Feedback:
The simple knife spear did the trick with the “knife spear” quest.
Edit:
On the other hand the next scavenger boss quest seems to be similarly outdated: It asks for “Wearable Flashlights”, which isn’t something I’ve encountered. My guess is that it would be the hard had with a flashlight, but it might also be the headbands…
Edit 2: Turns out to be “Headlamps”.
Edit 3: My earlier issue with recruiting a gunslinger: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/39657 appears to be exactly the same issue I have. I’ll try UristMcSharkbait’s fix once my companion returns from his mission.
Edit 5: After finally realizing “the .json” didn’t refer to a file in the save, but to \data\json\npcs\missiondef.json, changing the indicated line (in the corresponding mission) did nothing when it comes to changing the conversation options available on my companion. My guess is that this is because there’s nothing triggering an evaluation of the condition, and that it might trigger (in its changed form) if I was to recruit any other NPC.
Edit 4:
Just venting my frustration at having cleared out a second hospital (blood sample quest), only to find the machine smashed (this time the console worked, so I know the heap of parts beside it was the machine). Both the autodocs were unharmed (there was at least one working autodoc in the first hospital as well)…
I’ve also cleared a science lab, only to find no trace of any interesting machinery or rubble piles looking like they would have been anything other than the normal broken consoles (enormous amounts of chemicals and lots of useful stuff, though, in a place full of twisty little passages).