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[beorn080]

I'm a bit skeptical whether bows would do much to zombies, though - most arrows lack the mass to break a spine or obliterate brains. Puncturing internal organs isn't much of a problem for zeds. I guess it depends on the mechanism of reanimation.

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Our zeds use the same organs and whatnot that they did when they were alive, it's just they've been patched up/taken over by the goo. It's why blunt trauma and other things to the body can still deal enough damage to take them down (or at least until the ooze finishes repairing things).

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Does this mean that they should eventually starve? Or would Cata zombies not be strict carnivores, due to the goo's nature.

[TempAcc]

I got a really interesting and nice "locked in a lab" start. I actualy managed to escape the lab since I got very lucky and a random npc spawned with a sledgehammer, close to me. After killing him and taking the sledgehammer, and a lot of time spent dodging robots and finding my way up to the first floor. I actualy managed to get to the entrance room. Luckyly it was night so it was just dark enough so the turret in the main halway didn't make swiss cheese out of me, and with some clever wall sledgehammering, I broke free.
Now I'm wandering about with some fun mutations + robust genetics and 18 strenght and 14 intelligence, just surviving and reading books till I can delve back into the lab for some interesting recipes.

[Micro102]

Isn't the point of the lab start to not get lucky and break out, but rather survive in the lab?

[BigD145]

Isn't the point of the lab start to not get lucky and break out, but rather survive in the lab?

You would starve before too long. The point of lab is to have hard mode before breaking out.

[Sindain]

Isn't the point of the lab start to not get lucky and break out, but rather survive in the lab?

You would starve before too long. The point of lab is to have hard mode before breaking out.

You can live for moderatly extended periods of time in the lab. In particular, if you take the cannibal trait you can eat mutated legs/fetuses/arms without throwing up and they satiate for quite a bit. You then use royal jelly to counteract the health neg. Also, bottled water is plentiful.

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This is assuming you don't have random NPCs on. They do spawn in labs so if you have random NPCs on you can just hunt them for food.

[i2amroy]

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Does this mean that they should eventually starve? Or would Cata zombies not be strict carnivores, due to the goo's nature.

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AFAIK they don't actually have to eat anything. The goo probably draws power from other dimensional sources or something similar. The reason they are attacking you isn't that they want to eat you, but rather stems from the fact that they are goo'd and you aren't.

[Ivefan]

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Does this mean that they should eventually starve? Or would Cata zombies not be strict carnivores, due to the goo's nature.

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AFAIK they don't actually have to eat anything. The goo probably draws power from other dimensional sources or something similar. The reason they are attacking you isn't that they want to eat you, but rather stems from the fact that they are goo'd and you aren't.

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thats just so speciesisct. I demand more robots to crack down on this injustice.

[scrdest]

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Does this mean that they should eventually starve? Or would Cata zombies not be strict carnivores, due to the goo's nature.

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AFAIK they don't actually have to eat anything. The goo probably draws power from other dimensional sources or something similar. The reason they are attacking you isn't that they want to eat you, but rather stems from the fact that they are goo'd and you aren't.

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Inaccurate - unless your PC managed to survive all the time without once having contact with non-bottled water, and even then assuming it was bottled long before the cataclysm, and not use the mutagen even once you *ARE* goo'd, but you're a living carrier instead of a full-blown host. That is why you can get mutations - the goo within you responds to a proper environmental stressor by giving you a body mod that accommodates you to it.

[Descan]

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Could still be that the goo'd zombies know you aren't controlled by the goo and so attack.

[i2amroy]

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Does this mean that they should eventually starve? Or would Cata zombies not be strict carnivores, due to the goo's nature.

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AFAIK they don't actually have to eat anything. The goo probably draws power from other dimensional sources or something similar. The reason they are attacking you isn't that they want to eat you, but rather stems from the fact that they are goo'd and you aren't.

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Inaccurate - unless your PC managed to survive all the time without once having contact with non-bottled water, and even then assuming it was bottled long before the cataclysm, and not use the mutagen even once you *ARE* goo'd, but you're a living carrier instead of a full-blown host. That is why you can get mutations - the goo within you responds to a proper environmental stressor by giving you a body mod that accommodates you to it.

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Yeah, I meant "goo'd" in the sense that they are actively being controlled by the goo, while your goo is just a sort of dormant symbiote.

Also: SPOILER OVERLOAD!

[Greiger]

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I always kinda figured the goo zombies attack you because the goo needs biological materiel to properly regenerate and reduce the host's decay.  The goo can regenerate to a point replacing what organs and parts are still needed with bits of itself made to do the task in a pinch, but without raw materials that's how you end up with skeletons instead of the normal zombies.

Skeletons are just unsuccessful zombies.

[Kaitol]

I thought skeletons were old corpses who had the plot point seep in and rose from their graves.

[Aseaheru]

I thought they where just on of the silly things, like necro zombies.

And the necro mod.

[i2amroy]

I thought skeletons were old corpses who had the plot point seep in and rose from their graves.

Nah, it's actually a lore point that things that died prior to infection can't be raised (which is why you see dead drug dealer corpses, etc. still lying around).

[Darkmere]

I always pictured skeletons with a thin coating of stuff to hold them together and provide mobility, but not enough to form a more complex organ system. Though now I'm not sure how that would work, canonically and all.