# So I finally got time to try out v0.9

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**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [November 22, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/so-i-finally-got-time-to-try-out-v0-9/4144 "2013-11-22T08:36:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/murphy/32/2371_2.png) [@Murphy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Murphy)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 8:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/so-i-finally-got-time-to-try-out-v0-9/4144/1 "2013-11-22T08:36:57Z")

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I’m a few (real-life) days into it now, the new recipes are a blast, bringing self-sufficiency to a completely new level.

First thing I noticed, though: there are a lot of new critters!  
Prolonged crafting/welding/reading became a complete pain if you’re not huddled somewhere underground or in a garage. I mean, if I try to craft in the open (or read by a window) it turns into “Monster spotted! Stop crafting?” x9000 pretty fast. Worse, the critters are only semi-aggressive – they may hit me once and then run so I have to chase them around to kill them, lest they harass me to no end.

I eventually came to ignore warnings and just always hit “n”. Then a zombear shows up.  
Fun times.

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**Author:** ![infectedmochi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/infectedmochi/32/206_2.png) [@infectedmochi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/infectedmochi)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2013, 11:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/so-i-finally-got-time-to-try-out-v0-9/4144/2 "2013-11-22T11:19:17Z")

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[quote=“Murphy, post:1, topic:4144”]First thing I noticed, though: there are a lot of new critters!  
Prolonged crafting/welding/reading became a complete pain if you’re not huddled somewhere underground or in a garage. I mean, if I try to craft in the open (or read by a window) it turns into “Monster spotted! Stop crafting?” x9000 pretty fast. Worse, the critters are only semi-aggressive – they may hit me once and then run so I have to chase them around to kill them, lest they harass me to no end.

I eventually came to ignore warnings and just always hit “n”. Then a zombear shows up.  
Fun times.[/quote]

I agree this can get annoying pretty fast, especially with tracking dogs or rattlesnakes.

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**Author:** ![TaintedHolyWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@TaintedHolyWater](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TaintedHolyWater)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/so-i-finally-got-time-to-try-out-v0-9/4144/3 "2013-11-23T08:16:23Z")

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My solution was to give a dog dog-food (Because we can make that now!) and my faithful guard dog deters most disturbances, zombears notwithstanding. As a side effect I have a lot of meat or some inexplicable reason…  
Also setting your safe-zone distance to ~5 might help that way you only get messages when they actually get close.