Custom regions

The Long Development is a small team project and a collaborative community effort to expand Great Bear Island in a beautiful and balanced way. We are focusing on creating as 'hinterland-like' regions as possible to ensure that they can fit in the vanilla game and not feel out of place. That means we will not be out to make the perfect base locations, but rather the most balanced locations.

The Long Development consists of a couple core team members that all bring their own talent to the project. The variety of work that each person brings allows this mod to be as expansive and unique as it is, featuring brand new regions that connect to the larger world of Great Bear filled with custom 3D modeled structures to really make these regions stand out in their own ways. Last but not least is (as of now) 10 minutes of new music that not only fits the region's feelings, but also fits in seamlessly with the rest of the great tracks featured in survival mode.

As of now, there are 2 major regions + 1 transition region in development with more planned for the future... but we take our time when creating these regions as the entire team has lives of their own and this project is all on our own time and will be free now and forever.

You can keep up to date with development while also talking directly to us and the community here on our Discord:                 https://discord.gg/EVspXHdQP9

You can check out our November 2021 DevLog here for some exclusive sneak peeks: https://www.reddit.com/r/thelongdark/comments/qjra4s/the_long_development_dev_log_november_2021/

Mountain Pass

This is a large rocky region connecting to Forsaken Shore and Timberwolf Mountain. Although its actual terrain size is similar to Pleasant Valley, its playable area is closer in size to the Timberwolf Mountain map. The map features 3 distinct layers that all provide a balanced gameplay experience.


 * The Basin: This rocky crater contains a lake with fishing huts, a pair of cabins, and a multitude of spaces for hunting.
 * The Railroad: A long railway bisects this layer of region and features a maintenance station for locomotives and train cars. Following the track south leads you to a bridge that spans The Fissure, enabling access to the other side and upper most layer of the region.
 * The Peak: On the highest layer, there rests a custom cabin overlooking the entire region, perfect for getting a good view and taking pretty screenshots. The cabin will feature a indoor fire and access to a basement containing a workbench.