How do you hide from zombies better?

[Zombie]

I was in a 2-story house. I don't know the map very well but it's the one right next to that church.

The lights were all turned off and I was upstairs. After clearing the area of what felt like 200+ zombies I took a nap on the chair upstairs after locking the entire house up.

When I wake up, there's practically a million zombies pounding on my door, and for some reason the sheet rope I put on the window was gone(I ran over to slide down it in a panic and broke my leg and lost hours of progress).


How can you hide from zombies, and how many in the surrounding area do you have to slaughter before you can safely take a nap....and where did my sheet rope go? :(


The zombies were set to ''proper zombies'' in the zombie lore. I can't tell if this is just the games way of ''simulating'' a zombie break-in and I couldn't do anything, or I genuinely did something that alerted them for some reason...


For more details I checked every room and every area including the house next to that one, and the church and cleared it of zombies. I turned off every light because supposedly zombies can detect light. I just feel a little cheated here :/

[Spaced]

Sheet ropes can be destroyed by zombies - I also found out the hard way

[Zombie]

Originally posted by Spaced:

Sheet ropes can be destroyed by zombies - I also found out the hard way

Good to know, do they seek out and destroy them? Or do they just end up as collatoral damage?

[GlassEyeball]

destroy the stairs, zombies can't climb nothing :3

[Zombie]

Originally posted by GlassEyeball:

destroy the stairs, zombies can't climb nothing :3

I had no idea I could do this, this is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ brilliant!

[MikefromJake]

Here´s what i usually do at start:

- turn off all lights in my house
- close all curtains / put sheets (blankets) on windows with no curtains
- switch off any tv / radio (if there´s some in the house)
- turn off lights on the outside of my house
- do a initial cleaning around the house and the nearby area

- barricade windows on both sides (inside / out) asap -> get my planks from neighbour houses where i destroy doors or i destroy / dismantle doors within my house

- build some log walls (axe needed!) to close the space between my house and my neighbours so that the neighbour house will become part of the outer wall and Zs will need to travel much longer (check where Zs are coming from, there are usually some "main routes")

- turn off lights and tv / radios in neighbour houses
- put sheetropes on every window on 1st floor -> be aware that some windows on 1st floor are horizontally not on the same position as the ground level, if you slide down you might end up in the infested living room instead of outside!

- Zs can´t climb but pull down your sheet ropes so i usually have some ropes (2 per floor) and a nail lying as reserve next to the window (don´t forget the hammer)

Originally posted by GlassEyeball:

destroy the stairs, zombies can't climb nothing :3

That´s correct but be aware that you need a sledgehammer for this.

[Vaileasys]

Originally posted by Cronnoponno:

Originally posted by Spaced:

Sheet ropes can be destroyed by zombies - I also found out the hard way

Good to know, do they seek out and destroy them? Or do they just end up as collatoral damage?

They don't seek them out. As far as I know, if they happen to pass by them there's a chance they'll break.

[DiamondDuty]

Originally posted by Cronnoponno:

I was in a 2-story house. I don't know the map very well but it's the one right next to that church.

The lights were all turned off and I was upstairs. After clearing the area of what felt like 200+ zombies I took a nap on the chair upstairs after locking the entire house up.

When I wake up, there's practically a million zombies pounding on my door, and for some reason the sheet rope I put on the window was gone(I ran over to slide down it in a panic and broke my leg and lost hours of progress).


How can you hide from zombies, and how many in the surrounding area do you have to slaughter before you can safely take a nap....and where did my sheet rope go? :(


The zombies were set to ''proper zombies'' in the zombie lore. I can't tell if this is just the games way of ''simulating'' a zombie break-in and I couldn't do anything, or I genuinely did something that alerted them for some reason...


For more details I checked every room and every area including the house next to that one, and the church and cleared it of zombies. I turned off every light because supposedly zombies can detect light. I just feel a little cheated here :/

Were there any RNG events? (Shots in distance, dog barking, someone screaming, heicopter passing over?) Because these lead zombies in the direction of the sound in mass and they will steamroll through neighborhoods, going through houses, breaking windows and doors and tearing stuff up.
If not that, you could have maybe had rotten food or blood stained clothes. Remember, zombies have a good sense of smell too, so if you're not keeping clean, they can pick up on that if they're in proximity to their sensory range.

[josh.balsom]

Simple Fix Go too Zombie Lore then i think its enviromental attacks turn that off
This makes it so basiclly the zombies only come after you when they are provoked (they hear you see you or smell you)