Utterly Mad

That's the kind of thing that happens sometimes. Nub contributer wants to implement a thing, the idea is made more complex than he can handle. Saltmummy wants to make clam traps. Instead of answering the simple question of "hey, where can I find the code for fish traps so I can ape it to make my clam traps?" he gets told that the code is "on github."
"I am well aware that the code is on github, can anybody tell me where it is, generally? I just want to see it and github is rather incomprehensible to me."
*no response*
Either way, the idea falls apart.

I'd want the clam traps to work like growing plants now anyway. Or have them as preexisting clumps that form in shallow water. Like berry bushes. Doesn't matter though, couldn't  find the code for that shit either.

I imagine a 55 gallon drum with an IV hooked up to it.

As tempted as I am, I think I'll save my mutagen binge for after I can produce enough to fill a hilariously large container.

Instead, I finished the mine in search of a jackhammer, basically fucking steamrolled The Thing with a pike. And my reward?



I am just plain astounded.

Woo, don't you just love the devs totally not bullshitting us and making the game harder while disguising it as realistic game changes in Cataclysm?

Because I sure do. Though, that ring sounds completely epic. And I lucked out with the first museum, I've got a xiphos. Really going for that ancient Greek look now, I guess. Another museum and two pawn shops'll be looted soon. Most zombies are dying in two hits now, even specials, and my melee skill is increasing like fucking crazy. I have skill rust off, because....you don't lose real skill after not doing a thing for two days. Coughrealisticdevthingcough. My kill count's a little over two hundred. Almost exclusively zombies, besides a few wolves, cougars, and coyotes.

I know, I know. But it's a game. It just irks me. It used to be rather playable, and now it's not hard, it's just complicated and annoying to the point of half the old players no longer wanting to play it, y'know? Give us something. Give us a few things to ease the burden. Plate armor can be bulletproof, why not. You can healthily live for a week on red meat, why not. Shit like that.

And pawn shops are a good bet for the acetylene torch. I've found two in recent playthroughs. And reloading ammo's a pretty fun part of the game. Haven't done much farming ingame yet, besides weed.

Shit, right, forgot. Heh, basically the time I set item spawn to .01 and had a long-lasting character. It can be real fun to have few resources ingame besides what you kill and what you get from dismantling things.

And I can personally attest to the red meat thing as a side note. Lived a week on jerky and assorted dried/packaged meat products while backpacking. I'm not sure it was healthy, but hey, you can do it.

And I'd have no idea how to find one without cities. Can it be crafted?

I've never found anything good in an antique store, but that's down to my item spawn settings. I did find a "blob ripper" in a public works station though. So that was a surprise. Also the predetermined spawns of the public works. You know. Windows, sand, boards, logs, pipes, and 200 nails that always spawn in the work shed.