It is Day 10 of Spring and I have created the HALL OF KNOWLEDGE.
Food and water are still major problems, sure, but I have secured a library and built, over many pain-staking hours of labor, a corridor leading directly from it into the bedroom of an adjoining house (the library’s back door lined up with the bedroom window). Sure, it would have been a LOT less time and labor (and indirectly, food and water) cost to just build a makeshift bed in the Library, but I’m not exactly rational when I’m playing DDA from 2AM-5AM. So, I built an eight tile corridor, with full wood walls on the left side, six wood walls on the right side, and two doors providing egress to the east, and an open roof. It took about four or five days all in all: I started the work as a functioning alcoholic, chugging Whiskey to get through the day, and I had detoxed by the end of the process, so I’m staying off the booze from now on. The extra book cases in the library provided ample lumber and nails for my carpenter.
By the time I was done, I stupidly SHIFT + S’d the empty window frame leading into the bedroom, thinking I’d then be able to build a door there. But nope! It was a LOAD BEARING window frame, and collapsed the ceiling on the entire (previously secured) bedroom, destroying the four-poster bed and covering everything in rubble. D’oh. Fortunately, nearby there was a functional flatbed truck nearby that I was able to drive to a nearby farm, where after applying crowbar to zombie as needed, I harvested badly needed produce and found a shovel. So my OCD (in life) ass was able to dig out the bedroom and pluck out all of the splintered wood and keep all of the nails and stack all of the excess two-by-fours neatly in the corner. Now I may sleep on a makeshift bed next to an enormous pile of rags, but at least I am no longer an alcoholic, and at least I am now sitting on top of a base full of ALL THE BOOKS.
I intend to read the relevant books until I learn to drive, repair cars, and most importantly, manufacture better armaments/ammunition than what I’ve thus far been able to find: a .22 rifle and a compound bow (awesome) with a measly seven arrows (less awesome). I finished the DIY Compendium and I’m cracking away at the Bowyer’s Buddy until I’ve learned to make reasonable arrows or a badass crossbow or somethin’. Then it’s hunting season, and my journey ever westward continues.
Sidenote: It is way too easy to go deaf in this game (a car alarm deafens you? seriously?). And houses take too long to collapse, like, a week. So if you build a base near, say, a house that you had to molotov in order to kill a Shocker Brute, you’re looking at going deaf for the six to eight days it takes to LOUDLY COLLAPSE.
TLDR: I made a base by connecting a library to an adjoining bedroom and ceiling them both off. Now I have ALL TEH BOOKS.
