why is my character depressed all the time?

[Flatrateliner]

like i swear he is like one of those school emos, he´s just okay one second, then he remembers that he´s not suppost to be happy so he turns depressed in like 3 hours and THEN he gets a happy-boner after reading 2 word searches. Like what?

[martindirt]

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

like i swear he is like one of those school emos, he´s just okay one second, then he remembers that he´s not suppost to be happy so he turns depressed in like 3 hours and THEN he gets a happy-boner after reading 2 word searches. Like what?

Your char is the only lonely survivor on the known world. That's makes him very unhappy.
Side note: I would be very happy in this situation (without the zombies).

[The cursed Jäger]

Sounds like some mod issue. Could also be the smoker trait at work. Hard to guess without more info.

[Flatrateliner]

Originally posted by Beltneck:

Your characters spend too much time indoors. Touch grass.

yeah about that, my guy really just got MORE depressed after spending the whole day outside looting and killing Zeds

[martindirt]

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

Originally posted by Beltneck:

Your characters spend too much time indoors. Touch grass.

yeah about that, my guy really just got MORE depressed after spending the whole day outside looting and killing Zeds

Maybe your character is a liberal guy, and he thinks zeds have the rights to live, and he is sad when he realizes the truth?

[Orici Vintarion]

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

Originally posted by Beltneck:

Your characters spend too much time indoors. Touch grass.

yeah about that, my guy really just got MORE depressed after spending the whole day outside looting and killing Zeds

too long outside = depressed
too long inside = depressed

guess what ? the simplest fix may be the right one.... equalize indoor and outdoor activities ... works for me read a book for once (unless u have the illiterate "perk") newspapers crosswords..... eat chocolate down a beer... it all adds up and u become a happy well informed drunk who likes to hike and work on the house.... with cholesterol and sugar issues... but who thinks of that xd

there are two perks who enhance indoor and outdoor pros/cons but both are mutually exclusive

[The cursed Jäger]

Originally posted by Orici Vintarion:

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

yeah about that, my guy really just got MORE depressed after spending the whole day outside looting and killing Zeds

too long outside = depressed

What? How? Unless you have mods or certain negative traits (smoker, fear of blood), which can raise stress, you can spend outside forever. I have never gotten depressed while outside, that's new to me. Only way to get sad, in vanilla, is by having high levels of boredom, stress or eating certain types of food.
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Moodles#Unhappiness

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

yeah about that, my guy really just got MORE depressed after spending the whole day outside looting and killing Zeds

Mods? What are your character traits?

[martindirt]

Originally posted by Orici Vintarion:

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

yeah about that, my guy really just got MORE depressed after spending the whole day outside looting and killing Zeds

too long outside = depressed


there are two perks who enhance indoor and outdoor pros/cons but both are mutually exclusive

Don't know where you got these information, and the 2 perks, but if not from a mod, it's totally false.
Being outdoors never raise your depression lvl.
Also indoors: first you get bored, and after a certain lvl of boredom, your char start get sadness.

For the 2 traits, I'm suspect you mean agoraphobia and claustrophobia. None of those has any "pros", and their con is getting panicked, not being depressed.
While panic instantly reduces your boredom, I wouldn't call it as a pros.

[Flatrateliner]

Originally posted by The cursed Jäger:

Originally posted by Orici Vintarion:

too long outside = depressed

What? How? Unless you have mods or certain negative traits (smoker, fear of blood), which can raise stress, you can spend outside forever. I have never gotten depressed while outside, that's new to me. Only way to get sad, in vanilla, is by having high levels of boredom, stress or eating certain types of food.
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Moodles#Unhappiness

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

yeah about that, my guy really just got MORE depressed after spending the whole day outside looting and killing Zeds

Mods? What are your character traits?

The only mod i have that tinkers with boredom is boredom tweaks and the only trait i have that has anything to do with stress and the likes is smoker so i should really not be getting that depressed

[martindirt]

Originally posted by Fl@tR@teKiller:

The only mod i have that tinkers with boredom is boredom tweaks and the only trait i have that has anything to do with stress and the likes is smoker so i should really not be getting that depressed

Now you mixing 3 moodlets: boredom, stress and sadness.
High boredom can trigger sadness, but none of them has anything to do with stress.
Smoker trait can (and do) accumulate stress, as the indicator of the need of a cig
Boredom can be gain from too much indoors (cabin fever?), or eating boring foods (6 portion of leek in a stew example).
Sadness can be gain from burned food, eating worms, etc. Or from high boredom level.

I'm already lost the rope which one is bugging you, but you should check those factors. And make clear which moodlet bothering you.

[Orici Vintarion]

Originally posted by Cat Supremacist SM:

Doesn't seem like anybody has mentioned the fact sitting in a car that isn't moving raises boredom while sitting in a moving car lowers it.

Nothing exites more than dodging undead on the highway while blasting 90miles an hour ;)

[martindirt]

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

In the vanilla game, depression is fed into by stress and boredom. If you have too much of either or both, you'll eventually fall into depression.

That does mean you should try to avoid panic and becoming bored, generally. So if you took traits that cause panic (anything from cowardly to cigarette smoker to fear of blood), you may find you have to deal with depression even if you're properly controlling boredom (at its most base, all this requires is doing outside once a day for a few minutes).

Don't tell me...
No. Impossible. 🤣 After thousands of game hrs, I'm still learning something new. 🤣
Never ever experienced this, only boredom triggered sadness on those blizzard days. Most of the times I'm run with smoker (free points). stress increase? Yes. I'm let it till agitated and smoke (spare cigs). Increase sadness? Never.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by martindirt:

Originally posted by EnigmaGrey:

In the vanilla game, depression is fed into by stress and boredom. If you have too much of either or both, you'll eventually fall into depression.

That does mean you should try to avoid panic and becoming bored, generally. So if you took traits that cause panic (anything from cowardly to cigarette smoker to fear of blood), you may find you have to deal with depression even if you're properly controlling boredom (at its most base, all this requires is doing outside once a day for a few minutes).

Don't tell me...
No. Impossible. 🤣 After thousands of game hrs, I'm still learning something new. 🤣
Never ever experienced this, only boredom triggered sadness on those blizzard days. Most of the times I'm run with smoker (free points). stress increase? Yes. I'm let it till agitated and smoke (spare cigs). Increase sadness? Never.

Try to go without ciggies for a week in game, while you have the smoker trait.
During my game session the first few days are extremely hard and harsh.
(str 0 endurance 0, carry capacity is 6, of which about 2.9 or 3.45 is already clothing and it is freezing cold:D)
Having to find cigarettes and thereafter lighters or matches is a real pain. (with my settings.)
Sometimes it takes 2 weeks to find the first lighter or matches, even if i already had found cigarettes. And by that time your stress is on a seriously huge level, which will trigger other moods:)