# What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [January 4, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47 "2013-01-04T00:21:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/21 "2013-01-14T02:09:09Z")

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> [@Vorpal](#):
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> Clearly the bear had claimed the house.

This is definitely a bug, the bear should have marked the door with urine. I’ll get on fixing this asap.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/22 "2013-01-14T02:10:49Z")

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You move to open the door, but you notice it’s covered in urine. Continue? Y/N

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**Author:** ![Vorpal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/aca169/32.png) [@Vorpal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vorpal)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/23 "2013-01-14T02:31:38Z")

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> [@Kevin Granade](#):
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> [quote=“Vorpal, post:12, topic:47”]Clearly the bear had claimed the house.

This is definitely a bug, the bear should have marked the door with urine. I’ll get on fixing this asap.[/quote]

If the ability to soak up liquids is brought in, I will be raiding bear houses for their pee and using it to hide my scent trail from the Zs.

Who needs a katana and CBMs when you have plastic bottles of bear urine?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/24 "2013-01-14T02:39:17Z")

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Then a wild male bear appeared!

ASUME THE POSITION!  
Then fake orgasm.

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**Author:** ![jimy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@jimy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jimy)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2013, 10:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/25 "2013-01-19T22:41:55Z")

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You know what is even more dangerouse than zombies?  
Wild animals…

I was doing pretty good, had a lot of loot on me and found for the first time a vehicle and they really rock. 😃  
Though it was kinda hard to get a canister for the fuel to be effectivly transported.

Anyway, I was scouting and ramming zombies in a town and prepared for looting them later when I saw a lab.  
Because I had a ID card I wanted to make this my base and went parking my new awesome car behind it.

Then those wolves appeared.  
Note: I was playing the ver from the 3. jan to avoid the insane wildlife spawn bug. It still got me I guess.  
Taking out my rifle I made it quick and was happy about the extra food.  
Then another pack appeared.  
And another.  
And another.  
Even some spiders joined the forces.

Well, I got overrun next to my vehicle and I couldn’t get in anymore…  
Really stupid way to end a fairly good run.

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**Author:** ![Vorpal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/aca169/32.png) [@Vorpal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vorpal)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/26 "2013-01-21T18:05:11Z")

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I’m not sure how it is with the fixes compared to Jan 3 version, but from what I’ve seen animal spawns can still be dependent on noise levels. Weirdly enough, wolves are attracted by gunfire. At one point I couldn’t drive my truck without most of my map filling with squirrels.

Latest version I’ve had no real problem with them. Even threw a molotov at some early enough that killed 2 and the rest ran away.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/27 "2013-01-21T18:10:18Z")

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I burned down an entire town, that should show those bears.

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**Author:** ![jimy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@jimy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/jimy)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/28 "2013-01-21T19:57:48Z")

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Bears… they are even worse than ants.  
And I hate ants. \>:(

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/29 "2013-01-21T20:02:24Z")

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Hey do burned down towns still have zombie population?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/30 "2013-01-21T21:02:23Z")

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yea, the zombie population actually originates from a point in the center of the town, burning the structures in the town down will have no effect other than killing any zombies that have spawned.

OTOH the process of burning down a building is extraordinarily noisy, so spawns are going to shoot through the roof while it’s happening.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/31 "2013-01-21T21:45:49Z")

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I was in town while it happened, and witnessed thousands of zombies dieing. I’m in a 12 house town.  
I doubt 12 houses could support 50+ zombies.

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 10:00pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/32 "2013-01-21T22:00:26Z")

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heh, realism = no, it’d be pretty boring if a 12-house town only had 50 zombies in it 🙂

If it makes you feel any better, consider the zombies could represent the total number of bodies in the town, not just the living ones. I’m a bit skeptical about thousands of zombies, as the largest cities in the game don’t have a population of 2,000. If there were thousands of zombies in a town that small, it was a bug. I’d expect 600 or so at the upper end.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/33 "2013-01-21T22:12:21Z")

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There where a few houses down the road connecting to a big city, would that have anything to do with it?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 10:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/34 "2013-01-21T22:16:54Z")

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if you’re in spawn range of a larger city, you can get zombies from that city spawning too. The roads don’t have anything to do with it, it’s strictly proximity.

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**Author:** ![GlyphGryph](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/glyphgryph/32/847_2.png) [@GlyphGryph](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GlyphGryph)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/35 "2013-01-21T22:23:17Z")

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Consider the houses abstractions, I say. Cataclysms cities aren’t generally even as bag as most neighbourhoods size wise and we wouldn’t want them to be, but that’s still what they represent.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/36 "2013-01-21T23:28:24Z")

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I notice that zombies can’t infect LIVING humans, so what would eating goo give you? I think it would be awesome to eat zombie goo and get superpowers.

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**Author:** ![Vorpal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/aca169/32.png) [@Vorpal](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vorpal)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 3:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/37 "2013-01-22T03:36:58Z")

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Clearly people fled to the town thinking it was a safe option.

(Idea - evac shelters full of zombies/medical supplies/military?)

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**Author:** ![Rivet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/rivet/32/11_2.png) [@Rivet](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Rivet)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/38 "2013-01-22T05:56:03Z")

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I’m loving the new survival shelters. Last version I dismantled a car and used it along with a shovel to transform my starting shelter into a veritable post-apocalyptic fortress.

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**Author:** ![The\_Darkling\_Wolf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/the_darkling_wolf/32/828_2.png) [@The\_Darkling\_Wolf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/The_Darkling_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/39 "2013-01-22T08:51:36Z")

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[quote=“gtaguy, post:36, topic:47”]I notice that zombies can’t infect LIVING humans, so what would eating goo give you? I think it would be awesome to eat zombie goo and get superpowers.[/quote]It turns you into a zombie after you die. Everyone ingame is already infected.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/1X/21b5d044e8473b25d0bf905d60477e25f6fbe0cf.png) [@system](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/whats-happening-in-your-randomly-generated-apocalypse/47/40 "2013-01-22T14:35:09Z")

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So that dead NPC will come back to life? Oh god kill it with fire!

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