When you start to get confident that's when you die. My deaths are almost always caused by overconfidence. Just not sticking to my regular rules for engaging zombies or entering buildings and ignoring the signs that it's time to head back to base.
I had one incident recently where I was as careful as possible. Got close enough to a building to spawn the zombies in. Honked a car outside for ages. Walked the whole perimeter peeking into windows. Then when I opened the back door and walked into the kitchen, there was a sprinter standing in one of the few visible dead spots. Fortunately, I was still on guard because that's what you do. Paranoia always.
Good video! A small tip when it comes to barricading a house. You can barricade both the inside and the outside of the window or door. I like to use four boards on the outside, then a sheet of metal on the inside. The metal has more HP, but you can't see what condition it's in. By having boards on the outside, you can see how many boards are missing from the exterior if your neighbors come over requesting a cup of brains.
Not being able to shoot from windows of cars was what made me switch from b40 to 41. After playing the game with no map for so long, having the map was a total culture shock. I completely agree with the advice here. Let it be a bewildering mystery for as long as you can. Fine video production my man, great job and thank!
dude the water bottle tip was like one of the first adaptations i made whe. I started playing, taking low thirst takes a lot of points, so i would just double up on the water bottles. Good tip 👍
The walk to command is a saviour when you're lost in the middle of nowhere, lol. Getting to know the map *is* key. About cars and keys. I've learned it's best, if you don't yet have gas, to leave the keys in any cars that work but are empty. Also, always have a towel handy. Jogging *is* great, but overheating and getting wet is not. I also find it useful to not have a base as such at the beginning but have a string of safehouses along a route which you can come back and loot those in quick succession once you've got a vehicle. Good vid. I've got a couple hundred hours in the game but have had it for months. It's a frustrating learning curve but the players are very free with their tactics, which is nice and helps a lot.
Regarding usage of towel to dry yourself off, at the moment i still have power on so i can tumble dry wet towels, how do i dry them once the power goes off?
Rather than leave the keys, I just rename them something like "Mul. VHS Store Taxi", with Mul. being short for Muldraugh, or RS for Riverside, LV for Louisville, etc. Since the keys don't weigh anything, there is no harm in carrying them, and it makes it easy to track where all the cars I have keys for are without filling the map with markers. I also do this for house keys and doorknobs. If I get a key that works for several knobs, I'll name the key and put it into a container (usually a sewing kit, lunchbag, etc.) with all the knobs it goes with. It is completely unnecessary for single-player (because you don't need to lock your safehouses), but it is still just something I like to do for immersion. It does mean I have to disassemble all the doors in order to rebuild them with the new knob, but that isn't too much of a sacrifice.
@@Jedi_Vigilante The reason I leave the keys and mark my path with the cars and houses is in case I die along the way. Saves me the hassle of having to find the key ring again right away. This way if I spawn back in conveniently near gas and gas cans before I come across my trail again, I can use a car to quickly retrieve my old gear. 😉
I got my fiancée into project zomboid and she loves it. Quickly becoming one of her top 5 most played games on steam. She loves how it's pretty much the Sims with zombies. Just have to find the gamer girls :)
Watching your vids as a vet player, I really love how you leave it to the beginner to learn and figure out for fun instead of saying "Do this, do that". The helicopter event section for example, "Good luck with that" Love it.
Thanks. I really do think that a new zomboid player should open the front door of their starting house and be dead in two minutes. Then on the next run, they get scratched on day 1 and wonder why they are slowly dying for the next few days. Honestly there are so many of these fun/tragic moments I wouldn't want to rob a new player of.
Thanks. It did take me about three times longer than expected. I was initially planning another 10 tips for decorators, and 10 for playing against sprinters, but I can get around to that later.
If you let sheet rope from the window, zombies cant break down the rope while said window is closed... yet you can still climb in (ultimate floating base tip)
@SaraLanc3 I remember trying it. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I'm pretty sure the zombies were able to destroyed the sheet rope even when the window was closed. I probably would have remembered it more vividly if it had worked. That said, I'm increasingly finding how weird zomboid is, so if I really wanted to test it, I'd have to test it with pre-gen windows, player constructed windows, and with North facing vs West facing windows.
It almost killed me in my Trailer Trash run. One of those near death experiences that didn't even look that bad, unless you knew what you were looking for. I think the sheet rope vanished as I was vaulting over the low fence at the top of the rope. Scary.
Beware of houses's top floors/ closets, you might get into a house and see nothing only to open up that little closet on the side and find 10 zombies packed in there tetris mode, same for upstair rooms, something big groups will be hanging upstairs baiting you in, and if it gets heated they might even break through window and jump behind or on you
@@Acidburn1155This literally happens on me on my first playthrough that I have survived more than a day , found the fire department , everything was quite , no zombies inside , taking all the loot while chilling , then i open the small bathroom near the exit , spawn like 7 firemen and overcrowded me instantly because im panicking and died . haha
As an amateur of PZ I can say all these tips are great, but the thing that kills me every single time is fighting horde after horde of zombies. I keep respawn off, I try to minimize migration, I lead large hordes into the woods, but it doesn't matter. Sooner or later I get tired, I can't run away from them to my safehouse without leading them there, and I make a mistake. Never made it past 4 days yet. But it's so much fun, the challenge and realism makes it fun.
Have you used cars at all? Maybe try starting as a burglar next time. Hotwire yourself a car as early as possible, and get out to one of the more rural parts of the map.
@@KyleMiddleton7 I only have 18 hours in game so far btw. I'm a very casual gamer. But yeah I've driven a car once. My goal in every new game is to find a car and drive it. Maybe use it to lead hordes and empty the area, or just explore. But the goal is always to get a running car first. But the road there includes trying to watch as much TV as possible, surviving, and somewhere in there my character just can't fight off more zombies and makes a mistake. No one ever said this game was forgiving.
Are you running too much or carrying a heavy load? You can easily outpace zombies just by walking as long as sprinters are turned off. You should only sprint yourself if you have to.
@@stemid852500+ hours. Do NOT run in that scenario because you don't know how long it's going to take to lure them away. While I do agree with the video about sprinting often to build your sprint skill that should only be done on low stress days or days you don't have a ton of goals or once you become a firearm master then it doesn't matter anymore. Got low fatigue? Use knives and my personal fave - SPEARS! All you need to make spears is a kitchen knife, and then planks or limbs. Knives and spears don't care about your fatigue and you can still one shot kill zombies once you figure out the rhythm. Doesn't matter what point it is in the game I always have a hunting knife on my belt for emergencies and utility. People suggest rosewood to start but I heavily suggest Riverside instead. As soon as you spawn make a bee line for the gated community. On the South Eastern side of town there are three houses inside of a gate - choose the second or third house. Clear out 5-10 zeds and you pretty much have a perfectly safe base immediately. Eventually build walls and gates to make it perfectly safe. The game is ninety percent map awareness. You got this man.
Oh yeah, instead of jogging or running master the walk to command. Map the speed up time button somewhere close and check the option 'stop time acceleration at end of task.' Now if you are getting impatient choose walk to and speed up time to minimize real time loss (good for casual players) while keeping your fatigue full.
After 100ish hours I can confidently say my survival, or lack thereof, always comes down to complacency. This game is truly amazing, I wish everybody could experience it. By far, the greatest game I've ever played.
I wil give u sum tips and tricks based of my experience! Tip 1: if u think u can handle 5-8 zombies DONT I alr find it hard to take out 3 zombies with a melee weapon Only if u have a shotgun or other gun than u can take out the zombies (only if needed since u havelimted ammo) Tip 2 Get as many things of ur start place since later u can maybe get no food! Tip 3 pick sandbox so u can make ur own game good i recomend for begginers the intitial infection since ( i think) is when the zombies begin to rise so u Have enough time to pack ur things ( survival mode usally have 2 zombies banging on ur door at start point) Tip 4 pick the burgaler job since u can hotwire cars since not all cars have keys in them! Tip 5 if u hotwire a car make sure there are no zombies in the area around u ofc u can lock doors but they could smash the windows and bite u (happend to me) Tip 6 its importent to carry weapons all times there could be zombies everywhere even in buildings Tip 7 (this is purely what i think) Dont make a base if u dont wanna make it secure ofc u can lay down in a random house for abt 2 days but the house is usally not so secure! Tip 8 always close the Windows off and the lights out where doors are they could peek in door windows and see u Tip 8 carry as much gas as u need Since after maybe a couple of days all the things go out And u dont instantly have a generator Tip 9 keep the car running when looting when there is a hord coming u cant always get the engine on first try and maybe if there close they will catch u! Tip 10 if u want to survive the longest loot canned food and dont forget the can opener super importent Tip 11 barecaded houses are Usally very good places to loot since survivers who later on died have gatherd very much food and weapons Tip 12 make sure to play the tutorial since the game is pretty hard itself (little suprise at the end) ---------‐--------------------------------- these where my tips hope u enjoyed them ( These are tips based of my gameplay❤) if i made spelling mistakes im dutch🇳🇱 and i am a little bit bad in spelling english!😂
really good advice, thank you. I found your assesment of where players may be/what advice would be relevent pretty spot on. I find myself in amatuer, with around 80 hours in.
2:00 as someone who always picks high thirst I bring like 6-8 watter bottles with me. I also try to collect EVERY water bottle I can to fill them up. I like the bleach bottles and when I use those I only carry 2-3 spare with me. I am currently on a character who has survived around 5 months and I have 3 wooden crates just filled with watter bottles... I like to go crazy but it helps when you have high thirst. I also do always pick organized and that changes a large bag from 27 to 35 so the 4-5weight of water bottles isnt a problem since I still have some more extra space from the organized trait (they balance eatchother) also collect EVERY bucket, cooking pot and watering can. you can never have enough... Its the worst when its like mid winter and snowy etc etc and you dont have water. I rather have a year worth of water supply just standby then running out of water in winter. yes you can always scavenge water dispensers but when its cold and a blizzard is outside you just cant sometimes when your in a pinch...
I'm probably carrying two canteens, and two spare water bottles. Last I looked the truck had about 9-10 water bottles as well. I also often travel around with a rain collector barrel and a spare sink, in case I want to set up plumbing =) It's good to be over prepared.
i agree play at least 1 week in game befor workshop it will really give you a feel for what you might wanna add modwise i played many times befor moding so i knew what i wanted and it helped a ton
heres another tip for beginners that helped me (its kinda up to your playstyle though): make a easy mode in sandbox. make it easy for you to survive and progress until you can easily survive 1-2 weeks. this gives time for you to learn the basics and learn kinda what everything does before getting mauled by zombies because you went to louisville
underrated tip, plus doing ALL of the harvesting and re-planting in 1 day is both annoying and dangerous (time consuming and can get you killed if zombs roam to you)
Without mods you cannot access bandages in your backpack I'd recommend either installing a mod like Nested Containers or putting your bandages in a fanny pack That way you don't have to fumble around pulling a bandage out of your bag while trying to powerwalk away from a horde with a gushing neck wound It's not like much else fits in fanny packs anyway (1kg capacity), and I'm not sure there's anything else that takes up the front bag slot.
I am slowly catching up with your older videos, this one in particular was extremely educational for me. I knew some tips, but some were brand new for my experience. I recently had a surprisingly good multiplayer run, and we chose Rosewood Fire Dept as our base. From this run, and your tips I can ask you: - Is there a smart way to check whether any downloaded mods will conflict, especially in MP? When the list grows, it becomes daunting to check if theyre safe one by one. - I struggled immensely in building a balcony outside the first floor, and in using the roof for farming. Is that building cursed? Do you think you could give some advanced tips on how to build and transform your base? For example, I had no idea that I could not build balconies on south windows...
I have dipped my toes in MP, but I haven't really gotten into it. I guess I'm just the sort of person that joins a MP server and who then takes off into the wilds and actively avoids people. Kind of defeats the purpose. I guess I could do a more general base utility video. Where to put your generator. Why you shouldn't have 6 fridges, why you never ever use a microwave, etc.
@@KyleMiddleton7 Thanks for your answer. Indeed a base utility video would be very useful, especially with advanced tips. I hope you can touch the subject of extending the base to roofs and balconies, I believe the rules changed in that regard some time ago.
@@blueribs They are prone to catching fire. I haven't looked into the specifics, whether it's overcooking food or putting metal in there, but fire. Fire always bad.
Not having a weapon is better than the majority of the weapons in the game. Funny as it is watching people trying to fight 4-5 zombies with a frying pan or bread knife, you can probably kill all of them using a fence or window and your foot with very little risk in less time than you can kill 1 out of the 5 using a frying pan. I get weeks into a runs without using more than shoving and my feet. Making a game around late spring and run around looting food and killing using only shoving and stomping while utilizing windows and fences will teach you when not to use a weapon and really help you not waste durability on weapons when you don't need to.
0:20 Standing here I realize You are just like me Trying to make history But who's to judge The right from wrong When our guard is down I think we'll both agree That violence breeds violence But in the end it has to be this way
Beginner tip. Hammer Saw Screwdriver Nails Knife Sheet Rope You can take the floor away on a second floor and if you add enough escape ropes you have a safe place to sleep. Only downside is if you get hoarded and run out of food. But you can normally scream out one side and escape from the other.
In Project Zomboid I have an axe I try to maintain it but I also have a hand axe on my belt for when things get dire The extra weight was worth it a few times :D
I would argue certain mods are fine, even for new players. Some should even be encouraged. -Replace Bandage: why go out of your way to make changing a bandage tedious? -Take Any Amount: maybe I don't want to take all 5,000,000 nails/bullets/doughnuts? -Map Legend UI: just tells what building colors on the map stand for. -Moodle Quarters: A really simply way to show the varying degrees of moodles. -Descriptive Tooltips for Skill Levels -Has Been Read: lets you know if you already read that book. -Fixable back holes: literally fixes an oversight by the game devs that should have been in vanilla. -Clear description for Moodles: helpful info for a new player. -More Description for Traits: useful in character creation -Injury Indicator: can be useful to know if you have minutes or moments to heal up. and it says it where your most likely focused at when getting injured. -Reload Weapon While Running: should be vanilla -Load All Magazines: quality of life -Knives Cut Clothes And Hair: almost any knife should be sufficient for cutting fabric. -Exercise with Gear: I can climb a sheet rope with a refrigerator, but I cant exercise with my backpack on? Common Sense is the only mod that I would recommend after a little experience. It is a game changer. Literally.
My Idea.. if you are in (Knox county) Riverside (on level zero) Coords: 147x9776, Cell: 0x32, Rel: 147x176 1. Graveyard grave stones will give you lots of concrete in 1 large area... lots of experience... in dismanteling. 2. same goes for plot of land with wooden fencing...will give you lots of nails and trimmed planks. 3. Use Haybails taken from the cut hay field.. its all cut and tied up.... use 3 high fence around yourself.. if you have no shelter for the night.
I thought I was going mad…. Too many nights half asleep after work falling asleep to rimworld and now trying this…. 3:42 I’m glad it was in the video and not my head.
2:37 Any scratch, any laceration has chance to infect you. Can cut yourself on broken glass, that you broke, with no zombies around, and youll still have a chance to get zombified
Are you sure? I will admit this isn't something I've explicitly tested, however, I have been scratched on bushes and when tripping over stuff dozens of times in my current run, and it seems unlikely I've just rolled the dice and gotten lucky that many times.
Great video! I get the tip about not using mods while being a beginner but on the other side, IMO since I like to go hard mode on everything(always play apocalypse mode), I'd recommend 2 mods for beginners, Proximity Inventory(it shows every loot on reach instead of having to go trough every container) & Minimal Display Bars(Much easier to understand how every action affects your character) they soften a bit the learning curve at the beginning and it would still be a vanilla experience
Yes, it's a really great experience not having mods installed if you're very new. I survived at least a week and proceeded to have mods because I literally don't know what I'm doing
3:18 I start with as high fitness as I can and jog a LOT early on to power level my sprinting and do my early scavenging that much faster. It's honestly a huge advantage in the early game that a lot of people overlook because of the generally accepted method, but I get why people generally think you should avoid sprinting.
Not sure why luring zeds one at a time is relevant for you, since you play with multihit, which eliminates any need for horde management skills or tactics
Take what I say with a pinch of salt, but I'm pretty sure multihit doesn't mean 100% damage dealt to all zombies hit. Regardless, typically I use it because it's more realistic.
@@mcfeddle 1. It isn't about danage dealt. It is hitting (and thus stunning) several front zeds at a time 2. Realistic? Not at all. There is absolutely no way you hit a person with a crowbar and keep going to hit more people. With something like a (very, very) sharp katana I could see it, but not with 99% of weapons in the game.
@@KnownNiche1999 I agree with most of these points, especially the crowbar one, but after reviewing my opinion I still believe that multihitting with most bladed weapons or long blunt weapons is realistic. Especially with how the animations play out. Downward hits tend not to hit other zombies, whereas sideways hits do and for heavier two-handed weapons this makes sense to me. The whole stunning zombies is another can of worms however. I believe the first zombie struck should be stunned, but the rest merely take some damage unless your character's strength level is high.
@@mcfeddle I am not talking about stuns being realistic or not. I am talking about multi-stun elliminating all need for horde management. Secondly, no, it isn't realistic even for bladed weapons. I saw videos of professional katana users trying to slice multiple objects irl - it takes _a lot_ of technique, and that is for a katana. Most bladed weapons in game would not realistically multi-hit
@@KnownNiche1999 once again I agree with the first point and how much technique it takes for Katana users to be able to cut through multiple things. However, an actively rotting yet still animate being is likely far easier to cut through with, say, a heavier Fire or Splitting Axe. Also long blunt in certain circumstances, like a bat bursting the first one's skull and denting the next. Perhaps strength could factor for multihit to make it more realistic, but I still subscribe to the belief that long bladed and blunt weapons multihitting is realistic with the clauses you and I laid out. That is; 1. Without high skill to a weapon, the chance to Multihit is especially low. 2. The Nimble skill must factor in to determine the chance of a Multihit. 3. Strength and Fitness must factor to determine the chance of a Multihit. 4. Most lighter bladed and blunt weapons cannot Multihit. 5. Damage during a Multihit will occur to all hit, but stunning will only happen to the first or second hit depending on the factors above. This is all done to encourage the original horde management in that if you hit four zombies at once, the first will be stunned but the other three will still give you what for. Remember, these are already-dead beings. Their skeletons may still be intact well enough, but the flesh will likely not be (hence why it peels off some of their faces so readily). This has been a great little debate thing we did I appreciate the civil nature of it. Rare thing nowadays. I'll read your last reply if you choose to do so, but otherwise I'm gonna bounce. Farewell! :)
@@juncheok8579 There can be a problem if you start double dipping with various sources of 'FoodSicknessLevel'. Uncooked meat, poison berries, burnt food, even corpse sickness all adjust the same slider. Obviously one should avoid these too, although you're not always going to be able to avoid corpse sickness.
So are you saying that if I'm bitten and infected, no matter how many times I heal, or use bandages etc. I'm going to die no matter what I do? Is it basically worth it to just let myself die than at that point and start fresh? I'm only on my second playthrough since buying the game a few days ago and I'm already on day 7. Granted I chose the "BUILD" mode variant of the game which says it's more relaxed. Figured it made sense.
youve probably found this out already but in case you haven't: you guaranteed die after being bitten, no cure. what i normally do is put ALL of my stuff that i have on me (clothes, inventory, etc.) in a crate at my base (or if i don't have a base yet just in a place i'll remember it) and walk naked down the street stomping zombs until i die and then start over
Explain pls how zombies do not spawn in a building unless you're close enough to see inside? I was driving a car in the parking lot of the prison running zombies over and suddenly a horde came pouring into the lot as the car died. As I was running away I realized the zombie horde was from zeds pouring out the windows of the prison which was not close enough to see inside from the parking lot
If you are new to the game I agree with the mods statement to an extent but if you are having trouble with the UI and all of the complexities then a few client side mods to help navigate better is fine in my opinion.
When you start to get confident that's when you die. My deaths are almost always caused by overconfidence. Just not sticking to my regular rules for engaging zombies or entering buildings and ignoring the signs that it's time to head back to base.
I had one incident recently where I was as careful as possible. Got close enough to a building to spawn the zombies in. Honked a car outside for ages. Walked the whole perimeter peeking into windows. Then when I opened the back door and walked into the kitchen, there was a sprinter standing in one of the few visible dead spots. Fortunately, I was still on guard because that's what you do. Paranoia always.
When you enter a building and dont know if theres 10 for 10,000
"walk to" is also pretty useful in singleplayer when walking long distances with time speed cranked up
I guess that's even more of the case if you're travelling somewhere a car can't go
@@KyleMiddleton7yeah like (to my knowledge cars cant get throguh) the lousiville checkpoint
@@LunatikLucas2024 you have a broken fence where you can go with the car bro, after the train.
@@LunatikLucas2024 yeah like Elvis said theres a broken fence, but you can also pick up the roadblocks, takes 1 minute
@@invidi0us Or smash everything in your path with a sledgehammer
Good video! A small tip when it comes to barricading a house. You can barricade both the inside and the outside of the window or door. I like to use four boards on the outside, then a sheet of metal on the inside. The metal has more HP, but you can't see what condition it's in. By having boards on the outside, you can see how many boards are missing from the exterior if your neighbors come over requesting a cup of brains.
Empty whiskey bottles have the best water capacity/weight ratio, use them if you can find them.
Idk why I'm watching this video I've been playing for months, but this, God damn you life saver I have like 20 I'll use them thank you
As an experienced zombiod player the helicoper tip was golden. lol
Not being able to shoot from windows of cars was what made me switch from b40 to 41. After playing the game with no map for so long, having the map was a total culture shock. I completely agree with the advice here. Let it be a bewildering mystery for as long as you can.
Fine video production my man, great job and thank!
that life is strange theme hit me like a truck. love that game
Approaching 150hrs in PZ, so still learning everyday. Your videos are always of great value to me. Thank you!!!
dude the water bottle tip was like one of the first adaptations i made whe. I started playing, taking low thirst takes a lot of points, so i would just double up on the water bottles. Good tip 👍
Don´t think i don´t notice you playing Chloe from LIS, and even the soundtrack 👌
The walk to command is a saviour when you're lost in the middle of nowhere, lol.
Getting to know the map *is* key.
About cars and keys. I've learned it's best, if you don't yet have gas, to leave the keys in any cars that work but are empty.
Also, always have a towel handy. Jogging *is* great, but overheating and getting wet is not.
I also find it useful to not have a base as such at the beginning but have a string of safehouses along a route which you can come back and loot those in quick succession once you've got a vehicle.
Good vid. I've got a couple hundred hours in the game but have had it for months. It's a frustrating learning curve but the players are very free with their tactics, which is nice and helps a lot.
Regarding usage of towel to dry yourself off, at the moment i still have power on so i can tumble dry wet towels, how do i dry them once the power goes off?
@@Mickkey117 They dry off over time, just keep them in your inventory and they'll eventually revert to a dry towel.
Do they dry in the same time if left at home for example? Wouldnt want to waste encumbrance on wet towels in my inv@@BinaryJoe
Rather than leave the keys, I just rename them something like "Mul. VHS Store Taxi", with Mul. being short for Muldraugh, or RS for Riverside, LV for Louisville, etc. Since the keys don't weigh anything, there is no harm in carrying them, and it makes it easy to track where all the cars I have keys for are without filling the map with markers.
I also do this for house keys and doorknobs. If I get a key that works for several knobs, I'll name the key and put it into a container (usually a sewing kit, lunchbag, etc.) with all the knobs it goes with. It is completely unnecessary for single-player (because you don't need to lock your safehouses), but it is still just something I like to do for immersion. It does mean I have to disassemble all the doors in order to rebuild them with the new knob, but that isn't too much of a sacrifice.
@@Jedi_Vigilante The reason I leave the keys and mark my path with the cars and houses is in case I die along the way. Saves me the hassle of having to find the key ring again right away. This way if I spawn back in conveniently near gas and gas cans before I come across my trail again, I can use a car to quickly retrieve my old gear. 😉
I’ve always said that the key to really mastering project zomboid is just not having a girlfriend or social life.
Nailed it
Exactly, that's why I have a wife, kids and grandkids.
Jack off all trades, master of none.
Womp womp
I got my fiancée into project zomboid and she loves it. Quickly becoming one of her top 5 most played games on steam. She loves how it's pretty much the Sims with zombies. Just have to find the gamer girls :)
@@BAMFZone95 I tried to get my wife to play.she was not into it hahaha
Watching your vids as a vet player, I really love how you leave it to the beginner to learn and figure out for fun instead of saying "Do this, do that". The helicopter event section for example, "Good luck with that"
Love it.
Thanks. I really do think that a new zomboid player should open the front door of their starting house and be dead in two minutes. Then on the next run, they get scratched on day 1 and wonder why they are slowly dying for the next few days. Honestly there are so many of these fun/tragic moments I wouldn't want to rob a new player of.
Well done mate. I enjoyed the video and I can tell you put some hard work into this, it payed off excellently. You've gained a subscriber.
Thanks. It did take me about three times longer than expected. I was initially planning another 10 tips for decorators, and 10 for playing against sprinters, but I can get around to that later.
@@KyleMiddleton7 If you're doing a decor video I'm subbing
If you let sheet rope from the window, zombies cant break down the rope while said window is closed... yet you can still climb in (ultimate floating base tip)
Ok I will have to try this. Thanks for the tip.
@SaraLanc3 I remember trying it. I don't remember exactly what happened, but I'm pretty sure the zombies were able to destroyed the sheet rope even when the window was closed. I probably would have remembered it more vividly if it had worked. That said, I'm increasingly finding how weird zomboid is, so if I really wanted to test it, I'd have to test it with pre-gen windows, player constructed windows, and with North facing vs West facing windows.
Thanks so much,now i survived 10 days instead of 4 😮😅
That's awesome! Stick with it, and one of these days you'll see snow.
How did you die?
@@KyleMiddleton7 my car wasnt maintained well and went on a run ... Anyway,created a new character with no electricity and water 👀
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i have no idea why but the sped up bat slapping @0:20 has me rolling and i constantly come back to this video just to watch it XD
I love the Rimworld Music! Grest Video!
Man, thanks for the last Tipp. That would be a harld lesson if i had to learn that for myself :D
It almost killed me in my Trailer Trash run. One of those near death experiences that didn't even look that bad, unless you knew what you were looking for. I think the sheet rope vanished as I was vaulting over the low fence at the top of the rope. Scary.
Beware of houses's top floors/ closets, you might get into a house and see nothing only to open up that little closet on the side and find 10 zombies packed in there tetris mode, same for upstair rooms, something big groups will be hanging upstairs baiting you in, and if it gets heated they might even break through window and jump behind or on you
Haha ya that's one of the "zombie stories" pretty neat seeing zombies pile out of a bathroom like it's a clown car
@@Acidburn1155This literally happens on me on my first playthrough that I have survived more than a day , found the fire department , everything was quite , no zombies inside , taking all the loot while chilling , then i open the small bathroom near the exit , spawn like 7 firemen and overcrowded me instantly because im panicking and died . haha
As an amateur of PZ I can say all these tips are great, but the thing that kills me every single time is fighting horde after horde of zombies. I keep respawn off, I try to minimize migration, I lead large hordes into the woods, but it doesn't matter. Sooner or later I get tired, I can't run away from them to my safehouse without leading them there, and I make a mistake. Never made it past 4 days yet. But it's so much fun, the challenge and realism makes it fun.
Have you used cars at all? Maybe try starting as a burglar next time. Hotwire yourself a car as early as possible, and get out to one of the more rural parts of the map.
@@KyleMiddleton7 I only have 18 hours in game so far btw. I'm a very casual gamer. But yeah I've driven a car once. My goal in every new game is to find a car and drive it. Maybe use it to lead hordes and empty the area, or just explore. But the goal is always to get a running car first. But the road there includes trying to watch as much TV as possible, surviving, and somewhere in there my character just can't fight off more zombies and makes a mistake. No one ever said this game was forgiving.
Are you running too much or carrying a heavy load? You can easily outpace zombies just by walking as long as sprinters are turned off. You should only sprint yourself if you have to.
@@stemid852500+ hours. Do NOT run in that scenario because you don't know how long it's going to take to lure them away.
While I do agree with the video about sprinting often to build your sprint skill that should only be done on low stress days or days you don't have a ton of goals or once you become a firearm master then it doesn't matter anymore.
Got low fatigue? Use knives and my personal fave - SPEARS! All you need to make spears is a kitchen knife, and then planks or limbs. Knives and spears don't care about your fatigue and you can still one shot kill zombies once you figure out the rhythm. Doesn't matter what point it is in the game I always have a hunting knife on my belt for emergencies and utility.
People suggest rosewood to start but I heavily suggest Riverside instead. As soon as you spawn make a bee line for the gated community. On the South Eastern side of town there are three houses inside of a gate - choose the second or third house. Clear out 5-10 zeds and you pretty much have a perfectly safe base immediately. Eventually build walls and gates to make it perfectly safe.
The game is ninety percent map awareness. You got this man.
Oh yeah, instead of jogging or running master the walk to command. Map the speed up time button somewhere close and check the option 'stop time acceleration at end of task.' Now if you are getting impatient choose walk to and speed up time to minimize real time loss (good for casual players) while keeping your fatigue full.
Man, my third time watching this video. Keep creating great videos like this, and you shall reap. This quality of content deserves far more attention
After 100ish hours I can confidently say my survival, or lack thereof, always comes down to complacency. This game is truly amazing, I wish everybody could experience it. By far, the greatest game I've ever played.
the baseball bat clip at the start is just too funny
I wil give u sum tips and tricks based of my experience!
Tip 1: if u think u can handle 5-8 zombies DONT
I alr find it hard to take out 3 zombies with a melee weapon
Only if u have a shotgun or other gun than u can take out the zombies (only if needed since u havelimted ammo)
Tip 2
Get as many things of ur start place since later u can maybe get no food!
Tip 3 pick sandbox so u can make ur own game good i recomend for begginers the intitial infection since ( i think) is when the zombies begin to rise so u
Have enough time to pack ur things ( survival mode usally have 2 zombies banging on ur door at start point)
Tip 4 pick the burgaler job since u can hotwire cars since not all cars have keys in them!
Tip 5 if u hotwire a car make sure there are no zombies in the area around u ofc u can lock doors but they could smash the windows and bite u (happend to me)
Tip 6 its importent to carry weapons all times there could be zombies everywhere even in buildings
Tip 7 (this is purely what i think)
Dont make a base if u dont wanna make it secure ofc u can lay down in a random house for abt 2 days but the house is usally not so secure!
Tip 8 always close the
Windows off and the lights out where doors are they could peek in door windows and see u
Tip 8 carry as much gas as u need
Since after maybe a couple of days all the things go out
And u dont instantly have a generator
Tip 9 keep the car running when looting when there is a hord coming u cant always get the engine on first try and maybe if there close they will catch u!
Tip 10 if u want to survive the longest loot canned food and dont forget the can opener super importent
Tip 11 barecaded houses are
Usally very good places to loot since survivers who later on died have gatherd very much food and weapons
Tip 12 make sure to play the tutorial since the game is pretty hard itself (little suprise at the end)
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these where my tips hope u enjoyed them (
These are tips based of my gameplay❤) if i made spelling mistakes im dutch🇳🇱 and i am a little bit bad in spelling english!😂
Nice😊
You're English is at least 1000x better than my Dutch... 👍
Bro, these are insightful and fun, keep up the good work!
really good advice, thank you. I found your assesment of where players may be/what advice would be relevent pretty spot on. I find myself in amatuer, with around 80 hours in.
2:00 as someone who always picks high thirst I bring like 6-8 watter bottles with me. I also try to collect EVERY water bottle I can to fill them up. I like the bleach bottles and when I use those I only carry 2-3 spare with me. I am currently on a character who has survived around 5 months and I have 3 wooden crates just filled with watter bottles... I like to go crazy but it helps when you have high thirst. I also do always pick organized and that changes a large bag from 27 to 35 so the 4-5weight of water bottles isnt a problem since I still have some more extra space from the organized trait (they balance eatchother) also collect EVERY bucket, cooking pot and watering can. you can never have enough... Its the worst when its like mid winter and snowy etc etc and you dont have water. I rather have a year worth of water supply just standby then running out of water in winter. yes you can always scavenge water dispensers but when its cold and a blizzard is outside you just cant sometimes when your in a pinch...
I'm probably carrying two canteens, and two spare water bottles. Last I looked the truck had about 9-10 water bottles as well. I also often travel around with a rain collector barrel and a spare sink, in case I want to set up plumbing =)
It's good to be over prepared.
Thanks for putting expert/advanced tips, got 300 hours in this game and I'm still learning new things, I guess that's the magic of PZ heheh
i agree play at least 1 week in game befor workshop it will really give you a feel for what you might wanna add modwise i played many times befor moding so i knew what i wanted and it helped a ton
13:17 I'm surprised that I saw Chloe Price in project zomboid
Very useful and concise presentation - thanks! :)
Yeah I’m a veteran player, running and jogging are like using guns. Only for life and death scenarios, OR gaining skills in a SAFE environment
I love your videos. Thank you!
heres another tip for beginners that helped me (its kinda up to your playstyle though): make a easy mode in sandbox. make it easy for you to survive and progress until you can easily survive 1-2 weeks. this gives time for you to learn the basics and learn kinda what everything does before getting mauled by zombies because you went to louisville
love the life is strange elements!!!!
Lmao I have several thousand hours into Rimworld, so the music is scratching an itch in my brain. Love it
I definitely didn't expect Rimworld music in this video!
One more tip is that plant 1 or 2 crops a day. This will lead to 1 or 2 harvests per day which means no spoiled veggies
underrated tip, plus doing ALL of the harvesting and re-planting in 1 day is both annoying and dangerous (time consuming and can get you killed if zombs roam to you)
Great Video!!! i needed this ALOT 😂😂
Without mods you cannot access bandages in your backpack
I'd recommend either installing a mod like Nested Containers or putting your bandages in a fanny pack
That way you don't have to fumble around pulling a bandage out of your bag while trying to powerwalk away from a horde with a gushing neck wound
It's not like much else fits in fanny packs anyway (1kg capacity), and I'm not sure there's anything else that takes up the front bag slot.
12:32 “Walk Tuah”
You can avoid being eaten by zombies by not playing the game.
I am slowly catching up with your older videos, this one in particular was extremely educational for me. I knew some tips, but some were brand new for my experience.
I recently had a surprisingly good multiplayer run, and we chose Rosewood Fire Dept as our base. From this run, and your tips I can ask you:
- Is there a smart way to check whether any downloaded mods will conflict, especially in MP? When the list grows, it becomes daunting to check if theyre safe one by one.
- I struggled immensely in building a balcony outside the first floor, and in using the roof for farming. Is that building cursed? Do you think you could give some advanced tips on how to build and transform your base? For example, I had no idea that I could not build balconies on south windows...
I have dipped my toes in MP, but I haven't really gotten into it. I guess I'm just the sort of person that joins a MP server and who then takes off into the wilds and actively avoids people. Kind of defeats the purpose.
I guess I could do a more general base utility video. Where to put your generator. Why you shouldn't have 6 fridges, why you never ever use a microwave, etc.
@@KyleMiddleton7 Thanks for your answer. Indeed a base utility video would be very useful, especially with advanced tips. I hope you can touch the subject of extending the base to roofs and balconies, I believe the rules changed in that regard some time ago.
@@francescomerenda6985 I can tell you now, rule 1 is don't fall off the roof =)
@KyleMiddleton7 wait, why shouldn't you use microwaves
@@blueribs They are prone to catching fire. I haven't looked into the specifics, whether it's overcooking food or putting metal in there, but fire. Fire always bad.
Not having a weapon is better than the majority of the weapons in the game. Funny as it is watching people trying to fight 4-5 zombies with a frying pan or bread knife, you can probably kill all of them using a fence or window and your foot with very little risk in less time than you can kill 1 out of the 5 using a frying pan. I get weeks into a runs without using more than shoving and my feet. Making a game around late spring and run around looting food and killing using only shoving and stomping while utilizing windows and fences will teach you when not to use a weapon and really help you not waste durability on weapons when you don't need to.
Thanks for the tips! Here's to the algorithm!
I did not expect to hear Life is Strange music on a Project Zomboid video.
0:20 Standing here
I realize
You are just like me
Trying to make history
But who's to judge
The right from wrong
When our guard is down
I think we'll both agree
That violence breeds violence
But in the end it has to be this way
Good video, love it!
Beginner tip.
Hammer
Saw
Screwdriver
Nails
Knife
Sheet Rope
You can take the floor away on a second floor and if you add enough escape ropes you have a safe place to sleep. Only downside is if you get hoarded and run out of food. But you can normally scream out one side and escape from the other.
In Project Zomboid I have an axe
I try to maintain it but I also have a hand axe on my belt for when things get dire
The extra weight was worth it a few times :D
I would argue certain mods are fine, even for new players. Some should even be encouraged.
-Replace Bandage: why go out of your way to make changing a bandage tedious?
-Take Any Amount: maybe I don't want to take all 5,000,000 nails/bullets/doughnuts?
-Map Legend UI: just tells what building colors on the map stand for.
-Moodle Quarters: A really simply way to show the varying degrees of moodles.
-Descriptive Tooltips for Skill Levels
-Has Been Read: lets you know if you already read that book.
-Fixable back holes: literally fixes an oversight by the game devs that should have been in vanilla.
-Clear description for Moodles: helpful info for a new player.
-More Description for Traits: useful in character creation
-Injury Indicator: can be useful to know if you have minutes or moments to heal up. and it says it where your most likely focused at when getting injured.
-Reload Weapon While Running: should be vanilla
-Load All Magazines: quality of life
-Knives Cut Clothes And Hair: almost any knife should be sufficient for cutting fabric.
-Exercise with Gear: I can climb a sheet rope with a refrigerator, but I cant exercise with my backpack on?
Common Sense is the only mod that I would recommend after a little experience. It is a game changer. Literally.
finally found the perfect "first" zomboid vid.
0:19 LOL WHATTTT 🤣🤣🤣
Great vídeo mate
My Idea.. if you are in (Knox county) Riverside (on level zero) Coords: 147x9776, Cell: 0x32, Rel: 147x176
1. Graveyard grave stones will give you lots of concrete in 1 large area... lots of experience... in dismanteling.
2. same goes for plot of land with wooden fencing...will give you lots of nails and trimmed planks.
3. Use Haybails taken from the cut hay field.. its all cut and tied up.... use 3 high fence around yourself.. if you have no shelter for the night.
I thought I was going mad…. Too many nights half asleep after work falling asleep to rimworld and now trying this…. 3:42 I’m glad it was in the video and not my head.
Best tips of all on youtube thanks
PFFF! Tires are overrated. Thanks for doing this!!
You don't need all four, that's true.
2:37
Any scratch, any laceration has chance to infect you.
Can cut yourself on broken glass, that you broke, with no zombies around, and youll still have a chance to get zombified
Are you sure? I will admit this isn't something I've explicitly tested, however, I have been scratched on bushes and when tripping over stuff dozens of times in my current run, and it seems unlikely I've just rolled the dice and gotten lucky that many times.
Something ive learned is alcohol is a great source of food and water
Great video, thank you.
I did not know the sheet rope is sheet if hit by a zombie.
Thanks before I die doing one.
loved the rimworld background music xD
Great video! I get the tip about not using mods while being a beginner but on the other side, IMO since I like to go hard mode on everything(always play apocalypse mode), I'd recommend 2 mods for beginners, Proximity Inventory(it shows every loot on reach instead of having to go trough every container) & Minimal Display Bars(Much easier to understand how every action affects your character) they soften a bit the learning curve at the beginning and it would still be a vanilla experience
Bo literally tell us to drink when we thirsty . Geez .guide these day
quality content 👍
10:07 LIFE IS STRANGE
I'll politely disagree in no mods for beginners. There's some real nice qualifying of life and vanilla+ mods that make it easier for new players
Yes, it's a really great experience not having mods installed if you're very new. I survived at least a week and proceeded to have mods because I literally don't know what I'm doing
Tip #5, Schrodinger's Zombie
7:43 may I know why you "don't want to" drink tainted water?(the way you did it from a river) Never had any problems with it
It used to be far more deadly, so there is this lingering bias against it in older players. That's one thing.
Took me a good couple minutes to realise the Rimworld music was this video 😂 thought my PC was glitching out
6:51 chloe price?!?! i need that mod.
steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2708009621
13:18 - That's Chloe Price!
Bro this super useful
That Rimworld Music c:
such a useful video
Love the rimworld music!
3:18 I start with as high fitness as I can and jog a LOT early on to power level my sprinting and do my early scavenging that much faster. It's honestly a huge advantage in the early game that a lot of people overlook because of the generally accepted method, but I get why people generally think you should avoid sprinting.
I agree. Run around a lot, just don't run towards a fight, and always have enough in the tank to run away.
You can wipe away sweat with a kitchen rag 🤯
thanks Kyle
Not sure why luring zeds one at a time is relevant for you, since you play with multihit, which eliminates any need for horde management skills or tactics
Take what I say with a pinch of salt, but I'm pretty sure multihit doesn't mean 100% damage dealt to all zombies hit. Regardless, typically I use it because it's more realistic.
@@mcfeddle
1. It isn't about danage dealt. It is hitting (and thus stunning) several front zeds at a time
2. Realistic? Not at all. There is absolutely no way you hit a person with a crowbar and keep going to hit more people. With something like a (very, very) sharp katana I could see it, but not with 99% of weapons in the game.
@@KnownNiche1999 I agree with most of these points, especially the crowbar one, but after reviewing my opinion I still believe that multihitting with most bladed weapons or long blunt weapons is realistic. Especially with how the animations play out. Downward hits tend not to hit other zombies, whereas sideways hits do and for heavier two-handed weapons this makes sense to me. The whole stunning zombies is another can of worms however. I believe the first zombie struck should be stunned, but the rest merely take some damage unless your character's strength level is high.
@@mcfeddle
I am not talking about stuns being realistic or not. I am talking about multi-stun elliminating all need for horde management.
Secondly, no, it isn't realistic even for bladed weapons. I saw videos of professional katana users trying to slice multiple objects irl - it takes _a lot_ of technique, and that is for a katana. Most bladed weapons in game would not realistically multi-hit
@@KnownNiche1999 once again I agree with the first point and how much technique it takes for Katana users to be able to cut through multiple things.
However, an actively rotting yet still animate being is likely far easier to cut through with, say, a heavier Fire or Splitting Axe. Also long blunt in certain circumstances, like a bat bursting the first one's skull and denting the next.
Perhaps strength could factor for multihit to make it more realistic, but I still subscribe to the belief that long bladed and blunt weapons multihitting is realistic with the clauses you and I laid out. That is;
1. Without high skill to a weapon, the chance to Multihit is especially low.
2. The Nimble skill must factor in to determine the chance of a Multihit.
3. Strength and Fitness must factor to determine the chance of a Multihit.
4. Most lighter bladed and blunt weapons cannot Multihit.
5. Damage during a Multihit will occur to all hit, but stunning will only happen to the first or second hit depending on the factors above.
This is all done to encourage the original horde management in that if you hit four zombies at once, the first will be stunned but the other three will still give you what for. Remember, these are already-dead beings. Their skeletons may still be intact well enough, but the flesh will likely not be (hence why it peels off some of their faces so readily).
This has been a great little debate thing we did I appreciate the civil nature of it. Rare thing nowadays. I'll read your last reply if you choose to do so, but otherwise I'm gonna bounce. Farewell! :)
Showing new players to drink tainted river water is probably not the best first move.
And yet it is better than dying of thirst, especially for new players who end up running off into the woods in a panic.
Why not? It doesn't have any downsides
@@juncheok8579 There can be a problem if you start double dipping with various sources of 'FoodSicknessLevel'. Uncooked meat, poison berries, burnt food, even corpse sickness all adjust the same slider. Obviously one should avoid these too, although you're not always going to be able to avoid corpse sickness.
Hi Kyle, im Kyle!
Hi Kyle
- Play with mods right from the start
- Horde guns and ammo
Hoard. You're looking for the word hoard.
You're welcome. 👋
you are the only pz youtuber i won't listen to one of these tip vids of and cringe at lol
Just started this game so far the combats a bit weird n the movements different to other games but shouldn't take to long to get used to
Love the rimworld music lmao
So are you saying that if I'm bitten and infected, no matter how many times I heal, or use bandages etc. I'm going to die no matter what I do?
Is it basically worth it to just let myself die than at that point and start fresh? I'm only on my second playthrough since buying the game a few
days ago and I'm already on day 7. Granted I chose the "BUILD" mode variant of the game which says it's more relaxed. Figured it made sense.
youve probably found this out already but in case you haven't: you guaranteed die after being bitten, no cure. what i normally do is put ALL of my stuff that i have on me (clothes, inventory, etc.) in a crate at my base (or if i don't have a base yet just in a place i'll remember it) and walk naked down the street stomping zombs until i die and then start over
Thanks brother, i suck at this game
Just stopped playing Rimworld to learn PZ, watch a noob PZ video and hear Rimworld music.
Somehow I feel the need to play Rimworld ^^
10:30 holy shit 400h never occurred to me you can do that instead of looking for Sledgehammer
Explain pls how zombies do not spawn in a building unless you're close enough to see inside? I was driving a car in the parking lot of the prison running zombies over and suddenly a horde came pouring into the lot as the car died. As I was running away I realized the zombie horde was from zeds pouring out the windows of the prison which was not close enough to see inside from the parking lot
If you are new to the game I agree with the mods statement to an extent but if you are having trouble with the UI and all of the complexities then a few client side mods to help navigate better is fine in my opinion.
I hear RimWorld music, I press like.
What was that zombie heatmap popup you had?
was wondering the same, boosting this comment
Thanks
I have 23 hours in the game and I didn’t even know there is a map online😭