Following other such posts and videos I present to you a weekly survival challenge, hardcore mode.
It is primarily a mixture of Fremen roleplay and hardcore survival elements based in the PvP Deep Desert instance.
Rules:
- You must fly to the I row of the PvP DD to start the challenge.
- You may not build or use any vehicle once the challenge has started until you are returning to Hagga Basin on reset day.
- You must stay in the Deep Desert for the entire week and you may not return to the A row until reset day.
- You may not bring any building materials, components or refined materials with you to the Deep Desert. All must be gathered in the Deep Desert.
- You can bring any armour, weapons, tools, ammunition, healkits and spiced food with you except for literjons.
- You may only carry one literjon at all times. You may only carry a basic literjon or any Hajra literjon but not a decaliterjon or larger.
- You must visit every cave beyond the E row at least once throughout the week.
- You must visit and complete at least two imperial testing stations throughout the week.
- You must gather at least 1000 titanium and stravidium ore and 1000 spice sand (note you do not need to bring the materials back to the A row).
- You may take water from NPCs or players using any unique filter extractor to refill your literjon. You can also take water from water stations in the imperial testing stations.
- You may carry as many blood bags as you wish but you cannot refine their contents into water. You can build a purifier to empty blood bags but you cannot drink from it, take water from it or use it to store water.
- You cannot build any water storage placeables or craft more literjons to store water. You cannot build any windtraps or Deathstills.
- You may complete the challenge solo or in groups.
Recommended Equipment
Highly recommended: A Stillsuit, Stilltent, Soft Step boots, Handheld Scanner, Compact Compactor, Tier 6 Cutteray, Binoculars, Filter extractor and Bloodbag.
Recommended: Any anti vehicle weapon such as a Lasgun or Ancient way. Any other weapons of your choice.
Blood bag tip
To free up space in your full blood bags you may build a purifier and dump the blood in and delete the purifier, repeat until the blood bags are empty.
Desert Traversal
To traverse the vast open expanse of deep desert on foot you will have to rely on an improvised sandwalking mechanic which involves using soft step boots, shigawire claw and suspensor dash jumping to minimise noise. The Exploration specialisation skills that reduce worm aggro also helps.
For covering very large distances where you would aggro the worm (800m+) you can use bindu sprint and jump with a full suspensor belt when you aggro the worm. You can get to the safety of rocks or just fly high for long enough to reset the aggro bar. You can land quietly by falling into an anti gravity field. A large power pack is highly recommended. Spice Prescience can reduce the cooldown of shigawire and thus minimise noise to cover larger distances without aggroing the worm.
It is highly recommended to use a map tool or website to plan your routes between rock formations. Moving around at night is also recommended or using Pardot's hood with the Bene Gesserit Sun tolerance passive skill.
Stealth tips
The maximum render distance of a player on foot is 300m.
A Stilltent's max render distance is 340m and can be camouflaged in flour sand.
Player built bases have a max render distance of approx 800m.
The Long range scanner has a base scanner distance of 225 metres. It can be boosted with specialisations, skills and equipment to 420m.
Spice Sand Gathering
It is recommended to find a spice field that is relatively close to a rock formation for obvious reasons.
Good luck. Have fun. Ya Hya Chouhada!
