I took a quick look at the recipes.xml. 42 recipes need glue as an ingredient. 33 recipes need 5 glue per unit.
Once you harvest the goreblocks they are gone and there is no respawn. Especially on servers with many players this should not be an option and also in single players this resource is finite.
Modding all this is no problem for me. I even write modlets for my own needs. I'm about people who just play the standard game and have no idea how to install a modlet.
Go into places like Bob's Boars and The Bear Den bar. There are LOTS of human corpses there, as well as the pigs and bears.
Are you using Shotgun Ammo? Are you using Shotgun turrets? It's a bit of a pain to keep up with turret ammo though it is not insurmountable. I'd rather paper use grass & water or something instead personally.
I have pretty much figured out mining in 17.2. I literally can't use all the gunpowder I have due to being able to dig up 3 full stacks of coal and nitrate with the use of the auger. If you run out of gas dig a pit for a day and you can get 100 barrels of gas. Not sure why you think auger aren't effective or efficient. The only REAL cost is repair kits. I can't mine even a full stack in a day by hand. Wonder why you think they're not worth it?
Also I rushed for tech and have been at max crafting tier since level 70 (currently 173). Repair kits are for the auger and my smg. Broken tier 6 smg cost 6 repair kits to fully repair, and the tier 6 auger for some reason requires 2 to repair it up to 90% so if your not careful you waste 1 repair kit for only a 10% repair. If the repair kits repaired more or less on the auger it wouldn't be so annoying, but I hate wasting it when I'm in a hurry.
Do you mod your Auger or anything? In A17 I tried one out but it felt way worse and gave less resources than my steel pickaxe. I had no mods in the auger though. What if any mods do you put in it?
Disagree with this. Time is money for me. To me the auger is much faster and less tedious than using the pickaxe to mine. Fuel is not an issue in 7D2D when you can mine for shale to make gas. You can grow cotton to make the cloth and mechanical parts are everywhere. The only possible bottleneck is finding bones to make glue to make duct tape. Though recent changes have made duct/glue more abundant. Finally, if you're using too many repair kits on your auger you're probably repairing it inefficiently. I think it takes around 2.x repair kits to fully repair a T6 auger but you'll 'waste' repair durability if you repair with more than 1 repair kit at a time. This is what I do:
Ah yes there are mods to help the auger. The same ones that can be put into the pickaxe/shovel can also be used in the auger. In my auger I have the grave digger mod for soil, the one for iron (can't remember name), the one for rock, a fire shaft (the one that lights up) and something else can't remember.
It's true. Without mods the auger is slower and more ineffective than the pickaxe. I have installed the following mods in my auger to use it optimally:
i know that too many irradiated is a bug, that's beside the point. the point is, i play on 17.1, 17.2 is not officially out yet, and in 17.1 it is a terrible idea to use ranged attacks. you're going to waste too many bullets on green bullet sponges, and waste too many resources trying to break even in terms of ammo. i tried using auto turrets for my defense on horde night. i had 2k ammo total spread across two auto turrets, and they were out of ammo before the horde night even ended. NOPE.COM. never again.
Also in Alpha 16 the Auto Turrets were a no-go for most players. That's why the Shot Turrets were generally used as the ammunition was very easy and cheap to make.
With the right mods, auger is just as fast as A16. These are Bunker Buster, Iron Breaker and Grave Digger. Plus Structural Brace for better durability and a 5th mod to fill all slots. I used the Burning Shaft mod as a 5th mod.
