Difference between revisions of "Action Points"

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Action points are needed to carry out several 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.

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.
• Drinking a Water Ration Water Ration restores your to the maximum.
• Drinkingalcohol 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 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. This will have a chance of restoring 2 .

Note that 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.

Uses for AP

• Upgrading your home. This costs 2 .
• Construction. Each player can contribute as much as desired to buildings.
• Moving around in The World Beyond. It costs 1 per step.
• Opening and closing the town gates. It costs 1 to open them, and 1 to close them.
• Using a Repair Kit Repair Kit or Kwik-Fix Kwik-Fix. This costs 1 .
• Clearing debris from a 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 {{MetaInline|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 Catapult Catapult. This costs 4 . Building the Calibrated Catapult Upgraded Catapult reduces the need.

Free actions not requiring AP

• Collecting your daily Water Ration from the town's Well.
• 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 for items, and subsequently autosearching it every two hours.
• Stealing from fellow citizens.