# Needful things (simple additions to improve the game)

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [March 23, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570 "2014-03-23T22:36:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![AseaHeru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/aseaheru/32/8_2.png) [@AseaHeru](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/AseaHeru)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3121 "2016-05-19T15:33:31Z")

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Personally, I think Gatorade tastes like dust with its current recipe.

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**Author:** ![TheKobold](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/thekobold/32/513_2.png) [@TheKobold](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheKobold)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3122 "2016-05-19T17:26:07Z")

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> [@AseaHeru](#):
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> Personally, I think Gatorade tastes like dust with its current recipe.

Same here, unless I’m thirsty, hot, and tired. Then its the nectar of the gods.

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**Author:** ![MrQwerty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@MrQwerty](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/MrQwerty)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3123 "2016-05-19T20:23:24Z")

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Gatorade is not sold much in my country, so when me and my friends found it, we bought it cause we thought it was something like powerade… i can’t remember the taste… i just remember us all taking small sips of it, because we couldn’t believe how foul it was…  
but, to not derail a big thread here is a needful thing suggestion: antivenom. Not sure how hard or easy it is, but even with a shit ton of bullets, it’s hard for me to clear a spider basement without getting poisoned at least once - and when i do get poisoned, i have to wait a lot until the stat debuffs subside, since i can’t hit anything anymore.

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**Author:** ![Profugo\_Barbatus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d26b3c/32.png) [@Profugo\_Barbatus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Profugo_Barbatus)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3124 "2016-05-20T21:15:25Z")

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Marathon runners and the like have this energy gel substance, that could be a filler for the category of “quality food/drink with horrible moral penalty” because that shit tastes like ass, but its basically a massive punch of everything you need, carbs, electrolytes, some hydration value, all in a nasty tube.

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3125 "2016-05-20T22:46:02Z")

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Ammo cans.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 7:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3126 "2016-05-22T19:49:10Z")

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Have a book.

[[Album] 100 deadly skills ![](https://i.imgur.com/MUCa0kF.jpg?fb "100 deadly skills") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/kIrZa)

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**Author:** ![Eric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Eric](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3127 "2016-05-23T00:38:18Z")

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The description for a skitterbot mentions that they were designed for home security, so maybe, on very rare occasions, they would spawn inside of houses/in basements, with a somewhat higher chance of spawning inside mansions

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**Author:** ![Litppunk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/litppunk/32/409_2.png) [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 6:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3128 "2016-05-24T18:35:50Z")

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[quote=“Slax, post:3126, topic:5570”]Have a book.  
[http://imgur.com/gallery/kIrZa[/quote]](http://imgur.com/gallery/kIrZa%5B/quote%5D)  
OMG the comments. The comments made me cry so funny. Thank you for that.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3129 "2016-05-25T17:52:52Z")

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Redesigned gas stations. The vanilla ones, that is. A regular street car’s gotta be able to pull up to the pumps.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3130 "2016-05-27T13:45:20Z")

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Something equivalent to brawling for most (if not all) melee types.  
Fast/Slow maybe? Sometimes you just need to drain yourself and go all out on speed, for those obnoxious speedy enemies. Other times you wanna put more oomph into a strike, so why not wind up one big hit.  
Should come with some sort of disadvantages.

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**Author:** ![RAM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@RAM](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/RAM)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2016, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3131 "2016-05-27T22:07:03Z")

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Perhaps that would work better as a universal exertion setting? Sometimes you want to barricade the door right now, and sometimes you want to be able to move your arms sometime in the next week without overdosing on painkillers…

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**Author:** ![baldamundo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/baldamundo/32/2859_2.png) [@baldamundo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/baldamundo)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2016, 9:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3132 "2016-05-29T21:00:26Z")

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Let tame animals handle vehicles the same way friendly NPCs do. Really upsetting seeing your dog spontaneously explode when you try to drive him in your car \>.\<

Sure, you can get around it by putting them in and out of a carrier, but it’s a real hassle compared to the dubious benefit of having the dog at all

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**Author:** ![Rama\_Tut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/97f17d/32.png) [@Rama\_Tut](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rama_Tut)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 3:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3133 "2016-06-01T03:29:17Z")

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Giant radiated whip spider.

It has a ranged, very fast, two-space claw attack which it can use to push enemies backward: the bane of melee characters.

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**Author:** ![TheKobold](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/thekobold/32/513_2.png) [@TheKobold](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheKobold)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3134 "2016-06-01T03:48:31Z")

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Just kill it with fire.

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**Author:** ![Litppunk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/litppunk/32/409_2.png) [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3135 "2016-06-02T15:14:51Z")

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beutiful

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**Author:** ![Dec](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/dec/32/218_2.png) [@Dec](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dec)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3136 "2016-06-04T00:07:19Z")

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I dunno what kinda Gatorade is getting peddled in wherever you people are, but I haven’t met a single person who doesn’t like it more than water. Hm.

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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3137 "2016-06-04T00:24:49Z")

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I think the sports drink should be split into the homemade sugar-salt mixture it appears to be and the pseudosoda known as Gatorade.

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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3138 "2016-06-04T00:34:33Z")

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> [@MrQwerty](#):
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> Gatorade is not sold much in my country, so when me and my friends found it, we bought it cause we thought it was something like powerade… i can’t remember the taste… i just remember us all taking small sips of it, because we couldn’t believe how foul it was…

Was it grape flavor? I dislike grape flavor.

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**Author:** ![Litppunk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/litppunk/32/409_2.png) [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3139 "2016-06-04T00:48:05Z")

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A lot of the “newer” flavors are just absurd. It may also have something to do with the bottling plant. Also they are designed to taste their best when you are hot and sweaty and tired, the rest of the time they tend to be a little meh.

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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/needful-things-simple-additions-to-improve-the-game/5570/3140 "2016-06-04T01:01:57Z")

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Add version numbers to the wiki, like they do on dwarffortresswiki. The wiki is confusing without them.

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