# Game Talk **URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/c/game-talk/27.md?page=561 [Latest](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/tags.md) **Page:** 562 --- ## [My car can't move!](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-car-cant-move/933)
**Author:** [@Sakuraba\_Izayoi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sakuraba_Izayoi)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 4:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-car-cant-move/933 "2013-04-21T16:19:36Z")
\[image\] I made a small RV, nice&safety . but it doesn’t move! Why? I already set seat,controls,engine,storage battery,fill some batteries…etc sad… – K mass? but how? how can i fix it? help! pls! --- ## [Toggle function: Base Move Cost = lowest BMC of all party members](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/toggle-function-base-move-cost-lowest-bmc-of-all-party-members/402)
**Author:** [@Sorenson](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sorenson)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/toggle-function-base-move-cost-lowest-bmc-of-all-party-members/402 "2013-04-21T15:54:15Z")
One of the lesser, though still annoying, problems with having NPCs following you is the constant stop-and-start action required if you have a higher BMC than your followers - mutations, drugs, fitted sneakers and jeans … --- ## [Military + Science Bases/Shelters](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/military-science-bases-shelters/843)
**Author:** [@harrypsp](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/harrypsp)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/military-science-bases-shelters/843 "2013-04-21T13:34:34Z")
In my game there are no military or science bases, only fema camps have they been taken out?? --- ## [Petshops, hardtack and more, oh my](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/petshops-hardtack-and-more-oh-my/924)
**Author:** [@pikdome](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pikdome)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/petshops-hardtack-and-more-oh-my/924 "2013-04-21T13:19:54Z")
Here’s a thread where I make some suggestions; \[shadow=red,left\]Locations:\[/shadow\] \[glow=red,2,300\] Pet Shop\[/glow\]: Think little corner pet store. The inside would consist of a counter with a cash register, some ‘d… --- ## [Steak knife raising blunt weapon skill more than cutting?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/steak-knife-raising-blunt-weapon-skill-more-than-cutting/926)
**Author:** [@GreenJelly](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GreenJelly)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/steak-knife-raising-blunt-weapon-skill-more-than-cutting/926 "2013-04-21T08:07:36Z")
Hello. While playing recently, I decided to try for a mêlée build focusing more on cutting weapons than my standard of using bashing weapons. I started out using just the pocket knife, but I soon upgraded to a steak kni… --- ## [Cocaine of Whiskey: A Memorial to a hilarious bug!](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cocaine-of-whiskey-a-memorial-to-a-hilarious-bug/911)
**Author:** [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cocaine-of-whiskey-a-memorial-to-a-hilarious-bug/911 "2013-04-21T04:55:20Z")
Post any new sightings, optionally with pictures. This was a hilarious bug, not sure if it was fixed. But it was a hilarious bug that compounded items into things like vitamins of vodka or cognac of methamphetamine. An… --- ## [Professions](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/professions/927)
**Author:** [@Aron](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Aron)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/professions/927 "2013-04-21T04:49:04Z")
Hey all, I was wondering if I could get some help with professions. First when I make a new profession in the file it doesn’t show up in game,' Second when I modify a current profession it goes into the create screen a… --- ## [Keyboard issue with the angle brackets](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/keyboard-issue-with-the-angle-brackets/918)
**Author:** [@magyar645](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/magyar645)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/keyboard-issue-with-the-angle-brackets/918 "2013-04-21T04:31:09Z")
Hi i’ve recently downloaded Cataclysm DDA after watching a couple of video about it , but when it comes to create my character i can go on after the stat tab , cataclysm wont recognise how my keyboard process the angle b… --- ## [Cataclysm, classic Zombie Survival. In progress](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cataclysm-classic-zombie-survival-in-progress/156)
**Author:** [@Oddzball](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Oddzball)\ **Replies:** 252\ **Last updated:** [April 21, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cataclysm-classic-zombie-survival-in-progress/156 "2013-04-21T01:09:05Z")
https://github.com/Oddzball/Cataclysm-CZS.git Added a compiled package for those of you that want it. \[size=14pt\]OK, EVERY TIME there is an update, you will need to make a brand new install of CZS. That means delete EV… --- ## [New buildings and special zombies](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-buildings-and-special-zombies/884)
**Author:** [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/new-buildings-and-special-zombies/884 "2013-04-20T21:43:00Z")
Stadium: Large area iwth its own special spawn like Super Stores. Packed with zombies. Zombie football players (big fat ones that are slow but hard to stop), zombie fans, zombie announcer. how about special zombies l… --- ## [Tracking mod merges](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tracking-mod-merges/921)
**Author:** [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tracking-mod-merges/921 "2013-04-20T21:00:12Z")
can we get a sticky post under the mods forum that lists which mods are merged in in the first post. Which mods are separate branches. Where they are in terms of being merged in. might make it easier for the coders to k… --- ## [The Action Leap™ and various nitpicking fun](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-action-leap-and-various-nitpicking-fun/916)
**Author:** [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-action-leap-and-various-nitpicking-fun/916 "2013-04-20T20:43:07Z")
This right here made me think it’d be nice to be able to dive through doors/windows in a pinch. Welding. In case it isn’t already, needs to be a fire hazard. Those sparks are fierce. Random emissions 0-2 tiles away? --- ## [IRC client as part of game client](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/irc-client-as-part-of-game-client/923)
**Author:** [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/irc-client-as-part-of-game-client/923 "2013-04-20T19:00:30Z")
Tome 4 (another good rogue like) has an in game chat even though its a single player game. I know there is an IRC channel. is there an easy way to take an IRC client and have it as part of the game? can open as a separat… --- ## [Garbage Disposal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/garbage-disposal/919)
**Author:** [@Endovior](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Endovior)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 12:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/garbage-disposal/919 "2013-04-20T12:28:10Z")
I’d like to see some way of getting rid of unwanted items. I tend to build a dry-moat around my shelter, to keep mobs at bay; as a bonus, it fills up with random animal corpses, which I can butcher for meat. There’s wa… --- ## [There is no Science lab](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/there-is-no-science-lab/898)
**Author:** [@RainbowGamer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/RainbowGamer)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/there-is-no-science-lab/898 "2013-04-20T10:18:17Z")
I have tried to start new maps a few times and just cant get any science labs to generate. I have tried about 5-6 times to make a new character and reveal the map and when there is no lab I delete all saves and worlds so… --- ## [Traveling Hordes](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/traveling-hordes/899)
**Author:** [@Pakislav](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pakislav)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/traveling-hordes/899 "2013-04-20T03:36:45Z")
I’ll admit I don’t know what’s planned already and what is actually possible to be implemented, but traveling hordes would make this game just so much more aweseom! :s I imagine they wouldn’t be all that hard to make, n… --- ## [Quantity reporting on drop/pickup](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/quantity-reporting-on-drop-pickup/904)
**Author:** [@pingpong](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pingpong)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/quantity-reporting-on-drop-pickup/904 "2013-04-20T02:40:01Z")
If I drop .44 Magnum bullets it doesn’t show the “#” for specified quantity, though it does accept the commands for it. Also, it is currently on “?” key, as a side note. --- ## [Ants in my shelter!?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896)
**Author:** [@Fox](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Fox)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2013, 12:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ants-in-my-shelter/896 "2013-04-20T00:01:55Z")
I’ve been living in the emergency shelter. The doors are always closed behind me when I leave\\enter. I just entered an anthill and eventually had to flee due to a horde of soldier ants, and I fled back to the emergency s… --- ## [Vanishing Player Corpses](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vanishing-player-corpses/878)
**Author:** [@Alpha16](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Alpha16)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 11:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/vanishing-player-corpses/878 "2013-04-19T23:45:24Z")
I am rather new to the game, playing on version 0.4, I had 2 characters die by Wolf Spider, upon returning to the location of the bodies, the bodies have vanished, no items left behind. I also had chopped up some logs wi… --- ## [Question about encumbrance and long island iced tea :)](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/question-about-encumbrance-and-long-island-iced-tea/888)
**Author:** [@Ferodaktyl](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Ferodaktyl)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/question-about-encumbrance-and-long-island-iced-tea/888 "2013-04-19T22:43:47Z")
Hello Can someone please explain how this (encumbrance) works? What i could understand from wikia is that it adds half (the number of items minus one) and the total encumbrance of those items. But this doesn’t always s… --- ## [Bullet overpenetration?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-overpenetration/804)
**Author:** [@dawnFinder](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dawnFinder)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/bullet-overpenetration/804 "2013-04-19T22:00:16Z")
So I’ve been playing an archer build (14 STR & PER, maxed flaws, no traits) in the latest version, and I’ve played quite a bit of the previous versions, and I’ve only ever used guns to take out things that my arrows can’… --- ## [Spawn types: More then L4D and classic](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawn-types-more-then-l4d-and-classic/900)
**Author:** [@Pakislav](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pakislav)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spawn-types-more-then-l4d-and-classic/900 "2013-04-19T21:13:19Z")
How about expanding the options to choose what type of zombies the players get to be eaten by? It would be best if the players could choose exactly what types of monsters spawn, instead of just classic zombies and the v… --- ## [Why we cannot have multistored houses by now (and other good things)](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-we-cannot-have-multistored-houses-by-now-and-other-good-things/694)
**Author:** [@uzername](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/uzername)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/why-we-cannot-have-multistored-houses-by-now-and-other-good-things/694 "2013-04-19T18:29:04Z")
Here’s some parts of dialogue with developer about zlevels in the game. \[spoiler\] mib\_lte01g So, I’d wish to ask how can I define multilevel map area. 21:51 mib\_lte01g How are z-levels handled by now? 21:52 kevindroi… --- ## [Switching between currently displayed fuel types](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/switching-between-currently-displayed-fuel-types/902)
**Author:** [@Danv](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Danv)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/switching-between-currently-displayed-fuel-types/902 "2013-04-19T18:10:20Z")
suggest hotkey for switching fuel gauge between different available fuel types for example - while ago i have two cars, one with electric engine (powered by solar panels) and hydrogen tank for plasma turret, and second … --- ## [Endgame Goals](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/endgame-goals/885)
**Author:** [@warppooted](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/warppooted)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/endgame-goals/885 "2013-04-19T17:41:22Z")
So, I’m at the point where survival is no longer a pressing concern. I’ve got tons of food and water, have stockpiled plenty of crafting material, guns and ammo due to my daily forays into town. I’ve practically wiped ou… --- ## [Can't wear unique boots](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-wear-unique-boots/897)
**Author:** [@Danv](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Danv)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/cant-wear-unique-boots/897 "2013-04-19T14:36:56Z")
Recently found two unique pieces in Temple - “Coat of the Fungal Necropolis” and “Boots of Forbidden Death”, coat works fine, but when i trying to wear boots, it says “You can wear power armor components with power armor… --- ## [Alteration to how Sleep Works](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/alteration-to-how-sleep-works/887)
**Author:** [@Hyena\_Grin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Hyena_Grin)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/alteration-to-how-sleep-works/887 "2013-04-19T11:20:04Z")
One problem with sleep right now is that if you get woken up in the middle of the night it can be very, very hard to get back to sleep. I don’t know exactly how it currently works, but it seems to be that in order to fal… --- ## [Interaction between survivors, roadmaps, signposts](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/interaction-between-survivors-roadmaps-signposts/820)
**Author:** [@Psiweapon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Psiweapon)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/interaction-between-survivors-roadmaps-signposts/820 "2013-04-19T09:39:12Z")
A lot of times I end up in the same shelter time and again with different characters, accumulating resources. Last time, I didn’t even know where it was, but following some roads I learned from a roadmap, I ended up ther… --- ## [Fleet Footed does nothing!](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/fleet-footed-does-nothing/889)
**Author:** [@Fammable](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Fammable)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 8:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/fleet-footed-does-nothing/889 "2013-04-19T08:29:33Z")
I’ve been experimenting recently and I’ve noticed that fleet Footed makes no difference to the characters I have created.I distinctly remember that in early versions Fleet Footed gave you and obvious speed bonus. I see n… --- ## [Is there a way to use this font?](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-use-this-font/876)
**Author:** [@HRose](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HRose)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-use-this-font/876 "2013-04-19T07:27:22Z")
I’d like to use a specific font in the game. What are my options with the current release? The font is this one: \[image\] [Previous page](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/c/game-talk/27.md?page=560) [Next page](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/c/game-talk/27.md?page=562)