I’ll have to set up a farm elsewhere. Above my underground fort I’m experiencing some severe lag, which I suspect is due to the sheer volume of items I have underground. Like for realsies it’s probably almost at 100k volume of items down there. Underground the base moves at a normal speed, but above ground it feels kinda laggy.
I dunno. I’ll move my save game to the most recent experimental and see what’s up.
Azrad is the first level of a 4 z ice lab cold enough to preserve food indefinitely? I am setting up my new base above an ice lab for the cold storage. I dropped a fee pieces of meat on the first level, and they seem to be staying fresh longer than usual but it does not say cold or frozen or anything
Yeah. Even in summer, the food will never rot in the first underground level of an ice lab. They don’t get cold though, for some reason, but perishable food will never decay if they’re placed in an ice lab.
Nice. Still relatively early game at the moment so I do not have cbms or clothing to explore any more than the first level of the lab, but I have punched a hole in the side of the building to thread my solar powered crafting station through. Just need one of those advanced electric cars to get the panels
Crafting a ton of items. Sugar, coffee syrup, meth, broth, salt… lots of stuff. Best way to go through these times is to listen to podcasts or watch LPs, I feel.
But gunswords = Coolest.
Im going to make an FF8 Mod for gunswords and guardian forces. Now how to rig up madatory 60 second summoning animations that do normal damage . . .
I found a working pickup truck, and thus I traded my Bus for it. This makes the 5th vehicle this game. 2 days in, and I went from a moped to a broked car to a bus to this.
Huh.
I went up to my old base to butcher my plow-seed drill tractor there for parts. I realized that there was a small number of crops I left there during the last few days of autumn. Hops and strawberries, and they were harvestable.
The hops yielded about four times more hops flowers and rhizomes. Strawberries yielded the same amount, but more seeds. So while I can’t plant seeds during winter, I can let them grow… The non-perishable crops increase in number the longer I keep them planted, so I could plant a decent sized field of them and wait until I’m low on supply to get a large number of them.
I realized a missed checking a liquor store on a small town I raided. When I got there the place was pretty much a wreck… though upon digging through the remains some glass bottles of booze remained. Cans and gallon jugs were unaffected, of course… and so were three more barrels of malt whiskey. By far my survivor’s most abundant booze. Got 15 barrels now, and six wooden kegs filled.
In any case, I need to rearrange the layout of the wooden kegs in the east side of keg storage. That holds all the booze with positive numbers in quench and nutrition, and when I started filling them I just filled them up rather randomly. Like strawberry surprise, then to the left is beer then to the left of that is irish coffee.
But then, how should I order it? I could order them by type; wines, beers, mixed drinks, or I put the best drinks closest to the center and least enjoyable ones to the ends. Hrmmmm.
Oh fuck me WHY is this hall literally nothing but spitters and boomers?
sigh
After another crafting session, the computer crashed. So, I reckon it’s time to play around with a different character for a while. Same world. Lab challenge, and a survivor who’s more alcohol tolerant - and a drunken master. Using eskrima, made a cudgel and traded a number of goods to the starting NPC.
Zones are no longer shared, alas. Still, I’ll see if I can make a pilgrimage to my other survivor’s underground base.
And after munching on some mutated legs my survivor now has fey vision. My RNG really loves some elves… Strong and smart were also acquired.
Though, when I get the resources for it, I want to try the rat mutation line. I recall their stainless claws being quite strong.
Owie. My legs are half-melted, but this hospital shall slowly but surely be reclaimed.
EDIT: Patient treatment records found. How does an illiterate barbarian know what he’s looking for? Simple. Bug metal thing, fuckloads of zeds, and the room literally being illuminated from either the machine or a hole in the roof.
EDIT 2: It’s a computer console, hidden UNDER a counter. Go home mapgen, you’re drunk.
I made a bow/staff/spear, is that cool enough?
I made a bow/staff/spear, is that cool enough?[/quote]
Hmm, would the firelance count? I mean, it’s a spear, and you can fire charges made from black gunpowder out of it.
Would be cool if you can make a survivor’s firelance. Somewhat better spear and an explosive charge to boot. And the really bad idea-lance: a firelance that has the same range for a charge… except said charge is as strong as dynamite. Or a mininuke.
I made a bow/staff/spear, is that cool enough?[/quote]
Hmm, would the firelance count? I mean, it’s a spear, and you can fire charges made from black gunpowder out of it.
Would be cool if you can make a survivor’s firelance. Somewhat better spear and an explosive charge to boot. And the really bad idea-lance: a firelance that has the same range for a charge… except said charge is as strong as dynamite. Or a mininuke.[/quote]
A spear flamethrower would also be nice.
[quote=“Azrad, post:10454, topic:47”]Hmm, would the firelance count? I mean, it’s a spear, and you can fire charges made from black gunpowder out of it.
Would be cool if you can make a survivor’s firelance. Somewhat better spear and an explosive charge to boot. And the really bad idea-lance: a firelance that has the same range for a charge… except said charge is as strong as dynamite. Or a mininuke.[/quote]
So basically you’re suggesting a lunge mine. o3o
EDIT: Her next mission is to take her to a FEMA camp. Aw hell. Is she INSANE?
EDIT 2: NPC bugged out. She no longer recognizes the FEMA camp quest, won’t let me tell her to sleep, and dismissing her as a companion made her still have a partial command menu as if she was still following me. Dismissing her again from there led to the same screen. And now she ran off into the night for no apparent reason. Fine fuck it, no farm for you.
[quote=“deoxy, post:10298, topic:47”][quote=“deoxy, post:10192, topic:47”]It’s morning, Spring Day 1. It’s been a year. Yesterday, I removed the last broken bionic. 
I also finally found an Integrated Toolset CBM from a scientist zombie I butchered, and I also FINALLY managed to get to a store with a grocery cart (with the wheels intact), so I’ve got that going for me, too. Yay!
The only other lab I’ve found was a great find… for later. CVD machine, top floor, right next to the entrance, not even an ice lab. Wow. Now all I need is to find the book with the diamond recipes. Otherwise, though, that lab was pretty lousy - lots space (for a single floor lab), but no useful bionics. Again. At least this one has a couple of barracks I’ll break into later.
Now all I need is… a ridiculous ton of CBMs and SOLAR PANELS (haven’t found a one). Oh, and a HackPRO - that would help.[/quote]
It’s morning, Spring Day 1. It’s been 2 years.
I found quite a lot of the “ridiculous ton of CBMs” this year. Not all of them, but quite a few. I have all 4 stat CBMs, a Night-generator, probability travel, Dieletric capacitance, and a few other odds and ends. I have the main 6 bionic energy CBMs (no microreactor, but I don’t usually bother with it even if I have it). Main thing I want at this point is the UPS CBM.
Built a mobile base vehicle (the ArmoredMeCarrier), which has full military composite armor, 3 engines (enhanced electric, V12 gas, V8 diesel), a mounted A7 on the driver’s seat, and I just last night added a Tesla turret. Also have the “big 6” utilities: electric forge, welding rig, chem lab, kitchen unit, kitchen buddy, and minifridge.
I finally found some solar panels - grabbed 2 from an electric car, then in winter, I found a SOLAR car, so I now have all the “safe” slots on my AMC.
And yes, I did get a HackPRO - found it in a robotic street sweeper (the most common place I find them, actually).
I think it’s time to go on a little longer road trip now - time to clean out some towns and work my way down the to Refugee Center far south from here. Did I mention I play on 5X spawn?[/quote]
It’s morning, Spring Day 1. It’s been 3 years.
I just returned “home” (my starting lab) yesterday, after a long and winding route to the south. I cut my way through some forest, finally found another lab, and used the map I got from that to find several more. All told, on this trip (started in autumn), I looted 1 FEMA camp, 2 farms, 3 mansions, and 4 labs. No, this was not intended as a 12 Days of Christmas joke…
I found the book to make the Fusion Blaster Rifle, which I did shortly. I found a strange temple, and I was carrying the eye I had found in a mine with me in my vehicle, so I got a couple of artifacts… one stinks, but the other gives +4 strength, -3 int, and smoke when worn, but nothing when carried, so that’s a nice situational use one.
I have enough hydrogen to make diamond weapons, probably several of them, actually, so that will be my first stop after I get everything somewhat sorted out - I brought home 7000+ volume of loot.
On the way back, since it was winter, when there is almost never any rain to put out the fire, I took the “easy” way home… right by a fungal bloom. Bloom destroyed, lots of fungaloids blown away, but I’m sure there are more in the woods… blooms are SO annoying (the spawn radius around them is HUGE). I did also drive right by the nearby triffid grove, and I picked up some plant marrow to make plant mutagen. If I ever find the elf-a book, I’ll be ready (got some bird going this past spring, when eggs were plentiful).
The point of this long route was to get to the refugee center. I didn’t quite get there, but the I have a route that’s nearly clear now, and I should make it next trip. I have a Tesla cannon, a laser cannon, a mounted A7, I’m carrying an accuratized A7 and an accuratized fusion rifle, I got the UPS bionic from a shocker brute (after getting it from a scientist in the FEMA camp… then losing it to a CRASH just after - WOW that stunk), I have Niten-ichi Ryu and a wakezashi (faster than the other 2, which I also have), and I also have a broadsword and fencing, so I may try that out. In short, I’m ready to massacre my way through the hordes.
At this point, I’m going to work on the refugee center quest chain, and otherwise, all I want for Christmas (a little late now, I know) is the elf-a mutagen recipe, a power armor helmet/hauling frame, and a portal generator (so I can make a stabilized portal).
Jousting!
Today I learned I can use the awl pike’s reach attack while pedaling a unicycle-wheelbarrow. This is more amusing to me than the stretchy hand reach attack by adding a bayonet to a wrist DREAD.
How do you use the reach attack?
If a weapon has a reach attack, press the fire key like you would a gun. Most reach weapons can only reach two tiles but the awl pike has a range of three. The fire lance has a reach attack, and also an alternate fire mode where you can fire off a charge if you have the ammunition for it.