Help please...

[IcewaterCreek®]

Thank you for all the help.

When attacked use DRAFT and force move them to where i need them.

Check the box FIGHT BACK ATTACKERS... gotcha.

Ear Plugs good early for sleep disturbance... until i can give them all separate housing.

[son-goku]

If the box "Fight back attackers" is not checked, they will flee.

Either check the box so they fight back or simply draft the survivors, gather them as a group and have them fight the attackers manually.

[IcewaterCreek®]

Originally posted by son-goku:

If the box "Fight back attackers" is not checked, they will flee.

Either check the box so they fight back or simply draft the survivors, gather them as a group and have them fight the attackers manually.

Thank you for that. Will check the box....
What about the ear plugs? How do to exploration missions away from the camp?

[Jaggid Edje]

Ear plugs are to prevent your survivors from getting the "Disturbed sleep" bad mood debuff, which happens when anyone enters the room where they are sleeping. Mainly useful in the very early game when you might not have private bedrooms set up for everyone.

Music instruments are fine "near" bedrooms. But "in" bedrooms is probably a bad idea.

@Son-goku's got you covered on your other questions.

[Pilot Error]

Drafting a survivor (click on portrait then look top right) allows he/she/it to fight. If your survivor is fleeing then he/she has not been drafted....
I don't think the music will be a problem but could be wrong...
Earplugs? Never used them but sometimes when a survivor is sleeping they can be disturbed by someone else. I would make a guess that this debuff is reduced with the plugs?....
For exploration research balloons...

[son-goku]

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

How do to exploration missions away from the camp?

Have you played the tutorials?

For exploration, research and then build a balloon. Then you can send out one survivor for an exploration or to scavenge a found location

[IcewaterCreek®]

Originally posted by son-goku:

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

How do to exploration missions away from the camp?

Have you played the tutorials?

For exploration, research and then build a balloon. Then you can send out one survivor for an exploration or to scavenge a found location

Just started... and yes... bugs came rushing into camp, all boxes are checked, no one fights they stay sleeping. I clicked on each one to go to a tower, and nothing makes them move. They wait until the bugs are on them instead of getting up and running to towers. Not sure how to make them use towers.

[IcewaterCreek®]

Originally posted by son-goku:

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

How do to exploration missions away from the camp?

Have you played the tutorials?

For exploration, research and then build a balloon. Then you can send out one survivor for an exploration or to scavenge a found location

Got this, thank you. Found it moments ago. Now I have a monster bug issue not a game issue. Bugs that are aggressive have attacked twice. Have walls and towers, and my people just sleep or keep doing whatever when they are coming.

[Jaggid Edje]

Originally posted by IcewaterCreek®:

Got this, thank you. Found it moments ago. Now I have a monster bug issue not a game issue. Bugs that are aggressive have attacked twice. Have walls and towers, and my people just sleep or keep doing whatever when they are coming.

You have to draft them to tell them to man the towers, take specific positions, etc. Drafted survivors also will automatically attack any bugs that come in range of their weapons, regardless of the setting for fleeing/defending.

Drafting is what you want to do when you are under attack, always. To draft survivors, select them and click the "Draft" button. To undraft them when you are done, do the the same but click the "undraft" button.

Just as an aside, drafting is also actually useful for hunting prior to getting decent weapons, because every survivor in range will attack targets when drafted. If left to hunt on their own, only one survivor will shoot at any given hunt target.

[Stimpacker]

Here's some tips I found useful:

1) I keep weapons in a wardrobe and only tell survivors to equip them when the "aggressive animals" warning pops up. This keeps them from deteriorating fast. Then unequip when all bugs are dead. At the beginning when you only have crossbows, it doesn't matter.

2) If it's ground animals, then I draft and move survivors to the defensive position about 5 hours after the notice. If it's flying bugs, then 3 hours after notice. They'll attack soon after that. They go for your survivors, so if they're still inside house, bugs may attack nearby walls instead of going to your deathtrap.

[Jaggid Edje]

Just adding to what @Stimpacker said, if you are playing with the moon Nyx, draft them within the first hour of getting the alert of an incoming attack wave. You only have a 2 hour window between the initial alert and the attack starting when your moon is Nyx. I love Nyx.