As a newbie player to project zomboid even basic living in the smaller towns is challenge enough but I’m sure if and when I get better I’d like to try a run or two strictly in louisville
Playing solo in default Apocalypse setting, going to Louisville is definitely a suicide mission. I can't even survive longer than a week in Rosewood or Riverside. Lol.
The problem to live in louisville is that we need to basically have already won the game to move there making the whole process pointless. I'd say it is worth it if playing with a big group and you want a more urban gameplay experience. Doing it solo is just a self imposed challenge.
I usually start off in one of the smaller towns and then build up supplies, load it up in a vehicle, and then make my way to Louisville. There is an apartment building right next to a tv studio, I think it's a news station. It makes a pretty good base and with the tv station right next door, you have a large building to escape through if things get bad due to a helicopter event. A good thing to do is use a few homes scattered around Louisville as mini bases too, so you don't lose the main one to a horde during a helicopter event. Have no idea if Louisville will be a good idea whenever NPCs are added into the game, I know at first it'll be animals, but human NPCs might make Louisville far too dangerous. Depends on the type of NPCs added, if military NPCs are added, Louisville would turn into a deadly game of hide and seek.
I play like that too, and I always base up in one of those big rich mansions on the west part of Louisville. Most of them can be easily fortified, they have a river for fishing and are relatively close to the hospital and downtown
Actually lore wise, military aren't the bad guys. Unlike many zombie movies, they are actually trying to save people. In the initial days of outbreak, they set up a perimeter and restrict entering the area, but for first few days, they would still let you through the border and save you, if you didn't show any signs of being bitten or hurt. Later, when the initial border gets overrun, they move all the people they saved away from the danger and actually drive through the nearby cities and pick up those who are alive and protect them. They would only become hostile for a few days when the virus starts spreading internationally, but later, they realize that some people have partial immunity against the virus, and from that point onwards, they'd become friendly again. It's only a shame all the lore of the game is just seen through news channels and not the gameplay itself, as it feels kinda odd when Louisville should be completely fine until day 9, yet when you go there on day 1, it is infected either way. Only thing it really does is, from that point onwards the radio and TV will buzz to cover up the plot holes, but I feel like it's a cheap design. I doubt the developers will ever take the time to actually make Louisville a normal town for the initial 9 day period.
I play a server where i sometimes talk with random people over the Ham-Radio. People can be pretty hostile in person so i take this option. Had some young fellas that gone to Louisville and in the start they lost 3 guys. (5 total) other 2 were desperate for supplies though it was a trap. But anyway just dropped some loot near and head back giving them the location of the drop and they were happy with it. They holded up in one of the buildings near the enterance of Louisville i heard and they told me they were gonna go deeper in the city to look for their friends. Told: "Son ur making a deathwish" they said its gonna be fine. Last time i heard them use the radio. Don't go to LV unless ur got a army of supplies and men. Thousands of them. I'm pretty sure of it...
@@outforlunch1258 we play like standard settings but with mods like Only cure, some detail mods and good storage fix and a couple of lore friendly towns/car shops :) no worries i know how dangerous LV can be
One thing makes LV worth it: The high chance of finding Skinny Leather Trousers. They're absolutly nuts for leg defence especially when you get high tailoring
The area between big warehouse and wire company is pretty good for safe house, only a few zombies and it's very close to gas station and downtown, I always made my base there.
I feel like Louisville is really intimidating for new players, leading to them turtling up in one town and getting bored with the game. Personally, while Project Zomboid is a good game on vanilla settings, it's always a good idea for me to play on sandbox options in order to change some of the unfair stuff, which usually solves the problem.
@@harrissonaguirre5810 Usually disabling zombies dragging you down, enabling zombies triggering house alarms, making infection only through bites, stuff like that. It's mostly my personal preference though, since it makes the game more fun for me.
Yeah I'm fairly new (though played 92 hours on the first few weeks) owner of the game and the biggest enthusiasm went away, but now trying my best to live as long as I can as myself. Gave myself all the flaws and traits that fit the real me, my own name, my looks. It feels somehow much more serious to try and see how long you'd actually last. I also tweaked all the sandbox settings to what I feel like would be the most realistic. That melee weapons would be more plentiful than by default, zombies indeed triggering house alarms too etc. I also reduced the amount of zombies to 0.26 as, according to some reddit investigations of the zed population, Rosewood+Prison: 5500 zombies by default... So since the real Rosewood Kentucky has a population of 1,489 - 26% of 5500 puts Rosewood at around 1430 zombies. No respawns. I imagine I won't run out of zombies any time soon either way. After this, I'll go with the regular zombie counts though.
As someone whose actually had a good 3 years of time in game surviving solo in the commercial district of Louisville, it’s not as bad as some people expect if you’ve prepared decently beforehand
Had my favorite experience in project zomboid on Louisville. Tried to throw a Molotov into a huge building full to the brim of zombies. I got inside to make sure it went somewhere good and my lighter didn’t work, as well as matches, so I had to run throw all of them to get back out, went into an office, they were right behind me so I went around some desks bolted out the door, literally doing zig zags to avoid them and then no idea how to leave just started opening all the doors for better or worse and I finally get out. Eventually I burn it down but jeez I wet myself figuratively
@@nunya_bizniz I don't think matches work with molotovs? There was this one recent save of mine where my character was bit and I wanted to go out in a literal blaze of glory, not realizing that matches apparently can't be used for lighting molotovs. Maybe OP didn't put the lighter in his offhand? Maybe there wasn't enough units of fluid to be able to light the molotov?
I have a long term run I'm still playing, and I've made my base in north-west Louisville. It's right up against the north-western coast, against the water. It's a manufacturing building that's between the bourbon factory and some big open industrial spaces with pipes. Across the road from this building is a decent sized forest, and then behind that a bunch of residential homes, including some fancy ones. It's the perfect spot. It's in Louisville, and it's relatively close to the good lootable spots in north Louisville. There's infinite fishing behind the building. There's trapping and logs in the forest across the road. It's surrounded by open space and isn't next to any high zombie populated spots. There are two gas stations very close by. The building itself has a double garage entrance and flat rooves for farming and water collection. Just my opinion, but I think it's the best building in the game to make a base.
I've made my base on a trio of mansions with high fence (one have a lake) that have only one entry point to the west in a long corridor. A natural fortress with unlimited stock of water and fish. Makes the game way too easy.
I've made my base in the whiskey distillery, it's close to the river, has a lot of space on roofs and also, if you clear the storage building, you gain a lot of xp from the wooden barrels there. You just have to close two entrances, it is all fenced and it is very close to downtown Louisville. Pretty cool place, only prob is when power shutsdown, pain in the ass getting generators.
@@akumajoe8265 I was gonna make my abse there, but it's just too damn big for me by myself, it would probably be good on multiplayer but it's just huge and unlike the big warehouse you have to drag back shelves or make hella crates
Recently took my wanderer to Louisville on foot and after building the character up and getting the best gear possible the town really isn't that bad. I imagine being on foot has helped me significantly because I'm able to clear blocks slowly without driving in and getting myself surrounded. This character has walked to every major town and spent lots of time in the woods as well so it's going to suck when I get it killed.
I would love to go to Louisville, but playing in insane zed popularity setting, even going to Muldraugh is pretty hard for me… Rosewood is my forever home.
My friend and I turned an apartment building on the marina into a fortress so we can safely fish. Its right next to a ton of shopping centers and getting /into/ the building we had to kill like 600 zombies (still counting, we dug a mass grave to bury them all). Its been fun not having to worry about resource scarcity as much.
Fun fact from a Kentuckian: We pronounced Louisville "Loo-uh-ville" with a soft I sound instead of a long e sound. But thats not all, we also have Versailles pronounced like "ver-sales" and Athens pronouned like "AYthens" Kentucky is an extraordinary place.
Yeah I lived in the dorms at the race track and a couple of apartments near the convention center... This zombie game seems pretty accurate to the current situation.
louiseville is high risk high reward, it have everything and some places have concentration of loots that usually scarce in other cities. For example.. there is a single factory full of baseball bats and there is a single factory full of wires. Then there is the 'amazon' warehouse where you can find from box of jars to rare leather pants. Cars in louiseville is also infinite. It is certainly hard the first time around, but as soon as you know where the zombies gather, know safe places to loot and stay, and get some levels on a weapon, it is liveable, even alone.
When I went up there, I set myself up in a house to the southeast of the outdoor festival. Made for a decent jumping off point after clearing the zombies from the area.
It's definitely just as you said. But if you ever plan on doing so, I would definitely recommend using some plugin that allows you to spawn with potential new character somewhere nearby. Especially if you're a new player. Me and my two friends just moved there about a week ago, which was nice, but the moving was extremely painful... Each of us died at least once, and the fresh start, when TV and electricity are no longer a thing, inside of this crowded city, was extremely hard. Unless you decide to use some game breaking methods like composters.
Muldraugh is a great place, I feel it is the most under rated small town. You have more than enough warehouses to get everything you need to make your base self efficient. Which should ultimately be your end goal, along with clearing places of interest.
Louisville is fun and all, but the modded city 'Raven Creek' is great. My friends and I love playing it and starting in it. You might die a few times spawning in because there's a TON of zombies and it'll spawn you in horrible locations, but damn is it fun
Louisville is great because of it's flexibility: it's something to work up towards as a player since both the entrance in and city itself is laden with loot. A place you can mod yourself a spawn position into and use it as an extreme - difficulty setting. A battleground which tests your skills coming in and sees if you've been paying attention to what Zomboid demands from you; quick reflexes to avoid being chomped from a flanker or quick thinking to dodge a potentially fatal dead-end. All-in-all, it's a place that's flexible and really cool (though funnily enough, tragic) due to the lore behind it as well. Fun fuckin place man. Like a battle island.
The best way to get into the city is checkpoints east of the main entrance to the city. You'll need a sledgehammer or lader to get through, but you won't encounter the big amount of zombies as the main entrance to the city. Plus, if you go from one of the checkpoints to the main entrance, you will find a small town with houses, which the military converted into a command post and surrounded by high fences, you can settle there, security is 100%.
a tip for new players. start in rosewood. find a car and head to the police station. loot all the ammo you can. prefer shotgun shells with a shotgun. save them for now. head towards the highway and go left when you pass the gas station. follow that road all the way. and 1 point you can turn left or keep going straight. keep going straight and follow that road. if you see a gas station you are close to the army surplus store. raid that one for ammo. now head back to rosewood and make a way to the bookstore. find the books you need. if not you can try the school up ahead. probally day 4 or 5 by now. head toward Muldraught ( to the right from the highway ) and raid the police station there. now.. head towards the lumber base. ( this is even better if you managed to find carpentry books ) and if you are lucky the helicopter will arrive just on time. just keep driving circles till the event stops. and now take out your shotgun and power level aiming. while they are all gone destroy all the crates for carpentry level. ( if you are lucky you find a sledgehammer wich comes usefull in the next part ) after all that is done and you have a sledgehammer ( if not that works too ) head towards West Point. now in Westpoint there is a GIGA-Mart for easy food acces. and a police station. ( wich you can raid obviously ) and a weapon/ammo store behind the pub. ( this is where the sledgehammer comes in ) raid both or any one. make a small base in the pub. and now you can start planning your way towards Louisville and still be strong
I play with 2 friends and we ended up finding 3 houses in the south of Louisville completely surrounded by the high fences zombies cant jump over and sealed the only way in with a box truck. Its pretty nice. Only get random groups here and there so we can work on our houses and cars in peace for now haha.
There is a large warehouse with roof access to place a generator about two blocks northeast of the Gigamart with the gas pumps entering Louisville, it has two entrances and it is surrounded by an indestructible fence, there is also a small gas station nearby aswell (literally in the same block), a really neat place for a base, some friends and I live there in our private server.
The freight warehouses in the north west of Central LV by the Fossoil plant aren't a bad place to hunker down. There is an ungodly amount of metal racking that me and my buddy moved from the warehouse floor up into the offices. They were full of everything you'd need: clothes, books, baseball bats, food, mechanical goods. The security booths to the Fossoil plant also have a couple guns and plenty of ammo. We renovated the whole upstairs office area to include a kitchen, armoury, library and are currently working on a gym with some treadmills we took from the firestation. It will take some time but once your set up, making runs back into the center of LV takes minutes even without a car. Plus there is a gas station a block away. The high chainlink fences all around mean there's only one way in for zeds so security is easy to manage. If anyone's looking for a long-term place to hold out, give it a try.
there are so many cool places where you can make your base, the houses next to the river, the mansions in the center of the city, there is a building that has a fountain that works great as a body of water, the shoping...
The mansions on the Ohio River on the south-west side of Louisville has to be my favorite place to base. Natural barrier with the river and the mansion I prefer has the 3 door garage.
for me this game i fell in love as fast as i got bored of it... theres really nothing to do but anything, each spawn feels identical, theres a few strategies to hoard zombies and thats it
Its more of a simulator/sandbox than an actual game. Kind of have to set your own goals, but taking risks is discouraged since a single bite will end your run. Hopefully NPCs will change this when they get added in the next 20 years or so.
This video sounds like an AD made by a Louisville zombie trying to get more careless survivors to come to Louisville “Yeah there’s some zombies but don’t worry bout it! We got plenty of supplies easily for a few years worth!”
I like Rosewood as starting point. I already cleared the whole city and have plenty to survive winter even. Though, Im thinking about having a base per town
You have to go to Louisville early, within 10 days of the start. That’s when zombie is not as high. Louisville is very much worth the effort because of the amount of loot there. You can live on can food for a year. 1/4 of the city can well support a player. You just need to be very good at killing zombies. After almost 400 hours played in this game, Louisville is a must go to place for me. Other places just cannot satisfy my greed.
I like living in the three gated houses to the south-east of Louisville. Only one way in to the area and it's a tight, 2-tile wide gap, and you can jump the fences if there ever is an emergency.
Try going east of the LV military check point. Use the project zomboid map to plan your adventure if you wish. Just be careful to not go by the crossroads mall/ Move theater area. That whole area has a lot of zombies
Me and my group (older brother and best friend) just moved into the American Tire outside of West Point and finished clearing the bridge to Louisville in our private game. We look forward to having adventures in the big city!
I usually play in or near Louisville, Early game start is viable but much more dangerous but as the game progresses Louisville would be able to provide sustenance to everything you might need in the later stages of the game. I recommed living off in the outskirts of the Louiseville mall parking lot, as you are near a construction site, trees, residential buildings for food, tools, and other items, on the southern part, and mechanic resources nearby.
If you hug the far east road in Louisville there's a lot of big mansions with a double door garages and stuff. Not a huge amount of zombies go on that road and if they do easily can be lured away with a car.
I installed a mod that makes me immortal, found a cop car, and went into Louisville with the siren on. It was fun, seeing how many of them just ran around trying to get in.
was travelling to Louisville the first time since playing this game 3 months ago and holy shit the amount of ammo I found in the outer checkpoint is just mindblowing.
Louisville is such a great base location. If I want to live on the outskirts, the houses by the river in northwest is good and the three fenced in houses with a pond in the east is great. These areas are great for beginners and newcomers of Louisville. Its more rewarding to live in the city in my opinion though. A S tier base and where I’m currently at is a townhome community in the north east. Completely surrounded by zombie proof fences that you can still hop over except for one small road that leads in and out. Get there early game, wall off that road and completely upgrade it with wood then metal once you get the required skill. You can just park outside the walls and hop the fence and you have a large, completely zombie free community with a big green space, trees, and tons of homes to loot and bunk in. Also, clearing it out is very easy and I’ll see an average of two dozen zombies when I first arrive. Truly underrated base location.
I think that it's one of the things you should eventually do in any run that lasts long enough. Start in Riverside, move to West Point when loot becomes scarce, swing by the firing range near the mall, and then migrate to Louisville. Filling up two trucks with loot and then towing one with the other carefully can make it where you don't really need to worry about being short on supplies in the short term while you're making your way there. You'll definitely want a sledgehammer to break through the fence and loot the military checkpoint on the way but after that you'll be able to complete your journey to Louisville and build your forever base or die trying.
Oh, and be sure to look for annotated maps. Sometimes you can find one that shows you where a decent starter base or a hidden stash is. One of the ones I found led me to a boarded up house in the fancier homes to the east side of Louisville. It had guns, ammo, food, and some building supplies so I was able to chill in there while staying silent and reading on the second floor.
@@The_Custos Not at the point I'm proposing to break in through. It has fewer zombies, some easy to loot military equipment, and there's a gas pump not far from where you'd be entering. The only tradeoff is that you need a sledgehammer but if you've somehow managed to go 10+ hours without getting one already then you're playing with extremely rare loot settings and got extremely unlucky.
I didn't know Louisville existed, I just saw the map zombies drop and thought it was just a junk item and kept surviving, I didn't know there were different areas other than the spawn cities
Personally I enjoy the old lumber yard as a base, not as close as it could be to places but the seclusion and space make it defendable, does suck to make trips out of at times but there are far worse places to be
Another reason: Because nomad lifestyle is the true way of zomboid. Why bother with bases when you can just drive around the map for loot. Plus points if you play with sprinters. Who wouldn't
I already looted all the towns in this order (Riverside,Ekron,Rosewood,March Ridge,Muldraugh,West Point) and after almost one year surviving im just landing on Louisville. Still south part cleaning the hospital its unbelievable the amount of zombies omg i cant imagine north.
What I found super interesting was the sandbox time setting. In regular every day is 10 minutes of game time. You spend a lot of time eating, drinking and gathering those resources. I set a game day to be 50 minutes (max 60) and now I still need to eat and drink as much every game day, but have way more time for fighting, exploring , gathering and building Downside: the helicopter event takes forever....
there is actually a provided reason loot is so rare in every place, its because the apocalypse wasnt instant zombies it started with the military locking everyone in, and in that panic people horded food and supplies together.
Ya'll know about the SWEETEST spot in LV, right??? Immediatelly South of central park, across the street from the bar, there is a second story appartment, above an empty office; to the East a bakery and a meat store and furthermore the minimall (which has a hardware store); North of the appartment, to the left of the park entrance, there's a pharmacy, a bookstore and two/three blocks down a pawn shop; immediatelly to the West a farming supplies store, which has growing crops and usually (though not alwyas) a bunch of machetes; and South West of the appartment, behind the farming supplies store, there's a veterinary, which has a GATED PARK and behind it.... a police station!!!! Best of all... THERES A WALL AROUND IT, though not completely closed off it is pretty much a matter of clearing a few restaurants (3 or 4 of them, including a pizzeria) and 2 car repair shops, one of them is HUGE!!
Found a small apartment hidden in the town far from other residential. Really hidden like in an alley way. Cool spot. Blocked both sides of the ally, used the garage facing the alley to store vehicles.
I've been playing on Apocalypse difficulty and have made it to the end of January living in the Rosewood firestation. I've been searching for a long term goal to make the game interesting. Your video gave me an idea. I'm going to wall off the park in Louisville and make a base there.
There is a army surplus store I usually hole up there for a while. I take over the block by walking it off, use a nearby mechanics roof for food and live there for a while
This got recommended me while I was watching a Louisville football highlights video. Cool to Find out there's a game out there that features the city I actually live in
Funny you make that toilet paper joke because in my current Bob the Builder run, i found a house where all the containers only had one thing... TOILET PAPER! What are even the odds of that lol, i was so shocked i was chuckling it was so ridiculous.
the 1st time i played i think it spawned on that place and had the most fun ever but i don't remember seeing many zombies there , i guess it because it was long ago before the concept of vehicules was even a thing.
As an engineer its easy. 6 remote pipes and a noise maker/alarm clock. Loot, repeat. Sometimes fire instead of pipes, but fire is risky due to spread destroying loot and buildings, which is why pipes.
man, i always have my helicopter events set to often. It would be a MASSIVE risk to attempt a louisville base. Closest I got was the campsite close to west point on the other side of the forest next to the crossroads mall. 3/4 helicopters pulled juuuuusssttt enough zombies to completely overrun the entire area. And it barely put a dent in the zombies near the mall.
Spawn as a veteran and keep trying to fight your way to secure a base or location. After u did that spawn in second character to go skill. This way u have multiple people on same location and if one gets tired u can log him off and log on the other one. Makes u losing a docter or carpenter less punishing as if it was your main.
been playing since desura, now i hop around multiplayer vanilla servers. usually spawn in WP, if i can’t find a car i’d take the tracks and walk all the way to LV. my fav spot is the culdesac next to the power grid. everything is within reach. if i do have a car, i’d spot by the checkpoint to grab a generator and a grill. at the culdesac block off the entrance and you have a zombie haven with high walls they can’t path thru.
turn respawn off, clear areas with guns, trying to stay in the same area while shooting, once you clear an area with guns zombies around there will become very rare since the whole noise radius has been cleared out.
Many big buildings are jam packed with zeds too. It is kinda end game place, when you've got some skills and a sledge hammer. I have died many times taking on the big city.
Louisville Mall spawn, Chestown , and Raven creek are my go to big city mods / vanilla places to live around . My server Return of the Living Dead has pinpoint hearing fragile sprinters on so you can take a bunch of them but you have to be super quiet or else you get destroyed by a horde . Add pitch black nights to that and the zombies are ridiculously hard .
West Coast of Louisville is the best place imo, just on the outskirts of town, the homes are right on the river for a source of fish. The houses are massive and it's a gated community 👍
I have like 1500kgs of varied loot in my base in Rosewood (a lot of it is guns and ammo cans because I use Brita’s). It’s not even just a question of moving most of it, because I obviously don’t need to do that. I just don’t know what it’s gonna be like getting storage set up again with so few trees around for woodcutting and I don’t know what to do about food because gardening is hardly enough to keep your weight up in my experience. Still though, I am excited to head into Louisville and mow down the hordes with my thousands of rounds of accumulated ammo.
Just up from the crossroads mall is a small area of houses. Two or three streets worth. That's where I would go (especially once build 42 hits, because NPCs lol) You can fence off the whole area and turn the houses into shops/accommodation for the NPCs. Its even good for multiplayer because there are half built homes to finish off if everyone in your group wants a home for themselves. Plus, the mall is just below you and you are far enough away from the city that the zombies take a while to wander over to you. Up from there is the three large houses with a black metal fence surrounding it. Its a mini gated community, and one of the three has a small pond you can fish in. It's a way up from there though.
As a solo player it feels like by the time you manage to systematically loot everything in any of the towns, you should be long since fully established long term in the game with a base the zombies cant break into, power supplied by generators, a farm for fresh produce and fruits, and enough canned goods to last for a year or two easy. Meaning by that point anything else you do is busywork or something to do while you wait for a mistake to carry you off despite being able to just sit in your house and exist for the rest of your natural life span. But I can see where multiplayer games would be different as thats like 6x as much food and drink devoured constantly and 6x as much random stuff needed to fully deck out the crew. Going to louisville seems more like an extra challenge mode otherwise. Lots of zombies but lots of loot, meaning you wont likely run out before you get killed or get bored with the game you are running.
I see your living in Louisville, and I raise you- Live in the military checkpoint, just outside of Louisville. Sure, its a bit farther, but its already got those nice fences that cant be climbed (unless im wrong about that)
I'm going to need to stock up on gas and ammo then, got to travel all the way from Riverside to get there. Also, I'm still relatively new to the game and its by far the best survival game I've ever played. Definitely going to check out Louisville at some point. Also, weirdly enough, I found a house where there was literally nothing but toilet paper. Every cabinet, drawer, dresser, nothing but toilet paper.
As a newbie player to project zomboid even basic living in the smaller towns is challenge enough but I’m sure if and when I get better I’d like to try a run or two strictly in louisville
Playing solo in default Apocalypse setting, going to Louisville is definitely a suicide mission. I can't even survive longer than a week in Rosewood or Riverside. Lol.
You guys will do it, just keep trying and you'll get better
LV is great because there is a baseball bat factory to the north east side of map. You will never run out of melee weapons =D
The problem to live in louisville is that we need to basically have already won the game to move there making the whole process pointless.
I'd say it is worth it if playing with a big group and you want a more urban gameplay experience. Doing it solo is just a self imposed challenge.
@@edersonnico there's a mod to allow you to spawn, it's a very fresh experience honestly
I usually start off in one of the smaller towns and then build up supplies, load it up in a vehicle, and then make my way to Louisville. There is an apartment building right next to a tv studio, I think it's a news station. It makes a pretty good base and with the tv station right next door, you have a large building to escape through if things get bad due to a helicopter event. A good thing to do is use a few homes scattered around Louisville as mini bases too, so you don't lose the main one to a horde during a helicopter event.
Have no idea if Louisville will be a good idea whenever NPCs are added into the game, I know at first it'll be animals, but human NPCs might make Louisville far too dangerous. Depends on the type of NPCs added, if military NPCs are added, Louisville would turn into a deadly game of hide and seek.
I play like that too, and I always base up in one of those big rich mansions on the west part of Louisville. Most of them can be easily fortified, they have a river for fishing and are relatively close to the hospital and downtown
Actually lore wise, military aren't the bad guys. Unlike many zombie movies, they are actually trying to save people.
In the initial days of outbreak, they set up a perimeter and restrict entering the area, but for first few days, they would still let you through the border and save you, if you didn't show any signs of being bitten or hurt.
Later, when the initial border gets overrun, they move all the people they saved away from the danger and actually drive through the nearby cities and pick up those who are alive and protect them. They would only become hostile for a few days when the virus starts spreading internationally, but later, they realize that some people have partial immunity against the virus, and from that point onwards, they'd become friendly again.
It's only a shame all the lore of the game is just seen through news channels and not the gameplay itself, as it feels kinda odd when Louisville should be completely fine until day 9, yet when you go there on day 1, it is infected either way.
Only thing it really does is, from that point onwards the radio and TV will buzz to cover up the plot holes, but I feel like it's a cheap design.
I doubt the developers will ever take the time to actually make Louisville a normal town for the initial 9 day period.
NPC's are something to worry about next Century
XD
Bro sogni troppo. Gli npc sono mid , se vuoi li metti sennò no. Nessuno li aggiungerà al gioco
I play a server where i sometimes talk with random people over the Ham-Radio. People can be pretty hostile in person so i take this option. Had some young fellas that gone to Louisville and in the start they lost 3 guys. (5 total) other 2 were desperate for supplies though it was a trap. But anyway just dropped some loot near and head back giving them the location of the drop and they were happy with it. They holded up in one of the buildings near the enterance of Louisville i heard and they told me they were gonna go deeper in the city to look for their friends. Told: "Son ur making a deathwish" they said its gonna be fine. Last time i heard them use the radio. Don't go to LV unless ur got a army of supplies and men. Thousands of them. I'm pretty sure of it...
Louisville isn't that hard just don't get cornered
@@christopherterzakos6118 1000 zombies a cell. Turns out ur own words against you
@@trevorphillips2250 canadian man
@@trevorphillips2250 it's not the same in everyone's game lol
@@outforlunch1258 we play like standard settings but with mods like Only cure, some detail mods and good storage fix and a couple of lore friendly towns/car shops :) no worries i know how dangerous LV can be
One thing makes LV worth it: The high chance of finding Skinny Leather Trousers. They're absolutly nuts for leg defence especially when you get high tailoring
Great, but sweaty.
And they make you look cool as fuck
@@Jazy1993 hell yeah my ass cheeks look absolutely caked up in those skinny trousers 😎
@@faxenmacher4633 honestly a worthy trade. No more zombie bites to the cock. Just stack 2-3 water bottles, and you'll be fine.
Ok I’m going thx
The area between big warehouse and wire company is pretty good for safe house, only a few zombies and it's very close to gas station and downtown, I always made my base there.
I feel like Louisville is really intimidating for new players, leading to them turtling up in one town and getting bored with the game. Personally, while Project Zomboid is a good game on vanilla settings, it's always a good idea for me to play on sandbox options in order to change some of the unfair stuff, which usually solves the problem.
What are the unfair settings?
@@harrissonaguirre5810 Usually disabling zombies dragging you down, enabling zombies triggering house alarms, making infection only through bites, stuff like that. It's mostly my personal preference though, since it makes the game more fun for me.
@@c.mattstrides4754 disabling zombie respawns
@@ornithorhynchusanatinus2167 oh yeah that too
Yeah I'm fairly new (though played 92 hours on the first few weeks) owner of the game and the biggest enthusiasm went away, but now trying my best to live as long as I can as myself. Gave myself all the flaws and traits that fit the real me, my own name, my looks. It feels somehow much more serious to try and see how long you'd actually last.
I also tweaked all the sandbox settings to what I feel like would be the most realistic. That melee weapons would be more plentiful than by default, zombies indeed triggering house alarms too etc.
I also reduced the amount of zombies to 0.26 as, according to some reddit investigations of the zed population, Rosewood+Prison: 5500 zombies by default... So since the real Rosewood Kentucky has a population of 1,489 - 26% of 5500 puts Rosewood at around 1430 zombies. No respawns.
I imagine I won't run out of zombies any time soon either way.
After this, I'll go with the regular zombie counts though.
As someone whose actually had a good 3 years of time in game surviving solo in the commercial district of Louisville, it’s not as bad as some people expect if you’ve prepared decently beforehand
Went in with a truck, bat, and some food. Didnt last 6 hours, died to a runner who broke the window faster than I expected
@@playboyj0hnny270mood
Had my favorite experience in project zomboid on Louisville. Tried to throw a Molotov into a huge building full to the brim of zombies. I got inside to make sure it went somewhere good and my lighter didn’t work, as well as matches, so I had to run throw all of them to get back out, went into an office, they were right behind me so I went around some desks bolted out the door, literally doing zig zags to avoid them and then no idea how to leave just started opening all the doors for better or worse and I finally get out. Eventually I burn it down but jeez I wet myself figuratively
Why wouldn't a lighter or matches work? They have no fail chance. When they run out of fuel or matches they dissappear from inventory. Why the cap?
@@nunya_bizniz maybe a mod??
@@nunya_bizniz
I don't think matches work with molotovs? There was this one recent save of mine where my character was bit and I wanted to go out in a literal blaze of glory, not realizing that matches apparently can't be used for lighting molotovs.
Maybe OP didn't put the lighter in his offhand? Maybe there wasn't enough units of fluid to be able to light the molotov?
@@SlowWinterNuts ok I always have lighters not matches I just assumed matches work.
I have a long term run I'm still playing, and I've made my base in north-west Louisville. It's right up against the north-western coast, against the water. It's a manufacturing building that's between the bourbon factory and some big open industrial spaces with pipes. Across the road from this building is a decent sized forest, and then behind that a bunch of residential homes, including some fancy ones.
It's the perfect spot. It's in Louisville, and it's relatively close to the good lootable spots in north Louisville. There's infinite fishing behind the building. There's trapping and logs in the forest across the road. It's surrounded by open space and isn't next to any high zombie populated spots. There are two gas stations very close by. The building itself has a double garage entrance and flat rooves for farming and water collection.
Just my opinion, but I think it's the best building in the game to make a base.
This video was made by a zombie
underrated comment ngl
I've made my base on a trio of mansions with high fence (one have a lake) that have only one entry point to the west in a long corridor. A natural fortress with unlimited stock of water and fish. Makes the game way too easy.
That's op spot right there.
Yes were both the same spot of base. But the problem in there is when you have a mod with heavy duty cars too hard to fit in going to your base.
The Amazon warehouse is a pretty good base if you are a loot gremlin but takes a bit to set up
I've made my base in the whiskey distillery, it's close to the river, has a lot of space on roofs and also, if you clear the storage building, you gain a lot of xp from the wooden barrels there.
You just have to close two entrances, it is all fenced and it is very close to downtown Louisville.
Pretty cool place, only prob is when power shutsdown, pain in the ass getting generators.
@@akumajoe8265 I was gonna make my abse there, but it's just too damn big for me by myself, it would probably be good on multiplayer but it's just huge and unlike the big warehouse you have to drag back shelves or make hella crates
Recently took my wanderer to Louisville on foot and after building the character up and getting the best gear possible the town really isn't that bad. I imagine being on foot has helped me significantly because I'm able to clear blocks slowly without driving in and getting myself surrounded. This character has walked to every major town and spent lots of time in the woods as well so it's going to suck when I get it killed.
I would love to go to Louisville, but playing in insane zed popularity setting, even going to Muldraugh is pretty hard for me…
Rosewood is my forever home.
My friend and I turned an apartment building on the marina into a fortress so we can safely fish. Its right next to a ton of shopping centers and getting /into/ the building we had to kill like 600 zombies (still counting, we dug a mass grave to bury them all). Its been fun not having to worry about resource scarcity as much.
Fun fact from a Kentuckian:
We pronounced Louisville "Loo-uh-ville" with a soft I sound instead of a long e sound.
But thats not all, we also have Versailles pronounced like "ver-sales" and Athens pronouned like "AYthens"
Kentucky is an extraordinary place.
My relatives in Western Kentucky call it "Low-vall", like "hall" but with a V
We call it Lou-uh-vul, said real fast, ya northerner...
Yeah I lived in the dorms at the race track and a couple of apartments near the convention center... This zombie game seems pretty accurate to the current situation.
@@oljimeagle fr. moved out to SC for college just to take a break from the city. we need more business and less murder.
Lul-vul is how I pronounce it (born and raised in Appalachia)
louiseville is high risk high reward, it have everything and some places have concentration of loots that usually scarce in other cities. For example.. there is a single factory full of baseball bats and there is a single factory full of wires. Then there is the 'amazon' warehouse where you can find from box of jars to rare leather pants. Cars in louiseville is also infinite. It is certainly hard the first time around, but as soon as you know where the zombies gather, know safe places to loot and stay, and get some levels on a weapon, it is liveable, even alone.
When I went up there, I set myself up in a house to the southeast of the outdoor festival. Made for a decent jumping off point after clearing the zombies from the area.
It's definitely just as you said. But if you ever plan on doing so, I would definitely recommend using some plugin that allows you to spawn with potential new character somewhere nearby. Especially if you're a new player.
Me and my two friends just moved there about a week ago, which was nice, but the moving was extremely painful...
Each of us died at least once, and the fresh start, when TV and electricity are no longer a thing, inside of this crowded city, was extremely hard. Unless you decide to use some game breaking methods like composters.
Muldraugh is a great place, I feel it is the most under rated small town. You have more than enough warehouses to get everything you need to make your base self efficient. Which should ultimately be your end goal, along with clearing places of interest.
i once found a house where literally the only loot available was toilet paper, made me chuckle
Louisville is fun and all, but the modded city 'Raven Creek' is great. My friends and I love playing it and starting in it. You might die a few times spawning in because there's a TON of zombies and it'll spawn you in horrible locations, but damn is it fun
Louisville is great because of it's flexibility:
it's something to work up towards as a player since both the entrance in and city itself is laden with loot.
A place you can mod yourself a spawn position into and use it as an extreme - difficulty setting.
A battleground which tests your skills coming in and sees if you've been paying attention to what Zomboid demands from you; quick reflexes to avoid being chomped from a flanker or quick thinking to dodge a potentially fatal dead-end.
All-in-all, it's a place that's flexible and really cool (though funnily enough, tragic) due to the lore behind it as well.
Fun fuckin place man. Like a battle island.
The best way to get into the city is checkpoints east of the main entrance to the city. You'll need a sledgehammer or lader to get through, but you won't encounter the big amount of zombies as the main entrance to the city. Plus, if you go from one of the checkpoints to the main entrance, you will find a small town with houses, which the military converted into a command post and surrounded by high fences, you can settle there, security is 100%.
I know what you mean. There also a single gas station nearby behind the fences!
Follow the hole in the fence up to the military homes?
a tip for new players. start in rosewood. find a car and head to the police station. loot all the ammo you can. prefer shotgun shells with a shotgun. save them for now. head towards the highway and go left when you pass the gas station. follow that road all the way. and 1 point you can turn left or keep going straight. keep going straight and follow that road. if you see a gas station you are close to the army surplus store. raid that one for ammo. now head back to rosewood and make a way to the bookstore. find the books you need. if not you can try the school up ahead. probally day 4 or 5 by now. head toward Muldraught ( to the right from the highway ) and raid the police station there. now.. head towards the lumber base. ( this is even better if you managed to find carpentry books ) and if you are lucky the helicopter will arrive just on time. just keep driving circles till the event stops. and now take out your shotgun and power level aiming. while they are all gone destroy all the crates for carpentry level. ( if you are lucky you find a sledgehammer wich comes usefull in the next part ) after all that is done and you have a sledgehammer ( if not that works too ) head towards West Point. now in Westpoint there is a GIGA-Mart for easy food acces. and a police station. ( wich you can raid obviously ) and a weapon/ammo store behind the pub. ( this is where the sledgehammer comes in ) raid both or any one. make a small base in the pub. and now you can start planning your way towards Louisville and still be strong
First problem is keeping yourself alive
Second one is to store that weight of ammo
I play with 2 friends and we ended up finding 3 houses in the south of Louisville completely surrounded by the high fences zombies cant jump over and sealed the only way in with a box truck. Its pretty nice. Only get random groups here and there so we can work on our houses and cars in peace for now haha.
3 months into my current run, starting in Riverside. I will make an eventual goal to make it to Louisville.
There is a large warehouse with roof access to place a generator about two blocks northeast of the Gigamart with the gas pumps entering Louisville, it has two entrances and it is surrounded by an indestructible fence, there is also a small gas station nearby aswell (literally in the same block), a really neat place for a base, some friends and I live there in our private server.
The freight warehouses in the north west of Central LV by the Fossoil plant aren't a bad place to hunker down. There is an ungodly amount of metal racking that me and my buddy moved from the warehouse floor up into the offices. They were full of everything you'd need: clothes, books, baseball bats, food, mechanical goods. The security booths to the Fossoil plant also have a couple guns and plenty of ammo. We renovated the whole upstairs office area to include a kitchen, armoury, library and are currently working on a gym with some treadmills we took from the firestation. It will take some time but once your set up, making runs back into the center of LV takes minutes even without a car. Plus there is a gas station a block away. The high chainlink fences all around mean there's only one way in for zeds so security is easy to manage. If anyone's looking for a long-term place to hold out, give it a try.
there are so many cool places where you can make your base, the houses next to the river, the mansions in the center of the city, there is a building that has a fountain that works great as a body of water, the shoping...
The mansions on the Ohio River on the south-west side of Louisville has to be my favorite place to base. Natural barrier with the river and the mansion I prefer has the 3 door garage.
Random spawn mod spawned me in the Grand Ohio's mall army surplus store, has to be my most favorite run in hundreds of hours
I spawned in the uni, ran to the trainyard. Was fun.
for me this game i fell in love as fast as i got bored of it... theres really nothing to do but anything, each spawn feels identical, theres a few strategies to hoard zombies and thats it
enable runners, and mod can make it more interesting
@@maze2756 the thing is theres no goal... its like a real life but more miserable 😂😂
Its more of a simulator/sandbox than an actual game. Kind of have to set your own goals, but taking risks is discouraged since a single bite will end your run. Hopefully NPCs will change this when they get added in the next 20 years or so.
This video sounds like an AD made by a Louisville zombie trying to get more careless survivors to come to Louisville “Yeah there’s some zombies but don’t worry bout it! We got plenty of supplies easily for a few years worth!”
I like Rosewood as starting point. I already cleared the whole city and have plenty to survive winter even.
Though, Im thinking about having a base per town
You have to go to Louisville early, within 10 days of the start. That’s when zombie is not as high. Louisville is very much worth the effort because of the amount of loot there. You can live on can food for a year. 1/4 of the city can well support a player. You just need to be very good at killing zombies. After almost 400 hours played in this game, Louisville is a must go to place for me. Other places just cannot satisfy my greed.
Underrated reason: getting you experience playing the game.
I actually find myself pretty safe there, good video bro
This is why I like the junkyard just outside of West Point being situated between both Louisville and West Point is pretty convenient
I like living in the three gated houses to the south-east of Louisville. Only one way in to the area and it's a tight, 2-tile wide gap, and you can jump the fences if there ever is an emergency.
im trying man but i barely make it past the hospital! :(
Try going east of the LV military check point. Use the project zomboid map to plan your adventure if you wish. Just be careful to not go by the crossroads mall/ Move theater area. That whole area has a lot of zombies
I love Louisville just because of the unique experience you get surviving there, similar to s1 of Walking Dead
Me and my group (older brother and best friend) just moved into the American Tire outside of West Point and finished clearing the bridge to Louisville in our private game. We look forward to having adventures in the big city!
I usually play in or near Louisville, Early game start is viable but much more dangerous but as the game progresses Louisville would be able to provide sustenance to everything you might need in the later stages of the game. I recommed living off in the outskirts of the Louiseville mall parking lot, as you are near a construction site, trees, residential buildings for food, tools, and other items, on the southern part, and mechanic resources nearby.
If you hug the far east road in Louisville there's a lot of big mansions with a double door garages and stuff. Not a huge amount of zombies go on that road and if they do easily can be lured away with a car.
I installed a mod that makes me immortal, found a cop car, and went into Louisville with the siren on. It was fun, seeing how many of them just ran around trying to get in.
was travelling to Louisville the first time since playing this game 3 months ago and holy shit the amount of ammo I found in the outer checkpoint is just mindblowing.
Louisville is such a great base location.
If I want to live on the outskirts, the houses by the river in northwest is good and the three fenced in houses with a pond in the east is great. These areas are great for beginners and newcomers of Louisville.
Its more rewarding to live in the city in my opinion though. A S tier base and where I’m currently at is a townhome community in the north east. Completely surrounded by zombie proof fences that you can still hop over except for one small road that leads in and out. Get there early game, wall off that road and completely upgrade it with wood then metal once you get the required skill. You can just park outside the walls and hop the fence and you have a large, completely zombie free community with a big green space, trees, and tons of homes to loot and bunk in. Also, clearing it out is very easy and I’ll see an average of two dozen zombies when I first arrive. Truly underrated base location.
I think that it's one of the things you should eventually do in any run that lasts long enough. Start in Riverside, move to West Point when loot becomes scarce, swing by the firing range near the mall, and then migrate to Louisville. Filling up two trucks with loot and then towing one with the other carefully can make it where you don't really need to worry about being short on supplies in the short term while you're making your way there. You'll definitely want a sledgehammer to break through the fence and loot the military checkpoint on the way but after that you'll be able to complete your journey to Louisville and build your forever base or die trying.
Oh, and be sure to look for annotated maps. Sometimes you can find one that shows you where a decent starter base or a hidden stash is. One of the ones I found led me to a boarded up house in the fancier homes to the east side of Louisville. It had guns, ammo, food, and some building supplies so I was able to chill in there while staying silent and reading on the second floor.
Isn't there a hole in the fence though?
@@The_Custos Not at the point I'm proposing to break in through. It has fewer zombies, some easy to loot military equipment, and there's a gas pump not far from where you'd be entering. The only tradeoff is that you need a sledgehammer but if you've somehow managed to go 10+ hours without getting one already then you're playing with extremely rare loot settings and got extremely unlucky.
I didn't know Louisville existed, I just saw the map zombies drop and thought it was just a junk item and kept surviving, I didn't know there were different areas other than the spawn cities
I made sure to fill a room in my base with all the toilet paper I can find. Just wanted to be part of the problem this time around
Personally I enjoy the old lumber yard as a base, not as close as it could be to places but the seclusion and space make it defendable, does suck to make trips out of at times but there are far worse places to be
Another reason: Because nomad lifestyle is the true way of zomboid. Why bother with bases when you can just drive around the map for loot.
Plus points if you play with sprinters. Who wouldn't
Start in small town to level up skills then take on the big boy Louisville and be set for life.
I already looted all the towns in this order (Riverside,Ekron,Rosewood,March Ridge,Muldraugh,West Point) and after almost one year surviving im just landing on Louisville. Still south part cleaning the hospital its unbelievable the amount of zombies omg i cant imagine north.
What I found super interesting was the sandbox time setting. In regular every day is 10 minutes of game time. You spend a lot of time eating, drinking and gathering those resources. I set a game day to be 50 minutes (max 60) and now I still need to eat and drink as much every game day, but have way more time for fighting, exploring , gathering and building
Downside: the helicopter event takes forever....
there is actually a provided reason loot is so rare in every place, its because the apocalypse wasnt instant zombies it started with the military locking everyone in, and in that panic people horded food and supplies together.
Let's game it out beat you to building a zombie army of himself.
I got about 20 hours in the game now and I only just realized all starting locations are part of the same map...I thought it was four separate maps
I love Muldarghaghhrgh. Its my fave town. The giant warehouse is a treasure trove for tools, planks, and metal.
Ya'll know about the SWEETEST spot in LV, right???
Immediatelly South of central park, across the street from the bar, there is a second story appartment, above an empty office; to the East a bakery and a meat store and furthermore the minimall (which has a hardware store); North of the appartment, to the left of the park entrance, there's a pharmacy, a bookstore and two/three blocks down a pawn shop; immediatelly to the West a farming supplies store, which has growing crops and usually (though not alwyas) a bunch of machetes; and South West of the appartment, behind the farming supplies store, there's a veterinary, which has a GATED PARK and behind it.... a police station!!!!
Best of all... THERES A WALL AROUND IT, though not completely closed off it is pretty much a matter of clearing a few restaurants (3 or 4 of them, including a pizzeria) and 2 car repair shops, one of them is HUGE!!
God the way you say Louisville grinds my gears
I just started playing and the other day I found a house with literally nothing but toilet paper. Every shelf, box, cabinet... everywhere
I tried PZ a while back. I can tell it's a good game but it's really overwhelming to get into tbh.
Found a small apartment hidden in the town far from other residential. Really hidden like in an alley way. Cool spot. Blocked both sides of the ally, used the garage facing the alley to store vehicles.
I've been playing on Apocalypse difficulty and have made it to the end of January living in the Rosewood firestation. I've been searching for a long term goal to make the game interesting. Your video gave me an idea. I'm going to wall off the park in Louisville and make a base there.
There is a army surplus store I usually hole up there for a while. I take over the block by walking it off, use a nearby mechanics roof for food and live there for a while
Any amount of zed = 0 after you kill all of them.
Zed-spawning off is realistic.
This got recommended me while I was watching a Louisville football highlights video. Cool to Find out there's a game out there that features the city I actually live in
Me and my boys are living in the distillery on the river.
BEST base spot change my mind.
It's funny, with all of the people lumbering around in the middle of the street, it's like I'm in downtown Louisville irl.
I've been to Louisville so many times, this is really cool. I am going to have to try this game out now.
Funny you make that toilet paper joke because in my current Bob the Builder run, i found a house where all the containers only had one thing... TOILET PAPER! What are even the odds of that lol, i was so shocked i was chuckling it was so ridiculous.
There is hopfully somewhere there in louisville that's an old medical supply warehouse with strange barrels in the basement. :)
I usually go into the central western point of Louisville or the south eastern part of Louisville because both are close to good food sources
the 1st time i played i think it spawned on that place and had the most fun ever but i don't remember seeing many zombies there , i guess it because it was long ago before the concept of vehicules was even a thing.
I found a pair of 5-6 story apartments in the middle of LV that you can easily secure since they both only have 1 staircase.
As an engineer its easy. 6 remote pipes and a noise maker/alarm clock. Loot, repeat. Sometimes fire instead of pipes, but fire is risky due to spread destroying loot and buildings, which is why pipes.
man, i always have my helicopter events set to often. It would be a MASSIVE risk to attempt a louisville base. Closest I got was the campsite close to west point on the other side of the forest next to the crossroads mall. 3/4 helicopters pulled juuuuusssttt enough zombies to completely overrun the entire area. And it barely put a dent in the zombies near the mall.
Spawn as a veteran and keep trying to fight your way to secure a base or location. After u did that spawn in second character to go skill. This way u have multiple people on same location and if one gets tired u can log him off and log on the other one. Makes u losing a docter or carpenter less punishing as if it was your main.
y'all ain't tricking me into getting swarmed.
been playing since desura, now i hop around multiplayer vanilla servers. usually spawn in WP, if i can’t find a car i’d take the tracks and walk all the way to LV. my fav spot is the culdesac next to the power grid. everything is within reach. if i do have a car, i’d spot by the checkpoint to grab a generator and a grill.
at the culdesac block off the entrance and you have a zombie haven with high walls they can’t path thru.
What if I don't like crowded places :(
sorry Mattsi you are just gonna have to deal with it, you don’t get a say in this
@@spoodle fine, but you have to come with me
turn respawn off, clear areas with guns, trying to stay in the same area while shooting, once you clear an area with guns zombies around there will become very rare since the whole noise radius has been cleared out.
At the top left corner of louisville there is a military supplies store and a mechanic
Many big buildings are jam packed with zeds too. It is kinda end game place, when you've got some skills and a sledge hammer. I have died many times taking on the big city.
Louisville Mall spawn, Chestown , and Raven creek are my go to big city mods / vanilla places to live around . My server Return of the Living Dead has pinpoint hearing fragile sprinters on so you can take a bunch of them but you have to be super quiet or else you get destroyed by a horde .
Add pitch black nights to that and the zombies are ridiculously hard .
West Coast of Louisville is the best place imo, just on the outskirts of town, the homes are right on the river for a source of fish. The houses are massive and it's a gated community 👍
I have like 1500kgs of varied loot in my base in Rosewood (a lot of it is guns and ammo cans because I use Brita’s). It’s not even just a question of moving most of it, because I obviously don’t need to do that. I just don’t know what it’s gonna be like getting storage set up again with so few trees around for woodcutting and I don’t know what to do about food because gardening is hardly enough to keep your weight up in my experience.
Still though, I am excited to head into Louisville and mow down the hordes with my thousands of rounds of accumulated ammo.
The zombies are getting smarter...
Just up from the crossroads mall is a small area of houses. Two or three streets worth.
That's where I would go (especially once build 42 hits, because NPCs lol)
You can fence off the whole area and turn the houses into shops/accommodation for the NPCs.
Its even good for multiplayer because there are half built homes to finish off if everyone in your group wants a home for themselves.
Plus, the mall is just below you and you are far enough away from the city that the zombies take a while to wander over to you.
Up from there is the three large houses with a black metal fence surrounding it. Its a mini gated community, and one of the three has a small pond you can fish in. It's a way up from there though.
It's actually a lot of fun spawning in the middle of Louisville with absolutely nothing. Nail biting and frightening but also very fun.
As a solo player it feels like by the time you manage to systematically loot everything in any of the towns, you should be long since fully established long term in the game with a base the zombies cant break into, power supplied by generators, a farm for fresh produce and fruits, and enough canned goods to last for a year or two easy. Meaning by that point anything else you do is busywork or something to do while you wait for a mistake to carry you off despite being able to just sit in your house and exist for the rest of your natural life span. But I can see where multiplayer games would be different as thats like 6x as much food and drink devoured constantly and 6x as much random stuff needed to fully deck out the crew. Going to louisville seems more like an extra challenge mode otherwise. Lots of zombies but lots of loot, meaning you wont likely run out before you get killed or get bored with the game you are running.
I'm setup just outside of west point and have a 2nd firehouse base for when I need to make a trip to Louisville.
I see your living in Louisville, and I raise you- Live in the military checkpoint, just outside of Louisville. Sure, its a bit farther, but its already got those nice fences that cant be climbed (unless im wrong about that)
I'm going to need to stock up on gas and ammo then, got to travel all the way from Riverside to get there. Also, I'm still relatively new to the game and its by far the best survival game I've ever played. Definitely going to check out Louisville at some point. Also, weirdly enough, I found a house where there was literally nothing but toilet paper. Every cabinet, drawer, dresser, nothing but toilet paper.
Covid 19 house imo
That happened to me except it was a gas station up in Rosewood. I felt kind of cheated to be honest.
Coming from a kentucky native I cringe a little bit everytime you pronounce Louisville lmao, love the videos keep up the good work!
It's the correct French pronunciation of "Louis".
There's a place down to the hospital where the military post is that is surrounded with spike fences with 3 houses inside, nice place to start a base
I live here! There's millions of people here but yeah lots of close together resources
best zomboid video i've watched . thank you sir
The double high metal fence walled warehouse in the top left. Block with cars and walls and you will never face zombies at home in louisville