Thank you to everyone who has posted, your advice has been a great help! I’ve not been able to reply recently due to lack of a stable internet, but I have been keeping an eye on the thread! However after playing and seeing the responses, I have so many more questions! 
But first, in the below spoiler is a reply to each of the posts since my last post.
Thank you for the help with a vehicle, it’s not been easy building one up and salvaging parts from vehicles, but it’s been a nice fun challenge. Could you perhaps post a screenshot of your vehicle? I would love to get an idea of to what mine should look like and what parts would be best to use, thanks!
Thank you Barhandar, though I have to ask, where would I get a mini-reactors and plutonium cells for my vehicle? My hope is to one day build a behemoth of a vehicle which survives on electricity/nuclear energy, so I don’t have to keep siphoning gas.
Well that’s why these are ‘long’ term goals. Surviving is a given, but I’ve played before I know the basics and how to survive. The point of this is because I’m tired of just ‘surviving’, now, I want to truly ‘live’, to be able to build up my own fortress for NPC’s and myself to live, rebuild a society which can survive independently without having to leave the walls constantly.
I see what you mean with the experimental builds being unpredictable from one to the next! Do you, or anyone perhaps know when the next ‘stable’ release will be? Or at least know of an experimental build which doesn’t have any real issues?
Thank you for the advice, I took your advice and replaced my car for a Military Humvee, now I don’t have to worry about my car falling apart for running in to a few random flowers!
Now this sounds like my dream vehicle and my goal! Could you by any chance post a screenshot of such a vehicle so I know what I’m aiming towards? Or make a diagram of what it should look like? I generally work better off images.
Thanks for the reply! You seem to know a lot about the zombie horde system, could you perhaps explain to me the spawning requirements of them? I’ve been told they wont spawn in my house, but is it possible for them to spawn for example, just outside my house, even if the house was then surrounded by a giant wall? Or will they only spawn in certain locations? Do they ever stop spawning? Etc.
Great advice, and I have been doing this, changing experimental builds each time I die! Although I would love to know, how do you transfer a save across? And what about your items?
Okay, and below here is a long list of lots and lots of new questions I have which the wiki or anywhere else was little to no help on.
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Q1) I needed a Jackhammer rather badly, I finally found the book which teaches you how to ‘craft’ one, however it states you need one ‘rebar’. Now I looked everywhere online, all I could find is it saying you can get rebar from knocking down walls or burning houses to the ground, which I remember doing a long time ago to get some. However, maybe it was just the build I was playing, I could not get ANY rebar. I’m not joking when I say I bunt down an entire town and bulldozed another to find some. I even read you could dismantle lumps/chunks of steel for some, but to no avail. How exactly do you get rebar?
Q2) In one of the more recent experimental builds, I found a Granade. God I love Granades. However, using it was broken, every single Granade I threw did nothing. Is that a common bug with them, or was I just unlucky?
Q3) One issue I’ve run in to on one of the new builds is that in my humvee, whilst driving out on a field in a fully fixed humvee, sometimes certain parts of it will just randomly explode. I don’t mean “Oh you ran over a land mine there was an explosion” kind of explosion, I mean as if a section of the vehicle will just randomly shatter in to bits for no reason other than maybe touching a flower or a shrub. Does this happen a lot? Or once again, is it just the build I’m on?
Q4) How do I tell if an electric appliance is working? In one of my earlier saves, I found a brilliant place in the basement of a house to call home, with sofas, bookshelves, fridges, and even a pool table! But how could I tell if the fridge was working? If not, how could I make it work? This is one of the big things I want answering, I mean in the distant future how am I meant to build a fridge (or move one) in to my home, then power it? Do I run a vehicle part between it (Acting like a wire to connect), through the wall to an outside generator? Or does the wall conduct electricity? I don’t want to have to build a fridge outside the house connected to a generator.
Q5) Ideally, to survive I’d mutate and be heavily filled with bionics. Now I know some NPC’s don’t like you if you’ve mutated, but what would happen if you say, made friends with someone who hated mutants whilst you were ‘pure’, then mutated heavily. Would they turn on you? Or will they be your buddy forever?
Q6) Do I have to feed NPC’s that are my followers? Or do they just survive?
Q7) Can I tell NPC’s to wait in a certain location, so I could position them around my future base as guards?
Q8) If I told an NPC to stay near my home, how will I stop them taking my things? Could I lock the door before I leave?
Q9) What is the ‘experimental z levels’ mod? I’m assuming it allows zombies to move around even if they’re not on the same floor as you?
Q10) In one of my more recent games, I managed to find quite a few marloss bushes. (Which by the way, the wiki really needs updating or changing, for ages I thought the marloss bushes were shaped like a 1, but instead they’re a #.) After eating a bunch of them, more marloss bushes spawned around me? Could I then perhaps use this ability to make a Marloss farm? A secluded walled in area to keep eating the berries in, where more berries could possibly spawn? Or is this not meant to happen, I read somewhere it’s not meant to spawn marloss bushes.
Q11) Ice-labs. I was lucky to find a one floor lab once, but how is one meant to deal with labs that just keep going down and getting colder and colder? Really it confuses me why the places don’t have some form of central heating, how in the hell did the scientists used to work down there?
Q12) I was travelling through one city I had never been in before, and found a lot of random eyebots flying around. What are they meant to do exactly and why are they around? I didn’t do anything to spawn them, I’d never even been there before!
Q13) Every save I’ve had recently, I’ve not found a single trap spawn. You know, the kind with spiked boards or crossbows around? On the other hand I’ve found plenty of corpses with drugs surrounded by Kreks, Mi-go’s and Shoggoths. Is this a bug or am I just really unlucky? Or maybe it’s changed? Back then I used to always try find one of those trap areas to get a crossbow to help.
Q14) Does anyone know of an experimental build which is a little bit more, you know… Stable? I know that’s kind of the point of it being experimental, but I’d love a build with all the updates, without one not being able to use Granades, but another has random exploding vehicles, but another after that you can’t do this or that, etc etc. Which do you guys recommend?
Q15) If you kill a zombie, it revives a few hours later. That’s fine, I like that, but does it have less health than before? I mean it stands to reason if you smash a rotting corpses face in, then the next time it gets back up it wont be quite so durable. Or do they just get back up after a nice nap feeling fully refreshed?
Q16) Does anyone have a page listing all mutations and what each one leads to? Sadly the pages on the wiki are outdated or in-accurate.
Q17) Not sure if this is still the case, but a long time ago, if you got too many bionics you wouldn’t be able to see them all on the list to activate. Is this still the case? I’d hate to have to go choose which I do and don’t want, I’m a bit CBM addicted. Well except for the Fusion Blaster CBM, I’m rather partial to keeping my arm, you know, I’m just a bit too ‘attached’ to it. Heh, sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun.
That’s all I can think of right now, although I’m sure there was more. Any help with the questions asked is greatly appreciated, especially about the electronic devices![/spoiler]
Lastly, below is just a bunch of random notes by me, suggestions, amazing strokes of luck I’ve had, or funny ways my characters have died in my venture to fulfil my dream.
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A suggestion I have, is why don’t we have dreams? I mean I know we have dreams depending on certain mutation thresholds, but why can’t we have pleasant dreams which make us feel better, or be plagued by terrible nightmares giving a penalty to moral? Maybe you could have a nightmare so bad you wake up and scream/yell in terror? Maybe it could be a bad trait, who knows.
I think I hold the record in shortest life lived. I was playing the Burning Building scenario, moved 3 tiles after spawning, the roof fell on my head killing me instantly. That said, damn that scenario is hard, because even if you get out in time, you’re surrounded by super fast zombies and their pet zombie dogs, all of which were drawn closer to you because of the noise made by a burning building. :s
Granades… I love them, so much. If there’s one thing I love more than Bionics, it’s Granades. I threw one thinking it was a ‘grenade’ at a zombie necromancer and his pals, which then buffed them all. Then after dying, next run, I threw all my Granades at my feet one at a time thinking each one would buff me. I used 9 Granades, had 2 Bugfixes, 1 Bees, 1 Nerf, 2 reverts and 3 Buffs. I’m not kidding when I say I had about 30 in all stats and over 40 intelligence, I was unstoppable, bludgeoning entire cities of zombies with my Halligan Bar.
That said, he was my most amazing character, but he died in the dumbest of ways that was entirely my fault… I mean I’ve died plenty of times, but this was the worst. I decided I wanted to break in to a Military Bunker, so after dealing with the turrets and surrounded zombies, I ran up, opened my inventory, activated my C4, set it to go off in 10 turns, legged it, then waited… Then boom! You see what I did wrong? That’s right, I activated the C4, I forgot to put the damn thing down on the ground… I kinda froze up I couldn’t believe what I saw… If someone has a dumber way they’ve died, please tell me, it’d make me feel a lot better. xD[/spoiler]
Anyway, thank you again for all the help, it’s great to be back in to the game!
