Random tips and tricks from a pro

Just a few tips i can give to you, these will be life hacks or just random stuff to help you organize or survive for longer periods

Character Creation

-I noticed that one of the best jobs would be construction worker, +1 carpentry +3 Short blunt
-Short blunt weapons (hammer, metal pipe, lead pipe, pipe wrench etc.) are easy to find and swing fast, with good skill you can kill a lot of zombies quickly and efficiently
-You would also need fit or athletic to get fitness or you will get tired really quickly
-I always take dextrous because its cheap and important for scavenging
-Slow healer is free points, you also get free first aid skill since you need to change your bandage more often
-Smoker is really good because cigarettes are easy to find around the world
-Weak stomach is free points since you wouldnt want to eat bad food in the first place

Fighting tips

Sneaking is useful, but to clean up an area, you obviously have to swing your weapon right?
Well, depends on what weapons you use, to me short blunt are the best for more zombies, moving back and hitting them, once they fall, if you have no other zombies around step near their head and try to strike the head, it usually ends up in 1-2 hits before they die
Using fences to your advantage: If you have one zombie at a time fighting you, you can step away from the fence and when a zombie lunges over it, run to it and strike its head, DO NOT stand close to the fence or you can get scratched and tripped to the ground!
Dodge large hordes or you will get surrounded, dragged, and killed
Kiting: Kiting (or baiting) is a strategy which you can kill a large horde by yourself by agro'ing a few zombies out of the crowd then going back until you wont agro other zombies to you and killing them, thinning out a horde like this will make it easier
Fire? Yes if you know what you are doing, make a campfire and dont waste whiskey/gas, you can use aerosol bombs/pipe bombs if you are an engineer, do this in a forest to not burn down buildings you need for loot, fire spreads quickly and to places you wouldnt want it to spread, zombies take some time to burn out, so you need to be really fit to run around for longer periods of time

Scavenging properly

-If you find a map (or you can screenshot the original) use it, and cross out houses that you have looted, add any symbols you want to make it easier for you, find your location and add a house symbol to a safehouse
-Have multiple safehouses barricaded around the town, this will provide you with a defensible position if you get: hurt, tired, hungry, thirsty etc. just try not to lure any zombies or they will enter it eventually
If you cannot carry enough loot leave it somewhere and come back later, write it on your map where you stashed your loot.
-How do you deal with house alarms? Once you enter a house, if an alarm sounds RUN LIKE HELL and put alot of skull symbols around the house on the map and dont come back for a week, you can use the opportunity to loot some other houses because the zombies changed position
-Use a noise maker if you have electric skill to lure zombies somewhere else and sneak past them
-Check cars (if they are locked break the window to get in)
-March ridge - alot of houses and blocks you can loot, the place is infested with zombies, so you need to move through the forest and barricade a block or house on the outskirt of the town, start looting houses and stay away from school and dormitory if you are not ready for a REAL fight

Safehouses

Have a main safehouse far away from town, and build smaller ones around town, if things go wrong, sprint back to your main base that should be clean of zombies
Build a farm on your main safehouse
Keep basic medicine and 1-2 foods in your other safehouses
You can make a just in case safehouse far far away from town that you will use if things go really wrong, this should have: Food, weapons, saw, medicine, not alot but still enough so you can survive whatever got you and get back on your feet...

The helicopter

After 8-10 days have passed you will be visited by our friendly neighbor helicopter, he will bring alot of zombies to your house if you are close to the town, so in this period try to stay out of town so you dont have that many problems, the helicopter will visit you only once (if you dont change it in settings of course). Thats why you need to have a safehouse further away from town so you can survive things like helicopter or random attacks (because the surroundings are pretty clear of zombies)

Food preservation and weight

To preserve food you can use vinegar, sugar, jar, jar lid and your vegetables to jar your food for winter. Or you can grab some rice and pasta and a lot of cooking pots and sauce pans and make tons of pasta and rice from your vegetables which wont go bad because rice and pasta is non perishable
All you need is some water, a pot, rice, vegetables. Optional: salt, pepper, ketchup etc.
Weight: Your weight matters, because if it goes too low and you get underweight or if it goes too high and you get overweight, it will cause problems, you will be more prone to injury which means you will die if you jump off a roof or a high window, jumping over fences will cause injuries more often
To control your weight you will need to eat different food, but after a long time there will only be left cans and chocolates, either you eat that or make a farm and eat only the perishable food which will cause you to lose weight, to counter being underweight make box traps and put your carrots that you farmed as a bait, put these traps in deep forests (forests in which you can forage) and re add the bait every time it needs, eat meat and vegetable combinations to control your weight
When winter comes, use combination of your rice/pasta vegetables and your snacks that you have scavenged to maintain 75-85 kg of weight

Time Skipping

There is tricks you can use, F2 F4 F5 and F6 can be used for time skipping in singleplayer. This will conserve your real life time, using walk to + F4 you will walk to a designated position but skipped which you can use to travel without actually having to run and boring yourself
Every time you eat or craft press F4 so you actually do it quicker
To cancel it, just move
Its a really good trick to make the game faster and not bore yourself every time you have to eat or walk somewhere

[Dr_CheekClapper]

Whoa, whoa, excu- excuse me sir...SIR?! Are you a pro or something?? Did you know you should generally try to have an area that is safe and relatively devoid of zombies? Hold up... is this guy some kind of pro or something??

[Exumer]

TL;DR

[Gopnik]

smeće kao i blowjob tvoje stare, ali sestra ti nije loša

[TromaVille Citizen]

Not sure if it is ever mentioned in the comments because I never looked. But if you workout regularly you will keep your weight in check. Cool guide btw.

[Joque DeLong]

A bit necro, but fpr anyone coming to this good set of tips in the settings menu there is an option to have the time skipping end upon completion of an action. HIGHLY recommend that setting if you are using time skip for transferring inventory, gas fueling, crafting, or anything really

[Triangular Brick]

There are always a lot of tips to add but I'll keep it simple:
Eat a ton in early game and train your muscles regularly. That's why taking the weak trait (or even feeble if you don't mind) isn't that bad you can still have good enough distances in fight when pushing zeds back, you just have to get used to it.

You can also try to forage non perishable food for winter and you can go fishing to gaining some weight. Use the insects/worms you have foraged or the ones you can find into your compost or by digging into the dirt.

[~WiFiCatGirl~]

Here is a overpowered tick and trick from a 100% pro... Just have a fireteam covering you making sure you arnt dead! If it gets out of hand just get a private military and tell them to send a tank and mechs to reck the zombies.

If the private military does not work just become a zombie leader! Who cares about humans anyway aye?

[Sixixix]

spears are op

[annpying shek]

I prefer knives when dealing with several zombies simply because hitting with knives doesn't slow you and they hit fast enough to stun all zeds in front of you making them unable to reach you at all.

[Keklor]

Great tips bruv