I had gotten to the point where I'm finding my composite bow/halberd combo just isn't capable of killing certain things.
A mission where I'm supposed to recover some data from a wrecked military convoy. Cue encounter with a massive swarm of: soldier zombies, kevlar zombies, acid sniper zombies(which by the way, look like soldier zombies), and kevlar hulks. The kevlar hulks in particular I can't penetrate with my bow, and hell no am I going into melee with them. I was able to kill one by building a 8x4 wall of burning pine and kiting it through, but the wall burnt out too fast to be very useful. I might be able to penetrate with bodkin arrows, but I'm not going to risk it. Plus, the acid snipers in particular have a long-ranged attack(longer than my bow) that, while not doing much HP damage, does inflict a lot of pain. Pain very quickly prevents me from using the bow due to strength loss.
As such, I had been looking into explosive weaponry. Most of the "improvised" explosives I had recipes for required far too much in materials to be effective. I could squeeze a few hundred units of ANFO or similar materials out of the stuff I had, for recipes requiring sometimes thousands. And to say nothing of the time required for that. Just to make one improvised grenade.
Then I leveled up cooking and got dynamite added to the available recipes list. While technically one above my skill level, it's still possible to succeed.
I'm actually shocked at how cheap dynamite is to craft.
>Paper x5 or Rolling paper x32
>Concentrated acid x2, nitric acid x2, or sulfuric acid x2
>Ammonia x1, denatured alcohol x250, or ethanol x250
>animal cooking oil x16, human lard x2, human tallow x2, lard x2, mutant humanoid tallow x2, mutant humanoid lard x2, mutant tallow x2, tainted tallow x2, vegetable oil x16, or soap bar x3
I have tons of paper and can easily find more. Concentrated acid is something I can make from acid water. Acid water can be made from salt water. I live near some swampland; I have(as far as I know) inexhaustible supplies of salt water, therefore inexhaustible supplies of acid. I'm sitting on literally gallons of ammonia, and have the capacity to make more. I'm also sitting hundreds of units of animal cooking oil, plus getting more materials in that category isn't exactly difficult(tainted fat from zombies; no shortage of those).
Two questions though. How do I use a radio activation mod? I assume I could attach one to a stick of dynamite or dynamite bomb and trigger it remotely, but I don't know what I need to trigger it.
Second, and completely unrelated to any of the above, how do I get yeast? I'm locked out of several recipes because they require yeast, but I haven't found any in any of the place I've looted.
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