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[Blackray Jack]

Question: Anyone know how to raise stats aside from the beginning? Will they be able to raise naturally on their own or is it permanent once you set them?

Edit: A button to try and force yourself awake would be useful, as to avoid losing valuable daylight.

[Shades]

Question: Anyone know how to raise stats aside from the beginning? Will they be able to raise naturally on their own or is it permanent once you set them?

Not sure how spoiler this is really, but better safe that sorry. At worst it's a very minor spoiler.

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Mutations can raise (and lower) stats, among other things, as far as I can tell this is the only way they change the natural value.
Some augmentations alter stats as well and various drugs / effects also modify them temporarily.

[Straven]

Edit: A button to try and force yourself awake would be useful, as to avoid losing valuable daylight.

Bit unrealistic but would be useful so i suggest a new item such as alarm clock which will wake u up when u want but will cause noise and so can attract zombies

[Gamerlord]

Okay, um I just went on http://cataclysmff.zxq.net/SMF/index.php for the first time in a while. Is it well and truly fucked?

Oh, and what version are we up to? Haven't checked in a while...

[ChairmanPoo]

that's abandoned. try whalesdev instead.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Yeah, the new forums are linked in the OP.
And the latest windows is Cataclysm 01.a.o with Matt's patch for spike pits.

[Gamerlord]

K!

[ChairmanPoo]

Fungal walls are invulnerable now? as soon as I kill one, an uninjuried one pops up in its place

Edit: indeed: my kill list showed 183 dead fungal walls, yet they kept respawning.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

I'm sure a nuclear weapon will take care of that.

[Micro102]

Well, I haven't played this in a while, so I am wondering. Are there AI now? Can you build your own shelters now?

*things that probably aren't there but I am still hoping*

Can you make multiple story houses?

Can you collect AI in your shelter and arm them?

Do zombies now spawn far away off screen and have their movements simulated, so you don't have zombies appear in your house while you are gone, or in your basement when you go down after sleeping upstairs?

[ChairmanPoo]

Well, I haven't played this in a while, so I am wondering. Are there AI now?

Not yet

Can you build your own shelters now?

yes

Can you make multiple story houses?

No. There are no multiple storey buildings yet, either, though Whales is working on it, or so I hear. There *are* multiple storeys in labs, though.

Do zombies now spawn far away off screen and have their movements simulated, so you don't have zombies appear in your house while you are gone, or in your basement when you go down after sleeping upstairs?

No. It's not really practical to simmulate that much, either. The basement spawn thing should be addressed, though, maybe...

[Whales]

Actually, zombies have always spawned far away off screen... and the basement thing is largely eliminated, should be eliminated totally for houses.

Monsters traverse stairs "intelligently," do, rather than just teleporting down with you, so that solves some basement madness.

And zombies don't create a new spawn point if they're "pulled" outside their normal spawn point, so unless zombies follow you down, you won't get zombies in your basement.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

They can however, follow you down from behind a layer of pits without taking a single scratch.

[ChairmanPoo]

Not zombies, but sometimes things spawn in basements. In my previous game my basement was plagued by ants.

I reckon there was an anthill nearby, and it ranked nearby basements as a potential spawn point, or something

[Whales]

Let's just say the ants got through cracks in the wall?  Or something.  Any tile close enough to an anthill is a valid spawn point for ants.

They can however, follow you down from behind a layer of pits without taking a single scratch.

Haha, sure, but the above terrain simply isn't tracked while you're below; just a monster's distance from the stairs.  I suppose I could make the distance calculation also check for damage the monster would take on its way...