Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

Khrysanth · 2014-05-27T23:29:12.000Z

Insert derailing comment about previous typo here.

I really do wish that rope and pulleys worked on more types of doors. As it is, I can’t make a working gate across a street.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-05-27T23:34:30.000Z

[quote=“Khrysanth, post:3381, topic:42”]Insert derailing comment about previous typo here.

I really do wish that rope and pulleys worked on more types of doors. As it is, I can’t make a working gate across a street.[/quote]Jackhammer or pickaxe.

1D-1_T · 2014-05-28T07:11:48.000Z

One more question from me. What on earth happened to quarterstaffs? They were my primary melee weapon, and now I can’t find the recipe in game, or any mention on the wiki. Any clues?

Rivet · 2014-05-28T07:15:45.000Z

1D-1()T:

One more question from me. What on earth happened to quarterstaffs? They were my primary melee weapon, and now I can’t find the recipe in game, or any mention on the wiki. Any clues?

Recipe requires the ‘medieval content pack’ to be active, bashing skill two, fabrication skill two, and it’s autolearn.

1D-1_T · 2014-05-28T08:07:31.000Z

Thanks. Loving the new build by the way

The_Lone_Badger · 2014-05-28T09:20:32.000Z

What is the penalty if I don’t have the required strength for a bow, and how severe is it? Does it reduce my rate-of-fire? Accuracy?

Creamy_Goodness · 2014-05-28T10:09:32.000Z

hey guys noob question, making a throwing survivor, does perceptions ranged penalty also affect throwing or just dexterity and its thrown to hit bonus

Khrysanth · 2014-05-28T11:17:00.000Z

The Lone Badger:

What is the penalty if I don’t have the required strength for a bow, and how severe is it? Does it reduce my rate-of-fire? Accuracy?

Near as I can tell? It kills the range.

Make a character with strength 4. Now try to fire a bow.

dambuk1 · 2014-05-28T13:14:42.000Z

newb question one: does wildlife sense if your character is an easy/hard prey?
I often found myself in situations, when i’d stroll right next to a “ignoring” bear, get LOTS of stuff(which made me encumbered) and suddenly, the bear turns hostile! No animal discord or animal emapthy on this survivor. Oh, and wolves tend to run away or at least keep their distance from my heavily-mutated survivors(even those that don’t have “terryfing” or similar traits).
newb question two: where do i find cults?
newb question three: when i examine my flatbed truck it shows that it has 50% gas, but when i try to refill it the game tells me that the tank is full - what might be the reason? (in case it makes any difference, i repaired lots of things in this car and i might have changed its engine at some point of repairs)

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-05-28T13:18:19.000Z

[quote=“dambuk1, post:3389, topic:42”]newb question one: does wildlife sense if your character is an easy/hard prey?
I often found myself in situations, when i’d stroll right next to a “ignoring” bear, get LOTS of stuff(which made me encumbered) and suddenly, the bear turns hostile! No animal discord or animal emapthy on this survivor. Oh, and wolves tend to run away or at least keep their distance from my heavily-mutated survivors(even those that don’t have “terryfing” or similar traits).[/quote]

I’ve had that happen to me, so you’re not the only one.

dambuk1:

newb question two: where do i find cults?

Go looking in for forest for an unmarked, boarded up building. Very hard to find, but look outside of it for stairs when you do.

dambuk1:

newb question three: when i examine my flatbed truck it shows that it has 50% gas, but when i try to refill it the game tells me that the tank is full - what might be the reason? (in case it makes any difference, i repaired lots of things in this car and i might have changed its engine at some point of repairs)

Either you don’t have enough gas and the container hold the said gas is empty, or the gas tank is leaking an you need to fix it.

Also, Flatbeds have two fuel tanks. That means the fuel gauge goes up slower than a single gas tank.

dambuk1 · 2014-05-28T13:22:28.000Z

[quote=“FunsizeNinja123, post:3390, topic:42”]Either you don’t have enough gas and the container hold the said gas is empty, or the gas tank is leaking an you need to fix it.
Also, Flatbeds have two fuel tanks. That means the fuel gauge goes up slower than a single gas tank.[/quote]
The container was an almost full jerrycan, as for leakage… i think the gas tank was yellow so that shouldn’t be the case. And i didn’t notice the second fuel tank - maybe filling that one up will fix this.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2014-05-28T13:24:19.000Z

Snaps fingers There ya go!

ShinQuickMan · 2014-05-28T15:27:22.000Z

[quote=“dambuk1, post:3389, topic:42”]newb question one: does wildlife sense if your character is an easy/hard prey?
I often found myself in situations, when i’d stroll right next to a “ignoring” bear, get LOTS of stuff(which made me encumbered) and suddenly, the bear turns hostile! No animal discord or animal emapthy on this survivor. Oh, and wolves tend to run away or at least keep their distance from my heavily-mutated survivors(even those that don’t have “terryfing” or similar traits).[/quote]

Two answers to this:

In your case with the bear, you likely stood too close to it for too long. Most large wild animals (like coyotes, wolves, cougars, bears, and especially moose) don’t like it when you do that and will go hostile; the same thing would have happened to those wolves if you managed to catch up.
If you’re heavily injured, those those normally shy wolves and coyotes will actually beam right at you. So in a sense, that’s how the game tells those animals that you’re easy pickings.

dambuk1 · 2014-05-28T16:15:42.000Z

ShinQuickMan:

1. In your case with the bear, you likely stood too close to it for too long. Most large wild animals (like coyotes, wolves, cougars, bears, and especially moose) don’t like it when you do that and will go hostile; the same thing would have happened to those wolves if you managed to catch up.

Well, i also had a bear LIVING inside my house ignoring me even if i slept in the same room as him. He got pissed off once when number 2 happened(a stupid dog made me bleed) but a few whacks with a crowbar made him ignore me once again. two days later he left
As for strolling past a bear, i went to loot things in a gas station two map tiles away and then went back to the general area where it stood before, so i don’t know if it counts for “standing too close for too long”. Well, at least that magnum got in handy.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-05-28T17:18:43.000Z

It’d be nice if we could tame bears/wolves etc…

Arek_PL · 2014-05-28T20:57:13.000Z

taming these bloodthristy demons mooses will make a great army

Khrysanth · 2014-05-28T22:31:22.000Z

“Zombie apocalypse? Infectious fungus creatures? Walking plants? Pathetic, for I am the Queen of the Moose!”

But, yes, the moose is by far the biggest offender for aggressive behavior. As an aside, it might help if critters paid attention to each other rather than only on you. Watching a pack of wolves, a deer, a handful of jackrabbits and a cougar frolic together until one of them finally decides to try to eat me is a bit disconcerting.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-05-29T01:10:27.000Z

[quote=“Khrysanth, post:3397, topic:42”]“Zombie apocalypse? Infectious fungus creatures? Walking plants? Pathetic, for I am the Queen of the Moose!”

But, yes, the moose is by far the biggest offender for aggressive behavior. As an aside, it might help if critters paid attention to each other rather than only on you. Watching a pack of wolves, a deer, a handful of jackrabbits and a cougar frolic together until one of them finally decides to try to eat me is a bit disconcerting.[/quote]Yeah the only time I’ve seen animals fight each other is when one is following me, another gets in it’s way and the one following me attacks it turning it hostile, at which point they fight to the death.

FunsizeNinja123:

[quote=“dambuk1, post:3389, topic:42”]newb question two: where do i find cults?

Go looking in for forest for an unmarked, boarded up building. Very hard to find, but look outside of it for stairs when you do.[/quote] Hold on a minute, you mean there are now cults in the game? When were they implemented?

Fish · 2014-05-29T01:20:37.000Z

Sort of. There was an NPC quest line floating around that has to do with investigating holy stuff an junk.
The cult quest is the last quest for the moment on that particular quest line but there WILL be improvments on that front (I “think”).
So either wait for that special NPC, oorrrr find that hidden building.

HunterAlpha1 · 2014-05-29T01:34:37.000Z

[quote=“Fish, post:3399, topic:42”]Sort of. There was an NPC quest line floating around that has to do with investigating holy stuff an junk.
The cult quest is the last quest for the moment on that particular quest line but there WILL be improvments on that front (I “think”).
So either wait for that special NPC, oorrrr find that hidden building.[/quote]And by hidden I assume it’s not shown on the world map?