Cataclysm 101 - How to Throw Rocks

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
-Carl Sagan

0:00 - in golf we call this a home run
0:54 - Intro
1:11 - Collecting Rocks
1:43 - Blacklisting Items from Containers
2:54 - Training Throwing - SEE TOP COMMENT
4:32 - Throwing in Combat
5:26 - Crafting a Sling and Ammo
6:22 - Understanding Ranged Weapons
7:49 - Slings in Combat / Firing Ranged Weapons
11:14 - Training Survival via Auto Foraging
12:43 - Training Survival via Crafting
13:25 - Crafting an Adze
14:01 - The Weariness System
16:47 - Crafting a Staff Sling
17:52 - The Staff Sling in Combat
18:59 - Conclusion

We've got the basics of melee weapons down, now let's learn all about ranged!

[mutantwormgirl]

It has come to my attention that I made an error: Basic Carpentry practice will not raise your fabrication above 2. If you are at 2 and need to get to 3 in the version of the game linked in the description, you should be able to craft a "distaff and spindle" two or three times to get the final rank.

As of November 21, 2022, you no longer need 1 rank of throwing to perform the throwing practice action. You can skip the step at 2:54 and go directly to 4:05.

[nerezza]

Pockets are still somewhat new and there isn't a good guide for setting them up for organization yet, so allow me to share my biggest tip learned through hundreds of hours of gameplay:

Set the pockets on your backpack to priority 5 and don't put a whitelist or blacklist on it. Pockets default to priority 0 and the game tries to fill high priority pockets first, so if you pick up a pebble the game will default to your backpack. Once your backpack is full items will start going into pockets, so they act as extra storage when needed.
Want to store ammo outside the backpack so you have it even when you drop your backpack? Set an ammo pouch to priority 10 and whitelist the ammo. With whitelists only the items on the whitelist are allowed in the pocket, and combined with a higher priority than the backpack (10 vs 5) the game will automatically see that ammo pouch as the best place to put your ammo.

[BrookeSpeaks]

Man I would love to just listen to you do a regular playthrough

[Inglonias]

In the latest experimental, the throwing practice recipe is available at throwing zero. As you showed, there is no point in gatekeeping that behind throwing 1.

[Soulsphere]

Tips for new players:
1. If you find a small boulder, wield a rock using the 'w' key (then use arrow keys to select the rock and press the 'Enter/Return' key), and then smash 's' key followed by direction of the boulder. Eventually the boulder will break and drop a lot of rocks.

2. You can batch make items by going into the crafting menu, selecting the craft you want to make, and pressing the 'b' key. Then you can choose how many times you want to make that craft. Also, in the main game window, one can repeat their last craft by pressing the '-' (dash/hyphen/minus) key.

[drakenel]

I've never known about blacklisting pockets. I've always just manually moved things to the bag I wanted. Thanks for the new knowledge!

[Calhouned]

Huge fan of how you present these topics—you explain things clearly and in a straightforward manner… and the memes you insert are always funny and never too “random”. Great work!

[ArvaArcusValarian]

the more Worm Girl posts CDDA tutorial vids, the more happier I get. Thanks for the lessons.

Also I love her arts for the thumbnail and sutuff.

[alexd.e]

ngl if it wasn't for this channel I have no idea what I would've done. Thank you for putting them up, they really help o7

[iiroaro]

These are very high quality tutorials, please don't stop making these. I'm a long term player, and learned something here! It's fun to see you showcasing a very different style to mine: conservative, slow and steady. I tend to skip all of the primitive survival stuff and just loot modern commodities from houses armed with a quarterstaff or spear, but I do have the benefit of oodles of combat and daylight raiding experience.

EDIT: I see you've already covered these topics earlier. Excellent work.

[theflyingpen]

I found you through the Fear and Hunger lore video, but this was a fantastic guide for perhaps my most favorite game. I'm super glad I found your channel

[gabrote]

4:18 Thanks for the errata. Never happened to me but the pocket micromanagement thing seems very intelligent
7:39 A sling drive-by is action-movie material

[paakoopa]

Ayy new vid lets go!
Thanks for explaining me the game i simultaneously want to play the most and the least

[ProjectThunderclaw]

I highly recommend going into Settings->Interface->Aim window display style (line 43) and changing it from "Bars" to "Numbers". That shows you the actual percentage chance to get various kinds of hit or miss instead of having to interpret the weird bars.

[wagabababobo]

FINALLY my neighbors won’t stand a chance, I was always confused on how to throw rocks but now I get it!

I’ll update on how the tutorial applies!

[Bradley_UA]

for people who dont know how to throw roks would be useful to explain that you can also press v and then / an search rock, and it will show you all the rocks in the area until you reset the search

[Rfanq]

God bless you and your videos!! Like Dwarf Fortress, CDDA is one of these unpredictable and intricate games that I love to play but can't keep myself alive for more than a few hours of gameplay.

[clownofwar]

I cant state enough how helpful those first lines of help are to. My inventory is always a huge mess and i was not aware you could black/whitelist anything. Awsome content.

[Leifuren]

Best CDDA tutorial series! I finally managed to get into the game after many earlier attempts. Thanks!

[anderhagea]

Good to see another youtuber helping others understand this beast of a game!