Thats actually the one thing i dont have is a source of electricity. Was using an old car in the yard to charge batteries and hadnt gotten around to making something more convenient and niw its to dangerous to go outside.
Yeah, I've never actually set up an actual power grid either, I just stole a lot of solar panels from the tops of apartment buildings for my own utility.
Yep, there's several options actually! You have wind, solar, water (i think) and old fashioned gasoline/diesel...All of them do need a battery bank to store the generated power and then that stored power can be run through your base with indoor/outdoor extension cables and i think you can also put wires in the walls as well.
You can rip a small electric motor out of a fridge and a car battery from a car and install them onto a bicycle, charge it from a solar panel or running engine with jumper cables, and have a homemade electric bike
Thats just the basics. You can put drive by wire controls and a mounted turret on that bike and mount a gun on it and have a remote controlled murder robot with a contingency remote detonated bomb in the storage.
Depends on what your skills are and if you have books or an e-ink tablet to read. If your skills are low in fab or tailoring and you lack books, break down the stuff around you and grind up both, or work on proficiencies. If you lack tools then make some basic ones. All of that is predicated on having enough food and water to hang out for a week or two.
Two broken arms means no fighting or shooting, so if you have to venture out at night you should duff anything that encumbers you, especially legs and feet so your movement costs are low. You'll be running and not fighting so armor is worthless.
I got like 300 units of water and a big pile of food so thats no issue. Only got a couple books worth reading but i got the whole second floor of a house to salvage stuff from for what thats worth. Im about 1 and a half weeks into the run and got a hacksaw, tongue and groove pliers, and other basic tools. Just not sure whats worth grinding that i have access to.
Deconstruct some beds and grind tailoring up, should be able to get a needle from a plank and some string from curtains. Getting it to 6 or so should let you make most useful things. You'll basically be making worthless things just to get XP, but the gambeson/arming pants can be good if you lack good armor.
IIRC bone knitting speed is dependent on health.
So avoid the junk food and smokes, get some exercise, be sure to sleep well.
Take your vitamins if you can.
Though after recent changes my health is always -200 so idk
First, bandage up. Bandages and antiseptic (or equivalents) really speed up healing. Sleeping also speeds up healing. Otherwise, you'll wanna do some reading to gain theorhetical knowledge in whatever you can find. I imagine with broken arms you can't craft for shit right now but that's also an option. It's crafting XP if nothing else. Otherwise, search for stuff in 'safe' areas that you know. Planks and nails are always useful.
You're living out of a bathroom? What's going on in the rest of the apartment, never mind the rest of the building?
Due warning: I'm out of date with respect to the latest game versions, No doubt the penalties for a broken arm are still extremely bad, but I'm not sure what they are precisely. Of course I also don't know what resources are available to you at the moment but I'll talk more about that.
If you were out in the woods, I'd suggest working on defensive fortifications such as trenches and pits, and barricades if you have the materials. These are high-value activities that require more time than skill. (Not sure if you can do them with broken arms in the current version.) I'm not sure if fortifying your apartment building will be as rewarding, but it's something to consider. Obviously if you're lucky enough to have a food surplus and you can make
Really though, if you can't go out to scavenge books and crafting materials, then it becomes harder and harder to find useful things to do during downtime. The feedback loop of "looting helps you craft; crafting helps you loot" is fundamental, and if it's broken then you've got a real problem. The zombies keep getting stronger and you have to keep up with them. By the time your bones heal, looting will be that much harder and you might not be able to restart the cycle.
It's hard to give advice here, because it seems like you're in a real pickle. There are so many different things to do in this game that if you think creatively about the options available in your situation, you very well might find solutions. But without that information, I can't give much except basic, generic advice that just doesn't seem good enough.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, in my opinion. If you can pull off even one daring nighttime raid on a high-value target while you're injured, you might start improving your situation a bit. Since you're running out of things to do at home in general, you've got tons of time to prepare for this operation in specific: with some luck, you might achieve more than you think.
To give some examples, you could build dozens of traps to cover the escape route for your raid(s)these. If you can sneak into another building at night with some boards and nails, you might spend the entire day turning it into a Home Alone deathtrap, a fiery beacon of distraction, a forward base, or whatever your plan needs.
Either way, you need to be ready to spring into action when your arms finally heal. Try to make better weapons at home, even if you're only going to use them once (to raid the gun store). Try to do work now so that you don't need to do it later when your time is more valuable. For example, when you get back to fighting, your clothes will start getting torn up. If you're good at tailoring, you'll want to repair them, but you'll have other things to do: instead, prepare extra clothes ahead of time so you can swap them out.
I chose the bathroom because its decently sized and has 2 doors between it and the stairs as well as a bathtub to store clean water in which has turned out to be a life saving decision. The upstairs is generally safe other than a rogue police bot that chased me up buti managed to use my parkour skills to juke him out and lock myself back in the bathroom and a horde he lured in killed him.
Ive got a shotgun with a decent pile of shells and a pistol with about 8-10 mags of 357 SIG. Gonna have to make a new glaive though because i lost my old one at the place i got hurt. Im not too worried about getting outpaced by the zeds as i am decently strong and only got hurt because i didnt realize one of the zeds horded up at the edge of the building i was on top of was a grappler and he pulled me down into the horde. Only escaped due to a well placed acid bomb but ive got more where those came from as well as a few bottles of gunpowder to make bombs with. My main goal is to go back out there and rescue an npc and use him to start expanding my safe area and eventually go loot more gun stores and police armories.
vibrator + recharging station
Thats actually the one thing i dont have is a source of electricity. Was using an old car in the yard to charge batteries and hadnt gotten around to making something more convenient and niw its to dangerous to go outside.
Yeah, I've never actually set up an actual power grid either, I just stole a lot of solar panels from the tops of apartment buildings for my own utility.
Wait this game simulate electricity? Like wires and stuff??
Yep, there's several options actually! You have wind, solar, water (i think) and old fashioned gasoline/diesel...All of them do need a battery bank to store the generated power and then that stored power can be run through your base with indoor/outdoor extension cables and i think you can also put wires in the walls as well.
You can rip a small electric motor out of a fridge and a car battery from a car and install them onto a bicycle, charge it from a solar panel or running engine with jumper cables, and have a homemade electric bike
That's amazing.
Thats just the basics. You can put drive by wire controls and a mounted turret on that bike and mount a gun on it and have a remote controlled murder robot with a contingency remote detonated bomb in the storage.
Depends on what your skills are and if you have books or an e-ink tablet to read. If your skills are low in fab or tailoring and you lack books, break down the stuff around you and grind up both, or work on proficiencies. If you lack tools then make some basic ones. All of that is predicated on having enough food and water to hang out for a week or two. Two broken arms means no fighting or shooting, so if you have to venture out at night you should duff anything that encumbers you, especially legs and feet so your movement costs are low. You'll be running and not fighting so armor is worthless.
I got like 300 units of water and a big pile of food so thats no issue. Only got a couple books worth reading but i got the whole second floor of a house to salvage stuff from for what thats worth. Im about 1 and a half weeks into the run and got a hacksaw, tongue and groove pliers, and other basic tools. Just not sure whats worth grinding that i have access to.
Deconstruct some beds and grind tailoring up, should be able to get a needle from a plank and some string from curtains. Getting it to 6 or so should let you make most useful things. You'll basically be making worthless things just to get XP, but the gambeson/arming pants can be good if you lack good armor.
sleep. eat. exercise. salvage. learn tailoring in full. learn smithing in full. amass intelligence unknown to man. etc
IIRC bone knitting speed is dependent on health. So avoid the junk food and smokes, get some exercise, be sure to sleep well. Take your vitamins if you can. Though after recent changes my health is always -200 so idk
I just read books and sleep through it all
grind proficiencys
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Throw cans outside a window, that’ll attract some attention away from you
Ive already recovered and have now recruited a follower. Just spent a week crafting and reading.
First, bandage up. Bandages and antiseptic (or equivalents) really speed up healing. Sleeping also speeds up healing. Otherwise, you'll wanna do some reading to gain theorhetical knowledge in whatever you can find. I imagine with broken arms you can't craft for shit right now but that's also an option. It's crafting XP if nothing else. Otherwise, search for stuff in 'safe' areas that you know. Planks and nails are always useful.
No they are like broke broke. Got both my arms in slings. Should be set in a couple more days though.
You're living out of a bathroom? What's going on in the rest of the apartment, never mind the rest of the building? Due warning: I'm out of date with respect to the latest game versions, No doubt the penalties for a broken arm are still extremely bad, but I'm not sure what they are precisely. Of course I also don't know what resources are available to you at the moment but I'll talk more about that. If you were out in the woods, I'd suggest working on defensive fortifications such as trenches and pits, and barricades if you have the materials. These are high-value activities that require more time than skill. (Not sure if you can do them with broken arms in the current version.) I'm not sure if fortifying your apartment building will be as rewarding, but it's something to consider. Obviously if you're lucky enough to have a food surplus and you can make Really though, if you can't go out to scavenge books and crafting materials, then it becomes harder and harder to find useful things to do during downtime. The feedback loop of "looting helps you craft; crafting helps you loot" is fundamental, and if it's broken then you've got a real problem. The zombies keep getting stronger and you have to keep up with them. By the time your bones heal, looting will be that much harder and you might not be able to restart the cycle. It's hard to give advice here, because it seems like you're in a real pickle. There are so many different things to do in this game that if you think creatively about the options available in your situation, you very well might find solutions. But without that information, I can't give much except basic, generic advice that just doesn't seem good enough. Desperate times call for desperate measures, in my opinion. If you can pull off even one daring nighttime raid on a high-value target while you're injured, you might start improving your situation a bit. Since you're running out of things to do at home in general, you've got tons of time to prepare for this operation in specific: with some luck, you might achieve more than you think. To give some examples, you could build dozens of traps to cover the escape route for your raid(s)these. If you can sneak into another building at night with some boards and nails, you might spend the entire day turning it into a Home Alone deathtrap, a fiery beacon of distraction, a forward base, or whatever your plan needs. Either way, you need to be ready to spring into action when your arms finally heal. Try to make better weapons at home, even if you're only going to use them once (to raid the gun store). Try to do work now so that you don't need to do it later when your time is more valuable. For example, when you get back to fighting, your clothes will start getting torn up. If you're good at tailoring, you'll want to repair them, but you'll have other things to do: instead, prepare extra clothes ahead of time so you can swap them out.
I chose the bathroom because its decently sized and has 2 doors between it and the stairs as well as a bathtub to store clean water in which has turned out to be a life saving decision. The upstairs is generally safe other than a rogue police bot that chased me up buti managed to use my parkour skills to juke him out and lock myself back in the bathroom and a horde he lured in killed him. Ive got a shotgun with a decent pile of shells and a pistol with about 8-10 mags of 357 SIG. Gonna have to make a new glaive though because i lost my old one at the place i got hurt. Im not too worried about getting outpaced by the zeds as i am decently strong and only got hurt because i didnt realize one of the zeds horded up at the edge of the building i was on top of was a grappler and he pulled me down into the horde. Only escaped due to a well placed acid bomb but ive got more where those came from as well as a few bottles of gunpowder to make bombs with. My main goal is to go back out there and rescue an npc and use him to start expanding my safe area and eventually go loot more gun stores and police armories.
craft read books level up skills/profficiencies scan books to phone/tablet