Psycho0124

Uh oh. Is this still the case with .19? Maybe I shouldn't update our server..

We're having similar generator issues on my server since we updated to 38.16 (coming from 38.8, the transparency fix is awesome!). It seems like leaving the cell or leaving/joining the game is causing the generator to disconnect from structures/appliances. Turning it off, disconnecting it, then reconnecting and turning it back on makes it work again until the next time we leave the safe-house. We've also had issues with food from the fridges showing as rotten for one player but not another, although it may have something to do with the fridge being seen as powered by some clients and unpowered by others. Here's a link to the multiplayer save file: http://www.filedropper.com/satanickillsserver Let me know if you prefer some other file sharing site and I'll upload there as well. Our big safehouse is located on the lake in southern Muldrough (South of Cortman Medical). Generator is on the roof:

I'm with the OP here... I grew up just down the street from a concrete-lined drainage ditch that transitioned into a creek on the outskirts of town. I suffered all sorts of injuries on my weekend jaunts and summer day-long excursions down there. Everything from feet being sliced open by broken glass (left a nice blood trail on the way home once ), brushing against and stepping on South-Texas cacti/thorns, scrapes/cuts and bites from zillions of mosquitoes and a few Red-Eared Snapping turtles. I've stepped on nails countless times, one even emerging from the top of my foot. I also suffered a stab wound on my upper arm from an X-Acto knife (to the hilt). I extracted the knife, took my dirty sock off and tied it around the arm to contain the bleeding.. I can only remember a few minor skin infections from a very young age. By the time I was 8 or 9, even the dirtiest injuries never became red or inflamed. As an adult, now 32 years old, I am damn near immune to bacterial infections. I very rarely suffer from any kind of acne or skin problem. I've had a tooth with an exposed nerve for a year and a half now with no sign of infection (I wish it would develop some infection, it'd allow for some bone erosion and I could yank it out of there with some pliers. as it is, it just bleeds slowly all the time and my wife nags me to go back to the dentist that caused the problem in the first place). Anyway, as OP stated, it's also been my experience that the body is far tougher and able to adapt than is represented in the game. Personal anecdotes or not, it's enough to convince an old skeptic like me.

Server has been down all weekend.. What have I done?

Been playing on here for the last month or two; thanks for the great server! Couple little issues though. The 4 hour auto-restart script seems to have become borked at some point in the last couple weeks. Chunks have started to fail to load sometimes and it seems like pings are creeping higher and higher. Relogging fixes it most of the time but I think the server would be a lot more stable if the script were to be fixed and the server made its scheduled restarts again. Also, the model for the Cabbage and Broccoli crops seems to be swapped. Thanks again!

I was surprised to learn as a kid, being born and raised in south Texas, that not all families cast their own slugs and reload their used brass. The old man had me trimming and running 45 ACP and 45-70 Govt. brass through the old RCBS before I learned to ride a bike. I grew up in the city BTW.. It sure would be nice if firing a gun would leave empty brass on the ground to be collected.. The upcoming cars would add wheel weights as a casting material source. Powder/primers/molds would be a good limiting factor, being found only at the gun shop and occasionally in garages.

Yeah, it must be set to super slow then. I planted cabbages on the server 9 hours ago real-time and they've only progressed to 3/7th growth phase (the small green tufts). Of the 4 I planted (I plant in staged quads as of right now, guess I need to switch to individual tiles as you suggested) all have developed mildew (incurable with the lack of Milk), 3 have pest flies and two already have DWF in the 20s.. Rate of disease doesn't seem to scale with the lower growth rate properly.

How does one manage to farm successfully on a 24/7 server? It seems like the growth speed on plants has been severely nerfed since I played last, without any kind of nerf to the spread/rate of disease. The issue is compounded by very rare materials for curing disease (Milk Cartons, Cigarettes). By the time a plant reaches maturity, despite all the time invested with prepping the ground, planting the seeds, and regular watering, it's almost always wracked with Devils Water and produces no food/seeds. Compared to the minimal time required for fishing, trapping, or even just foraging, farming looks to be an utterly futile waste of time on multiplayer. This, as a result, makes most of the cooking content inaccessible. Am I missing something?

I've had a character survive a bite and a scratch. It was on the multiplayer server I host for my son and I. No mods and no admin stuff. My guy had the hypochondriac trait (bad idea, wouldn't pick that one again).. We were pretty well established; had a farm, guns, a good set of walls, and were out on a supply run at the shops along the Muldrough freeway. Everything was going good until my guy got tired while clearing a pack of zombs with the trusty fire axe.. I got grabbed, pulled into a big herd of zombs, and bitten. My son had been staying at range, picking off stragglers with his pistol. I told him over the teamspeak to just leave me and get back to base, thinking I was going to die immediately. I managed to fight my way out of them somehow.. Thinking "what have I got to lose now?", I opted to try and kill off rest of the herd, getting scratched in the process. Once it was all over, I headed back to base to drop off my stuff. After getting everything put away, I told my son to come with me outside the walls and give my guy a merciful end with his pistol. He refused though, pointing out how much excess food and meds we had laying around. "Just try and live daddy!" he told me. I laughed and pointed out the chances of surviving both the bite and the scratch (good opportunity to teach some statistics!) but he insisted I not suicide. "Oh, alright" I conceded. I figured I'd just patch my guy up, eat good for a few days, and see what happened. I told him to keep his gun ready, just in case I died and turned (is that mechanic in the game yet?). After day two or so, my son was mentioning that he had the 'anxious' moodle when I stood too close to him. "Well that's a bad sign" I thought.. My guys health was really starting to be a problem and I was hammering through our pain pills and food like crazy trying to keep him pain-free and well-fed. After day 3 or so, with a 'Fever' moodle staring me down, I decided it was a dumb idea to waste so many resources on such a hopeless endeavor and headed out of the base to go die on my own. He tagged along, I guess out of morbid curiosity. Here's where it gets weird: I made my way down the street looking for some bleach to drink. Not finding anything in the nearby houses, I opted for the rotten food in the neighbors fridges. "Ummm.. Are you eating all that?" he said when he noticed the empty fridges.. "Hahaha.. Yeap!". I ate all sorts of stuff; moldy steaks, old cheese, putrid chicken, rotten fruit and veggies.. I thought for sure my guy would just drop dead after all that but he didn't! After cleaning out the fridge in the 3rd or 4th house, his fever moodle and pain went away!! After staring, bewildered, at the screen for a minute, I asked my son if I was still causing the 'anxous' moodle when I stood close to him. He told me I wasn't! I thought for sure my guy would get sick and die after a couple days from all the spoiled food but it never happened! We just sorta went about our regular routine after that and the character lived on with no issues what-so-ever! He'd prod every once in a while about the incident though; "Hey daddy, there's a rotten steak in here.. Is your guy hungry?" I'm betting it was some kind of bug, or it had something to do with that hypochondriac trait I had picked. I guess it could have been incredible luck; didn't get infected by the bite or the scratch, and managed to have no ill effects from all the spoiled food, and the 3 days of sickness was all in his head..? I have no idea.

I have one cheapo "Sword-shaped-object" my wife bought me as a gift.. It sorta clatters when you shake it so it stays on the wall where it belongs. It's the thought that counts right? The rest; a longsword, a rapier, a scimitar, 3 daggers of various sizes, and a scottish claymore, are all combat ready. I picked them up at the renaissance festival in Magnolia, Texas over the years. The narrow blade on the rapier fits through the gaps in my wire traps so I use it for quickly dispatching the nasty, rabies-infested varmints I catch occasionally. Quieter and cheaper than the .22! (sincere apologies to any PETA folks..) The scimitar and the longsword are great for clearing brush and trimming the hedges. The Scottish claymore is.. an amazing sword.. The absolute best $400 I've ever spent. A big sapling or branch the size of my forearm will just drop right off with a good whack! It's faster than starting up the chainsaw, good exercise, and a lot more fun too! It's also useful for dispatching rattlesnakes since it's longer than the shovel. I know, swords are uncommon; no place in the game. I regrettably agree.. Still, it seems like everyone should at least have a hatchet+machete out in the shed right?

^/agree When you mix sugar and whole berries, the sugar pulls their moisture out and forms its own syrup right in the pie crust. Sugar+berries+pie crust and cook it up! Easy as pie!

If the bait was fresh and the stick trap is still empty after a day or so, I usually pack up the trap and move it somewhere else. I'll move mouse traps baited with tomato after just a few hours if they're not catching.Haven't caught anything with the other trap types yet.

Sewers/storm drain system would be awesome for travel but they'd really need to include flooding risk. I used to play down in my cities storm drain system when I was a little guy and had a nasty close call when a summer rainstorm blew in. Those tunnels fill up FAST!

I wish I could say the same.. My son and I had 3 zeds spawn inside our safehouse while we were out looting yesterday. They appeared behind 5 closed doors! We were able to avoid getting bit but our kitchen got a nice new red paint job. Lesson learned; always do a room-by-room when you get home.. just in case.

Us too. It's been through several hail storms. I toss a blanket over it if it's going to be bigger than grape size. I've got two sons that play out in the yard too. It's been whacked by many basketballs/soccer balls and never had an issue. It's garbage glass but I think having it glued to the rigid frame with silicone sealer and back-coated with rubbery resin makes it more resistant to cracking somehow. I wish the kids/weather would break it honestly.. It's ugly as hell, I'd love to replace it.

Well, they weren't whole panels, just the cells. I think we paid about $16 for 40 of them but it's Ebay so prices vary a little. This is about what we got: http://www.ebay.com/itm/40-3x6-Solar-Cell-DIY-Solar-Panel-Value-Pack-Tabbed-Broken-Soalr-Cells-/201118480821?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ed39879b5 You might want to spend a few extra bucks and get the non-chipped/cracked ones though. We spent an hour or two splicing pieces and bridging cracks on them (you can see all the clear tape still on the cells under the resin in the pic from where we held them together before soldering ). Panel back: Once we patched up some of the really bad ones and they tested OK, we soldiered them into 4 chains of 9 cells each and wired them in series. 0.5v per cell X 36 cells = 18v. We didn't have any tabbing wire so we used solder wick for the bus lines. Then we laid them out over a piece of cheap window glass ($6 I think from the hardware store) and enclosed them in an aluminum picture frame from the craft store. Then we poured a couple 12oz kits of EZ Cast clear epoxy resin (also from the craft store) to back-encapsulate. There were some bubbles but meh, we didn't build it to win any beauty contests. It's been chugging along out in the weather for 2 or 3 years so far, pumping out amps like a champ. Panel Front: Here's the power pack it charges. We took it camping, sorry, it's still kinda dusty.. I had this cool little dashboard gadget for a car that I popped on top to show voltage. The brick on the left is a cheapo $10 charge controller from ebay. It just disconnects the panel from the pack when it's full to prevent overcharging. So useful, I love this thing! Power Pack: It's built on/in an old tupperware container (to contain any leaks if the gel cells start to fail). The batteries are mostly old used alarm system backup batteries that get replaced every couple years. Rather than just trash 'em, I brought them home and put 'em back to work. Batteries: Yeah, that's red marker... on white lamp cord.. I ran outta red wire okay?

Wall outlets are a pretty bad source of high DC current. To charge a big battery from a wall outlet requires a big set of diodes in a configuration called a bridge-rectifer, a big set of capacitors to smooth out the voltage ripple, then a big hefty transformer to step the voltage down to a usable level. All these components are going to produce heat and need cooling in the form of big heat-sinks or fans. The more current you want, the heftier your charger becomes. That's why these AC/DC adapter wall warts can be so huge and still deliver such puny amounts of current (I have a 1.5 Amp 12vDC wall wart that's nearly the size of a brick!). Solar panels pump out low voltage so you don't need the transformer. The power is already in Direct Current so you can ditch the capacitors and the bridge rectifier along with all the cooling equipment. A poster sized 75 watt panel can pump out over 6 amps at 12vDC with no additional equipment! If i had to guess (they never include capacity info on car batteries for some reason..), I'd say a car battery would have a capacity of around 80 amp hours. Charging at ~13 volts on average (over the course of the charge) from a 75 watt panel, you should see around 5.76 amps of charging current. Since charging a lead-acid battery is only ~70% efficient, we'll add 30% to our 80amp-hour capacty to charge. 104ah charge needed / 5.76 amps of charging current = ~18 hours of good sun to bring a totally dead car battery up to full charge. Another 75 watt panel would halve the charge time to ~9 hours. My son and I built a 75 watt panel from some cheapo cracked/chipped cells off ebay a couple of years ago. It sits out by the garden and keeps a 40 amp-hour battery pack nice and full, even in the winter. The pack is connected to a 120v AC inverter and charges my e-cigarette batteries, cell phones, runs a clock-radio alarm, and his PC speakers. It was a fun little project and was surprisingly easy to pull off. If I were lighting my house in PZ with a car battery, the 9 hour charge would be about perfect for me. I could keep two batteries and swap from the house to the charger once a day. As for scavanging the panels, I see them all over town where I live (Southern Texas). Every school zone/road work sign has one here. They're on rooftops in town and on weather monitering stations/deer feeders in more rural areas.

They seem to work fine on my server. We've caught many small birds in stick traps baited with fresh cabbage and placed near the forest.

Yeah, if you've got critters producing milk, you've already got a solution on hand. Preserving milk is a problem we solved ~7,500 years ago. Slaughter a calf to collect rennet (you're stealing its milk anyway right?), add rennet to milk, strain and squeeze curd, add salt and Voilà! Your cheese can last for months. The Grana Padano Riserva in my fridge was made almost two years ago (and tastes incredible)!

The .5 reduction in weight is another big benifit of the sawn-off. Main inventory space is always at a premium, especially if you don't go with the 'strong' perk.