# 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:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1601 "2013-09-30T17:06:49Z")

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Since there is so much confusion here over the difference between static and dynamic spawns here is the main differences:  
Dynamic:

1. All monsters spawn constantly in waves.
2. Making loud noises makes monsters spawn faster

Static:

1. All zombies are spawned at the start of the game:
2. Making noise does not make more zombies
3. Wildlife is still spawned dynamically
4. Ants/triffids spawn similar to dynamic but have caps imposed based on their queen/heart.
5. Fungus spawns similar to dynamic based on the fungal bloom, but also will store grown fungus spores into the population (i.e. spores that are off-loaded when you leave mean more fungaloids can spawn later).

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**Author:** ![Norodo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e8c25b/32.png) [@Norodo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Norodo)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1602 "2013-09-30T18:21:28Z")

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> [@i2amroy](#):
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> 3) Wildlife is still spawned dynamically

This makes driving a quad bike near a river suicide.

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**Author:** ![An0n3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/an0n3/32/2257_2.png) [@An0n3](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/An0n3)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1603 "2013-09-30T18:23:18Z")

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One day the Moose shall inherit the Earth.

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**Author:** ![SBombay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/sbombay/32/7221_2.png) [@SBombay](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/SBombay)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1604 "2013-10-06T11:40:24Z")

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I wanted to move my shopping cart down 1 level into a science lab. So I disassemble it and drag the pieces down there. But when I reassemble it I can’t put the casters on the same spot as the initial frame. I can put a box there but not the casters. I am new to this construction thing so I’m probably missing it. How to do I disassemble/reassemble a shopping cart?

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**Author:** ![Miloch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/miloch/32/1339_2.png) [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 1:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1605 "2013-10-06T13:08:46Z")

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Just started screwing with mounting a M249. I keep trying to drop some 5.56NATO rounds on it and it doesn’t work… Says it’s full. Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 1:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1606 "2013-10-06T13:29:20Z")

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Did you activated it in the car menu (^)?

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**Author:** ![Miloch](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/miloch/32/1339_2.png) [@Miloch](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Miloch)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1607 "2013-10-06T13:56:28Z")

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Doesn’t matter if I can’t load it. Unless they totally changed how these work…

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**Author:** ![ResFu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/resfu/32/11710_2.png) [@ResFu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ResFu)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1608 "2013-10-06T19:07:33Z")

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I have a question about braziers and fire-related. Im pretty much an adventuring player, I’ve tried for first time fueling a oven with some wood and firing it up (to cook wolf and squirrel meat), as my experience said - it will be good, i dont need to keep an eye on that - it will burn out itself. So i left a burning oven in a house than moved to my abandoned store/stockpile of mines (\*mine. sry DF once again ate my brain). Than it started to rain acid, for no reason i started to hear "From east you hear a HUMP (or THUMP or whatever), when i go through the back doors i found nothing (didnt go to far due to the acid rain) when i go back my abandoned store was burning in a heck of a hellish blaze and yeah… burned. Dont know what started the fire, but i think maby stupid zombie smashed the oven and the fire was free.

My question is, how safe is to put a brazier in home (im thinking of changing my adventorous style - to more “civilized” 😜 farming style of life - because i want to try out the farming)? Following this, how much wood is safe? And lastly how to shut the fire (didnt do that before)?

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**Author:** ![Mrnocamera](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mrnocamera/32/61_2.png) [@Mrnocamera](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Mrnocamera)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1609 "2013-10-06T19:09:51Z")

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Ovens don’t hold fires.

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**Author:** ![ResFu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/resfu/32/11710_2.png) [@ResFu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ResFu)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2013, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1610 "2013-10-06T19:13:36Z")

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> Ovens don't hold fires.

Duh im stupid… But about the other things… Why i was thinking that fire in oven is good idea… Sorry for stupidity

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**Author:** ![LoneTophat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@LoneTophat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LoneTophat)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1611 "2013-10-07T06:04:06Z")

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If I start a fire in a forest, will the entire thing burn?  
Maybe I want to watch the world burn before my eyes…

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**Author:** ![John\_Candlebury](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/john_candlebury/32/6437_2.png) [@John\_Candlebury](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/John_Candlebury)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 7:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1612 "2013-10-07T07:08:54Z")

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[quote=“LoneTophat, post:1611, topic:42”]If I start a fire in a forest, will the entire thing burn?  
Maybe I want to watch the world burn before my eyes…[/quote]

Yes it will all burn  
Yes it is beautiful

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**Author:** ![bubbadoo14](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/bubbadoo14/32/2716_2.png) [@bubbadoo14](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/bubbadoo14)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 7:40am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1613 "2013-10-07T07:40:38Z")

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[quote=“ResFu, post:1610, topic:42”]

> Ovens don’t hold fires.

Duh im stupid… But about the other things… Why i was thinking that fire in oven is good idea… Sorry for stupidity[/quote]

You can build a [Wood stove](http://www.wiki.cataclysmdda.com/index.php?title=Wood_stove) so you can contain fires indoors.

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**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1614 "2013-10-07T07:59:28Z")

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In the experimental, ovens hold fires. They don’t suppress smoke, though. Also, now de-constructable.

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**Author:** ![ResFu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/resfu/32/11710_2.png) [@ResFu](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ResFu)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 10:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1615 "2013-10-07T10:55:35Z")

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And about fires at all, how to kill them? (do i need somehow pour a water on them? How? I didnt even bothered about this earlier, but now i have only cookable stuff to eat (all apples etc., the ready to eat things are done).

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**Author:** ![prytoclasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@prytoclasm](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/prytoclasm)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1616 "2013-10-07T15:44:49Z")

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EDIT: [removed the car-related part of the post]

Anyways, maybe I’m too stupid, but how the f00k do you cut up kevlar items or plastic bottles? I seem to be unable to do so. And this although I’m playing since quite some time now.

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**Author:** ![GrizzlyAdamz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/grizzlyadamz/32/8056_2.png) [@GrizzlyAdamz](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GrizzlyAdamz)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1617 "2013-10-07T16:03:07Z")

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Why so big? Must be a pain and a half to drive it around.

-also, btw, there’s a car show&tell thread.

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**Author:** ![prytoclasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac8455/32.png) [@prytoclasm](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/prytoclasm)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 4:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1618 "2013-10-07T16:34:15Z")

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Oh, really? Didn’t see that so far.  
(It’s no problem driving around that big something …)

But back to the question: How to cut up kevlar items or plastic items for chunks/plates?

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**Author:** ![FunsizeNinja123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/funsizeninja123/32/118_2.png) [@FunsizeNinja123](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/FunsizeNinja123)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1619 "2013-10-07T18:51:45Z")

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Gotta use a knife and select the plastic/kevlar object.

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**Author:** ![LoneTophat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce73a5/32.png) [@LoneTophat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LoneTophat)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/tips-tricks-and-newb-questions/42/1620 "2013-10-07T23:53:31Z")

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NPC’s. Someone tell me if I should enable them or not, and why.

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