Darthjake

The real world is just a crutch for those that can't handle fantasy and science fiction.

Bows and Crossbows, check. Guns, check, Class 3 permit, no, but only because I keep my tinfoil hat on when I enter a guberment office. Revenuers? Kill em all. Can Cook, check, can garden, (reluctantly, check) Run, stealth, not so much. Beat things with clubs, check, make concrete, check. Tear @%$# down, check, put it back together? eh... Maybe.

I would have mentioned a certain dog of snow instead of Joel, but that works too.

It's like they, they demand that you kill them. Coyotes, and wolves do naturally of course, but I've lost track of how many rabbits and chickens that just dive under my motorcycles tires. On an interesting note, I ran over a chicken with my 4x4 earlier today, and saw it running down the road no worse of wear. Sort of like guinea hens do in real life.

Yeah, early game dire wolves are no joke, even marginally perked into stealth skills I cannot kill a dire wolf even with a crossbow bolt to the face, at that point it's hop on a rock and play the pokey pokey with a spear.

Crossbow or bow, depending on what I can find or make, knife of machete depending on quality, steel axe once I find one, and a pistol or smg with a silencer, again once I find one. I'll carry one without the silencer, but I'll try my best not to use it until it's semi quiet. Horde night, everything goes, but don't forget the nailgun with plenty of concrete mix, just in case.

Well there you go, I don't collapse blocks because the mixers and forges are HUNGRY, but keep in mind that I can use a steel pick on a door with a sleeper on the other side and make 0 noise according to the noise meter. Repairing the door, that's another story, TFP must hate people who repair stuff, my noise level spikes whenever I repair or upgrade a block.

I can't really speak about the auger, because, well power tool. But as far as the steel pick goes, crouched, with skills, I generate no screamers. Of course I also have a screamer trap set up as a concrete pyramid close to my main mine, with spikes and 4 forges running, so that might be drawing the screamers and killing them without me even realizing that they are there..

Trash, garbage around my base, I do leave bird's nests though. Pine trees and low hanging oak trees must die. My base must be even and look pleasing, or I'm tearing it down and starting again. Also boxes must be organized, no auto sort allowed. Roads must be kept clean of cars, carts and Z's, a clean road is a safe road.

I can't speak for the light, but the roof is probably a poi vs player built issue. A lot, and I mean a lot of the poi's are decaying even if they don't look like it, hence, roof leaking. But in my built house, no rain leaking in.

How about the other way? Used to be either up or down, you could build so high or so low that the Z's could not detect the heat map, that seems to be no longer the case now, and just means that we have to be cautious until we're able to defend what our heat map brings us. Dear Lord, let us be thankful for what we are about to receive, one player said as we saw the radiated screamer, lol.

I feel your pain, I eneded up exploring a desert city, and was pleasantly surprised to find Trader Jen, was less happy when I realized her beakers, were about 1500 per, but she at least had 2 big ones. Beakers, that is.

The way I'm looking at it, is it's the long view, they are, probably, planning more changes down the road that will make more sense, at least I hope so. I've finally got off my ass, and while I have not really been @%$#ing about it on the forums, I have been whining at my buddies in game, so I've started a spreadsheet to track my plantings and what I get back, I'll post it once I've done a few, 5 or more rounds of planting.

The throw is the power attack, turn the volume up some and you'll notice your character makes a loud grunt, (shout of effort) as they throw the spear.

But, but... the announcement of my feathers being delivered is needed.