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[Astral]

Butchering clothing must be a new feature in the experimental builds, as it doesn't seem to work on the stable version.

[Aseaheru]

"B"utchering clothing on the ground is new, yes, but you could almost always cut it ("A"ctivate a knife/scissors/other cutting thing, select cutting, select item), or in some cases disassemble it. (Default keybinding is "(" )

[Darkmere]

Try ground-butchering on something unimportant first. I ALWAYS ruin everything I try to cut up that way, as opposed to always getting decent returns on items I pick up and cut apart in my inventory.

[Aseaheru]

It depends on skill(I think tailoring for cutting up, butchering for, well, butchering), and I think the butchering quality of the item.

[Darkmere]

Using the same knife with the same skill on the same character with the same quality items will always destroy them for me on the ground, but never when I pick them up.

Just try it on something you don't want first, to be sure.

[pisskop]

Okay.

So I've got a small problem with Wandering spawns.  The theory of them is nice, in practice it doesnt allow me respite on the first day.  I end up freezing, naked, unfed, unequiped and unarmed.  It only takes on dog to finish my character in this state; and wander spawns ensure they spawn even in the dark.
  Deer God, they spawn right in front of you, and not a single house/power station/wayward gas station is safe from them.

Wandering spawn would be better if one of two things:
1) They instead populate* map tiles you are not on, and activate when you wander into them.  Exception is the place you 'slept in last'/'designate as home' (via your billboard (still have that, yea?  For npc management?))
2) Allow me to set a high static spawn ratio, but a very low wander spawn (or make the wander spawns spawn moderate/large herds more rarely).

3) alternatively, stop wandering spawns from honing in on softer noises.  Walking around a house should not attract a horde, and even breaking into a window should only attract a trickle.

I'm considering trying to make zombies spawn in the wilderness (hopefully as a rare spawn), but am unsure how to do.

So I added basic zombies as Mammels underseveral different biome spawns, with what I think (hope) is a rare chance [mul;tiplier cost ~higher].

They now should spawn rarely in the wild, and select city locations.  Be free, my little Zs!

[Jacob/Lee]

Apparently NPCs don't care very much about lighters. Nearly every mission I've taken had them give me a lighter for equipment. It's hilarious when they give me one after telling me to put their undead mom down quickly - maybe they want me to bring the house down.

[pisskop]

An NPC just threw 3 sticks of dynamite at a fleeing racoon, then charged a horde of about 15 zombies weilding a stick :|

[FArgHalfnr]

An NPC just threw 3 sticks of dynamite at a fleeing racoon, then charged a horde of about 15 zombies weilding a stick :|

That's definitively worth a Darwin award

[Rince Wind]

Free dynamite, yay!

[pisskop]

Free dynamite, yay!

Well, it was lit dynamite. :p


So.  I guess its obvious in hindsight that {freq} measures relative scarcity and {cost_multi} measures site monster spawn usage.
  So I did manage to add them, and took off the wanders, and cranked up the spawn rate to 2.6.  I justify that because wolves and such shouldnt spawn literally everywhere.  So far I ran into a few stray mammilian zoms, in the small groups of 1-3 I set up.  If I ran into larger groups, I don't know it because I spend early game too worried about foot-speed, weight/volume management, and food/ammo/running.

This character has been on the run for upwards of a week.  My usual strategy of flicking on flashlights and finding a bike/working vehicle are failing, even at sites I remember having them.  House garages are a nice addition, but finding a garage in the dark is very hit an miss.

  So far I've stolen a shotgun from an NPC who died, stumbled into an ammo cache, killed a cop, found a glock, killed 25 or so spiders, found armor, killed a hulk, read three books by flashlight alone (batteries go faster, I notice), and just found a military roadblock that promises working cars at the expense of those nasty turrets.  Or at least I remember them being nasty . . .

Pedit:  >:[ no seats.

[Tawa]

An NPC just threw 3 sticks of dynamite at a fleeing racoon, then charged a horde of about 15 zombies weilding a stick :|

That's definitively worth a Darwin award

Even more worthy of a Darwin award is the man who activates a mininuke at 8:00 AM 5 days after the end of the world.

[Lightningfalcon]

What has been added to the game in the past two to three months?  Or is there some kind of changelog I can look at for the experimental version?

[BigD145]

What has been added to the game in the past two to three months?  Or is there some kind of changelog I can look at for the experimental version?

Here's the best changelog there is: https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/commits/master

[n9103]

Which isn't very useful, since the majority of entries are: X files was edited, or X branch or PR was merged. Doesn't say what the edit or merge was about, and a changelog isn't for people that want to go chase down every little alteration to a file.
But thanks just the same.