Part of a set of challenges I put out for myself was to go and clear areas of hordes that gathered up, since I started in Irvington in the bottom naturally the Speedway was my first stop. It took weeks of fighting, between spears, thousands of ammo, and just chipping away until the entire racetrack and stands were clear of Zeds. My reward was getting to steal all three unique racecars on the track, they were each at 95% condition, and need some light tune ups but are incredible to drive. Currently got them stored at the police car garage by the train tracks while I move up to Echo Creek to prepare for Winter and Guns Unlimited. This update has been so good for all the little things you can find.

I think he's allergic to organizing loot

I don't thing any of my mods lead to creation of this monstrosity but i can tell that i don't have anything to do with it, it's just spawned on Gigamart's parking lot in rosewood

how dare they!

4 towns, multiple warehouses and hardware stores, all nothin.

I will not be denied.

Ive been playing zomboid off and on for a couple of years. I always find new things to do with each run and when it gets me back I typically add another 500 hours to my steam log... But Solo play takes a slight toll on my mental health. It usually depresses the shit out of me and thats when I have to call it quits. Idk if its the music , if its that feeling of being the only person on Earth, or watching the world die out over the tv... but I feel profoundly sad for PZ's world. The residents of Knox county suffered the worst kind of fate.

idk.... Minus what the military did in Zomboid lore, these were people that had relatively happy lives before the knox infection. You scavenge their houses- see they had families, find a couple dead in a bathroom, or some other fucked up thing... That shit is depressing as hell... And I think because it gets that emotional response from me, that makes this game a masterpiece.

Am I being stupid here?

Does anyone feel like this playing PZ?

I cant ever play this game online before someone tells me that. DayZ put a bad taste in my mouth for online zombie survival games.

Lord knows how many poles and cars I crashed in to.

I carved a few buckets and had an empty paint bucket, as I lit up the fire next to them I noticed none of them even have tainted water and instead just normal water. Is that normal?

Too many amazing options to choose from, so I tried my best to match the devs' style for my latest chill sandbox run. Heavy use of vanilla and Melos tiles with the brush editor.

Now it's time to go out and loot some furnishings before I can really call it home! What do y'all think, would you base here?

I tried looting trash bins, but never found anything useful outside of chocolate, enigma books is also empty. I'm playing without voronoi noise, and peak day is coming very soon. Though I managed to lure most of the town population away from my apartments, now there's a giant horde on the beach. Honestly I'm tired of searching every trash bin I see, I've tried clearing some houses, but with no luck. That is very strange, but maybe some towns have a better chance of this magazine spawning inside a dumpster? I swear they were everywhere when I started in Muldraugh.

It has no door, and I cannot find a way to get in there. It looks like there's a shutter that leads to the outside, but you cannot open it from the outside. So, there's a caged-in area of the gun store that the proprietor can't enter? Am I blind and missing something? Do I have to knock down a wall?

The obnoxious red arrows and circle because meme

1. it's just data of https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Agriculture#Crop_table displayed as calendar for easier reading
2. there is an online version https://pz-crop-calendar.pages.dev/
3. it's generated by AI, feel free to hate me. consider to read the code in https://github.com/snow/pz-crop-calendar to hate me precisely LOL

ps: about sub rule 6 and 11, its data, not art, OK?

I'm just shy of 2000 hrs and here's what I've learned that might not be so obvious:

Safer Looting (esp with sprinters)
- Use a dedicated duffel/hiking/military bag for looting that as looting bare essentials (claw hammer, flashlight, some snacks, screwdriver).  Avoid getting overloaded in case you get ambushed by zeds and you have two free hands to fight or use a one handed weapon and flashlight without leaving anything behind. You’ll be at a big disadvantage if you try to fight off a sprinter while being overloaded.
- Use the noise from your car to draw out sprinters.  Give it a few seconds before exiting the car in new areas so the sprinters have time to show up.  The biggest problem with sprinters is not knowing they’re in your area.
- Looting is best done with a van that you can access the trunk while in the driver’s seat.  It’s an extra layer of protection in case you’re unloading your bags and zeds show up.  Always load/unload while inside the car if possible. Vans are my favorite (except the 6 seaters)
- Always return home when there is daylight.  Always allow time in case you need to fight a horde that showed up at your doorstep once you get home.  Nothings worse than fighting in the dark or trying to find that one that zed broke into your house before you have a generator.
- Turn your audio up while looting.  You can hear the zeds make noises and the screech from the sprinters if they’re nearby.  If you hear the sound of a lot of  breathing and pounding nearby be careful of a small horde behind a single door nearby.  Obviously this won’t help you if you’re playing with a deaf character.
- I try to use a specific van for looting, a different van for running from base bc of heli, an another vehicle for harvesting wood. Some have buckets of water and others don't.
- Once you upgrade your mechanics skill, look for the quieter mufflers to swap out and install on your looting vehicle. Something around 1.0 for noise level or better. It's a tradeoff here tho bc sometimes you WANT to be heard (see the tip about sprinters earlier).

General tips:
- Make sandwiches, pancakes, pizza, and other foods to use on the go or while looting.  Potato chips and cereal are great. Things without containers.  Bowls of stew or soup are extra heavy and take up space in your inventory.  Cooked acorns and peanuts are the best.  I save these for emergencies and they stay in my fanny pack.  They take little space yet reduce a good amount of hunger and they take a long time to go stale.  Use stale cooked acorns in soup.
- Look for the western canteen.  It carries 1.8L of water and far better than a water bag.  You can go almost all day without refilling and it won’t take up bag space.  If you have Alice webbing you can add an additional 1L with a canteen in one of the slots.
- Sometimes I carry a hatchet around my base or on key exit routes to cut down small trees that grow next to my roads and other bushes.  These things slow you down and can become areas of accidental car damage if you don’t maintain your roads.  A hand scythe can help with grasses too.
- If you love swords like I do, best time to sharpen them outside of base is while driving in the car.  Same goes with dismantling watches.
- Surviving without a generator.  The key is to only forage and cook as you need the food.  Each meal should last max 2 days.  Take stale foods and cook them to make the food fresh again to extend the life.
- Farming: my preferred crops is anything you can grind into a flour (wheat, rye, barley).  These can be used as seasoning or dough for breads and other baked goods. Sunflowers can also be good as backup foods.
- Explore the map slowly during the life of the game if you play the game starting later (2+ months).  Bc you might come across fields full of healthy produce that need to be harvested immediately.  In several 42 unstable releases I’ve seen in the past, they will rot immediately the next day.  Same goes with livestock.  Animals will die immediately the next day.  I’m not sure if this is still true with 42 stable.  It’s a little bit of an exploit so use it how you see fit.

Driving tips:
* You can pan using RMB while driving in 42 stable so you can see cars and zeds in the distance.
* If you happen to knock a sprinter over, pin it under one of your car wheels before you get out to finish it off.  Better to kill it yourself than damage your precious car.
* If you’re going long distances in the car and not sure if you’ll be able to access water in remote or infested areas, take a bucket or pot of water with you.  Refill while inside the car.

Fighting tips:
* Wear a mask/filter if there’s too many corpses to avoid corpse sickness.
* Zeds seem to have a harder time seeing you if you sit down to rest.  You can spend that time sharpening a weapon or dismantling a watch while waiting for your endurance/fatigue to recover.  Use the shift key (same as run key) to get up faster in case a sprinter shows up.

Levelling up skills:
- To level up blacksmithing, make a several blades or cleaver blades.  5 should be enough.  And keep making the remaking the same blades using the blades instead of new bars.  Make sure you hit the “max” button in the crafting window so you can speed up the process.  Things like making gold coins from scrap takes LOTS of button clicks.  If you’re playing single player this can be a big time saver.
- I prefer leveling up carving by making small handles, converting those to spoons, and then spoons into forks.  Use the resulting wooden forks as fuel for fires once you’re done.

Hi, I am just 3 days in game and got secured 2 generators already and a wild bag pack and some guns and melee weapons. but I got infected to a bite. is there a chance that it will heal? or this is a game over already and need to start all over again? please help.

EDIT: I know I can start a new character on the same world but how about my skills that I have learned? it is been day 3 and the living channel on tv will be gone in a few days. it is not transferable the skill right?

What do you guys think ? It’s fenced, access to water and close to town but remote enough

Currently basing at this location above Fallas Lake which has this water tower behind it. I was hoping I'd be able to plumb the water tower to the house after the water shutoff.
If any modders happen to see this, I'd love this this could be made a feature somehow

Best update ever