V2.5 Survival Revival Dev Diary

[Riamus]

The effect of the scent depends heavily on the biome and time of day. I liked it at night in the wasteland. You stand still, swinging your brass knuckles, and they just keep running towards you.

But are they really a challenge? Or just easy XP? That was kind of my point. It doesn't normally cause you any increased danger unless you aren't paying attention.

 

[Suxar]

But are they really a challenge? Or just easy XP? That was kind of my point. It doesn't normally cause you any increased danger unless you aren't paying attention.

At the beginning of the game, the smell causes problems. In the middle of the game, it causes inconvenience. And at the end of the game, you deliberately take meat with you so that walking isn't boring.

 

[sillls]

This supercharge does nothing for me. Nothing changes in the speed or stats of my bike.

 

[schwanz9000]

This supercharge does nothing for me. Nothing changes in the speed or stats of my bike.

If you are solely looking at the display you have pictured, that is a bug that I'll try to get fixed soon .


Under the hood, the supercharger mod is working. You can see the speed value in the F3 debug panel.

	Normal Speed	Turbo Speed (Holding Shift or Right Bumper)
Without Mod	~10m/s	~14m/s
With Mod	~11.8m/s	~16.5m/s

Also, if you could post stuff like this in the Bug Reporting section, that would be best.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Riamus]

At the beginning of the game, the smell causes problems. In the middle of the game, it causes inconvenience. And at the end of the game, you deliberately take meat with you so that walking isn't boring.

What difficulty level are you on? I normally just have it at default and it doesn't affect me even on day 1. The zombies aren't high level, so it's not hard to kill them even with my Q1 stone spear. It's not really a problem unless I'm not paying attention. Like I said, I don't worry about smell at all, at any point in the game, and it has never been an issue. I kill more zombies, but it's not really a challenge. I can see it being a challenge for new players, and perhaps if you're on the higher difficulties.

 

[sillls]

Thanks. I got another problem with mushrooms growing like they are stuck on a wall, but they are not. I tried posting it in the bugs forum. But I had a problem with a file path. It keeps asking me for one but I don't have it.

 

[Riamus]

Thanks. I got another problem with mushrooms growing like they are stuck on a wall, but they are not. I tried posting it in the bugs forum. But I had a problem with a file path. It keeps asking me for one but I don't have it.

Is that something in a POI or something you planted? It sounds like a mushroom that is planted on the wrong side of a half width block or something similar.

 

[sillls]

Something that I planted. I wanted to post this in the bugs forum but again, I ran into this issue with putting a file path and I didn't understand the question.

 

[Riamus]

Something that I planted. I wanted to post this in the bugs forum but again, I ran into this issue with putting a file path and I didn't understand the question. View attachment 38370

It looks like you're planting them against one another. They can be planted against any other block, and mushrooms are basically blocks. I have often had them floating when I misclick. If you see that when planting, just destroy it and you'll get the seed back (you won't lose anything) and you can replant them. If you do so right away, you don't lose any time from them growing. Otherwise, you can leave them and just harvest them when they are ready.

 

[Suxar]

What difficulty level are you on? I normally just have it at default and it doesn't affect me even on day 1. The zombies aren't high level, so it's not hard to kill them even with my Q1 stone spear. It's not really a problem unless I'm not paying attention. Like I said, I don't worry about smell at all, at any point in the game, and it has never been an issue. I kill more zombies, but it's not really a challenge. I can see it being a challenge for new players, and perhaps if you're on the higher difficulties.

When I tested the experimental version, I encountered the following situation. On game day 3 or 4, I collected enough magazines to be able to make smoothies. Smoothies require snow, so I decided to go to the winter biome, I went at night. On the way, I killed and butchered a chicken, a snake and half a deer (the zombies ate the other half). As soon as I approached the snow, 2 ordinary zombies, Chuck and a bear, jumped out at me. Considering that my strongest weapon was a tubular machine gun, the bear caused me serious problems. After the fight, my leg was broken and I was missing 2/3 of my health. The hike back was long; I had no transport at that time. And taking into account the meat from the bear, everyone who could flocked to me. And that was the default difficulty.

 

[Jost Amman]

Considering that my strongest weapon was a tubular machine gun

Wow! Didn't know they added new weapons!

 

[Suxar]

Wow! Didn't know they added new weapons!

That's a question for Google, or rather, their translator. But I think you understand what kind of weapon I had.

 

[Jost Amman]

That's a question for Google, or rather, their translator. But I think you understand what kind of weapon I had.

Yeah, it was a joke in jest of course.
In any case, if you're interested in the English word, they're called "Pipe Weapons".

 

[Sapient6]

When I tested the experimental version, I encountered the following situation. On game day 3 or 4, I collected enough magazines to be able to make smoothies. Smoothies require snow, so I decided to go to the winter biome, I went at night. On the way, I killed and butchered a chicken, a snake and half a deer (the zombies ate the other half). As soon as I approached the snow, 2 ordinary zombies, Chuck and a bear, jumped out at me. Considering that my strongest weapon was a tubular machine gun, the bear caused me serious problems. After the fight, my leg was broken and I was missing 2/3 of my health. The hike back was long; I had no transport at that time. And taking into account the meat from the bear, everyone who could flocked to me. And that was the default difficulty.

Makes sense. The order of biome difficulty is Forest -> Burnt Forest -> Desert -> Snow -> Wasteland. On day 3 or 4 you went to the second most difficult biome in the game carrying meat and had predictable results. Given the amount of meat you were carrying when you reached the snow I'm a little bit surprised it didn't play out even worse.

I'd get up to the same shenanigans myself if I'm lucky enough to read that many cooking magazines so early, but I'd be pretty careful about it and bring a bunch of paper so I'm less likely to get a bear's attention (a chuck on day 3 or 4 wouldn't be a concern for me, but a bear... yeah).

 

[Unkfester.pm]

Makes sense. The order of biome difficulty is Forest -> Burnt Forest -> Desert -> Snow -> Wasteland. On day 3 or 4 you went to the second most difficult biome in the game carrying meat and had predictable results. Given the amount of meat you were carrying when you reached the snow I'm a little bit surprised it didn't play out even worse.

I'd get up to the same shenanigans myself if I'm lucky enough to read that many cooking magazines so early, but I'd be pretty careful about it and bring a bunch of paper so I'm less likely to get a bear's attention (a chuck on day 3 or 4 wouldn't be a concern for me, but a bear... yeah).

What does paper do? New thing to me.

 

[Riamus]

What does paper do? New thing to me.

You can wrap raw meat in paper to remove the smell when carrying it around. It's available from the crafting menu. If you have a vehicle, you can just put it in the vehicle for the same result.

 

[4sheetzngeegles]

If you are in a tight bind for defense or survival, make it a favorite,
go to it, hit max, pretty much insta wrap.

 

[Suxar]

I'd get up to the same shenanigans myself if I'm lucky enough to read that many cooking magazines so early, but I'd be pretty careful about it and bring a bunch of paper so I'm less likely to get a bear's attention (a chuck on day 3 or 4 wouldn't be a concern for me, but a bear... yeah).

At that point, I didn't yet know that meat could be packaged. It was my first game with a scent mechanic. And I wasn't planning on running around in the snow for long. I ran in, dug up a couple dozen blocks of snow, and ran away.

 

[Fritzkola87]

Dear Fun Pimps Team,

I'm a huge fan from Germany who doesn't speak English very well and usually gets the news from the streamer Nordmann or with Google Translate!

I have to say I've been 95% satisfied with every update, but what you've done with the last few updates is simply amazing!!!!!!

The storms, the smell system, the crawling zombies, the many customization options

simply top-notch, please keep it up!

I want to sincerely thank you for all these years of fun playing and hope it continues for many more years to come.

Maybe even with 7 Days to Die 2 in 2035

Or lots of DLCs with new buildings

I'm really looking forward to the chicken coop or even more workbenches

and apple trees that can be turned on or off in the main menu.

Thank you a million times!

Greetings from Germany

 

[sillls]

Thanks Riamus for the advice.

Anyways I just had my fifth red-moon fight day 35. It was the first time that I got attacked by that one that calls bees to attack.
That changed things up a bit. lol
As I was preparing, I had been cooking a lot and got attacked a few times.
Which got me to think that maybe the Devs might want to add increase attacks on the players base the closer they get to day seven or blood-moon.