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[Crazy Cow]

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In order to get charcoal, I opened the gates one last time. I figured I only needed a half-dozen real trees, so I started chopping down trees. Traders showed up, and the guards actually chased off a ghoul that got too close. Once the guards go in, though, more ghouls show up. Still no armor, still no weapons... I go in anyway.

One death, several heavy wounds. Fuck the surface world.

I get the ball rolling with a wood burner after sorting through the scrap and take a look in the caverns. Poking a hole in the ceiling I see a cave crocodile lurking in the water a ways off and a decent amount of crap littering the floor, so I chisel my way down there and start hauling stuff off. A swarm of radrats comes out of nowhere, spooking my ponies and making a mess of things. They run straight up the staircase and into the fortress proper. Needless to say, we're going to be eating radrat-on-a-stick for a while.

I end up making nearly two sets of iron security barding; there wasn't enough charcoal for a second set of boots. I think I feel confident enough to go back to the surface now, if only for a few seconds to get more wood. I'm two metal mechanisms away from a pair of rippers, and that'll be fun; I just need more military ponies, which I guess will show up next spring.

I have a whole pile of bits that I can't seem to find a use for in your readme or in the workshops. I guess I could dig through the RAWs for an answer, but asking you is easier ;p

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vegetable cans
Med-X canisters
orthopedic surgery hologram

[Lycaeon]

Vegetable cans may be opened at the kitchen for some 200 year old...but still edible...leaves.

Med-X canisters are used to upgrade Mr. Hooves into Nurse Redheart. I have other uses planned for them, but those will have to wait until the Ministry of Peace development arc.

Hologems are used for various purposes at terminals. That one in particular is a training hologem that you can use to train bonesetting at the Stable-Tec terminal, which itself is built at the workbench out of a Stable-Tec processing matrix and various other odds and ends.

Almost every item is used in some way, shape, or form at a workshop, so figuring them out is part of the challenge.

The narrative is enjoyable as well. Kudos for that. 

[Khenal]

Unsure if this is a bug or a feature, but laser bolts seem to be deflected by simple clothing.

[Lycaeon]

Yes, sprite-bot lasers are pretty weak, and the nature of the interaction makes them blunt attacks.

[Replica]

Stiiil scares the shit out of wildlife.

They are really afraid of blunt spinning lasers.

[Khenal]

They are working well to keep various wildlife away at least, heh.  I did have a Steel Ranger thief show up today with a battle saddle.  Shot a spinner in the face before turrets and a protectopony killed him.

[Crazy Cow]

I'm hardly even trying ;p Just jotting down what's going on for anyone that cares.

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Celestia fething damnit.

I lost my security team to the ghouls. I don't know why everyone was crying about the radscoprions; these foul-tempered feral fucks have thwarted my (admittedly mediocre) attempts to tame the surface at every turn. Next time I'm embarking with full sets of security barding and trained fighters.

This is legitimately pissing me off. I've been away from this game for too long ;p

[Bacon Pants]

Oh lol, everybody's talking about building up armies to battle the great horrors of the wastes and having tales of battles against alicorns and whatnot, and I'm a year in and my worst attack was from a dust cloud that made a dude thirsty. Oh, and a radscorpion that's guarding this one log in the far corner...

[Bremen]

I was doing pretty good; 60 ponies, 3 turrets, and a protectapony, just starting to train up a real military with 25 ponies in various squads. Then in the summer of the second year I got ambushed by two groups of steel rangers and once and they totally massacred everything with their battle saddles 

Well, that was fun, now to try again!

[Khenal]

Heh, similar story as Bremen, but it only look one ambush squad to take me out.  Time for round two!  After I steal away their trapavoid tag

[Bacon Pants]

Then in the summer of the second year I got ambushed by two groups of steel rangers and once and they totally massacred everything with their battle saddles 

Yeah, this lack of combat experience is probably making me very screwed. Let's see how much !!Fun!! can arise when a pack of glowing ghouls descend upon a town of herbalists, metal workers and a couple of sprite bots.

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I'm guessing about 10 !!Fun!!, at least

[Lycaeon]

Ok, steel rangers are definitely coming too early, so I will have a hotfix up shortly as 0.85b with some other minor bugfixes.

[Crazy Cow]

My second fortress is going a lot better than my first one. I'm barely a year in, and among other things I dug up an Ironshod Firearms crate with a box of combat armor(!) inside. I've got a pair of knife users with rippers, and I'm getting a few more ponies together to use the combat rifles that came with the armor. I've also got the parts for two terminals and several matrices already, although a lack of hologems means I'm sitting on the parts for now.

[Lycaeon]

I've uploaded the fixed version along with just the raws.

The list of parts necessary to build terminals is under the workbench reactions...hologems aren't necessary to build them, but are reagents used to train skills at a Stable-Tec terminal workshop. The other terminals have uses in different buildings.

[Crazy Cow]

hologems aren't necessary to build them, but are reagents used to train skills at a Stable-Tec terminal workshop. The other terminals have uses in different buildings.

Oh, okay. I thought you needed hologems to get anything useful out of the terminals :S

EDIT:
I apparently found some old pipbucks somewhere, so I'll put up a VaultTec terminal and install those.