# Using Black Road - Can't escape from the shelter?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [December 1, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334 "2013-12-01T20:07:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@ZombiLoin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/ZombiLoin)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/1 "2013-12-01T20:07:46Z")
Zombie dogs always catch up to me and fuck me over. Any tips?
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### Author:  [@Taraq](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Taraq)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2013, 8:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/2 "2013-12-01T20:08:50Z")
Bush kite them or use a bow.
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### Author:  [@Bonevomit](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bonevomit)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2013, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/3 "2013-12-01T20:21:19Z")
As soon as the zombies break out the windows grab the heavy stick.
Then run over to the lockers nearby and smash one, this will give you a pipe, your first weapon.
Now, if you have time head downstairs into the basement and kill the zombies as they walk about randomly below.
If you cant do that run away from the shelter as far as you can. This will weed out the dogs. Kill them with the pipe individually and then come back to the shelter and kill everything else for the loot.
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### Author:  [@DerpyBilbo](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DerpyBilbo)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2013, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/4 "2013-12-01T22:20:54Z")
I just found a zombie hulk in my basement, I can’t belive I survived.
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### Author:  [@Protester](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Protester)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/5 "2013-12-01T23:15:27Z")
I just ducked into the basement, ran a full circle down there, ran back up and dove out a window into a nearby river.
Mr. Shower victim managed to finish his bath.
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### Author:  [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/6 "2013-12-02T00:45:13Z")
what exactly is black road and what does it do?
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### Author:  [@infectedmochi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/infectedmochi)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/7 "2013-12-02T01:00:30Z")
It’s an option that spawns zombies around your starting shelter, you know, for added challenge.
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### Author:  [@HunterAlpha1](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/HunterAlpha1)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 1:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/8 "2013-12-02T01:51:40Z")
does it also increase the amount of equipment that spawns in the basement?
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### Author:  [@Rayko](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rayko)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/9 "2013-12-02T02:01:28Z")
> It's an option that spawns zombies around your starting shelter, you know, for added challenge.
If I recall correctly, spawn in initial shelter was considered as a bug.
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### Author:  [@Taraq](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Taraq)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2013, 2:07am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/using-black-road-cant-escape-from-the-shelter/4334/10 "2013-12-02T02:07:48Z")
> [@HunterAlpha1](#):
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> does it also increase the amount of equipment that spawns in the basement?
Some basements have much more loot than normal ones, these basements are usually spawned with zombies in them. IIRC, black road does not influence this affect, it’s totally random.