Stranded: Alien Dawn Cheats

Stranded: Alien Dawn

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Submitted by: David K.

Research Tips and Tricks (Survival in the First Season):
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What research you tend to prioritize in your first season in 
preparation for winter?

* Construction basics, tailoring and metal refinement should be your priority.
  Weapons are an option, but depends how lucky you are with salvaging from the
  ship debris.

* Make sure you make some warm coats and beanies before the winter and that
  your stockpiles are under a shelter/roof to make it last a bit longer.

* To keep a good source of food, make sure you have set your work activities
  and have someone dedicated to cooking. I tend to have one of my survivors 
  just spend time on cooking, farming and delivering. 
  And ‘until 10’ for each food source I can make.

* Look for plants to research so you can create farms as soon as possible. 
  This includes tree farms.



How to Get Fabric:
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Research Hay Processing to make cloth of Hay, or look for cotton plants.

* There is a bushy small plant that looks like it has white flowers on it. 
* It’s actually cotton, and when harvested, it’s cloth. 
* A must-have addition to any farming!
* Also, the purple plants will give you stuff to make a different kind of fabric.

How do you acquire synthetic textiles? Is it only from scavenging?
Research fuel which allows you to make it. It is made from liquid fuel at 
the workbench after the tech is researched.



Beginners Tips:
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-=Tips for Noob=-
* Be proactive on these bug assaults go to them before they go to you. I 
  use the fire and run away pulling a few some times they will get panicked
  and run back. Even when you get ash storm go if the enemy is there.
* Go wind in stead of the first solar panel you get. strive for the second 
  tier solar panel. when you scrap things you lose some of the resource.
* Start working on clothing ASAP because it evaporates. Leather items are 
  the way to go. Hold off farming as long as possible as soon as you lay one 
  farm plot all hell will break loose. Be line for the freezer ASAP.
* Use the work schedule to make sure 10 11 12 oclock they will relax before 
  bed. Do not schedule breaks in the day. No lunch breaks.
* The old guy will grant you the alcohol still tech for free. He make grain 
  alcohol. Map Net-Sample i camped near the water source away from the vallley.
* Death Combo Long range sniper rifle, Concussion rile and laser pistol for 
  the win. Send this combo out to greet your attackers and 50 or so enemies 
  are a lot more manageable. You will have the time to build your base up.
* Somebody said Insect will run for any opening of the base, all of them that 
  is NO. They will spread out and attacking all the walls closest to where you
  are. Their target is you if you are inside the a building they will attack 
  any wall close to where you are.



Tips to Deal with Bugs on First Winter:
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There are two common approaches to this problem. The first involves “thinning 
the herd.” Send your best Combat survivor with a railgun to the site of the 
aggressive insects as soon as the notice pops and before they attack. Some 
artful kiting can make any defense much easier and can generally handle all 
the bugs in the early game. If you don’t kill all the bugs, be sure to bug 
out before the actual attack begins, because you don’t want to be in a 
footrace with explosive scarabei.

But in the early game as well, construct a kill zone using flamethrowers and 
traps. In the beginning, you will probably only be able to construct a square 
fence with an opening where your flamethrowers are. The fence should be large 
enough that the insects are not tempted to bore right through the fence 
straight for your survivors. You want them to head for the opening instead. 
Some say 14 x 14, others 20 x 20. Suffice it to say bigger is better, so 
there is less chance of aggroing the insects as they pass by enroute to the 
opening.

As soon as you can, put up a second fence all around the first one (except, 
ofc, for the opening). The insects will attack the flamethrower, so a little 
extra fencing around the turret as a buffer can save you repeatedly repairing 
your flamethrower.

If you are playing on the easier modes, you start with some weapons. Research 
weaponsmithing asap, so you can get some spears and preferably crossbows for 
those without laser pistols.

But if you are relying on your survivors to kill the oncoming hordes, you’re 
losing.

About the time you are able to research Automated Turrets, maybe before if 
fortune favors you, you should be thinking about a more elaborate killzone — 
again emphasizing flamethrowers. Mazes, long corridors bristling with 
flamethrowers, use your imagination.

But you want some real distance between you and bugs, especially once the 
shriekers show up. The large shriekers shoot 20 units, so if you are not 
situated more than 20 spaces away, they will ignore your killzone and just 
shoot you over the fence.

Enjoy.

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