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[Grimshot]

 Wow, I'm having terrible luck, or should I say my lab safehouse is. In the span of one day I got attacked by two Triffid Queens turning half of it into dirt and trees and then a thunder storm happens and blows up one of the few metal walls I have left. I go to check the damage and lightning strikes the wall right near my stockpile of burnable objects setting fire to half my food stockpile, a large chunk of whats left of the bedroom wall, some of the recently create forest, and the stack of two by fours I've been making to fix the place up. I'm glad I prepared for putting out fires or it would have been a lot worse. Installed Thermal Dissapation and Air Filtration System awhile back and a Fire Extinguisher was one of the first things I put in there. The Air Filtration thing didn't protect me from smoke like I thought it would but everything else went as planned.

 It was pretty fun... Rebuilding isn't going to be though, assuming I even bother. I may just move into the actual lab and set up a bunch of shotgun traps to make sure nothing sneaks up on me.

[Fniff]

Hey, is there any tutorials as to surviving longer then two days?

[Angel Of Death]

Hey, is there any tutorials as to surviving longer then two days?

Spoiler: A bit spoilery (click to show/hide)

1: Keep the hell away from swampy areas near forests. Fungaloid galore
2: NEVER EVER, EVER. use unsilenced weapons or loud guns (ones that go KERBLAM or BLAM with a silencer). They will attract hordes literally 20 times as large as your common large horde
3: Grab a backpack and food as soon as possible.
4: I find it easier to travel around a lot with no defined safehouse. It probably won't help you, though.

I have a question. Do guns eventually break?

[Ehndras]

I opened up the crafting menu in game, and... well... there aren't many things to craft. Is it skill related to what recipes you have?

Yes. The higher the skill, the more you can craft.

[FunctionZero]

Spoiler: A bit spoilery (click to show/hide)

1: Keep the hell away from swampy areas near forests. Fungaloid galore
2: NEVER EVER, EVER. use unsilenced weapons or loud guns (ones that go KERBLAM or BLAM with a silencer). They will attract hordes literally 20 times as large as your common large horde
3: Grab a backpack and food as soon as possible.
4: I find it easier to travel around a lot with no defined safehouse. It probably won't help you, though.

I have a question. Do guns eventually break?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1: Fungaloids can actually live anywhere. They aren't any less rare in swamps, either. Besides, they are pretty easy, and just take some royal jelly if you get infected.
2: Guns aren't that bad, unless you don't move. In fact, even when fighting with guns only, I didn't attract much of a horde.
3: Can't argue with this. Leather armor would be more important than food though, there's food everywhere in early game.
4: Perhaps, but when you start finding CBMs and such, you'll need a place to stash them.

Nope, guns don't break yet. Item durability is planned though.

[TerryDactyl]

2: NEVER EVER, EVER. use unsilenced weapons or loud guns (ones that go KERBLAM or BLAM with a silencer). They will attract hordes literally 20 times as large as your common large horde

You know, that being said...
I spawned close to a gun shop. I usually choose a .22 handgun w/CB rounds and deal headshots at close range, but my choices were a little limited. But I had lots of 30.06, so I picked up the biggest, baddest rifle I could find and climbing through the broken windows slowed them down enough for me to pick them off one-by-one. Of course, I had zombies coming at me from halfway across town, and I had to flee this horde which was growing by the second... but I had slaughtered enough on the spot that I was actually GAINING ammunition. So I backpack'd the rifle, grabbed a pistol and fled. Rinse and repeat. And again. Now my gun shop is littered with corpses, I can outfit a small army, and my firearm skill exceeds 4, by the second day.

So I don't know. Use the big guns whenever you can, just make sure you don't cut off your own retreat.

[Mr.Person]

Well using loud guns isn't good for survival, but hey, there's more to survival horror than JUST surviving.

[Grimshot]

 Well, one thing that works well for me is taking a single Bear Trap with me where ever I go. Just drop it in front of whatever trying to kill you then poke it to death while it can't move. For extra fun pick up the trap after they set it off and reset it in front if them again before they can move. The whole thing seems kind of unbalanced, actually.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

You used to be able to dig pits in front of zombies as they charged at you.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Do zombies and copbots fight? I have 15 copbots on my kill list, and I didn't kill them. I was at a police station when I died (I lived about half an hour).

[Straven]

That's odd.. I'm already using the latest Aposos version, downloaded again just in case and still crash when I try to build anything.

Yh construction dosnt seem to work for me either (using windows) hopefully gets sorted out soon coz i wanna build a safehouse away from the town. But still fun at the moment anyway just running around.

[Wayward Device]

Do zombies and copbots fight? I have 15 copbots on my kill list, and I didn't kill them. I was at a police station when I died (I lived about half an hour).

I believe they do. As a related point, you get credit for killing anything that dies during your game. This is why you only get the moral penalty for killing your mother when hallucinating if she directly adjacent to you, as the game has no system yet for tracking who killed what. Although whales is going to change this sometime.

As a final note, isn't it nice to get credit for stuff killed by acid rain while you were holed up someplace safe? Enjoy it while you can.

[Grimshot]

That's odd.. I'm already using the latest Aposos version, downloaded again just in case and still crash when I try to build anything.

Yh construction dosnt seem to work for me either (using windows) hopefully gets sorted out soon coz i wanna build a safehouse away from the town. But still fun at the moment anyway just running around.

 I had the same problem and decided to do this rather than wait for the fix.

[TerryDactyl]

using the linux emulator, I just discovered a bug, not 5 minutes into my new world: fires do not cast light. It might not be a bug, so much as an unimplemented feature... but I didn't have a flashlight handy, so I took a book down into the basement and lit it on fire, only to see the 'roaring flames' disappear into darkness a few steps away.

[Bdthemag]

using the linux emulator, I just discovered a bug, not 5 minutes into my new world: fires do not cast light. It might not be a bug, so much as an unimplemented feature... but I didn't have a flashlight handy, so I took a book down into the basement and lit it on fire, only to see the 'roaring flames' disappear into darkness a few steps away.

Yup, flames don't give off light yet I believe.