# 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:** ![Noctifer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noctifer/32/458_2.png) [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10282 "2015-09-25T21:05:28Z")

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Alternating? Its pretty much either always hot or cool, the weather is the only thing that is very unstable…

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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:** [September 25, 2015, 9:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10283 "2015-09-25T21:12:38Z")

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True. Though usually if it isn’t hot and sunny, it’s raining to an insane extent. Which is nice sometimes, until afterward it gets all hot and humid.

And now to get back on topic, does humidity in this game affect temperature?

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**Author:** ![Xfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e95f7d/32.png) [@Xfin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Xfin)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10284 "2015-09-25T21:13:14Z")

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I guess ya get used to it

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**Author:** ![Noctifer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noctifer/32/458_2.png) [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10285 "2015-09-25T21:16:48Z")

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Is humidity a thing on the game?

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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:** [September 25, 2015, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10286 "2015-09-25T21:17:54Z")

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One of the weather tools reads it, yeah. Along with temp and air pressure. I assume these all affect precipitation, but other affects I’m unsure of.

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**Author:** ![Noctifer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noctifer/32/458_2.png) [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10287 "2015-09-25T21:23:24Z")

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Hypothesis 1: They only determine how likely it is for a specific weather event to occur.  
Hypothesis 2: Humidity might work like being underwater to a very small extent.  
Hypothesis 3: They are currently just decorations.  
Hypothesis 4: Combination of the three.  
Hypothesis 5: None of the above.

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**Author:** ![Xfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e95f7d/32.png) [@Xfin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Xfin)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 9:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10288 "2015-09-25T21:23:59Z")

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> [@Noctifer](#):
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> Is humidity a thing on the game?

i believe one of the bionics. the one that spawns water ‘out of the air’ uses humidity…

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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:** [September 25, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10289 "2015-09-25T21:24:26Z")

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> [@Random\_dragon](#):
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> One of the weather tools reads it, yeah. Along with temp and air pressure. I assume these all affect precipitation, but other affects I’m unsure of.

I would assume it affects how much water you get from the Aero-evaporator CBM (or whatever it’s called - the one that makes water from the air for 200 power). Once in a while, you get none, sometimes you get one, often you get 2, occasionally you get more.

Also, in the latest experimental, has someone tweaked the bloody huge boomers? I’m in full survivor gear, and they’re glowing me about half the time (or more), and it’s lasting MUCH MUCH MUCH longer than before.

Oh, and explosions are still crazy big, but they seem to be less “nuke every single item out of existence the moment you touch it” than they were, so that loot isn’t just auto-destroyed all the bloody time, and/but corpses aren’t, either (which is nice… and harder, of course).

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**Author:** ![Noctifer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/noctifer/32/458_2.png) [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10290 "2015-09-25T21:26:29Z")

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> [@deoxy](#):
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> I would assume it affects how much water you get from the Aero-evaporator CBM (or whatever it’s called - the one that makes water from the air for 200 power). Once in a while, you get none, sometimes you get one, often you get 2, occasionally you get more.

So it seems to have a use then.

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**Author:** ![COS\_Cecillian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cos_cecillian/32/485_2.png) [@COS\_Cecillian](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/COS_Cecillian)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10291 "2015-09-25T23:37:23Z")

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Are cargo carriers the items that make more room in cars? I tried removing cargo containers from vehicles, and got nothing but a frame.

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**Author:** ![Coolthulhu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/coolthulhu/32/2446_2.png) [@Coolthulhu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coolthulhu)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10292 "2015-09-25T23:47:00Z")

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> [@deoxy](#):
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> Also, in the latest experimental, has someone tweaked the bloody huge boomers? I’m in full survivor gear, and they’re glowing me about half the time (or more), and it’s lasting MUCH MUCH MUCH longer than before.

Boomers no, but survival gear yes.

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**Author:** ![Dampe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@Dampe](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dampe)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10293 "2015-09-26T00:19:16Z")

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> [@Noctifer](#):
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> Texas isn’t THAT bad…It only has very hot and dry climate,tons of mosquitoes,hurricanes (by the coast), and large patches of wilderness where once entered no one will find you…help me…

Coming from someone who lives there, I would agree with this.  
But the traffic. Oh, god, the traffic.

Anyhow, does anyone have an ETA on the next stable release?

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**Author:** ![Sir1Kernicus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/sir1kernicus/32/486_2.png) [@Sir1Kernicus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sir1Kernicus)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10294 "2015-09-26T00:22:13Z")

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So i haven’t ever seen acidic rain is it a rarity or a surviving for so long or is it the stable

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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:** [September 26, 2015, 12:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10295 "2015-09-26T00:22:27Z")

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And when you have rain PLUS traffic…for a good idea of what NPCs in this game might be like if they could operate vehicles, well…

And last I recall, they’ve said they want to at least make z-levels fully functional first.

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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:** [September 26, 2015, 2:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10296 "2015-09-26T02:41:34Z")

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> [@Coolthulhu](#):
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> [quote=“deoxy, post:10289, topic:42”]Also, in the latest experimental, has someone tweaked the bloody huge boomers? I’m in full survivor gear, and they’re glowing me about half the time (or more), and it’s lasting MUCH MUCH MUCH longer than before.

Boomers no, but survival gear yes.[/quote]

So… then what are you supposed to do to avoid glowing? Glowing at the wrong time is essentially a death sentence.

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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:** [September 26, 2015, 2:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10297 "2015-09-26T02:48:31Z")

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If I recall, you can use a towel to unblind yourself if boomered. It might work on glowing bile, unsure.

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**Author:** ![Litppunk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/litppunk/32/409_2.png) [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10298 "2015-09-26T03:00:34Z")

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> [@Dampe](#):
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> [quote=“Noctifer, post:10280, topic:42”]Texas isn’t THAT bad…It only has very hot and dry climate,tons of mosquitoes,hurricanes (by the coast), and large patches of wilderness where once entered no one will find you…help me…

Coming from someone who lives there, I would agree with this.  
But the traffic. Oh, god, the traffic.[/quote]

Unless you live in the country 😃  
_music note_ If im ganna get in a traffic jam… It better be a tractor man…_end music note_  
Remember children. Life is to short to live in Dallas.

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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:** [September 26, 2015, 3:05am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10299 "2015-09-26T03:05:07Z")

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Hmm. What effect does smoke have on monsters that need to breathe?

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**Author:** ![Xfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e95f7d/32.png) [@Xfin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Xfin)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10300 "2015-09-26T04:30:05Z")

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> [@Random\_dragon](#):
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> Hmm. What effect does smoke have on monsters that need to breathe?

Think it just delays there next movement somewhat

(Wonders why the trapdoor spiders is dummyed out)

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**Author:** ![kilozombie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@kilozombie](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kilozombie)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10301 "2015-09-26T05:04:39Z")

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Can I grow coffee? If not, how do I make a stable source of atomic coffee?

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