Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

[acehawk]

Yes, survivor gear has been massively nerfed.

[The_Lone_Badger]

Also, for the standard Survivor suit, its armour value is really low compared to what it is on the wiki…

All armours got halved a bit back.

[pingpong]

I’ve found, at least with fonts, that software rendering is way faster than accelerated rendering. I am running at high resolutions/font sizes too.

I’ve got at least like a 2-3x speed-up, but my machine has decent single-thread performance (my gpu is higher end though, which bewilders me when 2d stuff is slower using cpu-only acceleration)

[jimboblordofeskimos]

[quote=“DG123, post:4280, topic:42”]Hey, have the survivor suits been massively nerfed recently?

I’m at tailoring 7 and there’s no Heavy Survivor Suit in my crafting menu despite that the wiki says there should be. Has it been moved to a higher tailoring level?

I can make heavy survivor helmets and gloves etc, but not the suit.

Also, for the standard Survivor suit, its armour value is really low compared to what it is on the wiki…[/quote]

You need fabrication as well as tailoring for survivor gear, pretty high as well, im thinking 6 but im not 100%

[DG123]

[quote=“jimboblordofeskimos, post:4284, topic:42”][quote=“DG123, post:4280, topic:42”]Hey, have the survivor suits been massively nerfed recently?

I’m at tailoring 7 and there’s no Heavy Survivor Suit in my crafting menu despite that the wiki says there should be. Has it been moved to a higher tailoring level?

I can make heavy survivor helmets and gloves etc, but not the suit.

Also, for the standard Survivor suit, its armour value is really low compared to what it is on the wiki…[/quote]

You need fabrication as well as tailoring for survivor gear, pretty high as well, im thinking 6 but im not 100%[/quote]

5 for basic survivor gear and the heavy helmet and gloves. Maybe it’s 6 for the heavy suit though.

Edit: Nope.

I looked through the JSONS and it seems it’s fabrication 7 now.

[Datanazush]

Yeah, Tailor 7, fab 7. If you want an easy way to look these things up, use the Item Browser. I think it’s automatically updated every time a new experimental comes out.

[DG123]

Ah, thanks. I’ll give it a try next time.

But for now… my problem is how to get Fabrication from 6 to 7. How do I actually do this? I recall reading something about you only getting experience by crafting stuff of the difficulty level equal to the level you need to upgrade from or something like that.

I don’t see anything requiring level 6 fabrication that I can craft.

Wait… I think I might be OK. Apparently it’s difficulty level plus one that continues to give experience.

[Catfoodbob]

First of all, Dg there are books that only take 10 mins to read that can take you to lvl 10 fabrication, i think its japanese swordmaking,

and second, just a quick tip, you can disassemble ovens for sheet metal to make braziers so you can make a fire indoors safely… and it doesn’t get constantly put out by rain.

[DG123]

Already built a stone fireplace… although I think I do get hurt occasionally when next to it, which is odd. Is that new in the experimentals?

Unfortunately I haven’t found those books. I have plenty of books, just not those.

A more pressing problem is… NPCs…

I have had enough. They need to go. Is there a way to complete disable them in a current game? Or just STOP THEM PICKING ANYTHING UP. For god’s sake surely that must be possible?

Just turned off the dynamic NPC spawn option and hoped for the best… I just want the bastards to stop creeping into my base in the middle of the night and stealing everything.

[acehawk]

Kill them. But yes, in the options turn off static and random NPCs. You’ll have to gen a new world though.

Just turned off the dynamic NPC spawn option and hoped for the best... I just want the bastards to stop creeping into my base in the middle of the night and stealing everything.

It’s a world setting, turning it off won’t effect preexisting worlds unfortunately.

[Catfoodbob]

I think you can go into world options of that world and look for random npcs then set it to false

[DG123]

I think you can go into world options of that world and look for random npcs then set it to false

That’s what I’ve done.

[acehawk]

I feel dumb haha, thank you for pointing this out to me!

On a related note, can NPCs take things out of vehicle containers?

[Catfoodbob]

No i don’t think so, never seen any of them try.

[DG123]

[quote=“acehawk, post:4293, topic:42”]I feel dumb haha, thank you for pointing this out to me!

On a related note, can NPCs take things out of vehicle containers?[/quote]

God I hope not.

I suppose they can out of other containers? Because I saw someone posting a suggestion about lockable containers.

[Catfoodbob]

By the way dg, did you save the file after making your change.

also does the derelict capacitance system stop skitterbots and police bots from tazing you

[DG123]

Well I since died and save scummed so I may have to redo that change… But I save frequently.

[acehawk]

[quote=“Catfoodbob, post:4296, topic:42”]By the way dg, did you save the file after making your change.

also does the derelict capacitance system stop skitterbots and police bots from tazing you[/quote]

Yes, 100%.

[Catfoodbob]

I found this humming pin thingy which is actually pretty awesome because it heals you for more than it actually decays your body but it also has this secondary effect of the sky starts to dim and it makes it pretty much night for a short period of time, does this artifact affect other creatures

[DG123]

Speaking of tasers… Are they worth using on enemies and if so, which ones? I’m unsure what enemies are immune to what.

Teargas for example. What is that worth using on?