is muldraugh difficult

[a good name]

so far i've only played on rosewood, riverside, and i tried westpoint once and i've never played muldraugh. does anybody have any tips for it?

[Chuck]

I used to start exculsively on muldraugh, then went to rosewood.

Muldraugh is harder than rosewood easily. Rosewood is also smaller and less filled with loot though, ive never seen a survivor home here.

[a good name]

Originally posted by Chuck:

I used to start exculsively on muldraugh, then went to rosewood.

Muldraugh is harder than rosewood easily. Rosewood is also smaller and less filled with loot though, ive never seen a survivor home here.

yea, i've noticed that after a month rosewood gets kinda boring, and since it's pretty far from riverside which used to be my go to (I know that map entirely) i sorta stopped enjoying it after my most recent character. do you have any tips for good traits for muldraugh or does that not matter?

[Chuck]

Id probably say dont take anything that reduces your strength or fitness, like under/overweight. There are enough zombies in muldraugh that you need to be able to fight or run. Starting fat or thin is a real tough start for me. Otherwise, just make your character the way you usually would. Its the same zomboid, just more zombies. Just know how to run and escape zombie hordes.

Otherwise all i can say is the highway on the north/west side of town is a deathtrap, there are houses on the southside of town that make for pretty good bases due to the tall fences, and thats where my first real run in this game began. With carpentry, you can fortify the one side on those houses that doesnt have tall fences and then you have a decent base just like that. Most of my time spent in that town have been more central/south/southwest side of the town, and that area seems to have decent loot.

[Jethro]

I’ll just add to check out the farmhouse north of town, tucked away in the fields. That’s where my first base ever was. It’s super safe.

I don’t like to make the same base multiple times, but for sure when I’m in that area and need a safe place to sleep or unwind, I’ll hit that farm.

[Defektiv]

Rosewood was highly boring to me after doing my first 3 playthrough attempts on Muldraugh. I feel Muldraugh is a trap because it has abundance of what you need and the most attractive spot, the central gas station, is in an area infested with tons of zombies. In hindsight I should have just tried Rosewood or March Ridge after the first time failing on Muldraugh. Muldraugh is big and has a lot of stuff, but its not a place for a long term base that's for sure. If you settle in one area too long zombie population reaches cap and its going to feel like they are respawning faster than you can kill them outside your base. Rosewood by comparison has controllable populations outside of the prison, and as long as you don't honk your horn by mistake near its north gas station.

Map difficulty for the early to mid game feels like it starts easier in the west and gets harder as you move east. The closer you can spawn to the rural town the better anyway, that's the spot to gear up fast.

[Chuck]

Honestly i like rosewood because i never plan on basing there long-term. Its a great place to gather some early supplies before i decide to either go to louisville (and die in a blaze of glory) or just go to an area close to it and make a base.

[Bukkacracy]

Muldraugh is great for getting starting loot. There's about 5 dedicated storage centers/warehouses either on or near the highway. Get a good car and hit them all up and by the time you reach the other end of the town you'll have at least 2 of every essential item you could need. You'll also probably find a sledgehammer which you'll want because it looks like they just added a military outpost where the old school used to be right in the center of town and the only way in is destroying one of the gates. Get in there, grab yourself some M16's and get out. Or don't because its actually a great base location that already has rain barrels and a working generator on the roof along with tons of food and ammo.

[Metalhead123]

Muldraugh has everything. A good base location is the Rusty Rifle Bar on the west side of the map. It's quite close to the west gas station. There is also a Video shop near the gas station which can raise mechanics to 2 with the Carzone VHS for early hotwiring (Need Electrics 1 also)

Muldraugh also has some good Industrial buildings. Just to the east of the Rusty Rifle there are 2 warehouses filled with nice loot. Welding masks, Glue, Boxes of nails, Sledgehammers, axes, Farming stuff and 2 water despensers.

The central housing area has high fences so you can potentially wall off the entire area and have about 10 2 story houses for yourself. You should be able to find maybe 1 or 2 generators in the sheds here too.

[Armagenesis]

Among the starting towns, Muldraugh is the 2nd most difficult after West Point IMO.
Based on my own experience, and according to some YT videos, Muldraugh has the 2nd highest zombie population among the starting towns.
And most of them are congested on the highway, where most of the good places to loot are located.
On the flip side, Muldraugh has a lot of storage places around town and nearby, as some have mentioned above. So you'll find quite a lot of materials to fortify your base.

If you begin in the small, isolated house to the northeast of town or the gated community southeast of town, you can make your permanent base there. Those places are surrounded by tall wooden fence with only a small amount of entry point. The gated community, in my opinion, is especially ideal since you can turn on your generator without attracting nearby zombies if you base yourself in the house right in the middle of the community, and after you wall off the entry points leading to the community.

Originally posted by Metalhead123:

Muldraugh has everything. A good base location is the Rusty Rifle Bar on the west side of the map. It's quite close to the west gas station. There is also a Video shop near the gas station which can raise mechanics to 2 with the Carzone VHS for early hotwiring (Need Electrics 1 also)

You mean south?

[Vagineer1]

Currently playing a new run in Rosewood now. Only planning on staying there for a month or two before moving off somewhere north (or perhaps that super small town way out west with a gas station, hunting store and like 3 houses)

Last time I played was ages before Louisville was added so I might hit that place up at some point. Probably gonna hit up the secret military base for that sweet army gear and guns too.

[WeAreOneLegion]

Muldraugh is I believe the hardest spawn point in the vanilla game, if you get mods and go spawn in loiusville then you're double decker screwed, but as a place i'd say its medium difficulty, if you can handle a fight with 5 zombies at once and know how to escape most unfavorable situations you get yourself in youll be pretty set. I would say get your skills up doing a few runs in rosewood though, unless u wanna veteran difficulty that ♥♥♥♥ and go straight for muldraugh then go wild

[Seelander]

Originally posted by a good name:

so far i've only played on rosewood, riverside, and i tried westpoint once and i've never played muldraugh. does anybody have any tips for it?

A good spawn if on normal pop is in the gated area and work yourself out from there, but suppose it depends on your settings such as respawns and pop, tried to stay in town on 16x day 1, just couldnt make it happen, kept running out of weapons :-)

[taxhelp_pro]

The Mass Genfac building on the edge of town is a cornucopia of every type of tool / weapon you might want or need. And you can make a rooftop garden by hauling up sacks of dirt. It's just about my favorite place to settle into if I am looking for challenge and excitement. You need good carpentry skill so you can wall off parts of the first floor you are not using. Parking junk cars in front of the entrances helps too.

[Auxilar]

Of the current spawns, the difficulty from easiest to hardest goes:
Rosewood > Riverside > Muldraugh > West Point

Your main goal when picking this spawn is to reach and secure the Gated Community as soon as you can. It's objectively THE best location for your sanctuary, if you properly secure all of the entrypoints. The spot I marked on the image with arrows is the ideal entryway for the stronghold, since the brainfarts rarely spawn in the area and it's way too far for them to path into if you make a run for it.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3030728944

I'd recommend checking out a couple of my Project Zomboid Solitude starting episodes, I demonstrated the best way of securing the place. Currently I'm in my 2nd year and the perimiter still hasn't been breached even once.

As far as difficulty goes, the highway in Muldraugh is a death sentence early on, when starting it's best to focus on sticking to the houses as far away from the highways as possible. The gas station at the lower end of Muldraugh should be your first emergency checkpoint because it barely has any brainfarts in the vicinity and it provides a decent initial supply of food.

The Isolated House with the small fenced off area near the upper part of Muldraugh is a decent safehouse, but on the long run it just isn't worth it. Regardless from which angle the brainfarts hear you, the small circumference of the yard leaves enough room for them to path into your gate and smash their way through it.

When it comes to tools (Axes, Sledgehammers) the Warehouse at the top of Muldraugh is your best bet since it seems that particular warehouse has a higher percentage to spawn tools than all the warehouses around Muldraugh.

One of the places with great potential for a multiplayer base in Muldraugh is the railyard, but it shouldn't be tackled in single player in that regard. The place is way too big and the lower end of the railyard has to be kept an eye out since the brainfarts tend to spawn there and (more alarmingly) migrate to it from the roads and forest.

[Oᴄᴜʟᴀʀ]

Muldraugh can be difficult especially on the main street. This is my favorite starting location since it's pretty close to everything and near the vehicle wrecks south-west of muldraugh. Easy spot to level up mechanics and metalworking. Sometimes I'll also take out all the radios and dismantle them for electrical if I'm missing a tiny bit for hotwiring.

It's a good location but can be more difficult than rosewood or riverside for new players.