Project Zomboid - The farming simulator disguised as a zombie survival game

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harbringer883 said:
Reviving the thread. How is B42 going for everyone?
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It’s been enjoyable but I’m mostly waiting for the stable release, or at least multiplayer since losing your save matters less when you’re fucking around with friends. Have they fixed random cabins in the woods and other abandoned buildings having far too many zombies yet?

The one negative for me is that I can’t stand the fishing minigame, just let me go take a piss whilst I fish instead of making everything need my immediate attention. I don’t get the point of the character having a fishing skill when I still need to do a minigame anyways, might as well make cooking and first aid into minigames too.
 
Yeah, im loving the new
Enward Cullen said:
It’s been enjoyable but I’m mostly waiting for the stable release, or at least multiplayer since losing your save matters less when you’re fucking around with friends. Have they fixed random cabins in the woods and other abandoned buildings having far too many zombies yet?

The one negative for me is that I can’t stand the fishing minigame, just let me go take a piss whilst I fish instead of making everything need my immediate attention. I don’t get the point of the character having a fishing skill when I still need to do a minigame anyways, might as well make cooking and first aid into minigames too.
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Lol I havent even tried fishing yet
 
harbringer883 said:
Reviving the thread. How is B42 going for everyone?
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I'm about 8 days into my first B42 playthrough, I like the idea of using the gas station at the trailer park starting spot as a base, it has a large basement, a second floor upstairs and a garage. Some people have claimed B42 makes the game a little harder but the difficulty seems the same to me so far.

One thing that annoys me is the game was running smoothly for me one day then the next it was lagging a lot more. The circumstances were similar enough I suspect it might be some sort of problem with B42.
 
Paradox Mystic said:
I'm about 8 days into my first B42 playthrough, I like the idea of using the gas station at the trailer park starting spot as a base, it has a large basement, a second floor upstairs and a garage. Some people have claimed B42 makes the game a little harder but the difficulty seems the same to me so far.

One thing that annoys me is the game was running smoothly for me one day then the next it was lagging a lot more. The circumstances were similar enough I suspect it might be some sort of problem with B42.
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They’ve nerfed muscle fatigue but that really ramped up difficulty when it realised and two swings flooded you with moodles.
 
Im actually crashing out. Those fucking ragdolls got me stuck in a horde so I got fucking swarmed and my 2 month old character died.
 
I've been playing on and off for a bit now, I'm at around 100h of dying to stupid errors in the first week, so I decided to be a bit more mindful and learn how to lure away zeds from where I want to go, how to lose them etc.

My current run started in Muldraugh and I got very lucky very early, as I found a working, pristine Chevalier Step Van the first day and, after roaming around a bit, I found the gas station, so I went back to the Van, drove it there, cleared the place up and refilled the Van and the two tanks that spawned in it. I then proceeded to ransack the hardware store close to the gas station, and now my Van is full of tools, canned food and water lol (I mean it literally, it can't fit any more in the trunk, I have free space in the glovebox only)

I moved a bit further northeast and found a somewhat isolated block where I set up base (I'm very close to the large lake, as I later found out by picking up a map). I'm on day 7 now, and water has been gone for the past two days, so I've been looting houses and bringing back mainly canned food, water containers for when it rains and skill books, VHS and other entertainment items.

I'm a bit lost at the moment, since I've never made it this far (and not with all this loot), what should my priority be? I was thinking of moving my base to the lake, but I don't know how to build a house, is Carpentry the skill I need to level to be able to build a shelter?

I'm on a custom sandbox based on Apocalypse, but I started in February (never made it to winter, so I figured I'd try it lol) and that's the only impactful change I made. Oh, and I'm on version 41

One question: should I bother washing myself and my clothes? I don't have running water so wasting the small amount I collected feels bad
 
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Gamer (not racist) said:
I've been playing on and off for a bit now, I'm at around 100h of dying to stupid errors in the first week, so I decided to be a bit more mindful and learn how to lure away zeds from where I want to go, how to lose them etc.

My current run started in Muldraugh and I got very lucky very early, as I found a working, pristine Chevalier Step Van the first day and, after roaming around a bit, I found the gas station, so I went back to the Van, drove it there, cleared the place up and refilled the Van and the two tanks that spawned in it. I then proceeded to ransack the hardware store close to the gas station, and now my Van is full of tools, canned food and water lol (I mean it literally, it can't fit any more in the trunk, I have free space in the glovebox only)

I moved a bit further northeast and found a somewhat isolated block where I set up base (I'm very close to the large lake, as I later found out by picking up a map). I'm on day 7 now, and water has been gone for the past two days, so I've been looting houses and bringing back mainly canned food, water containers for when it rains and skill books, VHS and other entertainment items.

I'm a bit lost at the moment, since I've never made it this far (and not with all this loot), what should my priority be? I was thinking of moving my base to the lake, but I don't know how to build a house, is Carpentry the skill I need to level to be able to build a shelter?

I'm on a custom sandbox based on Apocalypse, but I started in February (never made it to winter, so I figured I'd try it lol) and that's the only impactful change I made. Oh, and I'm on version 41

One question: should I bother washing myself and my clothes? I don't have running water so wasting the small amount I collected feels bad
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I would probably focus on getting 2 generators. One to power up a gas station and the other for your base.
 
Today's been good: found two generators, but I haven't picked them up yet because my Van is full and I don't have enough storage in my base to empty it, so I guess that's gonna be my next task: clearing a spare bedroom and building storage

I survived the helicopter event by spending the most part of the day inside my base, reading and cooking lol got very lucky, as I heard its sound just as I was about to enter my base after a morning spent at the lake, washing clothing and fishing (no luck with a spear
 
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harbringer883 said:
Reviving the thread. How is B42 going for everyone?
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I tried to play my old character from a previous update who had ~15k kills and level 9 short blade but it spawned zombies in the chunks of my base that it reset (literally all the chunks around me), I only ever really play on insane pop so I was surrounded and bit instantly.

Making a new character now, I started in Rosewood and went out onto the field to the east in hopes of getting foraging books/survival gear in the farmers barracks but they changed the spawns there sadly. The school/bookstore in Rosewood didn't have any other good books (and literally no foraging books) so I backpacked up the highway sleeping in the woods to get to the bait and tackle shop/general store to the far west of Riverside. It had a full set of fishing books and I had trained foraging to level 4 by the time I got there so I'm staying and fishing for calories over winter.

Also I've made over 1000 wooden pipes to train carving...
Each log is 3 planks, each plank is 12 small wooden handles (+3.3exp for 1 plank) each handle can be carved into 1 pipe for 9.8exp (with fast learner before books) so I get ca. 360 carving exp per log meaning that you only need ~90 logs to level carving from level 3 to 10 (~30k exp). If you're going to do this use chipped stones for the carving, especially if you use short blade like me as they're far more durable than knives, each chipped stone carves ~200 pipes before breaking.
 
Jheeb said:
It had a full set of fishing books and I had trained foraging to level 4 by the time I got there so I'm staying and fishing for calories over winter.
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Turns out there's a 'Legendary' size for fish
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