[quote=“KliPeH, post:12162, topic:42”][quote=“scorpion451, post:12134, topic:42”]* grind electronics and computers until you can craft a control laptop. For lab start characters, the books and components needed to do so can all be found in labs. You just have to survive long enough to build one, and escape gets a lot easier. Never enter a lab without one. If I drive across the map to a new lab and realize I forgot my control laptop, I will turn around and go back for it.
- Yes, it really is that important: a control laptop not only takes care of turrets, it will save your life by turning all the other robots in a lab from swarming death machines into YOUR swarming death machines.[/quote]
So what should I be aiming for when trying to get a Control Laptop exactly? There’s literally no info about it on the wiki, or in the item browser, or on the internet as a whole. All I found was a single reddit thread asking what one of the components were. What are the minimum required levels? Does the recipe get autolearned at that point? Is it strictly craft-only or can I look for it somewhere?
I still don’t understand what the difference between “hard health” and regular HP is. How can you tell you’re not healthy? Does the max HP decrease/increase over time or what?
Say, I start with 80HP and get hit for 20. If I’m healthy I regenerate back to 80, but if I’m not I only regenerate up to 70? Are you required to have the Self-aware trait to tell how healthy/unhealthy you are?[/quote]
You don’t NEED self-aware to know you’re healthy or unhealthy. In general if you’re healthy you’ll get little messages after sleeping saying that you feel great, and you also need significantly less sleep to get rested too, the chances of your wounds getting infected goes down quite a bit too, and the odds of getting an ambient sickness like the flu greatly diminish. Finally, you heal faster with less rest…
Now on the flipside, if you’re unhealthy you might not be getting a message, but it’s quite easy to find out whether or not you’re unhealthy. First of all you get sick much much faster than when you’re healthy, and the chances of a wound being infected also increases greatly. You’ll need more sleep every night to get rested… The biggest one of them all is that your wounds will heal slower, and if you’re unhealthy enough, they won’t heal AT ALL with rest.
So like I said, you don’t need self-aware, and i never use that trait since I find it a waste of points anyways. But it’s generally very easy to get healthy even if you have a very basic survival set up going. Once you can cook your own food your health will get better and better slowly but surely… Also, herbal/dandelion tea is a massive boon in getting there since it quenches, gives enjoyment, and it’s healthy AF.
And just avoid foods with the ‘junk food’ trait and you’re fine. Also, drugs 'r bad, mkay!
