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[Whales]

Construction and crafting are always binary, but butchering does depend on your tool.  A butcher's knife is the best; combat knives are pretty good; machetes are too big and unwieldy to work well, except in the hands of the skilled.

Your best butchering tool is automatically used.  You do not need to be wielding it; just carrying it will suffice.

[Girlinhat]

Specifically, I think it's judged based off the cutting damage, size, and weight.  Higher damage is better, and lower size is better.  It'd be possible to mod in a better butchering tool if you were so inclined.

[Moogie]

Your best butchering tool is automatically used.  You do not need to be wielding it; just carrying it will suffice.

I'm dubious about this, although I believe you - you coded this, after all. But I say "I'm dubious", because over the course of the 10 or 12 characters I've played over many days/weeks/months, I always seem to get bupkis from butchering if I'm carrying my spears and other weaponry around.

It wasn't an isolated incident, either; I started getting suspicious of it, so every time I butchered a corpse, I would first drop all my non-butchery weapons. And would you know it-- I seemed to always get great results that way.

Sometimes, I would forget to drop my spears. Then I'd "destroy the meat in the process" a few times before realising my mistake.

But eh, if you say it works that way, I'll just put it down to uncanny coincidence.

[moogmg]

does visiting town at night make any difference?

fuck, this game is stressful 

[Dutchling]

Whales said somewhere in this thread that at night there should be less zombies.

[jester]

does visiting town at night make any difference?

fuck, this game is stressful 

Its harder for the zombies to find you cause they cant see you till you get close, if you have the night vision mutation night walking is the way to go.  If you want to do any serious construction like digging alot of pits, do it at night.

[moogmg]

does visiting town at night make any difference?

fuck, this game is stressful 

Its harder for the zombies to find you cause they cant see you till you get close, if you have the night vision mutation night walking is the way to go.  If you want to do any serious construction like digging alot of pits, do it at night.

what are the benefits of serious construction?

[Dutchling]

Not getting your limbs nommed on by enemies without having to move from place to place.

[jester]

what are the benefits of serious construction?

Having a fallback where you can fight off 100s of Zs without having to actually kill them yourself is handy for one.  I also like having a base to keep all the nifty stuff I find about the place, random ammo I pick up from dead Zs, stockpile of Meth, 50 bottles of clean water,  as well as having a nice safe place to be if I get sick and addicted to cocaine.

  Short answer:  digging deep pits (twice on the same area) will cripple/or kill most Zs, a house with all entrances boarded up with pits dug infront except for one which you have to zig zag through a pit line is pretty much Z proof. 

  My current char lives right in the middle of a city, on like day 45 or something.  Forting works, you just move out at night for longer trips, and bolt back to the safety of your house if you attract the attention of 30 Zs during the day, you just stand on the porch and just keep blasting them till they stop coming, then check the pits for loot.

[Girlinhat]

"Serious Construction" can include modifying your vehicle as well.  That can be difficult to do without being interrupted, so night helps a lot.

[moogmg]

"Serious Construction" can include modifying your vehicle as well.  That can be difficult to do without being interrupted, so night helps a lot.

Whoa buddy,no need for quote marks, put em back in your holster.

[Girlinhat]

Don't you tell me what I need to "holster" there champ.

[Flying Dice]

You're gonna need more than a holster for quotation marks of that magnitude.

[Knight of Fools]

"Quotation marks inside a quote box."

"Yeah, I just went there."

[Girlinhat]

Luckily I've also got my FANNY PACK!