Getting back into the game, tips for early game shelter and night

[Granolaboi69]

Hi all! Getting back into the game and was never great at it. I've gotten through day 7 a couple times and have had plenty of fun with it, but two things I have always struggled with:

How should you manage shelter early game? Find a house and barricade it for day 1?

What do you do at night? I always struggle with this. Zombies get too intense to keep moving, so sometimes I buckle down for the night. The problem is, they almost ALWAYS break in, and almost ALWAYS find you, it feels like you can't get much done.

I normally make the settings really easy so I ma trying to play on a more preset difficulty.

Thanks for any tips!

[Turd King]

TheShavenYak님이 먼저 게시:

I tend to hunker down for the night. Not just because its safer, but i like the RP value of it (i would never go outside at night if this was rl :) ).
Usually i find a house made of stone, 3 stories high and make my base on the highest floor or the roof (dont do this in desert areas because vultures might get to you). If you demolish the final piece of the stairs, the Z's wouldnt be able to get to you. Place a wood block the next morning to get down.
Either that or make a ladder to the floor you are on but dont place the lowest part of the ladder. You can jump onto the ladder, but the Z's cannot.
At night i tend to craft things out of the stuff i looted during the day. Spiketraps, food, boil water etc. Later on i'll be managing forges to smelt and craft whatever it is you need for your daytime adventures.

I actually own a couple pairs of night vision equipment so In real life id only ever travel at night. :p

also If your ever in a pinch for time Ive dug a little rabbit hole in a hill and buried the way in for the night. Other then horde night that works too

[Khissi]

I don't think I've ever hunkered down in a POI for my first night. If I'm moving, as in, I got spawned in the wasteland or burned biome (yuk) and I'm looking for better, I will do as the King posted and dig a hole in the side of a nice hill, frame myself in and either do a bit of mining or just sort through all my trash and vehicle spoils, build and repair weapons, make pockets, etc. I've explored a LOT of ground doing that, but, unless you're consistent with getting your stone and clay and constantly making cobblestone, you may get yourself a bit behind the curve for hoard night. So, I shovel, mine and make cobble like a fiend until I get where I want to go, then making a nice, tight, perfectly good hoard base is easy as pie, and I usually have enough left over to build a decently sized crafting base including a perimeter wall. I don't usually get the wall up to 4 blocks high before day 5 or 6, but, being able to get myself fairly safe that quickly is worth the effort to me and means that, once I've found 'home', I'm free to go looting to my heart's content because ammo and food are the next priority.

[wwiiogre]

I rarely go the cobblestone route and just use a poi for horde nights. Later I make kill bunkers. For the first 5-6 horde nights you just need lots and lots of lumber and ammo. Build spikes and literally make them 30 to 40 blocks deep with clear lines of fire. I usually have forge up day 1, workbench up day 2. Food is set by day 2. And water is a priority. So find water tower or better snow and never worry about water ever again. I like starting in burned biome because of all the clear lines of sight. Plus every wrecked corner of a building can be wonderful. Certain ones have purified water on top, some have a couch and curtains, some have stoves so finding a cooking pot on day one is easy in burnt biome. Avoid dogs, kill burning zombies on sight and you have an easy level or two day 1. Before ever travelling to a trader for the bonus experience. Burnt biome, snow biome and desert biome are essential if you are going the archery route, since feathers are easy to find.

Chris

[Granolaboi69]

wwiiogre님이 먼저 게시:

First thing, is what are your settings? Are you playing 28 days later with running zombies at all times? Are you playing Dawn of the Dead with zombies that never run? How long is your day/night cycle? Do you have 7 day hordes turned on? Do you have airdrops turned on?

Every setting you choose then affects how you go about playing the game. If you get bored with this game, then change some settings and voila, new game.

I personally am a huge fan of Romero/Walking Dead zombies. So no running zombies ever and no horde nights. Yet I have played thousands of hours with pvp/horde nights/running zombies. I also prefer 120 min days, airdrops off, 30 day respawn loot. And for me to make it a challenge I consider all weapons and tools to be broken and I must craft them to use them, making skill choices matter during early game. Find a pistol, well until you take that pistol skill it will not work, and until you have a workbench, you cannot make that pistol.

I also do not buy food at the traders or vending machines. I find it or grow it or hunt it. Once again this gets rid of some early easy game play.

By handicapping myself this way and facing only Romero zombies and no hordes its a wash and becomes a more Walking Dead style survival game.

So first day I either camp on a roof, use a building I find, dig or put blocks up in a tree and hide. Tree is probably worse, roof with no access from below is probably best on day 1.

My main priority day one is finding resources, food/water, because I cannot use a gun or found tool on day 1 I pick skills most do not use. I upgrade my tool making skill, I take sneak attack, sneaking and upgrade my resource gathering and at my first level gain I toke level 1 cooking so I can convert found water/food to better stuff.

I always try to find a cooking pot as top priority early on. So in fire/burnt biome loot stoves in the torn/burnt buildings. Most log cabin types can have a cook pot just sitting on a counter. I generally take archery quick or spears. Then try to loot tons of feathers.

So depending on your settings and the style of game you want to play. That effects what you do, how you pick your skills, etc. I play this game as a survival game where I have to kill zombies to loot buildings and move around. Some of my friends play this game only as a first person shooter where you kill zombies and surviving is the least of their worries.

In 3000ish hours I have around 30 total deaths and that includes around 1500 hours playing on pvp servers. I am just a sneaky guy that tries to survive, while not bringing attention to myself. Shoot and scoot and sneak. I never initiated pvp with other players, unless attacked. But that is my style and how I have fun. Why I cannot wait for bandits and factions so it starts getting really weird in the wilderness. Plus I look forward to random encounters in the wilderness generated when you move thru an area.

So good luck, hope you find as much enjoyment from this game as I still do. If its not your cup of tea, adjust some settings or wait a month or two and a whole new beta will come out and a new game with it. :)

Chris

Wow thanks for that, reminds me of the crazy amount of variety and potential this game has! Glad you've pulled out this much enjoyment from it. I just got a couple of my buddies to start playing with me so fingers crossed I can clock in some memories as well.

[Gavener]

Just take time to organize your stuff make 4 boxes, chop a few trees, mine a few rocks, and dig some clay, everyone is all out rush into a POI and get worked, Scrap everything early game when traveling, yes some stuff you get more forging it, but while traveling and early game it doesn't matter enough, watching Youtubers most just are so scattered brained so watching them can help but don't play like most haha, read skills, think ahead nothing worse than going all pack mule and then finding the mods to make pockets later, you can Respec but its like 34-42k brew.

[Nimbull]

Build a cabin away from population areas and make it your crafting base. Do not stay there very long until later in the game and never during a blood moon. Use a big school building or junk yard roof for horde nights. I'm still reusing those in my 100+ day save and the zombies trash what they can but I stay safe up on the roof except for birds now and then.

Another nice place is that wrecked fancy house with the big hole in the central floor. Knock out stairs and things so the zombie fall down to the basement after rushing in and can't get back up easy. It's the big building with the SOS on the roof.

Wood spike as you desire. It's a nice cheap way to thin the herd.

[Niuq]

Night 1 a door with a stage 2 wood block behind it or im traveling.

As far as POI's the large pass n gas if i find it, turns into a temp base and day 7 horde base.