# 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://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11142 "2015-10-28T00:54:13Z")
Look in house and any building for that matter (but in electronic stores more so) for the many devices that run on batteries or give them when disassembled.
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### Author:  [@deoxy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/deoxy)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11143 "2015-10-28T01:41:07Z")
> [@Dead\_End\_Road](#):
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> Ok cool thanks again, another question tho where is a good place to find normal batteries?
Zombies drop flashlights. Flashlights come with 100 battery and dissemble to an amplifier circuit and 10 copper wire (and scrap metal).
There’s a reason people make jokes about being flashlight collectors.
In general, though, houses and electronics stores are pretty good. Labs are decent as well, actually. I generally find myself with 4 or 5 digits stashes of batteries because I’m such a miser.
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### Author:  [@Evillevi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Evillevi)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 2:34am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11144 "2015-10-28T02:34:03Z")
This is a really newbish question but how do you use a bow and arrow?
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11145 "2015-10-28T02:39:28Z")
> [@Evillevi](#):
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> This is a really newbish question but how do you use a bow and arrow?
…derp?
Wield bow. Have arrows. FLETCHED arrows. Fire bow with “f” and you’ll nock an arrow.
If you’re trying to fire unfletched arrows, I will eat you. o3o
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### Author:  [@Evillevi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Evillevi)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11146 "2015-10-28T02:49:38Z")
> [@Random\_dragon](#):
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> [quote=“Evillevi, post:11144, topic:42”]This is a really newbish question but how do you use a bow and arrow?
…derp?
Wield bow. Have arrows. FLETCHED arrows. Fire bow with “f” and you’ll nock an arrow.
If you’re trying to fire unfletched arrows, I will eat you. o3o[/quote]
…
How do you fletch an arrow?
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11147 "2015-10-28T03:00:31Z")
Craft a thing. You need fabrication and archery skill. \>\_\>
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### Author:  [@Evillevi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Evillevi)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11148 "2015-10-28T03:13:29Z")
[quote=“Random\_dragon, post:11147, topic:42”]Craft a thing. You need fabrication and archery skill. \>\_\>[/quote]Thanks
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11149 "2015-10-28T04:12:18Z")
Huehuehue. Most of the arrows are crafted in steps. You make the arrow shafts, then you make the unfletched version, then you make fletching, THEN you make the fletched arrow.
Bog-standard wooden arrows are simpler. Not the fire-handed wooden arrows, those are literally wooden as in wood-tipped. Basic wooden arrows are kinda weird about describing what the SHAFT is made of, whereas most other arrows refer to the pointy end instead.
Anyway, for standard wooden arrows you make the shafts, the fletching, then metal arrowheads. Then you combine them all (plus thread OR glue) in one step.
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### Author:  [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11150 "2015-10-28T14:49:32Z")
Stone arrowheads need to be a thing, It is hard to find metal in the middle of nowhere…
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 2:50pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11151 "2015-10-28T14:50:43Z")
Field point arrows. You can use stone, bone, etc. \>\_\>
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### Author:  [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11152 "2015-10-28T15:24:44Z")
heh, Guess thats that…
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11153 "2015-10-28T15:26:38Z")
Bone crossbow bolts would still be fun.
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### Author:  [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11154 "2015-10-28T15:27:54Z")
The best reason for me to use a crossbow is that crafting bolts is rediculessly easy.
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11155 "2015-10-28T15:49:48Z")
I love crossbows for exactly that reason. Maybe we should require fletching, but…
Bone crossbow bolts. I can see this being Fun. owo
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### Author:  [@Valpo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valpo)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11156 "2015-10-28T16:04:48Z")
They should require fletching.
Well making metal bolts is very easy.
Either making those becomes harder or bone bolts are almost useless.
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### Author:  [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11157 "2015-10-28T16:22:47Z")
A repeating crossbow with a bone furniture firing bone crossbow bolts would be something…
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### Author:  [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11158 "2015-10-28T16:24:57Z")
Metal bolts are less accessible if you’re playing innawoods though.
That circumstance is also the only time that you’ll have ready enough access to bones that it’s worth using them.
But I WAS thinking you should have to fletch bone bolts, even if wooden bolts stay unfletched. With wood, you could carve an aerodynamic shape as needed, to at least mitigate the lack of fletching. With metal, you forge or hammer out a similar shape.
With bone? You could split and carve limb bones to make a shaped shaft of crossbow size (at least more logical than trying to make arrows that way), but I suspect carving flights at the base of it might not be feasible.
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### Author:  [@Aesop](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Aesop)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11159 "2015-10-28T17:58:27Z")
Crafting fletched arrows is kind of a pain. That’s why I tend to just make 200 at a time and call it good for a while. Stuff 60 in the large quiver, remainder in the deathmobile, replace brokens as needed. Should last even longer now that acid puddles don’t melt them.
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### Author:  [@KliPeH](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KliPeH)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11160 "2015-10-28T18:56:36Z")
I have another question, a thing I wondered how to do optimally for quite a while now:
What’s an easy way to store food (mainly meat) without it going bad?
It’s summer. I haven’t made a stockpile of food or anything similar before it arrived, I go hunting almost daily to sustain myself for the day and to keep myself going till the next one. Not the best way to do things, but that’s what I’ve got at the moment. Anyway, today I hunted bear, and have a bunch of meat I REALLY don’t want to rot. I looked into dehydrating it, but this seems like a really good way to waste it (chance of not succeeding and destroying it + requires 2 chunks of meat for each unit + requires clean water to rehydrate + 30 nutrition for 2 chunks VS. 50 nutrition for one).
I do NOT have glass jars to store food in. I used a fridge from a nearby house till now but it just seems to slow the process of rotting for like, 1-2 days? Not really enough. What can I do to save the meat for later without eating it all?
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### Author:  [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2015, 7:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/11161 "2015-10-28T19:05:43Z")
One way is to go to a source of salt water and lit a fire to make jerky, lasts forever. Easier than dehydrating it and never spoils but still has a chance to fail…
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