#Abiotic Factor

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sick charm
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I wanna build clockwork soldiers

dense ember
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there's one interesting thing with the laser katana and laser cannon

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||you can't recharge them with electric recharger, you have to recharge them with LASER||

sick charm
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Can you build a ||laser emitter||

dense ember
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yes

sick charm
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Nice

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We can use it to make laser walls

dense ember
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||you basically have to recharge a laser battery by shooting the laser emitter at it.||

sick charm
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Sounds dangerous

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You just drop it in the path of the laser?

dense ember
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||this means you can't just recharge it the old way, but laser battery IS a laser battery and you can carry it around to immediately charge laser weapons.||

sick charm
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Oh huh

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So it’s like carrying ||extra mags for your weapons||

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I imagine it’ll be hard to field produce the device needed to recharge

dense ember
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||in a way, yes, recharge instantly too, so no need to wait for old recharge time||

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||and you can deploy it immediately, no screwdriver necessary.||

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||you still probably don't want to put it too close to frontline and get it blown up though.||

sick charm
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What’s the ||material for the laser pistol btw, wanna know what to keep an eye out for||

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Most inordinately excited for the tiny ||pew pew gun||

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To the point of considering sneaking into sec sector without my friend to grab it

dense ember
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hold up, let me check

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||it's something you will find very quickly, don't worry about it, it's shiny.||

sick charm
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Nothing follows you out of security sector right

dense ember
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||the guy like darkness, don't worry, leyak won't be in there with you too.||

sick charm
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Have you gone into the waters of hydroplane yet btw

dense ember
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alright, time to fish tomorrow

sick charm
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Friends a bit thalassophobic

dense ember
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I have finished hydro sector already, it's dark as shit

sick charm
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But we need to venture into the waters to grab seaweed so we can make sushi

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No idea where to find rice though

dense ember
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||there's a big guy but think of it as a whale, a whale is docile, but is also like a million pound and will kill you accidentally.||

sick charm
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So stay away from|| the evil whale||

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There’s a fishing level 15 thing that says ||underwater creature will stop seeing you as a threat||

dense ember
sick charm
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Ooh

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I guess you find it in hydrosector?

dense ember
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yes

sick charm
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Nice

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Guess I can clear out some space lettuce to make room for rice

unkempt lily
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good god these defense bots are a nightmare

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I found security fun but a little underwhelming for how hyped up it was

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the hydroplant though, this is the shit

sick charm
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So bring electric weapons right

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For those defense bots

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Not sure if the close range combat against them is a good idea though

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The trailer shows them shooting fucking grenades

dense ember
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you want to ||aim for their backpack.||

woeful raptor
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wait whats special about the carbon pickaxe?

unkempt lily
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it does a ton of damage and uses way less stamina than most heavy weapons

woeful raptor
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ahh gotcha gotcha

unkempt lily
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oh shit, the hydroplant has semi-random enemy spawns

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this is very cool

sick charm
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laser pistol acquired

unkempt lily
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okay it is very funny that (hydro spoilers) ||the journal entry describes someone speaking french as strange and cryptic, just because I happen to speak french and can understand her warnings! I would heed them||

unkempt lily
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whoa (gate security crate spoilers) ||incredibly cool||

sick charm
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Creamy Inkfish is a pretty good food item I think

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Oh heck

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Gonna farm those

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Single headshot wihh the ||laser pistol|| kills zombies

dense ember
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head shot with most thing would kill zombie really

sick charm
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So

dense ember
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also, apparently, the new rice plant can be found in earlier place now too as old map got updated...

sick charm
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Leyak can’t hunt you in hydroelectric right

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Oh

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Where is it

dense ember
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a couple, gonna check it out later

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apparently some are ||located through the mine portal||

sick charm
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The ||portal at the bottom of the pool?||

dense ember
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oh right there's two of them

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||the first one||

sick charm
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Which one’s that

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What first portal

dense ember
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||the one you use to get in the locked up manufactory area through underground train line||

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||the big box in the middle||

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||you meet a scientist there before going into the portal||

sick charm
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Huh

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Well I am not sure where that is but I did find ||a rice seed by one of the random blue pools in the open mine area||

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just cooking up some nice plates of creamy ink pasta

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of course it is a weird alien rice

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Found a fish soup recipe

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||portalfish, whole, tomato, and potato||

dense ember
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oh huh

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||also found the rice seed at the blue pool in the far mine, guess there's ntohing underground.||

sick charm
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I remember seeing the plant at the mushroom world

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So I’m headed there to check

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I forgot to bring my heat suit last time lmao

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Hm

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Harvested rice but I guess I gotta steam it first

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Hmm

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Not there I guess

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Sushi acquired

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But at what cost

dense ember
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how do you steam it?

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just water and rice?

sick charm
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Soup

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Add raw rice to water in pot

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So far I’ve made ||fogiri|| and ||Fr-eyed Rice||

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First is a deployable dish like

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Pies

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But made straight from the chef’s table

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Eating it ||summons the fog as your next weather event||

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So feel free 5o eat a bunch if that’s your thing

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The second gives you ||underwater vision||

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It also cures an absurd 100 points of hunger

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But I know what I’m bringing to hydroelectric plant now

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Haven’t found any other recipes just yet

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I imagine there will be more once I have access to nori

dense ember
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grab as much murkweed as you can when diving, you will need a lot of it, whether for cooking or otherwise

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also just training my fishing and cooking skill right now, serving seconds seems so good

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extra 2 portions for soup or portion meal, holy shit that's a powerful buff

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the irony is that the more you want to level up your cooking skill, the more the game makes you less necessary to cook more...

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what the, what was that

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some tiny purple swirling thing appeared at my feet and my food instantly cooked

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that was weird, but I don't mind that if that's some kind of random bonuses

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ya know what's the most surprisingly thing with laser katana? attacking with it gives you blunt exp

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finally, I can actually leveling up my blunt skill

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finally cooked the rice and what the hell is this colour

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goddamn rainbow ass rice

dense ember
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sushiiiii

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these are gigantic piece even, nobody would serve this portion in restaurant

dense ember
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finally fished the chordfish

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this is some warframe ass fishes

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and apparently you can complete a piece of its organ into an organ key for the composer chest

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which sounds far easier to do than hunting a symphonist

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so this is what all the leyak essence is for

dense ember
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I'm so annoyed at the sniper at hydro, I think i will actually figure out how to make electric floor trap this time and just cover their spawn with it

unkempt lily
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@dense ember , you've beat hydro right? what do I ||actually have to do with the neutrio emitter? I put it by the transmitter but it still says radiation interference||

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oh nevermind I can't read, sorry

unkempt lily
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holy fuck the laser cannon

sick charm
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the energy pistol is actually surprisingly good against most mobs

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one shots pests

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one shots zombies

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has the most easily replenishable ammo etc

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unfortunately i'm not sure you get ranged xp from using it

dense ember
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nope you don't, same with laser cannon

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though unless you are grinding for sniper rifle, you honestly don't need that much accuracy...

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i think right now, any ranged weapon that can be recharged basically can't be used to grind accuracy

sick charm
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Are ||magbolts|| effective against snipers

sick charm
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The energy pistol is also pretty good for dealing with exors I think

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Playing with a friend makes security sector pretty easy

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One of us salvaged the valuable boxes while the other covered with a pistol

sick charm
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Fr-eyed rice really does give you an absurd hunger cure

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By comparison cosmato wraps cure 50 points of hunger

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Fr-eyed rice cures 100

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Only issue with it is that rice seeds seem very difficult to find

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But I think I remember seeing another one in the antejuice pool in the mines so I guess I’ll check that place out next

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Rice seeds are difficult to find and you can’t get more by harvesting rice

unkempt lily
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well I've completed the mainline bit of the new update

sick charm
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That was quick

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We are just methodically clearing out the dark corridors of security

unkempt lily
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a bit shorter than I would've hoped, but at the same time I imagine it's in no small part because of how much stuff I was grinding waiting for the update

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I do also play very cavalierly and skipped a lot of looting

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I'm excited to try out all the new stuff though

sick charm
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We are also fishing from all the spots

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Apparently there’s a fishing spot in the radioactive pits of FORGE

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Which is where you get the valuable valuable fish liver

unkempt lily
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oh yeah I haven't done any fishing either

dense ember
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what does fish liver do?

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or rather, what can you make from it?

sick charm
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But radioactive fish is the only one you can find them from

dense ember
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definitely gonna try to fish them all, though dealing with leyak outside of portal world is gonna be annoying when fishing

sick charm
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That’s why I carry a charged makeshift battery and x ray turret when I go fishing

unkempt lily
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I wonder if you can fish in the mycofields

sick charm
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Portal fish I think can only be fished from the swimming pool at the gym office area

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I tried to fish in the fungus world but found only disappointment

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Antefish hotspots are pretty much everywhere

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Portal fish can be used to make soup

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But they have no effect aside from decent hunger and thirst gain

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(25 hunger and thirst per sip)

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Inkfish can be caught in the night realm and has a low chance of yielding night essence when butchered

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Ink fish filets can be cooked with mushroom and milk to make creamy seafood fried fish food

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Fishing seems like a great source of meat to raise cooking level real quick

dense ember
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yup

sick charm
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The leyak can also be fished and yield leyak essence when butchered

dense ember
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I don't think that's a literal leyak fish and more something that lives in the same ecosystem

unkempt lily
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the fried rice looks like a cruelty squad asset

dense ember
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lmao

sick charm
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its freyed rice

dense ember
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Apparently people are figuring out how to break the game and get infinite energy through laser

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It's like that one mirrored laser lipstick scene in Totally Spy that makes absolutely no sense

sick charm
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You use ||laser splitters linking into three power converters which will output as much energy as three separate outlets||

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Oh my fucking GOD

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THEY DID IT

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BEST UPSATE EVER

unkempt lily
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what did they do?

sick charm
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Oven ||now dings when food is done||

sick charm
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huh

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thte Tram system came before Gate Cascade facility

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so they built hte research facility around the magical tram system?

unkempt lily
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Presumably it was there when they took over the mine

sick charm
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Hmm

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I wonder if you can generate infinite energy with a battery and a laser

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Laser-splitter-battery-emitter loop

sick charm
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So presumably the reaper ||sends people to its dimension|| to turn into shades right

sinful totem
dense ember
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Food also take a much longer time to get burned now

sinful totem
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also nice

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it was a narrow window

dense ember
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there's also a new emplacement that can nullify radiation, so no more wearing rad suit near fridge

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unfortunately for some reason, staring at it cause a bit of lag, so until they fix that, I will keep wearing rad suit

dense ember
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found a trick to level up stealth real quickly in burst

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just sneak behind a robot station and hold down electric thrower

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the robot get stunlocked in its activation animation and you get stealth attack exp every hit

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about 300 per security bot and 700 for containment bot, more with exp boost

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strategy like this is starting to be necessary due to how goddamn long it will take to level things up to level 15

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sneaking on top of arcade (use jetpack for easy access) and using the composer to train stealth also works, probably faster since you don't need to walk all over the damn place, though sometimes the composer will spot you

unkempt lily
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I personally like in front of the courthouse for afk stealth grinding

unkempt lily
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I'm so tempted to relocate my entire base into the ||world in the mirror||

dense ember
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too much of a hassle to move honestly

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I'm gonna stay where I am for the rest of the game

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also my electric system is like, absolutely fucked

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I don't even know where is going what at this point

unkempt lily
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that's kinda where I'm at vis a vis moving, but I'm also like, fully out of space at this point

oak parcel
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i'm trying not to be in here too much because spoilers but someone savve me from fishing hell

unkempt lily
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oh actually I guess there's no water there either

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yeah that's 100% not worth it then

sick charm
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what in particular do you need help with

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i feel like i'm the local fishing expert now

oak parcel
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i finally got it all ||been fishing for the maestro set||

unkempt lily
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uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sick charm
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ahh i see you found the ||shit dimension||

unkempt lily
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I sure did lol

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honestly this thing seems like a straight downgrade to the standard ||toilet||

woeful raptor
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||oh thats what they meant by a portal toilet.|| i cant wait to reach that

unkempt lily
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while there's genuinely 0 reason to do so, it's super easy to farm the tarrasque with the deatomizer

dense ember
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nice

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hopefully we can do something with the ichor eventually

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there's apparently roaming trader in the next update

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so more chance to sell off some vendor trash

sick charm
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I’m still guessing we would be able to build stationary teleporters

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So that we don’t have to carry multiple emergency personal teleporters to move around bases

dense ember
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Stationary teleporter looks like it's gonna be a thing next update

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Okay, giving magbow another try, now that I know shift can be used to actually let you aim shit

sick charm
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Shift can be used to do what now

dense ember
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You can hold shif to make the scope in magbow to not shake around so much

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this is not mentioned anywhere in game

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I still won't recommend you using it to countersnipe sniper

sick charm
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Using a shield seems to be much better against snipers

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What do you do once you reach the ||room with a composer|| in hydroplant

oak parcel
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my favorite bit of fridge logic from abiotic: how the fuck the trams work

dense ember
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Do not go, beware of dragon

dense ember
oak parcel
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i love it

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i remember one day i was like "i wonder if i can cheese on the tram rail to get places.... wait where- WAT"

dense ember
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It's gonna be like Gilgamesh, how it was such a common knowledge that nobody bothered to write it down until 5000 years later, someone rediscovered someone's homework on him

sick charm
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So the facility was built atop the tram system. Gate did not build it

dense ember
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Apparently the whole plant was a lithium mine

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Lithium mine so valuable they built a whole damn dam underground

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This is before Gate

oak parcel
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also anyone have any good throwing skill farms? preferably before security sector

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i'm still only like level 2 in it

dense ember
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One suggestion is to grab the pencil crossbow bolt and throw it at your feet to train both throwing and endurance (whatever it is called, forgot at the moment) at once

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You can throw net, but they bounce all over the place and stakc to 16 only

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Or 20

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Also grab a vacuum

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Easier than picking up one by one

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There's no real quick way about it sadly

dense ember
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....oh no, bolt no longer give throwing exp

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fuck

woeful raptor
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god i wish i could have seen what this meant

dense ember
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what does that even mean

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what happened

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also fully trained reload to level 15, I can finally stop interrupting my own reload in panick when running

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now I just to... get everything else to a high enough level

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I also found that shock trap works on enemy, when they move, meaning when they spawn in on places

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so most of the shock trap I have set for the snipers in hydro is basically useless since the sniper will not move at all

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gonna take them back and see where else I can use them for

sick charm
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Why don’t you just put a disc turret around their spawn

dense ember
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because those turret might get damaged eventually

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also snipers don't seem to be much of a problem now with the recent hotfix

unkempt lily
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oh my god the new charging done noise is so much nicer

oak parcel
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Through a bit of testing, if you're running a dedicated server restarting every 3-4 hours seems to give the best stability spawn wise so when a single person is on

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also re: snipers, who ever decided one enemy should have excellent range, good damage, laser accuracy, and inflict a heavy bleed that you can fail to treat and is treated into a normal bleed needs to be put on idea probation

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also just whoever decided heavy bleed can fail to be treated and persists through dbno

unkempt lily
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Wait there’s a dbno system?

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Also don’t you just need a tech bandage

oak parcel
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if you're on multiplayer yeah

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not far enough for what ever that is

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my group restarted this go around we're still in old content

unkempt lily
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Oh I see

oak parcel
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so it may just be more of a case that that enemy shouldnt be this early in the game

dense ember
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ooof

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yeah sniper should not be, should not be this overtuned

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it's nut

oak parcel
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I think it's mostly the bleed that's the issue atleast where I'm at

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Though I wouldn't mind it being otherwise left as is but made non hitscan

sick charm
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jetpacks obtained for me and my friend

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we had to slaughter an ungodly amount of security bots

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speaking of, is there a renewable source of motors anywhere

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i'm not sure if we'll find enough to make armor for both of us

dense ember
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the hydro protal world should have it

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otherwise, well, the denizens in that portal world will provide you with armor

sick charm
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ooh

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well I might not even bother crafting the cascade armor then

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seems really expensive

dense ember
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it's worth it for the sensor really

sick charm
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what's that do

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i got extremely sensitive hearing so I tend to have very good idea of where enemies are located anyways

dense ember
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huh, interesting, the crumbled darkwater fish is actually a portion meal, so adding in the new sushi, we got 3 portion meals that going to last us for a long time

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4 if rice counts as well, that a lot of hunger satisfied

dense ember
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oops, just remember that you can't just build bridge on bridge, you can build a bridge against SOMETHING, like a wall, but not just make a thin bridge of nothing

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so I can't build a bridge from the neutrino detector place in hydro, shame

unkempt lily
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it's possible to dodge it (while flying) (at super long ranges)

unkempt lily
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also it's just extraordinarily good armour, both very light and really durable

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made me give up my bionic legs after all this time

oak parcel
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hmmmmmm

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feels like a bug

dense ember
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no, the final game max level seems to be somewhere around 20 or 25

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you totally can level pass the current level 15 limit, but it will do nothing for now until next major update arrives

oak parcel
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Also i love that I haven't gotten to the security sector yet, haven't skillfarmed reloading, and I'm already a level past current cap

dense ember
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what the heck were you using so frequently to get you to level 16 reload

oak parcel
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Scrapshot pistol

unkempt lily
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reloading levels stupid fast for some reason

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I really hope you can eventually use the barbell machines

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levelling strength is tragic

oak parcel
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Strength training easy, just be loot goblin

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Throwing is suffering

dense ember
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throwing is suffering yup

oak parcel
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sit in corner throw net, consider life choices

unkempt lily
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the trophy wall grows (spoilers up to crush depth)

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also pictured, toilet laser

oak parcel
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does the ||journal|| that rarely drops from the sniper do anything?

sick charm
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Almost at fishing level 12

dense ember
sick charm
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I got it from the first sniper I killed this update haha

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It was weird though

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He wa just standing menacingly in a dark corner as if he was a standard soldier

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I walked up to him and then he 360 no scoped me immediately

dense ember
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you want to use silenced weapon against them, like melee, otherwise they will react like a goddamn aimbot

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alternatively

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grenade

sick charm
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Yeah I just didn’t know this sniper would be standing right there in the open in a dark corner

dense ember
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can't shoot you if you don't even pop over cover

oak parcel
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i need to get sneaking to 15

sick charm
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Thought he must be some new soldier type so I was curious

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Jetpack obtained

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With a gravity cube I seem to be able to extend flight duration almost indefinitely

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Should easily be able to use it to reach the neutrino detector

unkempt lily
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it's a little finnicky but yes you can fly infinitely with it

sick charm
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Second sniper I killed dropped his rifle

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But I’m not sure how actually useful this thing is

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I need to get accuracy all the way up to what

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15 just to have the privilege to use this gun?

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My friend seems to really like the quill rifle though

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Told them we should continue to use the grinder disc to hunt robots though to clear out some inventory space in our ammo crate

dense ember
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weirdly, grinder seems to have a bug right now where it gives sharp exp instead of accuracy exp

sick charm
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Yeah I did notice that

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The pickaxe also gives sharp exp

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I’m not sure if that’s intended or not though

dense ember
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definitely not

sick charm
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I mean you are hitting them with the pointy bit

unkempt lily
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pickaxe also causes bleed, so

dense ember
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true, but I consider the blunt skill line to be more 'putting all your strength into your swing' than sharp

sick charm
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Hmm

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Flew around hydroplant area for a bit smiting snipers

dense ember
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also good lord, I need to use these shotgun shells more

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half my conventional ammo chest is just buckshots

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and the antique is so lethal that I just can't spend shells faster than I get them

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maybe I should start using the order shotgun

sick charm
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Antique + grinder disc killed many many robots

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Since I had like 50 laser tripmines left over I also used them to slaughter robots easily lmao

unkempt lily
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the order shotgun is pretty cool

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I genuinely just don't bother with any milspec weapons

sick charm
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Yeah

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Though I am a bit curious with this sniper rifle

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I saw a sniper trying to shoot a defense bot

unkempt lily
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why use precious precious resources for ammo in general when you can just use energy weapons

sick charm
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The defense bot turned and fired a fucking cruise missiles at the poor bugger

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For a moment I thought it fired like a flare or smth

unkempt lily
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oh I thought it was an artillery shell lol

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cruise missile also makes sense

dense ember
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it is

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more a mortar really

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that attack really fucked my plan of trying to use lasermine against them

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since the defense bot won't try to chase after you, and will just nuke your gridsquare

sick charm
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Why chase after you

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When it can just destroy your entire postal code

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I used laser mines when I saw one patrolling around enclosed space

unkempt lily
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it blew up one of my laser collectors I was using as a portable ammo source

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very sad

sick charm
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I had the night key so I could just walk up to it

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Just saw it’s patrol route

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Planted 5 trip mines and ran like hell

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5 tripmines seem sufficient to instantly kill it

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Haven’t tried with 4

dense ember
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the nail trip mine or laser mine?

sick charm
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Laser

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I had a lot of laser tripmines left over from the era where that was ammo for explosive sledge

dense ember
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oh yeah that will do it, you can probably try just 3

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2 was enough to destroy containment bot

sick charm
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I’ll try 4 next time I go hunting I guess

dense ember
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and it doesn't really seem like defense bot has way more health than containment bot, just that it's very hard to use electro thrower against it when it can shoot you

sick charm
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Yeah

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Trying to electrotheower it went disastrously wrong

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And instantly obliterated my friend

dense ember
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oh no

sick charm
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(I had better twitch reflex so I bolted the moment it looked at me lmao)

unkempt lily
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I managed to take one down with the electro thrower one time, but it was a real pain

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you stand real close to it and just circle strafe

sick charm
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And then I just quill rifled it to death

dense ember
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yeah you do not want to fight fair

unkempt lily
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ocasionally it'll try to punch you but it's not that bad

sick charm
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I just uh

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Took cover around a door

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Closed it

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Waited for it to lose aggro

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Came out to shoot its backpack full of quills

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Closed the door

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Rinsed repeat until death

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Nowadays we just slush bomb it and shoot its backpack with shotgun shells while vulnerable

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That seems to be the most cost effective kill method

dense ember
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how many shot?

sick charm
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2-3

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And about ten grinder discs

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If all the grinder discs land it just takes two shotgun shells

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We start retreating the moment I hear the self destruct sequence

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But you can also pretty easily solo a defense bot with the slush bombs since it freezes them long enough for you to blast two shots and retreat to reload

oak parcel
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wait yall spending ammo to kill bots?

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oh the new ones

sick charm
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Yeah

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We did talk about like

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Setting up Tesla turrets to kill them

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But I think we’d need 2-3

dense ember
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someone set up like 19 to kill one, in 3 hits

#

it has to be that fast because otherwise the defense bot will start shooting it up

sick charm
#

Figured

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Hrm

dense ember
#

Fishing really gives out like, so much stuffs

#

I have more fish bones and fish oils than I know what to do with

sick charm
#

Use it to make nori

#

But fish bones have so limited use

dense ember
#

If I remember correctly, you can scrap it for bio scrap?

#

I really want some way of growing murkweed aaaaa

#

Or maybe like, a device that attract trash from water surface

#

Since you can get murkweed from fishing at hydro too

sick charm
#

Yeah maybe a fish tank or something you can use to grow murkweef

#

Do dimweed even regrow

#

Oh you can just fish for them at the submarine bay

#

oh it improves swimming speed!

woeful raptor
#

just got to hydro

#

explored the lower access part a bit, opened the door to see a laser dot twitching over to my face and ducked back

#

they weren't kidding those snipers can snipe

#

i wonder if it'd be possible to set up a bunch of walls to erase los

sick charm
#

This laser katana cuts through soldiers like hot knife through butter

oak parcel
#

I found a really good afk stealth farm spot, if you go to flathill to the building you get the first power cell from the statue out front, you can jump on the bench then on the half circle then on the back of the statue and just stay crouched there and the ||composer|| walking back and forth is in range for xp for a decent portion of its walk but far enough away it never sees you

woeful raptor
#

I'll be sure to use that when winter rolls around

#

given how even after optimization it heats up my pc the same temp elden ring does

sick charm
#

Heheh

#

Shooting a soldier with laser rifle at max power setting

#

They just pop

#

My power supply also goes pop

#

A breacher now dies with two swings from my katana

dense ember
#

Laser katana genuinely fuck so hard

#

Unless you are fighting enemy at range, I don't think you actually need to carry the deatomizer around

sick charm
#

we shot the yeti with the laser rifle

#

it popped in like 3 seconds

#

the scientist hiding in the cave was like "oh noooo fighting it would be suicide... there's no way to escape this mountain!!!"

#

and hyped up the battle

#

and then it just popped in like 3-5 seconds of sustained high powered laser fire

dense ember
#

to be fair, the first thing you go there, you probably won't have laser weapon

#

you do have the ||super molotov cocktail|| though

sick charm
#

Indeed

#

Well first time we went there we had to kill soldiers for their clothes before we froze to death

#

Since we are both thalassophobic we decided not to grind up sea weed for the cold clothes

#

And instead brought heater shields and quill rifles

#

Which worked well

#

Quill rifles evaporates soldiers

#

I think I like laser rifles better though

sick charm
#

hell

#

instead of swimming to the neutrino detector

#

we opted to use jet packs, gravity cube, and a jump pad to comfortably fly our way to it

dense ember
#

I also recommend getting rope plant

sick charm
#

For what?

dense ember
#

so if you drop into the water, you still can get in through the rope

sick charm
#

Ah

sick charm
#

How easy is it to kill a defense bot with a laser rifle

dense ember
#

I recommend slushie first

#

a full charge from deatomizer is not enough

#

better slushy and then shoot its back

sick charm
#

Okay so probably stick with shotgun for the burst damage the

#

Slushie is a given ofc

#

Been curious about viability of setting up some laser turrets

sick charm
#

oh

#

fish oil can be used as substitute for oil in any recipe

dense ember
#

yeah that's one good thing

#

but also, not like you need a lot of oil anyway

#

so it's kinda just, there

sick charm
#

Oh the fish liver acts as a radiation cure

dense ember
#

yup!

#

unfortunately, they can rot!

#

and fishing in the radpool is hard because the exor sometimes just decided to hate you and it's very hard to see hotspot due to how damn bright the pool is

#

funniest part is you would expect the radfish to be, well, radioactive from liviing in radioactive sludge

#

but somehow it's not

sick charm
#

Cooking seems a bit glitched

oak parcel
#

If only you could turn somthing into ethanol or w/e it is

dense ember
#

seems fine to me, what's the problem, what were you trying to cook/bake?

oak parcel
#

dont need it for cooking need it for antirad and duct tape

dense ember
#

oh no, the message is for charlie

oak parcel
#

OH

#

that makes much more sense

dense ember
#

whuh

sick charm
#

literally nothing works

dense ember
#

that's very weird

oak parcel
#

are you walking away from it?

sick charm
#

no

#

those pots of stew have been cooking for about several in game days

#

the meat about the same time

#

makeshift battery never depelted

oak parcel
#

just to confirm you've been standing next to them for several ingame days?

sick charm
#

ye

oak parcel
#

have you tried picking them up and putting them back down?

dense ember
#

I think it has more to do with how the tick rate of time seems to be just broken

sick charm
#

yeah before waiting several times

dense ember
#

not sure what the heck to do besides waiting for a fix

#

if you are hungry, I guess the vending machine is there, just in case

sick charm
#

seems specific to portable stoves

#

industrial stove around the facility still works

oak parcel
#

can someone remind me where this thing in manufacturing connects to ?

dense ember
#

lab sector, you will find the shortcut very quickly

sick charm
#

Huh

#

Or maybe it’s the location?

#

I moved the stove to somewhere else and it works fine

#

or maybe its the fact that they are currently powered by lasers at the moment...?

#

I did notice the problem after I powered them up with a laser power converter

#

Yeah 100% have to do with laser power emitters

#

The moment I rewired to use traditional electric wiring at the old location everything started working

dense ember
#

oh yeah, laser is like, weird right now

#

maybe it's not providing enough power or something

#

turrets apparently don't work when being powered by splitted laser

sick charm
#

Yeah I was powering up the stove with split laser

#

And it seems to have caused them to stop working

#

Aww damn I broke my pretty setup to try and fix this

#

The new lab desks had spawned right on top of where I placed the portable stoves

#

Making them look like real counter tops but I broke them 😦

dense ember
#

ah

sick charm
#

Although I suppose I could just turn on item respawn on and eventually the desks should respawn on top of it

#

I think that’s how it works anyways

oak parcel
unkempt lily
#

do you want more hints?

dense ember
#

it's like the very moment you encounter ||Leyak||, or rather, where she used to be

oak parcel
#

like i've had it connected in a previous run i just cant find the other end again

dense ember
#

it's ||the room above her containment that you need to go to open the rest of the entrance to the lab||

oak parcel
#

thank you i missed it initially and didnt backtrack that far looking for it

woeful raptor
#

minor hydroplant area spoilers - check out the ragdoll

dense ember
#

and finally maxed out cooking, fishing, shooting, reloading, and strength

#

these perks are incredibly useful

#

espiecially the cooking perk, need even less stuff for portion meals now

#

my base is just gonna get covered in more soup pot and cake and pizza now

sick charm
#

You should use pizza to make a carpet

dense ember
#

lmao

sick charm
#

My friend complained to me that I put cookies on their bed

#

So I’m gonna put a cake on there next time

dense ember
#

I would absolutely just spend more time boiling soup and baking stuff

#

if not for the fact that I simply is not capable of finishing them all

sick charm
#

Real conversation between me and my friend yesterday

Friend: “can you set up another charging laser for my laser collector”

Me: “okay where do you want it”

Friend: “I dunnow, somewhere we won’t trip over the laser”

Me: “okay I’ll build it by your bed then.”

#

Does deatomizer have damage falloff btw

dense ember
#

I just used it to countersnipe sniper, so probably not

#

in fact, I don't think anything in game right now has damage falloff

#

if you can hit it, you can hit it hard

#

would be weird to implement damage falloff with the game unique aiming system I guess, it's kinda counterproductive.

unkempt lily
#

my base has become such a mess with lasers

#

does anyone know of a good place to farm steel cable? best I've got is like, 4 from the train

still igloo
#

You can trade military electronics for it at the forge

woeful raptor
#

and rise has a bunch of order guys

still igloo
#

I've found my group just slowly acquires a pile of them no matter where we go, since we don't currently use any of the consumables that take military electronics

#

So between the radios you can smash for them and our general tendency to fight anything that moves they build up

#

These interns are out for blood

unkempt lily
#

oh yeah I have no shortage of military electronics

still igloo
#

Unrelated, but the change that gives you exp for breaking objects is so nice

#

I've gone from Blunt Weapons 3 to like 8 in the course of cleaning out Storage Sector C in ||Security||

woeful raptor
#

might just put away the vacuum bc of the exp

still igloo
#

Yeah, as delightful as the vacuum is this is the only way I'll ever get blunt weapons to catch up with sharp

#

Btw, is the ||Research Pack|| still the best backpack?

unkempt lily
#

depends on how much you value the no-rad thing

#

and uh

#

flying

still igloo
#

Ah right

unkempt lily
#

there is a bigger backpack though

still igloo
#

Radiation isn't that bad, and flight seems like a sidegrade, so probably worth investing in ||Research Packs|| for the rest of my squad

#

Oh wait there is?

#

How big? And how much weight reduction?

unkempt lily
#

let me check lol

#

36 and 25% compared to 30 and 22%

still igloo
#

Ooooh

#

I will be able to stave off the encroachment of ammo, tools, and utility into my loot space for just a bit longer

#

(At this point I leave base with a full hotbar, including fanny pack, and two full rows of stuff in my backpack. It's a struggle.)

unkempt lily
#

lol

#

I leave a slot in my hotbar for general things, and only have a row and a bit in my inventory

#

it's a bit more right now in case I end up getting to go back to the ||shit ocean realm||

still igloo
#

My hotbar is sledge for breaking stuff, splints, teleporter, military cot, then "oops all weapons"

#

And as the team mom, my backpack is a row and a half of healing items and food/water, then a second teleporter and ammo for myself

sick charm
#

My hot bar now has laser weapons and laser collectors

#

And a combat knife I use for breaking stuff

#

And an emergency teleported

#

X ray lamp

still igloo
#

Is there a reason to hang onto the X-ray lamp after ||you've farmed enough night essence||? Assuming at least one squad member has one for emergency ||Leyak|| deterrence?

sick charm
#

Yes

#

||the giant underwater monster can be scared away with it||

still igloo
#

Darn, I'll probably need to get around to crafting one then

#

Unless ||Fishing 15|| works as an alternative

#

Though I'll likely not actually spend the time to get the latter anyway

dense ember
#

okay, just went hunting defense bot with shotgun

#

so at very minimum, all you need is one slushie and 2 shots very and I mean VERY point blank shot with shotgun straight to the backpack, then you just ran

#

that's enough to cause the bot to self destruct

#

I tested this with order shotgun, so antique probably does a better job at its with its higher damage

#

HOWEVER, I also notice one thing when farming bot this way

#

you still get the tier 3 CPU, but other resource seems to be dramatically lessened

#

so farming defense bot by sheer damage straight to its chassis (preferably by laser mine or electron grenade) is still a good idea if you are farming components for cascade armor and other things

still igloo
#

Has anyone else found electro-pests randomly instagibbing them from full hp this update? I'm wondering if it's the thorns bug again, since I've been wearing carapace armor

dense ember
#

carapace armor does pretty much instantly kill off pest if they ram into you

#

though instagibbing them? never heard of that

still igloo
#

No, electropests have been instagibbing me

#

Wondering if they're somehow causing the thorns loop that was theoretically fixed

oak parcel
#

I haven't seen the issue but am not using carapace armor

dense ember
#

oh

#

thought that bug was solved, but I guess the latest update flared it up again

oak parcel
#

I need more carry weight

dense ember
#

same :c

#

I guess when wearing large capacity backpack, the extra slot are mostly for lightweight ammo and supply, because most of the time I just wear the jetpack now and the 24 slots available is already enough due to the weight limit

oak parcel
#

I'm the team mom so I have a bunch of light stuff and a few heavy things, but I also run heavy weapons, I frequently leave base a few points short of yellow weight

#

I miss my makeshift armor buff

unkempt lily
#

holy crap

#

okay the hydroplant is so cool

#

I thought I'd found everything, apparently I hadn't

dense ember
#

it's very big

unkempt lily
#

I may have finally found a worthwhile replacement for the gravity cube

neon frost
#

Heyo heyo, just started the game today, how are folk doing?

unkempt lily
#

10/10, this is genuinely one of my favourite games

sick charm
#

LASERS

woeful raptor
neon frost
#

Sounds great

#

Got a group server running or just all playin' and chatting?

sick charm
#

We have our own individual player groups I think

neon frost
#

Fair

unkempt lily
#

I'm playing solo until the game is done and I can rope some irl friends into it

sick charm
#

LASER

#

I don’t need any better weapon

#

Just give me some extended battery mods

unkempt lily
#

oh yeah I guess the radio pack won't work with those

#

I just carry around a charged collector tbh

sick charm
#

Same

#

Heavy though

neon frost
#

Im trying to bug some friends into it, i like the game but it is nigh impossible for me to stick longterm without a group

woeful raptor
#

i get that yeah

unkempt lily
unkempt lily
#

wow with this new update it's actually so easy to grind skills

#

Eating brains isn't new, but I do love it

unkempt lily
#

huh, did you know there's a power socket up here?

sick charm
#

Im more concerned about the lasers

unkempt lily
#

most of the lasers are doing normal laser things

#

one of them is pointed at the ceiling because I don't want to run my neutrio emitter until the performance gets fixed

still igloo
#

Anyone know what exactly the "secondary blow" the impact hammer does against weakened enemies does?

unkempt lily
#

I truly do not

still igloo
#

Alas

unkempt lily
#

Sometimes the hammer plays a different noise

sick charm
#

combat knife is real nice even for smashing open boxes

#

i should carry more of them

dense ember
#

I just use the better pipe stick for that

sick charm
#

yes but why bring a pipe stick and a knife

#

when you can bring two knives

#

but I did notice that you can butcher enemies with the laser rifle

still igloo
#

That should get you burnt meat

sick charm
#

cooked meat

#

well cooked peccary meat

#

lasers are the future cooking tool

still igloo
woeful raptor
#

im sure you can mod it in given how they have their bootup intro as a mp4 in an open folder

oak parcel
#

why bring two knives when you could bring one and a stack of duct tape

unkempt lily
#

god getting to crafting 15 is a nightmare

#

I think I might just let that one come about naturally rather than grinding it

dense ember
#

oh yeah it's a fucking nightmare

#

I think I will let that happen naturally too

#

it's just too much

#

also, I was think about how weapons in Abiotic Factor referenced weapons you get in Half-Life

#

and even the gun you get in the latest update have their counterpart in the original half-life too

#

I'm just wondering when we are getting a rocket launcher

#

a 9mm SMG with grenade launcher would be a nice upgrade to the current SMG while still making it worth it for players to pick up all the 9mm round left on the gorund

unkempt lily
#

I've been contemplating if it would be possible to beat the game as is following the floor is lava rules

#

my conclusion so far is that if you allow yourself a bit of fudging for falling out of portals and vents in general, the answer is yes once you get out of the cafeteria (assuming you get lucky on furniture breaking)

oak parcel
#

oh for leveling crafting you can do the wood > paper>cloth>bandages path

dense ember
#

how much exp would that give you though?

oak parcel
#

i think each step there is 5xp but its all easy stuff to get in bulk

dense ember
#

hmmm, well I guess there's that

#

gonna do the math on a full stack of wood to bandage tomorrow to see how much that actually gives you

oak parcel
#

and you can semi afk it, just favorite them and craft 10 at a time

#

its not like first aid or throwing

dense ember
#

also like, yeah, wood is everywhere, but also a whole table surprisingly don't give a lot of wood

unkempt lily
#

but it is so mind-numbing and RSI-inducing that I've given up

dense ember
#

you can also grind down rotten food to bioscrap

#

useful if you are also leveling up cooking

oak parcel
#

i dont think i've done any specific farming for it, though all the paper crafting i've done for making scrapshot ammo probably got me most of it

dense ember
#

or just doing a lot of farming

still igloo
#

I'm going to be honest, any time you're expected to grind for something I'm immediately going to pull out a save editor

unkempt lily
#

I don't think you're expected to grind

oak parcel
#

throwing is by far the worst grind i've found so far

unkempt lily
#

i'm just curious what the level 15 crafting bench stuff actually does

dense ember
#

throwing is pain

unkempt lily
#

this is no more frustrating than trying to go back to the shit realm

oak parcel
#

every skill but throwing (and maybe sneaking) like you can just wait to come naturally

unkempt lily
#

sneaking is at least easy to level

#

but yeah throwing is real bad

still igloo
#

Yeah, in ABF I think it's less an intentional design choice and more just poorly-scaled xp returns

oak parcel
#

yeah theres a good afk spot in flathill for sneaking

#

throwing just needs to scale xp on damage/utility hits and it would be fine

still igloo
#

Sneaking needing you to AFK to get any real xp really needs to be fixed

unkempt lily
#

there's a bunch of good afk spots in flathill tbf

#

but yeah I agree

oak parcel
#

imo sneaking only feels less egregious as theres a workaround

still igloo
#

The change they made where breaking objects gives weapon xp is a good start

unkempt lily
#

I either want the vaccum and laser gun and stuff not giving xp to feel more intentional or for it to give some kind of xp

sick charm
#

Does laser katana cause bleeding btw

still igloo
#

Though grinders giving sharp instead of accuracy is just kind of weird

unkempt lily
#

I think I've missed out on a bunch of xp by just vaccuming the whole game

still igloo
#

Technically the vacuum can give xp! It's just accuracy xp, lol

unkempt lily
#

does it?

still igloo
#

Pest shot used to, at least

unkempt lily
#

oh the pests

still igloo
#

Haven't checked this update

unkempt lily
#

yeah probably

#

that is my other QOL wish, I wish there was a way to safely put down pests with the vaccum

still igloo
#

A pest backboard that you can shoot them into and they land safely

#

So I can yeet them into my base from the tram station

unkempt lily
#

I just want to be able to move my precious boy safely

clever flower
#

Leveling cooking is a nightmare tbh, get the xp trait do not be a fool like me

oak parcel
#

level it along side fishing

unkempt lily
#

the key to levelling is always human brains

clever flower
#

It's just got really minimal experience gain when you're only supplying food for two folk

#

Unless you just wanna grind it out and pour soup on the floor

#

Just spamming Eggs has seemed fastest but even still 8-10 is like doubling the experience needed

woeful raptor
#

are there any perks for reaching max level/13+ that stand out to any of you? im away from my pc and I can't remember anything besides sneak

oak parcel
#

sneak15 is good, reloading 15 (lets you reload while sprinting), cooking 15 giving 2 extra serving on servings food, medical 15 (apply medical stuff twice as fast) might be good with how everything and its nan makes you bleed now but i havent gotten it yet to test

unkempt lily
#

crafting 15 sounds in theory really good

#

strength 15 also sounds pretty cool

clever flower
#

I'm also just excited for Strength 15 carry capacity

#

Truly one of my favorite mechanics is 'build strength by being almost overburdened'

#

lotta nice Zomboid DNA in here

clever flower
#

wouldn't mind that bandage being made from nigh anything else

unkempt lily
#

you can just use more bandages

clever flower
#

maybe if i already applied them twice as fast

unkempt lily
#

I don't disagree it's really annoying

clever flower
#

good to know though

#

i've never had old bandages succeed

unkempt lily
#

it's very rng

clever flower
#

i've taken to just uh

unkempt lily
#

sometimes you need two, sometimes you need eight

clever flower
#

teleporting home

#

lmao

unkempt lily
#

I just sit on top of my healing briefcase until I get it right

clever flower
#

the ||Grenade Robots|| don't like me doin that

#

love being Team Healer though

#

also with the laser weapons is anyone else just carrying around a portable charger nowadays

woeful raptor
#

i would get really annoyed by heavy bleed but i think a failed bandage still gives first aid xp so thats my incentive to never use the

#

Better Bandages

clever flower
#

I'm impressed y'all survive some of these folks long enough for multiple bandages

#

also does anyone else have a bug where the snipers never, ever stop firing, even if they can't currently hit ya

woeful raptor
#

never ever? ive had them continue for a solid like minute before but beyond that no

woeful raptor
#

snipers are fine, there's lots of cover but the uh

#

bots. just nuke me

clever flower
#

At least as long as we were puttering around the plant

#

Oh yeah I can hide from them fine, but just. The noise. Forever.

#

though snipers could maaaybe also shoot like .5 seconds slower

still igloo
#

I've found they sometimes fire when you're just far enough behind cover they can't hit you

#

But not when I'm well behind a wall or anything

#

Had they maybe seen a bot and were unloading into it?

clever flower
#

We were fully in like.. the gym area on the other side

#

And maybe! Still had the bots meandering around

still igloo
#

Soup is too darn efficient

#

Ended up just mass-cooking fish to get the oven

oak parcel
#

is it just me or is the ||moisture teleporter|| borderline useless?

still igloo
oak parcel
#

oh yeah theres just like a 60% chance if you get hit in manufacturing by it that you're just dead

#

and nah fort xp is easy enough to farm otherwise that its not an upside

#

anyone else haaaaaaaaaaaaaate that chargers have the done charging tone now?

still igloo
#

I have every single "you're fragile and easy to kill" negative trait, a nice safe bleed is a welcome source of fortitude XP

still igloo
#

Fewer instances of "quit hogging the darn charge pad"

oak parcel
#

i cant do hot swap teleporters now

still igloo
#

Hm?

oak parcel
#

leaving a teleporter on a pad and just swaping it when you rtb rather than having to wait for it to charge

still igloo
#

Ah

#

What prevents that? Doesn't the tone only go off once?

oak parcel
#

no

#

it just keeps going off

#

over and over and over and over

still igloo
#

Oh, odd, I don't think that happens for me

oak parcel
#

thers like a 1 minute delay

still igloo
#

Even so, I did have someone forget their teleporter on the pad the other day and didn't notice it

#

Maybe mine is glitched

#

Or I'm just oblivious

unkempt lily
#

there was a patch where it was super obnoxious

oak parcel
#

i still just want it gone or a one and done

unkempt lily
#

I just store my teleporters on item stands since I have like

#

ten

#

at this point

oak parcel
#

ooooooo i have maybe discovered the god strat for ||defense bots||

woeful raptor
#

do tell do tell

oak parcel
#

have sneak 15 (might also need ||night pass||), stun with slushie bomb get behind them and to the side dump an electro thrower into their hip keeps them stunlocked till they die

#

takes me like 1/4 a charge

woeful raptor
#

excellent..

oak parcel
#

specifically it keeps them stunlocked if you keep getting sneak attacks

#

which makes me think this may get patched out

dense ember
#

okay

#

so assuming you have wrinkly brainmeat, giving about 6 exp per craft, turning a full stack of wood to bandage would give you 540 exp

sick charm
#

what if you also have wrinkly brainmeat in a keycard trinket

dense ember
#

then 7 exp per craft to 690 exp

#

approximately

#

I heard human brain gives you more exp, but I never seem that actually increase the percentage? or maybe the number is just too small to do so in this case

woeful raptor
#

i think it's like 20% and some vomit?

#

maybe it'd be better to craft a bunch of wooden weapons, damage them and repair them constantly

#

er, basic weapons i think the only wooden one is like the desk leg

oak parcel
#

mmmm tasty

oak parcel
#

i like my skill spread

unkempt lily
#

that throwing stat lol

oak parcel
#

i am determined to get 4 from crafting

unkempt lily
#

I think I have like 80 hours on my save and I don't have level 5

oak parcel
#

you can just throw nets over and over

dense ember
#

it really needs more exp before I would even considering grinding it

#

I only grind for the trajectory prediction line and that's it

oak parcel
#

i farm throwing while i farm fortitude

#

stand in a chopinator look down throw net grab

dense ember
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isn't chopinator like super damaging?

oak parcel
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if you have good chest armor it does next to nothing

dense ember
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actually, now that laser is a thing, I think you can train fortitude by standing in the path of one too since laser emitter don't really deal a lot of damage

oak parcel
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fort xp scales off of the damage aiui so the laser is low enough its not worth doing

dense ember
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oh

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okay, gonna try that one out tomorrow

oak parcel
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what i do is chopinator near a healing work bench + well feed/hydraited with security chest armor and i do healing syringes to keep the healing buff up and throw nets while waiting for a bleed then bandage that and i end up training fort throwing and medical at a fairly decent rate

dense ember
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that's a lot of things

oak parcel
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you dont need all of those healing buffs but they up the duty cycle

dense ember
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Gotta say, Moisture teleporter is pretty damn useful

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Sure, the amount it teleports in is very low, but it does it steadily and consistently

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There will be a point where you need to collect water again, but moisture teleporter reduces the amount of times you need to do it

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I should make and power another one

oak parcel
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it makes 30ml every ingame hour

dense ember
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Huh, fewer than I thought, but that's basically a free 720 ml everyday and that's just about enough to hydrate you unless you are making soup or whatever

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So 2 teleporters per person should be enough

oak parcel
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i'm sticking to water filters and barrels, its less farming hassle

still igloo
oak parcel
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possibly but then you have to keep charging it, and wont get as much first aid xp

dense ember
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Huh

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Oh the briefcase

still igloo
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True

oak parcel
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also not sure if it stacks with the bench healer

still igloo
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Slightly more throwing xp though lmao

dense ember
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Oh shit, moisture teleport can teleport water into garden plot too?

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Okay that's very useful

oak parcel
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if the throughput on it wasnt garbage i'd probably build more

dense ember
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But anyway, I was more talking about using moisture teleporter with filterbarrel.

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I have not went out to grab water since I installed a teleporter

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Though half of tgat is also because I'm cutting down amount of container I got to make spaces

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I have way too much water

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I also farm the bot sometimes so I get more than enough soda

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Though that doesn't sounds healthy

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If I want to make my water give me more water, I can jist make tomato soup

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Somehow that gives me more water per water

oak parcel
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what i really want is a version that teleports water from other containers into plots

dense ember
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Ah

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Fair

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That would be nice too

oak parcel
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because it takes like 2 minutes to grab a bunch of empty barrels and a water filter head to a water source cycle them all and teleport back with like 100l of water

unkempt lily
oak parcel
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i want a deep freezer

oak parcel
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does anyone use overworld guns for anything other than accuracy farming?

still igloo
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Security pistol is decent damage you can use with a shield

unkempt lily
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before I got the big laser stick and the newest armour set I used the shotguns a bit for dealing with the order

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I also haven't tried out the new guns

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the pistol did carry me through manufacturing yeah

oak parcel
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yeah, let me refine the question, does anyone use the overworld guns that require the various flavor of armbands for anything other than accuracy farming?

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i'm pretty sure noone in my group did and i'm wondering if that was special to my group or if everyone finds them too much of a hassle

woeful raptor
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the armor tradeoff, inv space needed for ammo, and durability just steer me away from it

oak parcel
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yeah thats my feelings on it too, they wanted to steer us away from them and i think they did a bit too well

unkempt lily
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I would rather the way to hack the guns was spending things on the guns themselves rather than the armbands

oak parcel
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i can turn poo into explosives and make a laser cannon but i cant remove a biolock from an smg i have like 30 of bcaWhat2Confused2

woeful raptor
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i remember someone saying they should move the biowraps to a watch slot and i really liked that too

still igloo
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I tried the SMG, the durability was way too embarrassingly low to be worth using

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It would break before going through a single stack of ammo

sick charm
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Agreed

woeful raptor
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just a reckless overtune given how durability works iirc

sick charm
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Just laser or Tesla cannon is way better for 99% of cases

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Or even grinder discs

oak parcel
sick charm
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Given how much it sucks there’s no reason to like put a biometric restriction on it if you ask me

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I don’t know about the famas rifle and the sniper rifle though

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Maybe those are better

oak parcel
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the hotbar of a sane individual with a reasonable amount of weaponry

unkempt lily
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fanny pack 😔

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I regret not taking it a bit

oak parcel
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my group restarted literally just so people could take it with crush depth

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i hope they eventually add a way to change/add traits

woeful raptor
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they already have the brain share thing

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do it w the whole body yk

oak parcel
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i'm also hoping (out of nowhere) that we get like a dlc that lets you like new game + through the game as a gatekeeper

woeful raptor
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gatekeeper status...

oak parcel
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the sister did say ||our aura is shifting||

still igloo
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What if I need to unload on five different enemies without reloading?

still igloo
dense ember
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if I could change traits, I would actually give myself more negative trait for some more extra

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like the hunger and thirsty negative trait, because I found myself having a really easy time of hunting and finding water very very quickly

still igloo
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I have ten traits in total, it's very silly

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I should have taken the hunger/thirsty ones too

oak parcel
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i just do +2hotbar +15% carry weight and the thirst negative for points

sick charm
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Ooh

dense ember
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that's strange

sick charm
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I found a canteen from a sniper

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I’m definitely keeping it in my inventory now

dense ember
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I just tried using chopinator to train fortitude, but I'm not getting any exp at all?

sick charm
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So I can pretend I’m playing fallout nv

dense ember
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I think fortitude need to be like

sick charm
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sip

dense ember
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based on the damage you take before getting decreased by armor

oak parcel
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yeah if you use the mountaineer armor you get no xp

dense ember
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I have took off everything and still getting no exp from it, that's weird

oak parcel
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i was doingit earlier today so its not patched out

sick charm
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sips from my trusty canteen

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I wonder if in multiplayer you can rank up fortitude by shooting each other

oak parcel
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naw friendlyfire gives no fort xp

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yeah just checked to be sure getting fort xp from a chop

dense ember
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is the chopinator placed down by you or others

oak parcel
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me iirc

dense ember
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that's weird

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maybe this is solo player quirk or something

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but still yeah, fortitude should be gained based on damage you have taken before armor decreased it

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getting hit by a giant fist still hurt like hell even if you are still alive from your armor

sick charm
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i got zapped by my own tesla coil and it did give me fortitude exp

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and i think my friend also gained fortitude exp from that

dense ember
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my game is just fucked then I guess :c

oak parcel
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OH

sick charm
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of course tesla coils will just flat out murder you

oak parcel
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i picked it up and put it back down its not giving xp anymore

sick charm
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that's weird

dense ember
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oh no

oak parcel
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ok it seems to only be chops i placed down before that one hotfix

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its got a lower duty cycle but you can also use this wire to farm fort xp pretty well

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but that one ignores armor and you'll spend a lot more time waiting for health to come back

still igloo
oak parcel
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nah its just a reskin

still igloo
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Huh, thought it weighed more for some reason

oak parcel
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i think it might actually weigh less

still igloo
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Ooh

oak parcel
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wiki says its 1/4 the weight, but i think one might be empty weight and the other full and i'm to lazy to launch again to check

dense ember
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canteen weighs 2 while water bottle weighs 3

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actually nevermind

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they weigh the same

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I think canteen weighs less when empty?

oak parcel
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i want more content

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also the ||deatomizer|| is really really good

dense ember
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yes it is

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so, just built another moisture teleporter, and then build another 2 carbon batteries as my primary daisy chained battery reserve

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I basically don't need to gather water myself anymore unless I'm soup spamming again, and my farm plot which I have 4 of, all medium, will just get water teleported to them on their own

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if I want more water security to make sure my farm will never dry up whenever I pluck something out of it, I can just make another one

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also rice is fucking stupid

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like absolutely stupid

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you get 4 rice per harvest

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those rice can be cooked in a pot with water to turn into 4 bowls of rice, all with 20 hunger

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so a full harvest is like 320 hunger filled

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that's so much

oak parcel
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I like the stuffed drumsticks

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Drumstick + mushroom + can of peas +1/4 harvest eye plant bake and it's like 91 hunger and 41 water at my cooking level

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Stacks to 4

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I must now go eep

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Tomorrow if I have the spoons I might share some more farming secrets

clever flower
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Only 3.5k more experience until I can bake things.. soone..

oak parcel
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ablobbouncefast I can't wait for reactors the plants look so cool

dense ember
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Yup!

oak parcel
dense ember
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I just want mushroom

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a lot of mushroom

oak parcel
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we do havve mushroom space

sick charm
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I want a fish tank so I can grow my own seaweed

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Is that too much to ask

oak parcel
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i want the sister's hat

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and to be a gatekeeper

dense ember
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I also want more portal worlds

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moreeee

sick charm
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I want a pocket dimension just for me

oak parcel
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dat the mirror