If you put a bedroll or land claim block in you POI base that POI will be removed from the list of missions, at least that's how it worked in A20 haven't tested it yet but don't see why they would change that.
Molotovs are OP for hordes and higher level POI's. You can cheese the first 3-5 blood moons by finding a 3-4 block high pregen wall of concrete and just defending it, making sure to use the ranged damage drink, loot bonus food and whatever other buffs you want. Parkour in the agility tree is something I always get early on to get the added utility of jump height. When you've done a few dozen missions you just want to start speed running them and the lessened fall damage/jump height lets you get around easier.
Ok this is a long comment but here’s what I have for anyone interested…
Water- grab a water filter from the trader asap, not only will this give you infinite clean water but later on you’ll need it for cooking good meals with lots of tea and coffee.
Player Skills- try to hone in on just two paths (ex. Fortitude & Agility) so that points won’t get scattered everywhere and the game can consistently give you what your goal is in magazines. You can always respec later and spend all the points into another build.
Tutorial- I can’t stress this enough DO-NOT spend any of your free points into Pack Mule or anything that changes your looting odds. The reason is because the game will not start giving you better loot in pois until about character level 40. Along with the hidden loot pools of each biome, Pine Forest where you start is a 0% loot bonus and won’t change even with the points into lucky looter.
Traders- some people have already pointed this out but they won’t give you any missions that are occupied by a Player Base block. Also worth mentioning is that each trader has a hidden stash of loot, up to the player to find them all.
Bartering- so you don’t start out with tons of money, but by the time you have a bicycle you should have some dukes and a chest full of sellable items. Go to the trader and outside will be some vending machines. grab all the Sugar Butts you can and pop one every time you want to sell off tons of anything. It’s not much but combining them with Grandpas Awesome Sauce, then with a cigar later, will greatly increase deals made through selling and buying.
Bloodmoon- zombies that die from spikes will not give you XP. Try to find a build that can keep you safe without losing any XP, that way you can secure some player levels. I recommend just rushing a base that’s built with cobblestone so they won’t tear it down.
QOL- Be on the lookout for the Miners Guide Book that teaches you Blackstrap Coffee. It’s very good early game for any mission. Also pressing the R key will help with looting everything instantly, especially when in a rush. Try to harvest corpses with a knife on the road or anywhere to grab resources for early farming. Last thing would be to horde all the gas cans you come across, don’t sell them as you’ll need tons of gas for vehicles later on.
Save everything! Place a bed and a crate for your materials! I promise you will likely need them later on for cooler things. Store everything you find. I promise its worth the eextra effort. That or wait to sell some stuff at a trader in case a cool item pops up.. single fire only. Trust 😂much save many ammo.
Always make sure yiure using the right tool to harvest each thing as you'll get a lot more if you do. Such as an axe for wood even wood stacks and pallets. And pickaxe for ore 🙂
Thanks bro, I picked this up when it was like $7 on steam a month or so ago. You helped me understand Project Zomboid and you're helping me understand this! I appreciate you and your work❤
One of my favorite early game bases is the hybrid-style base that is just an elevated box with a fighting position and zombie path on one side. They can make for a decent crafting base and early-to-mid game horde base if you build them with a large enough interior. Best of all, one person can build it in about a day and use it to survive the first handful of horde nights with minimal upgrading.
Personally it only took me 5 days to die, I feel like this is in contradiction with the theme of the game, I appreciate these tips to help me make it to 7 days to die therefore being in harmony. Yet another top tier video from ThemNuclearBird.
The changes are really stupid. I stopped cooking water or drinks entirely with jist the filter helmet mod and two points in leaky gut, and you get too thirsty too fast anyway. Completely eliminated the need for anything, which makes all the changes redundant! Removing the ability to craft murky water was stupid anyway… The dew collectors are useless. The book change is stupid too, it just made crafting even less needed and quick looting and trader hopping even more viable and mandatory! Previously i could get to the motorcycle in 3-5 days, now it takes Many weeks instead, if i TRY to do it that is, meanwhile if i just go with looting and store hopping instead, i can still do it in about a week, maybe two! Finding good weapons and tools is also much quicker and easier this way, meanwhile to craft them you need infinitely longer! Its stupid, basically makes cradting even more useless than before and rushing higher danger zones and trader hopping way better and unbalanced in contrast
i liked playing at 300%xp before because it felt perfect to unlocks things now its way harder and you should definitely max it out. now water rework removing bottles is so infuriating. my happiest moments were having a chest full of food and water and coffee and tea and goldenrod tea
Keep a filter on your helmet and dump a bucket of water in your base for infinite water! Just crouch down and look at the source of water for 2 seconds to get the drink prompt.
What is one tip you'd give to new players? Let me know!
I haven't played this game for years. This makes me want to play again.
I think I might have to get back on this with the Mrs.
I can't think of any tips, maybe eat well, so that zombies get a good meal later 😂
Small chance of infection, he says. Hahahahhahaha
cant wait for the devs to completely change the direction of the game for no reason
Comment for the algorithm!
Good one! Hope you’re having fun! I love and hate the game since they change things all the time without really moving forward.
No need to build stuff in places, theres always a path in dungeons
game that flew under my radar cause i mixed it up with 5 nights at freddies
im not the kind of person that cares much a bout graphics but everything in 7 days to die is just soo hard to look at
If you put a bedroll or land claim block in you POI base that POI will be removed from the list of missions, at least that's how it worked in A20 haven't tested it yet but don't see why they would change that.
Molotovs are OP for hordes and higher level POI's. You can cheese the first 3-5 blood moons by finding a 3-4 block high pregen wall of concrete and just defending it, making sure to use the ranged damage drink, loot bonus food and whatever other buffs you want. Parkour in the agility tree is something I always get early on to get the added utility of jump height. When you've done a few dozen missions you just want to start speed running them and the lessened fall damage/jump height lets you get around easier.
This games been out for over 10 years and is still in alpha
Ok this is a long comment but here’s what I have for anyone interested…
Water- grab a water filter from the trader asap, not only will this give you infinite clean water but later on you’ll need it for cooking good meals with lots of tea and coffee.
Player Skills- try to hone in on just two paths (ex. Fortitude & Agility) so that points won’t get scattered everywhere and the game can consistently give you what your goal is in magazines. You can always respec later and spend all the points into another build.
Tutorial- I can’t stress this enough DO-NOT spend any of your free points into Pack Mule or anything that changes your looting odds. The reason is because the game will not start giving you better loot in pois until about character level 40. Along with the hidden loot pools of each biome, Pine Forest where you start is a 0% loot bonus and won’t change even with the points into lucky looter.
Traders- some people have already pointed this out but they won’t give you any missions that are occupied by a Player Base block. Also worth mentioning is that each trader has a hidden stash of loot, up to the player to find them all.
Bartering- so you don’t start out with tons of money, but by the time you have a bicycle you should have some dukes and a chest full of sellable items. Go to the trader and outside will be some vending machines. grab all the Sugar Butts you can and pop one every time you want to sell off tons of anything. It’s not much but combining them with Grandpas Awesome Sauce, then with a cigar later, will greatly increase deals made through selling and buying.
Bloodmoon- zombies that die from spikes will not give you XP. Try to find a build that can keep you safe without losing any XP, that way you can secure some player levels. I recommend just rushing a base that’s built with cobblestone so they won’t tear it down.
QOL- Be on the lookout for the Miners Guide Book that teaches you Blackstrap Coffee. It’s very good early game for any mission. Also pressing the R key will help with looting everything instantly, especially when in a rush. Try to harvest corpses with a knife on the road or anywhere to grab resources for early farming. Last thing would be to horde all the gas cans you come across, don’t sell them as you’ll need tons of gas for vehicles later on.
Yay back with a great survival game!! The recent fps videos kept me away
Save everything! Place a bed and a crate for your materials! I promise you will likely need them later on for cooler things. Store everything you find. I promise its worth the eextra effort. That or wait to sell some stuff at a trader in case a cool item pops up.. single fire only. Trust 😂much save many ammo.
Always make sure yiure using the right tool to harvest each thing as you'll get a lot more if you do. Such as an axe for wood even wood stacks and pallets. And pickaxe for ore 🙂
Thanks bro, I picked this up when it was like $7 on steam a month or so ago. You helped me understand Project Zomboid and you're helping me understand this! I appreciate you and your work❤
The spawn triggers and the skill books personally turned me off this build, but I'm glad you're enjoying it so much!
Loves this. Been streaming this game lately. Good fun 😊
PRO TIP: Using the Sledge Turret in your hand you can knock any player into ragdoll, even if PvP is disabled. This is always funny.
why is this still in alpha lmao
One of my favorite early game bases is the hybrid-style base that is just an elevated box with a fighting position and zombie path on one side. They can make for a decent crafting base and early-to-mid game horde base if you build them with a large enough interior. Best of all, one person can build it in about a day and use it to survive the first handful of horde nights with minimal upgrading.
Last time I really sunk some time into this game was roughly alpha 17/18(ish). There used to be candy's dedicated to loot chances.
Personally it only took me 5 days to die, I feel like this is in contradiction with the theme of the game, I appreciate these tips to help me make it to 7 days to die therefore being in harmony. Yet another top tier video from ThemNuclearBird.
The changes are really stupid. I stopped cooking water or drinks entirely with jist the filter helmet mod and two points in leaky gut, and you get too thirsty too fast anyway. Completely eliminated the need for anything, which makes all the changes redundant! Removing the ability to craft murky water was stupid anyway… The dew collectors are useless. The book change is stupid too, it just made crafting even less needed and quick looting and trader hopping even more viable and mandatory! Previously i could get to the motorcycle in 3-5 days, now it takes Many weeks instead, if i TRY to do it that is, meanwhile if i just go with looting and store hopping instead, i can still do it in about a week, maybe two! Finding good weapons and tools is also much quicker and easier this way, meanwhile to craft them you need infinitely longer! Its stupid, basically makes cradting even more useless than before and rushing higher danger zones and trader hopping way better and unbalanced in contrast
i liked playing at 300%xp before because it felt perfect to unlocks things now its way harder and you should definitely max it out. now water rework removing bottles is so infuriating. my happiest moments were having a chest full of food and water and coffee and tea and goldenrod tea
After latest update this week my server doesn’t show at all anymore anyone know how I can fix this?
Keep a filter on your helmet and dump a bucket of water in your base for infinite water! Just crouch down and look at the source of water for 2 seconds to get the drink prompt.
Thanks for the tips. Just start Alpha 21 yesterday. I'll be keeping on eye out for more tip bidey
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