bourbon: - weapon - molotov - drink - not the best, but will do the job - food - 1500 calories - disinfectant - mood booster - painkiller - bottle after u drink or use it, from what I know it has the best weight to capacity ratio from all the bottles so yeah, a swiss army knife of zomboid, but in a funnier way
Remarkable pvp weapon. Look up Zomboid bottle incident! It changed how I play pvp. I always have at least 2 bottles to chuck at people. Literally better than guns if you have no aim.
And don't forget, the bourbon bottle is particularly special, as it is a glass bottle. If you find yourself in a survival situation and you need water, all you need to do is fill it from a water source, build a fire, put it in the fire, and bam. Clean drinking water in a pinch.
I've got over 100 hours in game, yet not once did I realize you could clean up blood and replace windows with a crowbar. Like a Telltale character, I will remember that.
I knew about cleaning blood pretty early on, but I didn't discover that I could replace windows until later. The one thing in this video that I didn't already know was that one thing about the baseball bats being repairable with nails. THAT I didn't know until I was today years old.
remember seeing a reddit post with someone confused they lost their character to fever when they didnt get bitten - they had no idea about corpse sickness
i see posts like that all the time, most of the time it's people that dont know that scratches and lacerations also have a chance to infect, other times it's either corpse sickness or some dynamic traits related bullshittery.
as someone who used dynamic traits i gave up on that pile of shit, got myself better trait mods after the modder had a butthurt moment and changed a lot of shit nobody asked for
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I had a mod that made that automatic if they were in inventory, but that is no longer the case and I keep forgetting. So my character is back to being that poor sod licking out a tin can :(
To add a few things: - Being Inside/outside opposite to a pile of bodies prevents you from getting sick (corpses outside, you inside and viceversa) - When looking for books, I always carry an annotated paper with names and volumes or each book I'm missing. - When setting up water collectors you don't really need carpentry and to craft them, there are hollow metal drums at the entrance of LV, wich hold twice as much as the wooden barrels (400 vs 800), just take the logs out and take the barrel home! - Alcohol can also reduce your panic with a small sip of it, exactly like beta blockers - Empty bourbon bottles (again alcohol, best items) hold a bot more water than all the other bottles in vanilla game while weighing a bit less (12.5 units vs 10 units, weighing 0.7 vs 0.8 Full) Great video as always.
No, you do not need to be in front of a mirror to use a razor. I dont even have a mirror (no mods either) and I can shave just fine. In fact, I can shave while still wearing my motorcycle helmet.
@@APackOfHungryGhosts maybe the mirror is from a mod then, I was pretty sure you needed one. The helmet yeah PZ only thinks about your clothes when foraging, nothing else
@@APackOfHungryGhosts let's talk about vanilla gameplay, before jumping straight to mods, since those can bring mechanics that sometimes are not intended to be in original gameplay Shaving or hair cutting in VANILLA always require a mirror to either be in your inventory or to be near the character as a placeable object
@@chevk I beg to differ. Things have changed a lot. Go try it on Vanilla. Disable all your mods (because I play with NONE) and notice that you can shave with a razor in the middle of nowhere with no mirror for miles.
Fun fact: zombies that have watches can sometimes already have alarms set on their watches, which can go off and draw in more zombies. Always grab watches off zombies near your base and make sure there are no alarms set on them already. Could be a mod i have that does this, but worth a mention anyway
Nope, that's a vanilla feature. Also, forgot to include normal alarm clocks found in homes. Died a few times cause of that myself. While it is not very common to run into an alarm clock in a home on lower settings, common and above is insanity, constant beeping, ringing in every corner of the city every few hours. 😅
Information: If you loot a pharmacy or hospital early on & find some cotton balls, dousing said cotton balls with disinfectant or alcohol is the best. It leaves you with less pain compared to using alcohol wipes or pouring a lot more disinfectant/alcohol on a wound. Always carry 2-3 doused cotton balls if you can, 2-3 sterilized bandages, painkiller, needle, thread, tweezer/suture needle holder & 1-2 suture needles. I always keep 4-5 leather strips on me for repairing holes in tailored clothing too immediately.
KNOWLEDGE SUPPLEMENT: Did you know that if you miss any of the shows on the Life and Living channel, you can find VHS tapes of those same shows in the video store and watch them when you want to? Antique televisions don't have VHS players, but the more modern televisions do.
Remember to have redundant sheet ropes for your safehouse because I think I heard that zombies could destroy them. Along with that, make sure the window you place a rope doesn't have a door or window directly below, because if zombies happen to be bashing on it you'll descend right into them. For clearing hordes, set up a trapped building if you can. Preferably a building already looted and is of no more use, barricade it up except a door and a way to escape out the back, lure in the horde and get them inside either by using yourself or a noise making device like an alarm clock. Once you make it out quickly board the front door a bit and toss a molotov at it.
Two naked former lovebird zombies went on a vandalism spree in my designated safehouse and destroyed some windows and a door. Thanks for the crowbar tip, this way I can repair the windows
2:12 the bonus for the first level is actually way higher than 75%. without any bonuses, you have a penalty in gaining xp. but 1 level in said skill will remove the penalty and add the 75% on top of that
yea, baseic XP multipiler is 25% and those bonuses add up to that making them in fact times 4, times 5, and times 6 bonuses recpectivly. it doesn't work that way for weapon skills - as there are many other factors that affect XP gain
the base rate for XP is 25%, so taking one level in a skill from the character creation menu actually gives 3x more XP, which really isn't explained by the UI but the effect is very noticeable during gameplay. it also stacks with the XP bonus from skillbooks, so having one level from CC and reading the skill book actually gives a total of 9X XP until level 2, 15X for 2-4, 24X for 4-6, 36X for 6-8, and 48X for 8-10. due to the way XP works in zomboid, taking more than one level in a skill from CC is wasteful, as the difference between 3x and 4-5x is negligible, and trying to level any skill you didn't get a level in from the CC is almost completely pointless (unless you're aiming for a specific goal, like elec1 mech2 so you can hotwire cars, which is worth doing but will take a LONG time)
You actually get 25/100/133/166% for whatever reason. Except for Sprinting which has a higher starting and smaller level 1 multiplier bump. I think it's 100/125/133/166. But other skills may be worth taking higher than 1 because the difference between 400% (of base) and 533% (of base) is a little nicer than the Numbers provided in game.
Unfortunately, Fitness & Strength are exempt from this bonus, so keep that in mind when creating a character. Not to mention they are both very grindy skills to increase in-game, along with Nimble.
@@kryzx8000 the benefits of taking "strong" + "athletic" are so powerful its often worth sacrificing everything else to take them. when combined with axeman you become a god of zombieslaying, able to one-shot zombies and cut down entire hordes with ease. a wood axe with the appropriate skills is better than shotgun-wielding veteran because you never run out of ammo and the axe is quiet.
5:09 it also has a lot of calories. If you’re surviving off of radishes and carrots and the occasional rabbit or whatever you forage, then you will start losing weight. Going to a bar and getting shit-faced can help you maintain a healthy weight.
For me THE most essential skill is the art of herding zombies. Knowing how and when to use shouts/car horns to lure zombies away from a point of interest then breaking line of sight and circling back is going to keep you alive, fed and happy much, MUCH more than trying to cut down an entire horde one by one. * if you pile corpses onto a single tile almost all of them will burn in 1 go, saving fuel. * Foraging can be insanely powerful - I have found saws, propane tanks, weapons, skill books, as well as a whole lot of food. * You can also forage tree branches and chipped stones quite easily for early spears. They have low durability but high killing potential, and can be enhanced by adding screwdrivers etc to them. * If you time your runs, you can loot around the TV schedule to maximize early game potential. You can also set alarms to wake you so you don't sleep through an episode by accident. * BOIL YOUR RAGS!! You can't use a bucket, but a saucepan or cooking pot of water in a hot oven will allow you to sterilize rags and bandages. * Check a vehicle's engine quality and loudness - low quality cars stall more and are harder to start, and loud cars attract zombie from greater distances. It can be worth your time to refurbish a better car rather than drive a deathtrap. * Vitamins can save your life! Eating an entire bottle can be the difference between drowsy and alive, or tired and dead. Hoover those things down like it's 2004 and you're at a rave. I did not know about the windows, though. That's cool.
@@TheVoltDenatsu you can use car horns (shout while driving), loud cars, if you're lucky enough to find an emergency vehicle (hotwired or w/key, and a working battery) you can use the sirens.
The XP gain bonus is extremely underrated and underdiscussed. If you want a long-term playthrough you absolutely should be speccing into traits that give you XP bonuses in skills that you consider critical. 1 blunt vs 0 blunt may not seem like a huge deal but just a 75% bonus to XP gain will go a long way.
It's actually a lot bigger bonus than you think. Level 1 is considered default. Level 0 is 25%. Level 1 shows as +75%, putting you at 100%. So it is in fact +3x.
i've got a mod that tells me if i've found a book already but HOLY CRAP reading the first page is a great way to keep track. i really wish i had thought of this incredibly obvious tip in the 200+ hours i played before i found that mod. it never crossed my mind and would have saved a lot of hassle.
A small add for no 1: You can also use scissors, which pull double duty as a utility tool (even cleanly shave, which is NOT easy to do with scissors irl). Also, certain hairstyles will require you to have hair gel in your inventory, like the pictured spiked mohawk.
kind of hoping that in build 43, theres some common sense things, like that scissors cant clean shave you, the crowbar can automatically open any shut/locked nonbarricaded window, and losing your weapon if you trip/lose your shoe, your character should have an exclamation mark above your head
I knew almost every mechanic mentioned in this video. The unknown one was about starting skill levels. Never noticed how it can affect skill bonuses on what skill level you start. Over 1k hours in the game and I still get to learn something new. Great video though. Good to refresh my memory during my break from PZ 😁
Started playing for the first time yesterday, I've been sleeping on this game since it's been stuck in my library since 2018 and now I finally got in. Great video!
I can't just agree with the fact that it's better to glue your ass on floor in front of TV with «Live and Living TV» channel for straight 9 days. Yes, I can agree that it's a great way to boost your skill levels, but damn - some precious food is rotting somewhere and more zombies spawning each day in quiet and peaceful Rosewood (for example). The only thing I know for real - you need to do both things depending on your playstyle. In my opinion, you can follow the TV shows' schedule and just go to the next point of interest after watching some shows' episode, and if time is coming up - find your lovely TV and continue watching interesting episodes about cooking or carpentry.
watching Life and Living TV for carpentry also makes it very hard to stack the skillbook XP modifiers with the XP gain, its far better in the long term to deliberately not watch any epsiodes, find all the skillbooks and as many VHS episodes as you can, and then watch them in order with the full skillbook XP boost for those levels. if you do this with one level in carpentry from a character trait, you can easily hit level 7 or 8 in carpentry without ever picking up a hammer. i'm not entirely sure that watching the episodes when broadcast eliminates any XP gain from the VHS tapes though, so it may be worth doing both.
If you have respawn off and put a game day on 5 or 6 hours, you can clear half of Rosewood in day one while watching all episodes live. If a game day is 1 hour, live and living is half an ingame hour. If its 6, it ends before 10 minutes pass
@@JedPotts-jv2ux You get separate exp from the broadcasted shows as opposed to the VHS tapes. There's no penalty to watching the shows, it's just free skill exp if you can.
I would argue the skills are better to get. Here's the reasoning - there's still plenty of canned and preserved food. The vegetables and fruit may still be alright too, but the dairy and meat is probably bad. By a certain point, it is just easier to say fish or trap and to refrigerate all of those meat sources. Vegetables grow themselves passively so little to no work needed there - just harvest them. It's best to fish at dawn or dusk, but you can just leave your traps for two days in game and recollect them around dusk and forage on the way there and back for some mushrooms and wild crops. Sometimes, you'll also find a frog/freshly dead animal while foraging too. Inevitably, you run out of food so you have to live off the land eventually anyway. The relevancy of extra zombies spawning is irrelevant as they're more of a nuisance than genuine threat especially if you're just cooped up in your house with all of your windows and doors covered by curtains and sheets. They don't know you're there unless you've alerted them. Helicopter shows up? Just stay inside. Same applies. They're oblivious. Only an issue when you go outside and the zombies will follow the helicopter that leaves too.
Rain collectors can be placed on top of or offset by one to the sink or even washing machines if you want to use them. Why is that important? You can have in a perfect setup 9 collectors feeding one sink. They automatically switch when one empties. I try and put as many as I can around sinks. That house at the start is my go to muldraugh base, I can get 6 collectors at that kitchen sink and about 2-3 at the washing machine. Just need to build the outside stairs and flooring correctly. I never knew that window one. I just ended up living with it and boarding them over. BTW that smashed glass is a very great way to level first aid. You walk over the glass after taking off your boots and by fixing that is an automatic level 1. Have tweezers, needle, thread and (sterilized), bandages or ripped sheets handy, all you need. Do it a couple more times after healing to get an easy 3 levels. Even with slow healer my character had zero issues.
Regarding the Life & Living channel, if you have the XP & reading boost (both of which I use) and time your reading just right, you can get up to level 6 (that's SIX, so you know it's not a typo) in Carpentry by the time the television stations stop broadcasting. Granted, it often requires a trip to the bookstore and/or school to get Carp vol. 1 - 4. If you can find a woodcraft VHS or two, you can even get to lvl 7. That's _just_ from watching the TV, mind you! It's very nice to have the ability to build the advanced water collectors a mere 8 days in and without having to disassemble or build anything.
I definitely would have gotten myself killed by generator fumes if I didn't know the game simulated them. Same from the corpse sickness. The berry testing method is smart. That plumbing option is insane. Thank you for sharing these.
First day I try and hit school. bookstore, post office for books . I don't sleep for the first week just read and and watch TV on fast forward. When the chopper comes I take a nap and head out when its gone.
I dunno if I agree with the last tip. The first few days are crucial, and every hour should be used to properly establish yourself. You can always find VHS tapes and level up at your own leisure, later on.
unless you spawn somewhere disastrous, you should be able to loot your neighbours and catch the shows at the same time. It's a BIG boost to early cooking and carpentry skills, which will save you a lot of time in the long run, and will help stretch food stocks out earlier.
> most importantly, disinfect That is like the *least* important part lmao. Not only is it completely useless, but if you want to RP with disinfecting actually doing something; you can boil water and use that to disinfect bandages.
Disinfecting is really useful as it will remove a level of wound infection which means that the healing process will not be slowed. Sterilizing bandages is even better because dirty bandages heal you at 1/8 the speed and sterilized bandages stay clean for twice as long so you dont spend as much time injured
I knew most of these but the skill + their bonuses in chara creation. I think I kinda understood it but never really connected it fully so thanks for that help! 900+ hours and I'm still learning new things. This game is so nice!
3:31 not sure if its still a thing but only barricading the inside of doors and windows as well as putting up a sheet will prevent stragglers from coming up to knock on them. It's something to do with the zomboids detecting player built structures.
this was a fun video. I knew most of these but it was fun to hear some I didn't know! And most of these were things I learned 400+ hours in. Always glad to see peeps helping new people out!
Did you know that you can use tissues to mute your sneezes by putting them into your inventory Learned that two days ago after 200hrs of gameplay so you're welcome xD
3:25 there is a button on the "heart" and then Info and you can click recepies and it will give you a list og every skillbook, magazine, vhs and cd you have or havent read... 4:00 dont do that. 1 wrong berry can kill you. I have done that. It was one of my first time foraging and one of my first berries. I ate 1 and it was game over. Yeah I had weak stomach (free points since it very very easy to work around it. Never eat bad/unknown/raw food) Some more tips I have I generally play on sandbox mode. You can save presets and just make your own coustum settings. Its very easy to save and just load up again. I like to tweak some settings and its very usefull for beginners to change some settings. I played for a very long time with +10 skillpoints at the start. Its stuff like this what can really make the game as easy/hard as you want. Large objects (like generators fridge whatever usually over 30+) these objects can fit on cat seats. Even if it says 20 or whatever and its 40 weight. As long as the seat was empty before any single item can be placed on it. When in a car Press Z to get a car menu to switch seats or select your car door where you want to exit. When in or near a car press v to get a menu for easy car interaction Learn more weapon skills. Dont focus on 1 skill. Use different weapons. Its always nice to have some skill in like short blunt. Also carry backup weapons. Weapon durability is very rng and sometimes weapons with like 40% break in like 8 hits or might last like 30 more... ALWAYS have some backups and keep an eye out for backup weapons. You can never have enough... And its fun to try something else. Bladed weapons (axe, short blade, long blade and spears) damage zombie clothes very easy. If you see a zombie with a cool outfit or clothes try to kill it with some type of short/long blunt weapon to lower the chance of creating holes or ruining the clothes Scarfs are very very good. Even tho they give much heat and it might be hot in summer, wear them. The neck protection is very very usefull and it can save your life. A neck wound bleeds very fast and you will die very quickly if you have a neck wound. Normal cuts can bleed like 3 minutes and you will be fine. A neck wound is like 20 seconds and your dead or at terminal damage. ALWAYS wear scarfs and keep them. They get ruined at 1 hole so make sure you grab every single one. It will save your life Cooking is great! Try it. Its very funny the disgusting stuff you can make. Want a burger with peanut butter and bananna with mayo, hot sauce, lard, butter, soy sauce, tomato ketchup, tomato paste and honey. Sure you can make it😂😂 also cooking saves up a lot of high calorie/fat items. Its also good for maintaining weight or gaining/losing weight. (Also perk nutristionist it very handy. Pick it and just look at everything. The values and very usefull to know)
That only shows the books you already read, not the ones You have but haven't read, anyway there is a mod for that. And yeah weak stomach will kill you with just one berry unless you eat medical herbs.
The fact that i knew every single one of these tells me I've played too much of this game. 900+ hrs in, and I still learn new things about this game tho.
I'll throw in two. You can remove curtains manually to maintain that look, instead of that sheet look. The bourbon bottle is apparently the largest container of water. Water bottles come in different sizes and bourbon is the biggest. Bigger than the bleach.
and don't mix up with "take off curtains", since it'll turn curtains into sheet, you should instead pick them up as if they were a furniture and place them like a furniture
if im not wrong, the 75% boost with the traits is not a 75%, but a x4 the first lvl boost and a x1.5 the second lvl. This meaning that, is better to have 1 lvl boost with many skills, than having 2 or 3 lvl boosts in one skill.
I'm sweaty enough to say that if you pushed a zombie down and he falls to the ground, you can absolutely flex to your friends by sitting on a still alize zombie lying on the ground.
The spike baseball bat can be fixed by nails but there is a limit for it, if you always fix it by nails the chance is smaller and eventually will break your baseball bat
what mod allows you to see the generator and corpse while carrying them like at 1:35 and 1:38? because the ones I've used just have your arms down with the corpse bag or generator infront of the character
Chad TV shutins hardly notice the helicopter events and don't even discover there's a zombie apocalypse until Life and Living stops broadcasting, forcing them, in a true sign of the apocalypse, to go out and touch grass.
Yo, the tip for getting new windows? You get the sub and the thumb up just for that! It annoys me to no end that I get my windows broken into my base, and how derelict it looks after that. Thanks man!
I can't be the only one who always turns Twiggy's into a fortress My every character is a melee based alcoholic, everytime I start a new game I end up with like 120 kills in the first 2 days and get absolutely wasted
One thing that most people don't realize is that drinking Alcohol drains your fatigue. The character will feel sleepy faster when you drink alcohol, so it's pretty bad since you can't go out and loot while maximizing time.
Great info! Thanks! I only have trouble with getting enough calories late-game. What's a good way to get a lot of calories besides the ice-cream/butter/chips from loot? Is cabbage and fish the best way?
Love your videos Komp. Even though I knew everything in the video (besides the fact that YOU CAN REPLACE WINDOWS) I still loved watching it. You rock man and you deserve more attention
Small correction on the farming diseases tip. It doesn't have to be spaces of 2 tiles, only 1. And for some reason it doesn't count when placed diagonally. So if you plant your seeds in a chess pattern you are fine. Source: I have 1400 hours of playtime
Alcohol will also act like sleeping pills, making you sleepy and allowing you to sleep despite being in agony and whatnot. Another tip is this still works if even you only drink a little bit so drink a 1/4 of alcohol then press esc to cancel.
Didn't know about using nails to fix the bats, don't tend to craft weapons much. Was actually looking to change that when the new update drops, so I'll have to look into whether or not that's still a thing then. Never considered just replacing a window, wonder if you can use that to put windows on player made structures. Rather like my little wooden cabins in the woods. xD
in one of my longest, running games, my character bambi always buries the zeds she kills. it just feels right. those were her neighbors, yknow? i would love to be able to make crosses with names on them so i could name the zeds. they were just like me once.
My friend and I learned about corpse sickness the hard way. We setup in rosewood firestation killed all the zombies then put them in a big pile so they warent everywhere... yeh we died the next few days!
I knew almost everything except for diseased crops (bc I don't farm) and baseball bats, I think it's gonna be my main melee from now on now I know I don't have to worry much about durability.
I like the challenge of insane population. It is harder to create camp fires or make a molotov than burning a house to the ground. You simply have to bait the hordes first, then put metal kitchen utensils in the microwave. #projectzomboid
Eating a berry that is poisonous will now kill you if you don't have lemongrass to counter act it. One of the more undervalued tips is to disinfect bandages by using water boiling in a stove or over a fire. One of the most useful survival tips is learning how to fence cheese kill zeddies. When they start their animation to jump over a fence, you can push them off the fence if you time it right, avoiding the lung attack entirely. Another useful trick is that when your weapon starts to deal significantly less damage due to sleepy, pain, stress etc, your foot stomps will still do a lot of damage, so if you can push a zeddie over, you can still kill it in 1-3 hits if you're stomping the head. You can use virtually any weapon to chop down trees but bladed weapons are more effective, just swing at the tree till you hear a chopping sound. Will take about 11 swings with a meat cleaver for reference. In the early game, its actually better to _open all your windows_ till you can barricade them so they are never broken, but this is likely nothing something a beginner can do since you'll need to understand how to consecutively head-stomp kill zeddies that dump themselves through your windows.
there are 3 berries that are always good to eat, you need to know them ! No more need the herbalist mag ! (I could tell it to you but i'm not an english speaker so I don't know their name in english)
A tip from me for anyone who sees the comment. When driving offroad your vehicle will shift gears as normal, but your car will never downshift so if you are in a high gear while driving offroad you will go slower. To fix this just tap the gas pedal again and you will downshift to the appropriate gear. This will help you get some extra torque to push through zombies or tow your heavy load/car through.
@@engineerbeta1515Funny cause thats how some cars with bad transmissions are when driving and shifting gears, tapping the gas tends to shift it, so that's cool its applicable.
bourbon:
- weapon - molotov
- drink - not the best, but will do the job
- food - 1500 calories
- disinfectant
- mood booster
- painkiller
- bottle after u drink or use it, from what I know it has the best weight to capacity ratio from all the bottles
so yeah, a swiss army knife of zomboid, but in a funnier way
speaking of bottle don't forget the broken bottle weapon
@@NickDoom35 is that a mod?
@@Herrastööno but I don’t think you can actually break a bottle to make it a weapon you can find them in trash cans tho
Remarkable pvp weapon. Look up Zomboid bottle incident! It changed how I play pvp. I always have at least 2 bottles to chuck at people. Literally better than guns if you have no aim.
And don't forget, the bourbon bottle is particularly special, as it is a glass bottle. If you find yourself in a survival situation and you need water, all you need to do is fill it from a water source, build a fire, put it in the fire, and bam. Clean drinking water in a pinch.
I have over 300 hours and im only now finding out I can replace windows and clean blood
the windows thing is news to me and i came in thinking id know everything
@@jaeslow6347 Is it worth buying?
And here’s me thinking I need a mod to do that…
I wish I knew getting bloodied and dirty was killing my characters earlier. Having all that grime was infecting my wounds
I been trying to figure that out a few days ago. Cuz I want to be sanitary at my base.
I've got over 100 hours in game, yet not once did I realize you could clean up blood and replace windows with a crowbar. Like a Telltale character, I will remember that.
I have 1300 hours and this just blew my mind lol
Like a Telltale one? You're going to heck up your 100 days survival, don't you?
@@Happy_Sailor639 If Clementine can do it, so can I. Hopefully
I knew about cleaning blood pretty early on, but I didn't discover that I could replace windows until later. The one thing in this video that I didn't already know was that one thing about the baseball bats being repairable with nails. THAT I didn't know until I was today years old.
remember seeing a reddit post with someone confused they lost their character to fever when they didnt get bitten - they had no idea about corpse sickness
i see posts like that all the time, most of the time it's people that dont know that scratches and lacerations also have a chance to infect, other times it's either corpse sickness or some dynamic traits related bullshittery.
as someone who used dynamic traits i gave up on that pile of shit, got myself better trait mods after the modder had a butthurt moment and changed a lot of shit nobody asked for
@@KyubiHitashiwho asked?.
@@Rofflestomper who asked u
@@KyubiHitashi you when you went on about something stupid.
1:00 or so - Brooms, mops, dish towels, bath towels all work. Broom / mop even has an animation which is pretty cool.
4:55 ish - I want to say the rain barrel cannot be *directly* above the sink, but rather has to be offset by 1 tile?
you also eat with a spoon/fork if you have equip those rather than bringing the food to your mouth.
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I had a mod that made that automatic if they were in inventory, but that is no longer the case and I keep forgetting. So my character is back to being that poor sod licking out a tin can :(
@@FunkThompson the good ol bring the entire soupe pot to your mouth
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 Directly off the stove, while still boiling. It's fine. AHHHHH!!!! Delish. IT BURNS!! Really good stuff, this.
Let’s be real the most hidden mechanic is having friends
To add a few things:
- Being Inside/outside opposite to a pile of bodies prevents you from getting sick (corpses outside, you inside and viceversa)
- When looking for books, I always carry an annotated paper with names and volumes or each book I'm missing.
- When setting up water collectors you don't really need carpentry and to craft them, there are hollow metal drums at the entrance of LV, wich hold twice as much as the wooden barrels (400 vs 800), just take the logs out and take the barrel home!
- Alcohol can also reduce your panic with a small sip of it, exactly like beta blockers
- Empty bourbon bottles (again alcohol, best items) hold a bot more water than all the other bottles in vanilla game while weighing a bit less (12.5 units vs 10 units, weighing 0.7 vs 0.8 Full)
Great video as always.
No, you do not need to be in front of a mirror to use a razor. I dont even have a mirror (no mods either) and I can shave just fine. In fact, I can shave while still wearing my motorcycle helmet.
@@APackOfHungryGhosts maybe the mirror is from a mod then, I was pretty sure you needed one. The helmet yeah PZ only thinks about your clothes when foraging, nothing else
@@APackOfHungryGhosts let's talk about vanilla gameplay, before jumping straight to mods, since those can bring mechanics that sometimes are not intended to be in original gameplay
Shaving or hair cutting in VANILLA always require a mirror to either be in your inventory or to be near the character as a placeable object
@@chevk I beg to differ. Things have changed a lot. Go try it on Vanilla. Disable all your mods (because I play with NONE) and notice that you can shave with a razor in the middle of nowhere with no mirror for miles.
@@chevk Nope. Only makeup requires a mirror (wall or handheld) in Vanilla PZ. Shaving / cutting only need the tool. Happy survivin'! :)
Fun fact: zombies that have watches can sometimes already have alarms set on their watches, which can go off and draw in more zombies. Always grab watches off zombies near your base and make sure there are no alarms set on them already.
Could be a mod i have that does this, but worth a mention anyway
Nope, that's a vanilla feature.
Also, forgot to include normal alarm clocks found in homes.
Died a few times cause of that myself.
While it is not very common to run into an alarm clock in a home on lower settings, common and above is insanity, constant beeping, ringing in every corner of the city every few hours. 😅
read an electronics book and keep a screwdriver on hand so you can take the watches apart
Zombies can't hear watches on zombies
I know for a fact this would have surprised me and I would have had a situation. Thank you for sharing.
Information: If you loot a pharmacy or hospital early on & find some cotton balls, dousing said cotton balls with disinfectant or alcohol is the best. It leaves you with less pain compared to using alcohol wipes or pouring a lot more disinfectant/alcohol on a wound. Always carry 2-3 doused cotton balls if you can, 2-3 sterilized bandages, painkiller, needle, thread, tweezer/suture needle holder & 1-2 suture needles. I always keep 4-5 leather strips on me for repairing holes in tailored clothing too immediately.
I just started playing PZ, and I legit carried that same combination you suggested because you have to keep it on hand when roaming.
Too much pain while disinfectant is useless in PZ :(
@@Rouennes if you use cotton balls in alcohol + pain killers it can reduce severe pain to minor pain for a couple ingame hours
KNOWLEDGE SUPPLEMENT: Did you know that if you miss any of the shows on the Life and Living channel, you can find VHS tapes of those same shows in the video store and watch them when you want to? Antique televisions don't have VHS players, but the more modern televisions do.
On top of that, you can actually watch the vhs version anyway, even if you did watch the show on the tv, and get even more exp
@@sillyking1991 and even more on top of that, you can watch multiple VHS tapes at once. And don't forget to read the books before watching!
@@Mahashma i mean, fair. But watching them at once doesnt increase the amount of exp you get, just how quickly you get it.
@@Mahashma question is can you get another TV, set up next to that TV and watch two tapes at once XD
@@sillyking1991 this is true, but if you're pressed for time...
Remember to have redundant sheet ropes for your safehouse because I think I heard that zombies could destroy them. Along with that, make sure the window you place a rope doesn't have a door or window directly below, because if zombies happen to be bashing on it you'll descend right into them. For clearing hordes, set up a trapped building if you can. Preferably a building already looted and is of no more use, barricade it up except a door and a way to escape out the back, lure in the horde and get them inside either by using yourself or a noise making device like an alarm clock. Once you make it out quickly board the front door a bit and toss a molotov at it.
the generator tells you too "dangerous indoors - will fill room up with fumes."
yep this is one of the mechanics that are litterally not hidden
Two naked former lovebird zombies went on a vandalism spree in my designated safehouse and destroyed some windows and a door. Thanks for the crowbar tip, this way I can repair the windows
2:12 the bonus for the first level is actually way higher than 75%. without any bonuses, you have a penalty in gaining xp. but 1 level in said skill will remove the penalty and add the 75% on top of that
yea, baseic XP multipiler is 25% and those bonuses add up to that making them in fact times 4, times 5, and times 6 bonuses recpectivly.
it doesn't work that way for weapon skills - as there are many other factors that affect XP gain
the base rate for XP is 25%, so taking one level in a skill from the character creation menu actually gives 3x more XP, which really isn't explained by the UI but the effect is very noticeable during gameplay.
it also stacks with the XP bonus from skillbooks, so having one level from CC and reading the skill book actually gives a total of 9X XP until level 2, 15X for 2-4, 24X for 4-6, 36X for 6-8, and 48X for 8-10.
due to the way XP works in zomboid, taking more than one level in a skill from CC is wasteful, as the difference between 3x and 4-5x is negligible, and trying to level any skill you didn't get a level in from the CC is almost completely pointless (unless you're aiming for a specific goal, like elec1 mech2 so you can hotwire cars, which is worth doing but will take a LONG time)
You actually get 25/100/133/166% for whatever reason. Except for Sprinting which has a higher starting and smaller level 1 multiplier bump. I think it's 100/125/133/166.
But other skills may be worth taking higher than 1 because the difference between 400% (of base) and 533% (of base) is a little nicer than the Numbers provided in game.
Unfortunately, Fitness & Strength are exempt from this bonus, so keep that in mind when creating a character.
Not to mention they are both very grindy skills to increase in-game, along with Nimble.
@@kryzx8000 the benefits of taking "strong" + "athletic" are so powerful its often worth sacrificing everything else to take them. when combined with axeman you become a god of zombieslaying, able to one-shot zombies and cut down entire hordes with ease. a wood axe with the appropriate skills is better than shotgun-wielding veteran because you never run out of ammo and the axe is quiet.
5:09 it also has a lot of calories. If you’re surviving off of radishes and carrots and the occasional rabbit or whatever you forage, then you will start losing weight. Going to a bar and getting shit-faced can help you maintain a healthy weight.
For me THE most essential skill is the art of herding zombies. Knowing how and when to use shouts/car horns to lure zombies away from a point of interest then breaking line of sight and circling back is going to keep you alive, fed and happy much, MUCH more than trying to cut down an entire horde one by one.
* if you pile corpses onto a single tile almost all of them will burn in 1 go, saving fuel.
* Foraging can be insanely powerful - I have found saws, propane tanks, weapons, skill books, as well as a whole lot of food.
* You can also forage tree branches and chipped stones quite easily for early spears. They have low durability but high killing potential, and can be enhanced by adding screwdrivers etc to them.
* If you time your runs, you can loot around the TV schedule to maximize early game potential. You can also set alarms to wake you so you don't sleep through an episode by accident.
* BOIL YOUR RAGS!! You can't use a bucket, but a saucepan or cooking pot of water in a hot oven will allow you to sterilize rags and bandages.
* Check a vehicle's engine quality and loudness - low quality cars stall more and are harder to start, and loud cars attract zombie from greater distances. It can be worth your time to refurbish a better car rather than drive a deathtrap.
* Vitamins can save your life! Eating an entire bottle can be the difference between drowsy and alive, or tired and dead. Hoover those things down like it's 2004 and you're at a rave.
I did not know about the windows, though. That's cool.
its for that reason I wish a noisemaker outside of a gun existed, like a megaphone you use that can be heard like a car/house alarm
@@TheVoltDenatsu you can use car horns (shout while driving), loud cars, if you're lucky enough to find an emergency vehicle (hotwired or w/key, and a working battery) you can use the sirens.
16/17 only one I didnt know was repairing spiked baseball bat with nails, thanks!!
Don't skip the baseball bat factory in Louisville. There is an easy 200 plus bats in there!
@@bobjohnson1096 god forgive me, please
literally gives you that option if you try to repair it with anything else
@@marekbalciar9092 Forgive and you shall be forgiven! :D
I suppose it would be too broken if you could make baseball bats xb
The XP gain bonus is extremely underrated and underdiscussed. If you want a long-term playthrough you absolutely should be speccing into traits that give you XP bonuses in skills that you consider critical. 1 blunt vs 0 blunt may not seem like a huge deal but just a 75% bonus to XP gain will go a long way.
It's actually a lot bigger bonus than you think. Level 1 is considered default. Level 0 is 25%. Level 1 shows as +75%, putting you at 100%. So it is in fact +3x.
I DAMN KNEW IT WAS POSSIBLE TO CONNECT A WATER COLLECTER WITH UR SINK I DAMN KNEW IT I HAD A FEELING
i've got a mod that tells me if i've found a book already but HOLY CRAP reading the first page is a great way to keep track. i really wish i had thought of this incredibly obvious tip in the 200+ hours i played before i found that mod. it never crossed my mind and would have saved a lot of hassle.
I use the in game sheet of paper or note pad and write out the books I need or have read, same as vhs tapes.
A small add for no 1: You can also use scissors, which pull double duty as a utility tool (even cleanly shave, which is NOT easy to do with scissors irl). Also, certain hairstyles will require you to have hair gel in your inventory, like the pictured spiked mohawk.
kind of hoping that in build 43, theres some common sense things, like that scissors cant clean shave you, the crowbar can automatically open any shut/locked nonbarricaded window, and losing your weapon if you trip/lose your shoe, your character should have an exclamation mark above your head
I knew almost every mechanic mentioned in this video. The unknown one was about starting skill levels. Never noticed how it can affect skill bonuses on what skill level you start. Over 1k hours in the game and I still get to learn something new.
Great video though. Good to refresh my memory during my break from PZ 😁
You can also place corpses in dumpsters and delete them to clean up
0:18 T-pose to assert dominance
Started playing for the first time yesterday, I've been sleeping on this game since it's been stuck in my library since 2018 and now I finally got in. Great video!
How did you die?
I can't just agree with the fact that it's better to glue your ass on floor in front of TV with «Live and Living TV» channel for straight 9 days.
Yes, I can agree that it's a great way to boost your skill levels, but damn - some precious food is rotting somewhere and more zombies spawning each day in quiet and peaceful Rosewood (for example).
The only thing I know for real - you need to do both things depending on your playstyle. In my opinion, you can follow the TV shows' schedule and just go to the next point of interest after watching some shows' episode, and if time is coming up - find your lovely TV and continue watching interesting episodes about cooking or carpentry.
or you ignor the TV show and go for the Vido tapes. All Episodes of teh TV show and some more can be found at Hit Vidos.
watching Life and Living TV for carpentry also makes it very hard to stack the skillbook XP modifiers with the XP gain, its far better in the long term to deliberately not watch any epsiodes, find all the skillbooks and as many VHS episodes as you can, and then watch them in order with the full skillbook XP boost for those levels.
if you do this with one level in carpentry from a character trait, you can easily hit level 7 or 8 in carpentry without ever picking up a hammer.
i'm not entirely sure that watching the episodes when broadcast eliminates any XP gain from the VHS tapes though, so it may be worth doing both.
If you have respawn off and put a game day on 5 or 6 hours, you can clear half of Rosewood in day one while watching all episodes live.
If a game day is 1 hour, live and living is half an ingame hour. If its 6, it ends before 10 minutes pass
@@JedPotts-jv2ux You get separate exp from the broadcasted shows as opposed to the VHS tapes. There's no penalty to watching the shows, it's just free skill exp if you can.
I would argue the skills are better to get. Here's the reasoning - there's still plenty of canned and preserved food. The vegetables and fruit may still be alright too, but the dairy and meat is probably bad.
By a certain point, it is just easier to say fish or trap and to refrigerate all of those meat sources. Vegetables grow themselves passively so little to no work needed there - just harvest them.
It's best to fish at dawn or dusk, but you can just leave your traps for two days in game and recollect them around dusk and forage on the way there and back for some mushrooms and wild crops. Sometimes, you'll also find a frog/freshly dead animal while foraging too.
Inevitably, you run out of food so you have to live off the land eventually anyway.
The relevancy of extra zombies spawning is irrelevant as they're more of a nuisance than genuine threat especially if you're just cooped up in your house with all of your windows and doors covered by curtains and sheets. They don't know you're there unless you've alerted them. Helicopter shows up? Just stay inside. Same applies. They're oblivious. Only an issue when you go outside and the zombies will follow the helicopter that leaves too.
Rain collectors can be placed on top of or offset by one to the sink or even washing machines if you want to use them. Why is that important? You can have in a perfect setup 9 collectors feeding one sink. They automatically switch when one empties. I try and put as many as I can around sinks. That house at the start is my go to muldraugh base, I can get 6 collectors at that kitchen sink and about 2-3 at the washing machine. Just need to build the outside stairs and flooring correctly.
I never knew that window one. I just ended up living with it and boarding them over. BTW that smashed glass is a very great way to level first aid. You walk over the glass after taking off your boots and by fixing that is an automatic level 1. Have tweezers, needle, thread and (sterilized), bandages or ripped sheets handy, all you need. Do it a couple more times after healing to get an easy 3 levels. Even with slow healer my character had zero issues.
the read the book for one page thing is such a good idea, thanks for that
I knew about everything, man, Im getting desperate for B42 :[
Nice vid as always, missed u, komp!
Regarding the Life & Living channel, if you have the XP & reading boost (both of which I use) and time your reading just right, you can get up to level 6 (that's SIX, so you know it's not a typo) in Carpentry by the time the television stations stop broadcasting. Granted, it often requires a trip to the bookstore and/or school to get Carp vol. 1 - 4. If you can find a woodcraft VHS or two, you can even get to lvl 7. That's _just_ from watching the TV, mind you! It's very nice to have the ability to build the advanced water collectors a mere 8 days in and without having to disassemble or build anything.
that crowbar window tip is an absolute life saver for me, thank you!
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You can disinfectant bandages and rags with a boiling pot or saucepan of water in a stove, which can save you some alcohol
did you know:
Corpse piles can effect cars and can send them tumbling or flying when driven over
atleast they do when i drive
I definitely would have gotten myself killed by generator fumes if I didn't know the game simulated them. Same from the corpse sickness.
The berry testing method is smart.
That plumbing option is insane.
Thank you for sharing these.
First day I try and hit school. bookstore, post office for books .
I don't sleep for the first week just read and and watch TV on fast forward.
When the chopper comes I take a nap and head out when its gone.
0:00 the biggest understatement when talking about project zomboid
I love this format! I really enjoyed how in later scenes the fence you built stayed there. The burnt oven was super funny xD
Huh, didn't know about the windows and never considered adding barricades on the inside as well. Thanks!
I dunno if I agree with the last tip. The first few days are crucial, and every hour should be used to properly establish yourself. You can always find VHS tapes and level up at your own leisure, later on.
Those VHS tapes still give XP even if you watched the TV show, so you're still missing out on some bonus
unless you spawn somewhere disastrous, you should be able to loot your neighbours and catch the shows at the same time. It's a BIG boost to early cooking and carpentry skills, which will save you a lot of time in the long run, and will help stretch food stocks out earlier.
As soon as I spawn I head straight to a tv as a show starts immediately. First thing to do.
I try play on survival mode and cant even stay alive for 1 day lmao i just go play builder mode now
You forgot to mention that metal sheets can be used as window barricades too
> most importantly, disinfect
That is like the *least* important part lmao. Not only is it completely useless, but if you want to RP with disinfecting actually doing something; you can boil water and use that to disinfect bandages.
Disinfecting is really useful as it will remove a level of wound infection which means that the healing process will not be slowed. Sterilizing bandages is even better because dirty bandages heal you at 1/8 the speed and sterilized bandages stay clean for twice as long so you dont spend as much time injured
I knew most of these but the skill + their bonuses in chara creation. I think I kinda understood it but never really connected it fully so thanks for that help! 900+ hours and I'm still learning new things. This game is so nice!
3:31 not sure if its still a thing but only barricading the inside of doors and windows as well as putting up a sheet will prevent stragglers from coming up to knock on them. It's something to do with the zomboids detecting player built structures.
For the life and living station, if you start a brand new world at 2 am, there should be a fishing show on.
this was a fun video. I knew most of these but it was fun to hear some I didn't know! And most of these were things I learned 400+ hours in. Always glad to see peeps helping new people out!
Generators can no longer fully finish your character. It will be stuck at very low health
Awh that's dumb
Time to make a mod
im glad i learned about corpse sickness now lol, i have like 30 corpses piled next to the fence i use for cheesing them
Did you know that you can use tissues to mute your sneezes by putting them into your inventory
Learned that two days ago after 200hrs of gameplay so you're welcome xD
3:25 there is a button on the "heart" and then Info and you can click recepies and it will give you a list og every skillbook, magazine, vhs and cd you have or havent read...
4:00 dont do that. 1 wrong berry can kill you. I have done that. It was one of my first time foraging and one of my first berries. I ate 1 and it was game over. Yeah I had weak stomach (free points since it very very easy to work around it. Never eat bad/unknown/raw food)
Some more tips I have
I generally play on sandbox mode. You can save presets and just make your own coustum settings. Its very easy to save and just load up again. I like to tweak some settings and its very usefull for beginners to change some settings. I played for a very long time with +10 skillpoints at the start. Its stuff like this what can really make the game as easy/hard as you want.
Large objects (like generators fridge whatever usually over 30+) these objects can fit on cat seats. Even if it says 20 or whatever and its 40 weight. As long as the seat was empty before any single item can be placed on it.
When in a car Press Z to get a car menu to switch seats or select your car door where you want to exit.
When in or near a car press v to get a menu for easy car interaction
Learn more weapon skills. Dont focus on 1 skill. Use different weapons. Its always nice to have some skill in like short blunt. Also carry backup weapons. Weapon durability is very rng and sometimes weapons with like 40% break in like 8 hits or might last like 30 more... ALWAYS have some backups and keep an eye out for backup weapons. You can never have enough... And its fun to try something else.
Bladed weapons (axe, short blade, long blade and spears) damage zombie clothes very easy. If you see a zombie with a cool outfit or clothes try to kill it with some type of short/long blunt weapon to lower the chance of creating holes or ruining the clothes
Scarfs are very very good. Even tho they give much heat and it might be hot in summer, wear them. The neck protection is very very usefull and it can save your life. A neck wound bleeds very fast and you will die very quickly if you have a neck wound. Normal cuts can bleed like 3 minutes and you will be fine. A neck wound is like 20 seconds and your dead or at terminal damage. ALWAYS wear scarfs and keep them. They get ruined at 1 hole so make sure you grab every single one. It will save your life
Cooking is great! Try it. Its very funny the disgusting stuff you can make. Want a burger with peanut butter and bananna with mayo, hot sauce, lard, butter, soy sauce, tomato ketchup, tomato paste and honey. Sure you can make it😂😂 also cooking saves up a lot of high calorie/fat items. Its also good for maintaining weight or gaining/losing weight. (Also perk nutristionist it very handy. Pick it and just look at everything. The values and very usefull to know)
the first tip and the one about using Z in a car are insanely useful, thanks homie!
As long as you don't have weak stomach a single berry won't kill you, as far as I know.
That only shows the books you already read, not the ones You have but haven't read, anyway there is a mod for that.
And yeah weak stomach will kill you with just one berry unless you eat medical herbs.
The fact that i knew every single one of these tells me I've played too much of this game.
900+ hrs in, and I still learn new things about this game tho.
you get more xp if you dont watch the tv the first week and use the vhs tapes that way you can have the skill books read between shows
To add to the corpse sickness tip:
You can go up or down a single flight of stairs, and the corpses will no longer affect you.
3:15 I personally carry a note and write down all the books I'm missing 😂
Man im so happy you are back
5:12 can't forget that it increases confidence so you dont get panic, and also makes you tired.
I'll throw in two.
You can remove curtains manually to maintain that look, instead of that sheet look.
The bourbon bottle is apparently the largest container of water. Water bottles come in different sizes and bourbon is the biggest.
Bigger than the bleach.
and don't mix up with "take off curtains", since it'll turn curtains into sheet, you should instead pick them up as if they were a furniture and place them like a furniture
Thank you for saving my base aesthetics 💜
Bro just t-pose slides away 💀
if im not wrong, the 75% boost with the traits is not a 75%, but a x4 the first lvl boost and a x1.5 the second lvl. This meaning that, is better to have 1 lvl boost with many skills, than having 2 or 3 lvl boosts in one skill.
5:25 Whoa. Good thing I watched this before starting to play.
I'm sweaty enough to say that if you pushed a zombie down and he falls to the ground, you can absolutely flex to your friends by sitting on a still alize zombie lying on the ground.
I love how the oven went from burnt salmon to a charred corner of the room 😆
The spike baseball bat can be fixed by nails but there is a limit for it, if you always fix it by nails the chance is smaller and eventually will break your baseball bat
what mod allows you to see the generator and corpse while carrying them like at 1:35 and 1:38? because the ones I've used just have your arms down with the corpse bag or generator infront of the character
Skizot's Carryable Everything I believe.
The windows crowbar part was the only thing I haven't learned after almost 400 hrs and 6 months of survival in my current game.
3:15 it also exists a mod that automatically marks the books you read, started to read and you need to read
Chad TV shutins hardly notice the helicopter events and don't even discover there's a zombie apocalypse until Life and Living stops broadcasting, forcing them, in a true sign of the apocalypse, to go out and touch grass.
Yo, the tip for getting new windows? You get the sub and the thumb up just for that! It annoys me to no end that I get my windows broken into my base, and how derelict it looks after that. Thanks man!
I can't be the only one who always turns Twiggy's into a fortress
My every character is a melee based alcoholic, everytime I start a new game I end up with like 120 kills in the first 2 days and get absolutely wasted
Most important question: what are the names of the mods you are using to show corpses/generators while you are carrying them?
Probably Skizot's Carryable Everything.
@@friedmandesigns It is, tyvm!
One thing that most people don't realize is that drinking Alcohol drains your fatigue. The character will feel sleepy faster when you drink alcohol, so it's pretty bad since you can't go out and loot while maximizing time.
Generators don't kill anymore they take you to 1% health but never lower
Lie.
I have died because of a generator in a building before.
@@gabrielgreen7643 recently?
Great info! Thanks! I only have trouble with getting enough calories late-game. What's a good way to get a lot of calories besides the ice-cream/butter/chips from loot? Is cabbage and fish the best way?
I feel like barricading the inner side only is making them less interested to attack your base than you barricading the outside
Love your videos Komp. Even though I knew everything in the video (besides the fact that YOU CAN REPLACE WINDOWS) I still loved watching it. You rock man and you deserve more attention
Small correction on the farming diseases tip. It doesn't have to be spaces of 2 tiles, only 1. And for some reason it doesn't count when placed diagonally. So if you plant your seeds in a chess pattern you are fine. Source: I have 1400 hours of playtime
Alcohol will also act like sleeping pills, making you sleepy and allowing you to sleep despite being in agony and whatnot. Another tip is this still works if even you only drink a little bit so drink a 1/4 of alcohol then press esc to cancel.
I saw my first Spiffo Zombie in the mall, I died immediately after.
i didnt know about that xp boost detail. thanks!
Generators arent what fully kill you, they get your hp very low and other damage is what finishes you
Didn't know about using nails to fix the bats, don't tend to craft weapons much. Was actually looking to change that when the new update drops, so I'll have to look into whether or not that's still a thing then. Never considered just replacing a window, wonder if you can use that to put windows on player made structures. Rather like my little wooden cabins in the woods. xD
Just remember that alarms are obviously noisy, and so will attract unwanted attention if any zeds are nearby...
in one of my longest, running games, my character bambi always buries the zeds she kills. it just feels right. those were her neighbors, yknow? i would love to be able to make crosses with names on them so i could name the zeds. they were just like me once.
My friend and I learned about corpse sickness the hard way. We setup in rosewood firestation killed all the zombies then put them in a big pile so they warent everywhere... yeh we died the next few days!
The title is so anticlickbait I love it lol, underrated channel overall great vid
I knew almost everything except for diseased crops (bc I don't farm) and baseball bats, I think it's gonna be my main melee from now on now I know I don't have to worry much about durability.
The only thing I didn't know was that you could replace windows with a crowbar, sick.
I like the challenge of insane population. It is harder to create camp fires or make a molotov than burning a house to the ground. You simply have to bait the hordes first, then put metal kitchen utensils in the microwave. #projectzomboid
I thought most of this were common knowledge, still I didn't knew or at least remember about the crowbar interaction with the windows
3:20 there is a option in your character menu to see what books and magazines you have read.
It will also tell you when you look at books or magazines if you have read them or not. Unread/read
Shaving does make a difference, defiantly more aerodynamic when I fight.
Aerodynamics is one thing, but the hydrodynamics in the rain shaved bald is OP.
Amusement: Now you need to paint racing stripes on you. Don't forget, they need to be red!
Eating a berry that is poisonous will now kill you if you don't have lemongrass to counter act it.
One of the more undervalued tips is to disinfect bandages by using water boiling in a stove or over a fire.
One of the most useful survival tips is learning how to fence cheese kill zeddies. When they start their animation to jump over a fence, you can push them off the fence if you time it right, avoiding the lung attack entirely.
Another useful trick is that when your weapon starts to deal significantly less damage due to sleepy, pain, stress etc, your foot stomps will still do a lot of damage, so if you can push a zeddie over, you can still kill it in 1-3 hits if you're stomping the head.
You can use virtually any weapon to chop down trees but bladed weapons are more effective, just swing at the tree till you hear a chopping sound. Will take about 11 swings with a meat cleaver for reference.
In the early game, its actually better to _open all your windows_ till you can barricade them so they are never broken, but this is likely nothing something a beginner can do since you'll need to understand how to consecutively head-stomp kill zeddies that dump themselves through your windows.
there are 3 berries that are always good to eat, you need to know them ! No more need the herbalist mag ! (I could tell it to you but i'm not an english speaker so I don't know their name in english)
@@Rouennes I know them already.
A generator inside a house won't kill you, but will lower your healt to a 25%
Ive been waiting 4 years for NPCs survivors 😅
reading the first page of a skillbook, good tip, thanks :)
Alcohol also temporarily increases your strength.
barricading the outside of a window attracts zombies, the inside doesn't
he returns
I have over 1000 hours and it puts a smile on my face knowing every one of these facts
A tip from me for anyone who sees the comment.
When driving offroad your vehicle will shift gears as normal, but your car will never downshift so if you are in a high gear while driving offroad you will go slower. To fix this just tap the gas pedal again and you will downshift to the appropriate gear. This will help you get some extra torque to push through zombies or tow your heavy load/car through.
@@engineerbeta1515Funny cause thats how some cars with bad transmissions are when driving and shifting gears, tapping the gas tends to shift it, so that's cool its applicable.