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15) Water is your friend. If you have a tall base, make a small pool at the foot so that you can easily jump down without any health risk
16) Wood frames are awesome, keep a few with you at all times. If you find yourself trapped at the top of a building(especially in the hub city), you can attach wood frames to the wall and wind your way down and pickup the frames behind you. You can also use the wood frames as a way into your base and also a helper when constructing so you can reach higher locations without leaving things laying around.
17) Most things are good sources of burnable wood. Extra weapons, chairs, etc.
18) Save space in your inventory. Scrap any/all iron/brass/lead except bullet casing.
This one should just be an asterisk tip..
**Remember that when crafting you can close your inventory and do other things.
May I correct you on something by the way? It’s in the number 7 tip. Antibiotics cure infection and dysentery but not food poisoning. But the advice is interesting, all food that may apply Food Poisoning (only lasts 60 seconds) is not that bad like Old Sham Sandwich which replenish 20 on Fullness: 1) There is a chance that the debuff isn’t applied (so only benefits) and 2) with the abundance of bottles and make tons of goldenrod tea, you just wait 60 seconds until food poising ends, then you drink.
For tools make metal strips (from iron pipes) and for guns use weapon repair kits. Place the tool/gun in the center of the crafting grid and place the strips or repair kit on the grid as well. Click craft and your item will be repaired.
You can quickly fill your inventory with broken down stuff that would have stacked better individually so only break it down if it's a 1 to 1 ratio or 2 to 1 or it doesn't stack to 64.
I did a loot run to a hotel in the central city yesterday and broke all the doors in one building. Walked out with 3 stacks of 64 door knobs. If I had broken them down while looting I'd have had 6 inventory spots taken up instead of 3.
Crossbow can be repaired with sticks and the stone axe can be repaired with stone.
Very true. But if you had 18 door knobs 10 trophies and 20 candlesticks it would be well worth it to scrap them all.
Excellent tips folks!
Repair weapons (numbers given here are for alpha 9.3):
1) You can repair a crossbow by putting in the crafting grid your crossbow and some sticks (found by destroying bushes or by converting wood logs into planks then into sticks) and the stone axe by putting in the crafting grid your stone axe and some small stone and craft.
It’s not recommended, since making a stone axe only requires one small stone (converted into sharp stone) and crossbow a few sticks (you will need more resources to repair them than to create them from scratch).
You can either put random sticks or stones with your weapon and you should get back what is in excess.
Or you can calculate what you exactly need each time: for example (to see the mechanic), the crossbow has 250 durability and the tip indicates that it needs sticks to be repaired. Each stick repairs an amount of 10 weapon durability (it’s on the tip). So you will never need more than 25 sticks to repair it fully (10 * 25 = 250). If it has, for example, 98 durability left you do this calculation:
[max durability minus durability left = durability points to repair] so 250 – 98 = 152. Since sticks repair 10 durability, you divide the result by 10 and you know that you need 16 (rounded up) sticks to repair it.
2) You can repair tools and some melee weapons (see the tip in each weapon to see what it requires to be repaired) with metal strips (put the tool or melee weapon on the crafting grid with metal strips then craft): 1 Iron Ingot gives 4 Forged Iron which gives 12 Short Iron Pipes which gives 60 Metal Strips.
Each metal strip repairs an amount of 10 durability. Like before, you can put a random number of metal strips with the weapon, and if there is too much, you should get it back (unless there is a bug with certain weapons in particular and excess disappear).
If you want to calculate what you exactly need, you do like before. For example, the Sledgehammer has 250 max durability and since metal strips repair 10 weapon durability, you can calculate exactly as the example mentioned above with the crossbow.
3) You can repair firearms with weapon repair kits (put the firearm and weapon repair kit on the crafting grid, then craft). To make one, you will need oil (found randomly), cloth (found randomly or by combining two cotton flowers in the crafting grid) and metal strips (in the part 2 here you can see what you need to make them). Each weapon repair kit repair 40 weapon durability.
As before, you can put a random number of weapon repair kits and get back the excess if it’s too much or you can do the calculations like before but since it repairs 40 durability, at the end you divide by 40 instead of ten.
For example, you have got a pistol with 15 durability left out 175 max: 175 – 15 = 160. 160 : 40 = 4. You will need exactly 4 weapon repair kits to fully repair it.
Max stack you can have of each repair material:
Sticks and small stones (250); metal strips (64); weapon repair kits (12).
The gas pumps blow up. They are not a good source of scrap iron. Who'd have guessed? :)
I should have been more elaborate with 7. Antibiotics was directed at rotten meat. Food poisoning was a separate issue but still under food debuffs. Also, I'm not a fan of goldenrod tea. It's just another something to waste my time on when I have more important things to craft. It's a great item, but I wait until I have settled down in my base and I have nothing else to do. I know others swear up and down by it, but I just make a few stacks of jars and boil the water anytime I need a new stack. The only drinks I waste my time on to craft is coffee (sometimes), bottled water, and yucca juice. Hornets are pretty common so I make sure to get some honey which doesn't waste time crafting and it doesn't require an empty jar.