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[notquitethere]

What's the longest anyone's ever survived for in this? It's my long term goal to reclaim a town, block by block, building a big wall around it like in the Walking Dead comic. Only I'm always dead by lunchtime.

[Eagle]

What's the longest anyone's ever survived for in this? It's my long term goal to reclaim a town, block by block, building a big wall around it like in the Walking Dead comic. Only I'm always dead by lunchtime.

I can easily survive past summer, though I generally get bored at the halfway point cause its sorta boring once you have some skills ground up and a decently equipped hideout and character. I ended up clearing about 100-200 tiles of towns in the screenshot up there.

[Greiger]

Best I've ever done is 2 seasons 10 days.  But this was back when whales was developing.  Relatively recently was about summer and a half, more or less.

Once you have a decent car (with a roof), a good weapon with plenty of ammo, and a secure base, you can easily last for months as long as you don't do something stupid or get bored.

The hard part is getting there.

[GlyphGryph]

Trying to get some minor improvements to the health bar... what do people think?

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[Graknorke]

Longest I've ever survived is 3 days.
It could have been longer but I couldn't deal with the bugs in that version any longer.

[Lightningfalcon]

How do you make a crossbow?  And do they have longer range then a longbow?

[Greiger]

Trying to get some minor improvements to the health bar... what do people think?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Eh... I like how you can see half bar values now, but for some reason that slash for a half looks a bit weird to me.  But, I could get used to It I suppose.

Do you have access to the full character table?  How bout colored alt-219 and alt-220.  or alt-219 and alt-221?

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I think you make a crossbow with rubber hose and some wood of some kind.  I also think you need archery skill to make one.

[GlyphGryph]

That was the original design, actually, but apparently I do not. No OEM ASCII characters available, despite my efforts.

[Greiger]

Hm, that might be the best then.  I was toying around a bit with using # as a solid block, but I couldn't find a half block that looked good with it.

[GlyphGryph]

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That was my initial goal.
Obviously I didn't get as close as I'd hope.

[Aqizzar]

Is it intentional that I can't light a molotov with matches?  It appears to be hardcoded to need a lighter, feels like an oversight.

I think I'm getting the hang of static-spawn, but Jesus are there a lot of these guys.

[Sharp]

I still want a bar for hunger and thirst. It's too hard to see how hungry you actually are, hungry enough for meat sandwich or hungry enough for tin of beans?

I was thinking like

0000o for hunger
000o for thirst

I'm glad they took the :) idea for morale though

[SomeStupidGuy]

Is it intentional that I can't light a molotov with matches?  It appears to be hardcoded to need a lighter, feels like an oversight.

Nah, fixed in the latest version. But you'd need to compile that.

[DrPoo]

Guys please play WarZ or whatever if you want easy gameplay.
A bar would give it too much of an arcade feel.
Its traditional for roguelikes not to have stupid bars for everything.

[SomeStupidGuy]

But several well known and well liked rls use health bars/mana bar/what have you.
It's honestly just a minor interface change. It's not like it's going to make it into a casual game or whatever you think would happen.