Earlier this week, developer Moralrecordings (aka Scott Percival) posted an extended blog detailing how they and some others created a modded "Oregon Trail Time Machine" in hopes of finding a way to beat the game by waiting at the final Snake River crossing for a long enough span of time that, through an already-existing glitch, should make your party effectively immortal since health conditions are not recalculated when waiting for conditions to improve.
So, it seems simple enough, right? The glitch and scenario needed for an immortal Oregon Trail victory are both present without modifying the classic survival game whatsoever. So, one would think that just doing some regular old waiting long enough for multiple real-life days at this key junction would do the trick. Unfortunately, initial "Time Machine" attempts with the vanilla game involving waiting at the Snake River crossing until the in-game year of 10,000 inevitably resulted in the entire party succumbing to death by disease.
