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Developer Discussions: Alpha 17

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That's a great idea for in the future when we can hopefully design a world. As it is now, MM only showed us three houses. They are probably on a roll redesigning brownstones, barns, sheds, destroyed city buildings..... It's gonna be a whole new world.

What I'd like to see are stashes buried in the basements of some of the houses and not just up in the attics. No clues or guarantees, and the only way to out if one exists is to dig.

 
Or it was over run with digger zombies and you just set them free

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If the people who are working heavily on the new dungeon type houses want something to think about, what if they worked on one, large in a sense, where you end up going through tunnel networks linking houses together through the basement but you need to find the fake walls in order to move through the tunnels, it would be cool to finish a POI and in the basement while destroying stuff coming across a hidden passageway that takes you to another house, it would give us kind of the underground feel like the mines we find cobbled together with what looks like a large dungeon, i personally would love that, possibly even leading to another type of underground bunker that was built but sadly did not get used sort of scenario.
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Or it was overrun with digger zombies and you just set them free.

 
Animal and zombie spawn areas

I have been thinking about the spawning of both. Zombies would be found around areas that people live. Homes, business towns and city's.

But further out in the wild you would find less and less zombies and more wild life and escaped animals.

I think that this would fit nicely in the game.
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But zeds roam around, they don't stay in one area. It would suck to not find any zeds in the wild. The cities can be too much for the new folks. Plus there are random houses in the wild where you can think that zeds came from.

 
But zeds roam around, they don't stay in one area. It would suck to not find any zeds in the wild. The cities can be too much for the new folks. Plus there are random houses in the wild where you can think that zeds came from.
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That's why I was saying you would find fewer of them the further you get from civilization.

Most would have turned boarded up in buildings and got stuck there, falling asleep (sleepers). Some roam but only a small amount compared to most.

Plus this would allow more animals to spawn. I hardly see any animals in the game any more. :(

 
Plus this would allow more animals to spawn. I hardly see any animals in the game any more. :(
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I have been modding my xml files to get more animals. I was finding food to be a little too scarce lately. Got tired of living on cat food.

 
I have been modding my xml files to get more animals. I was finding food to be a little too scarce lately. Got tired of living on cat food.
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For A16 games for me seems like it's been pretty good. 1st few days almost require careful Snowberry consumption. Once I have a Crossbow, Sniper rifle, or AK-47, animals aren't a problem. (and this is usually around day 21ish. About same time I have potatoes, corn, and blueberries going) I always go for supply drops and treasure (and don't always travel in a straight line) and usually return to base with 20-50 pieces of meat. And, I really used to HATE Wolf/Dire Wolf random hordes. Now I LIVE for them.

Once you get a mini bike it seems like collecting meat is easy. Just pick a day and drive all over the place (especially green biomes - or along the edges). You should see 'lots' of animals. (Make sure to stop occasionally to 'look' around...) I usually get chickens and rabbits following roads. Almost NEED a rifle for those freaking rabbits... The shotgun/rabbit perk is fun - but could take some time! Almost impossible with a NailGun...

 
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For A16 games for me seems like it's been pretty good. 1st few days almost require careful Snowberry consumption. Once I have a Crossbow, Sniper rifle, or AK-47, animals aren't a problem. (and this is usually around day 21ish. About same time I have potatoes, corn, and blueberries going) I always go for supply drops and treasure (and don't always travel in a straight line) and usually return to base with 20-50 pieces of meat. And, I really used to HATE Wolf/Dire Wolf random hordes. Now I LIVE for them.
Once you get a mini bike it seems like collecting meat is easy. Just pick a day and drive all over the place (especially green biomes - or along the edges). You should see 'lots' of animals. (Make sure to stop occasionally to 'look' around...) I usually get chickens and rabbits following roads. Almost NEED a rifle for those freaking rabbits... The shotgun/rabbit perk is fun - but could take some time! Almost impossible with a NailGun...
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Normally you can hunt from day 1 or 2 onwards.

Make a bow and sneak near deers. Headshot kills or you have run and shot it a second time. Then it goes down even with a 25 or 50 bow.

Wolves are a little bit harder, but as they can't climb properly just look for the big stones or walls or build a small tower by woodframes..sneak and shoot them. 3-5 arrows in the head and you can loot it (more hides and meat). Boars are the same but easier to kill. In case of emergency: run :-). Snakes are easy to kill with a club.

With 10+ meat from the beginning you can easily start your garden after 3-6 days (depending on daytime) and afterwards there should be no problem anymore with food.

Love to play Valmod as there are tons of recipes for looted food (like cans) which give +wellness like meat

 
Cant wait to see vehicles folks!!
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Believe me I am with you on that one, im more excited for the regular bike than i am about the hog, simply because then I do not have to always be searching for gas everywhere I am going, and hopefully i wont have to worry about a book to make the bike

 
Cant wait to see vehicles folks!!
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you're god damn right

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Believe me I am with you on that one, im more excited for the regular bike than i am about the hog, simply because then I do not have to always be searching for gas everywhere I am going, and hopefully i wont have to worry about a book to make the bike
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I am more interested in the 4x4 just because with the new physics it'd be just amazing

 
I am more interested in the 4x4 just because with the new physics it'd be just amazing

Im not too worried about the 4x4 since it has not been implemented yet, will be a lot of fun when it is, make sure it has a ramming bar on the front and bam, down goes the zombies

 
Normally you can hunt from day 1 or 2 onwards.Make a bow and sneak near deers. Headshot kills or you have run and shot it a second time. Then it goes down even with a 25 or 50 bow.

Wolves are a little bit harder, but as they can't climb properly just look for the big stones or walls or build a small tower by woodframes..sneak and shoot them. 3-5 arrows in the head and you can loot it (more hides and meat). Boars are the same but easier to kill. In case of emergency: run :-). Snakes are easy to kill with a club.

With 10+ meat from the beginning you can easily start your garden after 3-6 days (depending on daytime) and afterwards there should be no problem anymore with food.

Love to play Valmod as there are tons of recipes for looted food (like cans) which give +wellness like meat
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1) Run backwards away from the wolf, shoot him with a bow, he pauses, keep running backwards, reload, shoot again. I love finding wolves. Day 1 on I get a ton of meat.

2) Boars: Same approach as wolves.

3) Stags: More annoying for me. I usually end up sniping them from a considerable distance away where they don't respond when shot.

In 3 out of 5 games, I have a forge up by the end of day 1. In pretty much every game, I have a cooking pot at least. Once the forge is up, I make a hoe, find some seeds, and get to it. Also, having access to a desert (with yucca) helps big time.

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I can't wait to see Madmole get his bike stuck on the many cinderblocks placed on all the roadways. ;)
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I don't understand why there are so many cinderblocks on the road to begin with...wtf were people doing before they got turned into zombies?

 
I don't understand why there are so many cinderblocks on the road to begin with...wtf were people doing before they got turned into zombies?
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The problem is that those things breed like mad. Where do you think rabbits got the idea from?

 
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