# 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:** ![Xfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/e95f7d/32.png) [@Xfin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Xfin)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10342 "2015-09-27T05:06:54Z")

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> [@Random\_dragon](#):
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> In general, if it’s mounted on a turret chassis, that means it doesn’t need to be fired manually.

Ya know… outside of the a7 laser…and the turret blazes added that are manual only (and most he added have both versions…)…

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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 27, 2015, 5:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10343 "2015-09-27T05:09:27Z")

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Right. Sad thing is he’s planning to go back on that feature, because he can’t comprehend that it would be far less ANNOYING if the player was given clear warning about this issue.

Which will requirement me to unfuck Tank mod, I suspect.

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**Author:** ![SkyeAuroline](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@SkyeAuroline](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SkyeAuroline)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10344 "2015-09-27T05:46:17Z")

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[quote=“Random\_dragon, post:10343, topic:42”]Right. Sad thing is he’s planning to go back on that feature, because he can’t comprehend that it would be far less ANNOYING if the player was given clear warning about this issue.

Which will requirement me to unfuck Tank mod, I suspect.[/quote]

I’m using his latest release with your tank mod. Atomic mini-tanks are broken, at the very least. So… yes. You will.

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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:** [September 27, 2015, 5:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10345 "2015-09-27T05:53:55Z")

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personaly i realy like manual turrets and crafting automatic one is not hard too we only need warning about manual turrets for other players

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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 27, 2015, 8:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10346 "2015-09-27T08:33:18Z")

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Here doesn’t even see the point of automatic turrets that don’t have a easy renewable source of ammo, be it solar, pebbles, or bolts…and amusingly… blaze’s mod added most of them…  
(will never use a auto flamethrower, 120 autocannon or a auto- turbo laser …that just a bad idea…)

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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 27, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10347 "2015-09-27T10:23:39Z")

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[quote=“SkyeAuroline, post:10344, topic:42”][quote=“Random\_dragon, post:10343, topic:42”]Right. Sad thing is he’s planning to go back on that feature, because he can’t comprehend that it would be far less ANNOYING if the player was given clear warning about this issue.

Which will requirement me to unfuck Tank mod, I suspect.[/quote]

I’m using his latest release with your tank mod. Atomic mini-tanks are broken, at the very least. So… yes. You will.[/quote]

I bloody knew it. Goddamnit Blaze.

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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:** [September 27, 2015, 11:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10348 "2015-09-27T11:32:37Z")

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when world is generating lab undergrounds have higher prority than subway and sewers? i have one lab in town and i do not know if its good idea to go there or just a waste of bionic energy?

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**Author:** ![jcd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/jcd/32/338_2.png) [@jcd](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jcd)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 11:56am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10349 "2015-09-27T11:56:17Z")

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> [@Arek\_PL](#):
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> when world is generating lab undergrounds have higher prority than subway and sewers? i have one lab in town and i do not know if its good idea to go there or just a waste of bionic energy?

Wow, i’ve never spawned a lab inside town.  
Couldn’t you just use the sewers to go there and look?

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**Author:** ![DG123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@DG123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DG123)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 12:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10350 "2015-09-27T12:14:28Z")

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Wait WHAT?

I’m using tank mod and vehicle additions mod.

Are you telling me the turrets won’t work properly?

Can I install versions that will work automatically? I’m a bit lost here.

I thought what was meant to happen was that you could turn the auto-turrets on and off OR fire them manually.

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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 27, 2015, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10351 "2015-09-27T12:41:01Z")

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With Blaze’s mod and/or Tank mod, turrets are manual only, yes.

However, Blaze has been fucking with the mod and the version on his thread (the version in the game itself is still fine) breaks my tanks apparently.

Thankfully it hasn’t been PR’d yet.

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**Author:** ![DG123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@DG123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DG123)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10352 "2015-09-27T13:28:35Z")

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You’re telling me all the turrets in my crafting menu that specifically say they have fire control systems for autonomous operation actually require you to go and stand on the turret and shoot it like you’re using a normal gun?

Why would Blaze do this? That’s ridiculous.

How do we fix it?

For that matter I thought these were new turrets from the mods anyway…? So why do they say they’re automatic if they aren’t? I am confused.

On an unrelated subject what on earth is the “electric polisher” for?

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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 27, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10353 "2015-09-27T15:48:54Z")

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It polishes your electricity, obviously.

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**Author:** ![DG123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@DG123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DG123)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10354 "2015-09-27T16:28:36Z")

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It says it polishes… metal surfaces? But is there any reason to be doing this? You CAN activate the thing but I don’t know what it would do. It told me I couldn’t do anything interesting with it when I tried. But it was out of power.

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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 27, 2015, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10355 "2015-09-27T17:19:36Z")

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> [@DG123](#):
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> You’re telling me all the turrets in my crafting menu that specifically say they have fire control systems for autonomous operation actually require you to go and stand on the turret and shoot it like you’re using a normal gun?

No, you…augh. THOSE are turrets in Blaze’s mod, yes. And THOSE work on their own. That’s the entire point, he changed the MOUNTED weapons from vanilla Cataclysm to be manual-only, while adding those turrets that can still fire autonomously.

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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 27, 2015, 5:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10356 "2015-09-27T17:24:53Z")

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Could I use the boats mod to create an amphibious deathmobile?

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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 27, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10357 "2015-09-27T17:33:11Z")

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unfortunately to the best of my knowledge vehicles are either a boat or a car not both, but and don’t quote me on this. I think you can drive into shallow water and remove tires and replace them with floats and drive motorboat into the sunset if you have an appropriate means of propulsion… mod that adds air boats/hovercraft would be neat…

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**Author:** ![DG123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@DG123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DG123)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10358 "2015-09-27T17:36:49Z")

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> [@Random\_dragon](#):
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> [quote=“DG123, post:10352, topic:42”]You’re telling me all the turrets in my crafting menu that specifically say they have fire control systems for autonomous operation actually require you to go and stand on the turret and shoot it like you’re using a normal gun?

No, you…augh. THOSE are turrets in Blaze’s mod, yes. And THOSE work on their own. That’s the entire point, he changed the MOUNTED weapons from vanilla Cataclysm to be manual-only, while adding those turrets that can still fire autonomously.[/quote]

Ah, that makes a lot more sense and I don’t have such a problem with that.

Unless of course it completely buggers something up that I haven’t encountered yet. What does it do to those tanks which is so horrible?

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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 27, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10359 "2015-09-27T17:37:12Z")

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> [@Litppunk](#):
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> unfortunately to the best of my knowledge vehicles are either a boat or a car not both, but and don’t quote me on this. I think you can drive into shallow water and remove tires and replace them with floats and drive motorboat into the sunset if you have an appropriate means of propulsion… mod that adds air boats/hovercraft would be neat…

;\_;  
deathboat is dead.  
long live deathboat.

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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 27, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10360 "2015-09-27T17:47:49Z")

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> [@DG123](#):
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> What does it do to those tanks which is so horrible?

Apparently the version of Blaze’s mod that he’s been working on, and has yet to PR, breaks Tank mod turrets and possibly other components, due to some changes from the Github version.

And yeah, I wish we had a way to enable/disable vehicle part flags on command. That would be the eeasier way to make a boat amphibious.

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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 27, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/10361 "2015-09-27T19:05:47Z")

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there was talk of tweaking the sleep stuff not long ago. Is sleep still exactly like it is on wiki or was there some comfort/warmth etc… tweaks made?

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