Base too dark. What can I do?

[Alienslayer2406]

I'm playing with the Ten Years Later mod and since the electricity is out from day one, my base is super dark. I haven't found neither a generator or gas to run it, and I haven't found a flashlight yet. Car headlights also aren't an option, because I'm on the sixth floor of an apartment building. My skills are also low, so I can't build my own light sources.

Normally I would just sleep when it gets dark, but my character will only sleep for a few hours at a time because of the hemophobic trait, so it's still dark when I wake up. It's a bit tedious. I appreciate any help.

[Armagenesis]

You can try using campfire indoors for alternative light source. As long as it's surrounded by non-burnable tiles you should be safe.

Though if you don't want to risk that, just spend the time reading skill books and/or working out. We can't read in the dark but these survivors can.

As for the hemophobic trait, you can fix it by changing your clothes to clean ones before sleeping. So you won't get stressed or having night terrors from it.

[william_es]

As far as campfires go, you can build them safely inside a building if you replace the walls and floors with metal ones. You'll need to find a specific metalworking magazine that teaches you the recipe for metal walls and metal "roofs" (they're called "roofs" in game, but they can be roofs or floors).

I build a 3 x 3 room, with metal floors & walls. I only line 2 sides of the 3 x 3 with metal walls, the rest are open. I generally build it in the corner of a room. I try to put the campfire in the corner, so it's 2 spaces away from any burnable items. Sometimes it goofs, and I have to put it in the middle of one of the 3 wide sides. Still safe. Just make sure there's at least 1 metal tile between the fire and anything else.

If you don't have a sledgehammer to remove existing walls, you can just build it in the exact middle of a room, or one block in from the walls.


Never had it catch anything on fire. I'm a little on the paranoid side, so I replace the ceiling with metal too (you need to go one level up and figure out where the 3 x 3 is below, that can be tricky).

By the way, great way to level metalworking is dismantling entire bathrooms with a propane torch. Toilets, sinks, bathtubs, etc. I dismantled nearly every fixture in the motel in riverside, got my metalworking to level 3 by the time i was finished.


You can steal metal kitchen counters from restaurants, and put them there too (they don't catch fire). Add a sink on top of a counter (need a pipe wrench) and rain collector/rain barrel above, then "plumb" it with a wrench, and you've got running water. End up with a pretty nice functional kitchen space.

[Kaldrak]

I always run these two mods, but you'll have to find the items after adding them to your game.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2244879881

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2469965159

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by william_es:

As far as campfires go, you can build them safely inside a building if you replace the walls and floors with metal ones. You'll need to find a specific metalworking magazine that teaches you the recipe for metal walls and metal "roofs" (they're called "roofs" in game, but they can be roofs or floors).

I build a 3 x 3 room, with metal floors & walls. I only line 2 sides of the 3 x 3 with metal walls, the rest are open. I generally build it in the corner of a room. I try to put the campfire in the corner, so it's 2 spaces away from any burnable items. Sometimes it goofs, and I have to put it in the middle of one of the 3 wide sides. Still safe. Just make sure there's at least 1 metal tile between the fire and anything else.

If you don't have a sledgehammer to remove existing walls, you can just build it in the exact middle of a room, or one block in from the walls.


Never had it catch anything on fire. I'm a little on the paranoid side, so I replace the ceiling with metal too (you need to go one level up and figure out where the 3 x 3 is below, that can be tricky).

By the way, great way to level metalworking is dismantling entire bathrooms with a propane torch. Toilets, sinks, bathtubs, etc. I dismantled nearly every fixture in the motel in riverside, got my metalworking to level 3 by the time i was finished.


You can steal metal kitchen counters from restaurants, and put them there too (they don't catch fire). Add a sink on top of a counter (need a pipe wrench) and rain collector/rain barrel above, then "plumb" it with a wrench, and you've got running water. End up with a pretty nice functional kitchen space.

I already tested it beforehand, but roof probably doesn't matter. As long as the campfire is at the center of a 3x3 non-burnable tiles, you should be safe.

Tried it by pouring sand inside one of the apartments in Rosewood, and another by placing the campfire in the middle of ceramic(?) tiles in the kitchen of a two-stories house in Muldraugh.

The buildings only caught fire once there is a burnable tile next to it. Which in this case, wooden floor.

[ProtecTron]

Find the old iron stove or something xD it lights a big spot pretty nicely. Leave the doors open and windows without sheets so the apartment gets the exterior lighting.

About the campfire inside buildings, is it a thing that placing it on wood floors it will, eventully, catch fire? So that's what happened in my MP playthrough, lol, I burned down our base... Pouring sand or dirt in wood tiles work isolating the wood or it doesn't?

[puschit]

You can attach batteries to those smaller lamps and place them wherever you like.

[Dead Flag Blues]

Antique oven. It will light up the room, it will cook your food, it will keep you warm and it will boil your nasty water.

[Alienslayer2406]

Originally posted by Dead Flag Blues:

Antique oven. It will light up the room, it will cook your food, it will keep you warm and it will boil your nasty water.

Where can I find one?

[Armagenesis]

Originally posted by Alienslayer2406:

Originally posted by Dead Flag Blues:

Antique oven. It will light up the room, it will cook your food, it will keep you warm and it will boil your nasty water.

Where can I find one?

You can find them in random crates in any garage/warehouse. Or you can pick one up from houses that already has it. The cabin near a lake west of Westpoint is one I can remember at the top of my head.