So, I’ve been having a helluva time as of late,
So, starting off, I decided to tweak the world engine thanks to the new improvements with 1.2 spawn and increased the city size just a tad. It’s rather amazing just how many more zombies you have to wade through with that little increase.
After just bouncing around a few houses and a few more hordes, I have BOTH legs broken, crawl back to the bunker and splint them up, thankfully having a small stockpile of food/water to wait it out until I’m healed. After about 2 weeks manage to heal, only to know the joy of a wolf pack literally nipping at my heals, break my legs, again, to blood loss of all things, heal up again, and, thanks to wolves again, break a leg yet again, this time at a house on the city outskirts that I chose to use as my base.
there is no nearby hospital during this time.
this is month 1 and 2.
I stumbled across an RV with a good engine and intact RV unit, along with a semi nearby with all it’s wheels intact ^^.
pawnshop - broadsword !!
Thanks to mechanics and fabrication, eventually whip up a vehicle welder, electric forge, and find a food cart with a mini-Fridge(!), sadly, even with power doesn’t work as intended, as far as I can tell at least. Install everything, steel plated the heck out of it when I learned that a vehicle welder plus even 1 solar panel = infinite power. Later on converted to Hard plating when I tested if you can disassemble steel frames, also was dissatisfied with the protection regular plating offers.
found a small quad that I appropriated at a garage for gathering supplies.
First Lab I find is close enough to a Fungal spire that there’s a bunch of Fungaloids around, so converted the quad by adding a 3 x 9 plow to the front, ram my way through everything, including the fungal spire.
Eventually I give up the area as a lost cause and go about my business in the Lab, get map from console, find new lab, repeat. found lots of military outposts and bunkers this way too.
For the first time ever found an LMOE shelter. Between the massive forest surrounding it and the Triffid groves and Fungal spires around it, decide it’s a better place to visit and not stay.
and, for giggles, played mutagen roulette, and decided, after about 30 doses and various attempts with purifier, to stick it out with Gills, leg tentacles, and no deficiencies. I consider myself lucky on this front given I didn’t take robust genetics.
I’m 3 years in at this point, I suspect old age is the only thing that’ll kill this character.
As an aside, did the police robots get turned off? I’ve been itching to go a slaying for some super alloy plate to finish the CBM armoring and I’ve yet to set off an alarm to summon them.
