The Truth about 'Hordes' in Project Zomboid

This is the only video you will ever need, to learn how to properly handle hordes in Project Zomboid. This 'Horde Guide' will help you navigate the dangerous and scary task of clearing large numbers of zombies, and make it so that clearing hordes will become easy for you.

Comment down below if you have any other methods that I didn't mention in this guide. Also let me know what video you want to see next!

Project Zomboid is the ultimate zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, a massively customizable sandbox, and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Project Zomboid is an open-ended zombie-infested sandbox. It asks one simple question – how will you die?

In the towns of Muldraugh and West Point, survivors must loot houses, build defenses, and do their utmost to delay their inevitable death day by day. No help is coming – their continued survival relies on their own cunning, luck, and ability to evade a relentless horde.

Timestamps:
00:00 Hordes aren't a threat
01:33 Thinning The Herd
02:43 Fence Fighting
03:59 Run and Gun
05:09 Molotov Mayhem
07:04 Moaning Salvation
08:32 Honorable Mentions
11:15 Car Cheese
13:09 If you use this method

[Swayed_Media]

I'm confident that I included every method of dealing with hordes, if there are any that I left out, they could probably just be slight iterations of the ones I've already mentioned. Do you know of any that I might have left out?

[danielhutchison]

Me : sees a horde in between me and my objective and looks at watch
"Man this going to ruin my sleep schedule if I dont kill them all before 9"

[ЛеонидЗурнаджи]

Unironically i accidently used the "Car Cheese" or "Car-Fu" method, when I found out that Walter White's Bus can literally drive faster when accelerating backwards.
And then it hit me.

[Retanaru]

For the thinning the herd method. Stand up instead of sneaking. You will more consistently aggro zombies at their max range and reduce your chances of accidentally pulling too many.

[piecquoro]

I have a hunch that he dislikes the use of fire, I don't know, just a hunch

[TheMadRatKing]

I love the premise of a post zombie apocalypse where the sparse few are just so desensitized and accustomed to the presence of the infected that they just waddle through the hordes at a slightly above-average pace and never even get scratched, entirely unbothered, just to grab something from their car and then go right on back through to get home

[josephmoreno]

Biggest threat to the player in zomboid is willingly making choices you normally wouldnt because you get comfortable.

[TonklinFallen]

Biggest threat in Project Zomboid are bathroom parties.

[BroodYouth]

turn on random zombies and 5% sprinters, you'll never think any horde is safe

[epicproportionsmediaproduc]

I clicked like and subscribed, so if my wife ever takes the kids and leaves me, I'm holding you personally legally liable.

[thegreendank]

Chain fence method going out the window with build 42. Well not 100% because they said it will take a while for a horde to take out a fence.

[frightfang]

“Run and gun” FROM the car is my favorite and most efficient way of handling the hordes. When they get too close, you just drive off a little, reload, and go back for more carnage.

[IfritBoi]

When your noob friend alerts the military zombie horde for the seventh time in a row:

Me: *sighs *pulls out emergency molotov "here we go again"

[ChristopherWhiteRock]

I love the fire method, not because its the bussy pitch method, but because i enjoy watching stuff burn. Probably doesnt make my character happy, but revisiting a path of destruction i made through the city using zombies as mobile gasoline makes me happy.

[viciousyeen]

I like to prepare a roof with a tent or a second story building with a bed so that I have a safe escape down the backside of it and a place to sleep and to store ammunition and food. I then place a car with running motor and active radio in front of it, at a distance that still allows me to shoot zombies at it. Honk the car or pull a horde to it by other means and climb up, wait a bit or make some more noise. When you got a horde there, cull them with the shotgun and any other guns. It attracts more zombies and the old ones won’t leave due to the car‘s radio noises. You can cull thousands of them like that

[theanarchist]

Your deep hatred for fire, tis funny asf to meee

[msc]

Me: yeah, using fire is kinda cheesy..
next method: my fav is Luring away zombies and running away
Me: now wait a dam second here 🤣

[mackadam]

Another reason the Molotov Mayhem method is the ABSOLUTE WORST:
Kills with fire do NOT add to your personal kill count.

[MrStrikecentral]

Another problem with using fire is that it destroys everything the zeds might be carrying. That one had a shotgun? Not anymore!
Now imagine how neat it would be to have ammunition actually popping off when they catch on fire. Start a campfire, throw a box of shotgun shells in and run like hell!

[whattheheccboi]

Something you missed on the fence fighting method is that you can also just stand back facing the fence while also hugging the fence so as soon as the zombies vault you can kill them

Also you can't get hit by lungers