chowder etc
Luncheon Plate Meal and Shio Ramen appear to include ham
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_threes_(survival)
You can survive three minutes without breathable air (unconsciousness), or in icy water.
You can survive three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold). You need shelter!
You can survive three days without drinkable water.
You can survive three weeks without food. But, many people have gone for over 40 days during fasting and have survived.
you need water, and cant last 3 weeks without it.
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unless something like the simpsons episode where they got trapped on an island, but you could still forage and maybe hunt wild animals. if its a desolate sandy island.
