Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

[Coolthulhu]

I noticed a new color on item names, a darker grey. What does it represent?

Inedible
As in, you can’t even try to eat it

[Mcrone]

I recently had the pleasure of rediscovering the fungal happy fun times, I’m a fairly new character, late early game, early mid game. What is the best way to deal with the fungal spread? Will it rapidly spread if I do nothing to combat it? Will killing the Fungal bloom stop the spread? how do I destroy the fungal infected tiles? and is wearing a gas mask protection enough versus fungal creatures, to prevent infection?

Just need some general info on dealing with the fungi.

[pisskop]

fungii and the creep of it terraforming only spreads if you are close by.
the reality bubble is ~145 tiles diameter, 3 overmap tiles on any side of you

Fungi will spread if you let them, over the course of a season they will cover most if not everything.

How they spread is by releasing spores.

• spores infect NPCs/PC with a 'sickness" that is fatal if left untreated. they instantly convert most monsters to a fungus critter if the spore crashes into them. if they are not allowed to convert for any reason the spores does heavy damage to them instead.

-Spores will land after a time.
-if they hit uninfected terrain they will infect it

• if they hit terrain that cant be infected they pop harmlessly
  -if they hit infected terrain they spawn a baby fungaloid. that will eventually grow up and make spores.

-the more infected an area is, the faster they grow

Killing the tower/spire/giantblossom will kill local fungus, but if they have escaped outside the invisible radius of influence of the ‘Queen’ they wont.

Funguses are almost completely nonhostile. fungal ants are nonhostile. fungal zombies are hostile but blind. fungal boomers can see you though. remind me to see if i fixed that

if you are using a mod that adds funguses (basically mine) they might be more frisky, but fungus strategy is to spread not kill hosts and waste time growing weapons instead of spreading

[Aesop]

Got ninja’d by pk. Gonna post anyway. People can correct anything I might have gotten wrong.

Environmental protection on every body part. A full survivor set, clean suit + gas mask, ANBC suit, etc. is what you’re looking for. If those spores find exposed skin they burrow in and before long you’ve got mushroom babies. You can get by without if you have antifungal drugs.

The best way to deal with fungal tiles and most fungal creatures is fire. Craft a simple flamethrower if you don’t have a real one already. My understanding of blooms is that they’ll continue to spawn spores within the reality bubble for as long as their spire/tower exists. Destroying the fungal spire or tower in the center won’t stop the spread immediately, but it starts a spawn pool for the area that can eventually deplete.

The spires and towers themselves can’t be burned down with fire. They have to be destroyed by direct means. Melee, explosives, heavy ordinance. Honestly as a new character moving away might be the easiest option. Mycus make bad neighbors. They really trash the property value when they move into the neighborhood, and they spread like wildfire whenever you’re in the reality bubble.

[Rezalex]

I’m having an odd issues with notes on the map. I can’t erase them… I mean, I can delete all but the last letter of the note and that works fine, but I can’t get the note off of the map after I don’t want it anymore. I do have the most recent experimental version, so I am wondering if that is it or is there something I don’t know about causing it?

[pisskop]

D is for delete

Press D without editting the map. Highlight the tile the note is one and press capital D

[Rezalex]

Ah, so that is how it is SUPPOSED to be done I guess. Thanks a lot!

[COS_Cecillian]

Does anyone have any tips on vehicle construction, namely how to start? I have all the plans thought out, but I can never find a military vehicle that is not a total wreck or surrounded by a horde. Should I try and clear out the zombies in the immediate area and then start construction, or sneak in at nightfall and attempt something then?

[pisskop]

{
“type” : “recipe”,
“result”: “bomblet_stun”,
“note”: “crafted stun bomblets”,
“category”: “CC_AMMO”,
“subcategory”: “CSC_AMMO_BULLETS”,
“skill_used”: “fabrication”,
“skills_required”: [ “gun”, 3, “cooking”, 5 ],
“difficulty”: 7,
“time”: 50000,
“reversible”: false,
“autolearn”: false,
“book_learn”: [[“manual_launcher” , 5 ] , [ “recipe_labchem”, 6 ] , [ “textbook_anarch”, 6, “” ]],
“qualities” : [
{“id”:“SCREW”,“level”:1,“amount”:1}
],
“tools”: [
[[ “soldering_iron”, 200 ], [“large_repairkit”, 20], [“small_repairkit”, 40]]
],
“components”: [
[[ “lgpistol_primer”, 4 ]],
[[ “gunpowder”, 100 ], [ “oxy_powder”, 80 ]],
[[ “incendiary”, 40 ], [ “bismuth”, 80 ]],
[[ “lead”, 80 ], [ “gold_small”, 80 ], [ “silver_small”, 80 ], [ “tin”, 80 ], [ “solder_wire”, 80 ]],
[[ “bomblet_casing”, 4 ]]
]
}

{
“type” : “recipe”,
“result”: “bomblet_shock”,
“note”: “crafted shock bomblets”,
“category”: “CC_AMMO”,
“subcategory”: “CSC_AMMO_BULLETS”,
“skill_used”: “fabrication”,
“skills_required”: [ “gun”, 5, “electronics”, 5 ],
“difficulty”: 7,
“time”: 50000,
“reversible”: false,
“autolearn”: false,
“book_learn”: [[“manual_launcher” , 6 ], [ “recipe_lab_elec”, 6, “” ], [ “textbook_anarch”, 8 ]],
“qualities” : [
{“id”:“SCREW_FINE”,“level”:1,“amount”:1}
],
“tools”: [
[[ “soldering_iron”, 80 ]],
[[ “toolset”, 80 ]]
],
“components”: [
[[ “gunpowder”, 80 ]],
[[ “amplifier”, 4 ]],
[[ “circuit”, 4 ]],
[[“e_scrap”, 8], [“transponder”, 1]],
[[ “spess_chunk”, 4 ]],
[[ “gold_small”, 120 ], [ “silver_small”, 120 ], [ “bismuth”, 120 ]],
[[ “bomblet_casing”, 4 ]]
]
}

,{
“type” : “recipe”,
“result”: “bomblet_casing”,
“note”: “crafted bomblet cases”,
“category”: “CC_AMMO”,
“subcategory”: “CSC_AMMO_COMPONENTS”,
“skill_used”: “fabrication”,
“skills_required”: [ “gun”, 2 ],
“difficulty”: 4,
“time”: 150000,
“reversible”: false,
“autolearn”: true,
“book_learn”: [[“manual_launcher” , 3 ]],
“qualities” : [
{“id”:“BOIL”,“level”:2,“amount”:1},
{“id”:“SCREW_FINE”,“level”:1,“amount”:1}
],
“tools”: [
[[ “hotplate”, 40 ], [ “toolset”, 40 ], [ “fire”, -1 ], [ “char_smoker”, 10 ]],
[[“mold_plastic”, -1]]
],
“components”: [
[[ “plastic_chunk”, 10 ]],
[[ “scrap”, 10 ]]
]
}

Im wondering if those requirements for those recipes are reasonable. The bomblets are effective, but not necessarily game breaking.

The case is supposed to be made in units of 10, the bomblets in 4.

The ‘spess_plastic’ is rare plastic.

[Rezalex]

Does anyone have any tips on vehicle construction, namely how to start? I have all the plans thought out, but I can never find a military vehicle that is not a total wreck or surrounded by a horde. Should I try and clear out the zombies in the immediate area and then start construction, or sneak in at nightfall and attempt something then?

Any form of construction will create a good amount of noise, so if there are zombies nearby they’ll be attracted. I’d at least clear out the area around the vehicle you are trying to work on. As for finding a vehicle that is in good shape well… pray that you have the luck.

[Litppunk]

Best bet is probably going to be to practice your skills up to lvl 2 or so making makeshift lockpicks and using them, makeshift crowbar etc… from the start, then read/ work your skill up from there till you can move functioning parts between vehicles untill you have a working Frankin-car.

[COS_Cecillian]

I already have a respectable mechanics of 12. My save deleted my old armored truck after I updated it to a newer experimental after not playing for a while, so I’m getting a fresh start. I’ll try what you guys said, but I could also attempt a loud-style escape, running in with guns a blazing and gasoline, filling up the vehicle, then driving it to a safe spot for construction.

[Pumbletron]

My question is, do I really need to destroy fungus infestations? If I protect myself from spores, can’t we co-exist peacefully?

[pisskop]

yes and no.

fungus are largely nonhostile but a drain on your processing.

waiting/sleeping can be a pain with 500 spores and fungaloids in the bubble
so can driving thru them.
so can npc companions.

but if you are industrious enough you can eventually even join the fungus

[mco]

Im wondering if those requirements for those recipes are reasonable.

I tested your bomblets in debug mode, while frag and incendiary ones are quite powerful, i would never waste 100 gunpowder on something non-lethal.

[woofinator]

So what do you guys do if you wanna learn some recipes from a book, but your intelligence cap prevents you from learning the recipes because your skill level goes down before you can progress in that skill from reading? I’m trying to learn some recipes from the Ancient Japanese Swordmaking book but my fabricating is hovering at and under 10. Do you just wait for the skill to go down and then read when you’ll be able to read for a good bit? Take some drugs? Give up entirely on your dreams of one-upping Tom Cruise in terms of who was REALLY the last Samurai?

[MrQwerty]

So what do you guys do if you wanna learn some recipes from a book, but your intelligence cap prevents you from learning the recipes because your skill level goes down before you can progress in that skill from reading? I’m trying to learn some recipes from the Ancient Japanese Swordmaking book but my fabricating is hovering at and under 10. Do you just wait for the skill to go down and then read when you’ll be able to read for a good bit? Take some drugs? Give up entirely on your dreams of one-upping Tom Cruise in terms of who was REALLY the last Samurai?

I turn off skill rust completely - too much tedium.

[survivornaginata]

So what do you guys do if you wanna learn some recipes from a book, but your intelligence cap prevents you from learning the recipes because your skill level goes down before you can progress in that skill from reading? I’m trying to learn some recipes from the Ancient Japanese Swordmaking book but my fabricating is hovering at and under 10. Do you just wait for the skill to go down and then read when you’ll be able to read for a good bit? Take some drugs? Give up entirely on your dreams of one-upping Tom Cruise in terms of who was REALLY the last Samurai?

you dont need to learn recipe to actually make something.you just need book in your vicinity and skill.if you are looking for nodachi at lvl 10 i made it several times by studying up to 10 and starting production before my skill level regress.sometimes you fail in prodcuing it though …
But final solution is enchanced memory banks cbm which if activated stops skill degredation.

Does anyone know if npc use martial styles.I made effort to ,make my npc use unarmed weapons instead of guns and he currently at unarmed lvl 4 but as far as i can observe he dont use brawling.Is it time to just give him some decent melee weapon instead?

[Rezalex]

So what do you guys do if you wanna learn some recipes from a book, but your intelligence cap prevents you from learning the recipes because your skill level goes down before you can progress in that skill from reading? I’m trying to learn some recipes from the Ancient Japanese Swordmaking book but my fabricating is hovering at and under 10. Do you just wait for the skill to go down and then read when you’ll be able to read for a good bit? Take some drugs? Give up entirely on your dreams of one-upping Tom Cruise in terms of who was REALLY the last Samurai?

You can also change your kind of skill rust to capped in options -> debug tab. That’s more of a last-resort-you’re-completely-sick-of-it solution though. Capped is okay, but the other kinds of skill rust are not very fun to play with at the moment. In my opinion anyways.

[Mcrone]

I’m wondering what the best way to train archery quickly. I have a character that I just got into autumn, and I wish to stop using my knife spear. The problem is, I’m constrained around the starting shelter with two medium towns that I already cleared out. There isn’t a ton of food around, and I find myself often having to waste ammo on animals for meat. I want to make sure I can bow everything to death, but what is the best way to train archery skills? I also need it for the fugal infections that box me in on all sides, quite annoying.
Oh, and how do you get into gun stores? crowbar didn’t work for me.