ladyterukiLook what is parked in the back of my (currently) favorite base spot in a new save !!! And I made it here on July 9th !
I just HAVE to survive in this run :P Sure, there's only one gas pump working, but I get to drive AN AMBULANCE !!!
I can't believe my luck.
I like that there's a plan, now :) I have the beginning down to a science...
...
...when I don't mess it up.
...Don't get me wrong. I *will* build at some point. But probably not for dozens of hours because that's such a long term goal (and I still die so easily).
It's fascinating how I shouldn't like this game and yet am completely in love with it. Haven't built a thing. Tragic lack of dinosaurs. Full of anxiety. And yet here I am !
It's so interesting I could talk about it for hours. But I will spare you.
Some of this might be settings I haven't found yet. The rest MUST be mods.
I'm going to die horribly, aren't I ?
Things are going to become tragic soon, I can feel it.
I am the queen of preppers XD
I got bit while on a trip to Rosewood's book store.
9 days.
Sure, because God knows there isn't a lot to deal with already, we have to mod stuff like that on top of it XD
(this is a community of masochists and I feel at home)
"I'm not going to download mods just yet, I'm just favoriting them for later"
There is no way this ends with 712 pages of favorited mods, right ? RIGHT ?
Alrighty then XD
*cough ARK could never cough*
But that's probably something I won't need as much in the long run.
Do I have use for wooden sticks and handles at the moment ? Absolutely not.
Was I going to leave the 3 wooden sticks and 2 handles in the garage where I found them ? Also absolutely not.
(I have played no other)
I have issues with the PZ wiki, honestly. As a new player it oftentimes isn't helpful at all.
Like, I'm trying to see how food illness works, to see if it's worth taking the Weak Stomach trait.
No problem, I'll just check the "Weak Stomach" page :
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Weak_Stomach
Uh oh, it doesn't say what it makes me more prone to, and instead advises to check the "Health" page. Fine, I'll do that.
Fine, let's try something else and look at the page for "Cooking" :
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Cooking
Nope, nothing.
Maybe over at "Sick" ?
Still no luck. It mentions food poisoning, but not the causes.
But isn't that what a videogame's wiki is supposed to be for ?
VERY surprised that noone has attempted to implement dinosaurs. Yet ?
Being chased by Raptors in the streets of Muldraugh would be pretty funny ! Or raising a herd of Trikes for their meat, based on the code of B42's animals...
Am I the only one who can picture this ?
For now it's just a very simple mod that allows me to have additional icons for when I write something on my map. But we all know this is the beginning of a modlist that's going to grow exponentially over time :P
Me : "Ow my back 😣 I'm in so much pain on top of everything else... I think I'll go lie down in the bedroom for a bit. As long as I make sure I don't fall asleep at 8pm !!"
Youtube : "Ok how about a great guide to optimize your odds of eventually building a base in Project Zomboid ?"
Me : "Noooo ! Now I want to go back to the computer and play, it involves sitting ! 😠"
I don't think there's a way for me to come out on the other side of today without frustration.
And pain. So much f*cking pain.
And yeah, I said "odds". Because it is far from being a given, even for experienced players. In other games I have to worry about design and maybe resources, but PZ's crafting system adds a lot of complexity...
Ultimate Project Zomboid Base Building Guide
I choose to start in Riverside, and luck out by spawning in the trailer park.
I cross the road to get to the Lectrolux parking lot.
I try the first parked truck I see. It's unlocked.
I check the trunk & glove box. I find the key.
I put the key in the ignition. Half a tank of fuel.
I check the trunk's capacity. 115 units, one of the best I could hope for.
I drive the truck across the road to the gas station, and finish filling the tank.
I grab some food at the gas station's store -
- and find, not one, but two gas cans.
I fill the gas cans too.
I dismantle the two-compartment freezer in the front of the store and load the truck.
At that point all Zeds have stayed out of my way, so I look for one on purpose to kill them, turn their shirt into rags... and find a watch on them. I wear the watch.
It's not even noon.
I get behind the wheel and start driving south.
So far, everything that could go well has gone fantastic. It's my best start in days !
And yet, not one issue on the road.
I avoid a group of Zomboids that was in the middle of the road like it's nothing.
The truck doesn't kiss a single tree even in sharp turns.
I make excellent time and arrive in Echo Creek in the middle of the afternoon.
I pass Ovo Farms and notice a pickup truck in the parking lot, make a mental note to go check for keys tomorrow.
I snack on some of the Riverside's store food before crossing the bridge.
I pull into the Echo Creek gas station...
...and there it is. The base spot I have so meticulously planned for, the one I have decided to live in because it has access to two gas pumps, a diner's full kitchen, a garage and direct access to a river...
...has two signs in the front that says "out of gas", as well as a horde of 15-ish Zeds waiting for me.
Sure all the water down there would be tainted by default, but I think it'd be very fun to try and establish a base there !
Aw man, I think I just had my saddest #ProjectZomboid story so far...
Rainie had rolled a bad seed. She started (as I almost always do) in Riverside, but in the suburbs, not the trailer park. She walked aaaaaall the way to Lectrolux, because that factory has a huge parking lot where there's bound to be a utility truck I can get... except this time, there wasn't. Well the parking had tons of them, just, zero keys anywhere, and Rainie didn't know how to lockpick, sooo...
But she perservered (aka I decided not to do a little quit-a-rooney and start over with another character XD ). As the night was getting really dark, she walked to the diner, made sure no Zed was hidden in the toilets (you laugh now...), and slept on its kitchen floor, poor thing.
She packed up what little she had gathered, made a pit stop at the gas station, and started to drive.
This is probably one of the worst instances of this plan backfiring, aside from, you know, the deaths for sleeping in the factory's break room.
Don't judge.
So anyway, Rainie didn't roll very lucky, but things were looking up. The truck was in bad shape, on top of having less storage than the Lectrolux ones (when I tell you they're my go-to XD ), but the engine was functional and the wheels had tires. All three of them, ahem.
So of course that's the run where I hit every single lamppost on the way, for some reason.
Things were so bad, we had to stop on the way and sleep at the camping store on the highway, because there was no way we could reach Echo Creek by the end of Day 2.
TWO ! That hasn't happened to me in at least 15 runs ! I had this down to a science last time !!!
But hey, Rainie soldiers through, she lives on tortilla chips and hope, and ends up finally reaching Echo Creek in the middle of Day 3, in a ride that I swear I could hear scream in agony by the time we reached the gas station.
Not AGAIN.
See, it's already Day 3. And the clock is ticking.
Also, did you think Ovo Farms had only chickens ? No, it also has Zeds, of course. So you need to clear the place before you can loot it, and it's HUGE.
What's next on the list ? Ah, the auto repair factory.
We cross the bridge late in the afternoon of Day 4, scoop up everything we see, even the water cooler of course (another lesson I learned the hard way...), end up finding some lug wrenches and tires and head home for the night. We might just save this run.
Day 5, we head to the July 4th picnic area to get our hands on the generator, and I feel like we're fully back on track now.
Not helpful is the fact that the f*cking truck could wake the dead, and does. It's a Zed magnet. Even worse, there was a car with three 1312 on board, in full gear, and they were hard to kill. Got a bulletproof vest out of the fight though. And the generator.
Every time things looked like they were going sideways, we fall back on our feet.
To this day I swear there was a vortex.
(I try not to play with the interactive map open, come on, how else am I gonna learn ?)
I think "hm, last time I was here on a previous run, there was a big supermarket on the other side of the railroad, let's find it again, get some food if anything's not rotten yet, then decide".
We drive the zombie magnet across town, I find the supermarket (aka it happened to be where we went), loot the place as much as possible, and spot a small medical office in the same building. Good, because so far I have NO medical supplies other than a bandage I found at the camping store (and I had to clean it up >_< ).
On top of that I was so focused on Rainie's health that I didn't notice the truck is -
CharlieThere is NOT a sewer system, though I agree as that would make an awesome and terrifying addition.
Also as I'm sure you've read, Louisville can be quite the challenge to just get into. Many of my deaths have been because I'm in that city and stop because I find something that I think I need, only to get swarmed by a horde that seemingly comes out from nowhere.
@ladyteruki Before you even consider approaching, you need a car in good working order and a gun, (ideally a shotgun), with plenty of ammo.
I've done it with melee, but it takes absolutely FOREVER.
Also you can work your way up; if you start in Rosewood make your way up to West Point and setup shop there to rest, have a forward operating base, and to loot up the local areas.
Then work your way up the road towards Louisville; there's a small section of houses in a quiet spot between the road and river that you can set up another forward operating base and rest zone.
Once you have a safe spot in that little residential area, you can start inching your way to the barracades. Take out as many zombies as you're comfortable with then retreat back to your nearby house to rest and eat. Rinse and repeat until you can move the barracades out of the road without much resistance.
At the moment I try to establish camp/base in one of the smaller locations (typically Echo Creek, but when I'm bored of always dying there, I go to Ekron or Fallas Lake) -