It depends where and how to play.
Yup.
I wouldn't worry about it for magazines. Farming and cooking magazines drop constantly. Without any points in those, you can quickly max out farming and cooking will be high enough in a short time to make decent food. You won't normally have enough cans to make the higher level foods right away anyhow, so it doesn't matter if food is maxed quickly as long as you can make basic stuff bacon and eggs to begin with and then steak and potatoes or the stews. That can be done without points in a very short amount of time. I never put points into either before about mid-game and I have farming maxed quickly and cooking is up to those levels very quickly as well. If you absolutely can't wait, then you can of course put points into those. But you're not going to run out of food if you don't. At most, maybe you eat eggs for an extra day.
In my experience are wooden spears and pipe guns inferior to the higher tier variants while the bone knife with power attack still can do insta kill on basic zeds in the wasteland when poking in the eye. Besides that, it is also giving a better feel of surviving.True, but by the time you have hunting knives and machetes, it's not exactly expensive or difficult to make repair kits. I certainly won't stick with a wooden spear or a pipe pistol just because they are cheaper to repair.
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If you want to quit at level 300, your just about there. I would advise you to take advantage of your high level beyond 300 and raid a bunch of level 5 POIs for the heck of it.
I'm waiting for getting them as quests. My friend and I used to play the v2.0 new high tier PoI's, but we found that those new quests were buggy and kept crashing all the time, so we stopped playing in the same game, and now, all we do is play separate/side-by-side games.
You can make all blocks at the workbench. You just need wood for wood blocks (including helper blocks) you can make cobblestone block with cobble, you can make concrete blocks with concrete and you can make steel blocks with steel at the workbench. But yeah you need to make concrete in the cement mixer with Rock, Cement and Sand. You need to make cobble with Stone and Clay and of course you need to make steel with Scrap Metal and Clay at forges with crucibles.
Most blocks, not all. I think stone and asphalt (the terrain block types) require the cement mixer. It's a bit weird, but ...
I think the forge still can make some specific iron and glass type blocks that can't be crafted elsewhere.
For the first 1-2 weeks, I stuck with one pair, each, of workbenches and Forges. Then I added 4 more forges (for stone) and 8 cement mixers for concrete production. I also added an additional pair of workbenches for scrapping things.
I wasn't to clear earlier, but I was asking specifically about the "Stone" blocks, that come out of the cement mixer. I just want to get rid of the cobblestone blocks down in my mines, where I fell asleep and punched holes into the sides of my mining shafts. I know it's a bit anal to worry about this, I just want to restore the shafts to a visually 'clean' appearence.Most blocks, not all. I think stone and asphalt (the terrain block types) require the cement mixer. It's a bit weird, but ...
Up to now I mostly had a storagebox or 2 with campfire and a few farmplots just outside Rekt, first extention is a dewcollector on a pillar. Around the first horde I get a small melee-servicedesk base that starts with storageboxes, 2 campfires and a dewcollector on top a bit futher away. Then it get the forge added, and sometimes a second forge on the old pillar replacing the dewcollector. I try to use that force as much as possible for steel and cement, mainly to avoid screamers at my new spot.
I made a video of my crafting rooms.
I note your forges are full. I never seem to actually load them up.
This is the reason I never use the augur for mining. It's too easy to accidentally damage/destroy a block I don't want to (and I don't want to carry cobblestone to repair), and I hate having things look not clean.
Yeah I like to be prepared for what I might need. Right now I need about 1000 forged steel and while making it, I always add 6000 iron x 2 and 1 6000 clay to smelt.
The auger is why I have full forges. I cannot think of going back to a steel pickax. I have never really done too much accidental damage with it to be honest, especially in mines. I cleared over 100,000 oil shale last time I mined and got it done really easily.
How did you go up in levels so fast? I am at day 215 and am only level 267. Kills are at 21782. Of course I don't do many quests for the most part and am only on level 3 quests. Plus I spend most of time working on my base and collecting resources for working on my base and getting things to sell to the traders so I can buy solar things.
I use the 300% XP setting, so cut that 268 by 3 (or 4 if the 300% is a bonus, rather than total xp), so if I am getting 3 times the xp, then my 268 is really more like ~89th level.
For me, all settings on easiest, 120 min days, all classic movie walkers, no WWZ, I'm a purist lol. Unfortunately I tend to restart a LOT, looking for a smoother playthrough, too much ocd and perfectionist I guess. My longest play ever was i think in Alpha 18, around day 60 or 70. Quit that game on my friend's server when I lost my motorcycle with all my good gear and a high lvl drone, exploring deep in the radiation zone in the desert. Died to rads and didn't have the way to get back for my stuff
