Tips, Tricks, and Newb Questions!

Shadow86 · 2016-11-24T00:56:20.000Z

DeclanFrost:

Isn’t there a bug in current experimentals that prevents multiple engines from being used simultaneously?

There is. I just tried installing a foot crank on my dead RV in an attempt to charge the battery, and even though I could activate the crank once, once I stopped “driving” I could never select it again and the game would complain about the V6 engine not having enough battery charges to start up.

When selecting the active engine, I got shown something like this:

[ x ] V6 engine
[ x ] foot crank
(cancel option)

Nibelung44 · 2016-11-24T07:39:35.000Z

Is the armor screen not working as in previous experimentals? I can’t now add even a shirt to a friendly NPC which has spare volume and weight capacity. I can select the shirt in my inventory, but then the NPC says he can’t wear that?

EDIT: the NPC is controled by me but is with trust : don’t care about me. I guess that’s the issue! How do I raise his trust, he has no mission to propose. Time will do?

How do you add armors or clothes to friendly NPC now?

Also, is this a known issue that stripping a NPC of all his/her clothes is a dead end? Has he has now 0/0 capacity, he won’t accept anything, even a pouch, so you are stuck. I had to revert to a previous save.

Shadow86 · 2016-11-25T02:47:01.000Z

Yeah, I’m not sure how to give NPCs new clothes and have them wear them if they’ve hit their limit of carrying capacity.

I want to increase my newfound buddy’s capacity, but they won’t take anything that would increase it because they can’t hold it. And it seems like taking items from them might prove a dead end if they won’t accept any returns.

PS: Yeah, I just took the girl’s crossbow and bolts, and now she somehow can’t accept them back due to lack of volume capacity. Definitely borked.

DeclanFrost · 2016-11-25T03:15:16.000Z

[quote=“Shadow86, post:16243, topic:42”]Yeah, I’m not sure how to give NPCs new clothes and have them wear them if they’ve hit their limit of carrying capacity.

I want to increase my newfound buddy’s capacity, but they won’t take anything that would increase it because they can’t hold it. And it seems like taking items from them might prove a dead end if they won’t accept any returns.

PS: Yeah, I just took the girl’s crossbow and bolts, and now she somehow can’t accept them back due to lack of volume capacity. Definitely borked.[/quote]
Everything related to NPC’s and factions is currently borked. Best just to come back in a year for more stable content. Unless you like playing solo, as there’s still a lot in Cat a to see.

Shadow86 · 2016-11-25T12:08:04.000Z

DeclanFrost:

Everything related to NPC’s and factions is currently borked. Best just to come back in a year for more stable content. Unless you like playing solo, as there’s still a lot in Cat a to see.

Another year? NPCs were broken a year ago, as far as I know.

Shouldn’t fixing broken features take priority over the constant addition of detail and new ones?

Sounds like the software company I work at, except here we’re not competing with anyone, so it makes even less sense.

Nibelung44 · 2016-11-25T13:17:09.000Z

No, I can’t say they are completely broken. Just a bit buggy and rough around the edges. They sometime help greatly but you have to nurture them. And they are stupid like a concrete block.

Shadow86 · 2016-11-25T13:45:43.000Z

Not entirely broken, but they’re severely diminished if their inventory management is non-functional. There seems to be no return from the inexorable decay of their clothing and general gear.

And how else would you nurture an NPC if you can’t maintain nor improve their equipment?

Coolthulhu · 2016-11-25T13:47:01.000Z

DeclanFrost:

Everything related to NPC’s and factions is currently borked. Best just to come back in a year for more stable content. Unless you like playing solo, as there’s still a lot in Cat a to see.

Factions are broken, but NPCs are usable already. Crude and suicidally courageous, but they work well with spears.

Shadow86:

[quote=“DeclanFrost, post:16244, topic:42”]Everything related to NPC’s and factions is currently borked. Best just to come back in a year for more stable content. Unless you like playing solo, as there’s still a lot in Cat a to see.

Another year? NPCs were broken a year ago, as far as I know.

Shouldn’t fixing broken features take priority over the constant addition of detail and new ones?[/quote]

Fixing NPCs is mostly adding features. Most of the time they aren’t broken because of a bug (though recently it was - or is - the case), but because they never had sensible AI implemented, making them suicidal and dumb. For example, they are “broken” because they charge at hulks and then require explicit “stop attacking anything” order to disengage.

I’m trying to nudge the development in the direction of getting that stable version out, but I don’t have enough time to do it all by myself and it doesn’t look like I’m good enough at diplomacy to get enough people to help.

DeclanFrost · 2016-11-25T13:48:34.000Z

[quote=“Shadow86, post:16247, topic:42”]Not entirely broken, but they’re severely diminished if their inventory management is non-functional. There seems to be no return from the inexorable decay of their clothing and general gear.

And how else would you nurture an NPC if you can’t maintain nor improve their equipment?[/quote]

Debug man. All about them debugs.

proxiehunter · 2016-11-25T18:06:59.000Z

Nibelung44:

No, I can’t say they are completely broken. Just a bit buggy and rough around the edges. They sometime help greatly but you have to nurture them. And they are stupid like a concrete block.

Last time I took a group of NPC’s on a lab raid one of them kept walking through dissectors. Sometimes the same dissector repeatedly. What I’m saying is that might be a little insulting to concrete blocks, I think most of them would have enough sense not to do that.

Coolthulhu · 2016-11-25T19:12:10.000Z

proxiehunter:

Last time I took a group of NPC’s on a lab raid one of them kept walking through dissectors. Sometimes the same dissector repeatedly.

That’s a bug then. They seem to have forgotten that they are supposed to avoid all traps (even those they don’t see).

pisskop · 2016-11-25T19:36:41.000Z

What faction are npcs, regarding monster factions?

I want to, say, make a turret that is friendly to npcs. how do?

Kadian · 2016-11-25T19:44:44.000Z

[quote=“pisskop, post:16252, topic:42”]What faction are npcs, regarding monster factions?

I want to, say, make a turret that is friendly to npcs. how do?[/quote]

Isn’t there a domestic faction, for pigs, cows, dogs, cats…Those usually don’t attack humans unless provoked, right?

pisskop · 2016-11-25T19:50:03.000Z

It would in theory turn hostile to those hostile to the NPCs and would also not have to share love for the PC as well

Infotater · 2016-11-25T22:56:19.000Z

Are laser rifles purely a lab thing, or can they be found in bunkers as well?

pisskop · 2016-11-25T23:41:01.000Z

They can be found on scientists and soldiers on rare occassions.

But yes, both

John_Candlebury · 2016-11-26T01:42:03.000Z

[quote=“pisskop, post:16252, topic:42”]What faction are npcs, regarding monster factions?

I want to, say, make a turret that is friendly to npcs. how do?[/quote]

You can spawn them friendly through mapgen.
There’s an example in mapgen-test.json:

"monster": { "Y": { "monster": "mon_deer", "friendly": true, "name": "THE DEER" } ]

EDIT: No wait, this doesn’t do what you want.

hobophobic · 2016-11-26T04:25:07.000Z

Are there any craftable varieties of Prussian Blue or Potassium Iodide? Radiation is a constant threat in PK’s mod these days, and I’m having trouble finding the standard lootables…

IcedPee · 2016-11-26T05:52:26.000Z

hobophobic:

Are there any craftable varieties of Prussian Blue or Potassium Iodide? Radiation is a constant threat in PK’s mod these days, and I’m having trouble finding the standard lootables…

Both can be crafted with high cooking (6 for potassium iodide, 7 for prussian blue) and 1 first aid skill. You’ll also need to find one of the higher-end chemistry books. Fortunately both of them use pretty common materials, the most difficult ingredient is probably quicklime for prussian blue.

pisskop · 2016-11-26T11:03:19.000Z

hobophobic:

Are there any craftable varieties of Prussian Blue or Potassium Iodide? Radiation is a constant threat in PK’s mod these days, and I’m having trouble finding the standard lootables…

Ive been meaning to add a low-cost solution to rads. Low effective too, butt…

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