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[Elephant Parade]

Actually, there's already an explanation of why radiation results in mutations.

You aren't the thing the radiation is effecting when that happens, because you aren't the thing capable of causing spontaneous mutations in response to environmental stimuli.

All radiation does to the player character is give them radiation poisoning. The mutations come from it's effect on... something else...

Spoiler: Actual Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The goo?

[Tiruin]

Actually, there's already an explanation of why radiation results in mutations.

You aren't the thing the radiation is effecting when that happens, because you aren't the thing capable of causing spontaneous mutations in response to environmental stimuli.

All radiation does to the player character is give them radiation poisoning. The mutations come from it's effect on... something else...

Knew it.

I was totally wondering how that worked in a way--radiation causing such and such deviations from coming in contact with your cells and. . .

Oho. This is amazing. What happened to you before all this?

[Darkmere]

Darkmere, or anyone really, can you even eat Triffids?

Yes, like Fniff said, just butcher dead triffids and you get plant material that's safe (though unsatisfying) to eat raw. I believe fungaloids yield something different, but if you get a gas mask and can kill them safely, might as well try and see.

[Blaze]

Spoiler: Notes from a post-apocalyptic gourmet (click to show/hide)

All Zombies give tainted meat.
Fungaloids give tainted veggy.
Triffids and creeper vines give edible veggy chunks.
Human corpses and dead NPCs give human meat.
Humanoid mutants give human meat.
Bees and Ants give edible meat.
Wasps give tainted meat.
Some swamp insects give tainted meat.
Swamp animals give edible meat.
Spiders give edible meat.
Animals give edible meat.
Worms give edible meat.
Dark Wyrms give tainted meat.
Most Eldritch Abominations give edible meat.

[DoomOnion]

Damn it, I can never really play this game because of occasional lag I get. Does anyone know a workaround for this?

[i2amroy]

What version/OS are you running it on?

[DoomOnion]

Playing 7.1-1656, on windows.

[i2amroy]

SDL (tiles is SDL) or curses? SDL usually works faster on Windows.

[DoomOnion]

Ah, I was playing on curses. Thanks for the info, I'll try SDL out tomorrow.

[Girlinhat]

Something is really weird with the way vehicles determine what's inside and outside...  It seems to arbitrarily determine what's in or out, even when all the same conditions are met (adjacent boards and roofs) and not apply them correctly.  Because of this, 2/3 of my vehicle is considered 'outside' and I get acid rained on while in bed.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I think the conditions are a roof over your head and "walls" or other inside tiles next to it. Also to note, if a door is open it no longer counts as a wall and thus your no longer "inside"

[Girlinhat]

Right, it just doesn't work that way...

[azmodean]

It looks like it only considers the four cardinal neighbors.  You need a roof in your tile, and either a roof or an "obstacle" in each cardinal direction.  Directions are relative to the vehicle at 0 rotation (pointing north).
I think I see the issue.  When looking at adjacent obstacles, it skips them if they're inside, so a board or door doesn't count if it's itself inside.  It really wants continuous roof parts throughout the passenger portion of the vehicle except at the edges.  The large predefined vehicles seem to follow this assumption, but your custom job might not.  Does that explain what you're seeing?
Additionally it caring about the "inside-ness" of adjacent locations means the results can change based on the order in which they're evaluated, which normally isn't something we care about.  It's even possible that installing a new part could ripple across the vehicle and change the inside-ness of a non-adjacent location.  So yea, that part of the rule is going away...

[Iceblaster]

Is there a way to craft steel plating, or do I just need to tear up prefab cars for it?

[Girlinhat]

Yeah, getting inside-ness to work is very quirky.  I had ideas that it was reading tiles in order to determine validity and might not be counting certain tiles as valid.  It gets WEIRD when vehicles get 3-wide interiors sometimes...

Iceblaster: Study Fabrication.