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[Rivet-the-Zombie]

I have a toolbox, a acetlyene torch, a welder, and welding goggles.  I must be missing something.

Maybe a soldering iron?

[Akura]

Hacksaw? I would have thought the toolbox takes care of that, but I've seen situations that require the specific tool, not just tool quality.

[pisskop]

Def dont think I carry the soldering iron on me when I loot.  I keep it in the car door.  Hacksaw is in the toolbox.  But ill bring both when I get back.

Thanks!

[pisskop]

Winter is over, and I've spent all of Spring making my armored Command Center.  I intended it as a short-term base, for when I went out for serious business.  Like the labs or far-off things where I could expect to be out for days and need supplies.  But it looks more like an Armored RV than a Base of Operations thus far.  I havent even hooked up the cameras yet and the guns ran out of ammo when I disassembled tankbot.

Spoiler: The Perseverence (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Winter Log (click to show/hide)

  -Winter 01
-I continue to clean up my front lawn and set up storage and organization inside.  It has been constantly raining or snowing for the first 3 o so days of Winter.  Its because of that Electric conch.
-I recieved a threat from some local bandit.  It seems that with me clearing out a majority of the zombies in th local neighborhood he found it suitable to move in.  Ill make a note to shoot him at some point.
-In an attempt to get out, I have decided to try to loot the Megastore near my house.  Im not sure what I want, but I will go nonetheless.  I brought my damaged flamer.
-The raid went without hitch, but mostly without merit as well.  Some interesting things.  I think I did get some food, and an entrentching tool, but not too much else.
-I filled up my gastank at a gas station, and took another set of solar for another cart.  IF its going to snow and rain all the time in purgitory I may as well be prepared.
-A guy in a lab coat is sitting on my garbage can and watching me haul wood into a pile.  I got freaked out irl when I saw him, all pink and suddenly there one trip when he wasn't any other.  Wants no trouble, he says, and he hasn't stolen anything I care about, just some crap I haven't cleaned up yet.
-On the 11th day of winter I finish up organizing the house in a way I am comfortable with.  I swear, things like that are almost as fun as getting the crap to begin with.  pic 002 starts my brief tour.
-In pic 002, you can see the parking lot.  I've cleaned up the immediate road around me, placing all the organic trash into various pits inside the wooden fencing I've established to keep critters out of it.  They can compost in there, with the birds.  To the north is a demolished car, a legacy to the zombies in the area.  It looks like it was a wreck before they got their hands on it though, and dissasembly will be a pain.  My 5 solar panels sit and collect energy.  So far they are glorified shopping carts, with stroage and a light and the solar wiring.  There is also a makeshift shed, where Im storing all manner of metal and car parts.  You can see TonZa, the creepy labcoat wearing camper.  He just sits there.  All winter he's been doing this.  Spooked the pants off me when I first saw him in the dark.  There is also my electric bike, with a large electric engine in it.  Until I find a smaller one its the one.  Too much power, wastes too much energy, but quick acceleration and 1000 units of storage.  A red light but no blue.
-In pic 002a you can see the backyard, fairly empty and aesthetic.  There are funnels lined up that I cant be arsed to manage regularly.  There is a pile of wood and logs, and an exit out the back for me.  Behind the organic compost I have a pit for used up tools, such as glowsticks and cans and torches.  There is a shallow grave way in back for that chick who tried to kill me, with an appropriate epitaph.
-In 002b the front of the house is displayed.  There's not too much to it, and I plan to do more digging.  But there it is.  A pool lies to the southwest, a library to the north, and a megastore to the south some tiles.
-002c is the Entrace room.  It has several bookshelves lining the far wall, and general construction bag storage.  Clothing goes into the dresser and locker for processing at my leisure.
-002d is a massive bedroom that was divided into two rooms.  Theres the bedroom with a stone fireplace.  It houses all the clothing and various armors.  Note the downstairs.  The southern half has a wood stove and houses the food/kitchen and the weapons I don't carry on my person.  I have all the weapons in there, but I keep my prefered weapons seperated from the rest.
-002e is the old kitchen converted into a workroom for chemicals and electronics.  I have done zero work with chemicals outside of serums.  So, yea.  And electronics is oft-neglected by me.  The room to the east is the bathroom, a convenient storage for my empty bottles and pills.
-002f is a map of the region.  Its kind of meh, but no complaints.  Dangerous things are at least 30 minutes of driving away, so a win there.
-With my major task done, I am at a small lose of direction.  So I decide to go get glass shard for glassing my pits.  The spider house has shards.  I go over there and see a human die to the south and a group of at least 4 humans traveling together from the north.  Unsure if issues . . .
-They wanted no real trouble.  One ran from me though, so they may try to kill me later.  Speaking of, TonZa is in my house looting.  I threatened her and she turned hostile.  I punched her to death.
-Day 11 I rind what I am sure is the Rat King's Cave.  Gotta go get my shotty . . .
-Or not, my cx4 is downing them in 1shot and my pistol, the sigpro should be strong enough to hanle king.  If not Ill flee.  I have no throwables on me . . .
-Rat King has 20 plutonium cells on him, and with 3 pages of meat I consider dehydrating them.  Which would mean going back.
-I go to check out Tankbot.  Tankbot shoots at me while Im removing armor from a cargo truck.  I escape via car with 70 pain and half health after 3 laser targetings.  I fix up the car, pop some codine, and ram into it, killing.
-After killing tankbot, I mark his body and head off to go to a lab.  Ive always been more fond of the biological route of enhancements, tbh.
-I forget to bring significant quanities of food or explosives with me.  I usually carry a handful of throwables in my car.  Due to cleaning it out I did not.  So I went to raid the city west of me for it.  I raided a few restaurants, and then a grocery store, but got greedy when the sun came up and then ran into a tank on my way to get a second.  Theres also a gunstore I want to catch.
-I ran it over.  Thank god for armor and spikes.  Those spike absorb the damage otherwise taken by the hood.
-I brawl a bunch of zombies in the neighborhood down so I can use the torch on the gunstore bars.
-I loot the gun store for sparse ammo and loot a museum for a coupe fo flintlocks.  The zombies rise as I get to the car and start dropping crap in it.
-I get to the lab.  Im going to make 2 sweeps of every floor.777777777777777777777777777777777777777
-3 turrets in the center of there respective rooms got me.  I think warmth is lost as clothing decays.  but not as you simoply fortfy it.
-The deeper I go the colder the place gets.  I turn back with 3 mutating body parts, 3 serums (2 fish and 1 ursine), and a general vial of mutagen.
-Back at the house, I store the limbs downstairs until directly before I go to bed, when I eat 1.  I gained the carnivore trait.  I gained the rat claws trait.  I gained the smelly trait, I gained the truth teller trait, and the fast metabolism trait.
-I drank purifier to lose the rat claws, lose the metabolism, and lose the smelly.  I am a carnivore who cannot lie.
-I have 2 fish serums, a cattle serum, and a vial of mutagen.  I also forgot to take the robut genetics trait, but ow.
-I went out and got a spare welder so I could craft a welder's rig.  Which is a good thing because I ran out of torches soon after.  I have 7 solar powered carts now, 6 with a stow board and the one with a welder's rig.  I also notice the game took my fully charged welder for the project instead of, you know the one without 300 batteries in it.
-Im working towards reading the giant cashe of books I have, and making mutagen.  The labs are slow-going.  I take the cow mserum and get large and stronger.  I have 14 strength now, from 10.  The torso encumbrance means I cant shoulderstrap a second gun any more without enduring 4 or higher encumbrance.  But it also means I should be better at melee.
-I want to expand my car.  I need a crucible to do so.  I need torches or forges to do so.  GDI.  Well, spring is here.

And accompanying pics

Spoiler:  01 Doorbusters at WallMarket (click to show/hide)

A flamer took care of most of the zoms, but I was dissapoint about the loot inside.  A nifty place for pipes and scrape metal though.

Spoiler: 02b the commuter parking lot that serves as a garage (click to show/hide)

I did a picture tour of the house, but honestly most of it would be for a detailed playthrough recount.

  -The backyard has a fledgling Graveyard, 10 funnels, and 2 fermenting vats.  Since I am a carnivore, I figure Ill try fermenting any plants I find.  Don't know if I can drink them but if I ever change back at least Ill have goodies.  The graveyard is full of people who I caught stealing from me or tried to locally rob me.  Im reading up on cannibalism but until I need to or get the penalty free trait I'm just spending 20 minutes a night on it before bed, to mitigate the penalty.

  -The enrance room is a book room, with storage for building materials and sewing.  I have a desk set up for that, and a dresser for storing patches.  I also have a crate full of damaged clothing for cutting up whenever.

  -The Kitchen is now a fabrication room.  I keep the generally unused electronics and chemicals here.  Mostly just storage.  I also keep the booze/flavored drinks here, as well as excess clean water.

  -The bathroom connects to the kitchen, and is used to store empty bottles, commonly-used drugs, and my special occassion or never-use-but-horde-anyway drugs in two seperate cupboards.  The toilet has water in it still since I have a swimming pool of the stuff across the street and the sink has used syringes and unused serums.

  -The Bedroom is an elongated room that is divided into storage for the clothes I would use and a kitchen an gun room.  Each skill of weapon has its own rack, with ammo getting it own dresser and explosives all thrown into one locker.  The kitchen still has all the plant matter in it because Im lazy, and there is both a stone fireplace by the bed and a wood stove by the pots and pans.

  -The front yard/street is generally cleaned up by me, but beyond 50 or so tiles there's all kinds of carnage left from wandering NPCs.  Too lazy.

  -The basement was some kind of library thing, I am using it to store things I don't care about like empty cash cards.  An emergency store of food is in there and any perishables get stored there to increase shelflife.  It is underused, definately.  But my house is pretty safe, aside form the NPCs that keep spawning and the zoms that keep getting murked by those NPCs.

Spoiler: 02f the location on the map (click to show/hide)

  The western White @ is the spawn.  Northnorthwest of the red R that was tankbot is the mansion.

Spoiler: 04 Tankbots true feels about me (click to show/hide)

Tankbot locks onto me and I escape 3 bursts and 1 rocket that land right in front of the car.  Thankfully.  Since tankbot was almost dead I rammed him.

Spoiler: 05a Raiding for food (click to show/hide)

I got too cocky and had to retreat.  I ran over the tank and meleed the horde into submission.  I went to a lab after this that was so cold I had to flee despite the oddles of mutagens.

Spoiler: 07 Mutations (click to show/hide)

Ive eaten the fetus and legs, and injected most if the serums.  I had 2 purifiers, and ate one.

[Steelmagic]

Out of curiosity, does anyone else start acting really quickly when things get all intense? I always start mashing buttons quickly as I move and shoot, as though it actually helps me. And I feel the urge to shoot my revolver as fast as possible.

[n9103]

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[Cheedows]

Out of curiosity, does anyone else start acting really quickly when things get all intense? I always start mashing buttons quickly as I move and shoot, as though it actually helps me. And I feel the urge to shoot my revolver as fast as possible.

I've done this once without realizing before, when being mobbed by 20 zombies I just mashed the arrow keys until everything was dead.

[ShinQuickMan]

Out of curiosity, does anyone else start acting really quickly when things get all intense? I always start mashing buttons quickly as I move and shoot, as though it actually helps me. And I feel the urge to shoot my revolver as fast as possible.

Quite the opposite, actually. I always freeze up when in great danger, then take very deliberate actions to try and neutralize/avoid the threat. On the other hand, I often find myself mashing things to skip through tedious prompts (like repeated messages of some distant dog/wimpy zombie or crafting interruptions), only to get ganked by some brute/shocker/hulk/shocker brute I didn't notice around the corner.

[pisskop]

Im irl triggerhappy, both on a keyboard when firing an underwhlming gun and when shooting a traget.

In brawls Ive learned to 'burst' and then stop to see if I missed something important.  (such as bleeding, ripping, sudden shifts in momentum, etc)

[Akura]

Just noticed that lava counts as "nearby fire" for cooking. Neat. Guess I'll have to build a base near this lava chasm. Later on. After I can take on the few thousand zombies near it. And it is harder than it sounds to get them trudging through the lava.

[BishopX]

Just noticed that lava counts as "nearby fire" for cooking. Neat. Guess I'll have to build a base near this lava chasm. Later on. After I can take on the few thousand zombies near it. And it is harder than it sounds to get them trudging through the lava.

Be aware that it also counts for light...Zed's can see you near lava at night.

[MasterFancyPants]

On the other hand, I often find myself mashing things to skip through tedious prompts (like repeated messages of some distant dog/wimpy zombie or crafting interruptions), only to get ganked by some brute/shocker/hulk/shocker brute I didn't notice around the corner.

Yeah, this happens to me a lot too. Wish there was a way to customise the safe mode a bit more.

An overhaul for safe mode would be nice. Like if you could set it for a certain amount of spaces or only when you are attacked.

[SOLDIER First]

ptw

[duckman]

Does setting monster evolution to 0.00 really turn it off? All I've seen it do is make sure than I get mobbed by feral predators no matter where I go.

[Akura]

Seeing as reducing it speeds up monster evolution, probably not. Could have sworn that reducing the setting slowed it down at one point...