Too many organizing groups for me Azrad!! DRIED FOODS DON’T GET THEIR OWN PILE THEY CLEARLY BELONG TO THE DON’T ROT CATEGORY. HONEYCOMB IS AN INGREDIENT ITEM SAME AS FLOUR, MY INGREDIENTS PILE INCLUDES ALL NONPERISHABLE CONDIMENTS. PERISHABLE CONDIMENTS GO IN THE PERISHABLE PILE. BOOZE AND ROYAL JELLY GO IN THE DRUGS PILE. BATTERIES ARE A FORM OF AMMO, THEY GO IN THE I WANT TO RELOAD SHIT PILE. ARRRRGH!
No lie though, I find people’s means of categorizing things way more fascinating than I ought to. This has been a post where Edmund yells a lot, brought to you by the number toomany, and the letter arrrgh!
I tend to only have a section for tools, one for materials, another for perishable foods, another for non-perishables, one for hides/tallow/tanbark/etc, one for booze and other medical supplies, one for guns, another for ammo, one for unused clothing, and finally two separate book piles. Oh, and a trash pile.
If I’m in a mobile base I just dump all the food in a minifridge, all the books in a bed, lump guns and ammo together, and reserve two spots for vehicle-specific tools and vehicle parts.
BATTERIES?! YOU MAY AS WELL ADD NAILS IN THAT HEATHEN PILE SINCE NAIL GUNS USES NAILS. AND BOOZE ON THE DRUGS LOCKER? ARE WE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS DRINKING WHISKEY AS WE WAIT FOR THE DOCTOR TO CUT OFF OUR LEGS?? BOOZE GOES TOO THE BOOZE PILE. DRUGS SHOULD BE SEPARATED BY THREE CATEGORIES; NORMAL DRUGS, HEALING ITEMS, AND PRE-PRE-CATACLYSM ILLEGAL DRUGS! GRAGGGH!
BATTERIES?! YOU MAY AS WELL ADD NAILS IN THAT HEATHEN PILE SINCE NAIL GUNS USES NAILS. AND BOOZE ON THE DRUGS LOCKER? ARE WE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS DRINKING WHISKEY AS WE WAIT FOR THE DOCTOR TO CUT OFF OUR LEGS?? BOOZE GOES TOO THE BOOZE PILE. DRUGS SHOULD BE SEPARATED BY THREE CATEGORIES; NORMAL DRUGS, HEALING ITEMS, AND PRE-PRE-CATACLYSM ILLEGAL DRUGS! GRAGGGH!
WHY ARE WE YELLING?[/quote]
yeah i kinda throw nails on the ammo pile… if it exits… if not they goes on the pile pile.
BATTERIES?! YOU MAY AS WELL ADD NAILS IN THAT HEATHEN PILE SINCE NAIL GUNS USES NAILS. AND BOOZE ON THE DRUGS LOCKER? ARE WE CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS DRINKING WHISKEY AS WE WAIT FOR THE DOCTOR TO CUT OFF OUR LEGS?? BOOZE GOES TOO THE BOOZE PILE. DRUGS SHOULD BE SEPARATED BY THREE CATEGORIES; NORMAL DRUGS, HEALING ITEMS, AND PRE-PRE-CATACLYSM ILLEGAL DRUGS! GRAGGGH!
WHY ARE WE YELLING?[/quote]
I use booze mostly for bandages. I go through a LOT of bandages lol. My logic is flawed but it works I guess?
Hasn’t stopped Dave Steverdaverson from dying yet though, honestly. Zachary #06 fares far better with his ursine vision and insatiably fat torso his extra hp from being Tough. Zach’s biggest drawback is that he’s had no luck in finding food that isn’t dairy or people, so he’s constantly so depressed he can’t construct anything to get out of the lab. Dave is in pretty good spirits with his clean water and weird luck finding yogurt cuppies and potato chips.
Oddly enough I think I’ve never crafted healing items before, not counting one for an outpost quest. I generally end up relying on being careful when hp is low, or dying due to a lack of medical supplies. Also pretty damn cheap with infected wounds - if that wound ain’t green, I’m gonna try to cauterize it as many times as possible. Lately I’ve been carrying a rag or two, since predators can really make a situation dangerous with the torso bleeding.
As for more organization; tools go in two piles. One for tools that don’t use a charge of some sort, and the ones that do. Tools like teleporters go in a different pile, same with traps, and turrets, and -hacks. For the tools, most of the time there can only be one of each kind on a pile. Stuff like spare hotplates go in a different counter; for disassembly or unloading of batteries. Of course, tool artifacts go to another different pile. Lately I’ve been too lazy to disassemble tools, so if the batteries are unloaded they go to one of the trash bins.
…as for the trash bins; spare tools, spare guns, burnt items, damaged clothing that I won’t use, not really a trash bin but extra copies of skill/recipe books… and books come in two piles; skill/recipes and books for entertainment. Martial arts manuals count as skill books for me. Again, like tools, one of each kind only for the pile, though that only applies for skill/recipe books. Back on the trash/misc. bins, empty containers like bottles, damaged items also go into the burnt items bin, and containers like cardboard boxes and plastic bags.
The new .500 S&W round is a life saver. After finding 10 rounds and a revolver for it in an LMOE shelter I ran into 3 migos in the first 2 days and killed them all without taking too much damage. Waiting for them to get into melee range then getting a headshot reliably did 170-190 damage. After that it only took a .44 round to kill them.
Should an LMOE shelter really have 10 .454 rounds, 10 .500 S&W rounds, 50 .44mag rounds and guns for all of them? It seems improbable that anyone would stock so two different bear stoppers and .44.
Well, some crazy survivalist could do it. He is crazy after all.
I found out that plant mutations aren’t working as well as I’ve expected. I took every unit of footwear, including for some reason ankle holster, sank my pretty roots in and started reading books, only to realize that this soil doesn’t provide me enough nutrients to sustain myself. I also became extremely ponderous, which combined with my armor, make me veeeeery slllllooooow. Not good.
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I ain’t even mad.[/quote]
Heh, I recall one day when my Faerie Ninja Queen, recovering from evil-attention artifact, spawned a yugg, who proceeded to mutate her a Full Night Vision, IR Vision, few stat boosts and some beauty (don’t just jam a waiting button, it could be worse). I wasn’t going to complain about that.
Somewhere, Zachary #6 is vomiting. Nobody is surprised. Don’t eat blob globs, Zachary. That’s fucking stupid. Stick to cannibalism and depression, Zachary. PUT DOWN THAT YOGURT CUP I DON’T CARE IF IT’S FRESH YOU CAN’T HANDLE IT.
So my current zach is just kind of a sobbing ball of defeat. I find this hilarious. He has no problems smashing zombies and robots and turrets apart, but food makes him a sad mess. I am a mean person.
