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[Xardalas]

Apparently a bulletin board gives you the option of creating a camp. I did so. Anyone know what that does? I was hoping you might be able to pin pieces of paper to the bulletin board to leave actual notes and such.

[IcyTea31]

I haven't tried it, but IIRC it allows you to command your followers to return to base, assign guards and such.

[Xardalas]

I haven't tried it, but IIRC it allows you to command your followers to return to base, assign guards and such.

Oh, well that would be neat as hell.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Speaking of followers, what is the "create zombie slave" option available in the action menu of some knives? I know there's a Necromancy mod, but it is not enabled in any of my games.

[Xardalas]

Speaking of followers, what is the "create zombie slave" option available in the action menu of some knives? I know there's a Necromancy mod, but it is not enabled in any of my games.

It makes a zombie that follows you around and you can drop shit onto it and make em carry it.

[TheBronzePickle]

You remove the zombie's dangerous bits so it can do nothing but follow you around harmlessly. Presumably you cut the jaw and arms off.

[Xardalas]

Anyone know how to write things on a signpost? I built one but I have no idea how to write on it.

[i2amroy]

So are the developers ever going to take time off adding random stuff and actually fix this massively broken feature? Its been like this for like two years now.

Yeah, open source means that your options for the meaning of the world "developer" range between "hardcore code person" to "json modder". Funnily enough unless you are a hardcore developer yourself you probably won't notice many of the contributions of those people, since for the most part they are all totally code-end changes, improvements and other such things. Even their lesser contributions would often require you to be a modder (taken a look at modding the effects system lately? There's a lot that you can do there that you couldn't before). On the other hand the contributions of the json modders are much more likely to be noticed, firstly because they are changes that the player actually sees actively, and secondly because there are a lot more contributors at the json editing level than there are at the code wrangler one.

That said Coolthulu (one of our code wrangler level devs) recently completed the first $330 Z-level bounty. It's not to the point where the player is going to be able to notice anything (other than the "z-levels" option in the options menu) but it was a very important technical shift that had to be down prior to actually starting to add things the player might notice. (And he's slowly chipping away at the second Z-levels issue as well now).

[Sindain]

If you're talking about a period of two years I believe NPCs have improved, cause they have been improving.

I mean, they're still retarded, but at least they no longer destroy the universe by attempting to eat a tire.

[Greiger]

I agree wholeheartedly.  NPCs are vastly improved.  I havent had an NPC cause a crash in a few stable versions now, and they do the jobs of stay here and follow me very well.  I mean heck, if you have a car with an additional seat you can even drive around with them!

You just want to park them in a protected place somewhere near your base instead of at your actual base because they can and will LOOT ALL THE THINGS!

[Darkmere]

So I have a two-year-old Sheltered Survivor who's moved into a small town and refitted an Army Truck into an armor-plated, turreted APC. Finally got around to doing my shelter-bro's quest, nabbing a flag from a school two towns over. Pick up NPC-bro, convince him to ride back to town with me so I can set him up next door. He agrees, hops into the APC and I drive off.

He immediately starts bashing on everything in my APC!

I swear to god these fuckers are just begging to die. He's lucky I build things strong and value his marksmanship training *slightly* more than the rags he's wearing. For now.

[Sheb]

I think he's trying to get to the zeds? Try changing his combat preferences to "do not attacks stuff unless I attack it first" or something.

[Akura]

No, they bash stuff in their way. I had a follower smash through a window(alerting the zeds in the area), despite watching me walk through the goddamn door not two tiles away.


One good thing with NPCs is if they stand on a vehicle you can pull(like a shopping cart) you can push the cart around with them on it.

[Darkmere]

I think he's trying to get to the zeds? Try changing his combat preferences to "do not attacks stuff unless I attack it first" or something.

There wasn't anything around at all. The compartment can't even see outside (I have rear cameras). He wouldn't use the door he came in, preferring to bang his head on the wall instead. The best part is, when we stopped he just stood there in the doorway blocking the exit for a while.

His quest chain is the MURICA one where he wants a flag and army black box. So I assume he's just so absurdly idiotic that he thinks vehicles are communists and can't understand doors at all.

[ChairmanPoo]

What are towels good for?