Good places for a base?

[_Rogue]

If by the new style gun stores you mean the ones with the weird add ons filled with casings in the back, yeah I like those to, but an alarm keeps on randomly sound every few minutes. I still plan to make a base in the labs because it seems fairly easy to clear them out (with emps) and they don’t seem to be TOO secluded and away from cities.

[AseaHeru]

Really? I have never had an issue with that. But then when I camp in them I normally get inside by spawning in them in the first place…

[Dampe]

Just using a sledgehammer on the wall of a gun store and making a bottleneck seems to work quite well.

[Arek_PL]

i just drive tank RV into shooting range but sledgehammer works too

[SenorOcho]

Not my tank! That’d require fixing!

Find the nearest working car and drive that through the wall instead. >_>

[Rilder]

In my current game I found a small warehouse a fair bit (but not too far) away from a town and set up there, big open main area with big metal winch-operated door that you can pull in a vehicle into, plus a small office area to use as a bedroom. (Even had a couch to use as a bed.)

Quite nice, especially as I tend to be a bit of a hoarder in cataclysm.

[Azrad]

Here’s an old post of mine where I converted the aboveground area of an ice lab to a base.

[quote=“Azrad, post:5, topic:10172”]Here’s the one on the previous world I played. You can see outside since I found an artifact at a mine that lets you see through everything.

Yessssssss. All things must be organized.[/quote]

Destroyed the walls inside the base so it can just be one room, then added a ceiling to the entire area. The only spot that couldn’t get a ceiling was the dissector, but I reckon if there’s ever a zombie santa he’ll be in for a big surprise if he ever drops down there.

All the floors below have been cleared out. No living things. And since it’s an ice lab, it doubles as cold storage for all the human NPCs who try to look at my hoard.

[TheWumpus]

I third the Icelabs. Easy to secure, great source of more advanced chemical crafting materials, quite a few nifty electronic gadgets, and unlimited food storage. And there’s generally a source of water on the first floor. Also very, very few things in game can break through the metal doors. Make yourself a panic room to bolt into and arm a bunch of traps and you’re set.

[Taraq]

[quote=“Rilder, post:36, topic:10547”]In my current game I found a small warehouse a fair bit (but not too far) away from a town and set up there, big open main area with big metal winch-operated door that you can pull in a vehicle into, plus a small office area to use as a bedroom. (Even had a couch to use as a bed.)

Quite nice, especially as I tend to be a bit of a hoarder in cataclysm.[/quote]

Warehouses!?

[Rot]

[quote=“Taraq, post:39, topic:10547”][quote=“Rilder, post:36, topic:10547”]In my current game I found a small warehouse a fair bit (but not too far) away from a town and set up there, big open main area with big metal winch-operated door that you can pull in a vehicle into, plus a small office area to use as a bedroom. (Even had a couch to use as a bed.)

Quite nice, especially as I tend to be a bit of a hoarder in cataclysm.[/quote]

Warehouses!?[/quote]

I’ve never seen warehouses before, is this in the latest experimental?

[Rilder]

[quote=“Rot, post:40, topic:10547”][quote=“Taraq, post:39, topic:10547”][quote=“Rilder, post:36, topic:10547”]In my current game I found a small warehouse a fair bit (but not too far) away from a town and set up there, big open main area with big metal winch-operated door that you can pull in a vehicle into, plus a small office area to use as a bedroom. (Even had a couch to use as a bed.)

Quite nice, especially as I tend to be a bit of a hoarder in cataclysm.[/quote]

Warehouses!?[/quote]

I’ve never seen warehouses before, is this in the latest experimental?[/quote]

I’m just using 0.C Stable currently so no, not an experimental.

[AseaHeru]

I saw one once, where I promptly turned it into a base, but I haven’t seen them since I went to Experimental. Looking in the debug menu for changing map tiles in a roughly month-old experimental, they still exist.

Also, most of that menu is taken up with: Fallout reference land, Malls, NPC Stuff, and Z-Level stuff. In that order.

[vache]

Use \ to search. Or maybe its /. Either way, search is a must.

Edit: Also, I did some digging, it is still in the game, but the placement rules make it very rare. Essentially, it is marked to spawn by a road, which is a difficult place to put specials because the game selects locations at random (for the most part) and then tries to see what it can place at that location, so to place by a road it has to randomly select a point next to a road. This wouldn’t be so bad on its own, but there’s 3 other buildings with the same spawn rules, motels, gas stations, and rural gas stations. The motels and gas stations both have a minimum required of 2, so it would have to randomly select at least 5 locations next to a road to be able to place 2 motels, 2 gas stations, and then one warehouse. Compound this even further with the fact that motels and gas stations both have have effectively no city distance requirements, while warehouses are required to be placed relatively close to cities. My suggestion would be to add warehouses to regional_map_settings.json so that they can spawn in cities, and to adjust the chance of a vehicle spawning inside lower.

[Liamix]

I watch a Cata youtuber Called Silverdragonlord, and he usually builds a death machine or sets up in a public works facility, I, however, am a Nomad

[Oragepoilu]

(using experimental) I found a nice house recently, used by maybe a survivor; it included fireplace, bed, garage, trap, guns, food, clothes, aids, electronic stuff, tools.
Sadly it lacked water (after I’v empty the toilet. Btw, there was a landed mine on it, weird).

Windows and such are barricaded so it’s quite safe. Also the main area (with the fireplace) was quite big so it was easy to take over it and store all my junk around before I moved to the sewage treatment underground (because of my lucky lava spot in a corner that give me light & heat)

[Taraq]

[quote=“Oragepoilu, post:45, topic:10547”](using experimental) I found a nice house recently, used by maybe a survivor; it included fireplace, bed, garage, trap, guns, food, clothes, aids, electronic stuff, tools.
Sadly it lacked water (after I’v empty the toilet. Btw, there was a landed mine on it, weird).

Windows and such are barricaded so it’s quite safe. Also the main area (with the fireplace) was quite big so it was easy to take over it and store all my junk around before I moved to the sewage treatment underground (because of my lucky lava spot in a corner that give me light & heat)[/quote]

I’ve just noticed this in the more recent experimentals (started a few days ago?); the toilet water never drops from 24/24 no matter how much I use it. I’ve probably refilled my canteen a dozen times already, along with a dozen other crafting things, but it never runs out. Not sure what’s going on, did I find a cross-dimensional toilet or?

[Thwap]

I’m thinking of finding a cathedral, burning it down, cleaning out the stone-walled shell, and using it as a secure open-roof garage and greenhouse while I build living quarters in the basement.

[Dampe]

Sadly it lacked water (after I’v empty the toilet. Btw, there was a landed mine on it, weird).

Bruuutal.

[Theundyingcode]

There is always a house kinda by itself on the outskirts of town that I set up in in the beginning. I board up all the rooms except one and close the curtains at night. I have never seen more than the odd lost zombie come near and they just serve to prevent skill rust while I read. Once I am ready to move up from my LootCycle to a bigger more armored vehicle I move into a fire station(keep the bike though it’s great for targeted runs like to the gas station) This way I can just drive in and dump all my loot on the floor and get to work no lugging involved. Added bonus: npc’s don’t seem to be able to operate winches so your stuff is safe from thieves. I have never once set up under ground as I consider place I can’t pull my vehicle next to and unload unacceptable.

[Rot]

[quote=“Oragepoilu, post:45, topic:10547”]Sadly it lacked water (after I’v empty the toilet. Btw, there was a landed mine on it, weird).

Bruuutal.[/quote]

Explosive diarrhea anyone?