[quote=“BeerBeer, post:16232, topic:42”]You have to have the sturdiest vehicle. That means heavy frames, heavy quarterpanels, and most importantly, military composite armor, which you can salvage from relevant vehicles. Even then it’s not a cakewalk. You absolutely have to have a vehicle welding rig installed to repair the damages afterwards. I would recommend having the Vehicle Additions mod enabled. Because it contains a vehicle part called ‘shredder’. You install 1-5 of them to your car front. They’ll chew zombies to bits even at low speeds, and ESPECIALLY at low speeds, which is important.
And you can’t just drive through the hordes of zombies with complete disregard. You have to avoid the bigger groups. Also going slowly helps (10-30mph). Your vehicle will take a beating and that’s part of the business. Don’t keep critical parts in the front. Relocate your engines, fuel tanks and such to the back and center. Also know that not all zombies are equally capable of scrapping your vehicle. It’s the hulks and brutes you have to watch out for. The rest can’t really damage the military composite. You can basically sleep inside an armored car that’s surrounded by zombie children or dogs… IF you have hearing protection to make yourself deaf.
The boom crane is a bitch to figure out.
- First you need to craft a “steel boom”, and that requires a book recipe. You can also supposedly scavenge the part from some farm vehicle, called Excavator (saw it in the game files).
- Then you have to build a separate frame, and you’ll install the crane on THAT…
- …except not ON the frame but on an empty square next to the frame.
“Bottle jack” is also your friend, unless its capabilites aren’t enough for you.
Automated turrets are more a thing in the Vehicle Additions mod. You can still get a lot of destruction done with manual turrets. You just have to drive, stop, fire, repeat. Install turret on a spot that you can stand on. Make sure you’re not wielding anything. Then just stand on the same tile and hit ‘f’ to fire. 'E’xamine the turret to load/unload it. Unload all turrets you see in other vehicles in your travels to get a ton of ammo.[/quote]
Thanks for the tips. Obvious as they may be, they still help as I’m a noob when in comes to vehicular survival. However, I won’t be making the noobmobile 2.0 any time soon as all my old lategame chars are dead. Serves me right for not playing for a month.
Actual newb question: how do zslaves work? I saw the option to “create zombie slave” in the late Frosty Noob’s tailor’s kit menu.
Also, is there a thread or something to see what experimental builds are less buggy/crashy and more stable?
