What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

What O.o that sounds interesting don’t skip over that. details man, moving bookshelves prevents raiders from stealing shit? are you blocking sight lines or something? Also how are you moving bookshelves? Same way you move shopping carts and other drag-ables? I guess I always kinda knew you could move anything that wasn’t to heavy but somehow it seemed like everything was to heavy/never bothered trying.[/quote]

That is the principle. Obscure line of sight so they never know the sweet loot they could pass right by!

I found out my vehicle is capable of taking a direct hit from a Tank Drone’s HEAT shell or whatever-its-called.

did it take 2 hits or did you manage to get it away and repair it before it did?

It took two hits to kill me when I was inside the vehicle. A second test showed I was able to survive multiple near misses while inside the vehicle.

…mmm thats some quality testing…

So, you kiddies want to hear a story? Well I’ll tell you a story. Have a seat, and I’ll tell you about the tale. About how I lost something very precious to me.

…My top hat.

It was a lovely day in my little home I suppose I called a base. I had many guns, food, and useful devices, but the one thing I held most dear to me was my beloved top hat. I don’t know why… just the stylish factor of it, and how it went so well with my tuxedo. I loved my top hat. I loved it so much.

I had plans to go and loot one of the nearby houses, but it was dangerous. Although I loved my top hat so, I couldn’t risk it getting ripped or torn, so I thought: “Leave it on the bed.”

Leave it on the bed, I said. It’ll be fine, I said.

Replacing my top hat for an army helmet temporarily, or so I thought, I left my home and went looting. Everything went well; got a bunch of guns, and I ran back to my home, ready to greet my top hat.

“Honey, I’m hom… h-huh?!”

In horror, my top hat wasn’t on the bed where I’d left it. I searched high, I searched low, I searched the countless corpses on the streets - nothing. But then I saw an NPC fleeing from my house in the distance. He had my top hat. And I wanted it back.

It had been a day without my top hat, and I was relentlessly chasing after the NPC who just refused to stop to feel the wrath of my freshly sharpened machete.

[b]“GIVE ME MY F*CKING TOP HAT BACK!!! I’LL RIP OUT YOUR GUTS! I’LL CHOP OFF YOUR-” [CENSORED]

I don’t know why the girl was running from me. I just wanted my top hat back, that’s all.

After what seemed like an endless chase, my luck finally kicked in when the lady who had stole my top hat encountered a moose, and I watched with glee as she was ripped to shreds by the horrible thing. She didn’t have a hope, especially seeing as she was trying to kill the moose with a frying pan. It wasn’t long before she fell dead to the ground, and from her backpack I saw it.

[i]“My top hat!”

I squealed with glee, but the moose interfered with my reunion. As I was chopping the moose to pieces, I literally cried as I saw another NPC approaching the pile of stuff the dead woman had dropped, including my top hat. Before I could react, the new NPC swooped in, took my top hat, and ran away.

[size=13pt]“YOU FUCKING PIECE OF-”[/size]

I ripped the head from the moose in rage, kicking its corpse a million meters into the distance, and I was so angry at the fleeing NPC that I didn’t even care anymore. I lit a Molotov, foaming at the mouth in rage, and hurled it at the fleeing NPC, giggling as he burnt into nothingness.

Then I realized my error.

[size=18pt]“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!”[/size]

I was so bloodthirsty that I hadn’t realized I was also burning my beloved top hat alive along with the flesh of the thief. Sobbing at my murder and crime against fashionable clothing, I crawled to the blazing inferno. I could still see the outline of my top hat in there, burning. All I wanted was my top
hat, and soon it would be nothing.

I cried, cried more, and then I realized the one way to be with the top hat forever.

I dropped my machete, threw my army helmet aside, and stepped forth to the inferno. I took a deep breath, looking at the silhouette of my top hat, and then jumped into the raging fire to join it.

My whole body alight and undescribable pain searing throughout my body, I knew I was going to die. And I did. But in the end, at least I had burnt alongside my beloved top hat. The end.

[center][size=12pt]R.I.P. Jakers + His top hat 2015-2015[/size][/center]

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Started a new game. found a top hat in the very first house i looted …

Did you draw that xD

Yep. It’s the ‘Are you fucking kidding me’ Jakers, because SERIOUSLY?!

yeah i went outa the shelter after crafting some clothes.

east was a normal house and a grosserie store.
grabed some food from the store then broke into the house through a window.
first room a bedroom… next to the bed lay a top hat gg.

seems like you should be able to build them once you get the recipe…
I am still in town #1 and have tophat in my clothes pile. After hearing this story I think I will take it with me when I rebuild the totaled APC, merge it with an RV and drive out of this dung heap town.

Seems like a new house in last few builds. Love this kind of embedded humor.

If you haven’t seen these yet, there’s yards full of angry zombie dogs and in every yard, a corpse with a mailman suit.

After a long break from the game I finally managed to create a character and not get killed on the first day.
Good gear, books to read and also lots and lots of hoarding.
Struggling with inventory management in my home base, extremely tedious. D:

Random characters, and Fast Zombies makes the game so much more fun. You can’t rely on outrunning all but the slowest of zombies on open terrain (but I figure if I rolled a character with parkour, I might be able to outrun them in rough terrain), and I think Fast Zombies increases attack speed because very early game I was struggling to win one-on-one vs. regular undead, while they were parked on a shrub. Presumably, the late game would be a bigger hazard as well, but I will have to see.

So many deaths too… but finally I got one that might live to see Day 3. I randomly rolled until I got either a regular start, or a ‘Missed’ scenario, and rolled a female National Guard with an addictive personality, stuck in a grocery on the edge of town. Fled west, encountered a radio tower (unfortunately, no buildings nearby), headed north, and found one of those large solar cars with a single seat, and slept.

So now I am tentatively poking at the edge of town, hoping to get a hacksaw, so I can do some vehicle maintenance (already have a welder and a mask, a couple of hundred batteries, a wrench, and “Under the Hood”), while sleeping and living in a mostly broken-down car kilometers from town. Such is the life of the early survivor.

Rhodri suddenly feels the need to show off




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Badass. Nice work! I’m just content if I can get a trusty fireaxe or machete usually before my character dies. Nice triumphant character!


I went ahead and set up my defense field/solar farm, but now I’m wondering what else to do. There’s a road nearby that leads into a large city, plenty of fish for my fish traps, but absolutely no wood.

I can either dig down and bring up some stone to build walls, or import some using my amphibious minibase.

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I went ahead and set up my defense field/solar farm, but now I’m wondering what else to do. There’s a road nearby that leads into a large city, plenty of fish for my fish traps, but absolutely no wood.

I can either dig down and bring up some stone to build walls, or import some using my amphibious minibase.[/quote]

Wait. Amphibious minibase? I didn’t think vehicles could be amphibious yet; even boats are only in a mod as far as I’m aware.

Making a vehicle into a boat is as simple as putting 3 boat boards on it (I use four as insurance, because if you dip below 3 it sinks and is lost forever). You can take the boards off and it’ll function as a vehicle again.

Right now I dug underground and am trying to make an underground tunnel to land; though I’m curious about what’ll happen if I dig into the water.