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01:09 Muldraugh
02:28 Rosewood
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Riverside and Rosewood are very beginner friendly, with West Point being very dangerous but also serving as the closest location to Louisville
Yeah I started in river wood after getting eaten about 15 times in other replaces
I mean riverwood is like the second place you arrive in so it makes sense to be noob friendly, I still prefer whiterun though.
@@ghastlyghandi4301 😂😂😂
I start Westpoint if I'm not using Pillow's Random Spawns. 😎
West Point is where I first spawned. Ton of zombies all combined downtown where literally all the useful things are. Especially in the PD (at least 20 zombies) and in the general hospital. (At least 10 zombies) all of them are very small for the towns apparent population.
Rosewood Fire Station probably makes one of the best long-term bases I've had in a Zomboid run. Big building, plenty of space, has a gym area, kitchen, second floor with plenty of storage, and it's pretty easy to make a Rooftop Garden for farming. Currently bunking there with my gf on a private server. Place is practically a fortress now, especially after we walled it in.
what did u use to get on the roof?
@@asdawasda You can either build stairs to access it from the outside or use a sledgehammer to access it from within. Punch a hole in the east wall on the second story near the staircase, but make sure to build a wooden floor tile immediately beyond the hole you make with the sledge, otherwise you'll fall.
If you're going the sledgehammer route, you'll want to add those wooden floor tiles in a strip between the building and the garage roof to ensure there are no points where you'll fall through.
sounds like fun. I need to find people to do co-op with. I'm trying to get my friends to give this game a try.
@@MrRetsej i really hate the thing where you can fall through roofs its nearly ended so many characters
its pretty good, i agree. i mostly remember it from that time a nearby convenience store kept respawning while we were there,but a horde came and killed my buddy, but i could get away. friend got his stuff back and the car we used
Riverside, no competition. Safe, many good base locations, tons of farms away from city, warehouses nearby. I started playing it rather recently when I tried the 2 months later scenario and since then I'm playing it all the time.
For me rosewood seemed to be better (700 hours).
The fire station gives military boots(easy zombie stomping) and overall, the video says bad loot, but they forget it's the closest city to Ekron which makes it good actually.
@@thebuffman5597 military boots are just generic boots, and you can find boots everywhere. There's no difference between boots, military boots, riding boots, rain boots and so on. Riverside has multiple shoe stores where you can get boots too. They are also common zombie loot. Ekron is car distance away, and with a car Ekron is easily reachable from every town except maybe Muldraugh and March Ridge.
@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 There is a difference. If you have 10 strength from build and equip military boots zombie stomps are 280% more effective. On the wiki you can find damage multiplier for all shoes and boots.
Also ekron for me is walk distance I am used to it. Easier to walk between ekron and rosewood than any other VALUABLE towns.
For instance on a server the main spawn is in muld and I still always go for rosewood due to how familiar and friendly the envitonment is not mentioning the lack of zombies in certain areas that have good loot. Also between ekron and rosewood there is a big storage as well as a few houses.
@@thebuffman5597 shit man that's a long walk.
I really don't stomp anymore, I don't want to waste the weapon exp. Anyways, factory / construction site zombies often wear military boots.
@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 Well, for me that is a daily walk lol. #knowyourendurance
But seriously playing with high fitness and being aware of how endurance works helps a LOT.
Roosewood is definitly the easiest.
Everything close by and all loot possibilities.
That also means warehouse loot and generator spawn in the garages. I once found 3 generators in all Garages
Rosewood is S tear. As soon as you get a car you head to the army surplus store to the north west. You’ll have all the guns, cloths, and backpacks you need.
Don't forget the warehouses to the East as well, it really isn't that long a drive to muldraughs outer warehouse districts.
Before watching the video:
Being a noob myself I can recommend Rosewood as a starting point. There is everything for a great start + you can build an easy "Base" there.
There is a gated community which can easily be barricaded.
A Police Station, a Fire Department, a Gas Station.
A Bar & several restaurants.
And Rosewood is relatively small.
Everything for a great start
3 months late, but West Point and Muldraugh are where the Knox Infection were first noticed. West Point technically has a good reason to have a high zombie count.
You can also get into police armories with a crowbar pretty easily, but the key solution usually works best.
Eh, I just uses axes or if I'm desperate a hammer to smash it down since you have a way higher chance of having those on hand than key hunting. If you have a hammer AND screwdriver, you can just disassemble the door as well since for some reason those cage type doors don't count as metal doors.
One of my favorite things to do is lure zeds into a building one at a time and farming them until the item "house key" drops which is for all intents and purposes a skeleton key for that building, then you can click on the key and change the name to keep them sorted
@@bradnewsbear hi i’m a big spelunky 2 player, is skeleton key a normal term or is it a spelunky 2 reference? i’ve just never heard it outside spelunky 2
@David Barr interesting thank you
just use a screwdriver and dismantle the door.
Honestly, the best spawn point for me is the trailer park in Riverside. Sure, there will be more zombies but once you reached the storage facility and cleared it out then 90% percent you'll be safe throughout the game because not only it's a good base potential but also has the equipments & weapons you'll need (including tons of generators). Plus, it's near the gas station & the warehouse (which is also the best base & loot location).
Anyone who doesnt say Muldraugh is objectively wrong.
loot the warehouses, storage building, lots of spots for good vehicles.
Very easy to get a working car, with key, and have a gas can, weapons, books, videos, and supplies all on day 1 no trouble.
i run the town in a U shape. work down from rich neighbourhood to warhouses ,bar gas station, then move up towards the warehouse/bar on the opposite end of town. loot storage lockers in between.
once you get a car, the locations around like the farms and ponyrom-o area are accesible and easy starting safehouses.
Muldraugh is my favourite spawn, the hotel makes for a great second story complex, but also the east side of town as a good warehouse and bar to set up camp
Alternatively for the Tip of the Video, you can just use a meat cleaver to cleave down the doors in 10 swings.
I gotta say in Riverside for me, it’s a 50/50 between spawning in the trailer park or the wealthy gated neighborhood with the big two story houses. Park Rangers make good money apparently.
I’d say each town has geographical advantages too. West Point is close to Louisville, and both West Point and Riverside are next to the river. If the water cuts out early and you can’t set up rain collectors you’ve got an unlimited water source easily reachable from anywhere to drink from and fill up pots and pans to purify. Also fishing. Muldraugh is central making it easy to relocate anywhere, and Rosewood is near the prison and military base.
For Riverside, you forgot to mention the Post Office as a source of Early game grind potential. It has several big shelves loaded down with various books and magazines and you never know what you can find there.
Crazy amount of useful books there
Started on Westpoint. Now I know the map by heart. Muldraugh is second best then rosewood. Riverside is just too easy.
Complete agree, although I definitely can’t spawn west point as it is too difficult for me yet
@@jorge2690 I always spawn in westpoint, loot til i find a backpack and fill it with various things, then follow the beach northwest til you find the nice houses.
@@Aaronlcyrus mad respect, I usually spawn rosewood head to mauldraugh for tapes and then gun shop at West Point. I definitely can’t spawn there though, too many zombies!
I always spawn in muldraugh purely because i love the large northern warehouse as an early base spot ; tons of hardware and tools and weapons ; destroy stairs ; put sheet ropes down the 2nd floor windows and turn it into a Living space then make a rooftop farm and rain collectors ; a week or two later get a car ; loot police stations ; west point gun shop ; Louisville military checkpoint for military gear and backpack and more guns then just grind skills and late game stuff
@@aloneguy8527 muldraugh is for when i like a relaxing start and taking it easy. Only use west point for when im min maxing and thinking late game.
God, I love West point due to these 3 houses on north next to river
Maldraugh has a video store, allowing you to spend more time looking for books and watching VHS tapes for missed episodes.
Also, the door for the armoury in the police station can be broken down with hammers the same way you would for garage doors. :^}
I like West Point. It's a tough spawn, but if you can get out of town with a vehicle and a few supplies, those estate houses by the river are one of the my favorite base locations. They're very isolated and safe. There's easy access to fishing, foraging, and fresh water for farming. It's a quick drive into town to get to the Giga mart as well, which is a great all purpose loot location not mentioned here ):
The houses also have fire places in them for the winter months, and an antique stove can be found in the fishing cabin by the pond.
Muldraugh and Rosewood are really nice since they’re both near a lot of modded maps.
I got to say West Point has good base. They are:
1. South East Warehouse
It's really close with warehouse that store wood planks, sledgehammer if you lucky, and some metalwork materials, tools too. To defend it you can park cars on low fences or put the carton boxes in front of it, 2 stacks. The warehouse itself has lot of boxes too, if you managed to destroy it. The northern mini storage can be opened with luring zombies inside. Minus thing is you might have to make distraction before entering the warehouse.
2. Food store near Gigamart. My personal favorite place. Once you have sledgehammer ofc, you can destroy the only stairs to 2nd floor. Large room you can adjust your needs. Also you can access the flat roof top for your farming. Still it's quite bin the town, so expect luring zombies out before storming the building.
3. Western Store. This store is very close to gas station, mechanical store, preschool, and other promising loot area. Also destroy the stairs to make it zombies proof base. Less zombies, also the first floor provides food, tools, electrical gadget, clothing, seeds, etc. Minus you accessible rooftop.
Little bit edit, incase you don't have sledgehammer in base #2, you can build barricade on 2nd floor hall by create a fence and two boxes or just put table behind the fence. The zombies can't destroy nor vault your barricade. Just don't be surprised when suddenly there are many hungry neighbors suddenly standing idle staring the fences.. Btw the first floor is also a tool shop and very close with post office, you might get some books.
Don’t forget about the 3 secluded houses east of west point. Easy river access. 3 houses, secluded so not many zombies but still decently close to town. It’s just a pain to walk to if you’re on multiplayer so I’d recommend a car if you’re on MP but on SP you can just speed up time.
Rosewood got nerfed as start location since those warehouses around it were changed to store only food.
But it's worth to mention that (in my guestimate) it has biggest percentage of rich houses (two stories with garage) that are good medium tier loot source.
And it's relatively easy to find a car with keys and gasoline.
Also small size makes it easier to memorize it.
For me it's best place for beginners.
Muldraugh has lot of high tier loot POI's, but some spawn points don't give easy access to medium tier loot POI's.
Yes, in rosewood that warehouse is really make me sad.. its all rotten food.. and that army quarter too, its empty.. 😭
@@apui4eva If you get there early you still can get a lot of potatoes and onions.
In most cases food is not much of issue, but if you play on very low resource abundance it may be worth it.
Rosewood has ALOT of pistols and M14’s in the 2 story houses for some reason
@@krwalks1700 those houses have higher chance to spawn firearm and some ammo. You may just be lucky.
Or these are survivour houses (baricaded with planks), they have lots of weapons and ammo.
@@Dark_Plum I was surprised that none of them were survivor houses, no barricaded windows/doors and it was one street where every bedroom closet had either a pump action or an M14, I guess I was lucky lol
Thanks for this, was looking for a good starter guide and found this, thank you 🙏
I have all of West Point memorized.
It’s got the hardware store right next to the police station, the rich neighborhood has a lot of garages for tools, and the schoolhouse has backpacks and books.
It’s hard not to see how the benefits outweigh the population count.
I usually hard press West Point until I can get what I want from the hardware store and escape the city.
It’s an amazingly packed yet palatable design for a town and once you have a sense of direction the worlds your oyster.
I like spawning in Muldraugh or Riverside and making the trip down to West Point and establishing a base at the lake house trio. When the helicopter comes, I leave and drive across the map. Makes for a very exciting adventure and gives a clear goal during the first week.
For me its like that but the spawn is rosewood and the final destination is louisville bridge. doesnt really add much for late game but its great for me since im not the late game kind of player.
@@generalegg449 Yeah same. I enjoy having a roadtrip style adventure while having to deal with the zombies. I get bored staying in the same place for too long lol
west point is the supreme starter location and i will die on this hill, because it is surrounded by zombies.
Police station and hardware store combo is too good of a looting opportunity to just pick anywhere else honestly
Plus the rich neighborhoods have all those garages for tools
The schoolhouse always has backpacks and books
Actually the best map
Honestly it's interesting to see these as I never base in the spawn locations. Currently based out of Ekrons gas station. I span into a town long enough to get the basic supply's and a beater car before driving out to set up the basics of a base.
Riverside is great to learn the fundamentals. I almost have it down to a formula. I just head east,hit the bar, make a bunch of Molotov cocktails, and then decimate 75% of the zombies early on.
Best video so far, mate! You're killing it :)
I basically always start on Rosewood, but I have to agree that it doesn't have that much high loot at the beggining, but it's fairly easy to grind up to move to another city. My 2nd place would be Riverside, it is a really easy town but I find it difficult to loot there, specially in the gated community where the houses seems really empty. The times I've spawned in Muldraugh I found it difficult at the beggining but with some luck I got high loot pretty fast. And West Point I just find it difficult overall
Riverside is very good for grinding - do you know that you have a lot of books at post office? This makes Riverside even more attractive.
My favourite spawn is Muldraugh as I like to take over the one starting neighbourhood and turn it all into my base.
when i first started i clicked muldraugh that is the only reason i spawn there
if you are a zombie smasher, i recommend west point. so much ammo and weapons. you can easily get hundreds of boxes of ammo. virtually guaranteed to find a sledgehammer early.
and by full pop, if not within a week, youll be fully equipped.
Very informative content. Thanks for sharing.
Muldraugh has a book store and VHS store on the main road now The warehouse at the end of the main road with the walled roof is one of the best bases there is in my humble opinion...I'm shacked up there on my current 4 and 1/2 month run now...it will be my first Zomboid winter!
I haven't played Riverside since before the MP updates, it is the first map I ever played though, so I have fond memories of being murdered every 5 minutes there when I was fresh meat. :D
I always start in rosewood it has library safe spawning locations fire station and police station at the same time there is a lot of wood recourses as well as free wood too
i mean it is in the name roseWOOD
I have been playing a run with the insane population. I went to the town NE of muldraugh and I just left it was truly insane
I mainly do riverside but I always play outdoorsman. I’ll hit a city here and there but it’s nice and relaxing to live on the water
simple, great, useful video
My first ever time playing was in westpoint and I still love spawning there.
Riverside is my favorite to spawn into. My base locations are 1) Storage facility North West of town. Take the soda machines and block off the entrance and you have a safe area to sleep at. One of the storage areas has a bed and gun case. 2) PD kill inside till you get the key you can sleep in the holding cell to start off. Each area is somewhat close to homes and means of finding starting gear.
When i play with my friends, we turn zombie respawn off, but zombies are max. with that in mind, we always spawn at westpoint and use twiggys as our base. its just far enough from town to be mostly safe, right by the grocers and near the highway to mauldraugh for runs
Riverside is the best, for spawn points. Because it’s safe. With the low population of z, you can get books, weapons, tools pretty easily if you know the place well.
But it’s not ideal to live there in a long run(years in game).
Dispute having great base location, It’s just too far away from other towns. Especially Louisville.
Muldraugh is best for long term survival, and westpoint is a close second.
You can also use any melee to get into armored doors. Picaxes will knock a door down in 3 swings while nightsticks take a while
Stone Axe is cheap and expendable weapon for breaking down shed doors and garage doors. It'll break but still good way to break in.
I like starting in Rosewood and slowly working around the other towns.
thats so weird im at rosewood policestation and basing at the firestation ive literally an hour ago used the key spawn bait trick to get into the guns lockers room
Rosewood is the best spawn point. Perfect for everything except high tier loot but there are factories just down the main road making it very easy to get everything you need after setting up in a secure environment
Good. I have to say this video is good for the lovely presentation and useful information.
For the armory tip : You could also dismantle the door using a hammer and a screwdriver (that's why you should always loot the Fire Dept first)... OR :
You could hit the door too with a hammer (preferably) or any other weapon of the game until it breaks. Just check your surroundings first before doing so, cause all the nearby zeds will hear you slamming that door.
The best spawn is pillows random spawner. Some fun things have happened with that mod.
rosewood's construction site is always my go to base!
there's always a chance for it to spawn a working car with keys so I can use it to block the gate
It is always nice to see these guides pop up, even with the amount of experience I already have. But man, it is so weird to see that all this info is not usable once you start a 6 months later playthrough with Sprinters zeds...
Sprinter zombies are stupid hard in project zomboid
West Point also has that lovely Gigamart. It's not hard to grab some popsicle freezers from the gas stations and set yourself up to leisurely grind out trapping or fishing and farming.
I've always started there for years just because when I was new to the game I thought they might have built the real life West Point Academy there and it was full of goodies. That wasn't the case, but I learned my way around that area fairly well and built my first base in the wooded peninsula past the railroad tracks way back before we had cars. Maybe I start there for now sentimental reasons lol.
I setup a base there, not a single zombie goes there. I made a gravel road to the highway and then cleared the bridge from cars, easy access to westpoint and to the eastern parts of the map.only real complaint would be lack of good houses to loot... or rather that they do exist, but are guarded by hordes of zombies. It's ridiculous how it's so easy to loot a bookstore, police station ect., but looting houses is just pain.
In multiplayer - I always spawn in West Point, then immediately head for Louisville (usually making a safehouse at about the halfway mark)
I always prefer rosewood... the loot is low but you can drive a bit south to some warehouses to base up
I always spawn in Rosewood just to grab some weapon for start, a little bit of food and a car (since it has two gas stations nearby it is a good spot for finding a car), then i go to McCoy logging to find an axe and next place is either school in March Ridge (however it's too far away from everything else) or build a base on the bridge near west point. If i find car quickly in Rosewood i also look for generator there since it is quite easy to find it there.
P.s. Tip for UNskilled players who wants to secure school in March Ridge. Find a shotgun and lots of ammo (i generally play sandbox with rare loot but normal ammo loot), go around school with your car (it will work as temporary house) from the west side of town - build 2 walls connecting 2 fences, so new zombies would need to spend time destroying walls to get to you. Shoot tons of zombie (that lived with you all the time you built walls) through the metal fence. After clearing those zombies claim school (be wary front of the school won't be cleared out but it's much easier to come from that side. Yes i know its easier to just shoot a few times with shotgun in front of school and burn them all but it draws too many of them and i got bored to walk in circles for about 1-1.5 hours non stop.
westpoint is awesome, i love living in the 2 apartments above the hardware and food store. it's very fun.
West point is hard but if you manage to overcome the early difficulties it is a treasure trove. Still like it is said in this video, not for beginners, you need to have an idea what to do and how to properly fight and defeat entire hordes in melee or lose them.
I usualy start at riverside to stock up on lighters and molitoves early weapons at the police station, good vehicles, and books and then go to WestPoint to get good access to the rest of the map.
Love seeing Unturned refrences
Well, spawn points are very on the job you get. For example in Riverside if you take Ranger most of the time you spawn near gated community or school but of you take handyman or lower class jobs you spawn in near warehouses, car junk yard or in bar.
Muldraugh is the best hands down. The farm to the west is the best base location only zombies you have to worry about are on the farm over thats close to the highway I go over there every 3-5 days and clear out the fields. Theres an offroad trail that makes accessing the city easy and there is a pond which makes for great fishing. There are tools in the shop and great farmland. Also in the house and in the shops are books your can read related to farming, cooking, foraging, & etc. within 7 months in game I managed to fully build a log wall around the entire farm making it a self sustaining fortress. Food, water, logs, medical supplies, ammunition, guns, protective gear out the wazoo. The backroads behind the farm makes it easy to get around and loot the more rural areas.
Rosewood is my go to spawn now since i modded my game with multiple map mods and most of them is close to Rosewood.
that tip of the day, you can dissasemble those doors with a hammer and i think a saw, plus a fire axe can break it with a lotta swings
Yes! It took me way too many (hundreds) of hours until I found that out.
@@AhDeh theres always something new to learn in this game huh
@@caleavenant6015 Yes indeed, 250 hours in and I can’t wait until I learn tje next thing.
you missed the Prison in Rosewood, the Prison had even more potential with high tier loots than the Police station in Rosewood because it has 3 gun lockers and the overall bigger armory room with more stuffs in them compared to the Police Station
Everytime I play in Rosewood, I always rush the Prison because it makes life so much easier... I used to spawn in Riverside because it has very few zeds and good loots, but now my favourite is Rosewood bcs of how massive the gun loots it has
oh and if you go inside the Prison for quite a bit, there is a room with computer or cctv monitor stuff in it and it also has a gun locker so overall there is 4 gun lockers but the safest to loot is the 3 gun lockers on the armory, this makes Rosewood is even better in terms of improving your life due to having 2 good gun loot spots with a fairly okay amount of zeds
the only thing closest to Rosewood that can outrank its gun loots are the Army Surplus on the Dixie (which you should definitely go to if you spawn in Rosewood)
The zombie baiting key trick doesn't work anymore - it basically has to be a cop zombie and a bit of luck. But you can disassemble the door with a hammer and screwdriver - takes longer, exposes you to potential danger, but it works if you've cleared the area.
West Point has A LOT of guns. Every house with a US flag post out front will have a gun case. You can easily have 20-30 handguns and 10-15 rifles before even getting to the juicy gun spots or the gun store. (where to store those guns is a seperate issue). I like to travel to West Point as my second town (1-2 month into the game) and howl all the guns back to my main base.
Rosewood is my go to as it has decent supplies okay zombie population, and a fireplace with great loot.
Westpoint's commercial area has almost every amenity imaginable, including a gas station and a mechanics shop. In theory, you would want to clear the commercial area and live there. At the default settings it's not really possible early game, but a custom game using an 8-hour timescale, turning respawn and migration off makes it doable- and I found it to be a fun challenge. Off the main street commercial area there are 2 more locations for books- Enigma Books store and the Post Office (absolutely packed with skill books and skill magazines). If you take the 2nd floor apartments next to the post office then practically every skill book and magazine is available. The amount of food and freezers is phenomenal- there is Gigamart, the Food Market, The Drake, Crystal Pie Place, and a restaurant all within ~ 2 block radius and options for 2nd floor housing at practically all of those - with even more food and freezers. I always like getting to those places early and stuffing food into freezers before it spoils. There are fence lines to the north, west, east, and south of the main street commercial zone. Town Hall has a fence line to the north, Police Station has a fence to the west, a construction zone fence is to the east, and there are residential neighborhood fences to the south. With 8 hour timescale you can just kite zombies to the nearest fence and do the 1-shot when they climb over. Fences did get fully saturated in my playthrough (easily over 1000 zombies killed in the 4 days). You can be setup in one of the 2nd floor apartments in the commercial zone within the first couple days if that's your prerogative.
8h timescale makes it atrocious to perform many tasks that scale with game time though. No idea why they did that with anything other than books...
@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 I agree and to be honest I usually take a break or fast forward if reading a book. It's just preference to slow down the game, but I do find it more realistic sometimes. The rushed pace of default timescale is almost like griefing the player and it tends to annoy me.
@@charlesbrown179 The thing is F6 fast forward it takes longer to read a book than with default speed on 1h days
@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 Yes, I know. I still read books on 8x timescale though even though it literally takes 8 times longer. Not sure what else someone would expect lol.
West Point can having amazing base locations but you have to get lucky. I spawned in West Point right next to the little hardware store and was lucky that one of the shelves had a sledgehammer, I then ran over to the three story office next to the church with some nails and sheet ropes and knock out the stairs leading to the second level inside and outside the office. It's a pretty good base location IF you get a sledgehammer.
Regarding the Tip of the Day: you can also use an axe to open those locked doors.
I've done it personally with a pick axe, and I believe I've seen it done on a video with a regular axe.
Just swing at it like you'd break down any other door.
And bonus Tip: with the sledgehammer, right-clicking on a door or wall and hitting "Destroy [whatever]" will not yield any materials, but won't decrease the condition of the sledgehammer (that may have been a tip on this channel, even).
You don’t even need an axe. You can use anything. You could theoretically shove the door down if you have a lot of patience.
you forget to mention the trailer park spawn in muldraugh which is infested with zombies.
I love west point as i can get stacked on stuff super early with whatever i need
As a person who is brand new to the game and chose west point prior to and knowledge. I can confirm it is very difficult as I spent the majority of the day try to find uninfested house while I had a mob chasing me.
i started in west point without playing the game before oufffff the pain :D
I like west point, challenging, but satisfying ammount of loot, basing near there almost always requires a car, in which i'll base at the warehouse near the checkpoint, with the gas station nearby can make looting runs either way, but i mostly do it in single player.
i normally play in muldraugh and im gonna try to play in Riverside now
You don't need a key to get in the armory in police stations. I've repeatedly found keys on cops inside or around it, but I never go to a police station without a screwdriver and hammer. Both are easy enough to get, check garages, and then you can disassemble the doors
For me Rosewood and Riverside beginner friendly also if i want a calming run, Westpoint if I want my run to be harsh but being relatively close to Louisville as my endpoint, Nothing really much to say on Muldraugh i always spawn there and my favorite out of them all
You can also disassemble police armory doors with a hammer and screwdriver
In riverside I spawn in the gated community quite frequently.
One of my first playthroughs was in west point and i stayed in one of the two rooms above the book store and i managed to survive for 28 days and i would have survived longer if i didn't try and take the school.
Rosewood is too good, but need more loot, so i use the mod Rosewood expansion and spawn there !
After Two month (my charracter is big and rosewood i pretty all clear even with the mod) i use my truck and moove for 1 month to west point, loot there hard for 1 month and get back to rosewood for the winter with a full truck of goods.(moded)
PS : for rosewood there is Axes on firestation just at the east of police who can breack those doors too ! :)
Or i spawn in Louisville, but if i do that i don't put on the Sprinters xDD
imo muldraugh is best, especially the Rusty Rifle bar in the west. That bar is fairly secluded, with a warehouse and gas station nearby, it always spawns a baseball bat, and often with a few cars in front. Close to the forested area for foraging and wood, and lots of open space for easy visibility and farm space. Only downside is a lack of a nearby water sources, making a water collector mandatory.
Riverside also has the post office loaded with books.
Spawning riverside right next to school is broken af. Immediately have access to tons of books, great containers, tons of food in the surrounding area, a second story that's easy to block, tons of movable shelves for hoarding and a roof for being outside and 100% safe. Plus, if you're a burglar it's instant access to a car most of the time.
You can also just disassemble the door for police station armories. I've done it several times in the Riverside station.
Me and my friends have mostly been starting in Riverside and living on the farm in between the factory and the city. We only ever used of the two houses on it. There was rarely zombies there until the server we were on reset and i think they turned on the urban concentration setting, shed by houses has gun spawn too. Only think that sucks is when your car's engine is low and don't want to risk it so running into town is annoying. I don't know how some people are running from city to city, that is annoying as hell. I personally don't like Riverside as much purely because the loot is just not that good to me. Almost every single time we went in to check for stuff everything was cleaned out. And with people in chat normally talking about them being in the other areas, mostly LV or Muld, I have a hard time believing there was a bunch of people in RS and we were just always getting there late. Specially when started checking 2 times a RL day every day at different times trying to catch the 72 hour loot respawn. I know there was 2-3 others with safe houses in town and unless they are just hording all the food every spawn which I doubt both were really nice guys and constantly helping others. RS just seemed like it lacked loot for more than 3 people total. Food was a constant issue for my group of 3. To the point that two of us including me have it in our heads to always take "light eater".
Probably a server setting with super low food.
As a +1 to the tip of the video, instead of luring zombies in the police station to get a key, just hit the door repeatedly with a hammer/axe/melee weapon! It will bust down after a few hits.
Riverside is my go to spot. Everything good is close together. A car is easy to get with the junkyard and it is safe if you have to hotwire. You almost always find a gas can. I also base up here but it takes work. What I love is you can always get a backpack at the store by the bar. Stop in get some bourbon firebomb your way where ever you need to go. The storage units always have more generators than you will need.
I guess the unlucky trait is working its magic on my run. I had to search all of the main part of Riverside to get one gas can. I initially planned from my spawn near the school, to build the big base on the warehouse a bit away from downtown, but the lack of cars with gas and carrying capacity for a generator, and finding only one gas can on the opposite side of town after power shut down led me toward settling in the gated community for winter and do trapping instead. No powered gas station for me yet.
7:05 This, or you can grab an axe or a crowbar and swing the door
I would disagree with Westpoint being the worst spawn. whilst the spawn locations are a bit bad there's decent basing locations, good looting areas, more guns and ammo then you would know what to do with, but most importantly is its location. Westpoint is almost central on the map and is only a few minutes drive away from Muldraugh, Riverside, and Louisville. Infact I would call it a high tier location just because of that.
Some mild disagreements here.
Muldraugh has a bookstore and a VHS store both right in front of the police station. It's a slog to clear sometimes but absolutely worth it.
Also I really like spawning in the poor Riverside neighborhood by the junkyard. Local zombie population stays manageable, there's room to grow, and it's accessible from several different directions.
The school in Riverside has to be one of the strongest, most OP base spots in the entire game. It's so big that zombies on all sides won't be able to detect you if you're in certain areas, and sometimes they won't even pathfind to you because it's so big. There's literally no need to barricade and set up defenses unless you play with multiple helicopters on. The fences at the back make it perfect for farming.
The only thing that makes it bad is Riverside itself. It's a really boring town to survive in.
I don't know, my second successful character is a West point start. Base is in the north. Not hard to wall off one of the house if it's not burned down thanks to it being mostly walled off with a nice pier for fishing. Although I double walled it to block any sight with wondering zombies, I literally have no zombies there. It is a pain in the ass if you don't have a car to walk to town for loot and then come back, tired from killing zombies. ( I know this cuz my car engine died in my base while using it to gather wood)
Chill, Unturned is a good game.
For the end video tip :
don't worry, you can take a simple hammer or whatever and hit until the door breaks ;)
-> /!\ watch out : it make noise, take time and make your character breathless but when you're unlucky on tools loot it can make the difference :p
Maybe it's recent update, but recently i just needed a hammer and a screwdriver to dismantle it 🤔
-> The sledgehammer is required only for the westpoint gun shop, where there's no door
Anyway, you're video was interesting and I thank you for it ;D
West Point is best spawn town, lots of zombies to loot from so very good for early game. 💪😎
I always thought that Westpoint was the best when I first played project zomboid, because I always die on the other spawns
For me, Rosewood and Muldraugh are the only spawns worth taking.
If you want to get straight into the action with plenty of resources right off the get-go, you take Rosewood.
If you want a slower start and undeniably the best long-term stronghold in the game (Muldraugh Gated Community), you take Muldraugh.
will you every do a video about the possibilities of sandbox settings? i've been trying the extreme pop/no zombie respawn playthrough but there is conflicting info about which settings should actually be changed to what in order to not break things
@NOWfear is it true you should only change the respawn multiplier to 0? i heard the other respawn settings break stuff
@NOWfear many thanks
West Point is best point imo. Especially if you install the West Point expansion mod, it adds a lot more to the east of town and a perfect little mini gas station base right on the edge of town. I love to turn off respawn, base up there and slowly clear out the entire town