What happens when you clear a town

[Ramseur]

New to the game and playing single player whilst I learn the basics. Just found a town and started to loot when the zombies started homing in on me. Killed most but had to run away. This made me wonder what happens if you kill all the zombies in the town quickly, how long do you have to loot the town. Sorry for the noob question. loving the game.

[YamaKami]

POI's have active spawn points in them, so you clear them out for a bit but more will not be far behind. If you leave the area and return they will spawn fresh too.

[almighty_hood]

well, you can never truely get rid of all the zombies they spawn back after random time.
that said it all depends on the settings you have or server has.

[jong]

every building spawns at least 8 zombies (depends on your zombie spawn rate setting), so you will have some back spawns if there are more than one building next to each other. you cannot technically clear a town as the zombies will respawn after a few days depending on your loot respawn reset.
I believe the one way the zombies do stop respawning is if you blow up every single building there.

[Ogmok]

I'm a beginner myself, but I rather loot 1 building at a time and don't try to clear a whole town.
The reason is that new zombies spawn (depending on the server settings), not counting the hordes at every 7th night.

One general advice: Check the game settings when creating a world (or loading a game, but I don't think that they can be changed when loading a world): There a many settings that make dying much more forgiving (most importantly: only losing the toolbelt items (the items in the hotbar) instead of the whole backpack is a real blessing. 6 hours nights instead of 8 hours also helps. You could even change the loot chances or amounts of airdrops (plus an option to show them on the map) ).

[YamaKami]

Originally posted by jong:

every building spawns at least 8 zombies, so you will have some back spawns if there are more than one building next to each other. you cannot technically clear a town as the zombies will respawn after a few days depending on your loot respawn reset.

Loot respawn time has nothing to do with when the zombies respawn. Hell if you are in the area the loot will not even respawn. If you return to an area before the loot respawns it resets that timer.

[almighty_hood]

i find losing backpack better then toolbelt tbh...

why you ask, because backpack shows up on the nav bar, and its easier to pick up the packback then loose weapons and tools you have in toolbelt.. god forbid i loose my bow arrows and guns/ammo plus wrenches etc thats just no fun lol. yes some are craftable but for late game backpack loss is easier to live with imo. though i have only died once so far on the server i play on, (non pvp with buddies) and that was a bug with drowning on land lmao... i could not easily replace a 600 rifle and 300 ammo for it if i lost my toolbelt. just something to thinnk about

[Birdman222]

From my experience, towns like perishtown can be fully cleared of zombies but when you come back the next day they will have respawned. i have cleared perishtown 3 days in a row with a base not to far away. everyday i entered the town the zombies had respawned, including the dogs and cops. i have never tried blowing up every building to stop the spawns but as i like to loot then leave the area so it respawns i probably wouldnt do that

[Ramseur]

OK, guys thanks for your replies they were most helpful. I did not survive day 7 even because of a stupid mistake. So starting again with what I have learned.

[gamerhelligon]

Originally posted by Ramseur:

OK, guys thanks for your replies they were most helpful. I did not survive day 7 even because of a stupid mistake. So starting again with what I have learned.

Do a self imposed restart new world at death once you get the hang of things...makes it even more exciting because you have to think about what your doing and those mistakes will be fewer..lol

Welcome to your new addiction :P

[Dragon Crisis Core]

Originally posted by gamerhelligon:

Originally posted by Ramseur:

OK, guys thanks for your replies they were most helpful. I did not survive day 7 even because of a stupid mistake. So starting again with what I have learned.

Do a self imposed restart new world at death once you get the hang of things...makes it even more exciting because you have to think about what your doing and those mistakes will be fewer..lol

Welcome to your new addiction :P

Is that even possible, i gone who knows how far without finding enough food to sustain oneself to day 7, and in sp with the crazy z spawns, its even worse go to poi get soled when 5zs spawn around you. I switched to MP because of it.