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Originally posted by Crater Creator: You might enjoy trying out Alpha 14 or thereabouts. That was back when buildings weren't tightly controlled, designed spaces. They didn't have a ton of loot, but they didn't have sleeper zombies, either, and more zombies roamed around outside instead.

A14 was the introduction of UMA, and as a result the numbers of zeds in the wild were greatly reduced to reduce the heavy performance impact. Maybe a13 would be better.

You might enjoy trying out Alpha 13 or thereabouts. That was back when buildings weren't tightly controlled, designed spaces. They didn't have a ton of loot, but they didn't have sleeper zombies, either, and more zombies roamed around outside instead.

Edit: sounds like Alpha 13 is the better bet. Thanks, Sylen.

Nope. There's more brass around the world, but there's no ore to mine and smelt brass from. Nor will there ever be in the vanilla game; So if you want that, you'll have to mod it in.

Here’s a design-centric answer. The buildings are where the loot is, and zombies are intended to be the primary antagonists in the game. Ergo zombies are put in buildings, so that areas of high reward are also areas of high risk.

Yes, a whole story is planned. Probably mostly assembled even. It's just waiting on key elements to be added to the game still for it to function.

It will most likely still be open-ended sandbox after the story is completed though.

Since when to zombies need to breathe?

? Iirc it says it right in the description/stats of the AP round, There's a line for Armor Penetration... Should be named something like 'Target Armor' with a stat of "-XYZ%"

Originally posted by KellyR:

Originally posted by Crater Creator: Technically you have a third option: you can scrap old vehicles. But they all scrap to iron, so the rate of return is terrible.

I do like to use my old vehicles to shuttle myself around my day-to-day base, horde base, mine(s), garden, and the nearest trader. I try to have these all close to each other, but something’s always a little farther away.

But why would you use those instead of your newest, best vehicle?

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From the FAQ in Questions & Answers:

Originally posted by Crater Creator: J) Items & Looting
Q1: How do I get clay? All I can find is clay soil.
A: Clay soil is the only item you’ll find. It smelts into clay when you put it in the forge. Dirt and clay are basically one and the same in this game.

Alpha 20 will have mods for vehicles. I hear you that you liked swapping in better parts, but for better or worse this will then be consistent with the same transition for weapons: from an assemble-from-parts system to an enhance-with-mods system.

Sounds like you bought the 2-pack.

Originally posted by ProxyJames:

Originally posted by Crater Creator:
Oh, I doubt it's a cost thing. More likely it's an implementation thing. The unique thing about the auger & chainsaw is how they apply damage continuously instead of shot by shot. Except there is no implementation of continuous damage, so it's implemented as hitting the rock at a really high frequency, doing modest damage with every hit.

Impact sounds are also applied shot by shot. And they're implemented as unique t...

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Originally posted by ProxyJames:

Originally posted by The Giving One: It's supposed to be loud. After all, it is a power tool and it makes a lot of noise as that is the price you pay to get better mining, due to attracting zombies. Zeds go on noise mostly in this game. The more noise, the more you will likely get zeds coming to investigate.

It's just a balance thing. Also, you can't hear them when you are using it, so it creates suspense as part of the balance also. If you go into sneak mode, i...

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