# The Cataclysmic Survival Guide: Share your knowledge!
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [August 22, 2013, 4:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786 "2013-08-22T04:35:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@detahramet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/detahramet)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/21 "2013-08-23T23:31:43Z")
ANYWAYS BACK TO THE TOPIC OF THE THREAD!
Clearing out a town of zombies, though certainly a daunting task, if very much worth the effort. If you plan on clearing out a town, go for a small one with less than 15 buildings. Take your time, don’t go to fast. Somewhere in town you should define a place that will be your outpost, from which you can store your loot. A cleared out town often provides a great deal of goods to help extend your life, from clothes that you can, at the very least, cut up into plastic, to enough food to last you through the season.
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### Author:  [@DG123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DG123)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2013, 12:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/22 "2013-08-24T00:29:19Z")
May I request tips on something?
Everyone needs a good supply of power, right? Namely batteries.
Anyone have advice on how to keep stocked up on the raw materials required to make them? I ran out of ammonia just now.
Can we, for example, find some lemon seeds and make a lemon tree orchard?
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### Author:  [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2013, 12:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/23 "2013-08-24T00:32:12Z")
Hmm. I want farms to be random so they either have a grain field, lemon or orange orchard or just a row of dead plants like now.
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### Author:  [@Sheb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sheb)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2013, 5:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/24 "2013-08-24T05:54:07Z")
Go raid a lab, you’ll find more ammonia that you’ll ever use. Bring a car. You’ll find a LOT of ammonia (and batteries. And salt water for cooking. Plus CBMs, mutagens, purifiers… ) Labs are awesome and mostly risk-free. Just turn off the flashlight whenever you meet a turret, get 2 tiles away and shoot it from there (or close the door and never go into that room again).
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### Author:  [@paalpeyz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/paalpeyz)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2013, 7:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/25 "2013-08-24T07:27:43Z")
[quote=“DG123, post:22, topic:2786”]May I request tips on something?
Everyone needs a good supply of power, right? Namely batteries.
Anyone have advice on how to keep stocked up on the raw materials required to make them? I ran out of ammonia just now.
Can we, for example, find some lemon seeds and make a lemon tree orchard?[/quote]
At least in the current git version you can:
- find a funnel (lots of them in labs, but can be found elsewhere).
- put it out in the acid rain.
- collect acid water.
- refine to concentrated acid (requires cooking 4).
- make batteries (acid replaces lemons/ammonia).
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### Author:  [@kilozombie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kilozombie)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2013, 7:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/26 "2013-08-24T07:30:54Z")
You can also craft acid bombs, which I find handy for large clusters of zombies or robots. Concentrated acid can be extracted from batteries.
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### Author:  [@DG123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DG123)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2013, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/27 "2013-08-24T10:14:14Z")
[quote=“paalpeyz, post:25, topic:2786”]At least in the current git version you can:
- find a funnel (lots of them in labs, but can be found elsewhere).
- put it out in the acid rain.
- collect acid water.
- refine to concentrated acid (requires cooking 4).
- make batteries (acid replaces lemons/ammonia).[/quote]
Damn! Didn’t think of doing this! I have a funnel. This will work. I just need to find lots of scrap metal.
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### Author:  [@Sheb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sheb)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/28 "2013-08-24T15:08:40Z")
Remember than chunk, lump and frame of steel can be 'D’issassembled into scrap meal with welding goggles and hacksaw.
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### Author:  [@Sentientdeth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sentientdeth)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/29 "2013-10-22T13:28:06Z")
I have cooking 4, and my concentrated acid recipe fails every time I try to make it.
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### Author:  [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/30 "2013-10-22T19:18:46Z")
Any alternative to labs for those people playing with classic mode on?
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### Author:  [@Oragepoilu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Oragepoilu)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 7:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/31 "2013-10-22T19:23:33Z")
For batterie ppl have already say how to make it.
You say you are _only_ level 4 at cooking ; just go hunt down some big animal, and cook each piece of him. Your skill will rise really quickly, not hard to get more than 10 at it.
Usually you may fail a lot just when you have the requirment of the craft. Just increase it to +2, and it should be fine.
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### Author:  [@Sentientdeth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sentientdeth)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/32 "2013-10-22T22:30:00Z")
Thanks a bunch, I’ll give it a shot.
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### Author:  [@Sentientdeth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sentientdeth)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 11:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/33 "2013-10-22T23:23:26Z")
Ahhh, I figured it out. My recipes were bugged and didn’t have any skills flagged.
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### Author:  [@VampyreLord](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/VampyreLord)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/34 "2013-10-23T14:22:51Z")
> Try to invest in your throwing skills; create pointy sticks (they are super easy to make) or find rocks (they are surprisingly great weapons). I pretty much fight zombies always from afar, I only use melee attacks to deliver the final blow.
> A makeshift crowbar is your best friend, especially early on. It opens locked doors and good for melee damage.
> Map the town at day and raid it at night. Since I followed this strategy, I eliminated any possibility of me dying within the first two days. I highly recommend using the “night vision” trait to make your life easier.
> Sleep in cars when you are away from home.
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### Author:  [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/35 "2013-10-24T14:20:27Z")
id sticky these threads and break them into types. you cant really expect newbs to read through massive long threads with random suggestions.
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### Author:  [@Sheb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sheb)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/36 "2013-11-08T17:10:02Z")
Hardware stores often stock them.
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### Author:  [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)
#### Post date: [November 14, 2013, 11:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/37 "2013-11-14T11:46:24Z")
> [@youtoo](#):
>
> id sticky these threads and break them into types. you cant really expect newbs to read through massive long threads with random suggestions.
I agree completely.
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### Author:  [@youtoo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/youtoo)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/the-cataclysmic-survival-guide-share-your-knowledge/2786/38 "2013-11-15T16:12:21Z")
In options, change starting game time to 5 AM. it will be dark a bit at first but gives you more daylight to explore. Wander far and wide outside. stay out of town. your goal is to look primarily for corpses, but mark trap locations. Sometimes these locations have items. your primary goal is to find some bottled water and some clothing with pockets. everything else is secondary. the farther you wander day #1 the higher the likelihood of finding stuff. I can usually find a few sets of corpses and enough water to get me through a day or two.
early game… only eat strawberries, blueberries, and applies. they contain a small amount of water. food is not the issue early, its water. so pick up and eat. dont bother carrying. there are plenty to be found.
always carry 3 rocks with you. so if you run into something you can atleast do 3 rock throws to damage. throw rocks at forest animals and butcher to train survival and throwing. survival at 2 is critical for making a stone pot to purify water.
these are the keys for Day 1.
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