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[Blood_Librarian]

Regular water works the last time I had to use it, but it was long enough ago that I had to use detergent/soap as well, so my info is outdated and may possibly be wrong.

[Aseaheru]

 Washboard with soap/detergent OR washingmachine(in vehicles) with... It may be clean water only in th tank, might accept regular water, but still needs detergent, and I dont think soap works there.

[Robsoie]

So after 68 days and my plants growing so slowly , it was time to think long time food preservation.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

After crafting a food dehydrator thanks to all the loot i had accumulated in the crates of my faction camp since those 2 months, i installed a battery mod so i could use car batteries too.


And while i was at it, i took the car alternator i had found a long time ago and installed it on a bike , then installed a car battery so when i would pedal around the battery would recharge thanks to leg power.

Took a biking tour around a couple of the cleared city blocks and finally reached my oldest farm.
And was nicely surprised to see it just got another growing stage :


I wonder how much longer (it took near 60 days on that oldest farm to reach this stage) i'll have to wait for something edible to gather.

From the tour, the battery got enough charge for powering my food dehydrator to suceed in my attempt at dehydrating all the meats from an unfortunate fox that got killed with a lucky metal bolt.

With that 60l clean water metal tank waiting nearby it looks like i'm ready for going on a long away adventure in zombie land, as it's been too safe here and in my faction camp after the whole city clearing

[Robsoie]

One of the NPC of my faction camp was sent to a gathering mission , when it was time for him to come back the game/npc told me he was attacked from behind by a jabberwock, at that point i thought it meant that NPC was dead (as it sometime happen for those sent in such mission though that's the first time a jabberwock was mentionned) but that he kicked the monster and it collapsed into gore (i found it funny it was the same message as in Dwarf Fortress).

Yet my character :

[Sergius]

Playing 0.C-8135, most successful run so far almost one month.

It's spring, day 28 and I still can't plant anything, it says it's "too cold". I wonder if that's a bug? Or is the game supposed to be unnaturally cold?

I've tried every day, even right now I'm comfortable (rising) while outdoors, and can't plant. I guess I'll try again in summer.

[Robsoie]

Yeah, unfortunately in CDDA spring is always freezing, in the past it started to get better after a couple of week in spring but now that they changed season length i wouldn't be surprised CDDA freezing spring takes months, similarly to growing berries takes now nearly 3 months instead of 14 days.

It's possible to play in an eternal summer if you don't want to deal with this freezing cdda spring annoyance

[Aseaheru]

 Whats the actual temperature? They might have done sillybuggers with what it takes to plant...

[Sergius]

Ok, managed to get a single Sunny day, luckily I had enough time to plant an entire yard worth of seeds (actually it got cold again after 5pm, but the next day was clear also). I'm on day 40-something now and it's mostly rainy and chilly, luckily managed to get an electric car running, because I just keep having to go farther away to forage vegetables.

The problem is that without sun there's no electricity. I made a foot cranked generator in the basement I've been living in (those with sandbags) so maybe I'll modify it with parts from another electric vehicle to fit swappable batteries in case the car runs out.

Some things seem to take way longer than advertised, such as my charcoal smoker, keeps saying "will be done in 5 hours" but is more like 5 days.

[Robsoie]

My character finally completed a cycle of this eternal summer, so the game went back to Day 1 of it for some reason instead of continuing to add more after the +/-90th one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now i'm day 8 of this new summer cycle and after a trip with my shopping cart back to my away and oldest farm that was made entirely with berries seed, i finally was happy to see that it finally got something harvestable atfer all that time, looks like the plant reached their last growth step.
So it also confirmed that since the season lenght change berries don't take 14 days but 90 to reach their last growth step.



After gathering everything in my shopping cart, that's a very lot of berries there.


Can't wait for my 2 other farms that were much bigger (one self made and the larger one that was generated from my farm expansion in the faction camp) to deliver.

Lucky me i had recently recharged fully the car battery for my food dehydrator, that's going to be a huge lot of preserved dehydrated fruit soon.

[EuchreJack]

Any ideas what the other types of faction camps do?

[Robsoie]

There are other types of faction camps ?
Or do you mean the expansions (farm, kitchen, garage, blacksmith ...) you can add every couple of upgrades ?

[Robsoie]

Juste a note, if you play with experimentals, avoid build 8167 and 8168 , there's a bug in it (a bugged commit that was just reverted for the next build in line after those 2) .

The reason is that it duplicate hugely monsters of any kind due to a bug , spawning them so much that they will be put even in completely cleared zones.
https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/26683

a gif of what to expect
https://old.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/comments/9x2ciu/with_zui_quan_game_is_still_playable_after_last/

While it's funny to see absurdly big hordes of doom (especially if before updating you spent a night in a cleared city building, you get out and after a couple of minute there are insane amount of monster everywhere), if you were attached to your current character and his world, this is very likely to ruin your actual fun in the case you don't have any previous backup  of your save (if you regularly use a newer experimental, make sure to always make a backup of a save in case things go very wrong, like it is the case in the 2 mentionned builds)

bug isn't present in build 8166 , and as the commit was reverted, it shouldn't be present in build 8169

[ollobrains]

might hold off for 8170 and give the latest an experimental  go then

[King Zultan]

They just restored the ability to fix vehicle batteries while they're installed in a vehicle

[ollobrains]

They just restored the ability to fix vehicle batteries while they're installed in a vehicle

that's a start if u break down or make upgrades and break something