Difference between revisions of "Action Points"

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Action points are needed to carry out many important activities in Die2Nite.

You have a normal maximum of 6. Given that most food and drink replenish 6 AP, the usual practice is therefore to use 6 , eat food, use 6 , drink a Water Ration Water Ration, use 6 , use alcohol or drugs. Often, people only eat and drink. If there is no food, people might not eat, and if water levels are low, people may skip drinking for the day.

Restoring AP

• Eating food restores your to the maximum.
• Eating premium food restores your to the maximum, plus one. This is 7 for a healthy individual, or 6 if they are Wounded Wounded.
• Drinking a Water Ration Water Ration restores your to the maximum.
• Drinking alcohol restores your to the maximum.
• Drinking Bloody hot coffee Bloody hot coffee restores 4 , but does not restore your over its maximum amount. For example, drinking Bloody hot coffee Bloody hot coffee with 2 left restores you to 6 , but drinking it with 3 left still only restores you to 6.
• Taking Anabolic Steroids Anabolic Steroids restores your to the maximum.
• Taking Twinoid 500mg Twinoid 500mg restores your to the maximum, plus 2. This is 8 for a healthy individual.
• Taking Unlabelled Drug Unlabelled Drug or Betapropine 5mg (expired) Betapropine 5mg (expired) has a chance of either restoring your maximum , or your maximum plus 1.
• Rolling Dice Dice has a chance of restoring 1 .
• Playing with the Incomplete Deck of Cards Incomplete Deck of Cards has a chance of restoring 1 .
• Using the EMS System EMS System (charged) will injure you and restore your to the injured maximum of 5 .
• Heroes can build Siesta Time in their house. Having a nap using this will have a chance of restoring 2 .

Uses for AP

• Upgrading your home. The initial cost (to build a Tent Tent) is 2 .
• Construction. Each player can contribute as much as desired to the construction of buildings.
• Moving around in The World Beyond. It costs 1 to move from zone to zone.
• Opening and closing the town gates. It costs 1 to open or close them.
• Using a Repair Kit Repair Kit or Kwik-Fix Kwik-Fix. This costs 1 .
• Clearing debris from a buried building. It costs 1 to clear one piece of debris from the building.
• Fighting zombies barehanded in the World Beyond. It costs 1 per attempt.
• Dragging the corpse of a dead citizen out of town. This costs 2 .
• Converting materials in the Workshop Workshop. This costs 3 normally, 2 with either the Factory Factory or the Hacksaw Hacksaw, and 1 with both the Factory Factory and Hacksaw Hacksaw.
• Attacking other citizens, in 100+ SP towns. This costs 3 .
• Using the Primitive_Catapult Catapult. This costs 4 . Building the Calibrated Catapult Upgraded Catapult reduces the need.
• Improving your home as a Hero. Costs vary depending on the improvement and its level.

Free actions not requiring AP

• Collecting your daily Water Ration from the town's Well. If you are able to take an extra ration, this also will not require to do so.
• Estimating the night's zombie attack at the Watchtower.
• Eating/drinking (including alcohol)/taking drugs.
• Combining items (e.g. Can Can + Screwdriver Screwdriver= Open Can Open Can)
• Tidying your house and cleaning your clothes.
• Using most weapons.
• Searching an area or building for items, and subsequently autosearching the zone every two hours.
• Stealing from fellow citizens.
• Picking up/dropping items

Notes

• You may only eat, drink, roll the Dice Dice, play with Incomplete Deck of Cards Incomplete Deck of Cards, and use Siesta Time once per day. You may use alcohol every other day. Drugs and the EMS System EMS System (charged) can potentially be used again and again in a day {though this is damaging to you, making you Hooked! Hooked! from excessive drug use, and the use of a Bandage Bandage is required between each use of the EMS System EMS System (charged).)
• Becoming Wounded Wounded will reduce your normal maximum to 5 instead of 6. All replenishing items will restore 1 less as a result.
• Generally, an action will only require if a cost is specified next to the action. If there is no mention of , it will be free to do.