Project Zomboid And Preparing For The Long Term! Project Zomboid Tips For Long Survival Times!

Hey guys,

In this one I wanted to talk about surviving for the long term in Project Zomboid. This helpful guide is aimed at preparing you for those later weeks in Project Zomboid through focusing your efforts on particular areas of the game that will ultimately help you survive for longer periods.

Enjoy!

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[hakkefeke]

A little fact many PZ-players seem to not know about: If you have a composter... Place a single worm in it... Every time a rotten food item decays, one or two new worms appear in the composter... Worm Farm!! I have survived for almost a year by now, and with this method I got more than 800 worms... Sadly, there is not lake around, but these worms can be used as bait in the bird traps.

[flavinho]

Prepare yourself for the long run, gather all these 50 or so items and you'll be ok. Then you get bit once and goodbye long run.

[Goofygooberston]

I always plan so extensively for the long haul and end up dying in a stupid way like a car crash or an infected scratch

[ceepert]

Important note to the generators, always keep their condition above 50%
Once its under that value there is a chance for it to catch fire and burn your base down

[antoinelachapelle]

I remember the first time I was ready for the long term. I had planted seeds, barricaded a whole farmstead, started putting up an outer wall around the property, I had a relatively safe forest for wood and foraging, a good truck with gas and mechanic tools, plenty of food, a well.

*And then I ate mushrooms*

Got nauseous and never recovered, I died puking in my bedroom even though I hadn't seen a Zombie in days

[frankkoenen]

The Project Zomboid life cycle (provided you don’t die):
Days 0-4: almost die 15 times setting up your base. Get a car and nail up your base with planks. Find food etc.
Days 5-10: loot the surrounding town and clear zombies in the area. Looting mostly non food items like books. Probably build a double gate in front of your base so you’re walled in.
Week 1-3: find generator magazine, collect office water bubblers, get an ice freezer. Finish clearing out the surrounding town and go on some road trips and nearly die for hard to find items. Start farming and trapping.
Month 1-2: wake up and check your traps, harvest your crops and plant new ones, read comic books and watch VHS to keep from getting depressed. Fill your ice cooler with enough rabbits and potatoes for 2 winters. Haven’t more than 10 zombies at a time in your town in the last month or been in any real danger. Learn metalworking for no reason.
Month 2+: Have the sudden realization that you’re now just playing the sims. Start a new save and never look back.

All jokes aside I love this game

[LordGingerBerry]

TIP: Before foraging or fishing when in the wild, walk around and shout by pressing Q, this will attract any nearby zombies so you can dispatch them before they sneak up on you trying to get some food.

[cdeye]

It’s super cool that refrigerated food and working television appears in a zombie game. Most zombie games start well into the catastrophe or focus way more on the mid or late game so these things are irrelevant or don’t appear at all

[skiruskronos]

I recommend starting fishing skill with a spear before you use a rod (you'll mostly lose your bait before catching) you only need a spear to fish (no bait) if you can build some walls around a fishing spot you can just fast forward time and easily catch fish, try hit level 2 before using a rod, its also better to catch fish at dawn and dusk while at low skill.

[littlepotato]

Another great long term solution for cooking is the pot belly wood stove. There are few across the map and it allows you to have a fire inside without the risk of fire spreading, etc. You need a few levels in carpentry to pick it up. Can't remember exactly how many.

Since wood and ripped sheets are endless, you will always have the resources to start a fire. One of my favorite techniques is to saw full logs on the same square in front of the wood stove. Excess weight will drop out of your inventory as you saw logs. I'd also make a good amount of sturdy sticks for fire starting and when I need less fuel than a full log. I've loaded up that square in front of the wood stove with hundreds and hundreds of weight units from planks and sturdy sticks. Then a supply of ripped sheets on the ground next to it or in a container along with a notched plank, etc for starting the fire.

Also some houses and clubhouses (rifle club, etc) have "wall fireplaces" which act just the same. One time me and a buddy made the golf course our base and it has one of those wall fireplaces in the study. The golf course is amazing for a multiplayer base. Tons of room, you can really isolate the entrance to the second level to only one set of stairs with a sledge, and an almost fully enclosed backyard around the pool for a growing area, etc.

[ellieb.]

Important note: the storage room in the back of the post office in Riverside has TONS of skill books.

[sylvananas]

A tip for generators, check the condition of your generator regularly because it will degrade when working, I once died because my generator exploded and set my house on fire lmao

[ce]

Quick tip: If you can Hotwire a car and the power is still on. Get a bunch of vehicles take it to the gas station and fill it up. You could then park the car (make sure you turn the car off) and use it later to siphon gas out of. At least until you could power on the gas station with a generator.

[pavelZhd]

Regarding vehicle maintenance - if you uninstall and reinstall wheels, it increases their ground friction value, which in turn makes the car easier to steer and better at towing.
So having a jack and a lug wrench is really good.

[olemardy]

About the rain collector barrels. If you place them above your sink, and offset it by one tile, you get the option to connect it to your plumbing when right clicking your sink (It might require a wrench, but I don't remember). This also purifies the water for you, so you don't need to boil it. (Only did this in B40, so I am unsure if it applies to B41)

[PupLovely]

Water-coolers no longer weight 5, FYI... they now weight 30. Moving them is much, much more difficult and it is recommended that you bring a vehicle if you need to travel a long distance with them. Everything else about them is still true, though, and they are worth getting. (And before anyone asks: no, emptying them does not reduce their weight for some reason).

11:52 I prefer to save all propane tanks for metalworking and use a wood stove for cooking. 100% renewable but harder to acquire as there are only several locations on the map where you can find them.

[pavelZhd]

I really have to disagree about propane barbecues.
Charcoal ones are better, because they can be fueled with twigs and rags - both easily renewable resources (unlike propane). Also by adding just the right amount of fuel you can cook much safer, not risking your food to be burned or starting a fire.
And the propane barbecues are invaluable source of propane tanks that can be used to refuel your propane torches.

[Gorlami]

Awesome tips and information! Never realized how much early game prep can set you up to be far more successful later down the road.

[macmartin]

This game is insane, there are so many meticulously small details with items and things that happen to you, that you have to keep in mind, it's absolutely incredible, I love that!