Originally Posted by William

Wow a week!?Month!? I can barely survive 2 days!
I haven't met an NPC yet..pretty weird. Seems like I should shoot them at all costs.

How long does a session for surviving a week take? :P Must be a looooong time.
Anyway, I can't wait to start building, farming..all of these i haven't been able to do because I can barely survive. Any tips?

Originally Posted by Oracle

Avoid combat whenever possible, always. I don't care if you just need to kill that one zombie to get in that house, you make sure there's nothing else nearby before you even think about it. If worst comes to worst, find a nearby safe house, take everything you can from it, then leave the oven on with something in it and scram. That mother fucker will light up and bring all nearby zeds swarming. If you're out of the ways, you can use it as a distraction for a quick raid of that now vacant house you were looking at.

Spend the first couple days scrounging for stuff in the outskirts of town, butter knife is numero uno common early weapon. One shot zombies and doesn't afraid of anything. Fill up every container you can with water, even if you can't carry it off. It'll be a lifesaver when the water shuts off and you run out. After getting a bag to carry stuff and hopefully a gun, some ammo, and non-perishables, you want to setup your safe house, preferably a little ways out of the city. From there, you play opportunistic. What you find in the beginning will make or break your survival. Safe houses are only safe if you can sustain yourself there. When the pickings get lean, rotate around the edges of the city until you find a new home base.

And shoot every human on sight. The risk of detection by zeds is worth avoiding the risk of acute lead poisoning. You can survive zombies overrunning you with a good fire. It's hard to survive a bad case of shot-in-the-face syndrome.

After that, it's really all luck. I average pretty poorly for survival length, but some good luck and good adherence to the basics can get you to last a couple months, up to a year, depending on your luck.


Also, it's not always worth tampering with traits unless you know for sure what you're doing. I always get light drinker and one other negative to get graceful because graceful is a lifesaver in the early days and desperation raids in the later weeks, and I always convert alcohol into molotovs. But no changes still works fine.

And always take off your sweater in the beginning if you start with it and rip it up. Free bandages and you always start to overheat. Zeds always have a sweater on anyways, so you can just mug one when it gets cold or rainy.

Originally Posted by JellyNinja

Farming and barricading is the best way of staying alive, rain barrels and decent walls near a forest or something like it.
Scavenging can be a pain.

I suck at it, I can survive for a long time if i wanted to, although I'm getting restless and I always run out getting more shit.