These pictures tell a story. A10 nearing completion. It’s very tough if you make stupid mistakes. Early on I got too confident and went to the wasteland just to get a few things. You know, a short metal pipe, maybe a leather tanning book and some extra jars. Just a few things on the outskirts of the wasteland nothing serious.
So I’m pretty well scoring big, I hit some cars, found a pickaxe, I hit this new gated parking lot with walls that had a steel door where the ticket guy must have worked and found some nice loot in there. I had a frame to get over the wall because you can’t jump over two high walls any more. I got out of there and was heading back when I get attacked by a dog, I kill it with my iron club I found but two more show up and I’m toast.
So I’ve GOT to get my stuff back. I go back in and somehow my backpack is in a tree. I must have died right next to it and the code decided that was the closest place to where I died and put my backpack way up in a tree. So I’m making a stone axe and trying to chop a tree down and a zombie snuck up behind me, tagged me and the next thing you know that dog comes back and I ran up this huge destroyed buiilding dirt pile (another new cool poi) but the dog eats my face.
I tried one more time got killed again. This time I spawn so far away I’m near some grasslands so I decide to forget the wasteland I’m already max 70 health from dying three times and its getting late in the day. I walk a bit and find a nice little cabin I have to have, as seen in the first picture. The problem is, there is a ton of zombies. I thought I’ll just lead them away and poof they will be gone. Quite a few follow me and for some reason (new AI) quite a few just stay behind content to hang out at that house I want. I tried smashing them with my stone axe but I was getting tagged here and there, I’m used to serving so its fast but on another server its a whole different deal.I build some spike traps thinking I can lure the zombies into the traps but I placed one too close to myself and it killed me.
Now I’m heading back to that cabin but its dark. I’m now only 60 max health because my wellness went down another 10 from my fourth death. I’m creeping along the river bank the place I want to be is miles away. A creeper or something come out of nowhere, its pitch black and I’m dead again.
Determined, frustrated, but having the time of my life, I gather cotton in the dark and make a sleeping bag. This way if I die or sense trouble I can at least place the bag and not have to walk forever to my goal, that sweet cabin I want.
Now you see the third shot, there was this pretty purple night sky I’d never really seen before (usually I’m roasting meat and drinking golden rod tea by now and counting the zombie legs I’ve collected as trophies sitting in a hand build secure base by now). and I thought it was cool so I grabbed a screen.
I saw a dog, placed my sleeping bag down so I wouldn’t lose my position and jumped into the water. He somehow swam to me and ate me LOL. Anyhow long story short (or not) by morning I was down to 30 wellness and 30 max hp and stamina, the minimum you can get to via death. After all this bad luck, I found killed a nurse and found a beaker!
I made it to the cabin and secured what gear I lost near the cabin. I built my door, looted the place, and cooked up some water and got established as seen in the fourth image. The next day I started a mine nearby, as cooking and forging a lot will draw unwanted attention. I do some cooking at my main base, but for serious stuff like forging loads of iron, lead, cooking grain alcohol and antibiotics where the thing runs all day I set them up in a secure remote area at least 1/8 mile from my main base. You can see my setup in the 5th and 6th shot.
In the second to last image you can see my fort shaping up, I have a hatch to my oh shit room, it goes down a ladder, speaking of which ladders have new improved climb code.
In the last image I went hunting. I got really lucky with an air drop that had all four parts to a shotgun and the book to make it. That is so rare you’d think I had cheats on. I found some dogs at the barn and made them into leather pants :) This was the most fun I’ve ever had playing the game. Its all coming together and working together. I had a little over 50 wellness by the end of the session.
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