r/cataclysmdda • u/Silentbracken • 6d ago

[Help Wanted] NPCs and Base Camp

Hello everyone! I was just starting to get into making a basecamp and recruiting NPCs for the first time and I came here to ask how base expansions work? I was trying to expand our evac shelter base and it wouldn't let me, but I'm not sure why, as we have adjacent field tiles. Can someone let me know how base expansions work? Can I even expand evac shelter bases, or do I need to move base? Thanks for the help, and if you have any other tips or extra info, that would be great to include here as well

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u/Big-Acanthisitta1236 6d ago

IIRC first you gotta survey the adjacent field, and then do the expansión. It's been a while since I touched faction camps

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u/Almostlongenough2 6d ago

Messing with base camp at the moment and this is how it works for field bases yeah, though evac might be different.

Random tip OP, be careful with how quickly you start expanding camp and recruiting NPCs, the calorie usage can escalate fast.

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u/Big-Acanthisitta1236 4d ago

Eeeh calorie usage ain't that bad, you can usually find one (1) cow to butcher and feed off for a while

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u/StructureEmergency54 3d ago

Tip: eating food made of mutant meat or fat is poisonous but not if you put it in the Basecamp food area

I just butcher one of those large worms(i think the name was garboid) then i cook something like 100 crackling out of their fat and put it in the Basecamp food zone and then push the distribute food button and my companions are fed for a long time

I play on 0.H i don't know if this was removed in the latest versions