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[scrdest]

Ayup. Sleep-saving master race.

[Sindain]

2500 nails he wants. 2500 nails...and the three hardware stores in the two closest towns had exactly zerohundred nails. Then my computer turned off, and I am not sure when I last saved.

And that is exactly why autosave is your friend.

It's your friend until it autosaves just as zombie predators and a hulk jump at you from the darkness... The best thing to do is save before sleeping. At worst you will lose a day of progress.

What, are you implying that we are dirty dirty SAVE SCUMMERS?!

[IcyTea31]

I've set my autosave to 15 minutes. If it happens to save while I'm surrounded by 8 hulks, so be it. It's not like I was going to load the save anyway, unless the game crashed.

[Rince Wind]

Looks like I forgot to save quite some times, I still need to bring 200 2x4s. Though that one is easy, luckily. The blankets are not that difficult either.

And thanks for the recommendation with the nails. There is an office building somewhere around.

[Akura]

2500 nails he wants. 2500 nails...and the three hardware stores in the two closest towns had exactly zerohundred nails.

Well, if you've access to the right tools(anvil, hammer, forge, swage and die set), and can fabricate nails by the hundred. Does take a while though. It's be faster to smash up every single house in town.

[Gentlefish]

It'll take more time, but you can rip the nails out of furniture before you set the building on fire - as far as I'm aware, burning furniture will not yield any nails.

[gimlet]

Wield something with good bash and just smash the furniture, it's way faster (unless you want to train construction to 1 or whatever the cap is for disassemble, it's pretty low iirc).  You'll get a bit fewer nails, but it only takes a turn or 2 to smash.

[BigD145]

It'll take more time, but you can rip the nails out of furniture before you set the building on fire - as far as I'm aware, burning furniture will not yield any nails.

Collapsing a mall should yield many nails.

[EuchreJack]

Isn't overlapping characters really buggy though? Unless you want everyone to kill themselves four days in or somesuch

I've never encountered any problems, but I only play on one computer.

[DreamThorn]

Also, are Shocker brutes supposed to be able to slam you when they're four tiles away? Are they charge tackling you or something?

Or if it shocked you first...

Probably this. My guess is that it zapped you, then ran up and slammed you. Alternatively I know we had a few problems for a little while with specials being used beyond their intended range, so if you are using an older experimental that might have been the problem.

That would explain me losing a character to an ordinary brute...  A bigger gun could have saved me, though.  I had one of those tiny pistols that take up only 2 volume units.  Next character will have something at least big enough to need a holster.

Talking of cool characters dying...

I once had a character in full plate armour, a Barbute helm, wielding a Zweihander, and using roller skates.  She could easily take out any amount of zombies (this was before stamina), but she forgot to check for shocker brutes. 

[blazing glory]

I once had a character in full plate armour, a Barbute helm, wielding a Zweihander, and using roller skates.  She could easily take out any amount of zombies (this was before stamina), but she forgot to check for shocker brutes. 

I imagine that full plate didn't help her there.

[Graknorke]

Shouldn't full plate conduct the electricity around rather than through you?

[Kot]

Faraday cage armor when?

[TheBronzePickle]

Shouldn't full plate conduct the electricity around rather than through you?

Full plate probably wouldn't work that well for that. In a lot of cases, the metal plates aren't hard-connected to one another, so there's plenty of room for gaps and such that would prevent the armor from taking the blow for you.

[Aseaheru]

Faraday cage armor when?

I think there is a Faraday shark suit in the game, atleast in the experimentals.