Just having the ability to produce them and playing normally by looting Meds and Ethanol along with all the other things I would loot organically, the act of getting a Trader leader and a Trading Post just ends all scarcity within an hour or two. so more morale, don't need to spend food for stamina, but i can't craft snackies.Įverytime i think i have my base build set in my mind, i spend another 3 hours deciding what i could do differently lol.Įven without such a specialized Strong Painkillers-production setup, I tend to roll in Influence even on Lethal. cause latrine 2 is 10 passive 20 active morale and plumbing gives 20 stamina passively. i do kind of ♥♥♥♥ with the 'no kitchen' gang sometimes though. i realize how powerful the extra stamina from feasts, and reduced stamina penalty from rationing could be.

is there any other things i can use meds for to make money besides bulk plague cures and painkillers? cause i'm gunna be rolling in them.Īs for the food, you're right again. like i could cut my farm, build a lounge 3, cut the still, and have 2 med hydroponics and enthusiastic morale 24/7 easily. so then meds would be the bottleneck and it now makes sense why people make all med farms, and then just ration/buy food.Īlso the still is real a slot killer lol.

and due to your feedback about 'endless mode' i realize i could just reset the map and re loot for more ethanol and also farm more plague samples and sell those as well. You could get all the Influence you could ever need that way. So if you want to stay in one map and finish a Legacy, Ethanol will be limited mostly by time.īut your setup doesn't seem to have the purpose of finishing a Legacy, so maybe you could do both: jump maps once you have looted all the best Ethanol-sites and produced a load of Ethanol with your Still.

I tend to get enough of it by raiding Taverns and Restaurants, but then again I play 'endless mode' and jump from map to map until I want to start another community and try something else. Yes it's Ethanol that's the bottleneck, not Medicine. As for your needs, they seem to be more specific, so maybe none of that matters to you. More Stamina is always better, and morale boosting can be done in lots of other ways, so the Nutritionist is generally seen to be better than the Cuisine specialist. Originally posted by Protectron:Feasts with a Nutritionist still give +10 morale, so it largely offsets the morale penalty of Rationing. is this true? or is it just the stamina penalty as the in game description states? Side question: i see some posts stating that nutritionist reduces the morale penalty from rationing. and speaking of feasting which would be more optimized in this regard? nutritionist or cuisine? if i held a feast, and enforced rationing, the morale buff from the cuisine feast would offset the morale penalty and stamina penalty of rationing while giving me a food surplus cause of how many survivors i have. With all the food i'd be making i would have plenty leftover for feasting. should i ditch my herbalist survivor (he has bleak outlook so i am honestly not losing much), pick up an agriculture survivor, and cook, and then make both my hydroponic gardens food? should i get another survivor with agriculture and make 1 of my hydroponic farms food.Ģ. thats a lot of food and that only gets me 2 and a half batches of painkillers.ġ. but if i'm out of ethanol, it takes 3 food to make 5 ethanol. so for making painkillers, is food the more important resource? cause if i buy 1 rucksack of meds from a trader, thats 175 influence for 4 meds (usually) which is 4 batches of painkillers. however, after a couple of days of this, meds don't seem to be the limiting factor. I have an herbalist and 2 hydroponic gardens making a lot of meds (one has a compost bin, the other has fertilizer). However, i'm looking for some help on optimizing my current setup. So, from my limited SOD2 experience, using the trader depot with a painkiller farm seems pretty lucrative for getting your hands on home site resources and extremely good facility mods.

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