Fastest way to get a vehicle? / Nomad Guide?

[ν]

What's the best way to get a vehicle fast (like speedrun it)? Excluding the bicycle, preferably a motorcycle or even a gyrocopter.

I like to play as a nomad with only temporary, scattered bases in POIs and I was going for a motorcycle via crafting but getting a crucible is point expensive... maybe I can scavenge enough steel by wrenching things and skip having to build/find a crucible. Or questing and buying a motorcycle from a trader might be the better option.

Would anyone be willing to share their strategy or tips for playing as a nomad?

[lord.vesra]

Gather tons of sellable (decent sell priced) loot, look for treasure maps in any garbage you come across and dig them up, get all the dukes you can. Then visit every trader and hope one has one for sale. It's how i went from bicycle to 4x4 in my current play through. typically cost 30-40k dukes. Easily doable long before you can earn the points to buy the skill.
FYI, you can only have one active Base Block or bed at a time. so where ever your last one was, be perpared for zombies to be there if/when you return.

[ν]

Originally posted by lord.vesra:

Gather tons of sellable (decent sell priced) loot, look for treasure maps in any garbage you come across and dig them up, get all the dukes you can. Then visit every trader and hope one has one for sale. It's how i went from bicycle to 4x4 in my current play through. typically cost 30-40k dukes. Easily doable long before you can earn the points to buy the skill.
FYI, you can only have one active Base Block or bed at a time. so where ever your last one was, be perpared for zombies to be there if/when you return.

Ya I'm thinking just buying it is the fastest way... but if I were to spec into intelligence maybe it'd be better to just buy the steel and scavenge some where I can, then craft it. I did see one trader selling 20 steel for 2000 without any barter perks.

[KippenKaasBaas]

I go full grease monkey at the start. All point put towards that.
Scrap all the cars you come across for parts, kill as many Z's as you can find for XP, and you can get a bicycle on your first day.
Keep getting parts from cars,
XP from zombies,
and points into grease monkey.

You can have a motorcycle on the third day depending on your settings.

[aY227]

With points in INT motorcycle is achievable day 4, maybe even 3 if lucky with resources. Just plan this.

[jamesc70]

Isn't gas going to be a big problem if you get a vehicle early? I've got the minibike, and that thing chews through 1,000 gas in 2 days easily if I use it to go everywhere.

I tend to use those drinks that give you 50% runspeed for 2 minutes over using my minibike lately. I can go nearly across the map easily with the stamina buff and one of those drinks. The main benefit for using a vehicle (for me) is the inventory space.

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by jamesc70:

Isn't gas going to be a big problem if you get a vehicle early? I've got the minibike, and that thing chews through 1,000 gas in 2 days easily if I use it to go everywhere.

I tend to use those drinks that give you 50% runspeed for 2 minutes over using my minibike lately. I can go nearly across the map easily with the stamina buff and one of those drinks. The main benefit for using a vehicle (for me) is the inventory space.

You're going to be scraping a whole lot of cars. They give you fuel.
Also you can go mining in the desert to get a pretty much infinite supply of oil.

[ν]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

I go full grease monkey at the start. All point put towards that.
Scrap all the cars you come across for parts, kill as many Z's as you can find for XP, and you can get a bicycle on your first day.
Keep getting parts from cars,
XP from zombies,
and points into grease monkey.

You can have a motorcycle on the third day depending on your settings.

Is a high grease monkey level necessary? 1 pt into it and scrapping every car should be enough or are you selling the surplus? What's the rest of your build like? Do you spec into spears?

Originally posted by aY227:

With points in INT motorcycle is achievable day 4, maybe even 3 if lucky with resources. Just plan this.

Buying it or crafting it?

[KippenKaasBaas]

Originally posted by Sonata:

Is a high grease monkey level necessary? 1 pt into it and scrapping every car should be enough or are you selling the surplus? What's the rest of your build like? Do you spec into spears?

Buying it or crafting it?

You need grease monkey at level 4 if you want to craft it. And yes, crafting it is what I'm referring to.
No vendor is going to be selling motorcycles at day 3. Crafting is the fastest way.

[ν]

Originally posted by KippenKaasBaas:

Originally posted by Sonata:

Is a high grease monkey level necessary? 1 pt into it and scrapping every car should be enough or are you selling the surplus? What's the rest of your build like? Do you spec into spears?

Buying it or crafting it?

You need grease monkey at level 4 if you want to craft it. And yes, crafting it is what I'm referring to.
No vendor is going to be selling motorcycles at day 3. Crafting is the fastest way.

Oh, I was thinking grease monkey is the perk that gives more resources when wrenching things... and I was asking the other person if they were talking about buying or crafting. Thanks for the tips

[JimmyIowa]

I also start with fast investment into INT and grease monkey, and crafting the workstations (forge and workbench). Although I only go up to minibike, and make one of those as my first vehicle. (Even though motorcycle is a better vehicle and is much more fun to ride)

The advantage I find with this way of starting is that it allows me to do several trader quests per day, as opposed to 1. Therefore when investing in INT+crafting, I get FAR more loot/guns/ammo very early on, as opposed to investing in combat or anything else.

Next I invest in fortitude and a point in farming to start a farm. Farming is hugely overpowered, and provides basically infinite convenient food and nearly instant healing, once your farm is up and running. The only hard part about starting the farm is finding seeds for the things you want - a problem which is solved by the high mobility of a vehicle riding all over town on my minibike and doing several quests per day.

Once I have freedom of mobility, and infinite food/healing, then I start investing in secondary things like combat skills and armor, etc.

After thousands of hours in the game, including three playthroughs in A19, I consider this the best way to start a game for me. Note: there is no one "right" way to play, and other people will prefer to start in other ways. I am not saying anyone else's methods are incorrect.

[ν]

Originally posted by JimmyIowa:

I also start with fast investment into INT and grease monkey also. Although I only go up to minibike, and make one of those as my first vehicle. (Even though motorcycle is a better vehicle and is much more fun to ride)

The advantage I finds with this way of starting is that it allows me to do several trader quests per day, as opposed to 1. Therefore investing in it, I get far more loot/guns/ammo very early as opposed to investing in combat or anything else.

Next I invest in FORT and a point in farming to start a farm. Farming is hugely overpowered, and provides basically infinite convenient food and nearly instant healing, once your farm is up and running. The only hard part about starting the farm is finding seeds for the things you want - a problem which is solved by the high mobility of a vehicle riding all over town on my minibike and doing several quests per day.

Once I have freedom of mobility, and infinite food/healing, then I start investing in secondary things like combat skills and armor, etc.

I've honestly never tried farming in this game lol I like your strategy, I'll try it next. Thank you

(I'm just worried about not having any points in combat)

[Slander]

JimmyIowa, I think your suggestion is a great strategy and is probably quite fun. I will try it on my next play through.

[JimmyIowa]

Originally posted by Sonata:

I've honestly never tried farming in this game :CatKira: lol I like your strategy, I'll try it next. Thank you

Farming is pretty much god mode in this game, because food = healing. With a big enough farm, then after ANY fight or POI you just munch on a few vegetable stews or use a few aloe bandages, and you are healed up for free.

For starting your farm it is key to save all rotten meat you find from roadkill, and zdogs, and vultures, to craft farm plots. And save all vegetables for making seeds (instead of eating them). This lean period doesn't last long, and the payoff is huge,

Originally posted by Sonata:

(I'm just worried about not having any points in combat)

As I said, people may feel more comfortable with variations in this theme. Maybe they want to invest in farming and combat first, instead of a vehicle. Or vehicle and combat, and put off farming for a few weeks.

I honestly find the wood club and stone sledge adequate for clearing POI's and doing low tier quests for the first couple of weeks. Which means I have absolutely no need for investment into combat. Others may feel differently and they are not wrong.

[JimmyIowa]

Also I should mention - during my "weak period" before I have buffed up combat, I equip multiple blunderbuss's on my toolbelt. They can be found starting on day 1, or crafted easily in your inventory with just iron pipe and glue, before you even make a workbench.

Most people who complain about lack of guns severely underestimate how insanely good this weapon is for a day 1 weapon. Everyone knows the big disadvantages of the blunder are it is single shot, and reloads slowly. Here's the secret - put 5 of them on your toolbelt in a row and keep them all loaded. You can fire - switch - fire - switch - fire....as fast as you can press you mouse buttons.

With practice I (and you) can fire multiple blunderbuss literally much faster than the fire rate of a pump shotgun.

So with 5 loaded blunderbuss on my belt at all times during my weak period, I can shred any dogs, wolves, and even a dire wolf, that gets close. Or handle emergencies against regular zombies while looting, where I start to feel overwhelmed or find myself cornered.

Just remember to load all 5 of them again after you unleash short range hell on something.

[aY227]

Wait a second... this game is not available on gog/epic
Just saying.

And on topic answer: Basically everything what JimmyIowa said is right - just remember to play as you want to play.
Also vanilla suxx :) Undead Legacy is so much better :)