A sun or snowflake icon will appear near the compass to note whether you are currently getting warmer or colder. You can warm up by standing near a fire, eating hot soup, or moving to a warmer location. If you reach the highest level of Cold, your health will be reduced to zero and you will die from exposure to the elements. As you become colder, your movement speed and ability to pick locks and pick pockets will begin to suffer. Cold decreases your total available health, represented as a dark region inside the health bar. Traveling in snowy or rainy areas will increase your Cold. Cold: Skyrim is now divided into warm, cold, and freezing climates.If you sleep in a bed indoors, you will receive the Well Rested bonus. If you sleep outside, you will not be able to get a restful night's sleep, waking up Drained at best. In Survival, the Well Rested bonus is no longer granted automatically after sleeping. You will need to periodically sleep in a bed in order to restore your fatigue. As you become more fatigued, the effectiveness of potions will begin to decline, and your ability to recover magicka and stamina will begin to suffer. Fatigue: Fatigue decreases your total available magicka, represented by a dark region inside the magicka bar.Hot soups can now be cooked by using fire salts, which restore your cold and also grant a bonus to your warmth rating. If you eat raw meat, you may contract Food Poisoning, which can prevent you from receiving health benefits from food until the effect wears off. Cooked food restores more hunger than uncooked food. If you eat enough, you will receive the Well Fed bonus. As you become hungrier, your total available stamina will decrease, represented by a dark region inside the stamina bar. Hunger: Over time, you will become hungry, which will impact your total stamina, as well as your ability to wield most weapons.Most Survival features are disabled until after the quest Unbound is completed. Survival can be played on any Difficulty setting, with Legendary difficulty recommended for the most challenge. Survival Mode introduces several challenging changes to gameplay and new gameplay features in order to transform the majority of the map into a harsh, cold wilderness. If you start a new character, Survival mode does not enable until after you leave character generation.) Overview Unrelenting cold, harsh wilderness, famine and fatigue - do you have the strength to endure? (Creation features new gameplay mode including new UI, and can be turned on or off in Settings menu. Official Summary In Survival Mode, your greatest adversary is Skyrim itself.

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