cdda-guide VS CDDA-Game-Launcher

Also what do the colours mean on https://cdda-guide.nornagon.net/ ? Does purple mean it's a 0 cost negative mutation? Likewise does yellow mean it's a 0 cost positive mutation?

btw I don't know who that giant snail guy is. if you can link his info on Hitchhiker's guide, I'd appreciate it

Might I recommend the benelli m4 the hitchhiker’s guide?

Most of them, in game you can see which weapons work from the martial art selection option or check them at https://cdda-guide.nornagon.net.

You can check this in the JSON files. The easiest it is to use the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Cataclysm https://cdda-guide.nornagon.net

The most in-depth guide I’d say is the hitchhiker’s guide to the cataclysm, which is an item, enemy, trait and (kind of?) location browser. I say kind of because you can’t just look up “hospital” or “light industry” but it’ll tell you morphine spawns in a hospital, and a jackhammer will spawn in a light industry with x% chance. It also circumvents the issue of being outdated by basically using the source code (I think?) for item info. Idk how much this helps considering the original question, but might as well throw it out there

for experimental I use this launcher. https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/releases

I don't know what launcher people use, but this file on this one defines the cdda repo urls: https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/blob/master/cddagl/constants.py You could probably just changes that file to use tish urls.

i got over to here:https://github.com/remyroy/CDDA-Game-Launcher/releasesbut i dont know what to download (still clueless to using Github)

I highly recommend using a launcher, like the CDDA Launcher (which is not being updated anymore but still works well), or Catapult. These will not only launch the game, but will allow you to easily manage tilesets, soundpacks, save backups, etc.

Cataclysm DDA

Also, the game is 100% free. Gets multiple experimental updates daily (open-source). And has a fairly extensive modding scene with multiple tileset options to play with. You can grab the launcher here and it will let you download everything you need to start messing around.