How far have you gone this playthrough?

[bobrpggamer]

all classic movie walkers, no WWZ, I'm a purist lol

Well at least George A. Romero would be proud of you. For me, I can headshot almost all walking zombies too easily so at higher levels I like to take on feral or radiated zombies once in a while. My biggest challenge is when I get caught by 2 radiated screamers and then about 8 more feral or radiated zombies come at me. Sometimes the screamers attract other screamers and I really get overwhelmed. I have to admit I do like to use my flaming steel axe on walking zombies though, just because I enjoy it (maybe too much).

Of course I get sprint zombies at my base on bloodmoon. Last time I had 10 demolishers and 2 of them exploded. They will never get too far on my base though as its like a impenetrable castle, by design, not because I needed such a base, I just like building that kind of a base.

I am happy that so many of you guys are using this tread to share their take on playing the game.

 

[Suxar]

Edit 2: Never mind. it isn't made in the workbench, but the cement mixer, lol.

If you look at a recipe in your inventory, there is a small workstation icon to the right of the name.

 

[Suxar]

I learned to put two full stone stacks in the smelting part of the forges

Why? The forge can only hold 30,000 molten stone, which is 6,000 regular stone. I usually put one stack of stone split into two parts (3,000 + 3,000), 101 planks, and start producing 3,000 cement. The firewood runs out once all the stone is melted, and the cement is produced a little earlier.

 

[Suxar]

After last night, I had so much ammo, I made 4 additional workbenches, just to make scrapping it all a faster process, because the 4 I already have did all the armor/weapon scrapping, got loaded with ammo, and I still has 36 stack of ammo to scrap.

Why disassemble the cartridges? What do you do with the brass you get out of them? I already have more than half a box of brass, and it's not wasted at all.

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How does everyone else use their workbenches/forges/cement mixers?

Three workbenches, which I use to craft grenade launcher ammunition, cotton cloth, and duct tape.
Two concrete mixers.
Two forges for stone, one for lead, one for brass, three for steel, and one for everything else.
Two chemistry stations, which I use to make glue and fuel, and occasionally gunpowder.
On the second floor of the base, there's a 140-tile garden, planted mostly with cotton and some supercorn.

 

[Suxar]

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.

Do you search all containers? Searching containers also grants experience, and that experience depends on the biome. Searching a pile of trash in the wasteland will net you more experience than killing zombies with glowing eyes.

 

[WarMongerian]

If you look at a recipe in your inventory, there is a small workstation icon to the right of the name.

My eyesight is really bad, so I only made the discovery when I clicked on my cement mixer, and there it was, lol. Mine tunnels repaired.

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Why? The forge can only hold 30,000 molten stone, which is 6,000 regular stone. I usually put one stack of stone split into two parts (3,000 + 3,000), 101 planks, and start producing 3,000 cement. The firewood runs out once all the stone is melted, and the cement is produced a little earlier.

I never seem to get any resources in mine, I tend to use them up as they melt down. Putting two stacks in, and just topping them off, helps me maintain a ready to smelt reserve. When I don't do this, I always run out. Since doing this, I can see my stone usage, and can maintain my production.

 

[WarMongerian]

Why disassemble the cartridges? What do you do with the brass you get out of them? I already have more than half a box of brass, and it's not wasted at all.

I cannot see/hold my fingers steady enough to use guns at all, so I just save myself the frustration and melt them all down.

 

[Suxar]

I never seem to get any resources in mine, I tend to use them up as they melt down. Putting two stacks in, and just topping them off, helps me maintain a ready to smelt reserve. When I don't do this, I always run out. Since doing this, I can see my stone usage, and can maintain my production.

Stone is the easiest thing. A stack of stone equals a full forge. And 101 planks as fuel is a sure sign of whether it's full or not. If the forges are out, they're full. I usually start cement production in batches of 3,000, which consumes the forge's entire supply. It's convenient. I take 3,000 cement from two forges, add a full stack of stone and a stack of sand, and make a 6,000-concrete batch in the concrete mixer.
For the other furnaces, I also base my fuel consumption on fuel. Smelting a stack of iron or lead requires 81 planks, and a stack of brass requires 33. Since everything is produced much faster than it's melted, I focus primarily on smelting.

 

[bobrpggamer]

Do you search all containers? Searching containers also grants experience, and that experience depends on the biome. Searching a pile of trash in the wasteland will net you more experience than killing zombies with glowing eyes.

I search everything I find, except at this level I do not check bags of garbage and spoiled boxes (or whatever they are called) or things like that. I got most of my level ups from base building. My base is massive and I would drink a learning elixir and go wild with my nailgun. Building blocks > wood > cobble > concrete - sometimes steel. I gained at lest 50 levels doing this. Plus earlier on I would use a learning elixir before bloodmoon and would usually go up 3-4 levels that way as well. I could not be less interested in level ups now as I have all the perks I need.

On the second floor of the base, there's a 140-tile garden, planted mostly with cotton and some supercorn.

I still have to put up my garden of farm plots on the roof. I keep forgetting to do that.

My eyesight is really bad, so I only made the discovery when I clicked on my cement mixer, and there it was, lol. Mine tunnels repaired.

I thought you were talking about cobble blocks. I forgot about stone blocks, I don't think I ever made many, if any. I use cobble blocks in my underground mines.

I never seem to get any resources in mine, I tend to use them up as they melt down. Putting two stacks in, and just topping them off, helps me maintain a ready to smelt reserve. When I don't do this, I always run out. Since doing this, I can see my stone usage, and can maintain my production.

I have a useful mod I use for forges. It adds an extra slot in forges so I can add 3 items to smelt. I don't know if its on version 2.0 of the game because I am running 1.4, but I recommend it if you can get.

Stone is the easiest thing. A stack of stone equals a full forge. And 101 planks as fuel is a sure sign of whether it's full or not. If the forges are out, they're full. I usually start cement production in batches of 3,000, which consumes the forge's entire supply. It's convenient. I take 3,000 cement from two forges, add a full stack of stone and a stack of sand, and make a 6,000-concrete batch in the concrete mixer.
For the other furnaces, I also base my fuel consumption on fuel. Smelting a stack of iron or lead requires 81 planks, and a stack of brass requires 33. Since everything is produced much faster than it's melted, I focus primarily on smelting

I just add a bunch of wood if I am only smelting, then when the forge is done smelting I just put the excess back in storage. This changes when I am making something, then I just add enough wood to finish the job and put the required things to make in the forge back in the 3 slots. Maybe I will have excess maybe not. I do not worry about the screamers. Previous base she would get stuck in a set of electric fences and then bang on a wall of spikes and If I am around I just snipe her from above while she is being zapped in the electric fence. My new base has auto turrets and she never gets far.

 

[WarMongerian]

Day 50, level 290...

When I restart, my friend will still be playing his current game. He has his, I have to say, Impressive, base all up and running, and still has not gotten to day 28.

In past games, he wouldn't keep up in levels, but his kills always left mine behind, and by a lot. Then I turned on Horde Night Every Night.

I'm actually thinking about turning Horde Night off after 300th level, and just go and explore my whole map.

I have some questions:
1) How do folks build their mines?
2) How many farm plots is enough?
3) How big of a crafting base do you folks build?
4) What is your goal, Horde Night base wise, at various times in game?

I'm still physically very limited, but my health is getting better, so I look forward to more playthroughs, and want ideas.

For some time now, I have been building my crafting bases on a 9x9 footprint. At first, these would end up with a solid base surrounding my mine shaft down to bedrock/land claim block. Above ground, the pillars would be 7 blocks tall, 4 in the corners and 4 more at the midpoint of each wall. I would then connect all pillars at their tops, flesh out a complete floor, and call that the 1st floor of my crafting base.

I leave two doors and two ladders in the 9x9 walls, so my crafting base is built on a 7x7 (internal) layout. Seems to be working until I go all in on HNEN (Horde Night Every Night), as then the loot becomes a problem.

My video was to big, so 2 images instead.

My ladder....

My base.

 

[Rotor]

Day 50, level 290...

When I restart, my friend will still be playing his current game. He has his, I have to say, Impressive, base all up and running, and still has not gotten to day 28.

In past games, he wouldn't keep up in levels, but his kills always left mine behind, and by a lot. Then I turned on Horde Night Every Night.

I'm actually thinking about turning Horde Night off after 300th level, and just go and explore my whole map.

I have some questions:
1) How do folks build their mines?
2) How many farm plots is enough?
3) How big of a crafting base do you folks build?
4) What is your goal, Horde Night base wise, at various times in game?

I'm still physically very limited, but my health is getting better, so I look forward to more playthroughs, and want ideas.

For some time now, I have been building my crafting bases on a 9x9 footprint. At first, these would end up with a solid base surrounding my mine shaft down to bedrock/land claim block. Above ground, the pillars would be 7 blocks tall, 4 in the corners and 4 more at the midpoint of each wall. I would then connect all pillars at their tops, flesh out a complete floor, and call that the 1st floor of my crafting base.

I leave two doors and two ladders in the 9x9 walls, so my crafting base is built on a 7x7 (internal) layout. Seems to be working until I go all in on HNEN (Horde Night Every Night), as then the loot becomes a problem.

Take this with a grain of salt because i am a minimalist survivor.

1. I just dig.
2. Usually only have one for the quest.
3. I use a PoI but usually only one of each station.
4. I just survive. Usually build a horde base for the day 14 horde. It depends, if not day 21.

 

[WarMongerian]

Take this with a grain of salt because i am a minimalist survivor.

1. I just dig.
2. Usually only have one for the quest.
3. I use a PoI but usually only one of each station.
4. I just survive. Usually build a horde base for the day 14 horde. It depends, if not day 21.

I used to play around with digging/base building underground, then played on a server, and tunneling screamers, digging 1x1 tunnels of their own, convinced me not to do that again.

For me, someone that has always rented, never owned in real life, in my games, I feel the need to build my own building from scratch.

Should I try to press my friend to playing without XP bonuses in his next game? I would like to try it, but when I broached the subject, he expressed a desire to not cut the XP setting to below 200%. Tonight, he may reach play Blood Moon 4, while I'll be twiddling my thumbs at 300, waiting on him (we try to restart at the same time), but with me being in and out of the hospital twice already, that really threw off our gaming co-ordination.

 

[Rotor]

I used to play around with digging/base building underground, then played on a server, and tunneling screamers, digging 1x1 tunnels of their own, convinced me ....

I just haven't ran into that situation.....yet. but I don't go around at 3x xp either. I am in no hurry to get anywhere.... In the game.

 

[WarMongerian]

I just haven't ran into that situation.....yet. but I don't go around at 3x xp either. I am in no hurry to get anywhere.... In the game.

I've had the game now for just over two years. Just about all my playing experience is with the 300% XP setting, and here is why.

In the beginning, I had a rough time of it trying to just not die, over and over again, every play session. Eventually, it became possible to shoot for trying death=restart, and nobody was up for achieving that goal, they were more like, turn up the difficulty, fight hard, and not care if or how often they died. Then I started surviving until over level 100, and folks started to pay attention/become interested in seeing how far we could get, without a single death.

By the time I and my partner were getting characters to level 200+, it became more and more of a thing. My last failed attempt at living all the way to 300, I got cocky and died at level 298.

Much unhappy.

The next game(s) I didn't even get to level 100, because I thought I knew what I was doing. took risks I was not powerful/skilled enough to survive, and died and restarted, over and over again.

Eventually, finally, I made it all the way to 300th level, and never died once. My partner was right behind me, and now only occasionally do we die, and even then, mostly at very low levels. However, this is all using the crutch of 300% XP. My friends and I have done very little experimentation with not using this setting, and we died, often, because we were used to all those free levels, and were going places we had no business being at our lower levels.

One good friend, that plays with different minded folks, finally got one single character to level 300, but she died 400 times doing that. She still wants to play, but only on a server. Her partner is one guy I just cannot stand, and if I tried to play with her, she would want him in game, and that just wouldn't be an enjoyable experience for me.

My partner is a great guy, plays daily, and is just as much a "Grumpy Old Man" as I myself am. We had been playing in his private games (not a server), but when v2.0 came out, anytime we tried to play together, things got glitchy. It started with his computer not wanting to stream, at all, but we could still play together. then we tried all these big PoI's, and got crashed out over and over again. Once the code improved, we were kinda sorta able to mostly play alongside one another. Then he decided to try streaming again, and I immediately started getting dropped, every play session, and often not being able to rejoin his game at all.

Since then, we both stream/share screen, but play in our own separate games, and things are good. I miss being able to play in the same game, but not getting dropped/EAC banned all the time. He has the better internet connection, I have the better computer, but when we were both streaming and in the same game, my internet just couldn't handle it anymore.

Anyway, I have been taking it slow PoI wise, but rushing to max level for 2 years now. I want to try no XP bonus next game, but if I start now, it will be a month before he does.

By the way, I really enjoyed your thread, where each death was followed by:
Day 1...

I would love to play a day/week game, where the story is the main thing. Play a single game day/real week, and write up a good story. I just know that that is something that would be hard to do, all the way to level 300, without dying, and without the XP boost, but it is on my list of thing I'd like to do.

 

[Rotor]

By the way, I really enjoyed your thread, where each death was followed by:
Day 1...

Thank you. Stopped at day 8 a coupleof days ago, but haven't died..... Got side tracked by an old dos game ported by steam. So, been Day1ing a LOT is SH2.

FYI imo dying in game because you get cocky is the ultimate humbling experience. Thank goodness is only a game.