Longest time anyone has ever survived

[Albert the Handsome (Not)]

What's the record? 2 years? 5 years? 10 years?

[The cursed Jäger]

I believe the record is 10 in-game years, there is a reddit post about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/mfwmbm/my_longest_game_has_finally_met_its_end_this_is/

[Albert the Handsome (Not)]

Originally posted by The cursed Jäger:

I believe the record is 10 in-game years, there is a reddit post about it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/mfwmbm/my_longest_game_has_finally_met_its_end_this_is/

woah. has the guy been binge playing or something??

[gabgab01]

my personal best is one year, and i technically did not die, i just stopped playing because it got boring alone.

at a certain point of skill level, knowledge about the game and sheer necessity, you will eventually end up building a completely self sufficient base. easiest way to do so is to settle at a body of water (best would be the big river) and live off of spear fishing, away from cities and population centers, and use a cast iron furnace and warm clothes for winter months.

you will always have nearby trees to chop for spears and firewood, you can build walls to keep the occasional straggler away, eventually build a log cabin and so on, and just live indefinitely there.

people have been doing this, and as long as you keep playing, you will keep playing. there's even a mod out there that makes your character be able to die from old age, and it's quite popular even.

the biggest threat to your life there is real-life burnout / boredom, but you can be pretty sure that at least one madman out there tried (and probably succeeded) to reach 100 years :D

[WayLander57]

The longest session I've ever done in my life was 3 months. I was holed up in a residential area, barricading the entrances with walls and gates to let cars through.
What got me killed was my recklessness, but I think it was a good start for a player who doesn't really know PZ.

[xKilroyx]

My longest so far 6 months but man a lot of close calls I think this char has 9 lives but I know He will eventually use them up lol.

[✚ Mariel ✚]

You could probably survive forever just living next to a lake or river far from civilization where zombies do not spawn, just fishing and sleeping.

[Vagrant]

In earlier builds, I was able to survive for more than a year but got bored because there was nothing to do beside eat and read magazines...

[tank16365]

Im on 31 days. This is literally the longest I've ever made it.

[WayLander57]

After that, it's also up to us to create goals, but it's true that when you're safe and self-sufficient, there's no real need to play on your own.

[Commander Cromwell]

Liberating the map and killing all zombies, that should keep you busy for a long while.

[EvilGrin]

The biggest hurdle to long survival streaks is boredom. I played once into the second year (aprox. 9 months) but at this point the game had become so boring that I simply didn't return.

If you really wanted to, you could do an eternal run on the "You have one day" challange map, as the map contains everything you would need to set up a base that could sustain you forever. But "Forever" would consist of sitting on the roof of the high rise, watching potatoes grow, doing fitness exercises and staring at the sky. At this point, I wouldn't consider it to be "fun" anymore, but that might just be me.

Boredom is also what kills you because you become careless. Falling off roofs or stairs, forgetting to listen before opening a door, forgetting to turn of the oven, or getting ever more bold in pulling and dispatching hordes.

I haven't heard of anyone playing a single character longer then the a.m. 10 year story, but there might be people out there with longer streaks, but I doubt it because for 10 years, simplified 3600 days, 1 hour per ingame day but let's make it 20 Minutes with exessive use of speeding up time, is still 1200 hours, so 50 days without sleeping, eating or going to the toilet, 150 8-hour days (I'd consider this pretty hardcore already) or 600 days on 2-hours per day, always with the risk of having an update brick your savegame completely (which I expect the big 42 will to to me pretty soon), and earlier updates were more frequent than the upcoming big one...

[76561199428885503]

hi i want to join a community

[Game Critic 777]

I have never gotten more then a week without dying trying to save my friend from a horde.

[Werwolf]

Originally posted by mohammadibrahimalsaleh:

hi i want to join a community

Sorry, no tortilla

[Liro Raériyo]

however long it takes me to attempt to move to another urban area, because that always gets me killed, never made a successful transition from one urban area to another.

otherwise its 11 months 17 days and 9 hours, super shy of the full year mark, but i was a dumb dumb and wanted to celebrate my first year long survival by migrating to another area, instead i just turned a corner and got dragged down by an unfortunate bump.

gonna try for that full year survival when the next build comes out.