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wtf bug i get body encumbered for wearing footwear and dropping em and wearing otgher footwear, my encumber is now 6

What are you wearing on your torso?

Whenever you wear something, it will always tell you all of your body parts that are encumbered. So if your torso is encumbered and you put on some shoes, it will say that your torso is encumbered, but it doesn't actually affect your torso encumbrance.

Actually, roads are (presently) no faster to run on than dirt.  They're safer, though, due to certain monsters.

The skirt gives you a *tiny* speed bonus.  I forget the calculation I did, but you can run around 19 tiles in the time a cargo-pants-wearing character can run 18, or something similarly neligable.  The storage is much more beneficial, especially if you're a melee-oriented character and a backpack is a large setback.

I regularly play without the speed perks and escape from zombies just fine (without becoming a speed addict, too).  If I do it, so can you!

For Fleet-Footed, "even terrain" is anything that has a standard 100-point movement cost, including floor, asphalt, dirt, grass, etc (but not rubble, underbrush, etc).

Huh, guess the road thing was just my spectacular human talent for seeing a pattern where none exists.

Someone bestow upon me their knowledge.  How do you escape a horde of zombies. I get injured once and it becomes a spiral into slower movement, more damage, even slower movement, more damage. Even if I kill everything, healing supplies are too weak to heal all my wounds and I don't have enough food to wait it out.

Get some oxycodone. It only takes a couple of turns to kick in, and it's pretty strong.

If you are constantly getting caught by zombie hordes, try starting a character with fleetfooted and quick. Wear sneakers and a skirt, and always run away on hard surfaces, such as the road. With all those you should even be able to outrun zombie hulks.

I always play fleet-footed+quick+pain resistant

You can't build walls or roofs, yet.

In the current version, you're probably best off making a base in a survivor settlement, or in the outskirts of a suburb.

Dammit! For the third time, what is the most recent version!!! 

Whales hasn't updated the main source for a couple of weeks, and version numbers are just something that Head does. So, I assume that the latest windows version is whatever you can grab off from Head's page.

I just finished putting together an easy way for windows users to run Cataclysm without crashing.

Probably the best way to run Cataclysm on windows is in a virtual machine, but I know that for a lot of people here, downloading a 700MB disk image, waiting hours for it to install, and learning a new operating system isn’t really an option.

So I got one of the lightest distributions around, Tiny Core Linux, and added everything you need to compile and run Cataclysm, along with a few bash scripts to make it easier.

Here’s the step by step guide.

Download and install VirtualBox.

Download the Tiny Core Linux vdi Image.

Extract the image to a folder of your choosing.

Run Virtualbox, select “New” in the top left corner, Enter “Tiny Core Linux” for a name, leave it at the default 512 MB of RAM, select “Use existing hard disk”, and browse to and select the image you just downloaded.

Double click on "Tiny Core Linux" on the left side of the window.

When you get to the prompt (it should look like "tc@box:~$") type “./download”, then “./compile”.

Run Cataclysm with “./run”

That’s it, you can now enjoy Cataclysm in, mostly, crash free bliss.

Once you’re done playing, you can type “sudo poweroff” to shut the virtual machine down, or you can turn it off and save the state through VirtualBox.

You can update Cataclysm with “./update”, and “./compile” again. Don’t run “./compile” if it tells you there aren’t any new updates. It won’t hurt anything, it’ll just take a while.

If you ever get sick of your current world, just type “./delete” to clear your saved world, it’ll prompt you so you can’t do it by accident.

A few tips for complete Linux newbies: “ls” will give you a list of files and folders in your current directory. In your home directory, all you should see are the scripts I just mentioned, and the Cataclysm folder. If you ever get lost in the filesystem, just type “cd” to return home.

Hey, minor glitch in 1.3.7: Fleet-Footed gives no speed bonus.

I don't think it's supposed to give you a flat speed bonus. I think it decreases the amount of action points it takes to run on hard surfaces such as roads or floors. So run from the hulk on the road not in the fields.