Sea Lantern – generate in ocean monuments, emit a light level of 15 and have a subtle animated texture.Iron Trapdoor – can only be opened and closed using Redstone.Prismarine, Prismarine Bricks, and Dark Prismarine – generate in Ocean Monuments.Coarse Dirt – crafted using dirt and gravel in a 2×2 checkered pattern, and replaces the grassless dirt variant found in mega taiga, mesa and savanna biomes.Diorite, Andesite, and Granite – variants of Stone that can be crafted and found naturally.I turned the game off at one point because I simply got fed up of trying to find where to go next because I had seeming exhausted all available options. I like games which don’t smother you with hints and pointers, but if you so desperately need one then the option would be welcome. A simple hint would have saved me so much frustration and this is where my biggest gripe with the game lies. It wasn’t until I replayed the tutorial that I realised I had forgotten you can carry desks to use as a boost up into air vents. With no hint system to give a guiding hand, I spent well over an hour trying to find materials to craft ladders to get into the air vents in the prison and getting frustrated about not knowing what to do. No matter how stuck you may get, there’s no hand holding at all and it elevates the game to a true survival experience. The Memorial Hospital level acts as your tutorial and gives you all the help you need to get started but after that you are on your own. To earn money to pay for these items, you have to go on various simple fetch quests for your fellow survivors, but while they make it easy to earn currency, it would be nice to do something a bit more challenging than simply go and grab a frying pan or a lighter. More often than not they will have an item that you have been desperate for so, whilst I was searching everywhere for that illusive timber, I visited a vendor and they quite conveniently had a piece of timber for sale. The saviours in all of my scavenging woes were the various vendors which appear through the level at night to peddle their wares. This was despite the desks, where you get the vast majority of your crafting materials from, being replenished with new items each day. In order to craft a pickaxe I required some timber, a file and a crowbar, but I simply couldn’t find any timber, no matter how much scavenging I did. I spent so much time on the Meriweather Correctional Facility level because I could never find the right materials to craft what I needed. What has struck with me through my time with the game is how it occasionally feels like the game is working against you. You can get away with skipping one activity without any real consequence, but if you frequently break the routine then your threat of attack greatly increases, this threat level is indicated by a ‘zombie percentage’, which increases as you break the routine and decreases as you stick to it. Players must also level up through exercise in order to run away from or be strong enough to attack enemies, and you also need to read to increase your intellect before you can craft certain items.
In order to keep your living area safe, there are a number of activities in your day to day routine which include a morning and evening head count, meal times and some general tasks to complete during the day such as laundry, mopping up zombie guts and so on.
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