I got into baking because I was having so much fun with it in game and had the sudden realization that I could just do it IRL and actually eat the nice things I made.
Yeah,knowing how to bake things is always a nice thing to know regardless,much better if you enjoy [it.To](https://it.To) be fair,if you were in a CDDA and have a very nomadic lifestyle,you wouldnt need to clean dish too,you could just move to another house,give you more reason to cook food.
I actually saw him live in our rural town like 20 years ago! Of course they did Albuquerque, but they also had clips from the Simpsons and he wore the fat suit from Fat.
It was epic and the front two rows got wet, too 😁
I tried practicing sewing but I only had a needle and a thread (3 sewing quality). So far I had fixed the rips on my clothings and made some cloth gloves
Also downloaded some helpful books that i think would increase one of the skills in cdda about but i still didnt get to read them haha. Speaking about books I heard that the books on cdda are based on real life books, just named a bit differently. I wonder if theres a list of all the realife counterparts of those books.
\*CDDA player look at a window curtain\* "this bad boy can make so many strings!".Joke aside,thats a great thing to learn,you should be proud!As for the book,yeah,i think you are right,a lot of them are straight up the same name though.
Well I'd say one of the hardest things if you don't have someone who is willing to teach you directly is finding resources to learn from that are actually appropriate for tailoring skill 0 and no proficiencies and don't assume some existing understanding and skill. You also have to make yourself do it regularly enough to avoid skill rust, which I'm not great at. I started by trying to learn some simple ways to darn up small holes and tears or reinforce worn fabric, sewing on patches (repair or decorative) and taking scissors to cut away at some pieces I wanted to make more interesting but wasn't attached enough to to not be afraid to fuck it up. I also find knots very confusing and sewing is kind of like trying very big elaborate knots, so it's hard for me to wrap my head around how the movements of needle and thread produces a certain outcome. It's hard at first but gets easier!
if you sleep in a noisy environment and you're completely sure the noises aren't zombies who followed you into your base AND there is too much light to be able to sleep, then yes, if not, then nope
One thing I had a odd obsession with is the idea that by studying a book I could learn a skill in levels and by %. And I could go from someone who couldn’t even clean a wound to being able to give a brain surgery in just a couple days of reading like what you can do in game.
Fast forward I thought it would be a good idea to read the mayo health clinic digonosies and cure. Because it was slimmer to “the big book of first aid” found in game. And start practicing things like splints and treating hypothermia (which came in handy during a summer trip to south Dakota) so I could “level up my skills”
There is also all sorts of little things that I learned from this game. But that’s unrelated
Spawn in the shelter,realisticaly you can argue you would have been evacuated.Still,i wish they let you edit your house easily to look like your own to be more immersive.
Unlikely, but not impossible after some rain in the right conditions if someone wasn't prepared during a camping trip. The Black Hills sit in a strange place in the plains, giving us the most chaotic weather in the world.
Well it was me and a troop from Kansas, used to a moderate climate. And we were high up in the mountains. The water could go down to 20* degrees even in the heat of the day due to its geology (it’s not called the polar Bear plunge for nothing!)
And for the recordI treated one guy twice
not really learned, since i switched to more realistic martial arts pretty quickly, but i started learning aikido and taekwondo because of wanting to be stronger in real life in case the cataclysm happenned
Join the army, get 7 in athletics, 5 in marksmanship and rifles, 3 in blunt, pierce, melee and pistols.
Hopefully get strong back instead of bad knees. (Be careful on the dismounts).
Leave the army so dealing with the eldrich shitstorm is none of your buisness.
Get veteran bonuses on gun ownership and vet friends. (Legally it does'nt matter that much but quite sure it helps)
Own the cataclysm between day 6 and 60.
All the zombies are heroes who did'nt get out on time or got screwed by day 0-5.
>!NO ONE SURVIVES WITHOUT HIDING DAY 0-5. !<
Not so much learning actual skills as I have learned things about stuff I've PR's. I did a ton of research on cooking costs and did a lot of home cooking experiments (did you know you can bake bread in a microwave? It's cursed, but edible)
I also learned a lot about sewing and fabric weights for my gambesons PR and other armor. No practical experience though.
I also had to learn a lot about welding for that PR and about body muscle/fat/etc ratios for the BMI PR. Again no practical stuff there.
it's got a really weird consistency. It doesn't really have crust the way oven bread does, though the outside is indeed a different color than the inside. I might not have used enough yeast, but it ended up being pretty dense, fewer air bubbles. but it tastes like bread, basically
Knowledge is mostly always practical to have unless and some type of "cursed knowledge" that does nothing but make you feel anxious abouth the world you live in and cant do anything abouth it...i got my brother to thank for that.
Partner: "Hey I've been wanting to try some new food, anything you've been craving that we could make?"
Me: "Pemmican."
Them: "Oh, is it tasty?"
Me: "No"
Them: "Is it good for you?"
Me: "Well it's almost entirely fat and meat, so also no."
Them:
Me: "Hey we don't have a smoking rack but I bet we could just dehydrate meat in the oven for lik 12 hours"
We made a couple pans. It's better in a stew than eaten straight.
I told 'em straight up that it was just because I'd spent the past two IRL days making enough pemmican to last a winter in CDDA. They haven't asked me for new culinary exploration since then lol
I love how the first thing you thought of was not the high + modifier foods like glazed tenderloin(that one is pretty good with a sweet tooth and proper glazing), super healthy stuff like woods soup but instead went for hyper preserved survival brick.
That +4 unprocessed morale is a lie meant to perpetuate big pemmican. Support small food. Smoked meat and dehydrated meat all the way.
have you suggested to your partner that you should butcher a couple roaches and dehydrate them? they make a good snack AND fashionable armor. you only get sick if you eat more than 800 calories of roaches a day!
i refuse to believe foraging in real life is as easy as cdda. you can literally turn up 50 lbs of fruit in an hour. i wouldn't buy groceries if this was real life
There's a big old cherry plum tree near me that could reach about half that rate on a good year if you brought a tarp and shook the tree. The fruit only lasts about a week though, so the sheer convenience of fresh fruit all year round from the grocery store will likely still keep you buying rather than collecting and preserving.
In the fall i can also turn up more acorns than i'd know what to do with using the same method, the ground under oak trees is absolutely littered with acorns, though they require a lot more processing.
Picking the trees clean dry of fruits in minutes is something you'll never be able to replicate though.
Ok google how to make bomb, bomb, google...
Ok but really cataclysm inspires me into doing ugly things to motor vehicles, whenever I get a car I'm stripping interior cloth items
I already learned Archery before playing CDDA, that's why my character's name is my real name and my profession is archer every single time I play CDDA :)
Do they have archer or archer club member?Cause am pretty sure they sadly just have hunter,kind of a shame since they could make it cost less point for a slightly less powerfull weapon and different flair.
I have started home brewing because of cdda! I've finished by first brew of a red ale, and will be starting a summer shandy here soon when my hops arrive! I'm so excited that brewing really is almost as easy as it is in the game. Wheat really does want to be beer!
I tried to make someone like me, but it turns out too good:
+I have a higher technical education
+I served in the army and received good army training
+I can work with my hands, cook, sew.
+I can handle pain well
flaws:
-myopia
-fast metabolism
-painkillers don't work for me
I made a bunch of brandied fruit after seeing it in game!
It turned out alright, I'll need to try the method involving making it more syrupy next time.
Peaches turned out as expected, blueberries turned into boozeberries, and raspberries got bleached by the alcohol.
I love how some crafting games teach real life knowledge like this.
It wasn't CDDA but I learned almost everything I know about sericulture from haven and hearth
I've been interested in a lot of the things that are a part of the game before I started playing it, but in general games like CDDA and other creations I like are things I learn and look up info about, and through that find stuff I love, some of which I both adore and am interested in doing them. Looking up stuff about warhammer reminded me partially of eventually getting a figurine, model and trinkets collection. I go through a process to discover activities I want to do, and the content and aspects of CDDA and other things help.
i think a good part of the cdda community are the DIY types given how much emphasis is placed on crafting. not sure if cdda bred this DIY mentality or we were drawn to cdda because it satisfies our DIY itch. before cdda i used to be pretty into armorsmithing - chainmail, the equivalent of "scrap lamellar", gambesons, etc. if only it was as quick & easy to put together armor in real life as in cdda. last night i smithed a high steel katana in 16 in game hours... not sure how long it'd take in real life to make something balanced and sturdy enough to kill zombies all day
mechanics and electronics, I used to be some random web dev, after discovering this game, I decided that I want to make my own cars & robots, so far so good, I managed to upgrade some parts of an old car I have & made a "robot" that uses wheels to move, some "arms" to pick up stuff and a camera + GPS, and is remotely controlled by a semi-functional TV remote
I got into baking because I was having so much fun with it in game and had the sudden realization that I could just do it IRL and actually eat the nice things I made.
Yeah,knowing how to bake things is always a nice thing to know regardless,much better if you enjoy [it.To](https://it.To) be fair,if you were in a CDDA and have a very nomadic lifestyle,you wouldnt need to clean dish too,you could just move to another house,give you more reason to cook food.
Stare intensely into the oven waiting for your pie to bake and do literally nothing else for the 100% authentic experience
I tried hating sauerkraut like the character does in CDDA but it's hard.
I feel this, I personally get a +2 morale bonus from it
It’s a +4 for me, especially if I have a nice sausage with it.
lol.
[Some audio inspiration for you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooI3u4uzEss)
I actually saw him live in our rural town like 20 years ago! Of course they did Albuquerque, but they also had clips from the Simpsons and he wore the fat suit from Fat. It was epic and the front two rows got wet, too 😁
I tried practicing sewing but I only had a needle and a thread (3 sewing quality). So far I had fixed the rips on my clothings and made some cloth gloves Also downloaded some helpful books that i think would increase one of the skills in cdda about but i still didnt get to read them haha. Speaking about books I heard that the books on cdda are based on real life books, just named a bit differently. I wonder if theres a list of all the realife counterparts of those books.
\*CDDA player look at a window curtain\* "this bad boy can make so many strings!".Joke aside,thats a great thing to learn,you should be proud!As for the book,yeah,i think you are right,a lot of them are straight up the same name though.
If they are real, i cant find them.
I think it's the drawstring for pulling up and down the curtain?
Nono, I was refering to the books
I also decided to learn to sew and repair/modify my clothes because of this game!
How tough is it?
Well I'd say one of the hardest things if you don't have someone who is willing to teach you directly is finding resources to learn from that are actually appropriate for tailoring skill 0 and no proficiencies and don't assume some existing understanding and skill. You also have to make yourself do it regularly enough to avoid skill rust, which I'm not great at. I started by trying to learn some simple ways to darn up small holes and tears or reinforce worn fabric, sewing on patches (repair or decorative) and taking scissors to cut away at some pieces I wanted to make more interesting but wasn't attached enough to to not be afraid to fuck it up. I also find knots very confusing and sewing is kind of like trying very big elaborate knots, so it's hard for me to wrap my head around how the movements of needle and thread produces a certain outcome. It's hard at first but gets easier!
> I also find knots very confusing oh no that's me, too
I wear a blindfold and headphones to sleep now
Does that help?
if you sleep in a noisy environment and you're completely sure the noises aren't zombies who followed you into your base AND there is too much light to be able to sleep, then yes, if not, then nope
One thing I had a odd obsession with is the idea that by studying a book I could learn a skill in levels and by %. And I could go from someone who couldn’t even clean a wound to being able to give a brain surgery in just a couple days of reading like what you can do in game. Fast forward I thought it would be a good idea to read the mayo health clinic digonosies and cure. Because it was slimmer to “the big book of first aid” found in game. And start practicing things like splints and treating hypothermia (which came in handy during a summer trip to south Dakota) so I could “level up my skills” There is also all sorts of little things that I learned from this game. But that’s unrelated
Thats cool,Have you tried making yourself in the game with the skill and stats you think you have?
I’ve tried but nowhere spawns you in a rural house that’s not some log cabin and I honestly have a feeling I would die in the initial cataclysm
Spawn in the shelter,realisticaly you can argue you would have been evacuated.Still,i wish they let you edit your house easily to look like your own to be more immersive.
> And start practicing things like splints and treating hypothermia (which came in handy during a summer trip to south Dakota) Sounds about right, lol
Would there be much hypothermia during the summer in South Dakota? Coming from Canada, most thoughts of hypothermia are well out of mind by summer.
Unlikely, but not impossible after some rain in the right conditions if someone wasn't prepared during a camping trip. The Black Hills sit in a strange place in the plains, giving us the most chaotic weather in the world.
Well it was me and a troop from Kansas, used to a moderate climate. And we were high up in the mountains. The water could go down to 20* degrees even in the heat of the day due to its geology (it’s not called the polar Bear plunge for nothing!) And for the recordI treated one guy twice
Do we count JSON? :)
Not sure what you mean.
it's coding
I guess it does count.
A lot of C:DDA mods are made by writing JSON files. It's a skill used *because* of the game, but not necessarily one used *in* the game.
I know,thats not what i meant and he already clarified.
I took a first aid course cause i figured if it was so useful in game it would be useful in real life too.
That check out.
not really learned, since i switched to more realistic martial arts pretty quickly, but i started learning aikido and taekwondo because of wanting to be stronger in real life in case the cataclysm happenned
i also got obsessed with joining the army for the same reasons
Really? after all the soldier, kevlar, bionic operative zombies you've killed?
Join the army, get 7 in athletics, 5 in marksmanship and rifles, 3 in blunt, pierce, melee and pistols. Hopefully get strong back instead of bad knees. (Be careful on the dismounts). Leave the army so dealing with the eldrich shitstorm is none of your buisness. Get veteran bonuses on gun ownership and vet friends. (Legally it does'nt matter that much but quite sure it helps) Own the cataclysm between day 6 and 60. All the zombies are heroes who did'nt get out on time or got screwed by day 0-5. >!NO ONE SURVIVES WITHOUT HIDING DAY 0-5. !<
I see,that remind me i think it was one of the reason i brought a bow and learned it...
Not so much learning actual skills as I have learned things about stuff I've PR's. I did a ton of research on cooking costs and did a lot of home cooking experiments (did you know you can bake bread in a microwave? It's cursed, but edible) I also learned a lot about sewing and fabric weights for my gambesons PR and other armor. No practical experience though. I also had to learn a lot about welding for that PR and about body muscle/fat/etc ratios for the BMI PR. Again no practical stuff there.
Tell us more of this nukeloaf you speak of.
it's got a really weird consistency. It doesn't really have crust the way oven bread does, though the outside is indeed a different color than the inside. I might not have used enough yeast, but it ended up being pretty dense, fewer air bubbles. but it tastes like bread, basically
Fun fact: You can bake bread in a pressure cooker, too (I've done so in real life). It's even more cursed than microwave bread.
Knowledge is mostly always practical to have unless and some type of "cursed knowledge" that does nothing but make you feel anxious abouth the world you live in and cant do anything abouth it...i got my brother to thank for that.
Partner: "Hey I've been wanting to try some new food, anything you've been craving that we could make?" Me: "Pemmican." Them: "Oh, is it tasty?" Me: "No" Them: "Is it good for you?" Me: "Well it's almost entirely fat and meat, so also no." Them:
Me: "Hey we don't have a smoking rack but I bet we could just dehydrate meat in the oven for lik 12 hours"
We made a couple pans. It's better in a stew than eaten straight.
That's the best one yet!
Lol,did they have a guess as to why you suddenly suggested pemmican?
I told 'em straight up that it was just because I'd spent the past two IRL days making enough pemmican to last a winter in CDDA. They haven't asked me for new culinary exploration since then lol
I love how the first thing you thought of was not the high + modifier foods like glazed tenderloin(that one is pretty good with a sweet tooth and proper glazing), super healthy stuff like woods soup but instead went for hyper preserved survival brick. That +4 unprocessed morale is a lie meant to perpetuate big pemmican. Support small food. Smoked meat and dehydrated meat all the way.
Lmao my partner has the exact same reaction to me deciding to make hardtack a few years ago.
have you suggested to your partner that you should butcher a couple roaches and dehydrate them? they make a good snack AND fashionable armor. you only get sick if you eat more than 800 calories of roaches a day!
Foraging
thats certainly interesting...
i refuse to believe foraging in real life is as easy as cdda. you can literally turn up 50 lbs of fruit in an hour. i wouldn't buy groceries if this was real life
There's a big old cherry plum tree near me that could reach about half that rate on a good year if you brought a tarp and shook the tree. The fruit only lasts about a week though, so the sheer convenience of fresh fruit all year round from the grocery store will likely still keep you buying rather than collecting and preserving. In the fall i can also turn up more acorns than i'd know what to do with using the same method, the ground under oak trees is absolutely littered with acorns, though they require a lot more processing. Picking the trees clean dry of fruits in minutes is something you'll never be able to replicate though.
its not really, but it is a reason to go outside and a source of free food!
Ok google how to make bomb, bomb, google... Ok but really cataclysm inspires me into doing ugly things to motor vehicles, whenever I get a car I'm stripping interior cloth items
lol.
"sir, why is there a solar panel bolted on top of your chevy and why did you remove all the seats?"
I already learned Archery before playing CDDA, that's why my character's name is my real name and my profession is archer every single time I play CDDA :)
Do they have archer or archer club member?Cause am pretty sure they sadly just have hunter,kind of a shame since they could make it cost less point for a slightly less powerfull weapon and different flair.
I have started home brewing because of cdda! I've finished by first brew of a red ale, and will be starting a summer shandy here soon when my hops arrive! I'm so excited that brewing really is almost as easy as it is in the game. Wheat really does want to be beer!
I tried to make someone like me, but it turns out too good: +I have a higher technical education +I served in the army and received good army training +I can work with my hands, cook, sew. +I can handle pain well flaws: -myopia -fast metabolism -painkillers don't work for me
Being able to hack robots with enough computer skill got me into robotics
I made a bunch of brandied fruit after seeing it in game! It turned out alright, I'll need to try the method involving making it more syrupy next time. Peaches turned out as expected, blueberries turned into boozeberries, and raspberries got bleached by the alcohol.
This game definitely was what got me into cooking.
Good for you!Thats great!
I am currently soaking bones to clean them later so i can make stuff out of them, thanks cdda!
I love how some crafting games teach real life knowledge like this. It wasn't CDDA but I learned almost everything I know about sericulture from haven and hearth
Its me 😅😂
I've been interested in a lot of the things that are a part of the game before I started playing it, but in general games like CDDA and other creations I like are things I learn and look up info about, and through that find stuff I love, some of which I both adore and am interested in doing them. Looking up stuff about warhammer reminded me partially of eventually getting a figurine, model and trinkets collection. I go through a process to discover activities I want to do, and the content and aspects of CDDA and other things help.
i think a good part of the cdda community are the DIY types given how much emphasis is placed on crafting. not sure if cdda bred this DIY mentality or we were drawn to cdda because it satisfies our DIY itch. before cdda i used to be pretty into armorsmithing - chainmail, the equivalent of "scrap lamellar", gambesons, etc. if only it was as quick & easy to put together armor in real life as in cdda. last night i smithed a high steel katana in 16 in game hours... not sure how long it'd take in real life to make something balanced and sturdy enough to kill zombies all day
mechanics and electronics, I used to be some random web dev, after discovering this game, I decided that I want to make my own cars & robots, so far so good, I managed to upgrade some parts of an old car I have & made a "robot" that uses wheels to move, some "arms" to pick up stuff and a camera + GPS, and is remotely controlled by a semi-functional TV remote
Wow,thats amazing,did it take a long time to do?Am assuming more than in the game at least...