Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

system · 2016-02-06T23:01:15.000Z

Arek_PL:

[quote=“indigorain, post:13365, topic:42”]Dairy products spoil pretty quickly. After five days, or so, I have never found milk short of the powdered and condensed milk. Can you milk cows? Do you just go up an apply a steel jerrycan to one? Is there some other way of obtaining milk, such as using cattle mutagen on yeast and dumping them in a vat to get them to produce milk?

try powdering rotten milk[/quote]

Right, okay. But doesn’t the milk completely decompose after a period of time? Like, a year later, I won’t be finding gallon jugs of rotten milk, is that correct?

Fishchip · 2016-02-07T00:19:39.000Z

OK, so I just very surprisingly hacked a tank drone to death with a wakizashi. I now have this big lumbering corpse sitting in the military truck I’m about to hijack. =) How do I disassemble this tank drone? I can’t seem to work it out and it has some juicy bits inside I want to strip. It’s too heavy to pick up to disassemble from inventory.

TheFlame52 · 2016-02-07T00:21:10.000Z

Use the butcher menu. Be warned, disassembling it takes like a whole day.

Fishchip · 2016-02-07T00:58:39.000Z

Hmm, I tried butcher but out of 120mm HEAT round, spring and the drone on the tile (which was inside the vehicle), it only let me butcher the spring. I probably need a soldering iron or something, don’t I.

FrankyPlaysGames · 2016-02-07T01:34:17.000Z

Fishchip:

Hmm, I tried butcher but out of 120mm HEAT round, spring and the drone on the tile (which was inside the vehicle), it only let me butcher the spring. I probably need a soldering iron or something, don’t I.

To move the corpse you can use the inventory management menu and move it tile by tile.
Don’t remember the default key, though.

pisskop · 2016-02-07T01:37:33.000Z

Foreward slash is advanced inventory management

Best get it somewhere where wild critters wont bother you. Or zombies.

Tawarochir · 2016-02-07T04:08:14.000Z

There any way to drag around zombie slaves with you? I love the concept but as it is they’re not much use.

pisskop · 2016-02-07T04:16:06.000Z

you can ‘displace’ them and ‘push’ them (although they reserve the right to attempt to resist) but otherwise they just slowly ‘drift’ in your general direction. you cam strap a bag to them for free storage but Id limit it to stuff you dont need right away. Pipes, or scrap, or spare guns.

And you can chain them up to stay put and can kill them for 3 free pheremones

JonnyBlack · 2016-02-07T04:38:56.000Z

Did they bump Mi-Go spawn rates recently? I don’t mind too much as my characters usually start fairly combat capable, but I only used to see them once in awhile but I seem to run into them more than moose since I updated two nights ago.

BeerBeer · 2016-02-07T10:01:01.000Z

Fishchip:

OK, so I just very surprisingly hacked a tank drone to death with a wakizashi. I now have this big lumbering corpse sitting in the military truck I’m about to hijack. =) How do I disassemble this tank drone? I can’t seem to work it out and it has some juicy bits inside I want to strip. It’s too heavy to pick up to disassemble from inventory.

Stand over the tank drone remains
Hit ‘B’, which is default for cut/butcher/disassembly items at your feet
Have a soldering iron (or a screwdriver?) or Integrated Toolset CBM. Possibly nearby welding rig will work, too. Personally I vouch for the Toolset.
Tank drone’s disassembly takes ~16 hours (iirc), so do it at a safe location. Don’t forget to eat and drink first!

pisskop · 2016-02-07T23:37:49.000Z

Tip of the Day: New characters with a car and the means should install a tank of water on the car. Even a small tank (32 water units) will ‘clean’ the infection from the water, making it safe to drink if you siphon it into bottles.

system · 2016-02-08T04:36:53.000Z

JonnyBlack:

Did they bump Mi-Go spawn rates recently? I don’t mind too much as my characters usually start fairly combat capable, but I only used to see them once in awhile but I seem to run into them more than moose since I updated two nights ago.

I mostly encounter Mi-Go’s with the anomaly of kreck and dead humans. Anomalies are pretty common (mine fields, dead bodies, crash sites, etc.). It could be just the luck of the draw.

Arek_PL · 2016-02-08T17:09:11.000Z

during winter without rain i ran out of water to drink and i was away from base so i tried to drink staright from river (because i had food but no water) and i didnt started to puke everywhere what was suprising for me

pisskop · 2016-02-08T19:45:42.000Z

Arek_PL:

during winter without rain i ran out of water to drink and i was away from base so i tried to drink staright from river (because i had food but no water) and i didnt started to puke everywhere what was suprising for me

Shallow and deep water carry ‘chances’ of poisoning, just as toilet water does.

The difference is that toilet water has like an 80% contamination rate, whereas iirc shallow and deep waters have 35% and 25% respectively

pisskop · 2016-02-08T19:46:19.000Z

Can somebody break down how to use the E-Tablets? I cant use USBs on it. So what do I use? What purpose is it for? Why should I care about them?

Litppunk · 2016-02-08T19:52:40.000Z

I have not used them yet either, but my understanding is that you use the USB’s that have various helpfull programs for hacking and such on them(not all do as I understand it) then use them for whatever nefarious programs you have on them, though iirc they can also function as a flashlight, and entertainment without any additional programs

BeerBeer · 2016-02-08T20:57:02.000Z

pisskop:

Can somebody break down how to use the E-Tablets? I cant use USBs on it. So what do I use? What purpose is it for? Why should I care about them?

The trick lies in activating the tablet! And not the media.

E-tablets are used to check and download stuff from SD-memory cards. USB-sticks have no function with E-tablets whatsoever AFAIK. Simply have SD-memory cards in inventory and 'a’ctivate the E-tablet. I recommend wielding the tablet for quick repeated successive use.

Also, you can also take photographs of monsters, transfer the data to an SD-card, and then to the tablet. Zombie photography is a potential hobby. Photograph ALL the zombie types. I’m unaware if the photos serve any meaningful function.

stk2008 · 2016-02-08T21:40:59.000Z

How cool would it be to take photo of monster then when u view it a window pops up and u see a ascii drawn monster ofnwhat ever type monster u took pic of :).

Some of the ascii drawing ive seen are awesome

Arek_PL · 2016-02-09T00:49:21.000Z

[quote=“stk2008, post:13398, topic:42”]How cool would it be to take photo of monster then when u view it a window pops up and u see a ascii drawn monster ofnwhat ever type monster u took pic of :).

Some of the ascii drawing ive seen are awesome[/quote]
i preffer to leave looking of monsters to imagination

Tawarochir · 2016-02-09T01:03:16.000Z

How the hell do I kill a shoggoth?

EDIT: Never mind.

[quote=“Old Man Henderson”]“This is Henderson. Found out what the nasties are weak against.”
“What’s that?”
“Point blank annihilation.”[/quote]
(i.e. I ran over the ugly poodle with my car)