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[Rince Wind]

You can never have enough power storage.


Oh well, I'll have to train survival then. Too bad the library had no books about that subject.

[Blaze]

Are CBMs useful for anything if your character does not use them (or, in a scenario more applicable to the typical character, already has the CBMs in question)? The only use I found for them was kickstarting skill training by repairing/reinforcing a few of them, since I don't think they can be disassembled.

Some can be disassembled for parts.
The fusion blaster arm can be turned into a rifle with the requisite skills.
And a the laser/fusion/lightning cbms can be turned into weapon turrets.

[Descan]

I'm not sure how applicable it is, but just as a general rule, make sure you have a good butchering knife. That could be what's making all your bionics degrade upon butchering, if you have a bad knife.

[Gentlefish]

...What is the best butchering knife these days, anyway?

[ChairmanPoo]

I always assumed that the muscle pain thing was due to trichinosis.

[Rivet-the-Zombie]

ah so worm reoval tablets or other forms of medcine might help there. Ringworm giving muscle cramps yup sounds like Cataclysm

There's no ringworm in DDA.

I always assumed that the muscle pain thing was due to trichinosis.

You assumed correctly; that's why antiparasitic drugs can cure it.

[Darkmere]

...What is the best butchering knife these days, anyway?

Best one I'm seeing on my high fabrication list is a literal Butcher's Knife at 25 butchering quality.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I always just carry a Toolkit around.

On that note, are there plans to expand the current "eat from the tile you're standing in" mechanic to other activities as well? I specifically mean 'a'ctivation, and disassembly. I've had a situation where I could not pick up a broken riot control bot to try to disassemble it for parts, and could not 'B'utcher it despite carrying a toolkit and an acetylene torch. Plus unfolding folded vehicles without picking them up first should be possible.

[scrdest]

ah so worm reoval tablets or other forms of medcine might help there. Ringworm giving muscle cramps yup sounds like Cataclysm

There's no ringworm in DDA.

I always assumed that the muscle pain thing was due to trichinosis.

You assumed correctly; that's why antiparasitic drugs can cure it.

AUGH. Flashback to learning about trichinosis. Nopenopenopenope.

Although the messages for a fungal infection is just as freaky to me.

[Gamerlord]

...What is the best butchering knife these days, anyway?

Best one I'm seeing on my high fabrication list is a literal Butcher's Knife at 25 butchering quality.

Two questions;

1. If you have multiple knives in your inventory, which one is used for the butchering?
2. If you have a knife in a sheath, can it still be used?

[Descan]

To answer 2, yes. I generally keep my butchering knife in my boot or in a sheath somewhere and forget about it.

As for 1, I don't know for sure, but I've never had troubles with multiple knives in my inventory which carrying the knife in my boot. One of my characters had a zweihander which could, funnily enough, be used for butchering. Obviously not very well, and I only found out when I mutated bearishly. This caused all my clothing to explode off of me, including my sheath (for some reason. Would like it if that could be fixed. I mean, you can add a long strap to the sheath to wrap it around your swollen booty, it's not hard. Waterskins too, there isn't an XL waterskin either. A lot of the quality-of-life items don't have XL versions, it'd be nice if that was expanded to encompass more than a dozen items.)

So when I went to harvest meat for my peckish bear hunger, I found out that A) my big-ass sword can be used to butcher animals, and B) it really rather sucks at the task.

[Darkmere]

Two questions;

1. If you have multiple knives in your inventory, which one is used for the butchering?
2. If you have a knife in a sheath, can it still be used?

1) I'm 99% sure it uses the best one. I've had a multitool, butcher's knife, and a sharp rock in my inventory before, and gotten the yields of the butcher's knife.

2) I'm not sure, I don't have a sheath to test it on this character.

[Aseaheru]

No, it cannot. It must be in your main gear area, not in your worn area.

Unless an experimental changed it, anyways. This was true of the last stable version.

-edit- Well, as of now I can safely say that I am flat-out wrong. Well, thats a nice feature. Very nice feature.

Also, I cant say anything about question one, since nothing changed between different tools, probably due to the fact that the test char had skill of 20...

[Rince Wind]

Got a steak knive, which is a big step up from the survival knife in terms of butchering (hell, even my wakizashi ist better ) and got a integrated toolkit from a shocker. On the same run I finally got a hacksaw, just before the toolkit. 

Now, I can't find the mother of that crybaby over there (he is 2 maptiles from the target house, idiot). Guess she'll have to continue her unlife.
But I found a huge weapon stash while looking for her, so it is ok.

[martinuzz]

...What is the best butchering knife these days, anyway?

paradoxically, the butcher's knife is not the best butchering tool. It's nice, with 25 points, but the hunting knife is better, with 30 butchering quality