# 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:** ![Cowbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc8723/32.png) [@Cowbot](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Cowbot)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9022 "2015-07-06T15:51:09Z")

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Does having your arrows in a quiver affects their use somehow? Faster reloading time?

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9023 "2015-07-06T15:55:17Z")

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It can potentially make you fail you pull an arrow out, or fumble with it, like drawing a weapon from a scabbard. Since I’ve never seen these messages when nocking an arrow from inventory, I would assume the main benefit is faster nocking if whatever stat/skill is used for that roll is high enough.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9024 "2015-07-06T16:08:39Z")

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Latest experimentals so far have been fairly stable. And do it, you’ve been missing a lot of weapons, buildings, NPC quests, and mods. owo

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9025 "2015-07-06T16:30:00Z")

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I was like that for awhile, though by nessecity once I started getting into publishing my mod and other content, that led to diving headfirst into the experimental versions. XP

EDIT: that was weird, “updated topics” says there was a new post, that apparently was eaten by the time I checked here.

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**Author:** ![Laughing\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6de8d8/32.png) [@Laughing\_Fool](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Laughing_Fool)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9026 "2015-07-06T16:38:58Z")

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Is it possible to datamine which items can spawn at military outposts and bunkers?

What influences the chances of installing bionics? First aid + mechanics + electronics + intelligence + morale + proper tools and lightning?

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9027 "2015-07-06T16:40:22Z")

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If I could figure out where the mapgen entries for those are, you could use what item groups it mentions to tell that.

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**Author:** ![Valpo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valpo/32/341_2.png) [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9028 "2015-07-06T16:45:57Z")

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> [@Random\_dragon](#):
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> Speaking of Krav Maga, I’d still regard that as the best unarmed style, though karate is useful for its bonus defensive effects. Ninjutsu is really at its best when used with a weapon.

tiger kungfu is hands down the best stile.  
Splattered a z doing 180 dmg barehanded with primestats.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 4:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9029 "2015-07-06T16:50:22Z")

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I really should toy with the kung fu and venom styles.

In general, any style that gets quick strike at a low skill level, as a basic attack, is the minimum for awesomeness. Delicious fistspam.

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**Author:** ![Pthalocy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9030 "2015-07-06T17:35:58Z")

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Is there any food in labs that isn’t people or tainted meat? The hardest thing about the lab challenge after turrets is depression. And turrets got a lot easier when my npc lab-buddy turned out to have a gun.

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**Author:** ![Laughing\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6de8d8/32.png) [@Laughing\_Fool](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Laughing_Fool)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9031 "2015-07-06T17:46:01Z")

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Potato chips and chocolate coffe beans in the rooms with beds and drawers.  
Sandwiches, burgers, burritos, pickles in the room with sealed flooded room with fireaxe, on the bottom left table.

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**Author:** ![Dlightfull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Dlightfull](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dlightfull)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9032 "2015-07-06T17:50:33Z")

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> [@Pthalocy](#):
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> Is there any food in labs that isn’t people or tainted meat? The hardest thing about the lab challenge after turrets is depression. And turrets got a lot easier when my npc lab-buddy turned out to have a gun.

human meat. And very very rarely some other types of meat.

On a side note, i have a couple of questions after clearing a lab.

How can i use portals and what do they do? What does the cascade resonance thingie do? Teleporting several times can do tricky things to me? what kind of tricky things?

The thing is i tried to disarm some teleport traps and this ended in me teleporting about 6-7 times. Then i have used the resonance cascade computer with success, which did nothing as far as i could tell. But then i started to feel nauseos out of the blue and blod analysis says i have hallucinations and there’s nothing weird in the char info menu. so i am wondering what is wrong with me and what should i do to get rid of it.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9033 "2015-07-06T17:56:55Z")

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> [@Dlightfull](#):
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> Teleporting several times can do tricky things to me? what kind of tricky things?

Random illnesses and other effects depending on how much telesickness has accumulated. The possibility of fungal infection is the nastiest one.

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**Author:** ![Laughing\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6de8d8/32.png) [@Laughing\_Fool](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Laughing_Fool)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9034 "2015-07-06T17:57:34Z")

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> [@Dlightfull](#):
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> [quote=“Pthalocy, post:9030, topic:42”]Is there any food in labs that isn’t people or tainted meat? The hardest thing about the lab challenge after turrets is depression. And turrets got a lot easier when my npc lab-buddy turned out to have a gun.

human meat. And very very rarely some other types of meat.

On a side note, i have a couple of questions after clearing a lab.

How can i use portals and what do they do? What does the cascade resonance thingie do? Teleporting several times can do tricky things to me? what kind of tricky things?

The thing is i tried to disarm some teleport traps and this ended in me teleporting about 6-7 times. Then i have used the resonance cascade computer with success, which did nothing as far as i could tell. But then i started to feel nauseos out of the blue and blod analysis says i have hallucinations and there’s nothing weird in the char info menu. so i am wondering what is wrong with me and what should i do to get rid of it.[/quote]

Tears in reality spawn nether monsters every once in a while. I don’t think other types of portals do anything.

Cascade resonance blinds you for a little while but does nothing else. I think I got mutated once when I did it.

Teleporting several times has a chance to infect you with fungal infection, In the beginning you vomit gray goop and spawn flying spores, then after few days your arms are destroyed and your pain rises to the thousands. Best to avoid teleporting in the lab before you have found royal jelly, which cures the infection.  
There are some lesser effects of teleporting like ectoplasm blinding you for a while or random mutation, but these aren’t nearly as crippling as the fungal infection

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**Author:** ![Pthalocy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/22d042/32.png) [@Pthalocy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Pthalocy)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9035 "2015-07-06T18:03:11Z")

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> [@Dlightfull](#):
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> [quote=“Pthalocy, post:9030, topic:42”]Is there any food in labs that isn’t people or tainted meat? The hardest thing about the lab challenge after turrets is depression. And turrets got a lot easier when my npc lab-buddy turned out to have a gun.

human meat. And very very rarely some other types of meat.

On a side note, i have a couple of questions after clearing a lab.

How can i use portals and what do they do? What does the cascade resonance thingie do? Teleporting several times can do tricky things to me? what kind of tricky things?

The thing is i tried to disarm some teleport traps and this ended in me teleporting about 6-7 times. Then i have used the resonance cascade computer with success, which did nothing as far as i could tell. But then i started to feel nauseos out of the blue and blod analysis says i have hallucinations and there’s nothing weird in the char info menu. so i am wondering what is wrong with me and what should i do to get rid of it.[/quote]

Uhh, last I checked, human meat was people. XD The only non-cannibal food I’ve found was a single bag of potato chips. And a shit-ton of gum?? Too bad gum has zero nutrition. I need to become a gumivore.

Anyway, teleporters seem to plop you down in a nearby place irrespective of walls. In labs, I mostly find them unhelpful as they have not once teleported me OUTSIDE the walls. Guess I need to be on the first floor for that, duh. Also yeah, the threat of fungus arms is always a possibility.

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**Author:** ![deoxy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@deoxy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deoxy)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9036 "2015-07-06T18:06:08Z")

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> [@Dlightfull](#):
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> Is Ninjutsu better than Niten ichy ryu? i assume yes. but having no experience with it, i am not so sure.

Ninjutsu gives you silent strikes (only way to get it that I know of), and its special bonus damage works with all edged weapons (and to a lesser extent, all bashing weapons as well).

With 12 perception and the right weapon (that’s the problem), Niten Ichy Ryu kicks Ninjutsu to the curb and takes its lunch money. Seriously, I started having to switch weapons when I kill stuff that I want to butcher at about 4 melee. Also, at that point, I generally 2-shot hulks, sometimes 3. Pretty soon now I expect to have my first hulk 1-shot - I’ve broken 300 on a crit recently (7 melee now, I think?). The blocking bonuses are also really awesome.

Oh, that’s all with a katana, not even a diamond one, and 14 strength.

I haven’t tried it with lower perception, so I can’t speak to that, but with 12, it’s just not even close.

[quote=“Laughing Fool, post:9031, topic:42”][quote=“Pthalocy, post:9030, topic:42”]Is there any food in labs that isn’t people or tainted meat? The hardest thing about the lab challenge after turrets is depression. And turrets got a lot easier when my npc lab-buddy turned out to have a gun.[/quote]Potato chips and chocolate coffe beans in the rooms with beds and drawers.  
Sandwiches, burgers, burritos, pickles in the room with sealed flooded room with fireaxe, on the bottom left table.[/quote]

I’ve gotten all kinds of food from the refrigerators in the leaking water rooms - got bacon one time, that was nice. Cans of beans, even.

Also, if you’re one the first basement floor, you can sometimes get giant ants or sewer creatures, if those sorts of things are nearby - that helps a LOT.

As to depression, wait until you are extremely hungry and tired enough to sleep, then cook up a bunch of meat, eat it until you are completely full, then sleep - by the time you wake up, the morale penalty is gone, and your focus should be on the way back up (say, mid-50s or so).

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9037 "2015-07-06T18:06:34Z")

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Psychopath trait negates the cannibalism penalty as well.

Also, yeah. I don’t think teleporter can go up or down z-levels, so unless a cave or ant nest or SOMETHING generated next the lab, you’ll want to reach the surface entrance before teleporting out. Otherwise…best case scenario, you’re still in the lab. Worst case scenario, you end up in a wall.

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**Author:** ![Eric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Eric](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9038 "2015-07-06T18:13:55Z")

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> [@Dlightfull](#):
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> [quote=“Eric, post:9012, topic:42”]So I found the Book Of Five Rings in a mansion library, and learned Nitchen Ichi-Ryu. However, the description says it’s meant for katanas, wakizashis, and staffs. I have a nodachi as my weapon, will the martial art work well with this? And is it worth using as a martial art style when I already had Ninjitsu?

where did you get ninjutsu from? I am playing with Niten ichy-ryu and a katana atm, dealing about 50-80 damage on a regular hit and 150-180 on a crit - melee 6, cutting 5. Never tried ninjutsu though, can’t tell you which one is better. Didn’t also try to fight powerful monsters with it, i have a bow for that.

It cuts through regular zombies in 1 swing and through anything with more health in 1-2 (i mean zombie brutes).[/quote]

To answer your question, I got Ninjitsu from the Self-Defense trait at character creation. I would assume the book for learning Ninjitsu can be found somewhere, but I have yet to find it.

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**Author:** ![troll\_from\_behind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@troll\_from\_behind](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/troll_from_behind)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9039 "2015-07-06T18:41:32Z")

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Can’t find any info about recharge station.  
What skills do I need?

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**Author:** ![deoxy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@deoxy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deoxy)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 6:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9040 "2015-07-06T18:49:17Z")

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[quote=“troll from behind, post:9039, topic:42”]Can’t find any info about recharge station.  
What skills do I need?[/quote]

go here:  
[http://cdda.estilofusion.com/](http://cdda.estilofusion.com/)

It tells you how to make everything. EVERYTHING.

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**Author:** ![troll\_from\_behind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@troll\_from\_behind](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/troll_from_behind)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2015, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/9041 "2015-07-06T19:00:17Z")

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Been there, tried that to no avail.☹

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