I Speedran Maxing ALL Stats in Project Zomboid - Zero To Hero Speedrun Part 2
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In this Project Zomboid challenge run, I tried to max all stats as fast as possible!
00:00:00 - Episode 21
00:29:41 - Episode 22
01:00:00 - Episode 23
01:31:32 - Episode 24
02:02:23 - Episode 25
02:34:16 - Episode 26
03:05:33 - Episode 27
03:36:31 - Episode 28
04:07:37 - Episode 29
04:38:00 - Episode 30
05:08:46 - Episode 31
05:40:02 - Episode 32
06:10:49 - Episode 33
06:41:17 - Episode 34
07:12:02 - Episode 35
07:44:02 - Episode 36
08:15:16 - Episode 37
08:45:51 - Episode 38
09:17:00 - Episode 39
09:47:12 - Episode 40 - Ігри
You probably figured this out, but traps have a chance to either catch a rabbit, lose their bait, or break every hour, and it has nothing to do with the zombies. For trap crates, every hour the chance to lose bait is 1/25 (so after a day or two, most if not all your traps will be empty of bait). Even after a trap loses its bait, it still has a chance to break every hour.
The chance for an individual trap crate to break is 1/600. So with the 20 traps you have at the deep forest, the chance one trap will break is about 1/30, so you can expect a trap to break nearly every day. Given that you were away from the deep forest traps for several days, losing 3 traps seems about correct, if a little unlucky.
Also final crate trap tidbit, the best time to check Rabbit traps for loot is in the morning after 5am. The best time to add bait is in the evening before 19:00. The crates only have a chance to catch anything overnight from 19:00 - 05:00.
Stick traps can catch birds any time, so checking them in the morning or night doesn't matter, and it can be slightly more efficient to check both times. Birds can be caught in any zone, with Town being one of the better ones. The traps can be placed on building roofs and still work. Because of this, it can be useful to keep a couple on your roof, so you have a chance to catch things while you're out, and can easily check and restock them. Birds can be attracted with cereal, bread, corn (found foraging on farms), worms, cockroaches, crickets and grasshoppers. There's currently a bug (lol) where no other insects work as bait (for either fishing or traps).
Regarding foraging, foraging during rain is actually quite good, making mushrooms, medicinal herbs, and all bait insects much more likely to be found. Worms in particular get a 100 point boost, with weather capping at -75% during torrential downpours. This is good for Stick traps, and the extra mushrooms are nice.
Foraging at night has no penalty if you have any light source on you (lighter, lit candle, hand torch, flashlight), and Cat's Eyes gives a +20 bonus at night which helps negate some darkness.
Holy fuck after reading like 3 sentences I gave up on traps all together and never once used one
@@jaimevalencia6271 Traps are pretty easy actually, especially the ones for Rabbits since you can just use veggies to bait them. The materials are pretty abundant with nails being the only bottleneck, and an individual trap will last on average 25 days. You can also catch game year round, which is good for playthroughs without a generator.
I left it on the other video but I'll leave it here also with an addition.
To really maximise leveling your electrical skill, try to find the "Guerrilla Radio" magazine, which lets you craft make-shift radios. This is one way to level up your electrical skill but crafting and dismantling your constructions but it uses up materials each time. It can help burn off the excess you gather at the very least.
Also finding a seconary generator and letting it wear itself down on purpose can help levevling your electrical skill as repair generators can level it fairly quickly, especially with a book bonus.
Also some of the best electrical items are things like Speakers, Arcade Cabinets, Security Monitors and Desktop computers. Speakers can be found in the Kentucky News Vans from time to time and Security Monitors and Desktop computers can be found in some of the inner city offices or in military/police stations.
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Also not sure if your aware of the first-aid leveling mechanic but the fastest way to do it is to step on broken glass with bare feet, then pull out the shards while still standing on glass. You'll need a huge amount of bandages and hopefully plenty of time inside (best to do it during the harsh winter months). You can sterilize bandages en-mass by boiling a pot of water so you can avoid getting an infection.
i know this might be late, but to rip clothes in a proximity, you have to do it from the crafting menu
my eyes are just bleeding by seeing you manually checking every individual corpse.
Furthermore, use the dissamble button below the health button, this would make it faster to disassemble items.
For mechanics, get a jack, wrench and lug wrench and try reinstalling suspensions, brakes and even windows and doors, they give a lot more xp then just battery and lights.
Electricity is out yet house alarms still go off... 🤣🤣🤣
To be fair when I had a house alarm 20 Yeats ago it had a battery backup.
@@bradsimon2180 imagine being able to find the alarm battery in order to disable it. anyways you'd be out of luck without a house key lmao
@@WICK_3D "Realistically" it'd just be a cMos battery (the little disk ones) but then that could give you electronics exp. so idk either way
there is a shop nearby to my house whenever the electricity goes out the alarms go off as well dont know the logistics of it but it makes sense if it could easily shut down cutting down the entire wires would be easy for the thieves
Really enjoying these longer content videos, thank you. Just an FYI re: worms. If you build a composter and put some worms in there, they will multiply by themselves over time, giving you a constant source of worms without having to dig.
6:16:40 most sane Project Zomboid player.
New sub here, I love your content, I just got through watching the first part of this series yesterday and started on the Manor Lords vid this morning, I'm gonna put that on break to watch this and then go back to that one!!
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you're enjoying these!
Perfect way to spend some time this weekend! Hope you enjoy your weekend as well.
So I finished episode 1 of this journey, just wanted to give you some tips you don't seem to be aware of:
1. When you're ripping clothes for thread, and you have a bunch of dead zombies on top of each other, open the crafting menu (default hotkey 'b') and click 'craft all' on rip clothes from there, it will do it for every corpse in range. you will still have to do it for both cloth, denim and leather though. Still, beats doing each zombie individually.
2. Don't want to wake up from random alarms during the night? Get in the habit of looting watches by right clicking them and clicking 'set alarm'. The watch will be looted, and the alarm UI will open right away, making it easy to check the alarm check box.
3. When towing cars, how fast you're able to go is dependent on the tire pressure of both cars involved. I don't know if other factors matter (they probably do) but I know that this matters a lot
4. When foraging, discarding found items also gives you xp, no need to pick everything up if you don't want to
Been looking forward to this all week
New to the channel, but I love this series and the way you breakdown what you’re doing and why! 😊 can’t wait for the next chapter! 👍
hey great video! for foraging you get one small XP for spotting and one big for either taking or discarding it. Discarding gives the same amount so you dont have to worry about it
great videos! the tailoring wasn't working because of the dirty rags/leather as you suspected. Not logical but it's the game mechanics.
Everytime I watch you dispatch zombies I have a huge LOOK OUT BEHIND you feeling.
Foraging #5 was at the farming store you went to either in this episode or the first one I can't remember.
Ayyyyy. Part 2, finally
Regarding spear durability, crafted spears have a durability of 5 (assuming a carpentry of 3+), and a condition lower chance of 2. This means, assuming you have no maintenance, every other hit with the spear will lose durability. With maintenance 6, this bumps up to a 1 in 8 chance per hit. Once your spear skill hits level 4, this will bump up to 1 in 10. So currently your crafted spears have an effective durability of about 40 hits.
When combining items into spears, the condition is based on both weapon's conditions, BUT the maximum resultant condition is much lower. The damage and other stats hardly change, aside from condition and condition lower chance. The max condition and condition lower chances are as follows with your maintenance skill of 6:
Hunting Knife: 9 max condition (MC), 8 base condition lower chance (CLC) + 6 (from maintenance), giving 126 effective durability (ED). (Note a max condition Hunting Knife would have 210 ED)
Kitchen Knife/Screwdriver/Hand Fork: 7 MC, 4 base CLC + 6 (maintenance), giving 70 ED. (Note a max condition screwdriver would have 120 ED for you).
Everything else: 6 MC, 3 base CLC + 6 (maintenance), giving 54 ED.
This shows that as your skill in maintenance and spears goes up, the value of combining items goes down. The only thing really worth it at your skill level is probably kitchen knives and screwdrivers, giving about double the effective durability, although you'll probably want to save Screwdrivers for your Short Blade training. Everything else is not really worth the duct tape, since 2 units of duct tape can also repair a spear instead, and duct tape is a relatively rare resource, and each log is worth 3 basic spears for 120 ED.
Also there are two other spears to talk about, the Machete Spear, and the Garden Fork. The machete spear is only worth it if you have absolutely no interest in training long blades, as otherwise the Machete is a much better weapon, with much higher durability, and it's only 1 handed making it more versatile. The Garden Fork is the best spear weapon in the game, and for you would currently have 210 effective durability, making it worth using wood glue or duct tape on to repair it.
You might be the only Zomboid player with this knowledge so thanks for sharing lol, most everyone just trashes on them
@@Blurredborderlines This information is actually all available on the official pzwiki. You have to combine the information on how maintenance and weapon skill affect durability, and the base weapon durability to get what I shared though. Early on, when you have very low skill in both maintenance and spears, taped spears are MUCH better than regular spears, but because the base values on spears get absolutely dwarfed by the maintenance mod eventually, they don't really scale, and you're better off using only Crafted spears and Garden Hoes.
As someone who enjoys math, I really appreciate this reply! Expectation value is an amazing thing to know in regards to maintenance. Thanks again!!
@@StratPlays No problem Strat, love the content. If you're curious about the math, you can visit the official Pzwiki for the weapon base values for durability and CLC. Then you add your Maintenance mod to the CLC, which is a weird calculation based on Maintenance and the appropriate weapon skill. Then you multiply the CLC + Maint Mod by the durability to get the "expected" durability, or average number of hits until a full condition weapon can make before breaking, keeping in mind it's random.
A simplish way to manually calculate the Maintenance Mod:
1. Start with the highest EVEN Maintenance level you've reached. (Eg level 1 maint, would be 0, level 7 maint would be 6, level 4 maint is 4)
2. If current maint level is even, for weapon level 4-7 add 2, for weapon level 8+ add 4.
3. If current maint level is odd, for weapon level 2-5 add 2, weapon level 6-9 add 4, level 10 add 6.
Watching this series has really gotten me back into project zomboid and I cannot wait for a part 3 ❤
It's uploaded, just waiting for UA-cam to process it in 1440p before it can go live!
Well another 10 hours journey, let's go !
when you are trying to tailor i think the reason is because you are not allowed to use the dirty rags. try using the clean ones. this is consistent with leather. you can only use the cleaned leather not the dirty leather.
Yeah, listen, you can’t use dirty rags for tailoring. You have to wash them first.
Finally another one
4:03:15 I can't believe you remove the iconic houseplant 😢
I found a good way to get metal working Exp is to make metal plates and then make small metal plates from the metal plates… doing it back in forth
Hey, the knife instakill animation only happens when the zombie is alone, so you don’t get mobbed killing one in a group, been enjoying the long form content!
Good point - I guess it's similar to the spear animation then? Thanks!!
Hey strat you were foraging with the welding helmet on lol
Lol woops
Woohoo! Let's gooo!
When you work on your main car, always remember to close the hood before you drive. An open hood gets damaged more and provides no protection for the engine…
Oooh interesting, I didn't realize that's why the engine was getting damaged
I would highly suggest installing proximity inventory. It will show you all the items in the 9 squares around you. Makes looting the zomberts so less aggravating.
Good suggestion! For the next challenge run, I did actually start using that mod :)
With the vehicles, why not just remove / replace the same part over and over on the same car until it is destroyed?
leveling nimble is a pain.
You need Zs in the area and it scales with the amount of Zombies that are close to you. So you could bait Zs with noise to a House and just chill on the roof and gain XP for Nimble, Lightfooted and sneaking.
In your palythrough the Fire Dep would be very good to bait them and just grind while watching a show.
7:47:34 Foraging v5
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The Legend of Keenan Moulton.
I speed ran the Grand opening of a car dealership
Haha even better, it's a USED car dealership - everyone's favorite :)
Why don't You knock out the windows and install doors in Your base ?? :)
woppaaaaaaaaaaa
Is there even enough ammo in vanilla to max out shooting?
Good question lol something I should have asked before I started!
Please part 3 soon 🫶
Coming soon! I'm just finishing up the last Manor Lords video for the guides channel and then back to getting the rest of this series out.
raaah where is the 3rd episode im having withdrawals
Sorry, I'm working on 3 and 4 this week! Manor Lords took up a lot of time, but It's pretty much died down now and I can focus on other stuff once again. I've also got episode 1 for the 1M kill challenge pretty much done (wife is editing that) so I'll probably release that soon after this series finishes up :)
Where part 3 pls
It's coming soon - currently being edited by my wife!
@@StratPlays Thank you Mrs. StratPlays! We appreciate you! You do a fantastic job!
Damn, im like halfway through the first one. You are pumpin