# Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [January 3, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42 "2013-01-03T03:04:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Khrysanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@Khrysanth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Khrysanth)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3381 "2014-05-27T23:29:12Z")

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Insert derailing comment about previous typo here.

I really do wish that rope and pulleys worked on more types of doors. As it is, I can’t make a working gate across a street.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 11:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3382 "2014-05-27T23:34:30Z")

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[quote=“Khrysanth, post:3381, topic:42”]Insert derailing comment about previous typo here.

I really do wish that rope and pulleys worked on more types of doors. As it is, I can’t make a working gate across a street.[/quote]Jackhammer or pickaxe.

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**Author:** ![1D-1\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/e5b9ba/32.png) [@1D-1\_T](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/1D-1_T)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 7:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3383 "2014-05-28T07:11:48Z")

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One more question from me. What on earth happened to quarterstaffs? They were my primary melee weapon, and now I can’t find the recipe in game, or any mention on the wiki. Any clues?

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**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 7:15am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3384 "2014-05-28T07:15:45Z")

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> [@1D-1()T](#):
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> One more question from me. What on earth happened to quarterstaffs? They were my primary melee weapon, and now I can’t find the recipe in game, or any mention on the wiki. Any clues?

Recipe requires the ‘medieval content pack’ to be active, bashing skill two, fabrication skill two, and it’s autolearn.

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**Author:** ![1D-1\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/e5b9ba/32.png) [@1D-1\_T](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/1D-1_T)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3385 "2014-05-28T08:07:31Z")

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Thanks. Loving the new build by the way 😃

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**Author:** ![The\_Lone\_Badger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/the_lone_badger/32/8063_2.png) [@The\_Lone\_Badger](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/The_Lone_Badger)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3386 "2014-05-28T09:20:32Z")

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What is the penalty if I don’t have the required strength for a bow, and how severe is it? Does it reduce my rate-of-fire? Accuracy?

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**Author:** ![Creamy\_Goodness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/creamy_goodness/32/292_2.png) [@Creamy\_Goodness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Creamy_Goodness)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3387 "2014-05-28T10:09:32Z")

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hey guys noob question, making a throwing survivor, does perceptions ranged penalty also affect throwing or just dexterity and its thrown to hit bonus

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**Author:** ![Khrysanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@Khrysanth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Khrysanth)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3388 "2014-05-28T11:17:00Z")

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> [@The Lone Badger](#):
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> What is the penalty if I don’t have the required strength for a bow, and how severe is it? Does it reduce my rate-of-fire? Accuracy?

Near as I can tell? It kills the range.

Make a character with strength 4. Now try to fire a bow.

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**Author:** ![dambuk1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@dambuk1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dambuk1)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3389 "2014-05-28T13:14:42Z")

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newb question one: does wildlife sense if your character is an easy/hard prey?  
I often found myself in situations, when i’d stroll right next to a “ignoring” bear, get LOTS of stuff(which made me encumbered) and suddenly, the bear turns hostile! No animal discord or animal emapthy on this survivor. Oh, and wolves tend to run away or at least keep their distance from my heavily-mutated survivors(even those that don’t have “terryfing” or similar traits).  
newb question two: where do i find cults?  
newb question three: when i examine my flatbed truck it shows that it has 50% gas, but when i try to refill it the game tells me that the tank is full - what might be the reason? (in case it makes any difference, i repaired lots of things in this car and i might have changed its engine at some point of repairs)

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3390 "2014-05-28T13:18:19Z")

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[quote=“dambuk1, post:3389, topic:42”]newb question one: does wildlife sense if your character is an easy/hard prey?  
I often found myself in situations, when i’d stroll right next to a “ignoring” bear, get LOTS of stuff(which made me encumbered) and suddenly, the bear turns hostile! No animal discord or animal emapthy on this survivor. Oh, and wolves tend to run away or at least keep their distance from my heavily-mutated survivors(even those that don’t have “terryfing” or similar traits).[/quote]

I’ve had that happen to me, so you’re not the only one.

> [@dambuk1](#):
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> newb question two: where do i find cults?

Go looking in for forest for an unmarked, boarded up building. Very hard to find, but look outside of it for stairs when you do.

> [@dambuk1](#):
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> newb question three: when i examine my flatbed truck it shows that it has 50% gas, but when i try to refill it the game tells me that the tank is full - what might be the reason? (in case it makes any difference, i repaired lots of things in this car and i might have changed its engine at some point of repairs)

Either you don’t have enough gas and the container hold the said gas is empty, or the gas tank is leaking an you need to fix it.

Also, Flatbeds have two fuel tanks. That means the fuel gauge goes up slower than a single gas tank.

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**Author:** ![dambuk1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@dambuk1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dambuk1)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3391 "2014-05-28T13:22:28Z")

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[quote=“FunsizeNinja123, post:3390, topic:42”]Either you don’t have enough gas and the container hold the said gas is empty, or the gas tank is leaking an you need to fix it.  
Also, Flatbeds have two fuel tanks. That means the fuel gauge goes up slower than a single gas tank.[/quote]  
The container was an almost full jerrycan, as for leakage… i think the gas tank was yellow so that shouldn’t be the case. And i didn’t notice the second fuel tank - maybe filling that one up will fix this.

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3392 "2014-05-28T13:24:19Z")

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_Snaps fingers_ There ya go!

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**Author:** ![ShinQuickMan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/shinquickman/32/2516_2.png) [@ShinQuickMan](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ShinQuickMan)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3393 "2014-05-28T15:27:22Z")

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[quote=“dambuk1, post:3389, topic:42”]newb question one: does wildlife sense if your character is an easy/hard prey?  
I often found myself in situations, when i’d stroll right next to a “ignoring” bear, get LOTS of stuff(which made me encumbered) and suddenly, the bear turns hostile! No animal discord or animal emapthy on this survivor. Oh, and wolves tend to run away or at least keep their distance from my heavily-mutated survivors(even those that don’t have “terryfing” or similar traits).[/quote]

Two answers to this:

1. In your case with the bear, you likely stood too close to it for too long. Most large wild animals (like coyotes, wolves, cougars, bears, and especially moose) don’t like it when you do that and will go hostile; the same thing would have happened to those wolves if you managed to catch up.

2. If you’re heavily injured, those those normally shy wolves and coyotes will actually beam right at you. So in a sense, that’s how the game tells those animals that you’re easy pickings.

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**Author:** ![dambuk1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@dambuk1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/dambuk1)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3394 "2014-05-28T16:15:42Z")

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> [@ShinQuickMan](#):
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> 1. In your case with the bear, you likely stood too close to it for too long. Most large wild animals (like coyotes, wolves, cougars, bears, and especially moose) don’t like it when you do that and will go hostile; the same thing would have happened to those wolves if you managed to catch up.

Well, i also had a bear LIVING inside my house ignoring me even if i slept in the same room as him. He got pissed off once when number 2 happened(a stupid dog made me bleed) but a few whacks with a crowbar made him ignore me once again. two days later he left 😛  
As for strolling past a bear, i went to loot things in a gas station two map tiles away and then went back to the general area where it stood before, so i don’t know if it counts for “standing too close for too long”. Well, at least that magnum got in handy.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3395 "2014-05-28T17:18:43Z")

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It’d be nice if we could tame bears/wolves etc…

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**Author:** ![Arek\_PL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b77776/32.png) [@Arek\_PL](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Arek_PL)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3396 "2014-05-28T20:57:13Z")

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taming these bloodthristy demons mooses will make a great army

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**Author:** ![Khrysanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@Khrysanth](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Khrysanth)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3397 "2014-05-28T22:31:22Z")

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“Zombie apocalypse? Infectious fungus creatures? Walking plants? Pathetic, for I am the Queen of the Moose!”

But, yes, the moose is by far the biggest offender for aggressive behavior. As an aside, it might help if critters paid attention to each other rather than only on you. Watching a pack of wolves, a deer, a handful of jackrabbits and a cougar frolic together until one of them finally decides to try to eat me is a bit disconcerting.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3398 "2014-05-29T01:10:27Z")

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[quote=“Khrysanth, post:3397, topic:42”]“Zombie apocalypse? Infectious fungus creatures? Walking plants? Pathetic, for I am the Queen of the Moose!”

But, yes, the moose is by far the biggest offender for aggressive behavior. As an aside, it might help if critters paid attention to each other rather than only on you. Watching a pack of wolves, a deer, a handful of jackrabbits and a cougar frolic together until one of them finally decides to try to eat me is a bit disconcerting.[/quote]Yeah the only time I’ve seen animals fight each other is when one is following me, another gets in it’s way and the one following me attacks it turning it hostile, at which point they fight to the death.

> [@FunsizeNinja123](#):
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> [quote=“dambuk1, post:3389, topic:42”]newb question two: where do i find cults?

Go looking in for forest for an unmarked, boarded up building. Very hard to find, but look outside of it for stairs when you do.[/quote] Hold on a minute, you mean there are now cults in the game? When were they implemented?

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**Author:** ![Fish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/fish/32/249_2.png) [@Fish](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Fish)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3399 "2014-05-29T01:20:37Z")

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Sort of. There was an NPC quest line floating around that has to do with investigating holy stuff an junk.  
The cult quest is the last quest for the moment on that particular quest line but there WILL be improvments on that front (I “think”).  
So either wait for that special NPC, oorrrr find that hidden building.

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**Author:** ![HunterAlpha1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/3400 "2014-05-29T01:34:37Z")

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[quote=“Fish, post:3399, topic:42”]Sort of. There was an NPC quest line floating around that has to do with investigating holy stuff an junk.  
The cult quest is the last quest for the moment on that particular quest line but there WILL be improvments on that front (I “think”).  
So either wait for that special NPC, oorrrr find that hidden building.[/quote]And by hidden I assume it’s not shown on the world map?

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