Survival

How long would you survive in the woods?

  • A day

    Votes: 3 12.0%

  • A week

    Votes: 10 40.0%

  • A few weeks

    Votes: 5 20.0%

  • A few months

    Votes: 7 28.0%
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Rin

Rin

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If you were lost in the woods, with no tools, no knives, no matches, how long would you expect to survive? Let's say a temperate location with no seasons, with a river, abundant fish. Moderate amount of wildlife, including deer, boars, and bears.

 
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Rin said:
If you were lost in the woods, with no tools, no knives, no matches, how long would you expect to survive?
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I guess it depends on the conditions. How could are the nights and how much water is present can all be factors. I'd probably live a couple weeks

 
I was in fact a boy scout and I know a thing or two about survival.  I understand the basic principles of engineering/architecture to be able to build basic shelter.  I can identify safe/edible food to eat, and there's drinking water.  The hardest thing to do would be to avoid, say, the bears.  That's not too hard - don't leave waste, wash myself regularly, and avoid known bear areas.  

 
Assuming I didn't travel to find my way out:

I know how to make tools, fire, and a house. I'd survive until I died of some disease from eating animals, until I went blind, or until I got too old. With a diet like that I'd probably live longer than I will here.

Whether I'd want to survive is a different matter.

Temporary shelter: 1 day

Water: 2 days

Pottery for storing and boiling water: 3-5 days

Aboriginal fish trap: 1 week

Stone axe or adze: 2 weeks

Mud hut: 3-4 weeks

Barbarian clothes and blankets: 6 weeks

Tile roof: 2.5 months

Skull and bones throne: 3 months

Productive garden: 6 months

BRB domesticating boar

BRB lean meat, low carbs

BRB lifting logs and rocks

BRB getting primitive strongman jacked.

 
Pfft you made the conditions pretty easy. Honestly I don't have a lot of experience with survival skills but I think I'm smart enough to survive. I have a lot of experience with the outdoors so it doesn't seem very scary or anything to me. 

 
Piratemonkey said:
Pfft you made the conditions pretty easy. Honestly I don't have a lot of experience with survival skills but I think I'm smart enough to survive. I have a lot of experience with the outdoors so it doesn't seem very scary or anything to me. 
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I probably couldn't figure out how to light a fire or spear fish or whatever. I actually tried once, couldn't get the fire running even after referring from a book.

I'd likely survive the eating raw fish part but maybe die from hypothermia or infection or falling off a waterfall or get eaten by wolves/tigers (depending on the biome).

I guess hard mode under those terms would be the Amazon?

 
Fire making is easy.

Just like castaway.

Get wood.

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Rin said:
I probably couldn't figure out how to light a fire or spear fish or whatever. I actually tried once, couldn't get the fire running even after referring from a book.

I'd likely survive the eating raw fish part but maybe die from hypothermia or infection or falling off a waterfall or get eaten by wolves/tigers (depending on the biome).

I guess hard mode under those terms would be the Amazon?
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I mean if I'm going to be 100% honest, I don't know how to start a fire without a lighter or matches so maybe my faith in myself is a little misguided.

I guess hard mode would be more like a place without so much food and water around you. The Amazon might prove to be kind of easy to survive in compared to let's say, a deciduous forest without a nearby river

 
I was in the military 2004-2006, where I received all kinds of survival training.. But I gotta say I've forgotten so much of it haha. There's a lot of logistics involved in staying alive by yourself. I mean minor injuries can be a death sentence, and it's a lot more work than it seems. During field training in the service I was exhausted after 3 days; and that was with help from a team. So, I say a week, if I'm able to count the last couple days while I'm activity dying haha

 
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most people are voting a few months, I was tempted to vote that as well. However, with no real survival training, I'm guessing I could make it a little under a week, maybe a week or two if I really tried hard. I weigh 130lbs though so I think I'd just wither away, and I have no idea how to sneak up to an animal or build traps. 

 
I said a few weeks. That is about how long it would take me to get settled in a semi-permanent shelter, store some food and water, get a constant fire and some tools, and then do something unbelievably stupid without thinking that would result in me dying painfully in a broken body, getting eat by a bear, or, like Rin, falling off a giant waterfall. 

I'm not a lucky fellow

Piratemonkey said:
The Amazon might prove to be kind of easy to survive in compared to let's say, a deciduous forest without a nearby river
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Hell no it would not! 


That is one of the only environments this man could not survive in. Jaguars, insects that give you diarrhea, little food available that won't kill you first, so much rain. No one here would survive in the Amazon. 

 
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Yeah, I said woods not jungle because the jungle would be insane. My grandparents used to do jungle warfare in WW2 and communist era.

Going into the jungle alone was like a death sentence. The British would wall up villages instead of chasing down the communists. The commies hiding in thr jungles would just starve or get eaten by tigers/alligators/giant snakes. Even with full gear, training, and friends, most didn't last months.

 
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