Need a way to recover character

[Snaxx]

Last 2 playthroughs I died completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ deaths. If I get greedy and blow the game, fine. But I cannot stand losing to garbage like the following:

1. Vault through a window to escape zombies and get stuck between a coffee table and couch. Cannot move at all, stuck in place for 30 seconds. Zombies break window, I die after spending 30 seconds trying to walk past furniture.
2. Driving past massive horde, accidentally hit E and jump out of car with no time to get back in. Run for life for 2 hours and die because of course a character would hop out of a fully fueled running vehicle "on accident."

Is there any way mod this game so that I don't have to tolerate losing huge amounts of time to a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bug or fat finger?

[Zorobis]

You can make a backup Save of Singleplayer characters,

Simply copy the Savefile at C:\Users\You\Zomboid\Saves\sandbox.
Copy the folder of the desired save. Just make a copy of it after every session and youre good.

When you die, copy the backup into the sandbox folder. Now youre back to where your session began. You might lose some progress, but surely not ALL

[Snaxx]

Thank you guys for the tips!

[The cursed Jäger]

Originally posted by Snaxx:

2. Driving past massive horde, accidentally hit E and jump out of car with no time to get back in. Run for life for 2 hours and die because of course a character would hop out of a fully fueled running vehicle "on accident."

You cannot leave moving cars in vanilla. Blame your mods.

[Kohchu]

Originally posted by Beltneck:

Jumping through a window into a blocked path doesn't sound like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ death. You ran into the unknown and got cornered.

Accidentally pressing a button is all on you too. Remap them, or get a keyboard sized to your fingers if you're prone to that.

If you don't like how long it takes to level your skills, take Fast Learner - will globally reduce your grinding by 30%.

Shamblers and Fast Shamblers aren't much of a threat either, you don't need to be running everywhere to get away from them - You can easily outwalk them. Sounds like you need to use crouchwalk more, and running less, so you don't go aggroing everything within 30 tiles. Running is for sprinter zombies, or trying to get the attention of a horde so you can lead them away somewhere.

He's referring to climbing through the window, and getting stuck in objects positioned on the other side of the window. Which can happen, and is total BS, because in the heat of the moment, you don't have time to glance in and check to see if you can climb through without getting stuck. You need to make decisions fast.

it would be one thing to climb through the window and get attacked by enemies blindsiding you. But climbing through a window and getting stuck in the table on the other side; unable to move unless you climb back out the window; while the Zombies climb in, and attack you in a state where you can't do ANYTHING is downright cheap.

Sure, it's better to avoid these situations whenever possible. But bad things can happen; and the game is punishing enough, without glitches and getting wedged in the geometry.

[Smoker]

Skill Recovery journal best mod ever