# 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:** ![Solusphere](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/solusphere/32/66_2.png) [@Solusphere](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Solusphere)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 7:43am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15702 "2016-09-27T07:43:18Z")

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Is anyone else having serious issues avoiding Hypocalcemia? I’m pretty much finding myself unable to realistically avoid it short of taking daily multivitamins. Other than dairy products, which are pretty much gone from the game after the first couple seasons, the only major sources I’ve been able to find are Bone Broth, which requires multiple animals worth of bones to create one serving, and eggs/scrambled eggs, which aren’t available at all in some seasons and still require you to eat five of them just to get through a day without getting Rickets.

If anyone has any strategies for avoiding this that don’t take up the entire day, every day, please let me know.

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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, 2016, 8:24am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15703 "2016-09-27T08:24:47Z")

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meat doesnt have any?

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**Author:** ![Solusphere](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/solusphere/32/66_2.png) [@Solusphere](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Solusphere)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15704 "2016-09-27T08:51:11Z")

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Meat, and most other meat or fish based food items, give 4% daily recommended dose per serving. It’d be pretty tough to meet the RDI from meat alone. You’d think you could get it from eating bones, but neither bones nor bonemeal give any calcium at all by themselves, and the only way to get calcium from them is bone broth, which is pretty arduous to gather the materials for and takes an hour to cook.

It’s a minor issue, as vitamin supplements are plentiful, but it feels a little off that just eating a balanced diet of meat and vegetables isn’t enough to stave off vitamin deficiency.

I’m curious as to how pre-agricultural humans, or herbivorous animals for that matter, get their calcium?

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**Author:** ![BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/borkborkgoesthecode/32/2343_2.png) [@BorkBorkGoesTheCode](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/BorkBorkGoesTheCode)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15705 "2016-09-27T09:50:13Z")

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The nutrition system isn’t supposed to affect stats yet, since it is in the experimental stage.

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**Author:** ![Solusphere](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/solusphere/32/66_2.png) [@Solusphere](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Solusphere)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 10:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15706 "2016-09-27T10:09:10Z")

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Well it comes up with a Hypocalcemia message, and says my bones are becoming brittle. Does that not actually do anything yet?

Also, it seems the issue isn’t quite as bad as I thought, seeing as I haven’t had the message reappear in several days now, though I don’t know what my character has actually done in order to change that. I did start cooking and eating beans from my stockpile, but they only have an 8% RDI listed, and I really don’t think I was eating 12 of them per day?

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**Author:** ![Sheb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@Sheb](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Sheb)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15707 "2016-09-27T11:49:56Z")

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Nah, the messages are placeholder so that the devs can get a hang of what need to change to make nutrition working well.

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**Author:** ![Shopkeeper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/shopkeeper/32/453_2.png) [@Shopkeeper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Shopkeeper)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 11:57am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15708 "2016-09-27T11:57:56Z")

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Yeah, nutritional stats still need some tweaking. I supplement my character’s meat and veggie diet with boiled eggs for calcium. They keep forever basically and are volume/weight light, makes a perfect snack for long trips away from home.

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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, 2016, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15709 "2016-09-27T13:13:43Z")

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with interchanged metabolism cbm its easy to get right amout of calcium from meat if you have stable supply of it

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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, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15710 "2016-09-27T13:53:06Z")

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Random question… I was browsing the in game item list and discovered the mythical weapon replicas.

Is there any point at all in making those? I thought maybe there would be a way to make them actually magical but it seems the true Mjolnir is only available through spawning it in. And the others don’t even have “real” versions.

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**Author:** ![Findulidas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eada6e/32.png) [@Findulidas](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Findulidas)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15711 "2016-09-27T14:08:03Z")

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> [@DG123](#):
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> Random question… I was browsing the in game item list and discovered the mythical weapon replicas.

Isnt that a mod? I sure dont have them anyway.

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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, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15712 "2016-09-27T14:09:28Z")

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I think it’s one of the mods that are included as standard. They’re in a book about Viking weaponry.

Anyway they’re basically swords hammers and bows made from super expensive materials like gold and silver but not seeing to actually do anything special.

Meanwhile Mjolnir itself is made of steel and wood and does 999 damage.

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**Author:** ![Shopkeeper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/shopkeeper/32/453_2.png) [@Shopkeeper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Shopkeeper)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2016, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15713 "2016-09-27T14:17:21Z")

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Your missing a 9 there… IT’S OVER 9000!

The rest are just replicas from a mod, mundane if fancy weapons modeled after legendary artifacts. The actual Mjolnir is a debug weapon, like the Flaming Chunk of Steel +2.

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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, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15714 "2016-09-27T15:13:26Z")

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Oh I see, so the real thing existed before the mod?

Just seems a bit lame to me that there are all these weapons that can be crafted from gold and precious stones etc but unless you’re specifically using the ones from the arcana mod they’re basically shiny junk or at best just not great compared to normal weapons.

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**Author:** ![pisskop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/pisskop/32/1327_2.png) [@pisskop](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pisskop)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15715 "2016-09-28T00:40:40Z")

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Any chance cauterizing wounds will kill the infection anymore?

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**Author:** ![Shopkeeper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/shopkeeper/32/453_2.png) [@Shopkeeper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Shopkeeper)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 12:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15716 "2016-09-28T00:58:49Z")

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Pre-infection bite wounds can be cautherized for a 50/50 chance of fixing it or making it worse, don’t think that’s changed.

Once an infection’s fully developed though, cauterizing or cleaning won’t help.

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**Author:** ![Solusphere](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/solusphere/32/66_2.png) [@Solusphere](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Solusphere)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 6:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15717 "2016-09-28T06:42:46Z")

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It’s worth noting that First Aid Kits now have a chance of removing an established infection, whereas they didn’t before.

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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 28, 2016, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15718 "2016-09-28T07:26:10Z")

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> [@Solusphere](#):
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> It’s worth noting that First Aid Kits now have a chance of removing an established infection, whereas they didn’t before.

They had it for ages. 0.A, at least.

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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 28, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15719 "2016-09-28T12:22:02Z")

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i was thinking they just heal bites like disinfect do

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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 28, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15720 "2016-09-28T13:35:15Z")

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Anyone here have experience using vehicle mounted flamethrowers?

I just realised I don’t know how you give them ammo. Do they feed directly from the vehicle’s installed fuel tanks? Do they need a specific tank installed on the same tile?

I’m wondering how you make them use the right ammo. e.g. How to make sure it fires napalm not your petrol.

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**Author:** ![pisskop](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/pisskop/32/1327_2.png) [@pisskop](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/pisskop)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/15721 "2016-09-28T13:37:09Z")

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not sure anymore. used to take from a gastank, and would be almost more trouble than worth

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