Astonishing inventions

[GOGOblin]

Lets post some weird inventions, that can be useful in PZ world.

 

1) I found out there is no way to modify the player's arc of sight by a mod, so I think it could be nice to add this or implement some AoS modificators:

A "rawing cap" or selfmade baseball cap with a shard of glass (found this "invention" for bicycle riders in soviet/russian magasine for teens). Its is pretty odd thing to wear, but if you are deaf it will really help to spot some motion behind you. Some "fish-eye" mirror will be much better.

 

 

 

2) After hunting is implemented there will be possible to improve fishing and trapping - astonishingly cruel, sadly. 

2.1) If you have a good string and a fishhook you can "fish" birds, small mammals, frogs. Pretty cruel, but efective.  (Method was approved by my grandmother, who fished neighbour's hans during ww2). Google "squirrel fishing" - without a fish-hook it is an entertainment, otherwise - dinner.

 

2.2) I've found some traps, based on strings, both for ducks. Cannot find the original pictures, so I made my own.

Drowning trap - a duck swallows the bait, swims away, and the stone pulls it down into water. Needs a bait, a string, a fishing hook, a stick and a stone.

String trap - a duck eats baits (raisins or nuts) one by one and cannot get rid of a string, because it gulps a lot of string through its guts. Nedds only string and baits.

 

 

 

Please share your most odd but useful "inventions" here!

 

 

 

 

Edited August 3, 2016 by GOGOblin

[Geras]

I even stopped fishing at some point in my life as a young teenager because it came to me I hurt those animals (even though most of the times I released my fish). I think I'd feel uneasy to use those those traps, even if it's just a video game.

 

Just a personal feeling.

[GOGOblin]

34 minutes ago, Geras said:

I think I'd feel uneasy to use those those traps, even if it's just a video game.

Agree, those traps are kinda cruel ones. But hunting is hunting,  shooting animals also can lead to torturing wounds and so do other traps. There are crate-type traps in PZ, which means you need to kill your dinner manually - also not pleasant.

  

[Keshash]

Well, PZ is a cruel world, right? Plant farms ftw.

3 hours ago, GOGOblin said:

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Sounds good, but it looks so uncomfortable. I don't know if it's easy to use those in combat or while running away from zombies. By the way, I've read somewhere about "fooling zombies with mirrors", could it work?

 

I like those "odd" useful things, but can Average Joe figure them out on his own? It would perfectly fit some "Survivalist" profession or "too smart" trait. Or maybe some "How to make a death-machine from sand and duct tape a.k.a Joe's survival" magazines, that definitely existed. I remember reading some of them. 

Edited August 3, 2016 by Keshash

[GOGOblin]

48 minutes ago, Keshash said:

Sounds good, but it looks so uncomfortable. I don't know if it's easy to use those in combat or while running away from zombies.

Well, shall we perform an experiment?   I tested this kind of cap-mirror when I was a kid - pretty useless until you are riding a bike and really do not want to turn back.  I guess deaf character can get use of this thing, especially if it is a panoramic car mirror  

 

I know this is a kinda freaky solutoin, share yours!

[TheWraithPlayer]

This is an idea I had a while back, and this topic reminded me of it. Basically, you tape a fire alarm to a Frisbee, set it of, and launch it as far away as you could, making a sound lure.

[GOGOblin]

6 hours ago, TheWraithPlayer said:

This is an idea I had a while back, and this topic reminded me of it. Basically, you tape a fire alarm to a Frisbee, set it of, and launch it as far away as you could, making a sound lure.

Yep, nice.

 

Church bells (or sound sytem) could be used in the same manner: connect to a timer and they will gather Z's every morning.

 

Or a radio-controlled toy with bells or other noisy crap. 

[Gaffa Tape Warrior]

I think the ideal sound system is one that you don't have to power yourself. It could be something powered by wind that makes a noise when the wind blows. It could attract zombies up onto the top of a building where they fall off and get injured.

[GOGOblin]

5 hours ago, Gaffa Tape Warrior said:

I think the ideal sound system is one that you don't have to power yourself. It could be something powered by wind that makes a noise when the wind blows. It could attract zombies up onto the top of a building where they fall off and get injured.

Just find enough alarm-clocks and set them with a couple minutes delays..

[TheWraithPlayer]

15 hours ago, Gaffa Tape Warrior said:

I think the ideal sound system is one that you don't have to power yourself. It could be something powered by wind that makes a noise when the wind blows. It could attract zombies up onto the top of a building where they fall off and get injured.

That was actually implemented in the book World War Z. the got up on rooftops and made a lot of noise, luring the zombies in the skyscraper next door onto it's roof and jumping off trying to get to the people on the other rooftop.

Another Idea I had was bottle rockets and Saturn missile batteries. They serve as both distraction and makeshift weapon!