Junkyard location?

[Lycan]

I was scanning reddit and tons of people say that the School and Junkyard in riverside are great locations. I've found the school but where the heck is the junkyard? I've gone onto the build 41 interactive map and searched for a good 20 minutes and for the life of me I cant see any junkyard site?

[hotjojos]

the junkyard is west of the school

[Nordil(Hun)]

It is in the Western part of the town. If you found the police station or the gas station or Spiffos, go west from there. You can follow the road, once it takes a turn southwards, follow it, and you should pass by the Junkyard, aka Wreckers. It will be the place with metal fence, nearly all around and having cars and wrecks within.

[robbik06]

you can look on PZ map or u can find when you drive on main road from gas pump to warehauses.

[Lucifer]

It’s south of the bar on the west side of town. Just below the subdivision with the graveyard.

[_TheBunnymaster_]

It's SW of the burger joint on the west side of town, and directly across the street west of the bar and food market. Best spot for a newb mechanic/burglar in the game tbh.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by _TheBunnymaster_:

It's SW of the burger joint on the west side of town, and directly across the street west of the bar and food market. Best spot for a newb mechanic/burglar in the game tbh.

Actually for everyone. Allthough it is a good idea, to not go there until the copter event happened. As it can get very crowded and quite deadly once the copter brings everyone and their pal there. especially with the new crawl under the car effect:P

[_TheBunnymaster_]

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Originally posted by _TheBunnymaster_:

It's SW of the burger joint on the west side of town, and directly across the street west of the bar and food market. Best spot for a newb mechanic/burglar in the game tbh.

Actually for everyone. Allthough it is a good idea, to not go there until the copter event happened. As it can get very crowded and quite deadly once the copter brings everyone and their pal there. especially with the new crawl under the car effect:P

1) Have radio (better yet, a walkie) tuned.
2) Hear that air traffic is inbound.
3) You have a running car (since you're a mechanic)
4) Head south to the outskirts of town and wait.
5) 'Copter arrives
6) Draw everyone from town to the south
7) Pied Pier their dead *sses down the road as long as you want (see map for best spots) then ditch and drive off once copter is gone
8) Return to relatively zombie free low income neighborhood without firing a shot.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by _TheBunnymaster_:

Originally posted by Nordil(Hun):

Actually for everyone. Allthough it is a good idea, to not go there until the copter event happened. As it can get very crowded and quite deadly once the copter brings everyone and their pal there. especially with the new crawl under the car effect:P

1) Have radio (better yet, a walkie) tuned.
2) Hear that air traffic is inbound.
3) You have a running car (since you're a mechanic)
4) Head south to the outskirts of town and wait.
5) 'Copter arrives
6) Draw everyone from town to the south
7) Pied Pier their dead *sses down the road as long as you want (see map for best spots) then ditch and drive off once copter is gone
8) Return to relatively zombie free low income neighborhood without firing a shot.

Actually taking them to south from your base is the worst possible idea. Because that way lies south Riverside, which has the self storage lockers, guaranteed at least 3 generators (since Riverside has very few garages), a gas station, the mechanic shop and the huge warehouse complex. Take them either southeast, or east from town.

Allthough west from junkyard following along the road, that eventually turns to a sandroad you can go to farm houses which will have garages and have a good chance of generator spawns, and you could also allways travel using the sandroads to the far west to the gas station and the fishing store, since the eastern part of Riverside, the gas station there tends to repopulate quite fast, unless you do some building. However in that case you can say goodbye to the respawning police force, which is a good income of bullets and guns.

Also you need to know the frequency of the Automated Broadcast System, which you either spend time to figure out or you find it via sheer luck. (Cars are usually not such a huge deal, usually you can find one around the gas station and even with a 0/0 guy it is obtainable)

But of course this is just my oppinion.

[_TheBunnymaster_]

Nobody said drop them right outside of town, man. The 'copter will be in the air for awhile. You can take the entire column of 1000+ zombies and lead them SW to the access road then leave them a the far farms to the far west, or ditch them somewhere west and double back through the golf course. Alternately if there's no interest in the goodies deep SW at the prison etc, dump 'em there.
I find radios all the time in my spawn settings, and usually have the freq within the first day, but YMMV.

[Nordil(Hun)]

Originally posted by _TheBunnymaster_:

Nobody said drop them right outside of town, man. The 'copter will be in the air for awhile. You can take the entire column of 1000+ zombies and lead them SW to the access road then leave them a the far farms to the far west, or ditch them somewhere west and double back through the golf course. Alternately if there's no interest in the goodies deep SW at the prison etc, dump 'em there.
I find radios all the time in my spawn settings, and usually have the freq within the first day, but YMMV.

Well i have no such luck with frequencies, i think i had 2 games of about 40? or so, where i did find the frequency before the event even happened. Every other time it was just it should come soon...so let us prepare:P (And about 7 times i could not even tell i had the copter event since i had a thunderstorm ongoing when it came. Was funny. I could tell only during one thunderstorm that the copter is there cuz of the good of hearing trait)

Also if you already take them down to the prison then there was no real reason to spawn in Riverside i would say. But that is just what i am thinking. Probably different playstyles.

[_TheBunnymaster_]

If you have long days (and are a bit of a maniac) you can lead them all the way across the salt river to the abandoned race track. The helicopter will seemingly have the entire map after you by this point unless you started leading only at the east outskirts of WP (or salt ridge if the expansion is enabled) Park at the top right corner of the fenced in 'safety zone' and wait. You can either keep moving your vehicle around along the path of the track and avoiding the zombies, slowly circling around while the helicopter wonders what kind of fool you are, or you can really turn up the crazy by getting out every once in a awhile to empty a few magazines, toss a pipebomb or fight hand-to-hand until there are too many of them. Simply get back in the vehicle and continue driving, stopping to bandage, read or whatever, or maybe even giving the fight another go if you've reloaded and still feel suicidal.
After the copter finally gives up trying to kill you there will be half the population of Valley Station piled up on the other side of the fences, not including all the zombies still alive on your side. Perfect target practice or better yet, stabbin' time with a hunting knife or five. When you're finally too exhausted to move or you've killed every single corpse in the area, head home. This works best on long days, 4x4 insane zombies and more prevalent loot tables.