What do these icons actually mean in the base?

[Jin]

Many buildings have "icons" for example an apple, or an axe, or a chair. When hovering over them they say, for example:

Available supply slots:
- for tools
- max equipped items

This was never explained what they do in the tutorial, and I still have no idea what that even means. Someone care to elaborate IN DETAIL and also give tips how to build the base, I don't wanna waste resources building stuff in a wrong place just to abandon it later on. Ty!

[greyrain]

same, I wish there were tool tips or something. I have no idea what I should be building towards or what upgrading a building actually does

[flow]

They’re mechanics you only unlock a little later, at which point they get explained.

You can just ignore them for now, but they should really be hidden until you can actually interact with them.

[flow]

Originally posted by greyrain:

same, I wish there were tool tips or something. I have no idea what I should be building towards or what upgrading a building actually does

You can see what upgrading a building will do by just hitting the upgrade button.

[info]

please could someone explain it in detail, not just add a short sentence. we can easily make guesses ourselves. point is to know we really understood it, so please in detail.

and please do not explain it with using unexplained game terminology. so often in this forum I see someone answer stuff in a way that only helps those who already know what means what. like "what does X mean?" "oh it just means how many X you have" ;)

the game is fantastic, but nothing is explained and it is incredibly frustrating if you play to optimize like many do

[liosalpha]

In detail... once you build the suply depot you unlock artifects. these drop randomly in the game (for me about 3 per run) these have little bonus stats. like getting more healing when passing trou the camp or doing extra damage to a vampire etc (there are many more)

these artifect are divided in 4 catagories: furniture, food tools and jewelry.
So these icons your seeing on buildings unlock more slots

I dont see how you would optimize your build befor unlocking this, but there you have it.

[lyravega]

Later on (after building supply depot), you can equip "artifacts" that belong to four categories. These artifacts yield a minor bonus to something, alone they might not mean much, but you can equip many of them at the same time later on.

A little apple icon for example, means that the total food artifacts that you can equip is increased by 1. And the same goes for the other four categories. There is a fifth one that governs how many trinkets you can equip at the same time, and it is easier to distinguish (it's background is red-ish).

You cannot exceed individual category limits, or your total maximum.