Recent content by TheLongDistanceRunner

Try shower blocks.

Try explosive crossbow bolts or a rocket or two.

Weird. It cut half my post off. I wrote that it would be cool to have a cauldron that could be used to pour things like gasoline (just add flaming arrow), boiling sand, or stones over fortress walls and onto zombies. Then I talked about adfing a pollaxe for reach and a Zhuge crossbow. Ah well.

Something like that would devour gunpowder, which is in dangerously short suppy by the thousandth day. Oh, and you would also need a ton of brass to build the bullet casings. Any trap that uses bullets will cost more to maintain than it is probably worth. What I want to see for defenses is...

You got a bee? I have only ever seen a couple of them at a distance. They seem to just hover in one place long enough to be shot down. My wife and I have a couple impregnable bases as well, but we do not get bored on horde night. The zombies swarm in massive waves these days, which means...

Now that sounds like fun. Are the pathways really narrow so they always have to be directly in front of you?

If you want a fun new way to kill zombies I have discovered a method that uses nothing but gravity. Build a really tall tower, at least twelve blocks high, and then build ramps leading up to the top level on every side. Use drawbridges to reach the ramps from the tower. Then raise the...

Where did you get enough potassium nitrate? Just about every ounce of the stuff that I find goes into bullets.

Ha! Yes, indeed. My wife and I were doing that on a city bus a while back. It is not often that we are the weirdest people on a bus, but I am pretty sure that our discussion of the battlements that we were building for our new place qualified us as such on that day.

Nah, it's when you have better food in the game than you have in real life. Beef stew and cornbread with blueberry pie for dessert? People are eating well in the apocalypse.

That makes me want to be able to craft a tiny net.

...when you start sewing the holes in your old t-♥♥♥♥s in the hope of improving your tailoring skills. - - - Updated - - - Missed an "r" there, from the looks of it.

That would be cool, but how would you go about making things like the cement mixer?

That is how it is beneath every biome besides the desert. What you should do is dig into the rock using a pickax and dig a tunnel through it until you happen upon a vein of a particular ore: lead, iron, nitrate, coal. Just so you know, if you find a lot of sand in a particular place you...

It is great for digging pitfall traps. Digging a perimeter trench with just a pickaxe and a shovel takes forever, but an auger will allow a player to finish a pretty elaborate system in a week's time provided he has the ridiculous load of iron that he will need for the traps. Pitfall traps are...