RenFengge

At the moment i'm loving the latest Papa Roach single Kill the Noise, although it is from last year lol
 
 
Muse have got a new single out too which is pretty good, looking forward to their new album. I really enjoyed Simulation Theory when that came out, don't think there was a bad song on there.
 
 
 

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This... a million to this.
 
I understand that the tinned food recipes give lots more health and whatnot, but the effort to get the tins for our group is higher in the effort than making things like Hobo Stew or Meat Stew. We have ingredients for those in spades. Every time we hunt for fat, we come back with hundreds of meat, which we can sell half and keep half.. and we still have like a shit ton of meat.
 
The cooks and the farmers of the team (me, @GazzaGarratt, @tronic44) can stretch the resources better than non-farmers/non-cooks. The harvesters/hunters (like @TurboR56Mini ) always come back with so much meat and bones when hunting for fat.
 
The amount of time it takes to get the ingredients for meat stew or hobo stew is a fraction of time it takes to accumulate the same amount of tinned resources for equal amount of health in tinned food vs. non-tinned food.
 
Obviously, I will always bring back any canned food I find, but more often than not, I can make 30 meat stew for the team as opposed to like 2 tinned-recipe foods for the team.

Keep an eye out for solar cells. Level 6 if possible.  Through a combination of buffs, skills and liking the traders Facebook page I can get them down from 62500 coins to 24000 coins.  Barg...win.

Personally, I'd focus on the slightly lower foods to create as Shepherds Pie whilst awesome in the amount of health it gives, it uses finite resources and doesn't last as long. Clearly make them if we have Peas but no point going out of our way to find Peas! 😄
 
I'd suggest making Hobo Stews supplemented by the other stuff with cans to broaden it out e.g. Fish Tacos and Chili Dogs. I've been living off Fish Tacos for abit so it doesn't hurt the food back up. Hobo Stews should be available in large supply due to it using farmed resources and rotten flesh which we have shed loads of. Meat Stews are an alternative with meat instead of rotten flesh but Hobo give an extra 14 Food I think (64 overall).
 

So apparently Sony are pulling all PS Now subscribtion cards from UK sale amd it looks like they will be trying to combine it with PS Plus to compete with the Xbox Game Pass.
 
Yes, it will most likely cost that little bit more on the subscription, but if they provide some of their top games for free like Xbox have (like Forza Horizon 5 and Halo Infinite) then it would most definitely be worth it.
 
Sony reportedly pulling PlayStation Now subscription cards from UK retailers | Eurogamer.net
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I've got a few bits I want to do next time I'm on, basically I need a shotgun turret on the roof of the solo horde base and stuff the box with ammo and stuff and it's ready again. Then stick a load more traps down in the new base and start making some progress with the active defenses. After that I'm all yours and will auger the fuck out of anything for any resources, just let me know what we need. 

Miss ya big guy, hope you can be on soon again ❤️
 
I've made @RenFengge an admin already so we're all good on that front. 
 
Also, when this game costs me my marriage, you're paying for my divorce lawyer and I'm sleeping on your sofa until I get my own place again. 

So um, I've smelted everything. We just have rocks left...
 
I will be mining tomorrow it seems! We made tons of oil, forged steel, ammo, etc. Before I logged off, I have a bunch more cobble cooking, more ammo, gun powder etc. I installed @crispymorgan  solar panel with 2 batteries at the front door of the mall. With only 2 level 4 panels and a level 1 charging two level 6 batteries, it's more than enough to sustain the current power consumption on the front side. I took disconnected the motion sensor at the small base, it's far too inconsistent to be worth the fuel "savings". I just have it hard wired with no drama, if anything, we can remove the extra engines and just leave enough to power it. I also installed the exit door along with auto open and force field and it works mint. So our miners out there need to get cracking!

Even though I’m not able to play often, it makes me so happy to see everyone having fun. I’ve pushed this game upon everyone for years, either the base game or the modded version and have close to 1000 hours on it. Hopefully there’s enough admins to help keep everything ticking over but if you all want someone extra to be admin, please let me know (although dave or Phil should be able to sort it) 
 
If there’s any issues at all, please let me know and don’t forget to backup them server every now and then. Don’t want all that hard work going to waste!
 
Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for enjoying it so much and happy surviving.

So, the solo horde base. It was quite badly damaged in horde night, but it survived. The whole thing went to shit when a single block for the pathing was destroyed, meaning the zeds couldn't climb the staircase anymore and just started wrecking everything else. I've hammered out their path and rebuilt it in steel blocks, then I need to rebuild the staircase and the base itself. Then make a pathway for anyone to walk on that is both out of reach of the zeds, but still able to repair the spinny traps. 
 
Excellent horde night, I know what needs doing and next time it'll be pretty much indestructible. 

Rad remover would just be the icing on the cake. 

I've no idea how to paint, if you do, please paint them for me 😂

I think the Solo horde base is great @Diddums. Especially as Horde night can come round so quickly and if you want to play but just want to get through it we should defo use it. Can I suggest that you paint the turret blocks with an arrow or target? You know how people will forget when they're looking at the exact thing they need to do! Cheers for the awesome work mate! 🧡

My goodness... it is stunningly beautiful.
 
 

When I saw this last week I did think would it ever become legal.
 
"No sir, I don't own a grey car, it must be your eyes seeing something else I can't"

I've modded this a bit, added a motion sensor with a 30 second on-time so the blades aren't spinning 24/7. Tested it out too, hurts like a bitch. Ask me how I know. 

Yes, completely forgot about that! In that case just put the one one and have a shotgun ready for any stragglers. Still turn the generator on though as loads of zombies still walk in to the blades. 
 
 

Well that's got me back thinking this will be great to play again!! Love that, hope the tribes will be very interactable and can see how we may have to help certain ones at certain times.

Ok so the solo horde base is complete and works rather well. This is for anyone to use should you need to get through a horde night solo or if you're not very prepared. 
 
This isn't meant as a replacement for the main base but rather just a stopgap until that's properly ready for use, something I'm going to get started on today. 
 
There's a shotgun turret on the roof which will kill any birds, a few spinny traps which will kill any zombies that make it past the sledge turrets and a couple of sledge turrets which will continuously smack zombies down in to the massive pit below for a bit of punch damage, occasional fire damage (they have fire mods on) and fall damage. This will massively help manage zombies on horde night be basically abusing the game's pathing system.

There's also a chest in the little hidey hole full of supplies. 
 
Instructions:
 
Before horde night make sure that the shotgun turret on the roof has ammo, and the generator has fuel. Take the two sledge turrets out of the chest and place them like this:
 

 
Turn the generator on, get in the little hidey hole and open the two hatches, these will allow you to shoot out of the hidey hole but prevent anything getting in. 
 
I used this idea so it'll give a much better description than I can:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhcvyYDSKy0

Went hunting. Came back with like 70 fat. Will go out hunting again... if i don't get distracted by scavenging.

My goodness... it is stunningly beautiful.
 
 

Hugely appreciated @TurboR56Mini ! Thanks for also explaining whilst online last night too, as I don't think i've ever been involved and known about this can happen! It could be a great idea to have a chest next to the Pink Mist exit that has just steel in it so people can pick it up and upgrade the walls around the building and then pop the surplus back in the box.
 
Haven't had chance for a mini game update like I do, so now seems a good chance to do just that. @phil bottle mentioned to me last week that we've created a huge massive container that we call our 'new' base but not really pushed it forward so much. Therefore I took up the challenge to help make something of it for everyone so others can feel like they can chip in for certain areas. I did try and start on the shell of the front quarter unit that had slightly been started but we then came up against the stability issue. For now it has stairs and a little more structure but I intend to make more of it for us, potentially FG Quarters for us all I think.
 
As we kept driving in the manual front door at the time, I decided to use a large space for car and bike parking. I did a ton of work for bays and structure so it would look professional - even to the extent of adding arrows, which then started the debate of we then can't ever leave as the arrows don't go both ways! (much to my frustration ofc 😄). So, whilst they loved every minute of jabbing me about why I didn't plan correctly, I did what any great Agile Project person would do - adapt and make it even better!
 
So below shows a brand new exit too with further bike bays (as 4 didn't seem enough for everyone online at the time) and then changed the small bike bay area to a disabled bike bays for Dave @Plumbers Crack  to take full advantage of 😁 With the support of Carl, we managed to make the exit door powered on sight and ensured the road would connect once outside the massive base. Since these picks, Carl has taken it forward to make the front entrance powered on sight too.
 
I'll try and take another pick over the next few days showing my work on the roof over the parking in which I planned to make into a Helipad/Gyrocopter runway - hoping that everyone will love that we have that a space for this in the new base! Great work everyone so far. Horde nights have been ridiclously fun too, even if i'm on 4 FPS and low settings 😄 Its been frantic and funny as balls falling off the top and drinking Moonshine to stay alive!
 
The base last week

 
The entrance to new base car park
 

 

 

PSA received and understood...well at least by me!😂😂 Thanks both greatly appreciated 👍

Took this advice and built a force field around my damn garage door (which I added back and I expect to see it later today when I log in). In order for the "force field" to work, I built a room I like to call "PinkMist" (see below) in the basement which works amazing. With that said, a PSA about maintenance. 

PSA START
 The building we have been in for 290 some days does not and has not maintained itself. As in @RenFengge or I have been consistently repairing the walls every few days. As in we just walk around with the nail gun and some concrete and bang away (think of what could have happened with my first door rather than it just um, disappearing).  As the above scenario is mostly fixed with the PinkMist Room (will add the FF around the entire base), the new maintenance item is repairing the steel hatch (27k hit points) and the blade traps (2k) with FORGED STEEL. This requires a human being to go down staircase with some steel and nailgun on them and just clicky poo poo. GAS just gas, to fuel the genny under the traps. The steel door should always be open with that sweet sweet glow of power coming from the glory hole that is the maintenance room.  I'm not asking anyone to cure cancer here just fix some shit here and there. This has solved the screamer issue as they now scream, and just walk in to the blades and die. No drama no worries. If you fail to maintain this trap (just like if we stopped maintaining the building) or if you fail to check the gas, you will have some unwanted guests.  So be that XP whore you know y'all want to be and clicky poo poo and filly fill fill. 

PSA END
 
I now present "PinkMist"
 

@TurboR56Mini  did a little fashion show last night.