On the spear charge at 10:30 - the game won't put you in the spear insta-kill animation if doing so would put you in danger of a zombie attack. (This applies to regular and spear charge.) The spear charge essentially just guarantees the spear insta-kill animation. Because all the zombies you were running at were close to other zombies, an insta-kill would have put you at risk of a zombie striking you, so the game didn't trigger the animation.
On a somewhat related note, you're also more likely to get the insta-kill animation at a certain range with the spear. This is typically just before the zombie is technically within range. (Playing with aim outline on makes this easier to tell.) It still isn't a guarantee this way, but you can potentially chain insta-kills if the zombies are spaced out enough.
@@Awpenheimer the reason you could not get the animation is cause you are in debug mode using either no clip or ghost mode which disable the spear one shot animation. you can run into a crowd of zeds, with no cheats on; the animation will lock you and the swarm will be on you
Fun fact: the safety check has virtually no extra time, so if your animation speed changes after starting a spear insta-kill (like by becoming cold) then a zombie might just be able to grab you while you're stuck. It's happened to me twice.
It could also be that you were in ghost mode cause I’ve got it to work in the presence of other zombies not even 20 minutes ago. Though the other insta kill feature won’t trigger unless there are no zombies around. (Unless it bugs out, which can get you killed)
@@Awpenheimer You may want to test again with all the other seats full. There is a redistribuition mechanic that moves things if a friend hops in for a ride, so I wonder if the seats were full if it would fail to allow the generator ?
The thing about cars driving over corpses: your car takes damage from becoming airborne and landing when you go over corpses fast enough. Driving over corpses in itself doesn't damage the vehicle's components. There is an excellent short that demonstrates this, when I find the title I'll edit it into this comment.
6:40 as guy who moded this game into oblivion. zombies does not damage your car extra. every mile on road damage all your parts a bit, ca. 0.01% every mile off road damage your parts a lot ca. 1% depends on car and parts. old parts damage faster than heavy duty ones. if you are "airborne" even for a moment, landing will cause damage, that might be source of that myth. zombies act as "bumps" that might send you flying at high speed. that's why in general its good not to make piles of dead on roads you plan to use. unless you want to do a barrel roll, land on a tree and break both hands.
@@therealbahamut it will not work. I used modded items to give cars negative mass. They never fly, changing the floor level, they are only becoming completely unusable. Its not programmed in a way that allows anything drivable to go higher. If you want to use same thing, halving car mass make them zoom, like its space pod. its stupidly funny. I belive you need to wait for build 42, one of the news is ramp that lets cars go up and down.
@@nerfherder4284 it makes some sense. Junk you can find on the road in game would not be kind to most tires. We have clear visible potholes, big asss stones, corpses.,..
Not just that your vehicle has more torque aswell i always tow vehicles away in reverse. Plus in reverse you have slightly more control over the towed vehicle since your stearing is closer to the vehicle, and your unbothered by being offroad even when towed loads are heavier then your own vehicle.
It's also about the gears. There's no second gear in reverse, and second gear is weaker than first. Plus the game automatically changes the gear, and it's quite dumb at it when off-roading.
On the fitness gain with peanut butter: the proper science would have been to have a third test with any non-protein rich food. To see if it's the moodle or the food that increased exp gain.
The game just straight up has a hidden protein meter, and your strength gains get amplified if you're very high on proteins, and get diminished if you're too low. If you install certain mods you can even see this meter.
@@Awpenheimeralso to make sure familiarity with the exercise was set to zero. That changes the experience gain and sitting down for a rest doesn't reset it 😂😂😂
It is more about moving in the zombie's direction while attacking instead of standing still or back tracking. If you miss you end up right next to it and are likely to get bit, and I think it just causes more damage and doesn't insta-kill depending on weapon skill.
A tip that I never see anybody mention anywhere is that you don't have to be on time for TV shows. If there are no TVs turned on in your current cell (tuned to any channel, not just Life and Living), you can watch shows up to the next show beginning. So you can consolidate your TV watching by holding off until a half hour before the next show and watch two in a row. Or if you happen to miss the time, you can still catch the whole show as long as you don't go anywhere that has a TV turned on.
I won’t say it’s true, but yesterday I started a new game and was like 8 am because I moved the start hour and suddenly my character started leveling up cooking, I think that’s the program for 6 am at your first day
When setting up a neighborhood I always turn off Tvs in other houses, so this explains why the double show keeps happening. I always wondered but never knew why it was happening. Thank you!
spoons and forks USED TOO speed up food consumption. but was abandoned when MP became a thing. driving over corpses is considered similar to driving OFF ROAD.
Partially true - eating speed did change w mp, but driving over corpses has a chance to cause the car to be airborne, which will dmg the car. The corpses themselves do no damage if driven over slowly.
driving in reverse off-road does work better in poor weather conditions. driving forward in the rain can cause you to get stuck, but reverse works. it has saved me a few times
the hot water one you don't even need to take the pot out of the oven, and it can be any item that can take hot water as well, I've used saucepans to sterilize my bandages and rags
Your suspension damages itself, whenever you go on rough terrain. Be it corpses or dirt. I never knew you can eat with a spoon before! Neither did I know about the lightsource one. Here's another one: You can cook a soup or stew with dirty water. Just put the ingredients into the dirty water and done. Once you cook it, the meal will be prepared like normal food and the heat will automatically sterilize the water. You can spare the step of sterilizing water first.
It bugs me that forks and spoons weigh .3, seems like a lot of encumbrance. Too much to carry one 😂 the animation is different which is fun and "civilized". You can also put a water cooler on the roof and plumb it into a sink, surround it with pots and pans to catch rain and periodically empty them all into the cooler, giving you fresh clean water with lvl 0 carpentry.
As i understand the 4-log Stack thing, encumberance is a combination of the weight of an item *and* how difficult it is to hold/carry. 4 loose logs is much more of a hassle than the same 4 logs tightly lashed together.
2:10 It's not really like that. The 50% increase you got is not due to the type of food, but do to the fact you were working out with a full stomac (well fed moodle).
13:48 its not just for logs either, you can for example primary or secondary carry a refrigerator and massively reduce its weight as well as any other item in existence. 15:20 You can keep the boiling pot of water in the oven and still disinfect rags, bandages etc while its in there which reduces the amount of finagling you have to do.
7:35 you can also do the same thing with wheely bins, as theyre just barelt big enough to fit them. thats how i get rid of dead zombies around my base all the time
7:55 I'd say that this mostly applies in the logic that it's "faster" to get to a manageable offroad speed, because reversing provides your vehicle with more torque, as the reverse gear is typically larger, especially the case for heavier vehicles, not so important for light vehicles, especially performance vehicles - this is also handy to know when you get bogged down by a horde, as reversing instead of powering through from the front can sometimes save your skin. (granted you didn't take sunday driver) so I suppose the original statement is not entirely wrong.
@@tibinicle As you said, when i go offroad and turn i often had to release the throttle and then push back down so that the game will switch back to first gear for me. Going in reverse avoids this problem.
Note; item removel through garbage bins only works if that setting is enabled. Also car seats can hold almost any item if they are heavier (like a fridge or something) but you can only store 1 item.
You can put one of anything in a car seat, no matter the size. Antique ovens, water coolers, beds, doesn't matter how big 1 item is, the car seat will take it.
The log stack thing is huge. I can't believe I didn't spot that. I could fit SO MANY LOGS into a duffel like that. Sounds like a massive ton of weight to carry but folks have to remember that PZ doesn't use "weight." It says "encumbrance." It's an abstract combination of mass and volume that gives you a rough idea of how cumbersome an item is to carry. That's why backpacks reduce that encumbrance: they don't actually make stuff weigh less but they free up your hands.
You still have to attack, it isn't about running into them. I think moving in their direction while attacking does more damage in general. Not positive tho
Placing a wood floor tile over water and covering with dirt makes a walkable tile that appears as water. (Note graphics settings have an affect on this exploit)
2:15 This bonus is multiplicative to all others. But it's important not to overdo it with a high-protein diet. Exceeding the protein reserve of 300 units will disable this bonus.
@walnzell9328 Basically if your character gas a certain amount of protein in them they get extra bonus from workouts. If you have too much protein however, you lose that bonus.
Looking at the driving over zombies part and not damaging your car. When rolling on grass the car constantly check for a chance at getting damaged And then bouncing at top speeds and slamming against the pavement is what probably damaged the suspension and muffler. I’d asses from those tests, rather than rolling over the zombie
Bonus tip to the log stacks: If you find regular Rope items, they do the same job, but weigh a lot less than the sheet ropes pre-stacking. 0.3 per rope isntead of 0.8 for a sheet rope.
Just keep the water in the oven. It consumes water as you do it. It also has to be boiling so once it cools down you won’t be able to do it anymore. So if you doing a large batch of rags or bandages it won’t stop in the middle of disintegrating them.
Foraging is penalized from ANY equipment or clothes that go on or over your face (glasses, face bandana, motorcycle helmet), but the degree at which is does depends on the equipment. You can also boost your effectiveness by crouching as you forage.
For the generator one, you can actually put pretty much any heavy item in a car seat as long as there isn't anything else in the seat. This includes things like cast iron ovens and fully loaded backpacks.
I think sprinting definitely reduces your odds of burning on fire tiles. You're just jogging. I don't know that you're 100% safe. Just that if you have to cross fire, that seems to be the best option.
Addition: You can leave the pot of water in the oven when sterilizing bandages/rags. This way you make sure it stays hot in case you're doing more than only 3-4 pieces, otherwise it *can* happen that it cools down, interrupting the process of sterilizing.
The generator, and the wood logs ones I didn't know until know and they're so useful. I've been playing for over a year and I'm still learning new stuff about this game
There is something about reverse thats OP. If youre running into zombies it slows you but if you reverse you can plow through them. Same goes for towing; if you are pulling forward especially offroad its so slow, but if you reverse it really picks up speed and you can move things much easier in reverse.
I didn't know about the F radial menu and I have almost 3k hours in the game lol. Thanks for that one!! I learned the log trick early on. It frustrates me when I watch playthroughs of people not using it 😅 It's even great for adding logs into a truck for large projects. I just make a bunch of rope then drop them onto the ground near the trunk. As I put logs in, I pick up the rope needed and repeat. Something else I learned is that actual rope weighs less than the rope made from cloth. Great video. Subbed
@@Awpenheimer Especially if you carry the log stacks to where you plan to build something and turn them into planks There, instead of having to haul a bunch of planks around everywhere...
14:14 I have more than 1.000 hours in this game, and I guess I've never tried holding down F, because I had no idea there was a radial menu for lights lol
7:51 Depends on the vehicle. Some cars literally STOP off-road because it tries to use the second gear. But going in reverse is a guaranteed "first gear", and the car always gives its all. This is especially obvious with heavy vehicles pulling too much weight. Also, about the spears. Are you sure you don't have to be VISIBLE for it to work?
The squats change animations a little too. At low level, the knees shake when you come back up. This goes away at higher fitness but not sure the exact level.
The driving in reverse 100% works if your car is ever weighted down or wont go very good in the mud or off road/reverse will get you out easily. Every time I go the rose wood military base and load up my vehicle is usually to heavy to go forward and I have to drive out the whole way in reverse .
13:51 you can even go more crazy. If you use Organized trait and have 3 militairy bags. These militairy bags have 36 place with organized. So they can fit 3 4stack logs. Now put a bag in each hand and one on your back. You can then also carry like 3 more in your inventory. This way you can carry 12 4stack logs. Or a total of 48 logs at once..... Its somewhat insane. But its also hard to setup. You ofcourse need organized trait and 3 militairy bags(these are rare). The other bag gets 35 spaces so it doesnt work. You need the militairy ones with 36 for this to work...
Meat cleaver tip is something I didn't know and you just earned subscriber for telling me. Spear attach while sprinting is real thing, I've done that several times, but it is extremely inconsistent as far as I can say and not worth the risk at all.
Idk if this counts as a tip but if people don't already know you can also place flashlights on your belt and toggle the light on and off with F. Freeing your hands
You can put a Gas Can inside a container (Tested this with a Wooden Crate) and It would exploded when there's fire on top of it (Used a corpse and set it on fire)
Im pretty sure you can also place a firepit inside and light it as long as its two tiles away from any nearby walls. Unsure if a secondstory above will catch on firethough.
You can leave the pot of water in the oven and just stand next to it and you can sterilize the rags and bandages, then you're left with a nice stock to make a stew!
I think the reverse thing when offroad is only for people with sunday driver. Tbh never picked that one up because it seems like a pretty big liability lol
the reverse offroad thing is kinda true, you wont be faster but you wont get stuck in reverse, same with other instances like towing cars. reverse gear sometimes actually does work better in some cases
it might be possible that for cleaning blood it would have to be a regular non-sterilized rag, since sterilized rags ive noticed are barred from use in every other thing that regular rags could be used for
The protein moodle mod will teach how to use the protein boost for strength training. You actually have to maintain protein at low levels for it, wild game and fish totally ruin this effort.
I'm not entirely sure how the fitness multiplier works, but I'm pretty sure you need positive protein values to build muscle faster. There are mods that let you see the hidden player values like exact calories, proteins, carbs, and fats/oils. I've found maintaining positive protein values extremely difficult in this game, particularly after the power goes out, and meat becomes scarce. I also don't know how it is I can eat several bowls of rice and potatoes, and still have low carbs. It's been challenging to keep his weight from going down. I wish I had that problem in real life. It's so easy to put weight on IRL.
The off roader actually does work. But this is only when you get stuck between 2 tree sapplings and when you reverse you can get out a sticky situation and potentially save your life
Just so you are aware if I'm not mistaken it's not just a generator the seats either hold multiple small items or 1 large item like a fridge or generator.
7:16 i dont think you did that test long enough, driving will damage the tires, but its slow, and very slow on asphalt, the small sample doesnt really work that well, but fair, driving over corpses, hitting buildings and other vehicles, and running over zombies does way more damage
14:40 regarding the light source thing if you only have 1 light and it just so happens to be a lighter than you will auto pull the lighter out and more than likely not notice you are until whatever hand you had it in gets a nasty burn!!
Even if it only is a VERY little ammount of damadge your car takes from driving over corpses you should be very carefull and slow down when you do so. Dirving even just a little too fast over a few can easily flip your car over. And then you'll have to find another one to flip it back the right way.
12:05 not only generators fit into a sit. A seat can hold a single item of any size as long as it is just a single item. And a backpack full of loot is counted as single item. So if you have spare large backpacks and spare seats you can combine the two to get more cargo space in a vehicle.
Btw for the second to last one, the waters to be hot and after a while it gets cold when taken out of the oven. So just craft them while you’re looking in the over. While it’s on, of course and you can continue crafting sterile till you run out of water
That first one reminded me of a few days ago. I was playing with 2 friends. One got bitten and died soon after. I pushed over the zombie. And I sat on it waiting for him to come back. Yes you can sit on zombies and they cant get up. It looked so stupid😂😂
For the cleaning blood one, I haven't tested it myself, but I know that a sterilized rag acts like a bandage. It might have worked if a dirty rag, or a ripped sheet was used.
I would love a video where you test out the Axe Man trait from the Lumberjack occupation. What I`m curious about is how the Axe Man trait effects Hand Axes compared to Short Blunt speed, and whether it effects the Wood Axe (and Pickaxe) swing speed comparing both the animations and the actual number of swings. i.e., does the trait only effect the animations or does it effect the actual weapon swing speed. If it speeds up the Wood Axe to anything even close to either the Axe without this trait, or a Long Blunt like the Baseball Bat or Crowbar then this is the single best weapon skill in the game, if not then it`s simply not worth it. Same goes for the Hand Axe compared to Short Blunt weapons. Ive seen videos on whether or not the Axe Man trait actually increases the swing speed by a full 25%, but have never seen a side by side comparison to other weapons swing speeds, or more importantly the Wood Axe with it`s 50% crit chance and 12X crit multiplier... And it`s really long animation. And with the way skill levels are calculated, at both level 0 and most importantly level 10. Also with fitness at 0 and 10 respectively as well. The wiki says that they are additive, so that should mean an additional 20% faster swing speed from fitness 10, and a 30% faster swing speed from the Axe skill at level 10 ADDED to the base swing speed of the weapon. So 50% faster? Or do those not affect the animation? The wiki also states that the Axe skill at 10 would add another 30% crit chance to each hit, bringing the Wood Axe up to an 80% crit chance, with a 12X damage multiplier... Next, how long does it take for the Brave trait(30% panic) to come close to the Desensitized trait(0% panic) that the Veteran occupation gets? Lets say less than 10% panic. Would it be the full 150 days? Or can we get down to single digit panic before then? Basically is Police Officer with Brave, or Veteran the better Firearms build?
The car off road is higher rpms its easier to get unstuck backwards also for the generator on the seat going over capacity this also works for bags if you max out a army bag you can take it off and store it on a seat
I'm pretty sure you can disinfect rags in just water and since a filled saucepan acts as a water source, you can disinfect it in any water but I'm too lazy to double check.
I heard for the spear sprint you have to stop sprinting right before you run into them, also try both running and sprinting. I never tried it tho so idk
You can also safely sit on a zombie. Can't you cut trees down with any weapon? I though they are deastroyable terrain, like doors. They just have a special interaction with axes.
For the fire run, I may be mistaken, but it looked like you only jogged (shift) not sprinted (alt). Not sure if it changes the result, but perhaps another test is needed?
You struggled with the spear sprint because it seems like you were in Ghost mode. Some things don't work in this mode. The spear sprint often breaks the spear so it's ill-advised for pve combat
um I use fire a lot at the start of my runs. I'll loot my starter home and then burn it down along with most of the zeds in the area. Keep them kind of close and you won't burn much and you always have an easy start.
In one of my playthroughs i literred part of the highway with zombie corpses (i was tired of crashing into zombies i could see and avoid in a 3D environment). I drove over them at higher speeds. Yes they damage the parts of your car that are close to the ground or responsible for the vehicle sticking to the road. Tyres, Suspension... Muffler... All that gets damaged. Heck driving too fast over a pile of zombie corpses even gets your car flipped.
That is not the corpses themselves damaging the parts, but that the car/tire went into the air and then made contact with the ground again that damages them. Even if it's a short hop. If you drive slowly over corpses you'll be fine.
On the spear charge at 10:30 - the game won't put you in the spear insta-kill animation if doing so would put you in danger of a zombie attack. (This applies to regular and spear charge.) The spear charge essentially just guarantees the spear insta-kill animation.
Because all the zombies you were running at were close to other zombies, an insta-kill would have put you at risk of a zombie striking you, so the game didn't trigger the animation.
Great to know!!!
On a somewhat related note, you're also more likely to get the insta-kill animation at a certain range with the spear. This is typically just before the zombie is technically within range. (Playing with aim outline on makes this easier to tell.) It still isn't a guarantee this way, but you can potentially chain insta-kills if the zombies are spaced out enough.
@@Awpenheimer the reason you could not get the animation is cause you are in debug mode using either no clip or ghost mode which disable the spear one shot animation. you can run into a crowd of zeds, with no cheats on; the animation will lock you and the swarm will be on you
Fun fact: the safety check has virtually no extra time, so if your animation speed changes after starting a spear insta-kill (like by becoming cold) then a zombie might just be able to grab you while you're stuck. It's happened to me twice.
It could also be that you were in ghost mode cause I’ve got it to work in the presence of other zombies not even 20 minutes ago. Though the other insta kill feature won’t trigger unless there are no zombies around. (Unless it bugs out, which can get you killed)
"Does just driving your car damage it?"
when i do, yea
sadge =(
For me that applies to real life and project zomboid 💀
Regarding the generator in an empty seat, this actually goes for all buildings that you can pick up, fridges, water coolers, generators.
Niiceee
Any item at all, really.
As long as it's a single item, it can be any weight and fit in a seat
@@Awpenheimer You may want to test again with all the other seats full. There is a redistribuition mechanic that moves things if a friend hops in for a ride, so I wonder if the seats were full if it would fail to allow the generator ?
or a big bag full of smaller crap ...
I found it by accident today, where my water cooler was sitting in the backseat.
The thing about cars driving over corpses: your car takes damage from becoming airborne and landing when you go over corpses fast enough. Driving over corpses in itself doesn't damage the vehicle's components. There is an excellent short that demonstrates this, when I find the title I'll edit it into this comment.
“And they were never seen again”
Tragic!
Legends say he is still searching for the video to this day.
@@Tijn-nd8ro If that link doesn't work, the name of the short is MOW THEM DOWN! by The Backlog.
@@eliseosterbrink8000 comeback of the year! Thank you.
@@Khazar321 Thank you for commenting! I completely forgot and wouldn't have remembered without you and Tljn-nd8ro. Hope the short is helpful!
6:40 as guy who moded this game into oblivion.
zombies does not damage your car extra.
every mile on road damage all your parts a bit, ca. 0.01%
every mile off road damage your parts a lot ca. 1%
depends on car and parts.
old parts damage faster than heavy duty ones.
if you are "airborne" even for a moment, landing will cause damage, that might be source of that myth.
zombies act as "bumps" that might send you flying at high speed.
that's why in general its good not to make piles of dead on roads you plan to use.
unless you want to do a barrel roll, land on a tree and break both hands.
Great explanation. thank u
so what I'm HEARING is...I need to make a zombie ramp and see if I can land my car on the roof.
@@therealbahamut it will not work. I used modded items to give cars negative mass. They never fly, changing the floor level, they are only becoming completely unusable.
Its not programmed in a way that allows anything drivable to go higher.
If you want to use same thing, halving car mass make them zoom, like its space pod. its stupidly funny.
I belive you need to wait for build 42, one of the news is ramp that lets cars go up and down.
When build 41 first dropped they did huge amounts of damage to tires and it was lame and they patched it.
@@nerfherder4284 it makes some sense.
Junk you can find on the road in game would not be kind to most tires. We have clear visible potholes, big asss stones, corpses.,..
The vehicle reverse trick might have had Speed Demon perk, since you can travel significantly faster in reverse.
Not just that your vehicle has more torque aswell i always tow vehicles away in reverse. Plus in reverse you have slightly more control over the towed vehicle since your stearing is closer to the vehicle, and your unbothered by being offroad even when towed loads are heavier then your own vehicle.
It's also about the gears.
There's no second gear in reverse, and second gear is weaker than first.
Plus the game automatically changes the gear, and it's quite dumb at it when off-roading.
Yes. Torque is the key.
On the fitness gain with peanut butter: the proper science would have been to have a third test with any non-protein rich food. To see if it's the moodle or the food that increased exp gain.
Trueeeee
@Awpenheimer great video tho. Hope you stick around in the PZ community and make more fun content ❤
The game just straight up has a hidden protein meter, and your strength gains get amplified if you're very high on proteins, and get diminished if you're too low. If you install certain mods you can even see this meter.
Nutritionist trait will also show you how many proteins any given food will have, in addition to carbs, calories, and fats
@@Awpenheimeralso to make sure familiarity with the exercise was set to zero. That changes the experience gain and sitting down for a rest doesn't reset it 😂😂😂
Oh brother, if it comes to the spear charging, it doesn't work with ghost mode or how ever the thing that let's you go through the zombies was named.
Makes senseeee
It is more about moving in the zombie's direction while attacking instead of standing still or back tracking. If you miss you end up right next to it and are likely to get bit, and I think it just causes more damage and doesn't insta-kill depending on weapon skill.
A tip that I never see anybody mention anywhere is that you don't have to be on time for TV shows. If there are no TVs turned on in your current cell (tuned to any channel, not just Life and Living), you can watch shows up to the next show beginning. So you can consolidate your TV watching by holding off until a half hour before the next show and watch two in a row. Or if you happen to miss the time, you can still catch the whole show as long as you don't go anywhere that has a TV turned on.
Always wondered what was the condition for this to happen, I knew it was a thing, but I could never replicate it consistently, thx.
The problem is early games if you are in residential there are loads of turned on tvs around if you haven't cleared your area yet.
I won’t say it’s true, but yesterday I started a new game and was like 8 am because I moved the start hour and suddenly my character started leveling up cooking, I think that’s the program for 6 am at your first day
When setting up a neighborhood I always turn off Tvs in other houses, so this explains why the double show keeps happening. I always wondered but never knew why it was happening. Thank you!
Just conect 4 tvs or more one at a chanel. And have fun until power goes off
spoons and forks USED TOO speed up food consumption. but was abandoned when MP became a thing. driving over corpses is considered similar to driving OFF ROAD.
what does mp mean?
@@theofficialtastynacho0898 multiplayer
Partially true - eating speed did change w mp, but driving over corpses has a chance to cause the car to be airborne, which will dmg the car. The corpses themselves do no damage if driven over slowly.
driving in reverse off-road does work better in poor weather conditions. driving forward in the rain can cause you to get stuck, but reverse works. it has saved me a few times
Good to know!!
Or if Surrounded by Zeds in dry off road you can also escape with Reverse
the hot water one you don't even need to take the pot out of the oven, and it can be any item that can take hot water as well, I've used saucepans to sterilize my bandages and rags
can't say must be used in microwave to sterilize
Your suspension damages itself, whenever you go on rough terrain. Be it corpses or dirt.
I never knew you can eat with a spoon before! Neither did I know about the lightsource one.
Here's another one: You can cook a soup or stew with dirty water. Just put the ingredients into the dirty water and done. Once you cook it, the meal will be prepared like normal food and the heat will automatically sterilize the water. You can spare the step of sterilizing water first.
It bugs me that forks and spoons weigh .3, seems like a lot of encumbrance. Too much to carry one 😂 the animation is different which is fun and "civilized". You can also put a water cooler on the roof and plumb it into a sink, surround it with pots and pans to catch rain and periodically empty them all into the cooler, giving you fresh clean water with lvl 0 carpentry.
"I'm carrying 25 microwaves" made me laugh out loud 😅
@@Epinardscaramel ahaha
As i understand the 4-log Stack thing, encumberance is a combination of the weight of an item *and* how difficult it is to hold/carry. 4 loose logs is much more of a hassle than the same 4 logs tightly lashed together.
When disinfecting rags it's much easier to just leave it in oven with oven on and disinfect your rags from there
Lol😂
I mean… It probably would disinfect them, but it might have _slight_ unintended side affects.
2:10 It's not really like that. The 50% increase you got is not due to the type of food, but do to the fact you were working out with a full stomac (well fed moodle).
13:48 its not just for logs either, you can for example primary or secondary carry a refrigerator and massively reduce its weight as well as any other item in existence.
15:20 You can keep the boiling pot of water in the oven and still disinfect rags, bandages etc while its in there which reduces the amount of finagling you have to do.
7:35 you can also do the same thing with wheely bins, as theyre just barelt big enough to fit them. thats how i get rid of dead zombies around my base all the time
The candle one might be an extension of the requirement of molotovs. You can't light them by match; has to be a lighter.
7:55 I'd say that this mostly applies in the logic that it's "faster" to get to a manageable offroad speed, because reversing provides your vehicle with more torque, as the reverse gear is typically larger, especially the case for heavier vehicles, not so important for light vehicles, especially performance vehicles - this is also handy to know when you get bogged down by a horde, as reversing instead of powering through from the front can sometimes save your skin. (granted you didn't take sunday driver) so I suppose the original statement is not entirely wrong.
Not only that, but the game auto-shifts to second gear due to high rpm when first gear would be better which adds to the problem
@@tibinicle As you said, when i go offroad and turn i often had to release the throttle and then push back down so that the game will switch back to first gear for me. Going in reverse avoids this problem.
4:55 the suspension and muffler condition only goes down because it's condition goes down over time. Not because you drove over zombies
Idk man I have ruined a gas tank hauling a car.
Its also due to when you hit boids at a speed your car bounces off the pavement, that's why you see him lose control after a fast pass.
Note; item removel through garbage bins only works if that setting is enabled. Also car seats can hold almost any item if they are heavier (like a fridge or something) but you can only store 1 item.
7:57 it applies to heavier cars that have trouble moving on the grass
You can put one of anything in a car seat, no matter the size. Antique ovens, water coolers, beds, doesn't matter how big 1 item is, the car seat will take it.
The log stack thing is huge. I can't believe I didn't spot that. I could fit SO MANY LOGS into a duffel like that.
Sounds like a massive ton of weight to carry but folks have to remember that PZ doesn't use "weight." It says "encumbrance." It's an abstract combination of mass and volume that gives you a rough idea of how cumbersome an item is to carry. That's why backpacks reduce that encumbrance: they don't actually make stuff weigh less but they free up your hands.
1:10 can also be proved with the mod Simple Status wherein it displays the 1.5x strength gain from eating enough protein
pretty confident that the first one is talking about multiplayer, not your own body in single player
Players automatically get up the nanosecond they’re not under a car. Hard to test, probably true.
@@bradley4465 Its referring to when you keep playing on the same save after being zombified, with a new character fighting your old one for loot.
The instakill on spear is true. You are probably on debug mode or something and so you can't hit them
You still have to attack, it isn't about running into them. I think moving in their direction while attacking does more damage in general. Not positive tho
Placing a wood floor tile over water and covering with dirt makes a walkable tile that appears as water. (Note graphics settings have an affect on this exploit)
2:15 This bonus is multiplicative to all others. But it's important not to overdo it with a high-protein diet. Exceeding the protein reserve of 300 units will disable this bonus.
I wish I understood what you were saying.
@walnzell9328
Basically if your character gas a certain amount of protein in them they get extra bonus from workouts. If you have too much protein however, you lose that bonus.
How to lose protein...?
I ate too much meat, how to lose protein?
What you are saying is work out an hour a day then peanut butter? And don't do it multiple times a day?
Looking at the driving over zombies part and not damaging your car.
When rolling on grass the car constantly check for a chance at getting damaged
And then bouncing at top speeds and slamming against the pavement is what probably damaged the suspension and muffler. I’d asses from those tests, rather than rolling over the zombie
Bonus tip to the log stacks: If you find regular Rope items, they do the same job, but weigh a lot less than the sheet ropes pre-stacking. 0.3 per rope isntead of 0.8 for a sheet rope.
Sterilizing bandages with boiling water is sick! Didn't know that one. Definitely going to give it a try after work.
Just keep the water in the oven. It consumes water as you do it. It also has to be boiling so once it cools down you won’t be able to do it anymore. So if you doing a large batch of rags or bandages it won’t stop in the middle of disintegrating them.
You can't light molotov cocktails with just matches.
Never knew that about peanut butter! I WILL BE ABUSING THAT THANK YOU!
Foraging is penalized from ANY equipment or clothes that go on or over your face (glasses, face bandana, motorcycle helmet), but the degree at which is does depends on the equipment.
You can also boost your effectiveness by crouching as you forage.
For the generator one, you can actually put pretty much any heavy item in a car seat as long as there isn't anything else in the seat. This includes things like cast iron ovens and fully loaded backpacks.
Traveling in reverse doesn't increase your speed but your torque try it driving though thick grass with a trailer it is a life saver
I think sprinting definitely reduces your odds of burning on fire tiles. You're just jogging. I don't know that you're 100% safe. Just that if you have to cross fire, that seems to be the best option.
myth: triggering a bomb in your inventory, backpack or a container with a remote trigger will still detonate the bomb
Addition: You can leave the pot of water in the oven when sterilizing bandages/rags. This way you make sure it stays hot in case you're doing more than only 3-4 pieces, otherwise it *can* happen that it cools down, interrupting the process of sterilizing.
The generator, and the wood logs ones I didn't know until know and they're so useful. I've been playing for over a year and I'm still learning new stuff about this game
There is something about reverse thats OP. If youre running into zombies it slows you but if you reverse you can plow through them. Same goes for towing; if you are pulling forward especially offroad its so slow, but if you reverse it really picks up speed and you can move things much easier in reverse.
I didn't know about the F radial menu and I have almost 3k hours in the game lol. Thanks for that one!!
I learned the log trick early on. It frustrates me when I watch playthroughs of people not using it 😅
It's even great for adding logs into a truck for large projects. I just make a bunch of rope then drop them onto the ground near the trunk. As I put logs in, I pick up the rope needed and repeat.
Something else I learned is that actual rope weighs less than the rope made from cloth.
Great video. Subbed
Glad you learnt something! Yeahh such a time saver.
Thanks!!
@@Awpenheimer Especially if you carry the log stacks to where you plan to build something and turn them into planks There, instead of having to haul a bunch of planks around everywhere...
14:14 I have more than 1.000 hours in this game, and I guess I've never tried holding down F, because I had no idea there was a radial menu for lights lol
7:51 Depends on the vehicle.
Some cars literally STOP off-road because it tries to use the second gear.
But going in reverse is a guaranteed "first gear", and the car always gives its all.
This is especially obvious with heavy vehicles pulling too much weight.
Also, about the spears.
Are you sure you don't have to be VISIBLE for it to work?
Yeahh makes sense, and it does seem like that’s probably the case
You are criminally underated my dude, hope your channel blows up once the build 42 is out
@@comfykruczek appreciate it bruh!!
The squats change animations a little too. At low level, the knees shake when you come back up. This goes away at higher fitness but not sure the exact level.
The driving in reverse 100% works if your car is ever weighted down or wont go very good in the mud or off road/reverse will get you out easily. Every time I go the rose wood military base and load up my vehicle is usually to heavy to go forward and I have to drive out the whole way in reverse .
13:51 you can even go more crazy. If you use Organized trait and have 3 militairy bags. These militairy bags have 36 place with organized. So they can fit 3 4stack logs. Now put a bag in each hand and one on your back. You can then also carry like 3 more in your inventory. This way you can carry 12 4stack logs. Or a total of 48 logs at once.....
Its somewhat insane. But its also hard to setup. You ofcourse need organized trait and 3 militairy bags(these are rare). The other bag gets 35 spaces so it doesnt work. You need the militairy ones with 36 for this to work...
I like the intro, that's a nod the Mythbusters
Meat cleaver tip is something I didn't know and you just earned subscriber for telling me.
Spear attach while sprinting is real thing, I've done that several times, but it is extremely inconsistent as far as I can say and not worth the risk at all.
In my experience it seems to only work reliably against lone zombies. If they have friends within grabbing range it's a dice roll if it will trigger.
Idk if this counts as a tip but if people don't already know you can also place flashlights on your belt and toggle the light on and off with F. Freeing your hands
Useful tests, specially the 4 log tied one on the main hand, no more back hernias 😂
Fun fact, foraging is bugged and you wont get new forrage until you reset the game
You can put a Gas Can inside a container (Tested this with a Wooden Crate) and It would exploded when there's fire on top of it (Used a corpse and set it on fire)
Im pretty sure you can also place a firepit inside and light it as long as its two tiles away from any nearby walls. Unsure if a secondstory above will catch on firethough.
You can leave the pot of water in the oven and just stand next to it and you can sterilize the rags and bandages, then you're left with a nice stock to make a stew!
Loved the Artie Bucco cameo
Hitting trees with meat cleaver was my 1st try on getting woods i didn't even no there was a. Axe.
I think the reverse thing when offroad is only for people with sunday driver. Tbh never picked that one up because it seems like a pretty big liability lol
the reverse offroad thing is kinda true, you wont be faster but you wont get stuck in reverse, same with other instances like towing cars. reverse gear sometimes actually does work better in some cases
it might be possible that for cleaning blood it would have to be a regular non-sterilized rag, since sterilized rags ive noticed are barred from use in every other thing that regular rags could be used for
Cleaning blood requires bleach and a mop.
The protein moodle mod will teach how to use the protein boost for strength training. You actually have to maintain protein at low levels for it, wild game and fish totally ruin this effort.
I'm not entirely sure how the fitness multiplier works, but I'm pretty sure you need positive protein values to build muscle faster.
There are mods that let you see the hidden player values like exact calories, proteins, carbs, and fats/oils. I've found maintaining positive protein values extremely difficult in this game, particularly after the power goes out, and meat becomes scarce. I also don't know how it is I can eat several bowls of rice and potatoes, and still have low carbs. It's been challenging to keep his weight from going down. I wish I had that problem in real life. It's so easy to put weight on IRL.
Wow! Great information. I have over 6000 hours and didn't know most of these tricks/myths. Thanks for sharing.
@@flee8355 awesome!! Glad i could help :)
You can actually sterilize bandages while the pot is still in the oven.
the generator thing can also apply to heavy large objects like TVs
The off roader actually does work. But this is only when you get stuck between 2 tree sapplings and when you reverse you can get out a sticky situation and potentially save your life
Just so you are aware if I'm not mistaken it's not just a generator the seats either hold multiple small items or 1 large item like a fridge or generator.
yeahh you're right
7:16 i dont think you did that test long enough, driving will damage the tires, but its slow, and very slow on asphalt, the small sample doesnt really work that well, but fair, driving over corpses, hitting buildings and other vehicles, and running over zombies does way more damage
14:40 regarding the light source thing if you only have 1 light and it just so happens to be a lighter than you will auto pull the lighter out and more than likely not notice you are until whatever hand you had it in gets a nasty burn!!
You can put anything in the car seat even if it's over its capacity as long as there is nothing there.
If you fill them all be careful when running from zombies cause the seat will be occupied 😂
Even if it only is a VERY little ammount of damadge your car takes from driving over corpses you should be very carefull and slow down when you do so. Dirving even just a little too fast over a few can easily flip your car over. And then you'll have to find another one to flip it back the right way.
12:05 not only generators fit into a sit.
A seat can hold a single item of any size as long as it is just a single item. And a backpack full of loot is counted as single item. So if you have spare large backpacks and spare seats you can combine the two to get more cargo space in a vehicle.
3:08
You weren’t running. You were jogging.
Btw for the second to last one, the waters to be hot and after a while it gets cold when taken out of the oven. So just craft them while you’re looking in the over. While it’s on, of course and you can continue crafting sterile till you run out of water
That first one reminded me of a few days ago. I was playing with 2 friends. One got bitten and died soon after. I pushed over the zombie. And I sat on it waiting for him to come back. Yes you can sit on zombies and they cant get up. It looked so stupid😂😂
13:00 you can make a bath towel with a rag
For the cleaning blood one, I haven't tested it myself, but I know that a sterilized rag acts like a bandage. It might have worked if a dirty rag, or a ripped sheet was used.
your seriously underrated man
keep up the good work!
Thanks!!!
I would love a video where you test out the Axe Man trait from the Lumberjack occupation. What I`m curious about is how the Axe Man trait effects Hand Axes compared to Short Blunt speed, and whether it effects the Wood Axe (and Pickaxe) swing speed comparing both the animations and the actual number of swings. i.e., does the trait only effect the animations or does it effect the actual weapon swing speed. If it speeds up the Wood Axe to anything even close to either the Axe without this trait, or a Long Blunt like the Baseball Bat or Crowbar then this is the single best weapon skill in the game, if not then it`s simply not worth it. Same goes for the Hand Axe compared to Short Blunt weapons. Ive seen videos on whether or not the Axe Man trait actually increases the swing speed by a full 25%, but have never seen a side by side comparison to other weapons swing speeds, or more importantly the Wood Axe with it`s 50% crit chance and 12X crit multiplier... And it`s really long animation. And with the way skill levels are calculated, at both level 0 and most importantly level 10. Also with fitness at 0 and 10 respectively as well. The wiki says that they are additive, so that should mean an additional 20% faster swing speed from fitness 10, and a 30% faster swing speed from the Axe skill at level 10 ADDED to the base swing speed of the weapon. So 50% faster? Or do those not affect the animation?
The wiki also states that the Axe skill at 10 would add another 30% crit chance to each hit, bringing the Wood Axe up to an 80% crit chance, with a 12X damage multiplier...
Next, how long does it take for the Brave trait(30% panic) to come close to the Desensitized trait(0% panic) that the Veteran occupation gets? Lets say less than 10% panic. Would it be the full 150 days? Or can we get down to single digit panic before then? Basically is Police Officer with Brave, or Veteran the better Firearms build?
Ooh interesting, thankyou. Will definitely add those to the list for when I next do one like this! :)
casually carrying 25 microwaves (great video!! learned some stuff i had no idea about!!)
@@TheElusiveReality Awesome! Glad it helped :)
for the pot disinfect trick, you can even keep the pot in the oven and right click on it, no need to take it out or put it in your inventory
You’re right! Not sure why I didn’t think of that at the time lmfao
@@Awpenheimer there's so much stuff going on in PZ, anyone is bound to miss some infos haha
anyway great vid and love the editing, keep it up !!
you can also use saucepans as wells, I haven't tested other containers but I assume some should work as well
The car off road is higher rpms its easier to get unstuck backwards also for the generator on the seat going over capacity this also works for bags if you max out a army bag you can take it off and store it on a seat
With 1700h in the game I am ashamed to admit that I didn't know you could tie logs with sheet ropes......
@@rtrasphalt9963 oh wow, that would have saved you some time haha
I have driven with low durability tires and my tires have popped spontaneously
I'm pretty sure you can disinfect rags in just water and since a filled saucepan acts as a water source, you can disinfect it in any water but I'm too lazy to double check.
I heard for the spear sprint you have to stop sprinting right before you run into them, also try both running and sprinting. I never tried it tho so idk
Some people have said its because of ghost mode while in debug mode, will have to test it out next time im on !
You can also safely sit on a zombie.
Can't you cut trees down with any weapon? I though they are deastroyable terrain, like doors. They just have a special interaction with axes.
I did not know log stacks weigh significantly less, I'll have to remember to bring some cloth strips next time I go woodcutting.
For the fire run, I may be mistaken, but it looked like you only jogged (shift) not sprinted (alt). Not sure if it changes the result, but perhaps another test is needed?
Yeahh I believe you are right on that
I think spoon increases the food value you get out of it by a few percent but not 100% sure on that tho.
killer video, thanks for making it! i genuinely wanna play zomboid again
ayy glad you enjoyed it!!!
You struggled with the spear sprint because it seems like you were in Ghost mode. Some things don't work in this mode. The spear sprint often breaks the spear so it's ill-advised for pve combat
you can put any one item of a large encumberance on a seat. a large bag, a water dispenser will fit on a seat
Proteins boost your str gain, but fitness isn't affected by any other boost.
um I use fire a lot at the start of my runs. I'll loot my starter home and then burn it down along with most of the zeds in the area. Keep them kind of close and you won't burn much and you always have an easy start.
In one of my playthroughs i literred part of the highway with zombie corpses (i was tired of crashing into zombies i could see and avoid in a 3D environment). I drove over them at higher speeds. Yes they damage the parts of your car that are close to the ground or responsible for the vehicle sticking to the road. Tyres, Suspension... Muffler... All that gets damaged. Heck driving too fast over a pile of zombie corpses even gets your car flipped.
That is not the corpses themselves damaging the parts, but that the car/tire went into the air and then made contact with the ground again that damages them. Even if it's a short hop. If you drive slowly over corpses you'll be fine.