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[Paul]

A certain story of my adventures with the random terrain. It's a bit long, but I wrote more for suspense and enjoyment than for observational reasons, so I hope you enjoy! It is, of course, a spoiler, but all good stories are!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I recently saw a 10x10 or 9x9 square of rubble in the middle of the street, and for some reason decided to walk through it. About mid-way through, all my stats started draining away, and my speed decreased from overburdening caused by my strength ebbing away. I conveniently was carrying around a Geiger counter (that is I wished for one) and with it I discovered radiation coming from the rubble and my body. After I waited around for a while a good distance from the rubble, I started feeling nauseous and smelling and tasting mushrooms. I thought it was just the effects of the radiation poisoning, and I wondered what mushrooms tasted like. It was latter that the true effects manifested themselves. My stats had not yet come back, and when I laid down to sleep it off, I started throwing up in the darkness, throwing up not vomit, but spores! Luckily I had gotten some royal jelly from the basement of the starting house, so I promptly used that and shot the spores with my trusty Glock. Figuring my hour of danger was over, I slept for the rest of the night in the house. The next day, I continued my activity from the last day: gathering supplies for a CBM: Internal Battery. Late in the day, after I had found what I needed and disassembled them, read some Robots for Fun & Profit to make up what I had lost in the days since I had last read it, I headed towards the nearest safehouse. On my way back, I received the message that I was radioactive. My first reaction was how the heck did I know I was radioactive? My second reaction was, "Crap, what am I going to do now?" I figured whatever it was, it would have to wait until tomorrow as it was getting dark back at the safehouse, I used my internal toolset to begin making a Geiger counter to measure exactly how radioactive I was, but as I was doing it, disaster struck. These were the true penalties from my curiosity: I had developed poor hearing, gills and disintegration while I was building it, and all my stats disappeared until the bottom of the screen read 0-0-0-0-55 speed. Then, I heard a the sound of zombies knocking on the door, the sound of my own true demise. However, the true disaster was, I thought as the zombies beat on the disintegrated wreck of a human being I had become, that I had still not crafted that Geiger counter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ha! I never realized those were radioactive. I always scrounge around those wrecks for goodies. Can find CBMs and military gear around them. as well as lots of electronics.

[Angle]

A certain story of my adventures with the random terrain. It's a bit long, but I wrote more for suspense and enjoyment than for observational reasons, so I hope you enjoy! It is, of course, a spoiler, but all good stories are!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I recently saw a 10x10 or 9x9 square of rubble in the middle of the street, and for some reason decided to walk through it. About mid-way through, all my stats started draining away, and my speed decreased from overburdening caused by my strength ebbing away. I conveniently was carrying around a Geiger counter (that is I wished for one) and with it I discovered radiation coming from the rubble and my body. After I waited around for a while a good distance from the rubble, I started feeling nauseous and smelling and tasting mushrooms. I thought it was just the effects of the radiation poisoning, and I wondered what mushrooms tasted like. It was latter that the true effects manifested themselves. My stats had not yet come back, and when I laid down to sleep it off, I started throwing up in the darkness, throwing up not vomit, but spores! Luckily I had gotten some royal jelly from the basement of the starting house, so I promptly used that and shot the spores with my trusty Glock. Figuring my hour of danger was over, I slept for the rest of the night in the house. The next day, I continued my activity from the last day: gathering supplies for a CBM: Internal Battery. Late in the day, after I had found what I needed and disassembled them, read some Robots for Fun & Profit to make up what I had lost in the days since I had last read it, I headed towards the nearest safehouse. On my way back, I received the message that I was radioactive. My first reaction was how the heck did I know I was radioactive? My second reaction was, "Crap, what am I going to do now?" I figured whatever it was, it would have to wait until tomorrow as it was getting dark back at the safehouse, I used my internal toolset to begin making a Geiger counter to measure exactly how radioactive I was, but as I was doing it, disaster struck. These were the true penalties from my curiosity: I had developed poor hearing, gills and disintegration while I was building it, and all my stats disappeared until the bottom of the screen read 0-0-0-0-55 speed. Then, I heard a the sound of zombies knocking on the door, the sound of my own true demise. However, the true disaster was, I thought as the zombies beat on the disintegrated wreck of a human being I had become, that I had still not crafted that Geiger counter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ha! I never realized those were radioactive. I always scrounge around those wrecks for goodies. Can find CBMs and military gear around them. as well as lots of electronics.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You can? I always thought they were just junk. The most I've ever seen in them was a pipe.

[Jacob/Lee]

I thought more of it as a stoner trap, a trap set by cannibals to catch stoners to eat.

A high person wouldn't notice the shotgun rigged to a tripwire...

That's more or less exactly what I said

Because in our minds it's the perfect way to see it.

I also like thinking of "Shhh... I'm huntin' stoners" in Elmer Thud's voice

[Aklyon]

Whats the map teleport? I'm stuck in a wall.

[Saurus33]

Depending on your version, either go the the overmap and press "Enter" at your intended destination, or press "Z" at your intended destination. I don't have the latest version, so I can't guarantee the second one.

[ILikePie]

Press Z to open the cheat menu and 3 to select the long distance teleport option.

[Smitehappy]

So I was walking down a road in the middle of nowhere for god knows why when I noticed my character was getting pretty hungry. As I was basically chased out of town by a pursuing zombie horde I had little to no supplies to speak of and it was looking bleak. All the sudden I noticed a squirrel in the distance on the road and decide squirrel meat is better than no meat. Que me chasing a squirrel down the highway. I just about to get in melee range so I can bash it and dine on delicious squirrel flesh when out of nowhere "BOOM". The squirrel is nowhere to be seen (My precious squirrel meat!) and only a crater remains where the squirrel use to be. Had I not chased after the squirrel I more than likely would have been exploded by the very same mine since my character had very low perception and the minefield was smack dab in the center of the road I was walking on.

Moral of the story? Squirrels make great minesweepers.

[areyoua]

A certain story of my adventures with the random terrain. It's a bit long, but I wrote more for suspense and enjoyment than for observational reasons, so I hope you enjoy! It is, of course, a spoiler, but all good stories are!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I recently saw a 10x10 or 9x9 square of rubble in the middle of the street, and for some reason decided to walk through it. About mid-way through, all my stats started draining away, and my speed decreased from overburdening caused by my strength ebbing away. I conveniently was carrying around a Geiger counter (that is I wished for one) and with it I discovered radiation coming from the rubble and my body. After I waited around for a while a good distance from the rubble, I started feeling nauseous and smelling and tasting mushrooms. I thought it was just the effects of the radiation poisoning, and I wondered what mushrooms tasted like. It was latter that the true effects manifested themselves. My stats had not yet come back, and when I laid down to sleep it off, I started throwing up in the darkness, throwing up not vomit, but spores! Luckily I had gotten some royal jelly from the basement of the starting house, so I promptly used that and shot the spores with my trusty Glock. Figuring my hour of danger was over, I slept for the rest of the night in the house. The next day, I continued my activity from the last day: gathering supplies for a CBM: Internal Battery. Late in the day, after I had found what I needed and disassembled them, read some Robots for Fun & Profit to make up what I had lost in the days since I had last read it, I headed towards the nearest safehouse. On my way back, I received the message that I was radioactive. My first reaction was how the heck did I know I was radioactive? My second reaction was, "Crap, what am I going to do now?" I figured whatever it was, it would have to wait until tomorrow as it was getting dark back at the safehouse, I used my internal toolset to begin making a Geiger counter to measure exactly how radioactive I was, but as I was doing it, disaster struck. These were the true penalties from my curiosity: I had developed poor hearing, gills and disintegration while I was building it, and all my stats disappeared until the bottom of the screen read 0-0-0-0-55 speed. Then, I heard a the sound of zombies knocking on the door, the sound of my own true demise. However, the true disaster was, I thought as the zombies beat on the disintegrated wreck of a human being I had become, that I had still not crafted that Geiger counter.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ha! I never realized those were radioactive. I always scrounge around those wrecks for goodies. Can find CBMs and military gear around them. as well as lots of electronics.

I think you're confusing rubble, which is grey, with wreckage, which is blue.

[BishopX]

I've decided to try a new challenge, no melee. None. Guns, bombs, traps or running away.

[Paul]

Ah, you're probably right. I don't think I've seen rubble on a road, I thought he meant the wreckage.

I'm finishing up a reloading mod that lets you take apart bullets for components and craft new bullets. You also automatically save your empty casings when firing a gun, which you could then reload using powder lead and primers from other similar bullets. It uses two new tools, which I intend to add to gun shops. The kinetic bullet puller, and the hand press. I simplified it for purposes of gameplay, so just the generic hand press lets you make any ammo (except .22, since it's rimfire and can't be reloaded). Have it using gun and mechanics skill, with higher skill levels for the higher end bullets (like 9mm +P+ takes 6 mechanics and guns).

It's a bit abstract, since I just made up all the material amounts as I went along. For sake of gameplay I just made all the bullet categories use the same casings, even when in reality they wouldn't (like the 10mm auto and the .40 S&W - the game treats them both as just .40 ammo so I just made them both a generic .40 casing). Have the powder divided into pistol and rifle, and the primers divided into shotgun, small pistol, large pistol, small rifle, large rifle. For the bullets themselves I just made a generic lead that can be taken from any ammunition. Also not quite sure what to do with incendiary rounds, should I make a special incendiary material that you get from taking them apart and require it when making them?

I'm debating whether or not to simplify primers more, since some of them are a bit restrictive. Only 223 and 5.7x28mm use small rifle primers, and the 5.7x28mm is kinda rare - so you almost have to have 223 ammo to make 223 ammo. Same with shotgun primers, you have to have shotgun ammo to make shotgun ammo. It's still useful to change ammo to your preferred type, like birdshot to 00 shot. What do you guys think?

I might just add the primers to the gun shops, that way you might find a big box of 200 of your primers and can take apart other ammo types for the lead and powder - and I won't have to simplify it.

[DeKaFu]

What sort of effect does the "Terrifying" trait actually have? I couldn't tell much of a difference the one time I tried it.

Also, are there any skills or traits that are currently useless? I'm guessing bartering's not worth much when there's no NPCs around.

[Paul]

Huh, well theres a problem. Got my mod finished, can take apart every bullet type and get the appropriate casing when firing bullets. But all the recipes that flow off screen don't function. Even with Drevlin's crafting menu scroll patch.

Guess I'll have to dig through the crafting menu and figure out why...

-edit- Ah, there it is. If anyone is trying to get a long recipe list working, heres the hitch that Drevlin's scroll patch didn't catch:

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for (int i = 0; i < current.size() && i < 22; i++) {That's limiting the recipes to 22. I increased it and now all my recipes function. Huzzah.

[SirAaronIII]

What sort of effect does the "Terrifying" trait actually have? I couldn't tell much of a difference the one time I tried it.

Also, are there any skills or traits that are currently useless? I'm guessing bartering's not worth much when there's no NPCs around.

I think speech is useless right now.

[Aklyon]

I think if you made the box of 200 primers decently common enough for usefulness, and possibly simplify them into three groups (shotgun, pistol, rifle) so that you aren't stuck in a have rifle primers but not the right rifle primers problem a lot, it would work well, Paul. But how much mechanics does it require to open ammo?

[Drevlin]

Huh, well theres a problem. Got my mod finished, can take apart every bullet type and get the appropriate casing when firing bullets. But all the recipes that flow off screen don't function. Even with Drevlin's crafting menu scroll patch.

Guess I'll have to dig through the crafting menu and figure out why...

-edit- Ah, there it is. If anyone is trying to get a long recipe list working, heres the hitch that Drevlin's scroll patch didn't catch:

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for (int i = 0; i < current.size() && i < 22; i++) {That's limiting the recipes to 22. I increased it and now all my recipes function. Huzzah.

That's odd, there is no such line in my patch... There is one line that is similar:

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for (int i = 0; i < current.size() && i < 23; i++)
But it handles cases in which there are less than 23 recipes in the screen, and that's not your case.
Have you changed game::pick_recipes() function perhaps?