What the camp needs every night
When you sleep, the Morning Report runs one night for the whole camp. Everyone who lives with you counts as a mouth: your idle survivors, every survivor on a work team, and your prisoners and pit laborers. Mercenaries and Dr. Maya do not count.
| Need | How much | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Food | 1 per mouth | Taken from Food first, then Raw Meat, then Berries. |
| Water | 1 per mouth | Taken from your Water. |
| Firewood | 1 per 3 mouths, rounded up | The furnaces keep the camp warm. The weather changes the bill, see below. |
Supplies are taken from your Storage first and from your pack second. The Morning Report shows exactly what was used, and warns you when tomorrow night will not be covered.
| Weather | Firewood needed |
|---|---|
| Clear | Normal |
| Overcast | +25% |
| Rain or Fog | +50% |
| Storm or Rad-Storm | Double |
| High Heat | Half |
Camp morale
Morale is a number from 0 to 100 and starts at 50. You see it in the panel at the top of the Camp screen. It changes how much your camp produces:
| Morale | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| 80 to 100 | High Spirits | +10% camp output |
| 60 to 79 | Good | +5% camp output |
| 40 to 59 | Steady | Normal output |
| 20 to 39 | Low | -10% camp output |
| 0 to 19 | Collapsing | -25% camp output, survivors may desert |
The effect applies to everything your work teams produce in the Morning Report. Sick and wounded survivors cut it further: the larger share of your workers is unwell, the less the camp makes, down to half at the worst.
What raises and lowers morale
| Deed | Morale |
|---|---|
| Rescue a survivor from a bunker, clinic or warehouse | +4 |
| Save a captive from a convoy | +5 |
| Clear an enemy camp | +5 |
| Dr. Maya joins the camp | +5 |
| Repel a raid on the camp | +6 |
| Send aid to people in need through Grom | +2 |
| A night when everyone was fed, warm and looked after | +3 |
| A night when the camp was fed and warm | +1 |
| Lose a raid | -12 |
| A hungry night, or a thirsty night | -8, or -12 if half the camp or more went without |
| The furnaces go cold | -6, or -10 with no wood at all |
| Hand over, sell or gift a survivor the Reptilians forced to fight | -6 / -10 / -8 |
Only survivors forced to fight cost morale. Bandits, raiders and Reptilians are not people the camp feels sorry for, so selling or working them costs nothing. Grom marks which prisoners are which once he has questioned them.
Sickness and injuries
- Illness. Each survivor who lives free in the camp has about a 4% chance of falling ill every night. Water or firewood shortages and morale below 30 raise it by half. High morale lowers it.
- Treatment. One sick survivor costs 1 Medicine. With no Medicine, 2 Medical Herbs do the same. It happens automatically at night, from Storage first and from your pack second.
- Injuries. About 3% of survivors get hurt each night. Wall guards and hunters get hurt twice as often, and ammo workers one and a half times as often. One bandage costs 2 Cloth.
- Untreated. A sick or wounded survivor with nothing to treat them stays that way and costs morale every night. The more of them, the bigger the loss.
Why survivors leave
- Starving or thirsty. After two nights in a row without enough food, or without enough water, one survivor leaves, and every night after that costs you another.
- Sick and untreated. A survivor who has been sick for two nights with no medicine leaves so the others will not catch it.
- No morale. Below 15 morale there is a 50% chance each night that a survivor deserts.
Each survivor who deserts costs 5 more morale, and a sick survivor who leaves costs 6. The idle survivors go first, then the biggest work team. Pit laborers and prisoners do not desert.
Keeping the camp stable
- Keep at least a few days of Food, Water and Wood in Storage before you travel. The pack counts, but Storage is safer.
- Count your mouths before you capture prisoners: every one eats and drinks like a survivor.
- Stock Medicine and Cloth before a storm or a long trip. Herbs are a cheap backup for illness.
- Check the weather: a storm or a Rad-Storm doubles the wood the furnaces burn.
- Do good deeds when morale is low. Saving a survivor or repelling a raid is worth more than one fed night.
- If morale falls below 20, fix food, water and wood first. Output and desertion both depend on it.
See also the Base Building guide for the buildings that feed your camp and the Economy guide for every resource.
More guides
Beginner's Guide
Your first week decides the rest of the run. Here is what to do, in order.
OPEN →Combat Guide
Fights are turn-based and every Action Point counts. This guide explains the rules underneath.
OPEN →Squad Strategy Guide
Who you place where before the first shot matters as much as what they carry.
OPEN →