17 Hidden and Relatively Unknown Mechanics in Project Zomboid
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
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Project Zomboid is an open-world isometric survival horror video game in development by British and Canadian independent developer The Indie Stone. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world where the player is challenged to survive for as long as possible before inevitably dying. - Hry
bourbon:
- weapon - molotov
- drink - not the best, but will do the job
- food - 1500 calories
- disinfectant
- mood booster
- painkiller
- bottle after u drink or use it, from what I know it has the best weight to capacity ratio from all the bottles
so yeah, a swiss army knife of zomboid, but in a funnier way
speaking of bottle don't forget the broken bottle weapon
@@NickDoom35 is that a mod?
@@user-fr4pt2go8fno but I don’t think you can actually break a bottle to make it a weapon you can find them in trash cans tho
Remarkable pvp weapon. Look up Zomboid bottle incident! It changed how I play pvp. I always have at least 2 bottles to chuck at people. Literally better than guns if you have no aim.
And don't forget, the bourbon bottle is particularly special, as it is a glass bottle. If you find yourself in a survival situation and you need water, all you need to do is fill it from a water source, build a fire, put it in the fire, and bam. Clean drinking water in a pinch.
I have over 300 hours and im only now finding out I can replace windows and clean blood
the windows thing is news to me and i came in thinking id know everything
@@jaeslow6347 Is it worth buying?
And here’s me thinking I need a mod to do that…
I wish I knew getting bloodied and dirty was killing my characters earlier. Having all that grime was infecting my wounds
I been trying to figure that out a few days ago. Cuz I want to be sanitary at my base.
I've got over 100 hours in game, yet not once did I realize you could clean up blood and replace windows with a crowbar. Like a Telltale character, I will remember that.
I have 1300 hours and this just blew my mind lol
Like a Telltale one? You're going to heck up your 100 days survival, don't you?
@@Sailor639 If Clementine can do it, so can I. Hopefully
I knew about cleaning blood pretty early on, but I didn't discover that I could replace windows until later. The one thing in this video that I didn't already know was that one thing about the baseball bats being repairable with nails. THAT I didn't know until I was today years old.
remember seeing a reddit post with someone confused they lost their character to fever when they didnt get bitten - they had no idea about corpse sickness
i see posts like that all the time, most of the time it's people that dont know that scratches and lacerations also have a chance to infect, other times it's either corpse sickness or some dynamic traits related bullshittery.
as someone who used dynamic traits i gave up on that pile of shit, got myself better trait mods after the modder had a butthurt moment and changed a lot of shit nobody asked for
@@KyubiHitashiwho asked?.
@@Rofflestomper who asked u
@@KyubiHitashi you when you went on about something stupid.
Fun fact: zombies that have watches can sometimes already have alarms set on their watches, which can go off and draw in more zombies. Always grab watches off zombies near your base and make sure there are no alarms set on them already.
Could be a mod i have that does this, but worth a mention anyway
Nope, that's a vanilla feature.
Also, forgot to include normal alarm clocks found in homes.
Died a few times cause of that myself.
While it is not very common to run into an alarm clock in a home on lower settings, common and above is insanity, constant beeping, ringing in every corner of the city every few hours. 😅
read an electronics book and keep a screwdriver on hand so you can take the watches apart
Let’s be real the most hidden mechanic is having friends
1:00 or so - Brooms, mops, dish towels, bath towels all work. Broom / mop even has an animation which is pretty cool.
4:55 ish - I want to say the rain barrel cannot be *directly* above the sink, but rather has to be offset by 1 tile?
you also eat with a spoon/fork if you have equip those rather than bringing the food to your mouth.
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 I had a mod that made that automatic if they were in inventory, but that is no longer the case and I keep forgetting. So my character is back to being that poor sod licking out a tin can :(
@@FunkThompson the good ol bring the entire soupe pot to your mouth
@@ibraheemshuaib8954 Directly off the stove, while still boiling. It's fine. AHHHHH!!!! Delish. IT BURNS!! Really good stuff, this.
The XP gain bonus is extremely underrated and underdiscussed. If you want a long-term playthrough you absolutely should be speccing into traits that give you XP bonuses in skills that you consider critical. 1 blunt vs 0 blunt may not seem like a huge deal but just a 75% bonus to XP gain will go a long way.
2:12 the bonus for the first level is actually way higher than 75%. without any bonuses, you have a penalty in gaining xp. but 1 level in said skill will remove the penalty and add the 75% on top of that
yea, baseic XP multipiler is 25% and those bonuses add up to that making them in fact times 4, times 5, and times 6 bonuses recpectivly.
it doesn't work that way for weapon skills - as there are many other factors that affect XP gain
the base rate for XP is 25%, so taking one level in a skill from the character creation menu actually gives 3x more XP, which really isn't explained by the UI but the effect is very noticeable during gameplay.
it also stacks with the XP bonus from skillbooks, so having one level from CC and reading the skill book actually gives a total of 9X XP until level 2, 15X for 2-4, 24X for 4-6, 36X for 6-8, and 48X for 8-10.
due to the way XP works in zomboid, taking more than one level in a skill from CC is wasteful, as the difference between 3x and 4-5x is negligible, and trying to level any skill you didn't get a level in from the CC is almost completely pointless (unless you're aiming for a specific goal, like elec1 mech2 so you can hotwire cars, which is worth doing but will take a LONG time)
You actually get 25/100/133/166% for whatever reason. Except for Sprinting which has a higher starting and smaller level 1 multiplier bump. I think it's 100/125/133/166.
But other skills may be worth taking higher than 1 because the difference between 400% (of base) and 533% (of base) is a little nicer than the Numbers provided in game.
Unfortunately, Fitness & Strength are exempt from this bonus, so keep that in mind when creating a character.
Not to mention they are both very grindy skills to increase in-game, along with Nimble.
@@kryzx8000 the benefits of taking "strong" + "athletic" are so powerful its often worth sacrificing everything else to take them. when combined with axeman you become a god of zombieslaying, able to one-shot zombies and cut down entire hordes with ease. a wood axe with the appropriate skills is better than shotgun-wielding veteran because you never run out of ammo and the axe is quiet.
I DAMN KNEW IT WAS POSSIBLE TO CONNECT A WATER COLLECTER WITH UR SINK I DAMN KNEW IT I HAD A FEELING
KNOWLEDGE SUPPLEMENT: Did you know that if you miss any of the shows on the Life and Living channel, you can find VHS tapes of those same shows in the video store and watch them when you want to? Antique televisions don't have VHS players, but the more modern televisions do.
To add a few things:
- Forgot to mention you need to be in front of a mirror to use the razor.
- Being Inside/outside opposite to a pile of bodies prevents you from getting sick (corpses outside, you inside and viceversa)
- When looking for books, I always carry an annotated paper with names and volumes or each book I'm missing.
- When setting up water collectors you don't really need carpentry and to craft them, there are hollow metal drums at the entrance of LV, wich hold twice as much as the wooden barrels (400 vs 800), just take the logs out and take the barrel home!
- Alcohol can also reduce your panic with a small sip of it, exactly like beta blockers
- Empty bourbon bottles (again alcohol, best items) hold a bot more water than all the other bottles in vanilla game while weighing a bit less (12.5 units vs 10 units, weighing 0.7 vs 0.8 Full)
Great video as always.
No, you do not need to be in front of a mirror to use a razor. I dont even have a mirror (no mods either) and I can shave just fine. In fact, I can shave while still wearing my motorcycle helmet.
@@APackOfHungryGhosts maybe the mirror is from a mod then, I was pretty sure you needed one. The helmet yeah PZ only thinks about your clothes when foraging, nothing else
@@APackOfHungryGhosts let's talk about vanilla gameplay, before jumping straight to mods, since those can bring mechanics that sometimes are not intended to be in original gameplay
Shaving or hair cutting in VANILLA always require a mirror to either be in your inventory or to be near the character as a placeable object
@@chevk I beg to differ. Things have changed a lot. Go try it on Vanilla. Disable all your mods (because I play with NONE) and notice that you can shave with a razor in the middle of nowhere with no mirror for miles.
@@chevk Nope. Only makeup requires a mirror (wall or handheld) in Vanilla PZ. Shaving / cutting only need the tool. Happy survivin'! :)
Started playing for the first time yesterday, I've been sleeping on this game since it's been stuck in my library since 2018 and now I finally got in. Great video!
How did you die?
Two naked former lovebird zombies went on a vandalism spree in my designated safehouse and destroyed some windows and a door. Thanks for the crowbar tip, this way I can repair the windows
> most importantly, disinfect
That is like the *least* important part lmao. Not only is it completely useless, but if you want to RP with disinfecting actually doing something; you can boil water and use that to disinfect bandages.
Disinfecting is really useful as it will remove a level of wound infection which means that the healing process will not be slowed. Sterilizing bandages is even better because dirty bandages heal you at 1/8 the speed and sterilized bandages stay clean for twice as long so you dont spend as much time injured
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16/17 only one I didnt know was repairing spiked baseball bat with nails, thanks!!
Don't skip the baseball bat factory in Louisville. There is an easy 200 plus bats in there!
@@bobjohnson1096 god forgive me, please
literally gives you that option if you try to repair it with anything else
@@marekbalciar9092 Forgive and you shall be forgiven! :D
I can't just agree with the fact that it's better to glue your ass on floor in front of TV with «Live and Living TV» channel for straight 9 days.
Yes, I can agree that it's a great way to boost your skill levels, but damn - some precious food is rotting somewhere and more zombies spawning each day in quiet and peaceful Rosewood (for example).
The only thing I know for real - you need to do both things depending on your playstyle. In my opinion, you can follow the TV shows' schedule and just go to the next point of interest after watching some shows' episode, and if time is coming up - find your lovely TV and continue watching interesting episodes about cooking or carpentry.
or you ignor the TV show and go for the Vido tapes. All Episodes of teh TV show and some more can be found at Hit Vidos.
watching Life and Living TV for carpentry also makes it very hard to stack the skillbook XP modifiers with the XP gain, its far better in the long term to deliberately not watch any epsiodes, find all the skillbooks and as many VHS episodes as you can, and then watch them in order with the full skillbook XP boost for those levels.
if you do this with one level in carpentry from a character trait, you can easily hit level 7 or 8 in carpentry without ever picking up a hammer.
i'm not entirely sure that watching the episodes when broadcast eliminates any XP gain from the VHS tapes though, so it may be worth doing both.
If you have respawn off and put a game day on 5 or 6 hours, you can clear half of Rosewood in day one while watching all episodes live.
If a game day is 1 hour, live and living is half an ingame hour. If its 6, it ends before 10 minutes pass
Shaving does make a difference, defiantly more aerodynamic when I fight.
Mate no it doesn’t
Aerodynamics is one thing, but the hydrodynamics in the rain shaved bald is OP.
I love this format! I really enjoyed how in later scenes the fence you built stayed there. The burnt oven was super funny xD
I can't be the only one who always turns Twiggy's into a fortress
My every character is a melee based alcoholic, everytime I start a new game I end up with like 120 kills in the first 2 days and get absolutely wasted
There are 2 types of sprinting - pressing SHIFT will allow your character to 'jog' or 'run' but holding Left ALT makes your character 'sprint', slightly faster than running but exhausts you sooner
Yeah most of the time you won’t want to use either though and especially not sprinting
however if you are sprinting, you run the risk of tripping which can be very dangerous if there's any Zeds around (granted im not too familiar with the tripping mechanics, but from my understanding theres a really small base chance to trip while sprinting, and then other things can increase the chance, like the clumsy trait, fences, and being near zombies are a few things that increase the chance to trip), also you can hurt yourself by sprinting into walls and other objects.
Man im so happy you are back
I knew about everything, man, Im getting desperate for B42 :[
Nice vid as always, missed u, komp!
A small add for no 1: You can also use scissors, which pull double duty as a utility tool (even cleanly shave, which is NOT easy to do with scissors irl). Also, certain hairstyles will require you to have hair gel in your inventory, like the pictured spiked mohawk.
You can also place corpses in dumpsters and delete them to clean up
I knew almost every mechanic mentioned in this video. The unknown one was about starting skill levels. Never noticed how it can affect skill bonuses on what skill level you start. Over 1k hours in the game and I still get to learn something new.
Great video though. Good to refresh my memory during my break from PZ 😁
I try play on survival mode and cant even stay alive for 1 day lmao i just go play builder mode now
You can disinfectant bandages and rags with a boiling pot or saucepan of water in a stove, which can save you some alcohol
Love your videos Komp. Even though I knew everything in the video (besides the fact that YOU CAN REPLACE WINDOWS) I still loved watching it. You rock man and you deserve more attention
3:25 there is a button on the "heart" and then Info and you can click recepies and it will give you a list og every skillbook, magazine, vhs and cd you have or havent read...
4:00 dont do that. 1 wrong berry can kill you. I have done that. It was one of my first time foraging and one of my first berries. I ate 1 and it was game over. Yeah I had weak stomach (free points since it very very easy to work around it. Never eat bad/unknown/raw food)
Some more tips I have
I generally play on sandbox mode. You can save presets and just make your own coustum settings. Its very easy to save and just load up again. I like to tweak some settings and its very usefull for beginners to change some settings. I played for a very long time with +10 skillpoints at the start. Its stuff like this what can really make the game as easy/hard as you want.
Large objects (like generators fridge whatever usually over 30+) these objects can fit on cat seats. Even if it says 20 or whatever and its 40 weight. As long as the seat was empty before any single item can be placed on it.
When in a car Press Z to get a car menu to switch seats or select your car door where you want to exit.
When in or near a car press v to get a menu for easy car interaction
Learn more weapon skills. Dont focus on 1 skill. Use different weapons. Its always nice to have some skill in like short blunt. Also carry backup weapons. Weapon durability is very rng and sometimes weapons with like 40% break in like 8 hits or might last like 30 more... ALWAYS have some backups and keep an eye out for backup weapons. You can never have enough... And its fun to try something else.
Bladed weapons (axe, short blade, long blade and spears) damage zombie clothes very easy. If you see a zombie with a cool outfit or clothes try to kill it with some type of short/long blunt weapon to lower the chance of creating holes or ruining the clothes
Scarfs are very very good. Even tho they give much heat and it might be hot in summer, wear them. The neck protection is very very usefull and it can save your life. A neck wound bleeds very fast and you will die very quickly if you have a neck wound. Normal cuts can bleed like 3 minutes and you will be fine. A neck wound is like 20 seconds and your dead or at terminal damage. ALWAYS wear scarfs and keep them. They get ruined at 1 hole so make sure you grab every single one. It will save your life
Cooking is great! Try it. Its very funny the disgusting stuff you can make. Want a burger with peanut butter and bananna with mayo, hot sauce, lard, butter, soy sauce, tomato ketchup, tomato paste and honey. Sure you can make it😂😂 also cooking saves up a lot of high calorie/fat items. Its also good for maintaining weight or gaining/losing weight. (Also perk nutristionist it very handy. Pick it and just look at everything. The values and very usefull to know)
the first tip and the one about using Z in a car are insanely useful, thanks homie!
this was a fun video. I knew most of these but it was fun to hear some I didn't know! And most of these were things I learned 400+ hours in. Always glad to see peeps helping new people out!
I love how the oven went from burnt salmon to a charred corner of the room 😆
im glad i learned about corpse sickness now lol, i have like 30 corpses piled next to the fence i use for cheesing them
The fact that i knew every single one of these tells me I've played too much of this game.
900+ hrs in, and I still learn new things about this game tho.
i didnt know about that xp boost detail. thanks!
Regarding the Life & Living channel, if you have the XP & reading boost (both of which I use) and time your reading just right, you can get up to level 6 (that's SIX, so you know it's not a typo) in Carpentry by the time the television stations stop broadcasting. Granted, it often requires a trip to the bookstore and/or school to get Carp vol. 1 - 4. If you can find a woodcraft VHS or two, you can even get to lvl 7. That's _just_ from watching the TV, mind you! It's very nice to have the ability to build the advanced water collectors a mere 8 days in and without having to disassemble or build anything.
I knew most of these but the skill + their bonuses in chara creation. I think I kinda understood it but never really connected it fully so thanks for that help! 900+ hours and I'm still learning new things. This game is so nice!
I dunno if I agree with the last tip. The first few days are crucial, and every hour should be used to properly establish yourself. You can always find VHS tapes and level up at your own leisure, later on.
Those VHS tapes still give XP even if you watched the TV show, so you're still missing out on some bonus
I like the challenge of insane population. It is harder to create camp fires or make a molotov than burning a house to the ground. You simply have to bait the hordes first, then put metal kitchen utensils in the microwave. #projectzomboid
I'll throw in two.
You can remove curtains manually to maintain that look, instead of that sheet look.
The bourbon bottle is apparently the largest container of water. Water bottles come in different sizes and bourbon is the biggest.
Bigger than the bleach.
and don't mix up with "take off curtains", since it'll turn curtains into sheet, you should instead pick them up as if they were a furniture and place them like a furniture
Thank you for saving my base aesthetics 💜
Just remember that alarms are obviously noisy, and so will attract unwanted attention if any zeds are nearby...
5:25 Whoa. Good thing I watched this before starting to play.
he returns
did you know:
Corpse piles can effect cars and can send them tumbling or flying when driven over
atleast they do when i drive
I thought most of this were common knowledge, still I didn't knew or at least remember about the crowbar interaction with the windows
3:15 I personally carry a note and write down all the books I'm missing 😂
Didn't know about using nails to fix the bats, don't tend to craft weapons much. Was actually looking to change that when the new update drops, so I'll have to look into whether or not that's still a thing then. Never considered just replacing a window, wonder if you can use that to put windows on player made structures. Rather like my little wooden cabins in the woods. xD
The windows crowbar part was the only thing I haven't learned after almost 400 hrs and 6 months of survival in my current game.
3:20 there is a option in your character menu to see what books and magazines you have read.
I believe Generators indoors CANNOT KILL YOU, but leave you ONE tick of damage away from death. So no, Generators indoors won't kill you, but the moment you take damage, from falling from second or higher floors, to a ticks of damage from extreme Hunger or thirst, or combining Generator fumes and tainted water....
It might as well kill you if stomping once will finish the job
also alcohol as a lot of calories. so if you need to gain weight but don't want to empty all your cans, liquor stores got you covered.
i've got like 105 hours, yet somehow havent found out you can replace windows, clean blood, or know how to plumb sinks 💀💀
Alcohol also temporarily increases your strength.
One thing that most people don't realize is that drinking Alcohol drains your fatigue. The character will feel sleepy faster when you drink alcohol, so it's pretty bad since you can't go out and loot while maximizing time.
Does the window thing work with big windows too?
Nice video
i always get bored of a playthrough long before i reach the point where i'd need farmed food instead of canned tbh, after 2 weeks theres just nothing to do
Ive been waiting 4 years for NPCs survivors 😅
you get more xp if you dont watch the tv the first week and use the vhs tapes that way you can have the skill books read between shows
Nearly 2000 hours and i never discovered being able to replace windows
Bro just t-pose slides away 💀
I must be among the sweatiest of them all since I knew all of these.
I knew all of these tips but you covered yourself well by saying “sweats” might know them 😅
In response to foraging berries. The berries in winter are fixed.
Winter berries and beauty berries are non poisonous. Holly berries are poisonous.
Most important question: what are the names of the mods you are using to show corpses/generators while you are carrying them?
Probably Skizot's Carryable Everything.
@@friedmandesigns It is, tyvm!
I just started playing this game. I’ve made about 5 characters now and i still haven’t made it pass day 4 lol
Did you know that you can use tissues to mute your sneezes by putting them into your inventory
Learned that two days ago after 200hrs of gameplay so you're welcome xD
I swear this is like the third time youve uploaded this video?
Unknown facts..."did u know that u can equip a watch" -_-
173 Spiffos were harmed in the making of this video.
Drunk driving is fun in the game ( :
Umm, why did i even watch this? I knew everything from this video all along! Oh, btw, thatnk you, uncle komp!
the cleaning thing never works for me, i had to download a mod to make it actually work. i thought it was a vanilla feature but idk
Did you Know you Can Fish using a Spear equiped
Generators don't kill anymore they take you to 1% health but never lower
Lie.
I have died because of a generator in a building before.
@@gabrielgreen7643 recently?
i will literally watch anything this guy posts
THE SICK IS BACK!!!!!!!
Knew em all but its a really good vid for beginners. Got around 1200+ hours.
Over 1000 hours.. I know EVERYTHING ;)
What’s the option bud?
graves? but that wasting food/fertilizer
'Doesn't affect gameplay'
Bro said it as if looking cool doesn't make you play better
I got 450hours in this game and I know all of them, life feels goood
I must be extremely sweaty
Hah! I knew all of that! *sweats profusely*
These are hidden and unknown? I guess i know too much
No. These arent
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i will never do the farming method it just looks so UGLY. everything else are great tips though nice video comp!
hi komp
before it gets patched:
If you tell your character to drink alcohol and instantly hit esc, you'll gain all the buffs that alcohol provides (adrenaline blockade, painkiller, antidepressant) with minimal effect on fatigue, since for some reason you can only have bigger effect if you eat more sleeping pills and only them. I'd love having to chug 4 painkillers to reduce pain faster and for longer
I'm on 900 hours btw, since everyone seem so passionate telling everyone that
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Moin
Admins who live in mums basement hate this tricks...
#fuckavil
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None of these are hidden or unknown lol
-Hidden and Relatively Unknown Mechanics in Project Zomboid
-Proceed to show random things, that know even begginers of the game
I'm sweaty enough to say that if you pushed a zombie down and he falls to the ground, you can absolutely flex to your friends by sitting on a still alize zombie lying on the ground.
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OOOOH YEAAAAH!
running out of ideas are we now?