# Tips, Tricks and Newb Questions: Reborn!

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [October 4, 2018, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870 "2018-10-04T17:58:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Trigon](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/trigon/32/2668_2.png) [@Trigon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Trigon)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2020, 7:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1667 "2020-02-17T19:17:10Z")

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I hear they were fixed recently. I don’t often use throwing weapons in general so I haven’t confirmed it for myself though.

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**Author:** ![Delts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@Delts](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Delts)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1668 "2020-02-18T01:41:57Z")

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How can i harvest plutonium from missile? I smash it and it blow up,im already disarm it thought

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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1669 "2020-02-18T16:07:11Z")

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Question about Modular Turrets mod. I remember being able to use electrohack on broken turret to make a disarmed turret - which you could use to make your own turret if you slapped some integral weapon on it. Now, though, you can only make a disarmed turret from its base components… which can still be acquired by disassembling a broken turret.  
In other words, while before you could choose between spending some time (about 20 minutes iirc) + using an electrohack or spending crapload of time (disassembling+reassembling = about 2 hours?) but not needing an electrohack, now you only have latter option, the former is gone. I wonder if this was intended or an oversight.

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**Author:** ![Nic\_Sumera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nic_sumera/32/9954_2.png) [@Nic\_Sumera](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nic_Sumera)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1670 "2020-02-18T17:09:11Z")

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I think I read somewhere that you still can use the electrohack for the turrets after you use a smoke bomb on them. Not sure if it was a electrohack or a control laptop. But I havent tried that yet. Currently going with breaking turrets and using their components to make a new one.

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**Author:** ![Maan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/maan/32/8108_2.png) [@Maan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Maan)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 8:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1671 "2020-02-18T20:10:17Z")

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So, I finally found a nanofabricator. But since _everything_ seems to need a lot of nanomaterials… where do you get enough of those? Only place I’ve seen them so far is in a nanofabricator room.

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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1672 "2020-02-19T10:47:18Z")

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They can also spawn in lab finale.

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**Author:** ![Maan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/maan/32/8108_2.png) [@Maan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Maan)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1673 "2020-02-19T10:48:39Z")

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Never seen that happen, I guess.

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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1674 "2020-02-19T10:51:16Z")

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Also in “Light retrieval” mission from Hub01, the end objective is a nanofab template which resides in broken nanofab room. IIRC there could be a canister but it’s not guaranteed because the room is always wrecked quite hard.

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**Author:** ![Junknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 2:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1675 "2020-02-19T14:15:24Z")

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A decent amount of them can also spawn in the basement of a hazardous waste sarcophagus. Although it’s pretty hard to get down there.

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**Author:** ![Lorelei43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c67d28/32.png) [@Lorelei43](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lorelei43)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 5:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1676 "2020-02-20T05:10:28Z")

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What are the dangers? Radioactivity? Never went there

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**Author:** ![Nic\_Sumera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nic_sumera/32/9954_2.png) [@Nic\_Sumera](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nic_Sumera)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1677 "2020-02-20T06:17:40Z")

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Is that the one with the elevator? How do you get there?

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**Author:** ![Lorelei43](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c67d28/32.png) [@Lorelei43](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Lorelei43)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 6:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1678 "2020-02-20T06:37:45Z")

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I’m trying to determine the logic that makes a specific item appears as the top item in a pile of items. And no, it is not as obvious as ‘last moved is the one seen’, I have tried several combinations and I’m still unsure of the rule.

**Someone did figure it out?**

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**Author:** ![Maan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/maan/32/8108_2.png) [@Maan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Maan)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 8:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1679 "2020-02-20T08:35:28Z")

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I second this. I’m playing the stable version and I’ve never found a way to get below the ground level floor.

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**Author:** ![Nic\_Sumera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nic_sumera/32/9954_2.png) [@Nic\_Sumera](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nic_Sumera)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 8:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1680 "2020-02-20T08:43:09Z")

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I’m playing on experimental and I haven’t really tried to go down but mining with a pickaxe can only be done thru rock floors/ceiling so I guess it wont work there. Haven’t seen the options for jacking/drilling tho

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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1681 "2020-02-20T10:44:41Z")

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There’s also an option to drop down if elevator shaft isn’t collapsed. Would still have to mine up, though.

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**Author:** ![Nic\_Sumera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/nic_sumera/32/9954_2.png) [@Nic\_Sumera](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nic_Sumera)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1682 "2020-02-20T12:14:28Z")

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Easy to use a ladder if you are just a floor down, only applicable to experimental tho

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**Author:** ![Delts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@Delts](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Delts)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 12:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1683 "2020-02-20T12:42:55Z")

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You can use long rope too

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**Author:** ![GiggleGrassGatherer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/gigglegrassgatherer/32/7743_2.png) [@GiggleGrassGatherer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GiggleGrassGatherer)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 12:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1684 "2020-02-20T12:47:06Z")

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HOW??! I tried everything I could think of but it didn’t work…

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**Author:** ![Delts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7993a0/32.png) [@Delts](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Delts)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1685 "2020-02-20T13:09:33Z")

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Last time i tried i examine the ledge and it show up option to use rope or no

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**Author:** ![Junknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@Junknown](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Junknown)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions-reborn/16870/1686 "2020-02-20T13:20:02Z")

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You can get the code to activate the elevator in the hazardous waste sarcophagus at the end of a chain of NPC quests (first you need to find a random NPC with the “find a flag mission”, after you complete it they will give you a mission to find an intact black box, then you need to decode it for them and _then_ they will give you the code for the waste sarcophagus and a quest to use it).

The hazardous waste sarcophagus is very irradiated so bringing a hazmat suit is recommended. The basement level has a lot of zombies in it, but by the time you get there you can probably take them on without too much trouble.

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