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[i2amroy]

Museums would actually be a really good addition, I think. It'd let you find some of the rare mansion/pawn-shop only items (plate armor, pike, etc) potentially early enough for them to be useful in some fashion. Plus the myriad other stuff you could add in that wouldn't seem out of place.

You hit the zombie with the ancient pot!
The ancient pot shatters!
The zombie takes 4 damage.

[Aseaheru]

Plus it would be a good place to put EVEN MORE GUNS!
along with other new things...
Heck, they probably would have a workshop in them. However, cops, scientists and assorted little brats running about...

[Aseaheru]

Plus having vintage armor worn by (name here) or weapons used by (name) probably would add to it.

[Kaitol]

Random chance for items in a museum with a <name generator generated name here>'s prefix, with a random bonus or malus to random stats. A peerless masterpiece that's been well preserved or a piece of junk rusted into uselessness that's only worthwhile for its historical significance.

[Mephansteras]

Random chance for items in a museum with a <name generator generated name here>'s prefix, with a random bonus or malus to random stats. A peerless masterpiece that's been well preserved or a piece of junk rusted into uselessness that's only worthwhile for its historical significance.

That is a good point. A lot of museum pieces were dredged out of peat bogs or rivers. Not exactly preserved in peak condition.

[a1s]

[Correct me if I'm wrong]

Rapiers are fantastic, absolutely fantastic, slashing weapons. They are able to hold a sharp edge, and the elasticity of the blade both protects it and makes it extremely lethal. But you need to know HOW to slash, otherwise you may as well just stab.

Rapiers were not slashing weapons (unlike side swords). Some could slash, but being both somewhat lighter then a medieval sword (the cutting ability of a sword depended more on being swung with much force then on being sharp), and much thinner (meaning both that they were more elastic, absorbing some of the energy of the  blow, and that if you swung them hard enough they could be bent or broken a lot more easily then a broadsword) even the ones that did weren't very good at it.
Additionally if Renaissance fencing is anything like "classical fencing", I know for a fact rapiers wouldn't be used to cut.

[Flying Dice]

Yep.

This shouldn't even be necessary.

A rapier is a slender, sharply pointed sword, ideally used for thrusting attacks, used mainly in Early Modern Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.

[Mephansteras]

Additionally if Renaissance fencing is anything like "classical fencing", I know for a fact rapiers wouldn't be used to cut.

Knowing quite a few rapier fighters who practice the period style of fencing, I've learned that in Renaissance fencing the rapier was a good bit broader than a modern foil and could be used to cut fairly well. However, it wouldn't be too good at cutting through bone and therefore wouldn't be too effective against zombies who don't care about little things like pain, or slit throats, or the like.

It'd be fine cutting against wild animals, though.

[CognitiveDissonance]

Yep.

This shouldn't even be necessary.

A rapier is a slender, sharply pointed sword, ideally used for thrusting attacks, used mainly in Early Modern Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Of course I've read the wiki The rapier you're thinking of is a fashionable weapon of later design. Latter rapiers sometimes didn't even have a sharpened edge, being exclusive a thrusting weapon.

Here's an appropriate quote:

The rapier began to develop around 1500 as the Spanish espada ropera, or "dress sword".[citation needed] The espada ropera was a cut-and-thrust civilian weapon for self-defense and the duel, while earlier weapons were equally at home on the battlefield. Its development began at a time period when the need for a lighter and faster sword became mandatory thanks to the introduction of firearm use in warfare .[4] Throughout the 16th century, a variety of new, single-handed civilian weapons were being developed, including the German Rapier, another cut-and-thrust weapon used for sportive fencing, as described in Joachim Meyer's Fechtbuch of 1570. 1570 is also the year in which the Italian swordmaster Signior Rocco Bonetti first settled in England advocating the use of the rapier for thrusting as opposed to cutting or slashing when engaged in a duel. Nevertheless, the English word "rapier" generally refers to a primarily thrusting weapon, developed by the year 1600 as a result of the geometrical theories of such masters as Camillo Agrippa, Ridolfo Capoferro and Vincentio Saviolo.

The weapon rapidly evolved thanks to rapid firearms and, I assume, metallurgy advances. Things like the Epee came, which is what you're probably thinking of.

Also, what Mephansteras said

[Kaitol]

There are so many variants and individual designs of each type of sword, making broad statements about them is partly impossible.

Very light, thin, flexible rapiers would be terrible at slashing. But rapiers were not to a one of that design. In fact they mostly pretty much looked exactly like somewhat slimmer longswords to start with until fencing became more and more of a sport and less I WANT TO MURDER YOU. You could slash with them, and if you were very good and got an excellent cut angle you could probably get through bone if they didn't have armor. But that wasn't what they were intended for and you would rarely be in a position to make such a good cut in a fencing duel so its mostly moot.

There are a whole category of swords halfway between rapiers and longswords made to do both cut and thrust. Forget if they're called anything special though

[Neonivek]

If I were adding museums what I'd do is when a museum is placed it randomly choses what exhibits it has. Each exhibit filling a room.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   I don't know if I have said it on the thread before but I love shovels. Digging pits is about the best way to deal with entrenched zombie filled positions. Of course a digging stick works just as well. I actually use one in my latest video to deal with a hotel tower next to the one I made my temp home the previous video.

[Krevsin]

apartment complexes are amazing. i just spent 4 survivors trying to take one that is located near some military crates.

unfprtunately, i somehow attracted a zombie horde from a nearby town, and all the beef MREs are inaccessible.

[Baijiu]

Museums would actually be a really good addition, I think. It'd let you find some of the rare mansion/pawn-shop only items (plate armor, pike, etc) potentially early enough for them to be useful in some fashion. Plus the myriad other stuff you could add in that wouldn't seem out of place.

You hit the zombie with the ancient pot!
The ancient pot shatters!
The zombie takes 4 damage.

More like, you get a morale bonus for hanging that original Van Gogh painting above your bed

Heaven forbid that bed is on an RV and while driving it, you hit a shrub...

[Darkmere]

Heaven forbid that bed is on an RV and while driving it, you hit a shrub...

I'm trying to picture how that would work. Would the shrub cause the painting to pinball around the cab? Would it fly off the wall and lodge in your kitchen unit, shuriken-style? My favorite is hitting a shrub just causes the painting, kitchen unit, and solar panels to spontaneously combust, leaving the rest of the vehicle unscathed.