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2. post pictures of your skills and of you having the problem. Your character won't read books that they are already past in terms of level, or won't read books that are too advanced. There are 5 books for each skill. Beginner is to advance progression from level 0 to 2, intermediate from 2 to 4, advanced from 4-6, expert from 6 to 8, and master from 8 to 10. Meaning if you're level 0 or 1 of say carpentry, then you read carpentry for beginner. Once you hit level 2, you need to read intermediate. And so on. Once you've read, say beginner carpentry if you're level 0 carpentry, you won't need to read it again since it still applies to level up to level 2.
3. Yea, sounds about right. The higher your skill level, the more material you can 'salvage' when dissembling furniture. You're not supposed to get a lot of material after dissembling only 3 pieces of furniture at level 1 carpentry. You can get nails, planks, scrap wood, nothing, or some combination of them. The higher your level when dissembling, the more chances you have to get more stuff.
4. This game has a nutrition system, but if you're eating canned food then that won't matter because canned food has everything in it to meet your nutritional requirements for the game (in fact, a lot more than you need, so if you were to eat nothing but canned food for an extended period your character will become obese very fast). You just need to loot kitchens is all. On the default settings starting at day 0 of the apocalypse (which is frankly what you should be trying as a beginner), then there is tons of canned food around. It will be more than you can eat, and certainly more than you'll be able to carry. Don't eat it all at once, eat it until you see a green moodle for food that signals you're all set on food, then wait until it goes red to eat it again. Also, you don't have to eat the whole can of food just because you've opened it. Right click and select 'eat 1/4' or 'eat 1/2' depending on how hungry you are, and what type of food you're eating.
And how much xp or knowledge do you need to do this? Because I was at Level 1 Carpentry and watched a show on TV about carpentry but my guy can not do much
You can again a few free levels of carpentry by watching all the shows on the Life and Living channel on TV. There are 3 shows a day most days for the first week, each at 6am, noon, and 6pm (1800). You'll get a lot of carpentry and cooking, and a small amount of a couple others like fishing, trapping, and foraging to get you started.
I'm not saying it's a bad idea to barricade a house, but if you haven't cleared the area yet then the barricade isn't going to help you long term and it's just wasting your character's time and energy. If you have cleared it, then it's not such a huge deal to leave windows un-barricaded (so long as the room you're sleeping in does not have a broken window, or you're sleeping on the second floor of a house). In either case, it shouldn't be really your main focus starting out the game. Your main focus really should be looting: finding weapons and food and a backpack/dufflebag/hiking bag.
Even without barricades, your character *should* hear zombies pawing on the door/window of your room while you're sleeping and wake up, if they come. Which should be enough time for you to get up and either run or get around the opposite side of the door and kill them from behind.
That said, again, barricading where you're staying isn't the worst idea. Not knocking that or anything. If you know you're going to stay in a house long term, then it just adds that extra security just in case, which buys you more time to deal with more zombies, or to deal with something else while they paw at the window/door a little bit longer.
But the best way to build the barricades early on is exactly what you're doing. If you have carpentry for beginners and you're between level 0-2 carpentry, then definitely read it. You can dismantle a couple houses worth of furniture and be to level 2 in no time. Rinse and repeat for carpentry for intermediates at levels 2-4 carpentry.
This kills two birds with one stone. First, you're dismantling things which is the easiest way at low level to earn XP. Second, by dismantling things, that's where your nails and lumber come from early game. Later, you will get more nails than you know what to do with from warehouses and you'll have an infinite supply of them from chopping down huge forests. But early on, dismantling furniture is your bread and butter. Empty out cabinets, dismantle. Empty out bookshelves dismantle. Dismantle couches, chairs, doors, beds, and tables. A quick note is that the base XP you earn for dismantling anything is constant per tile. So a door for instance is 1 tile, meaning you get N XP (I don't know what the base number is off the top of my head, so I'll call it N). But a double bed on the other hand is 4 tiles, so you get 4N XP. Not that it matters that much, because you'll need to dismantle entire houses worth of furniture, but just a little FYI.
Doing life and living every day, 3 times a day, for the first 2 weeks of the game like you're doing is good too. Just remember to put yourself in front of a TV at the right times (I don't remember what they are, but I'm sure someone else can tell you).
Yes I was watching those shows and my Carpentry was level 1 indicated by a filled in square in the skills chart
I had level 1 forging and almost level 2 cooking
Now my electronics and metal working skills had these little flashing arrows blinking beside the 1st squares. What does that mean?
Or you can just hit and destroy doors with your melee weapon to get planks, this way is not so efficient but it faster than look for specific tools/materials.
You will start to get the feel for finding a house at night that has zombies far enough away that aren't aggroed, with an intact window, intact door, and maybe even curtains. That's where you will start to sleep the first few nights. Building a base up starts to become more important when your backpack has more food in it than you can carry.
Otherwise, building a base is just you burning calories you don't have food to replenish.
And I wanted to barricade windows that were broken
I already told you why.
And again, the thing that you think is the most important, is actually the least important. You need food to live. Barricading an empty house serves no purpose. One of your complaints was that you're always hungry right? Does what I'm saying make sense? Your character needs food to build things, and you're not giving your character that.
I do see what you mean. I realised I spent so much time and effort trying to fix broken window of a place with no food and my guy was getting more peckish.
Once I had those tools and Carpentry level 1 I wanted to use skills and lost sight of getting more food.
I did go looting other nearby homes but they had no food then 2 zekes chased me inside a home and literally raped me in an embarrassing way