Hello, i have logged almost 50 hours, so i feel like i should be qualified to give some advice. This guide will focus on the basics of Project Zomboid.
Newcomers Guide
- Level up
When you spawn in, one of the first things you should do is switch on the TV and switch the channel to life and living while reading a skill book, skill books usually have a profession name in them like for example “Farmer vol 1” But you must do this within a few days at most because after 7 days, the channels stop playing and after 14 days (assuming you didn’t change the settings) the power and water will shut off.
- Take advantage of power and water
Like said in the last sentence, the power and water will shut off after 14 days, Take advantage of this. Watch the TV to level up, if possible, create a water stockpile in your safe house.
- Safe houses
When you first spawn in, the house you spawn in should be your first safe house. Go to every curtain in the house and close them, zombies can see through the windows and it will increases your safety and security of your safe house. Like said before, stockpile water and food. You can also find generators around the world of Project Zomboid. However you must find the “how to operate generators” manual in order to use them. And never place them inside, place them in the backyard, it is extremely dangerous to put them inside as they will poison the air. Keep in mind generators will attract zombies, so try and keep it as far away from the street as possible. Generators are found often in sheds and garages.
- Food and water
Never and i mean NEVER eat rotten food or dirty water. This will almost always kill you (It is okay to drink pond water IF DESPERATE) As said before stockpile food and water and never run out.
- Survival tips
- This one is a common one, Never climb through broken windows unless you cleared the broken glass using the action menu, you will cut yourself and bleed!
- Never use guns, they make a WHOLE lot of noise and attract half the map, the worst of these, is the shotgun. It can make noise that can go up to 100 tiles! (That is a lot) So never use them unless you have enough ammo and can finish the fight. Or just don’t use them, especially in the beginning.
- Put on socks in the character creation menu! This may seem very random but serves for a good reason. If you get injured in the beginning, you often wont have medical supplies. So you can rip your socks to use as make-shift bandages. Just right click them in the inventory and Voila! You can safely apply them to your wound.
- Check wounds often! Do this because bandages WILL get dirty, and when they do, it only needs to sit for a short time to become infected (Infected wounds aren’t the same as being infected by zombies) Infected wounds can be treated with disinfectant, alcohol, or alcohol wipes, but the best way to treat infections is to not get infected at all! So always check your bandages. (don’t leave wounds open too long or they will also get infected)
- Wound severity. If you get injured in any way, you will most likely bleed! So what are the different types of injuries? You might ask. Well there are 3 main ones (from zombies) Scratches, Lacerations, and bites. They will all bleed so make sure to bandage them fast! However there is always a chance you will get infected (zombie type) from a zombie injury. If you get a scratch from a zombie, you will have only a 7% chance of being infected. Not so bad right? Well it gets worse. Lacerations carry a whopping 25% of being infected. So if you get a laceration the odds are in your favor! But they do take a long time to heal. (up to a week) However bites are the end of your run. They are a 100% of infection and there is no way to stop it. So i recommend if you get bitten to just drink chemicals like bleach to die faster and start over. Or you could just go crazy on a slaughter fest, your choice.
So that’s about it for my survival guide, i hope this guide helped!
I decided to play my first solo long-term game in this base after reading this guide, and I can honestly say that I’ve been having a blast so far after covering every window on the bottom floor with a curtain or barricade.
I’ve been playing with some friends, and Louisville’s second site has been the ideal location for us to expand.
The Wespoint Cabin by the Lake is an even better base location for early game.
if you want to start using firearms. Getting a good car and heading out into the middle of nowhere with a shotgun and plenty of ammunition is what I advise. Should raise the level of your gun by one or two!
Invest in a book on hydrocrafting to help you cope with stress and depression. It’s a book that you can read repeatedly. It works every time, and you can truly emerge from the darkest depths of depression by reading Fairy Tales or something similar.
When you have thread, scissors, and a needle (or a bone needle), do yourself a favor. Slice through those bags and make a big ALICE Pack for yourself. Both the capacity and weight savings are exceptional.
You can now carry more weight than most cars if you find a toy wagon. Equip that jerk in your spare slot, then plunder like a king.
There are many workarounds for items that are difficult to find naturally in Hydrocraft, despite the fact that they are not always clearly defined. The how-to is provided by the recipe books, and if you’re willing to put in the time to search through the numerous recipe tabs that you will unlock, the B button also provides the necessary items and levels.
Hi there, how are you? A few things that could be useful.
1. Zombie corpses can be used to make charcoal. This significantly reduces the amount of wood you need to use for metalworking. This is a trick that you should and should use with your kiln.
2. Rather than using fire strikers or lighters to light the kiln or other metalworking-type structures, you can use a notched plank and a sturdy stick. If you do end up using the lighter, you can replace it with the ubiquitous lighter fluid.
3 – Just drop them when placing structures, that’s correct. Rarely, you might think about anchoring them to a point, but you can’t really move them after, so be 3000% certain before doing so.
4 – Both animal rights and animal-seeking are deeply ingrained and powerful. You can obtain herding animals if your dog is a herder. You can go hunting for game if your dog is a hunter. This is extremely well explained in NOMIS’s dog tutorial for Hydrocraft on YouTube. Skill Incarnate is another great YouTuber who is an exceptionally good hydrocraft instructor. His best tutorials will get you through the first year or so at the very least.
I happened upon the farm house outside of the city on my fourth run through Apocalypse. This run should last a very long time, I hope. I did find a crowbar, but no water bottle as of yet. I used a blue electric guitar as my first weapon. I’ll hang that over my hearth.
Another hint for locating zombies:
Generally speaking, it is far preferable to get out of a tight spot and return later, well-fed, rested, and equipped, than to lose all strength and suffer a game-ending bite to the groin. But how can one lose the pursuit?
A zombie’s sense of direction is rather rudimentary. Generally speaking, if a player places a single tree in the way of a zombie, the zombie will circle the tree to look for its victim before losing interest in pursuing it if the player has already moved to another cover. The best place to flee is through woods and buildings.
Particularly in Louisville, you could have also covered how to drive out zombie hordes to facilitate easier looting. Put a lighter in the secondary slot, make yourself a Molotov Cocktail (Burbon + Ripped Sheets), and use this bomb on a horde. Zombies would take a few minutes to burn, but for now, it’s the simplest and most effective way to deal with large groups of people. The alarms of a firetruck or police/ambulance car can also be used to draw in more zombies. Just take care not to set fire to the area you intend to plunder!
Remember that you can always adjust the settings in “SANDBOX” if you’re a new player and want to have an easier time in PZ.
You have the option to adjust the game’s level of stress or relaxation there.
An easier beginning could facilitate a more leisurely, slower exploration of the principles, mechanics, and combat.
Increase the difficulty if you feel comfortable doing so.
How do you water crops?
I’ve heard that you need a container of some kind to fill with water; it might be a bucket and water bottles, or it could be a watering can. and when you right-click on it with the watering can in your dominant hand, there ought to be a choice to irrigate the crops.
You can sterilize dirty rags by boiling them in water.