Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

Coolthulhu · 2016-09-15T12:39:54.000Z

DG123:

There’s something oddly rapey about all of this.

They’re Barbie dolls underneath. Evidenced by them having no need for bodily waste excretion and breeding and no one commenting on nudity.

SpadeDraco · 2016-09-15T16:42:53.000Z

What’s this Desert_Test map thing. And why does it only randomly appear as an option every 5 or 6 builds?

Coolthulhu · 2016-09-15T16:58:11.000Z

SpadeDraco:

What’s this Desert_Test map thing. And why does it only randomly appear as an option every 5 or 6 builds?

A mapgen setting that makes it generate deserts instead of fields, forests and swamps.
It disappears due to bugs sometimes, but nowadays it should always be there as an option.

Rana · 2016-09-16T18:59:27.000Z

Hello there again.

What actually “Align up and down stairs” option for? On the description say “If true, downstairs will be placed directly above upstairs, even if this results in uglier maps.” Isn’t that how stairs work without that option?

Thanks before.

Coolthulhu · 2016-09-16T20:10:23.000Z

Rana:

What actually “Align up and down stairs” option for? On the description say “If true, downstairs will be placed directly above upstairs, even if this results in uglier maps.” Isn’t that how stairs work without that option?

It’s a technical thing that only matters if you’re playing with Z-levels.
If it’s off, there will be a “soft” version of this option: mapgen will try to place stairs on the same x/y coords, but bail out if it fails (for example, a wall is there on one level). If true, it will do anything short of knocking down a wall to align the stairs.

When stairs are unaligned (they typically are), going through them teleports you on x/y. This is not noticeable in many cases, but makes zombie senses go all wonky. It’s easy to notice if you’re hearing a lot of loud sounds or making sounds before you go up/down. It’s a big obstacle to sane z-levels.

pisskop · 2016-09-17T00:11:24.000Z

Just saying I rather like the new volume mechanic.

Profugo_Barbatus · 2016-09-17T00:56:50.000Z

pisskop:

Just saying I rather like the new volume mechanic.

Is there another new one, or is it the one where things are tracked in mL? I’m still running an old experimental (5300), waiting fer something to pop up to catch my eye.

pisskop · 2016-09-17T00:58:10.000Z

mL.

It lets things be less than 1 volume.

X-PLODE · 2016-09-17T02:58:16.000Z

I think mL confuses anglo’s.

Don’t they use fluid ounces, and aren’t those ounces different in the UK and USA?

TheWumpus · 2016-09-17T03:46:34.000Z

[quote=“X-PLODE, post:15629, topic:42”]I think mL confuses anglo’s.

Don’t they use fluid ounces, and aren’t those ounces different in the UK and USA?[/quote]

Fluid ounces != dry ounces

And as far as I know the only difference is between the standard and imperial pint. A standard pint is 16 ounces, an imperial is 20. That’s fluid ounces. Not dry ounces.

And for volume (for storage purposes) us SAE patriots describe things in cubic inches.

I really wish we’d just go metric already. I’d only have to own half as many tools.

DG123 · 2016-09-17T10:56:05.000Z

[quote=“X-PLODE, post:15629, topic:42”]I think mL confuses anglo’s.

Don’t they use fluid ounces, and aren’t those ounces different in the UK and USA?[/quote]

As a British person I consider anyone who doesn’t use ml and litres etc to be a very strange individual.

Ounces are for crazy people.

survivornaginata · 2016-09-17T18:49:03.000Z

Has something changed regarding npcs agressivity?in two last gameс i got blasted in first week by rifle/pistol carrying npc which thretened me to drop wespon and get out of there whcih i complied to be immidiately gunned down.i would let them rob me-no problem but armed npc popping in first days with hostile intent and gun seem like deathc sentence with no possibility of positive outcome.i also play on 0.15 npc spawn so i gueess without disbling npc i would have to pray to rng goods to not encounter gun welding npc in first days.

StopSignal · 2016-09-17T18:50:52.000Z

survivornaginata:

Has something changed regarding npcs agressivity?in two last gameс i got blasted in first week by rifle/pistol carrying npc which thretened me to drop wespon and get out of there whcih i complied to be immidiately gunned down.i would let them rob me-no problem but armed npc popping in first days with hostile intent and gun seem like deathc sentence with no possibility of positive outcome.i also play on 0.15 npc spawn so i gueess without disbling npc i would have to pray to rng goods to not encounter gun welding npc in first days.

Hmnm, you must be having a really bad streak. Sorry! But they are usually quite nice.

survivornaginata · 2016-09-17T18:55:12.000Z

StopSignal:

Hmnm, you must be having a really bad streak. Sorry! But they are usually quite nice.

just got one armed with shotgun to join me.man i was scared.but i remebmer before that npc gernarally thretened to leave area or robbed never i had experience of being coldly gunned down after complying.i know that you should listen to man with gun…at least till you get vehicle or power armor;)

Findulidas · 2016-09-18T17:12:54.000Z

survivornaginata:

just got one armed with shotgun to join me.man i was scared.but i remebmer before that npc gernarally thretened to leave area or robbed never i had experience of being coldly gunned down after complying.i know that you should listen to man with gun…at least till you get vehicle or power armor;)

I dont trust any npcs in this game that arent already part of an organization. I usually gun them down if they come at me armed. Pneumatic bolt driver shoots a bolt in thier skulls.

Midaychi · 2016-09-18T23:37:06.000Z

How do you transport whiskey barrels?
Is the only way to literally adv inventory drag it to where you want to go?

Profugo_Barbatus · 2016-09-19T00:20:40.000Z

[quote=“Midaychi, post:15636, topic:42”]How do you transport whiskey barrels?
Is the only way to literally adv inventory drag it to where you want to go?[/quote]

I just picked it up, put it into my car. and then I racked up a good thirty pain moving it into my base later.

Worth it though. I’ve got booze through the rest of the apocalypse.

Shopkeeper · 2016-09-19T03:33:07.000Z

Yeah, if you aren’t strong enough to deadlift carry it, advanced inventorying to a car and back to base from there is your only option.

Taberone · 2016-09-19T05:15:12.000Z

Is it supposed to take me a long time to wield even a plastic water bottle? The wielding description always seems to mention a long time if the item is anything larger than a lighter/matchbook, ranging from water bottles to massive tacticool handcannons to the Barrett M107.

vulpes133 · 2016-09-19T05:42:21.000Z

Is there any way to make the inventory always show my volume in mL rather than full Liters. I like being able to see how much I’m actually holding, that way I’m not having to drop small item after small item before finding out just how much or how little I’m over. I prefered knowing the exact amount I was holding, but I can’t see an option to change that back around.