Ray_Garraty

What was your Loot Stage? My loot stage is ~320, and I am not able to find the acid at all... I need it desperately for Chem station and Learning Elixir

Yeah, I've also had a robotic sledge placed on a concrete block ~10 blocks high adjacent to the stairs to push zombies down during the attack. It kept teleporting down without any reason, sometimes when nobody was around to shove it down.

So you'll need to mine out a huge amount of stone. In order to not die of boredom and hunger during mining, you'll need high-end tools and max miner 69er / sex TRex / Strength levels. In order to obtain that, you'll need to gain a lot of XP, and the best way of getting XP is farming zombies. That's why you wouldn't want to hide from them deep underground, especially on Blood Moon nights.

Also it seems they have nerfed XP for Zombie Moe ('Bloated Walker'). In A19 it was 750, now it's only 400, which seems little bit unfair

Yeah, back in A15 there was a nice standalone setting "Zombie Spawning": Normal / High But at that time there were no sleepers in the game, and looting inside of buildings was safe...

Well, for example Dying Light has zombie children... And it really adds to the game's atmosphere

What's the name of the file? I would like to increase that time value.

Do you want to pick up landmines or avoid them? To avoid them, find Urban Combat Vol. 5 book, and you'll be fine

I had spawned the second trader (static) inside the Trader's compound once, and after that the main trader sent me to him for opening trade route. The funny thing is that after I had completed it, the next quests tier was not unlocked, as if the main trader suspected some sort of cheating 🥸

Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. In A20 for the first time I intentionally placed my horde base in the Wasteland to harvest fallen zombies loot bags, and it's really worth it, man! 😁

Yeah, I set my morning time to 8 a.m. and enjoying 2 hordes a night. Each horde brings ~300-400 kills which equals to 300 - 800k XP/night. There's no way you can get so much XP by mining/building.

Yeah, for me personally in A15 it was the main route to gain XP early game. When they removed it in A16 I was disappointed at first, but now I see such XP farming method was obsolete and it's a good thing it's no longer in the game.

Yeah I had this bug too in A20. And my Trader was alive and well, he has not disappeared or fell through the ground, he just started teleporting me out for no reason... I used 'chunkreset' to fix this. It has some side effects, but overall it has solved my problem.

In my opinion the decrease of HP for poles and plates is a justified and reasonable thing. I hope the devs will find a way to implement it properly. Though I also hope they remove the zombies poles damage buff which is 600% presumably when they feel they are stuck.

Fire Station (the red one), because it contains 2 working Vending machines

Yeah, the acid in A20 seems to appear less in loot containers. I tried to collect 5 acid for Chem station but to the Day 30 I realized it would be easier to earn money and buy it from the Trader. Hmm... That gives me an idea to setting up mob loot farm. Previously I tried to make one using screamers, but it seems as too much hassle

To do clear/fetch quests in Wasteland you just need a pipe machine gun and some molotovs. Just don't stay too long out in the open, because Zeds start gathering around when they see and hear you. I'm gonna try to do it at night, perhaps it'll become easier. But the loot is really worth it, found myself a decent Steel Axe at day 8.

Well what am I supposed to do instead? I hate wasting time looting some crappy low level garbage in the Forest biome. The Wasteland adds free +50 to your Loot Level, which seems extremely helpful early game... I rode a bicycle through the Wasteland city the other night, and didn't disturb any mobs or bears, so it's actually worth trying, I guess.

So in A20 the best loot locations are in Wasteland biome. The main problem about it is tons of ZBears... Any tips on surviving and looting there early game?

What gamestage do I need to reach in order for Steel Tools recipe start to spawn in loot containers?

Hey! I'm kinda new to A19, paused playing a while ago, at A16. As I can see, some game mechanics have been revamped drastically since then. My most important question is about a Steel Tools Schematic and Crucible, because I need steel tools desperately in order to mine stone for concrete efficiently. So the Steel Tools Schematic can only be looted or purchased, right? I will only be able to find it in a top level loot (Tier 3, Gamestage > 91), is that correct? Same goes for the Crucible? Is it a waste of time searching for them before gamestage 91?