[B42] Share your protips

[PK_Ultra]

The multiKnife Tool lets you open cans, open bottles, cut up food, cut up "cloth" clothing only, and is a substitute for screwdrivers.

It replaces the can opener, bottle opener, kitchen knife, screwdriver, and is good enough to rip clothing for bandages.

Obligatory, "Bone Choker neck armor has 100 protection" mention.

[speaker2]

Don't get bit or scrath.

[Kaia]

glorious scrath!

[FCino]

100% neck protection
has a hockey neck protector too, hard to find, I know, but exists too.

builds some "advanced outposts" by the city,some times you will need to rest before have the chance to get yourself to home.

always have a second weapon, for redundancy.
and a flashlight, a second water bottle.

mantain the ♥♥♥♥ (male chicken) in a different place, because 5 chickens become 200 in 2 days
(seriously, it is unstable for any reason)

[BananaRoch]

get more time to play this game

[leonneddr]

Base out of a town/city. You will need a LOT of space for the new crafting tables/farming/animals etc. Having zombies around all the time is very difficult to achieve things with crafting and such.

The Lodge north of Mouldrah is an awesome massive base comes with fishing dock/pond/prep house equipped with fridges/freezers, a crafting barn with prebuilt crafting stations a 3 storey well decorated Lodge with massive amount of storage including no less than 6 fridges/freezers for food, stacks of logs/wood, two chicken/rabit coops AND two garages with attached workshop space AND a generator! AND several pre-planted vegetable patch fenced in gardens (3)

[Kameraden]

1. Ignore advanced Crafting Mechanics, you're not going to need it.
2. Drive Slow or Monty Python's Holy Rabbit will wreck your vehicle.
3. Rock/back/forth on a chair wondering if you should go back to B41.
4. Find out you can attach a sleeping back to your backpack and remain on B42.
5. Find out it takes forever to deploy/pack up said sleeping bag and proceed to rock in chair again.

[★Rainmaker★]

1. Trap rabbits
2. Catch baby rabbits.
3. You now have baby rabbits.

[hi]

You can spam train welding with 1 singular sheet metal plate on a window, as long as you have propane.

A cow and a bull sets you up for life

Milk is better to sip than water

You can dismantle car wrecks for welding exp at lv 0 (and materials)

The largest bottle/bucket is the one from the water dispensers. 15L in your inventory (but 10L on the machine somehow)

You unlock bone chisel at 3 knapping despite not having read the skill magazine.

Concrete powder is stupid rare.

[mathis90200]

You can make an early game backpack (technically a sling) with a single sheet (no carpentry skill needed)

[Lemonidas of Sourta]

1) Always carry a pillow with you for tactical deployment on a couch, bed or a sleeping bag. Then click on the exact tile where the pillow is and you will get a "poor/average/good comfort, with pillow" option pop up. Just placing it on a bed and sleeping will not count. You have to click on the exact tile of the bed where pillow was placed.

2) Dismantling doesn't give exp for Welding (previously Metalworking anymore) or Carpentry anymore (Electrical still does though). However you can change it in sandbox settings. Speaking of which, there is a massive bug where in you can't refill welding torches from propane tanks if the torch is completely empty. There is a mod that fixes that however it's unknown whether it works on a save game already in progress.

3) You can use a magazine and duct tape to make armor for your forearms and thighs. They increase discomfort and too much sustained discomfort makes your character unhappy. Just take em off while you're about to sleep or rest inside a building for a while. You can make magazine armor for shins and elbows as well but you got plenty of elbow and knee pads for that. Don't put the magazine armor inside the washer on your laundry day. It immediately gets broken.

[tf2 pomson enjoyer #FIXVACPLS]

You can take windows with a crowbar and use them to replace broken ones.

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by PK_Ultra:

Obligatory, "Bone Choker neck armor has 100 protection" mention.

bone choker? I hardly know her!

[PEWPEWPEW]

(build 42.0.2 unstable)
1) don't open canned food with a knife (chance of getting a deep wound)
2) 1 Milk Carton = 2 butter (butter is really good for weight gain)
3) don't pick the "smoker" trait, it's currently bugged (you'll need to smoke a lot)
4) loot "car battery charger" if you find one, car battery drain faster than gasoline for some reason
5) dismantle all digital stuff (digital watches, radio, tv, phones, etc.), it's easier to grind lvl 3 electrical than to find "how to use generator" manual sometimes
6) stone is the best starting weapon that you can find easy through foraging

[Jambie Lionheart]

Dunno ''bout no pro tips ubt start levelling your aiming with a shot gun. Don't even bother to start with anything else. you'll waste so much time and ammo, needlessly. The starting pistol is ok but shot gun is still far better and the learning curve for the new aiming ssytem is.... awkward at best.

Also, Go and find Muldrough police station. Best base location I've found so far. Will look more when devs fix the plank crafting system >.> That ♥♥♥♥ was not cool.

[Jambie Lionheart]

Originally posted by PEWPEWPEW:

(build 42.0.2 unstable)
1) don't open canned food with a knife (chance of getting a deep wound)
2) 1 Milk Carton = 2 butter (butter is really good for weight gain)
3) don't pick the "smoker" trait, it's currently bugged (you'll need to smoke a lot)
4) loot "car battery charger" if you find one, car battery drain faster than gasoline for some reason
5) dismantle all digital stuff (digital watches, radio, tv, phones, etc.), it's easier to grind lvl 3 electrical than to find "how to use generator" manual sometimes
6) stone is the best starting weapon that you can find easy through foraging

Oh, I found that too. Idling the car doesn't work as well either but does help somewhat.