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[KA101]

Merged a fix for a memory leak in fields, so being around fire and fungal haze ought to be safer now.

Working to get infrastructure for profession-based traits in.  That'll pave the way for some later-game quests I have in mind.

[Gentlefish]

Man. I underestimated how wonderful that motel-side pool was. Water's hard to find in safely large amounts >m>

[Orange Wizard]

I set up at a motel once. I never even considered that the pool would be one of the more valuable things there.

Heck, I actually made a game of luring zombies into it because I simply wasn't concerned about it.

[Micro102]

What's so hard about finding water? LMOE shelters, farms, any building with a pool, any river, any swamp, or a lot of funnels and large containers and you have unlimited water.

[Kaitol]

You're assuming any of those are available in a five mile radius. Such is not exactly guaranteed.

[Micro102]

You're assuming any of those are available in a five mile radius. Such is not exactly guaranteed.

I've yet to run into a map where they aren't available.

The most I've had to do was craft funnels from plastic bottles.

[ollobrains]

with the RNG there are some maps, where easy to access water that isnt massively guarded by zombies is very hard.  But i would think that access to a decent weapon would be the first priority and then getting a hold of food of course

[RedKing]

Is there a point to building furniture like chairs, cupboards and such, other than for the construction skill training and possibly obstacles?
Like, can I actually store items in cupboards and dressers, rather than leaving everything in big piles?

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[beorn080]

Is there a point to building furniture like chairs, cupboards and such, other than for the construction skill training and possibly obstacles?
Like, can I actually store items in cupboards and dressers, rather than leaving everything in big piles?

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Lockers make an excellent, if loud, method of dragging around a large number of items before you make a shopping cart. They hold an extremely large amount of stuff compared to how easy they are to make. Only issue is, like I said, sound. Don't drag lockers around in dynamic spawn. Used to be that lockers and dressers and such hoovered up items that they were dragged over, but now they just displace em, so you have to move the stuff into the locker now.

[Descan]

... You can move lockers...?

[RedKing]

Good to know. Plus, I played around with (D)rop instead of (d)rop and discovered how to place things in dressers, lockers, cupboards, etc.


Now I can have my base look like a normal person's house instead of just random piles of loosely-associated objects (which is kind of how I live in RL )



Had a start as a shower victim. She made the obligatory nailboard, made a couple of forays into the edge of town to get a sweater and boots, and then spotted a cabin in the woods to the north. Took out the three zombies in the toolshed and started hauling crap from the shelter. Now I have a fence, a wood stove, some fruit, a whole bunch of useful tools, clothes that fit and a sofa to sit on and read The Big Book of First Aid in the evening before going to bed in a real bed, with a blanket and everything. This is probably my best first day ever in this game.


EDIT: And a good night's sleep is interrupted by the sound of wandering dogs stepping on land mines. *sigh*
But in the morning, I also found a fox and a deer done in by mines. And butchered and skinned them with a gardening shovel.

.....Best. Game. Ever.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Be advised, though. As of a recent experimental update, furniture like lockers take the weight of items inside them into account for dragging strength checks. So that locker is going to get much slower and louder as stuff accumulates in it.

[beorn080]

... You can move lockers...?

I believe the command is shift+g. Same as grabbing a shopping cart. Actually, most furniture can be moved that way, except for consoles and beds IIRC.

[Darkmere]

Is there a point to building furniture like chairs, cupboards and such, other than for the construction skill training and possibly obstacles?
Like, can I actually store items in cupboards and dressers, rather than leaving everything in big piles?

I'm not sure about cupboards but lockers keep you from seeing their contents at a distance. I usually make that kind of closed-off storage for items I don't need very often (winter clothes, armor variants, nonperishable food, booze, medicine cabinet) and keep the rest of the stuff on counters so if I need something small or random like duct tape or batteries I can (V) the whole room to find it and not have an overcluttered list.

Also, chairs count as "comfortable" sleeping spots, so if you want you can toss a blanket in an armchair and fall asleep in front of the fireplace if you feel so inclined.

[Aseaheru]

Most of the time I have rows of lockers with markers on the floor saying whats in them.