So one of my friends wants to take the water barrels and then turn rest of the place into zombie trap and burn it (to say its good coz its far away and made out of wood) How should I break his knees ingame? Pipe or gun?
@@Mattsi I mean, those two large barrels full of clean water are a pretty good selling point. Plus, smaller, one room buildings are always my favorite. Its why Im often attracted to the small churches.
Not enough security lol. I far prefer the amazing gated community in Riverside. It's astonishingly easy to secure several high class homes with washing machines and fireplaces and HUGE kitchens if you love cooking like I do. Upstairs can be your survivors museum double sized bed and armory. Even another room for toys and collectibles. Just a short walk to the gigamart for all the food you could possibly eat along with the hardware and clothing store. Plus big SECURE backyards for all the farming you can handle and depending on which set of McMansion you choose a short walk or short drive to the river and forest for your trapping, fishing and foraging needs. My FAVORITE place to base in all of zomboid and super easy to secure with not that many zeds.
Riverside -Has an Easy to access PD armory - Has a Large School (That Means Easier access to Books and a Larger chance at Generator Magazine, also plenty of furniture you can either disassemble for Nails and wood or use to Barricade the Stairs, also Scissors and Writting items to use on your map) - Has EVERY type of Store available sans a Gun shop (Hardware store for the rarer Tools such as propane torch; Book store; Clothing shop; general Markets for food and even a PO with a geberous storage area where you may find Many mid tier loot items. Cons - PD armory is small and Limited, even if you add Brita's Weapon mod, odds are you will at best find an Auto SG without the mags or mods to make it usable. -Size, while is has most loot places one may need to get started, this area is still rather Small and that affects the availability of all these types of Loot Starting Locations not bad, but there's a number of suboptimal spawns anyways Base Locations, the easier ones are on the Outskirts of the City or on parts without a straight, easy path to the Loot zone (Commercial area), the ones with more easy paths (with a Vehicle to reduce number of loot trips) are in areas with more zeds, meaning you will have to work on both clearing the base plus Barrricading it to ensure safety (e.g: School, is large and as such you need to wipe every last zed there and nearby, then Either Barricade the ground floor or Sledgehammer/Floor removal to ensure your second floor is safe)
@@satriareza7501 does the bank have a security room? Or a room with the green small lockers? (Those lockers AFAIK are set almost 100% in Vanilla Map to Firearms, ammo and attachments). Depending of your run, some buildings, even commercial ones, become Survivor houses, chances it may have been that or the first case.
My games typically go: Spawn in rosewood Get a car (checking every single cars glovebox as well as keys occasionally being in the ignition and ground nearby, just need gas from the gas station and u can drive any of those) Loot police, fire station and the army surplus store up the road Migrate through muldraugh up to Riverside and then set up shop there as my main home base, it's the most post electricity friendly town imo especially because of the big farms nearby and fishing from the river obviously.
@@Chadius_Thundercockmy typical run in rosewood is just: fight fight gigamart fight walk to west point fight walk to louisville *try to remake the movie by clearing out crossroad mall* brutally eaten alive💀
the Storage facility just below the factory is one of my favourite base spots. You can set up a bed inside one of the already open garages and have not only the chainlink fence keeping zombies out but a nice strong garage door. Put a gate on the fence and you've got a perfect setup.
So basically its "Fair" to the player. Actually its more than "fair". Its kind. Very kind. Especially to new players. Its got just the right things. Nothing to blow your mind, But certainly more than enough to put a smile on your face and make you feel confident as you make the "right" progress. Zombie threat is constant. The threat is VERY real. Its like the middle area of a swimming pool. Riverside IS the middle of a swimming pool. And the deep end is Louisville. Riverside is a great place for the player (Especially the new players like me) to prepare yourself for greater dangers. All while being in Danger. Its perfect!
The Fish Store or the Bar is a personal favourite because it's not that populated relative to the residential areas. Looting run wise it is somewhere in the middle of the factory, factory storage, and self storage from the Gated Community. Both are near a rather spacious vegetation so foraging there is viable when times are more desperate.
Some other PZ TH-camr lied to me about Rosewood being the best spawn as my first two runs there ended pretty quick whereas I actually survived for nearly two days in an abandoned neighborhood on the outskirts of riverside
I have a base idea for Riverside, on the gates community where the houses on the far east parallel with a gate can be blocked off on its both ends and you can have a whole street to yourself or with your friends in multiplayer. I'm doing the same in Rosewood with the gated community but in a smaller scale but the Riverside houses are better as it is bigger and few of the houses have fireplaces in them.
Riverside has basically everything and importantly has a number a book locations. Enigma books, the school, the Mail service depot and the 'Spa' on the NE of the town. The gated community can also contain at least 1 book case per house. It's the only place where I have found everybook in one town without too much effort. It also as several potentially strong candidtes for player bases, all located along the river banks. My favourite is the US Mail Service, but the restuarant nearby would have also been cool. If you spawn in a house near the centre of town, the Mail Service Office and the shops such as the sports too are alsot clear of Zeds. Out of spawn towns, Riverside hs potentially the strongest long term base locations that are in close proximity to both water and a gas station, with the Police Station being directly in between both. The trailer park is also handy if like me, you like to use floating units in the kitchen. There is also always at least 1 chevy cossette outside the bar, on my current run through I have 4! They are the best for towing other vehicles. Another perk is that there are some non spawn towns nearby, both of which have decent stores for finding high tier loot such as the Military surplus store.
Riverside to me feels like the easiest spawn, and was the first area where I got some actual traction when starting off. The Gated Community is incredible. There's a set of two big houses with metal fencing on 3 out of 4 sides. Wall in one side and you're all set. The houses are full of books, medical supplies, and last time I lived there I found over 40 combined rifles, shotguns and pistols in all the bedroom closets and nightstands. Once you're more set up you can clear the whole gated community, then you can block the whole thing off, creating a massive compound of mansions
The farm to the northwest, past the church and impound yard and up the road a ways, was the first base I ever survived more than a month at. Bit far for looting but great for farming and foraging, very secluded from zombies, and the river is very close by too
also in the bottom just off the gated community there is a small house with a ton of empty terrain that makes for a really cool base, no zombies should wander there too
Currently building my base in the school, take quite a few cars to block all the windows but having that huge fenced in backyard and a huge amount of roof space makes it worth it
Riverside High School is a great base location. I set up in the hallway, moving lockers and kitchen stuff, parking cars in front of all the windows and doors on the north and east sides.(and sheets) Then you have isolation due to the fence around the back, and the cafeteria space, where you wall off the double doors entirely, and add an airlock door behind the kitchen door. After clearing the school staff, it is almost guaranteed to find a key to the school, which gives you plenty of possible lockable door knobs. The secret to getting them is to let the zombies break the door...100% doorknob drop rate if zombies break the door down... yeah. You have desks, books, weapons, storage, food, appliances except tv, and you can sleep on the nurse table. You even have easy access to the roof for generator and water collection, and tons of sinks to plumb, cabinets to move, and if you put the generator near the corner next to the janitor's closet exit door, it will be far enough away that it isn't heard by the hoard. I wall off the admin office front foyer and line that hallway with sinks. The space in the school hallway is enough to line every wall with appliances and lockers, move kitchen cabinets into a back-to-back center island with space to walk all around. The PE field is huge for farming or building with a high fence and trees for cover on 50%. It has good isolation and a great location.
Ah, riverside storage facility, my favorite base. Only 1 entrance, low population, right next to gas and a forest. Also a dedicated personal parking lot for all of your car hoarding needs.
I setup shop in the post office. It is the perfect base. It does take awhile to secure though. I had to bring supplies and such with me. But once I got there I secured it well. Did take awhile before I finally ran outta zombies in the immediate area, cuz you know heart of down town.
I'm inclined to say the Ranger station North of Riverside is a great place to build a truly secure base. You may have to bring your own water, and it's out in the boondocks, but it's surrounded by a double fence. There's definitely potential to build an impenetrable fortress, with plenty of forest around you to provide plenty of concealment, forage, and wood. There is also a trailer park, small gas station, and a warehouse/factory relatively nearby, so once you have secured a water supply, farming needs, and a generator/antique stove, you can pretty much live there safely indefinitely.
I like spawning at Riverside because I can setup shop at the homes just south of the Country Club. Those homes are so nice and they have a fireplace for when the winter comes
South of the golf club there's a small town that is perfect for a base too. Has a lake right next to a gas station and a town full of everything you need.
Me and the wife usually camp out in Riverside in our MP-games. There's the first farm house to the west of the town, follow the road west from the junkyard and there's a house with a shed, a chicken coop and some farmed land. Barely any zombies, very safe, and not too far away from the town.
I killed like 70 zombies and was downing coffee and sleeping in my car trying to get into the school, because I was a month in and still didn’t have the generator manual. I had already gone to the book store and looted swathes of town. Well after a couple jump scares in the library, no dice. I then proceeded to check the first mailbox next to where I parked when I got back outside, and it was right there. Good times.
I'm right now settling in Rosewood fire station. It's fenced from three sides, and I dunno I like it. I don't plan on staying there too much already, gonna raid the military base and maybe the prison armory, then I will load everything in a truck, take a breather in Muldraugh and continue to Louisville.
The way I think about it is: If you want to get a car, drive around, and raid other towns, start in Rosewood If you don't want to drive and just want to play on foot, start in Riverside And if you hate yourself, spawn in Muldragh Riverside is great if you want to do more wilderness survival, lots of places to set up good secluded camps in the woods, and all the materials you need if you wanna build. Or if you don't wanna build, you can grab a tarp and setup a tent by the river, or the creek to the south.
I find Riverside the easiest if you want to maximise your skills early, If you're lucky enough to spawn close to the main shopping road and set up your first base in the 6 house cul-de-sac with the Mail office to your north, the school to the south east and the VHS store to your west and immediately prioritise getting books on Carpentry vol 1 to 4. Fishing 1-2, Cooking 1-4 and vol.1-2 of Trapping, farming and foraging at the school and mail office and make sure you read the correct skill level book before the life and living schedule plays the show (you will need fast reader and learner to accomplish this as well as looking up the life and living schedule) then you will level up FAST. When the TV schedule stops got to the VHS store and whatever skill tapes you can find, simply do the same again remembering to read the skill book before watching and when you reach level 2,4,6 or 8 mid tape remember to stop the tape IMMEDIATELY and read the skill book before pressing play again which will give you a lot more xp than continuing to watch it with no active XP multiplier, I remember getting lucky one play through and watching every life and living episode on carpentry with an xp multiplier and finding 4 carpentry skill tapes in the VHS store so by the time I started setting up my permanent base i had Carpentry just shy of level 9 and it is also a godsend if you can find the 3 carzone tapes where you can get Mechanics to level 4 simply by watching the tapes and making sure you read the skill book beforehand and not have to waste time removing and reattaching lights and batteries to level up and get hotwiring if you dont pick the burglar trait, electrics level 1 is fairly easy to get if you read the skill book after the life and living schedule finishes and you dissassemble as many large electrical objects you can find as well as digital watches. I haven't tried it for awhile though as I find that it makes the mid point of the game less taxing and I prefer to have some purpose at that stage
I always start in Riverside and never once went to the fishing store. By the time I reach that part of town I've already got a working vehicle and just pick up whatever I can get from the gas station, police station, and bar so I never bothered with the stuff up there. I'd usually take a trip down south to the gas station and gun store to the west of the map and get to logging and maybe stop at locations like the factory and auto repair store. That's a pretty good strategy that has worked for me so far so I never even thought to change it up. Maybe I'll try a vehicle-less vanilla run to change things up.
Today is my first journey with the bait shop in Riverside. The only downside I found as I'm new is the lack of defense, but the loot area is amazing plus the car lot in the back has a free water cooler to snag!
There are more books in the community centre at the far east of the commercial roal that he is showing. Right above the top left corner of the gated community. They books are located on the 2nd floor.
Not a lot of people say this, but I think the TV store in Riverside and adjacent buildings deserve a special mention. It's not the safest or most natural base, but it's already half-fenced in, and with some work and patience, you can make it into a really fun base. A large parking space for all your vehicle needs, two or three (maybe four?) exits you can build a large gate at (or just wall off), and adjacent parking space if you need the extra room. There's plenty of room for farming at the edge, and the store is in a fairly central location, with the gas station being almost just behind it, and downtown just a short walk from it. Even with normal zombie spawns, I rarely get that many zombies wandering over. The only real challenge is in clearing it initially, and finding a good spot for a generator to give the best coverage, since it's larger than 20 tiles. But the base comes with all the video entertainment you need, very secure rooms, a spatious storage room in the camera shop, and a large liquor store that you can easily convert into food storage, since it has a few fridges/freezers. And if you pick up the ice fridge from the gas station, that's even more freezer space! All in one big location.
Rosewood is only good for early game, after the electricity and the water has shut off it becomes a town only worth going there for the convinence store and a giga mart, police station, and fire department. maybe the Medical place is good to. Riverside is good for mid-game and early-game. The river can supply you with infinite water, the fishing shop is a LIFESAVER starting mid-game. The rain barrels allow you to store clean water and after there done you can use them. There's a ton of stores like a pharmacy and furniture stores, tool stores, and even a farming one, early game you can go to a fresh store that has fresh food in it. There's a crap ton of libraries and books in Riverside. The gas station next to the fishing shop is good for gas (obviously) but it can give you bottles and bottled water, even some orange sodas. And a lot of candy and chips. Mid-game it's easy to cook and clean water with a campfire because there's a river (duh) and also because there's a giga mart with tons of canned food.
Riverside just started yesterday and its way easier then maydraugh. Got half of the magazines just from school. Not so much zombies. If u are learning and want higher dificulty then start in riverside. I wish I knew that before 8 deaths in maydraugh. Used to play it 5 years ago so alot changed.
I usually plan on the factories smaller warehouse as my starter base and the usually try to branch out from there but die so it's pretty much my main base
For skill books, Riverside have 4 P.O.I. School, Enigma Bookstore, U.S. Mail office, and 2nd floor of Riverside Boat Club. With just 4 location, you have almost guaranteed to have every volume of skill books
After being unable to find the Carpentry Lvl. 4 book in the bookstore I took to looting damn near every house until it dawned on me that the school has books.... so much wasted time.
Riverside is amazing, but it is rather small. I was playing with 6 friends and we looted the entire town within a month. Would be great for 1 or 2 players though
Talks about Riverside but skips the motel, post office, restaurant and the gigantic bar. The best location for bases and looting in the early part of the game.
I use the bar as my base, all you need is roof access for water but very low spawn, also you missed the post office for more books, so post office and book store are a better combo than the school and book store. Only reason I go to the school is if I cant find the generator book
Riverside is a great place to start, but I wouldn't stay there long term because it isn't on the main highway and those country roads get very tedious to drive once trees sprout up along the sides
A friend and I have been converting the riverside gas station into a base. The roof of the carwash next to it makes a great rooftop farm location. In single player my most complex build was a villa made from scratch right next to the river not far from the bait shop. Riverside is a great location for players who don't want to make roadtrips.
Nice video but as a former Ohioan, the river is terrible, it's incredibly polluted, do not swim in it IRL, or you will get sick. DuPont used to dump chemicals in it from West Virginia (they probably still do) and destroyed it. PFOA type chemicals, so you end up with neurological conditions and shit from it, Allie says, while she has to use a cane under the age of 40 due to MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS that crept up on her over her life.
I prefer muldraugh or rosewood personally, rosewood is fun because I can take over the prison I hate the people in there after all, but muldraugh is great due to its layout and easy access to the highway.
You forgot a spot for books in Riverside! There is, if memory serves, a building somewhere behind the motel in the direction of the river. The bottom is pretty empty, but the second floor has a billiard room and a little further a bunch of bookshelves! Of course the game has been updated and it could be different now! Hope this still helps.
The Gas station is goat. Build on top of it, plenty of space. Just outside of all of the bs shopping sprawl, perfect place to go out for looting runs and not total your car when going out of the city.
The farm southwest of town is a good spot too, but personally I like holing up in the church. It's worth pointing out that the next big update will be expanding the map in all directions south of the river, so Riverside will become slightly more central.
Looks like its got enough nice stuff nearbyish that you wont even need to care about the distance to the other spots as you have more than enough materials for long term survival by the time you clear out riverside and its surrounding area. So if you get bored around month 2 just pack your van with supplies for an extended trip, turn off the generator at home so the place doesnt burn down in your absence and ROAD TRIP!!!! Heh, go clear out a few residential neighborhoods for a mountain of canned goods to offset your veggie (and fishy) lifestyle for a few days then come back with a loaded down van full of luxury goods and spare tools to replace anything that might be getting worn down. Seriously though, aside from boredom is there a reason to go exploring the other areas? Or would you basically have enough of whatever you need to last theoretically for the next 50 years? Not sure how the long term game works. I know crops are sustainable because seeds are pretty easy to gather and expand on, and fishing means plenty of fresh meat to avoid food related depression and slow starvation from nothing but cabbage. Can you repair generators forever? Or are there diminishing returns on that? Do the gas stations run out of gas eventually? Does it go bad?
I wish I could've stopped the video to talk about how you really overlooked the gated community. 1 - SUSTENANCE. There's tons of food and water. Each house has 2-3 bathrooms + the kitchen sink. 2 - ESSENTIALS. Each house has a garage, meaning chances of gas cans and other mechanics tools and tools in general spawning. And, as mentioned, the houses have tool sheds. 3 - LOOT. There are tons of closets in each house, meaning good chances for crowbars, machetes, gun cases, and tools to spawn. 4 - EXP. There are tons of double beds for carpentry experience. 5 - SAFETY. The area is relatively low in zombie population, and the fencing keeps them out extremely well.
Don't forget about that massive (currently unfinished) area they're working on a ways to the left of Riverside! Can't wait to set up in that riverboat once they finish the area.
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So one of my friends wants to take the water barrels and then turn rest of the place into zombie trap and burn it (to say its good coz its far away and made out of wood)
How should I break his knees ingame? Pipe or gun?
@@TruMikuel pipe, always. Make it personal.
@@Mattsi 😂
That spot is one of the first places I ever based, and it has a lot of great selling points. Thanks for keeping it real (estate).
@@drumlessons833 I'm something of a realtor myself
Lmao I liked how matti just stopped the video to tell him how much he loves the spot
Had to make sure he wasn't disrespecting my SPOT
@@Mattsi
I mean, those two large barrels full of clean water are a pretty good selling point. Plus, smaller, one room buildings are always my favorite. Its why Im often attracted to the small churches.
@@SvendleBerries Based 😳
Not enough security lol.
I far prefer the amazing gated community in Riverside. It's astonishingly easy to secure several high class homes with washing machines and fireplaces and HUGE kitchens if you love cooking like I do.
Upstairs can be your survivors museum double sized bed and armory. Even another room for toys and collectibles. Just a short walk to the gigamart for all the food you could possibly eat along with the hardware and clothing store. Plus big SECURE backyards for all the farming you can handle and depending on which set of McMansion you choose a short walk or short drive to the river and forest for your trapping, fishing and foraging needs.
My FAVORITE place to base in all of zomboid and super easy to secure with not that many zeds.
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Riverside
-Has an Easy to access PD armory
- Has a Large School (That Means Easier access to Books and a Larger chance at Generator Magazine, also plenty of furniture you can either disassemble for Nails and wood or use to Barricade the Stairs, also Scissors and Writting items to use on your map)
- Has EVERY type of Store available sans a Gun shop (Hardware store for the rarer Tools such as propane torch; Book store; Clothing shop; general Markets for food and even a PO with a geberous storage area where you may find Many mid tier loot items.
Cons
- PD armory is small and Limited, even if you add Brita's Weapon mod, odds are you will at best find an Auto SG without the mags or mods to make it usable.
-Size, while is has most loot places one may need to get started, this area is still rather Small and that affects the availability of all these types of Loot
Starting Locations not bad, but there's a number of suboptimal spawns anyways
Base Locations, the easier ones are on the Outskirts of the City or on parts without a straight, easy path to the Loot zone (Commercial area), the ones with more easy paths (with a Vehicle to reduce number of loot trips) are in areas with more zeds, meaning you will have to work on both clearing the base plus Barrricading it to ensure safety (e.g: School, is large and as such you need to wipe every last zed there and nearby, then Either Barricade the ground floor or Sledgehammer/Floor removal to ensure your second floor is safe)
i use brita's weapon mod, and somehow i got couple of firearms when i loot the bank.
@@satriareza7501 does the bank have a security room? Or a room with the green small lockers? (Those lockers AFAIK are set almost 100% in Vanilla Map to Firearms, ammo and attachments).
Depending of your run, some buildings, even commercial ones, become Survivor houses, chances it may have been that or the first case.
@@andrehashimoto8056 i see, thanks for the explanation
My games typically go:
Spawn in rosewood
Get a car (checking every single cars glovebox as well as keys occasionally being in the ignition and ground nearby, just need gas from the gas station and u can drive any of those)
Loot police, fire station and the army surplus store up the road
Migrate through muldraugh up to Riverside and then set up shop there as my main home base, it's the most post electricity friendly town imo especially because of the big farms nearby and fishing from the river obviously.
That’s a good plan but I just fucking hate rosewood, it feels so barren
@@Chadius_Thundercockmy typical run in rosewood is just:
fight
fight
gigamart
fight
walk to west point
fight
walk to louisville
*try to remake the movie by clearing out crossroad mall*
brutally eaten alive💀
That factory area near Riverside is my favorite base. Roof top farming is really chill.
the Storage facility just below the factory is one of my favourite base spots. You can set up a bed inside one of the already open garages and have not only the chainlink fence keeping zombies out but a nice strong garage door. Put a gate on the fence and you've got a perfect setup.
So basically its "Fair" to the player. Actually its more than "fair". Its kind. Very kind. Especially to new players. Its got just the right things. Nothing to blow your mind, But certainly more than enough to put a smile on your face and make you feel confident as you make the "right" progress. Zombie threat is constant. The threat is VERY real.
Its like the middle area of a swimming pool. Riverside IS the middle of a swimming pool. And the deep end is Louisville. Riverside is a great place for the player (Especially the new players like me) to prepare yourself for greater dangers. All while being in Danger. Its perfect!
The Fish Store or the Bar is a personal favourite because it's not that populated relative to the residential areas. Looting run wise it is somewhere in the middle of the factory, factory storage, and self storage from the Gated Community.
Both are near a rather spacious vegetation so foraging there is viable when times are more desperate.
Some other PZ TH-camr lied to me about Rosewood being the best spawn as my first two runs there ended pretty quick whereas I actually survived for nearly two days in an abandoned neighborhood on the outskirts of riverside
I have a base idea for Riverside, on the gates community where the houses on the far east parallel with a gate can be blocked off on its both ends and you can have a whole street to yourself or with your friends in multiplayer.
I'm doing the same in Rosewood with the gated community but in a smaller scale but the Riverside houses are better as it is bigger and few of the houses have fireplaces in them.
I did that with the 3 houses on the west side of the gated community. Worked great.
The 3 houses closest the highway are my go to. They essentially don’t see zombies even with meta events.
Riverside has basically everything and importantly has a number a book locations. Enigma books, the school, the Mail service depot and the 'Spa' on the NE of the town. The gated community can also contain at least 1 book case per house. It's the only place where I have found everybook in one town without too much effort. It also as several potentially strong candidtes for player bases, all located along the river banks. My favourite is the US Mail Service, but the restuarant nearby would have also been cool. If you spawn in a house near the centre of town, the Mail Service Office and the shops such as the sports too are alsot clear of Zeds. Out of spawn towns, Riverside hs potentially the strongest long term base locations that are in close proximity to both water and a gas station, with the Police Station being directly in between both. The trailer park is also handy if like me, you like to use floating units in the kitchen. There is also always at least 1 chevy cossette outside the bar, on my current run through I have 4! They are the best for towing other vehicles. Another perk is that there are some non spawn towns nearby, both of which have decent stores for finding high tier loot such as the Military surplus store.
Riverside to me feels like the easiest spawn, and was the first area where I got some actual traction when starting off. The Gated Community is incredible. There's a set of two big houses with metal fencing on 3 out of 4 sides. Wall in one side and you're all set. The houses are full of books, medical supplies, and last time I lived there I found over 40 combined rifles, shotguns and pistols in all the bedroom closets and nightstands. Once you're more set up you can clear the whole gated community, then you can block the whole thing off, creating a massive compound of mansions
As a person who has lived in Louisville I can tell you that you do not want to eat anything you catch in that river.
The farm to the northwest, past the church and impound yard and up the road a ways, was the first base I ever survived more than a month at. Bit far for looting but great for farming and foraging, very secluded from zombies, and the river is very close by too
also in the bottom just off the gated community there is a small house with a ton of empty terrain that makes for a really cool base, no zombies should wander there too
Currently building my base in the school, take quite a few cars to block all the windows but having that huge fenced in backyard and a huge amount of roof space makes it worth it
Riverside High School is a great base location. I set up in the hallway, moving lockers and kitchen stuff, parking cars in front of all the windows and doors on the north and east sides.(and sheets)
Then you have isolation due to the fence around the back, and the cafeteria space, where you wall off the double doors entirely, and add an airlock door behind the kitchen door. After clearing the school staff, it is almost guaranteed to find a key to the school, which gives you plenty of possible lockable door knobs. The secret to getting them is to let the zombies break the door...100% doorknob drop rate if zombies break the door down... yeah. You have desks, books, weapons, storage, food, appliances except tv, and you can sleep on the nurse table. You even have easy access to the roof for generator and water collection, and tons of sinks to plumb, cabinets to move, and if you put the generator near the corner next to the janitor's closet exit door, it will be far enough away that it isn't heard by the hoard. I wall off the admin office front foyer and line that hallway with sinks. The space in the school hallway is enough to line every wall with appliances and lockers, move kitchen cabinets into a back-to-back center island with space to walk all around. The PE field is huge for farming or building with a high fence and trees for cover on 50%. It has good isolation and a great location.
Ah, riverside storage facility, my favorite base. Only 1 entrance, low population, right next to gas and a forest. Also a dedicated personal parking lot for all of your car hoarding needs.
I setup shop in the post office. It is the perfect base. It does take awhile to secure though. I had to bring supplies and such with me. But once I got there I secured it well. Did take awhile before I finally ran outta zombies in the immediate area, cuz you know heart of down town.
I'm inclined to say the Ranger station North of Riverside is a great place to build a truly secure base. You may have to bring your own water, and it's out in the boondocks, but it's surrounded by a double fence. There's definitely potential to build an impenetrable fortress, with plenty of forest around you to provide plenty of concealment, forage, and wood. There is also a trailer park, small gas station, and a warehouse/factory relatively nearby, so once you have secured a water supply, farming needs, and a generator/antique stove, you can pretty much live there safely indefinitely.
Where is it? North of riverside is the river?
I like spawning at Riverside because I can setup shop at the homes just south of the Country Club. Those homes are so nice and they have a fireplace for when the winter comes
South of the golf club there's a small town that is perfect for a base too. Has a lake right next to a gas station and a town full of everything you need.
In addition to the elementary school and the book store, Riverside also has a post office. That's another great location to loot skill books
Me and the wife usually camp out in Riverside in our MP-games. There's the first farm house to the west of the town, follow the road west from the junkyard and there's a house with a shed, a chicken coop and some farmed land. Barely any zombies, very safe, and not too far away from the town.
I turned the second floor and the roof of the school into a farming fortress; the place is unassailable with so many exits
I killed like 70 zombies and was downing coffee and sleeping in my car trying to get into the school, because I was a month in and still didn’t have the generator manual. I had already gone to the book store and looted swathes of town.
Well after a couple jump scares in the library, no dice. I then proceeded to check the first mailbox next to where I parked when I got back outside, and it was right there. Good times.
Riverside is the best, period. The warehouses push it over the top.
I'm right now settling in Rosewood fire station. It's fenced from three sides, and I dunno I like it. I don't plan on staying there too much already, gonna raid the military base and maybe the prison armory, then I will load everything in a truck, take a breather in Muldraugh and continue to Louisville.
The way I think about it is:
If you want to get a car, drive around, and raid other towns, start in Rosewood
If you don't want to drive and just want to play on foot, start in Riverside
And if you hate yourself, spawn in Muldragh
Riverside is great if you want to do more wilderness survival, lots of places to set up good secluded camps in the woods, and all the materials you need if you wanna build. Or if you don't wanna build, you can grab a tarp and setup a tent by the river, or the creek to the south.
Hands down the most entertaining zomboid creator I've seen.
Love your video structure, perfect for my ADHD arse.
I find Riverside the easiest if you want to maximise your skills early, If you're lucky enough to spawn close to the main shopping road and set up your first base in the 6 house cul-de-sac with the Mail office to your north, the school to the south east and the VHS store to your west and immediately prioritise getting books on Carpentry vol 1 to 4. Fishing 1-2, Cooking 1-4 and vol.1-2 of Trapping, farming and foraging at the school and mail office and make sure you read the correct skill level book before the life and living schedule plays the show (you will need fast reader and learner to accomplish this as well as looking up the life and living schedule) then you will level up FAST.
When the TV schedule stops got to the VHS store and whatever skill tapes you can find, simply do the same again remembering to read the skill book before watching and when you reach level 2,4,6 or 8 mid tape remember to stop the tape IMMEDIATELY and read the skill book before pressing play again which will give you a lot more xp than continuing to watch it with no active XP multiplier, I remember getting lucky one play through and watching every life and living episode on carpentry with an xp multiplier and finding 4 carpentry skill tapes in the VHS store so by the time I started setting up my permanent base i had Carpentry just shy of level 9 and it is also a godsend if you can find the 3 carzone tapes where you can get Mechanics to level 4 simply by watching the tapes and making sure you read the skill book beforehand and not have to waste time removing and reattaching lights and batteries to level up and get hotwiring if you dont pick the burglar trait, electrics level 1 is fairly easy to get if you read the skill book after the life and living schedule finishes and you dissassemble as many large electrical objects you can find as well as digital watches.
I haven't tried it for awhile though as I find that it makes the mid point of the game less taxing and I prefer to have some purpose at that stage
I always start in Riverside and never once went to the fishing store. By the time I reach that part of town I've already got a working vehicle and just pick up whatever I can get from the gas station, police station, and bar so I never bothered with the stuff up there. I'd usually take a trip down south to the gas station and gun store to the west of the map and get to logging and maybe stop at locations like the factory and auto repair store. That's a pretty good strategy that has worked for me so far so I never even thought to change it up. Maybe I'll try a vehicle-less vanilla run to change things up.
i know riverside better than my own town
The first house east of the bait shop, It’s a good area to hold out for a while.
Today is my first journey with the bait shop in Riverside. The only downside I found as I'm new is the lack of defense, but the loot area is amazing plus the car lot in the back has a free water cooler to snag!
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There are more books in the community centre at the far east of the commercial roal that he is showing. Right above the top left corner of the gated community. They books are located on the 2nd floor.
Not a lot of people say this, but I think the TV store in Riverside and adjacent buildings deserve a special mention. It's not the safest or most natural base, but it's already half-fenced in, and with some work and patience, you can make it into a really fun base. A large parking space for all your vehicle needs, two or three (maybe four?) exits you can build a large gate at (or just wall off), and adjacent parking space if you need the extra room. There's plenty of room for farming at the edge, and the store is in a fairly central location, with the gas station being almost just behind it, and downtown just a short walk from it. Even with normal zombie spawns, I rarely get that many zombies wandering over. The only real challenge is in clearing it initially, and finding a good spot for a generator to give the best coverage, since it's larger than 20 tiles. But the base comes with all the video entertainment you need, very secure rooms, a spatious storage room in the camera shop, and a large liquor store that you can easily convert into food storage, since it has a few fridges/freezers. And if you pick up the ice fridge from the gas station, that's even more freezer space! All in one big location.
there are a few map mods which can add to riverside over the river etc which make the quality of loot and makes the spawn place massive
Yep, when I end up in Riverside I tend to end up at the junkyard.
Once again, you've glossed over the GigaMart.
Rosewood is only good for early game, after the electricity and the water has shut off it becomes a town only worth going there for the convinence store and a giga mart, police station, and fire department. maybe the Medical place is good to.
Riverside is good for mid-game and early-game.
The river can supply you with infinite water,
the fishing shop is a LIFESAVER starting mid-game. The rain barrels allow you to store clean water and after there done you can use them.
There's a ton of stores like a pharmacy and furniture stores, tool stores, and even a farming one, early game you can go to a fresh store that has fresh food in it. There's a crap ton of libraries and books in Riverside.
The gas station next to the fishing shop is good for gas (obviously) but it can give you bottles and bottled water, even some orange sodas. And a lot of candy and chips.
Mid-game it's easy to cook and clean water with a campfire because there's a river (duh) and also because there's a giga mart with tons of canned food.
there is also a post office next to the riverside hotel. they have a big supply of books.
Riverside just started yesterday and its way easier then maydraugh. Got half of the magazines just from school. Not so much zombies. If u are learning and want higher dificulty then start in riverside. I wish I knew that before 8 deaths in maydraugh. Used to play it 5 years ago so alot changed.
I usually plan on the factories smaller warehouse as my starter base and the usually try to branch out from there but die so it's pretty much my main base
Loving your Zomboid content, bro. Keep it up!
in 3:27 i found a lot of mechanic stuff and 3 sledgehammer is the best place to loot u want seeds and metal things.
Just yesterday I found an antique oven in one of the crates.
Damnit, that Jumpsacre scare me real good
I'm sorry 😔
For skill books, Riverside have 4 P.O.I.
School, Enigma Bookstore, U.S. Mail office, and 2nd floor of Riverside Boat Club.
With just 4 location, you have almost guaranteed to have every volume of skill books
After being unable to find the Carpentry Lvl. 4 book in the bookstore I took to looting damn near every house until it dawned on me that the school has books.... so much wasted time.
I agree that the fishing house is a great base. First base which made me survive 2+ years! Didn't die, either, that savefile is still there.
Riverside is amazing, but it is rather small. I was playing with 6 friends and we looted the entire town within a month. Would be great for 1 or 2 players though
Yeah, It's generally best for 1-2 unless you play on harder difficulty settings or higher loot chance.
Talks about Riverside but skips the motel, post office, restaurant and the gigantic bar.
The best location for bases and looting in the early part of the game.
riverside is the easiest part of the map, you can close the 6 houses on the far East and get an easy base almost ready to be lived in
I use the bar as my base, all you need is roof access for water but very low spawn, also you missed the post office for more books, so post office and book store are a better combo than the school and book store. Only reason I go to the school is if I cant find the generator book
Me and my friend while trying to loot the book store accidentally burned down the bookstore and everything around it
sounds like something i would do
i stayed in the fisherman's house and it was really nice living there.
at the river side club there's also a library there too
I like to use a bunch of car and truck mods then make the warehouse/factory area my car collection garage.
Riverside is a great place to start, but I wouldn't stay there long term because it isn't on the main highway and those country roads get very tedious to drive once trees sprout up along the sides
dude i did not like river side but this video has completely sold me the idea, riverside here i come
A friend and I have been converting the riverside gas station into a base. The roof of the carwash next to it makes a great rooftop farm location.
In single player my most complex build was a villa made from scratch right next to the river not far from the bait shop.
Riverside is a great location for players who don't want to make roadtrips.
THIS IS LITERALLY ME ON MY CURRENT 1ST PLAYTROUGH
i set up my base to whole gated community.i blocked all entrances.and all neighbourhood is mine.
I have trouble with Mauldraw too. Mauldraw, Mauldraough, Moldrew, Mold...
The farm at the right side of the town is my favorite base spot
there is a third big library inside the country club at the top right corner of the city
I have on several occaisions turned the strip mall into my base
Nice video but as a former Ohioan, the river is terrible, it's incredibly polluted, do not swim in it IRL, or you will get sick. DuPont used to dump chemicals in it from West Virginia (they probably still do) and destroyed it. PFOA type chemicals, so you end up with neurological conditions and shit from it, Allie says, while she has to use a cane under the age of 40 due to MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS that crept up on her over her life.
I prefer muldraugh or rosewood personally, rosewood is fun because I can take over the prison I hate the people in there after all, but muldraugh is great due to its layout and easy access to the highway.
I spin for riverside fr fr
Didn't even mention the Post Office. You can find many books in there as well.
You forgot a spot for books in Riverside! There is, if memory serves, a building somewhere behind the motel in the direction of the river. The bottom is pretty empty, but the second floor has a billiard room and a little further a bunch of bookshelves!
Of course the game has been updated and it could be different now! Hope this still helps.
Also the mail building! It's stocked full of books in the storage room on the bottom floor
@@shaikai7096 Oh yes! I stole or dismantled all the metal shelves from there, its so useful. 👍
@@shaikai7096 Can magazines spawn in the Post Office? I've basically never gotten them there as far as I remember.
@@lemurpotatoes7988 I don't recall finding any whenever I went, I usually stake those out at the school
@@cipherstormwolf14 It's a VERY useful spot to hit for either books or getting shelves/skills
I spawned in that bar that he showed and lived a really happy life for a whilw
I like it cause I like the modded ravenside across the bridge mod
Yeah. Especially if you want to tackle west point..
You missed the second story of the building on the Northeast side of town with tons more books in it.
The Gas station is goat. Build on top of it, plenty of space. Just outside of all of the bs shopping sprawl, perfect place to go out for looting runs and not total your car when going out of the city.
I believe that qualifies as a crick
"third lowest population" thats not a positive imo
The farm southwest of town is a good spot too, but personally I like holing up in the church.
It's worth pointing out that the next big update will be expanding the map in all directions south of the river, so Riverside will become slightly more central.
Can you do this series for modded places and maps?
Raven creek next
that may be a possibility
I set up my base at the bar baby
DON"T BUILD onto the fishing store! Mattsi teleported into my game and set me on fire desecrating that place.
Subbed because of the fishing skit
Riverside bar spawn op as a smoker.
Looks like its got enough nice stuff nearbyish that you wont even need to care about the distance to the other spots as you have more than enough materials for long term survival by the time you clear out riverside and its surrounding area. So if you get bored around month 2 just pack your van with supplies for an extended trip, turn off the generator at home so the place doesnt burn down in your absence and ROAD TRIP!!!! Heh, go clear out a few residential neighborhoods for a mountain of canned goods to offset your veggie (and fishy) lifestyle for a few days then come back with a loaded down van full of luxury goods and spare tools to replace anything that might be getting worn down.
Seriously though, aside from boredom is there a reason to go exploring the other areas? Or would you basically have enough of whatever you need to last theoretically for the next 50 years? Not sure how the long term game works. I know crops are sustainable because seeds are pretty easy to gather and expand on, and fishing means plenty of fresh meat to avoid food related depression and slow starvation from nothing but cabbage. Can you repair generators forever? Or are there diminishing returns on that? Do the gas stations run out of gas eventually? Does it go bad?
I wish I could've stopped the video to talk about how you really overlooked the gated community.
1 - SUSTENANCE. There's tons of food and water. Each house has 2-3 bathrooms + the kitchen sink.
2 - ESSENTIALS. Each house has a garage, meaning chances of gas cans and other mechanics tools and tools in general spawning. And, as mentioned, the houses have tool sheds.
3 - LOOT. There are tons of closets in each house, meaning good chances for crowbars, machetes, gun cases, and tools to spawn.
4 - EXP. There are tons of double beds for carpentry experience.
5 - SAFETY. The area is relatively low in zombie population, and the fencing keeps them out extremely well.
think i might turn off zombie respawn clear all city's and try my best to get to louisville
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I was lied to. I wanted a Dixie Guide not a Riverside smh
damn id like to know the coords of the spawn locations much
Where do you get such a detailed map from???
Reverside is the best town to begin.
Where do you get these detailed maps from?
Its 3:30 am and i jave school in 4 hours and 30 minutes. Im too far gone. Wish me luch boys
Me who spawns in maldrough : 😓
Fire fighter station fr fr
Yes
i fish i like fishin
should you spawn in Louisville
Don't forget about that massive (currently unfinished) area they're working on a ways to the left of Riverside! Can't wait to set up in that riverboat once they finish the area.