Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

system · 2013-08-27T22:29:31.000Z

KA101:

[quote=“ajwilli1, post:1498, topic:42”][quote=“Dapper Danielle, post:1495, topic:42”]I seem to be having an odd problem with a vehicle of mine. I found a driveable car in town and claimed it, learned how to drive after running over hundreds of squirrels, etc. etc. Anyway later on, my character died. When I rediscovered the car, it no longer allows me to drive it. I go to move into the driver seat and it gives me a message in red text saying something about the passenger already being in the seat or something to that effect. Nothing is damaged or otherwise wrong with it. What a shame, I wanted to be a VW bug-driving road warrior

The fix, call the Ghostbusters to get rid of that dead passenger for you.[/quote]

Won’t work. Rivet’s unlicensed nuclear accelerators got rejected for mainline. :-([/quote]

Oh god no, how we will bust the apocalypse now!

Dapper_Danielle · 2013-08-27T22:53:25.000Z

Thanks for the help guys. Unfortunately I didn’t get to test the ghost corpse in the seat thing. I ran into it with the semi I found and pushed it about twenty tiles into a forest with a ton of webs all over lol. I highly doubt anything good can come from that place.

system · 2013-08-27T22:56:13.000Z

Spider meat, its great for summer pool parties!

shadenight123 · 2013-08-27T22:56:18.000Z

Where do you find a welder?
I need those brazier working, or else light will be a problem hence-forth…what with the smoke and all.
(Or otherwise: getting lights in the night to Read Books?)

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-08-27T22:58:43.000Z

shadenight123:

Where do you find a welder?

Hardware stores, Public works and Garages.

John_Candlebury · 2013-08-27T23:01:35.000Z

[quote=“shadenight123, post:1504, topic:42”]Where do you find a welder?
I need those brazier working, or else light will be a problem hence-forth…what with the smoke and all.
(Or otherwise: getting lights in the night to Read Books?)[/quote]

You could build a stone fireplace or dig pits if you really want to get easy light

To read in the night you can use the starting shelter terminal (it produces enough light to read by). I use a modified shopping cart that has headlights and that I drag everywhere I go

Sheb · 2013-08-28T08:03:42.000Z

Or just use lightstrip? Easy to craft, last forever.

HeadWar · 2013-08-28T10:12:45.000Z

[quote=“shadenight123, post:1504, topic:42”]Where do you find a welder?
I need those brazier working, or else light will be a problem hence-forth…what with the smoke and all.
(Or otherwise: getting lights in the night to Read Books?)[/quote]
Brazier doesn’t prevent smoke. (At least not in the stable version.)

Sheb · 2013-08-28T10:24:16.000Z

I’d suggest making a rock fireplace. Just activate autopickup for rocks until you get 40 of them (or clear some rubbles). Much more stylish.

Iosyn · 2013-08-28T10:45:50.000Z

Yeah, braziers create crazy amounts of smoke from only a single skewer right now.
None of it seems to be thick though, so as long as you’re wearing a dust or filter mask you should be fine.

Anyway, real men build a wood stove. Out of a gas tank, a pipe and some other stuff. BBQ like a boss.

DG123 · 2013-09-01T14:41:28.000Z

Hey, can anyone explain the Pneumatic bolt driver for me?

What exactly does it fire as ammo? I mean… I assume from the name that in real life it would be some kind of nail gun thing that would fire metal bolts.

But I don’t know of any such item in game. So does it use crossbow bolts, or what?

Sheb · 2013-09-01T14:47:00.000Z

Yup, it fires crossbow bolts.

DG123 · 2013-09-01T15:04:00.000Z

Excellent. So… is there any advantage of using the pneumatic assault rifle or is the bolt driver just generally better?

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-09-01T15:32:24.000Z

DG123:

Excellent. So… is there any advantage of using the pneumatic assault rifle or is the bolt driver just generally better?

Well, with the rifle you have a low ammo cap (15) and are firing pebbles at people (which has low damage) but the rifle does have a burst fire mode. With the bolter, you are firing wooden crossbow bolts (unless you found a bunch of steel crossbow bolts or Kevin did something with craftable crossbow bolts) that do about 10 damage. The bolter does have a low ammo cap (8) unless you found a few gun mods. I like the bolter personally, because its easy to craft ammo from two by fours and looks cool in my imagination.

system · 2013-09-01T15:34:48.000Z

Bitches dunno about my precious nail rifle.

DG123 · 2013-09-01T16:11:43.000Z

Had one of those, but it took about 3 bursts to take down a zombie…

Iosyn · 2013-09-01T16:24:46.000Z

Y’know I was gonna make the bolt driver before but I thought it required metal bolts used in construction that had to date not found.

mfw they’re goddamn crossbow bolts-- and yes, I think someone was going to add some metal craftable crossbow bolts. we can only hope.

DG123 · 2013-09-01T16:30:56.000Z

I just noticed something. Maybe I’m an idiot for not noticing it sooner…

The armour values on the wiki are wrong.

The kevlar vest says it has … 22 cut protection and 4 bash protection.

It ACTUALLY has 36 bash, 72 cut.

I imagine the same applies to the protection values of the spider exoskeleton mutation. No wonder I thought it looked like crap on the wiki. Says it gives you +8 cut protection. What is it really?

And what’s with the incorrect values? Was the whole damage system overhauled?

Iosyn · 2013-09-01T16:34:05.000Z

Not sure on the spider mutation, but it might be correct.
Clothing’s always going through changes, mutations not so much.

Wiki’s outdated pretty badly.

DG123 · 2013-09-01T16:41:26.000Z

Also… does the “Still” do anything? I can’t seem to make any alcohol except cider from apples, and that doesn’t even require it.

I’m lacking a source of medicinal alcohol at the moment. Version 7.1