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[The Merchant Of Menace]

XD
I just saw the message if your terminal is too small.
I approve

[beorn080]

So in my current game I'm on Day 6 and contemplating attacking a large (9 tile) Bee Hive. I've got an internal furnace, finger laser, blood filtration ethanal burner and 50 power worth of reserves. In addition I have a backup 1911 and Remington 870, boh with 2 stacks of ammo and a .22 pistol hidden around my safe-house somewhere (I'm camped out in my basement, since zombies seem not to come down stairs and my shotgun traps and bubble wrap is sufficient for any spawns). Is there any other equipment I should obtain before heading out to do battle with the insectoid menace?

EDIT: It's a bee hive, not an ant nest. That's why I was planning on going there...to get honey comb.

If your finger laser is enough to one shot bees, you're fine with a couple of bottles of booze. Just be careful to not set the whole hive on fire around you.

[Twerty]

Yeah, I took on a bee hive and slaughtered an innumerable amount of bees with a USP 9mm from the very beginning of my game with no training and I barely even got scratched. You'll be fine with all that crap.

[SP2]

So in my current game I'm on Day 6 and contemplating attacking a large (9 tile) Bee Hive. I've got an internal furnace, finger laser, blood filtration ethanal burner and 50 power worth of reserves. In addition I have a backup 1911 and Remington 870, boh with 2 stacks of ammo and a .22 pistol hidden around my safe-house somewhere (I'm camped out in my basement, since zombies seem not to come down stairs and my shotgun traps and bubble wrap is sufficient for any spawns). Is there any other equipment I should obtain before heading out to do battle with the insectoid menace?

EDIT: It's a bee hive, not an ant nest. That's why I was planning on going there...to get honey comb.

If your finger laser is enough to one shot bees, you're fine with a couple of bottles of booze. Just be careful to not set the whole hive on fire around you when you escape.

Fixed. 

[beorn080]

Newest god mode bionic. Sensory Dulling. Quickly brings you from max pain to zero.

[Twerty]

Newest god mode bionic. Sensory Dulling. Quickly brings you from max pain to zero.

Is the "drowsiness and slowed reflexes" negligible?

[beorn080]

I took it from extreme pain to no pain, and the only effect I saw was a -3% speed drop from painkillers.

[Gamerlord]

2 words: adamantine claws. i was killing giant bees in one-hits and it was awesome.

[GlyphGryph]

Doesn't, like, everything 1 hit kill giant bees though?

( <- never not one hit killed them in his recollection)

[Gamerlord]

i never one hit kill anything

[GlyphGryph]

One hit killing things actually kind of sucks, because they don't leave corpses. So no butchering, no meats, no pelts. D:

One of my character very quickly became a victim of his own success...

[Whales]

One hit killing things actually kind of sucks, because they don't leave corpses. So no butchering, no meats, no pelts. D:

One of my character very quickly became a victim of his own success...

Not *entirely* true.  A corpse will not be dropped if you reduce their HP to -51 or less, or to 0 - (their max HP * 2), whichever is less.  So a zombie won't drop a corpse if you hit them down to -100 HP, and a squirrel won't drop a corpse if you hit them down to -51.

[Blaze]

How much strength do you have? With 20 Str and a Sledgehammer I'm still getting corpses from most zombies.

If all else fails, you can always turn to using low-caliber firearms, or even BBs.

Edit: I *think* I've found a survivor settlement, but there aren't any survivors. I've looted the shops - which all had items that said "owned" - and nothing happened.

[beorn080]

Yes, that's a settlement. All the NPCs are disabled, so they're basically just massive loot piles and easily fortified homes.

[Farce]

Hooray, I finally managed to survive a night without being found by zombies!

Happened upon a pile of dead scientists in an intersection right near my house, which was awesome.  Got a ton of water, a power supply, a battery boost and a hazmat unit, along with like three bottles of purifier off of them.  A dead army squad spawned in a little field right near them, too - got me some sweet pants and armor off them. 

A tricked out, completely silent SKS has helped me considerably with my zombie encounters so far, though I don't think I'm gonna have enough ammo for it for much longer.  I'm pretty inaccurate with it, and even if the shots hit they usually do <20 damage.

Encountered a bear, responded with fire.  I think the meat and stuff got caught out in an acid rain, though...


So far, it's seemed to me that the biggest factor in item management has been the 52-item limit.  I know you're working on stacking, which would help, but are there plans to NOT have all items bound to an a-Z key?