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So I am loving the new update. Melee speed is awesome and all the other stuff is good. However... I found 2 traders on day one and in the broken stations I found schematics for some of the worktables already. Two chems, a forge and a cement mixer. Kind of seems to easy to get em imo.

 
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Oh, not sure if anyone else has encountered this, or if there's a bug report on it. If you place a piece of bulletproof glass on the ground next to the new farm plot that side face of the plot touching it will disappear. Guessing it's the engine thinking it doesn't need to render, because there's a face "in front" of it, but it's both an inch high as well as transparent, so it does.

This issue seriously miffed my initial design plans, but I dealt with it. Not sure if it's the farm plot, or the glass, maybe the new occlusion thing is just making a bad decision here, dunno.

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I had to buy an auger to rip out the first bulletproof glass floor I had installed because all my plots did this, replaced with wedgetip sides, cause I want to keep the floor all OG debri looking, hence the glass. It looks neat, like in my garage(went bulletproof because eventually I will park a Jeep on it, but I only just got my minibike.)

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(edit added comment by QA Tester-unholyjoe)

 


glass and plot is confirmed and reported

 


thanks :)

 


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Is it possible that ive seen a new zombie in one of the new poi's? She looked a bit like a nurse, but without the nurse-cap on her head. Her uniform or clothing was also more greyish..
Anyone else seen her?
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The Lady doctor/lab tech. Yep seen her a lot when we took over the hospital in our game.

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SciFi had a show something kind of like that, was interesting. I cannot remember the name, but the series took a weird and uninteresting twist after the first season. The "intelligent zombie antagonist" knew he was a zombie of a sort, more intelligent than the others, led the others, and had sympathy and/or rage to certain scientist colleges for reasons.
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The show's name was Z Nation.

 
Glowing embers, Recipe was 10 coal, 10 wood, and 50 gas that I made. Those piles you find in the burnt forest.
100% no cheating. I never had so many broken legs lol.
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How the F do you craft that??? I just looked and looked, no idea, neither "glowing" nor "embers" brings up anything at all in the craft menu search thingy. I would use those often, love when a POI I inhabit has them already, like in a fireplace(even though that's often where I like to put my forge, had one with 3 forges once, was so cool.) I wanna make'm.

Either mass produce splints or surround that bad boy with hay bails until your done, cause you should try that again, was a nice build.

 
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The show's name was Z Nation.
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No it wasn't Z Nation... I can't remember the name for the life of me. It seriously sucked after the first season and got canceled shortly after that.

BTW anyone else noticing stutter lag with forges and/or cement mixers? I can't tell which it is, I have 4 mixers going with no stuttering, and if I turn one forge on with nothing crafting/smelted the stutter resumes.

 
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Well I only found one seed to get started. I also only perked one rank into farming, but that alone gives 2 yield each harvest. I found them days ago and now have 6 pumpkin plants growing, get a dozen total every harvest. Since I have not found any of the recipes yet I have nothing else to do with the darn things, so decorating my hood seemed like a fun thing to do. Especially since I'm preppin my world for my son to check out A18 this weekend between his sessions in the new COD, so I went heavy on the Halloween theme.
I just finished my garden, finally on day 41, thanks to a couple zombie bears and their z dog pack companions, because what else would you want to be dealing with right before a blood moon! *laughs in a mixture of sarcasm and gratitude*

Thankfully the dogs mostly died on the metal spikes around my fence, the bears naturally required some ammo. Anyway, thanks to my hunting harvest bonus I got the rotten flesh I needed to finish my coffee section, the pumpkins were an earlier priority and have been growing for awhile now. Don't usually garden this much, but it was a fun thing to do in the burnt out shell of a POI I converted, my Phoenix Garden. Also glad I planted a bunch of chrysanthemums cause holy ♥♥♥♥ did painting my perimeter fence/catwalk black take a lot of paint, and time.

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Although I put a jack-o-lantern on every porch in Diersvill my crib is still the Halloweeniest in the hood.
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Nice pics!!!! Love the theme. I think on my next play through I think I'll do 2 week hordes so I can do more rebuilding decorating.

 
Feedback on b155

1. On the patch notes, can you have the news changes listed by themselves and not lumped in with the other builds so we can see what has change din *just* the latest patch? Currently you have all the builds after the initial experimental build lumped into one section.

2. I used to hate melee and now I love fighting with the stun baton.

3. I love the Art of Mining Avalanche book. About 20 minutes after I read it, I was mining and my roof collapsed on me. I probably would not have survived it if I hadn't read that book.

4. Hubby got the book that lets you step on mines without setting them off and now he is having a blast, luring the zeds onto the mines, laughing his ass off and critiquing their ragdolls like a judge at a diving competition.

5. Trees are growing really damn fast. 2 days (120 minute days) from planting they are full grown. It seems a little speedy to us.

6. Shared quests disappear out of your quest log even if it is partially done after relog/disconnect. If this intended? It's kinds of a pain to get a crash when you are almost finished with the quest (kill x type) and have to reshare and restart the whole thing all over again.

7. Any way to have a setting to auto-party with someone on your friends list so you don't have to keep sending the invites every time someone relogs in a co-op game.

8. Crafting xp should be shared in a party as well kill xp, otherwise the builder in the co-op group ends up much higher level and game stage than the killers and looters.

9. Hubby is seeing teleporting zeds. Co-op MP game on a LAN with me as the host and him as the client. Seeing that we are on a LAN and he only has a 1 ping, we should not be seeing such a server desync. It is less of an issue connecting directly via IP address than it is connecting vie Steam friends list, but it is still there.

 
Feedback on b155
1. On the patch notes, can you have the news changes listed by themselves and not lumped in with the other builds so we can see what has change din *just* the latest patch? Currently you have all the builds after the initial experimental build lumped into one section.

2. I used to hate melee and now I love fighting with the stun baton.

3. I love the Art of Mining Avalanche book. About 20 minutes after I read it, I was mining and my roof collapsed on me. I probably would not have survived it if I hadn't read that book.

4. Hubby got the book that lets you step on mines without setting them off and now he is having a blast, luring the zeds onto the mines, laughing his ass off and critiquing their ragdolls like a judge at a diving competition.

5. Trees are growing really damn fast. 2 days (120 minute days) from planting they are full grown. It seems a little speedy to us.

6. Shared quests disappear out of your quest log even if it is partially done after relog/disconnect. If this intended? It's kinds of a pain to get a crash when you are almost finished with the quest (kill x type) and have to reshare and restart the whole thing all over again.

7. Any way to have a setting to auto-party with someone on your friends list so you don't have to keep sending the invites every time someone relogs in a co-op game.

8. Crafting xp should be shared in a party as well kill xp, otherwise the builder in the co-op group ends up much higher level and game stage than the killers and looters.

9. Hubby is seeing teleporting zeds. Co-op MP game on a LAN with me as the host and him as the client. Seeing that we are on a LAN and he only has a 1 ping, we should not be seeing such a server desync. It is less of an issue connecting directly via IP address than it is connecting vie Steam friends list, but it is still there.
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https://7daystodie.com/forums/showthread.php?131112-Announcement-A18-b155-EXP

The patch notes are usually separated already.

 
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How the F do you craft that??? I just looked and looked, no idea, neither "glowing" nor "embers" brings up anything at all in the craft menu search thingy. I would use those often, love when a POI I inhabit has them already, like in a fireplace(even though that's often where I like to put my forge, had one with 3 forges once, was so cool.) I wanna make'm.
Either mass produce splints or surround that bad boy with hay bails until your done, cause you should try that again, was a nice build.
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Probably a custom recipe.

 
How the F do you craft that??? I just looked and looked, no idea, neither "glowing" nor "embers" brings up anything at all in the craft menu search thingy. I would use those often, love when a POI I inhabit has them already, like in a fireplace(even though that's often where I like to put my forge, had one with 3 forges once, was so cool.) I wanna make'm.
Either mass produce splints or surround that bad boy with hay bails until your done, cause you should try that again, was a nice build.
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Thanks, it was a custom recipe. You can spawn them in with creative menu though. I like them a lot also, wish they were in the game proper. I'm doing a "monster" build right now. I will do the sword build again for sure though.

Edit: they are called Ember Pile if you want to find them in creative.

 
Nice pics!!!! Love the theme. I think on my next play through I think I'll do 2 week hordes so I can do more rebuilding decorating.
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Ah, didn't think of that. I'm so used to the 7 day aspect, so I do 120 minute days, which amounts to basically the same thing, the days are just longer, more useful, but get to keep the 7 theme intact. Plus I am now over 40 days in, I didn't have enough time for all this until recently. Spent a full day or two after my 5th Blood Moon finishing up and polishing most of it, felt I'd earnt it by that point.

These larger projects help extend my game, I make late game build goals often. Now that it's done enough, and my BM tower is pretty solid, I'm working toward getting a motorcycle and/or jeep so I can explore all that is new around Navezgane. There are both old and new areas I wanna check out yet, so this game will probably be pretty long. I might even build a satellite base down in Departure so I can stay there for days at a time, comfortably, and explore the desert, rly wanna check out the new old west town.

Anyway I just like making nice little areas as a middle finger to the apocalypse in general, like ♥♥♥♥ you zombos I'm gonna live in comfort despite yo' brain eatin asses. Is the icing on the survival cake, and the building in A18 has certainly upped the level of what can be done, is so much quicker/easier to do more elaborate stuff now.

 
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Cant wait to loot this POI!
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can anyone else actually click on the attached pic? Keeps saying I'm not authorized to view.....

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Actually they aren't. b139, b143/145 and b155 are all lumped together in one section. What I mean is have b155 and only b155 notes in section by themselves (as an example).
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Actually they are. Did you even click the link?

The notes are all together on the main game site. Not the forum. Use the thread he linked instead.

 
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