Wintermute Story Mode (Spoilers) WIP

Been 4 years in the making and I will be giving you a complete guide to Wintermute. Will be a work in progress as I'm still combing the land for any hidden secrets.Have the marathon Stream up and past streams of Story Mode if you want to find info quicker check the Youtube Channel. Maps and screenshots of all caches, etc incoming soon.Also be aware Wintermute has launched with a fair amount of bugs so quests can be broken and bad things could possible happen but they've already put out multiple patches so hopefully everything will get smoothed over.Episode 1 - Do Not Go GentleAfter the opening cinematic we find ourselves crash landing on Bear Island. The first five days are a tutorial pretty much on stuff you more than likely already know how to do.The one thing new that might be confusing to you is preparing rose hip tea which now needs to be crafted first in the crafting menu. Takes about 15 minutes to prepare and then you can boil the rose hip tea.Once the game allows you'll be able to climb out of your current area and make your way onto the Mountain Town map or "Milton" as it were. You'll also be able to check out your plane or what's left of it as well. You'll also have a metal shard you've fashioned into a knife be sure to keep that sharpened in episode one. Whetstone can be given by Grey Mother when you've acquired enough trust.You'll soon make it out of the crash and find yourself in a new area with quite a few bunnies. There are usually at least 6 bunnies in the area. Do yourself a favor(if you can stomach it) and stone and kill all the bunnies in the area. This will secure some future rabbitskin mitts but more importantly start working on Grey Mother's trust level as each rabbit hide= 50 trust.If you did get all the rabbits you will probably have a 3 smell meter but I wouldn't worry about it in story mode, mostly only you can kill you so you'll be fine.You'll then eventually make it into a cave which will have a few torches and a bedroll. Bedroll=saving on the go and outside and sleeping and healing up if you have to but be sure to watch the temp!Once your out of the cave you'll be close to the road to Milton. Stay on the road, be sure to loot the cars and take occasional cover in them as wolves will be about. Before the church near the left side of the road I believe(you'll unlock a map from Grey Mother later) is a trailer you can spend the night at.When you walk into the town of Milton you'll notice the big house on the left with smoke rising from the chimney. Now you can do some side adjectives before heading to meet Grey Mother or go unlock the bank vault or check on some side caches but to take less time I'd advise going to see Grey Mother and giving her all those bunny pelts you've acquired to max out her trust at 375 which will unlock a side cache quest, flare gun quest and some very nice Mountain Boots.Now most be would agree staying at Grey Mother's is your best bet as she does have magical infinite fire and two beds. Her first quest will have you going out to fetch fire wood. There are two wood lots on either side of town. You'll need to acquire 30kg of wood in the outside container in front of the house.You should have a side cache quest now and the flare quest as well if you got her trust up early.Take a right on the road by the bank and first house on your left is the Coast Guard residents house. On the rug right next to the dresser you'll find a hidden cache containing the flare gun.The first hidden cache you'll find is semi marked on a map as Grey mother said it's behind their house in the garden. Search around the rocks by the back of said house and you'll find it.With those two out of the way I'd recommend heading over to the bank where you'll find the key to the bankers house and you can't quite get in the vault yet. Just past the post office on the left side you'll see two houses, the banker's is the slightly better looking house with the flag. You'll find a box that contains the vault code. Now you can head back and unlock the vault. This will save you time later on in the main questline.So you'll find in the vault 4 deposit boxes that need to be opened. 3 are out on the map. Two are on corpse. One out in the general area past the Paradise Farmhouse and the other is out by the church just look for crows circling. The 3rd key is in a truck just past the Orca gas station on your way up to the exit point of the Mountain Town map you'll be visiting later.Once you have the 3 vault boxes out of the way of the way you'll have two more hidden caches which you'll need to find the notes for before you can find them. One cache is located in the back of a cave just before the radio tower and the other one is behind the church just next to a fallen tree. The loot from the caches really isn't needed if your just in it for the story but if you want the cache mastery achievement you'll need to get all three caches on the first episode and the next episodes caches as well.With all the side quests out of the way you can now focus solely on the story. A quick trip to the wood lot outside town should net you easily the wood to finish the quest. Next up you'll need to acquire 10000 calories for Grey Mother's fridge. You'll have a morale choice of going to the gas station to get the supplies there but really you probably already have 10K on you or you'll easily find it in nearby houses.With that out of the way you'll need to give Grey Mother a bit then you'll get a quest to go towards the end of the road past the gas station you'll find the bus then return to Grey Mother.As a time-saver you'll want to have 5-7 deer hides as you start to finish episode one as this will get your trust maxed out with Jeremiah at the start.You'll next have to head to Paradise farm to get the final vault key from a vase in the Barker farmhouse. Then go to the bank and retrieve Grey Mother's box. You'll then have to take the pearls to Lilly's grave just across the church.With that done you'll finally get the rope you need to get out of Milton. Just reminder you'll only be able to take 30kg with you so plan accordingly.Once you go down the rope and head through a cave you'll be at the end of episode one. Congrats!End of Episode 1