Talk:Desert Survivalist

Does drinking Nuka cola or Sasparilla add to this count? Or water? Or is it Just food?--98.235.201.206 19:39, November 1, 2010 (UTC)

Since I got it on PC I think they count, because I heal mostly using drinks. But I'm not 100% sure. I believe you can check by going into your pipboy and looking at the stats for each "goal". You have to switch between pages like with karma/reputation so I'm not sure where it is in the pipboy, somewhere under stats most likely. Once you find it, just drink something and see if it counts. --Pongsifu 20:50, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

Water (Purified/Dirty Water) work, soft drinks like Nuka or Sunset do not. (Tested 10 seconds ago to confirm.) --JPro 10:56, November 11, 2010 (UTC)

Another good spot to hunt Radscorpions
If you want to add more to your Radscorpion poison gland collection go south of Primm to the Ivanpah Dry Lake. The whole area from Ivanpah Dry lake down to Crescent Canyon East, and from Crescent Canyon west to the Mojave Drive-in is crawling with Radscorpions of all sizes. Be sure to go to Mesquite Mountains Camp Site just west of this area (west of Nipton Road Reststop) for even more Radscorpions. I was able to collect a total of 41 glands from the scorpions in this area. A good strategy is to use a sniper or scoped weapon on them from the outer edge of the dry lake (The whole area I described is one big dry lake). This is a good spot since the dry lake is flat so there are no hills or knolls to hide them, plus the entire dry lake bed sits lower than the edges so you have a really good advantage as for shooting them. This will allow you to kill them from a safe distance and then once you've killed a bunch, you can go loot their bodies for glands.--65.27.167.139 19:15, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

"regen explained"
The whole explaination on regen, and how the differance only counts, is bogus.

I am currently working on the achievement and have confirmed that "over eating" works for the achievement, providing you dont initially have the health.

When you eat, the total points that food would have healed at the end of its eating time is automatically added to your current score. I got myself to 5 health points off full by drinking water at a lake, and managed to get 100 or so points added on from the food. The only exception is that when you eat food, sometimes your health is replenished a little bit instantly. Only by as little as 1hp, so you can hit max off this instant regeneration, and thus not have any health to heal.

The achievement, of course, is pretty much tracked, as it is also a challenge in game.

Multiple Characters
Can I have multiple characters heal with food until the total adds up to 10.000 or does it have to be one character?

No, you have to heal up to a total of HP of 10,000 with one character. -Dallercoder, 20th February 2011, 9:55PM