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Since myself and others are getting addicted.... let's discuss our 7D2D plays here.
I am on day 54 of my current game.
I found the house type I like on a small island off a mainland coast.
I have fortified it with concrete/steel walls and heavy steel doors in the main building.
I also built 2-3 deep concrete walls 5-10 blocks high around my perimeter with blade traps around 90% of the walls and im digging a trench around the outside of my perimeter walls maybe 3-5 blocks from the walls and im filling it with spike traps.
I failed to get some key resources early on and Aussie was alluding to him doing the same, so ill throw out some notes:
- Wrench is sweet... you can deconstruct almost anything for resources, but ill list keys ones:
1. Air conditioners, Fridges, Cash registers, and anything at a power/radio station will yield mechanical parts, electronic parts, and electronic components
2. Cars.... 3 stages and each stage can be deconstructed... full sedan, damaged, and destroyed. If you need engines... look for full sedans and deconstruct them.... end of stage 1 you get a chance for a drop and most likely chance for engine/car battery.... end of stage 2 more likely to get car battery but I think possible for engine drops.... destroyed stage (stage 3) you usually get no chance drops, but you get plenty of iron and mechanical parts, so if you just need mechanical parts a destroyed car is great. You will need small engines for a variety of later game things and car batteries are good to stash and use in battery banks.
3. TVs on the walls of places yield nice electronic drops as well....
- I discarded alot of stuff I should have stock piled as I found it.... just about every item you find is useful
1. Rotting flesh.... useless right? Nah you make farming fertilizer out of it later.
2. Stone/Sand.... stockpile.... you need lots of it for making concrete.... smelt stone on your forge(s) anytime you're not smelting other items.
3. Car radiators are chance drops on deconstructing cars.... they smelt down in the forge for plentiful brass supply.... other than car radiators and chance brass item drops, brass is hard to come by.... stockpile it.... you need it and lead to make bullets later.
4. Might not be obvious early.... Duke's casino tokens are the game currency at trading posts.... old cash is useless other than turning it into paper and I have yet to find a use for paper other than burning, but I am still stockpiling it because im paranoid ill need it.
5. Scrap plastic.... need plenty of it later in the game... if you find it, stockpile it.
6. Gun parts.... shotgun and SMG.... i kept selling them.... you need 3 parts of SMG/Shotgun to make Auto or Shotgun turrets.
7. Books.... once you learn a skill you don't need the book, right? Wrong... you can sell the books at the trader for nice returns.
- Minibike is invaluable.... you need to scavenge an engine/battery, but all the other parts you can build at your forge/workbench. The basket you can add to it for storage is also invaluable... all you need to do to get one is find a store with a shopping basket on the ground and deconstruct it with your Wrench.... Special person that you can't pick it up, but there you have it.
- One last tip.... make sure you're not sitting around at night... I personally dig a mine under my base and mine resources and/or dig escape tunnels. Also, use night time to examine and spend your skill points.
I am on day 54 of my current game.
I found the house type I like on a small island off a mainland coast.
I have fortified it with concrete/steel walls and heavy steel doors in the main building.
I also built 2-3 deep concrete walls 5-10 blocks high around my perimeter with blade traps around 90% of the walls and im digging a trench around the outside of my perimeter walls maybe 3-5 blocks from the walls and im filling it with spike traps.
I failed to get some key resources early on and Aussie was alluding to him doing the same, so ill throw out some notes:
- Wrench is sweet... you can deconstruct almost anything for resources, but ill list keys ones:
1. Air conditioners, Fridges, Cash registers, and anything at a power/radio station will yield mechanical parts, electronic parts, and electronic components
2. Cars.... 3 stages and each stage can be deconstructed... full sedan, damaged, and destroyed. If you need engines... look for full sedans and deconstruct them.... end of stage 1 you get a chance for a drop and most likely chance for engine/car battery.... end of stage 2 more likely to get car battery but I think possible for engine drops.... destroyed stage (stage 3) you usually get no chance drops, but you get plenty of iron and mechanical parts, so if you just need mechanical parts a destroyed car is great. You will need small engines for a variety of later game things and car batteries are good to stash and use in battery banks.
3. TVs on the walls of places yield nice electronic drops as well....
- I discarded alot of stuff I should have stock piled as I found it.... just about every item you find is useful
1. Rotting flesh.... useless right? Nah you make farming fertilizer out of it later.
2. Stone/Sand.... stockpile.... you need lots of it for making concrete.... smelt stone on your forge(s) anytime you're not smelting other items.
3. Car radiators are chance drops on deconstructing cars.... they smelt down in the forge for plentiful brass supply.... other than car radiators and chance brass item drops, brass is hard to come by.... stockpile it.... you need it and lead to make bullets later.
4. Might not be obvious early.... Duke's casino tokens are the game currency at trading posts.... old cash is useless other than turning it into paper and I have yet to find a use for paper other than burning, but I am still stockpiling it because im paranoid ill need it.
5. Scrap plastic.... need plenty of it later in the game... if you find it, stockpile it.
6. Gun parts.... shotgun and SMG.... i kept selling them.... you need 3 parts of SMG/Shotgun to make Auto or Shotgun turrets.
7. Books.... once you learn a skill you don't need the book, right? Wrong... you can sell the books at the trader for nice returns.
- Minibike is invaluable.... you need to scavenge an engine/battery, but all the other parts you can build at your forge/workbench. The basket you can add to it for storage is also invaluable... all you need to do to get one is find a store with a shopping basket on the ground and deconstruct it with your Wrench.... Special person that you can't pick it up, but there you have it.
- One last tip.... make sure you're not sitting around at night... I personally dig a mine under my base and mine resources and/or dig escape tunnels. Also, use night time to examine and spend your skill points.