Your biggest faction camp

[anothersimulacrum]

Cows will reproduce, so you only really need to find one set and wait.

[nameless_survivor]

Surely there are others who hoard as much as me (or even more)?

Well, I don’t have anywhere near that much food (though I’m working on it, I just hit the first growing season, I’m playing with 90 day seasons). I’ve mostly been focused on weapons, ammo, explosives, and CBMs.

I’m sitting on about 3,540 lbs of ammo and explosives. and 3,200 lbs worth of guns (something like 200+). I’ve got a LOT more materials for potential ammo though; I disassembled a whole bunch to make specific types, but I quit once I discovered you can’t disassemble reloaded ammo. Got roughtly 334 CBMs laying around as well.

I’m planning to make my own army of super soldiers. At this point I just need more NPCs.

[Erk]

Where do you get all that ammo? I can’t seem to get a decent stockpile of anything but 9mm going.

[Mantar]

Hit up gun shops, obviously, and labs. Labs have barracks in them which have armories full of ammo. Most labs will have two or three of these to house the military guards, and clearing a couple of labs will get you crazy amounts of ammo.
I don’t bother carrying more than a fraction to the surface anymore, because the Sun Wave’s munitions and weapons cargo spaces are full.

[Trigon]

Yeah if you want ammo then lab armories and gun stores are your best bet.

[ppanda0421]

I created a thread about this a while back about not find dairy farms in my world. You can go read if you want. But in short I removed ‘More Locations’ mod (most likely culprit) and increased chances of Dairy Farms in one of the .json files. After those changes dairy farms started appearing. I haven’t found any animals on ranches so that may be a bug if cows are supposed to spawn there. I also made changes to mammal.json to calves so that they can be instantly tamed by giving them fodder. Other than that the cows reproduced as others have mentioned. Still think there are issues with location spawning though.

I think you have a lot more ammo, guns and CBMs than I do. Although I should note I stopped collecting them after the 10-15 lab barracks raid. Got boring/tedious after a while since my main weapon is the pneumatic crossbow that has 8 bolts. I also carry around a UPS laser rifle and a pulse cannon as backup. Before that I used the shotgun as backup.

[ppanda0421]

Lab barracks and gun store are the main sources. Some house basements have them as well. Zombies also drop them if you haven’t noticed. In addition you’ll find guns/ammo on those human corpses on the surface.

[Delirium]

Cheater! Editing files isn’t fair. U must abuse bugs and meta and not cheating, filthy cheaty cheater!

[nameless_survivor]

I use the ups laser rifle as my primary and a Barrett .50 Anti-material rifle as my secondary. Usually carry a few grenades too.

Surprisingly enough, a good chunk of that ammo was looted from abandoned military vehicles. I’ve got thousands of rounds of .50, .308, and 5.56 from ammo belts obtained during a raid of a national guard base and elsewhere. I’m using default spawns and worldgen settings myself.

[ppanda0421]

Technically, mods change files so does that mean all people who play with mods are cheaters then? If you play with even 1 mod then you are a cheater then, right? Rolls eyes Not going to waste anymore of my time on you…

[Trigon]

Honestly some mods are probably more overpowered than making dairy farms more common. Looking at you throwing sticks.

[Malkeus]

don’t feed them, you’ll end up with holes in your yard.

edit: @Trigon IKR! I couldn’t believe it when I missed and broke a door.

[Trigon]

Yeah I don’t use throwing sticks anymore, but I like everything else about the mod. Especially the ember carrier.

On topic though I’m starting up a new faction camp in my current game and I was wondering how useful the kitchen was for offloading some of my cooking duties since I regularly feed my companions on mountains of hardtack.

[Erk]

Pretty sure dude was joking, given his plainly tongue in cheek bit about abusing bugs.

I forgot how much ammo there is in labs… Haven’t found a single one in my current game yet. It’s interesting how much that changes the play balance actually… I think it was my first lab raid in my last game that really started to make me feel OP.

[mlangsdorf]

Camp batch crafting is buggy. It’s another one of those things that I mean to fix Real Soon Now.

[nameless_survivor]

Camp batch crafting is buggy.

What kind of bugs? Is it unuseable, like it disappears materials without giving you anything? Or just more output for less input or something?

It’s another one of those things that I mean to fix Real Soon Now.

So in other words, once you start the faction camp overhaul after 0.D?

[ppanda0421]

Seemed rather real to me. I’ve seen negative comments but then it is followed by something less serious. Then it shows that person was joking/being sarcastic. Here the person is accusing me of cheating and calling me a name and that’s it. So I’m just supposed to take it as a joke? In addition they didn’t even add to the conversation so it seemed like a personal attack. Moreover I had just listed all my accomplishments (hoarding). It took me a very long time to grow/gather/craft all those things. So calling me a cheater has other implications. So yeah, I guess I can’t detect sarcasm from text…

[mlangsdorf]

acidia implemented his own versions of recipes and recipe scaling, so making 24 pieces of meat jerky takes 24 hours or some crazy thing.

I actually went ahead and started on the next stage of the faction camp overhaul. Sadly, that just means I have a mess of half-baked code in my working directory right now.

[nameless_survivor]

Hey, that still definitely beats waiting 6 months or whenever the hell Kevin decides its 0.D to start.

[kevin.granade]

You are free to have whatever opinion you like about modifications to game state, but if you start insulting or ranting at other players, you’ve crossed a line, don’t do that.