It's the zombie apocalypse and your searching through houses looking for supplies, you've entered a house, there's noise coming from the kitchen. You go to investigate. You turn the corner and see someone shovelling literal bucket-loads of crickets into an oven, just hundreds and hundreds of cricket.
Is it just me or are there a lot of furries who play this game? I'm not complaining I love running into some of my fellow floofers I just think it's a strange coincidence that I see so many furry pfps on PZ videos
Actually for the fastest way to level up First Aid (on Build 41) is to take of your shoes, break a window, and stand on broken glass. Keep picking out the broken glass with either a hand or tweezers. I get about 30exp per pick at level 3 with books. You're going to get deep wounds, so make sure you have a needle and a thread/suture needle. Didn't know doc school is on broken glass. Also dev, please don't nerf this.
Sure it’s faster, but if you get a deep wound on feet you could be slowed for a long time and needles are a one time use. I personally don’t think it’s worth it.
A lot of good info here for new players. I just jumped right into the game and almost shelved it immediately, but found a few vids like this one. Would have missed out on a great game.
When I bought the game, I was aware of how hard it actually was, but there's so much detail and cool game mechanics that I've nonstop talked about it to my friends, even after dying almost every single time I loaded a level.
I immediately shelved it too. Then came back for another try and realised it was a much better game than I first assumed it to be. I needed prompting by a friend though. My first impression was that it was for masochists that wanted a constant chase scene with some speedlooting. My second impression was that it was an indepth zombie survival sim that required a few extra tips and tricks not covered in the tutorial. And that it is for masochists, with a taste for adventure and steaming plates of insects.
@@EmbeddedWithin I would say.. depends on what books you find/dont find. The first level or two are super easy with a book for beginners, so the starting occupation doesnt matter much to me.
@@EmbeddedWithin It really depends on your playstyle, your strengths and weaknesses, and really how you intend to play the game. There isn't really a "best" occupation and it can be really subjective which is why deciding the best ones are a really contentious issue. However, to surmise, in my opinion I'd say: *Unemployed:* Very versatile. You're only as limited by your point allocation, but you do miss out on some of the more job-exclusive traits. Otherwise a very safe choice, can't go wrong, pick if in doubt. That's a 4-6 starting point boost that can be put into lucky, keen hearing or fast learner. *Fire officer:* Unemployed, but you sacrifice your starting points for more fitness, strength and sprint stat. While this might give you more of an early-game advantage by letting you carry more, fight harder and for longer, these are stats that you can increase through the course of play regardless, and you may as well spend some of your unemployed points on the fit, stout or strong stat. *Police officer:* Kind of useless in my opinion. Aiming and reloading go up very fast anyway, and the gun stats and the 1 nimble isn't work the -4 starting points. Like all the occupations whose only benefit is increased starting combat/fitness stats, it's most effective at the beginning of the game but has diminishing returns long-term where you could have invested those points in a permanent trait increase. *Park ranger:* A lot of necessary constructions, items, tools and actions are locked behind having high non-combat stats. Park ranger is amazing because not only does it give you bonuses to forestry, trapping and carpentry, but also an invaluable speed boost when walking through foliage. This is invaluable for not only surviving in the wilderness, but letting you evade hordes by running through woodlands. A+ occupation. *Construction worker:* A mediocre blunt accuracy bonus and 1 carpentry for a punishing -2 starting points. I never pick this. *Security guard:* This one would be bad if it weren't for the night owl trait. Your working hours are dictated by your wakefulness. When you get the tired moodlet, you basically have to drop whatever it is you're doing. With the night owl and/or wakefulness trait, you can spend more time working, foraging, building, reading, exercising and fighting without having to return to base and go to sleep. *Carpenter:* The 3 carpentry is indispensible, needing only a short investment to bring you up to level 4 to get those invaluable rainwater collectors. All for the small price of 6 starting points. Very useful. *Burglar:* I only pick this for the hotwiring ability. It means that from the start you can obtain pretty much any vehicle on the map, as long as you have the materials. While not the best for its punishing -6 starting points, this is still a very useful trait. *Chef:* The 3 cooking and the trait is alright, but when cooking only pays off when you hit level 7 and can cook with rotten food, this isn't really that good when you can farm your cooking stat by using bugs. *Repairman:* Same problem as Chef, having a boost to a stat you were going to increase over the course of play when there are more valuable options at hand isn't worth the -6 points. *Farmer:* Same thing here. *Fisherman:* It's nice to have a small boost to the fishing stat, but it's overshadowed by the fishing traits and the far superior wilderness occupations. *Doctor and nurse:* First aid stat is useless when a night or two in bed will fix most cuts and bruises, and where one bite means death. Maybe slightly better when you're playing with saliva transmission only, but if you're injured it's a bad idea to go out anyway and a good excuse to stay indoors and exercise, read and tend to your safehouse. *Veteran:* Desensitised is an amazing trait. Removes panic from the game, but you become desensitised over time and I never really found panic that bad anyway. *Lumberjack:* Some people really like this trait, but I don't really see it worth it. Yes, you have a bonus to axes (Which some argue are the best weapons in the game) plus a watered down version of park ranger's foliage movespeed, but I'm with SPEAR GANG and can wait a little longer to fell a tree so I never pick this one. *Fitness instructor:* Yea, it's alright if you don't intend on exercising, but nutritionist is a useless trait and you may as well go for the fit/stout/strong trait for the 14(!) starting points you lose by picking this. *Burger flipper:* Kinda alright, actually. Get a small bonus to cooking and the cook trait for cheap, but there are better options. *Electrician:* Levelling electrical is a pain in the ass, but I always find generator guides no matter where I go, so that's never a problem for me. A matter of taste, hit or miss for me. Can be compared to carpentry, but electrical seems to be more of a luxury where carpentry is a vital survival skill. *Engineer:* I never use aerosol bombs or traps or any of the other engineer recipes, and while 1 in electrical and carpentry is okay, you're better of speccing in either electrician or carpenter. *Metalworker and Mechanic:* I think there are better occupations to pick. Like most mediocre occupations, you're shooting yourself in the foot not by picking a "bad" occupation, but rather by picking one where better options exist.
When I wanted to level my first aid, I ran through broken glass barefooted. Yeah. I survived with a tiny health bar after almost completly bleeding out with the trait that makes u bleed faster (forgot its name) and the trait of healing less fast
@@Pr1vateLime i remeber going through a window at the start of a play through and had nothing to clear the glass. Ended up spending the next 20 minutes looking for tweezers to get glass out of my hand and had to change bandages every 2 minutes for the rest of my life
+ Strength also heavily increases critical chance, which is different from straight up damage increase and more important in my opinion. + I don't know if it's just me, but L-Alt running gives me no exp. + Combat exp is the highest when you are in top shape and have no debuffing moodles (for example, even if you only have the first endurance moodle, you will receive ~3 times less exp); also (generally), the higher the damage the weapon has, the more exp it gives; plus, the most exp per single hit is given when you perform a critical or when you attack a zombie that is on the ground. + Maintenance exp is not earned when you lose durability, but when you hit things, and the longer you can hit things without your weapon and the thing you're hitting breaking the more efficient it is. For example, the most safe and easily achievable way to do this, is to get a decent amount of ripped sheets, then forage for materials, then create Stone Axes and Stone Hammers, then cut down some trees, then build Log Pillars and smash those with Stone Hammers, rinse and repeat. (Besides Stone Hammers, the best weapons to use are those that do the least damage to doors, for reference use my sheet here: www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/mc6w4d/all_melee_weapon_stats_in_excel_sheet_damage/). + Higher levels of Carpentry also increase the repair percentage when using Wood Glue (and only Wood Glue) up to 75% with the first repair with level 7 Carpentry. The main use of Wood Glue is to repair Axes, so if you're into those you want it. ! 1 day??? Damn, I thought you can only do it once! You live, you learn. Thanks for that! + Keep in mind that with Tailoring, if you want to max out the protection, you will have to wear a lot of clothes, so you will overheat a lot. Running is definitely not recommended. Also it is very easy to level up, as long as you have all the books, Tailor trait and all the required materials (~300 ripped sheet and ~70 full threads, both of which you can get from ripping clothes). It is pretty grindy though. Also, you only need a single piece of clothing, I recommend Long Johns because it has the most slots for tailoring.
Sounds like the combat XP earned is similar to how firearms work...the XP earned is based on the damage dealt. High damage=more XP. That would explain the negative moodles affecting the XP gain, as it also (generally) decreases damage done (slower/weaker/less accurate/etc).
I like the idea of preparing for winter like a squirrel or rat person, except with gathering a ludicrous amount of insects, as opposed to nuts and berries.
I'm always saying players shouldn't sleep on Foraging. The first time I baked a cake in game was only possible (for that play through) due to Foraging. For some reason I could not find eggs anywhere and most of the food I came across was rotten. I started foraging and cooking what I found until I unknowingly picked up some wild eggs one day. That charcter ate celebratory cake and retired.
1) Thank you for posting this. I know I requested it, and you did not disappoint! 2) I know this must have been a *LOT* of work. Thank you so so much! 3) The mechanics 24 hour cooldown is a fantastic thing to know! I'm going to start incorporating modifying my car each morning routine at 9am.
"the hardest trait to level, first aid" tell that my char that ran around with 4 wounds for a week, all that changing&washing bandages sure did level me a lot :'D
Lime I wanted to thank you so, so much for this video. I have gotten FAR further than I ever have after following the suggestions here (in particular disassembling digital watches and the bit about lights, batteries, radio).
I'm sad there wasn't a fun accent to go along with this guide like there was last time, but still very informative and fun. Love all the vids Lime, keep it up.
great video lime, after 1200 hours i am still surprised to learn new things, so thank for the educational video one tip so far people forget about electrical, i am not sure what level but maybe 3? you can craft with a screw driver and 1 electrical scrap a 'battery charge connector' with various outdoor lamps, so you can have lights in a house without a generator, but it requires batteries to power, which is neat when you want light in your wooden shack but no generators
Nimble actually climbing fences dont level it up, and from my excessive testing it dont affect chance for tripping (huge chance of tripping no matter your skill is when you are winded). Other things: nimble sprint and sneak (if there is zeds) can be leveled up by walking in place against wall/window. Maintence can be cheesed with hitting log walls (cheapest with highest hp, best to use is blunts like police baton or metal pipe both damage only 1 to walls). Spears are 100% durability at level 3 carpentry Cooking gives nothing outside of level 7, literally no benefits in hunger reduction or stres. First aid is easiest to level up with only one cheese step ;) you can level it to max in 3-4 days. Overall not very usefull skill because only benefits it gives: bonus to your healing (each healing have timer set you get just bonus start to it) longer lasting bandages (0 vs 10 actually make huge difference nearly 5 x times longer last before they became bloodied) On some higher skill you can see how severe is scratch but that dont give you that much info (its literally saying "severe" if its bleeding new scratch) Electronic - about generators its not worth leveling up because each scrap have base 5% repair value already max electronic worth is 3 because its gives you to possibility to move some specific furniture Metalwork - disasseeambling dont use fuel in your torch worth noting Mechanic - gives you bonus to repairing parts mostly noticeable on engine parts Tailoring - you didnt pointed out that you can full repair clothes at level 8 Aiming- is kinda stupid because with level you deal more damage and faster aim, some weapons have lower base aim chance but higher aim gain from skills but from level alone you dont need to use these because you deal insane damage with 9mm already and its most common weapon. On high level its monster of skill. Oh and you can shoot faster with higher levels very noticeable with glock when you test 0 vs 10 Foraging- you level up by finding stuff but not quality but amount and highest amount you get its from medical stuff. I hope that will give you some new insight because for me It did, didnt know that aiming actually levels up from damage! :D
Just dropping this here, but your cooking level does help beyond just allowing you to make rotten food into meals. higher cooking levels influence how much benefit you get from cooking custom meals like roast veggies and other mish-mash dishes you put together, increasing hunger gain and increasing the caloric value slightly as well as possibly decreasing cook time slightly.
@@Pr1vateLime yeah you'll notice the biggest difference with foods you can cook twice like raw meats or anything that says (uncooked). Cooking it once by itself and then cooking it again in the combined dishes gives you the biggest improvements, doing it with fillets of fish is pretty nuts as far as the bonuses go.
@@Pr1vateLime Can you stop responding to every single comment? Pfft look at you, being a loyal, kind and helpful youtuber that actually tries to help his community...it makes me 🤢 Love your vids, keep it up ♥️
Burglars are better as throwaway characters imo, for MP anyhow, die, make a burglar to get a car quick and transport whatever you need when your last character died.
Great video man! I got a note of warning to add on disassembling furniture in your world to increase your skill: If you keep track of when things respawn in your world, do not take apart furniture that has a chance to spawn the loot you are either gunning for or desire (that is, until you got it. Purely a situational thing). If your playing the vanilla game, furniture does NOT respawn. If playing online and they do have respawn furniture, omit this whole thing. :) For me, at this moment, I'm trying to bulk up on Concrete Powder and Plaster at the Lumber Warehouse east of Rosewood. The Wooden Crates have been amazing for loot in everything but what I need desperately haha. (you take the main, big highway road northeast of the Rosewoods gas station and head southeast). Without ranting, how I've leveled my Carpentry up was disassembling everything that can be disassembled for Carpentry. This includes: -End Tables (All Tables really) -Doors -Beds (big points) -Chairs -Church Pews (big points) -Low Tables where TVs sit on top of (You will have to pick those TVs up and put them on the floor if you want the table, highly recommend saving TVs until you've read Electrician Skill Books. Same goes with Carpentry Skill Books before doing any disassembling if you can swing it) -Turning Logs into Planks (most sustainable way to lvl imo) -Ttc (might be more thats the meat and potatoes of it) Wooden Crates in select areas spawn a specific type of loot given their location. Learned Warehouses in the middle of a number of Farm Fields usually nets alot of Rotten Food, perfect to stock up your composter with to help boost those potato yeilds in your farm before Winter arrives! Don't wish to make a novel but those were some tidbits I learned from my current run. :)
watched your day 1-7 and watching sub-zero playthroughs. convinced me and a friend i shared your videos with to buy the game. keep up the good work and videos like this too
5 star chief: How did you manage to learn how to cook better than *me* during a zombie apocalypse in just a few weeks!? This guy: *Cricket mass extinction in my oven.*
For first aid, I built a little masochism room in my base.. it consists of an obstacle course containing 3 fences and 3 broken windows... i sprint around jumping the fences and through the windows for my nimble skill, and bandage myself up whenever I get an injury. I also have a sink and medicine cabinet in there so i can easily clean the bandages. It's kinda tedious, but it's safe at least. :)
A ´Easy´ way to level up first aid, is to stitch up deep wounds, I recently stitched up a deep wound, and once I removed it I got from lvl 0 (0xp) to lvl 1 (with a bit more xp too). Tough this is obviously risky, bandages get dirty realy quick, and you can relatively easy die from such a injury.
During the tailoring section, you forgot the ability to make better (or more effective) clothing repairs, on top of those listed, but I guess it is though kinda self-explanatory, nevertheless thought id mention it, Good vid.
VHS tapes are incredibly slept on, i got from carpentry 1 to 10 in like 3 hours with a combination of 4 woodcraft vhs, all 5 carpentry books, and that bar and grill outside of the maldraugh genfac co
I've heard strength gives the players ability to push a zombie automatically when one gets too close and it also prevents them from pulling you down into the ground and feasting on you
No, leveling up weapons does that. If you have high level long blunt for example, and are holding a baseball bat, and a zombie comes from the front, there's around a 25% chance for you to automatically push it away.
You automatically push every zombie after it damages you, if you mean that there is a chance to push em before they damage you, then thats really useful
About leveling first aid: sewing wounds, and removing glass shards give a lot of XP, so the set up with the broken window is good. i usually take off my shoes, and walk through the broken glass on the ground for instant deep wounds on the foots. After taking care of the wounds i climb through the broken window until i have 4wounds on arms and hands. (move the broken glass on another spot so that you don't step on it, by climbing through the window) All you need is a needle and thread (surture needles are too rare, and you get thread by ripping clothing), also bandages/ripped sheets and a water supply for cleaning them. Tweezers are good to have, but optional. Also disinfectant, it is enough to disinfect a wound only when it is infected. Maybe my character hates me, but she has FIrst Aid on level 7. She is still alive, so i think the torture will go on until she mastered it. Thanks for explaining how "Nimble" works didn't know that yet.
Another way to rapidly level your Carpentry as I found is by chopping down a lot of Wood and then turning the Logs into Planks by using a Saw. I had no idea but my skill suddenly popped when I did that and I realized it was leveling my Carpentry. Neato. You forgot to mention that Burglar can Hotwire vehicles from the start. Aww Yiss, Survivalist stuff. That's my yam. - And you forgot to mention that if you pick Hunter, you get all Trapper stuff from the start. - Angler gets fishing stuff - Foraging can be improved further by picking Herbalist or finding the Herbalist magazine.
Training Nimble is no joke. What’s probably going to do my character in on this play through is a deep bleeding wound he got on his arm when manteling over a picket fence. It’s been infected twice and I keep having to apply bandages, it’s been about two weeks because I can’t find any sutures.
I am too afraid to level up metalworking, since it use durability of blow torch and welding mask... which is a lot less common than a theoretically infinite hammer.
A very simple way to level up first aid is by standing on broken glass and repeatedly removing glass with tweezers until the desired level. You cannot die from it, just make sure you can stitch yourself back up
The sneaking and lightfooted one is actually easy to level up, it doesn’t have to be around zombies. If you just crouch walk everywhere you go, then you’ll level it up in no time
I wish you went into more detail about the fitness mechanics. In every game since I picked up B41, workouts, even short ones lead to my death and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
I wonder if when they decide to add bows (and maybe crossbows) to the game if they will have their own category or if they will use what is already in the game... considering bows at least would use an entirely different skillset than guns in how they work... and would probably cause lots of tiredness using them constantly (which could make up for them being silent)
I think they would definitely use their own skillset, shooting instinctually with a bow is nothing like shooting with a gun. It will probably be slow as hell and require a lot of concentration for balancing
@@Pr1vateLime maybe at the lower levels... but a skilled archer can shoot arrows pretty quickly... its more about the strength and stamina required to keep firing thats really the problem.
A silent ranged weapon would be great. Maybe higher levels give you chance that arrows don't break so you can pick up arrows from the zombies and reuse the arrows.
Great Video! I don't know if you noticed that you headed Metalworking and Mechanics both with the title Metalworking in your font there. Thanks for the infomation. Keep up the good work!
I feel personally attacked, during the carpenter segment he is in my house dismantling all my furniture. It's one of my favorite homes in muldraugh due to its high fences and pond and forest access.
... it was then he turned around and exclaimed dryly "Oh, the census taker is finally here." He looks you over intently. He seemed somewhat displeased, as though you were chopped liver before adding " I was wondering what I was going to pair with the fava beans and that nice Chianti." As he had done so it appeared as though he were peering through you, no into you and it felt as though your was stomach unsettled. It's almost as though it were moving in an effort to avoid his all consuming intense gaze.
You get Maintenance exp whenever a weapon/tool you use doesn't use exp. Fighting with a crowbar (1/70 chance to lose durability by default) is fantastic! And spears, terrible. Speaking of spears, their durability is strange. It's equal to Carpentry + 0/1/2 at random, but cannot go below 2 or above 5.
It's really easy to lvl up First Aid. Once you have a base, build or find a fence, take off all your clothes and sprint back and forth over the fence. There are plenty of other safe ways to lvl up First aid without aggroing zomboids
It's the zombie apocalypse and your searching through houses looking for supplies, you've entered a house, there's noise coming from the kitchen. You go to investigate. You turn the corner and see someone shovelling literal bucket-loads of crickets into an oven, just hundreds and hundreds of cricket.
it would create a timeless story thats for sure
Same person then creepily turns to you with a big smile on their face.
"Want some Dinner?"
@@Pr1vateLime it’s Shia Lebeouf!
@@emberz3778 lame
Zombie survivalists Shia Lebof
I love how you made the max skill character look like the chad
ofc lmfao
Then the min-level character is the virgin, in a dark hoodie and jeans hunched over lmao
Is it just me or are there a lot of furries who play this game? I'm not complaining I love running into some of my fellow floofers I just think it's a strange coincidence that I see so many furry pfps on PZ videos
@@CoffeeSnep fellow ? That means you are a furry , BEGONE DEMON SPAWN !!!
@@CoffeeSnep furries have just been more generally accepted on the internet recently, i've noticed.
I like how you can turn into Gordon Ramsay from deep frying insects in mass lol
Quantity > Quality it seems
@@Pr1vateLime In a survival situation. This is exactly true when it comes to food.
"What are you making you damn donkey?"
"A massive pile of cooked insects"
"ITS RAW YOU DAMN DONKEY TURN ON THE HEAT"
WHERE’S THE LAMB SAUCE!?
Actually for the fastest way to level up First Aid (on Build 41) is to take of your shoes, break a window, and stand on broken glass. Keep picking out the broken glass with either a hand or tweezers. I get about 30exp per pick at level 3 with books. You're going to get deep wounds, so make sure you have a needle and a thread/suture needle. Didn't know doc school is on broken glass. Also dev, please don't nerf this.
Sure it’s faster, but if you get a deep wound on feet you could be slowed for a long time and needles are a one time use. I personally don’t think it’s worth it.
This is the funniest ludonarrative dissonance I’ve ever seen.
@@ozylocz4078 You can use a regular needle in exchange for higher pain.
@@ozylocz4078 It is when you have a safe haven and can afford to be home for a week or so.
A lot of good info here for new players.
I just jumped right into the game and almost shelved it immediately, but found a few vids like this one. Would have missed out on a great game.
Yea, the learning curve can be pretty steep
When I bought the game, I was aware of how hard it actually was, but there's so much detail and cool game mechanics that I've nonstop talked about it to my friends, even after dying almost every single time I loaded a level.
Its difficulty is the reason I play it.
I immediately shelved it too. Then came back for another try and realised it was a much better game than I first assumed it to be. I needed prompting by a friend though. My first impression was that it was for masochists that wanted a constant chase scene with some speedlooting.
My second impression was that it was an indepth zombie survival sim that required a few extra tips and tricks not covered in the tutorial. And that it is for masochists, with a taste for adventure and steaming plates of insects.
What made you pick it up again? I dumped it right away. Seemed like zombie runescape walking/looting simulator.
i still hate how even high lvl foraging doesnt automatically give u herbalist perk
Yea, its definitely a bummer
@@Pr1vateLime this is A irrelevant question, but what is the best “occupation”?
@@EmbeddedWithin I would say.. depends on what books you find/dont find. The first level or two are super easy with a book for beginners, so the starting occupation doesnt matter much to me.
@@bobzeepl The 3 levels you start with isn't what people are after. It's the XP bonus you get from certain occupations.
@@EmbeddedWithin It really depends on your playstyle, your strengths and weaknesses, and really how you intend to play the game. There isn't really a "best" occupation and it can be really subjective which is why deciding the best ones are a really contentious issue. However, to surmise, in my opinion I'd say:
*Unemployed:* Very versatile. You're only as limited by your point allocation, but you do miss out on some of the more job-exclusive traits. Otherwise a very safe choice, can't go wrong, pick if in doubt. That's a 4-6 starting point boost that can be put into lucky, keen hearing or fast learner.
*Fire officer:* Unemployed, but you sacrifice your starting points for more fitness, strength and sprint stat. While this might give you more of an early-game advantage by letting you carry more, fight harder and for longer, these are stats that you can increase through the course of play regardless, and you may as well spend some of your unemployed points on the fit, stout or strong stat.
*Police officer:* Kind of useless in my opinion. Aiming and reloading go up very fast anyway, and the gun stats and the 1 nimble isn't work the -4 starting points. Like all the occupations whose only benefit is increased starting combat/fitness stats, it's most effective at the beginning of the game but has diminishing returns long-term where you could have invested those points in a permanent trait increase.
*Park ranger:* A lot of necessary constructions, items, tools and actions are locked behind having high non-combat stats. Park ranger is amazing because not only does it give you bonuses to forestry, trapping and carpentry, but also an invaluable speed boost when walking through foliage. This is invaluable for not only surviving in the wilderness, but letting you evade hordes by running through woodlands. A+ occupation.
*Construction worker:* A mediocre blunt accuracy bonus and 1 carpentry for a punishing -2 starting points. I never pick this.
*Security guard:* This one would be bad if it weren't for the night owl trait. Your working hours are dictated by your wakefulness. When you get the tired moodlet, you basically have to drop whatever it is you're doing. With the night owl and/or wakefulness trait, you can spend more time working, foraging, building, reading, exercising and fighting without having to return to base and go to sleep.
*Carpenter:* The 3 carpentry is indispensible, needing only a short investment to bring you up to level 4 to get those invaluable rainwater collectors. All for the small price of 6 starting points. Very useful.
*Burglar:* I only pick this for the hotwiring ability. It means that from the start you can obtain pretty much any vehicle on the map, as long as you have the materials. While not the best for its punishing -6 starting points, this is still a very useful trait.
*Chef:* The 3 cooking and the trait is alright, but when cooking only pays off when you hit level 7 and can cook with rotten food, this isn't really that good when you can farm your cooking stat by using bugs.
*Repairman:* Same problem as Chef, having a boost to a stat you were going to increase over the course of play when there are more valuable options at hand isn't worth the -6 points.
*Farmer:* Same thing here.
*Fisherman:* It's nice to have a small boost to the fishing stat, but it's overshadowed by the fishing traits and the far superior wilderness occupations.
*Doctor and nurse:* First aid stat is useless when a night or two in bed will fix most cuts and bruises, and where one bite means death. Maybe slightly better when you're playing with saliva transmission only, but if you're injured it's a bad idea to go out anyway and a good excuse to stay indoors and exercise, read and tend to your safehouse.
*Veteran:* Desensitised is an amazing trait. Removes panic from the game, but you become desensitised over time and I never really found panic that bad anyway.
*Lumberjack:* Some people really like this trait, but I don't really see it worth it. Yes, you have a bonus to axes (Which some argue are the best weapons in the game) plus a watered down version of park ranger's foliage movespeed, but I'm with SPEAR GANG and can wait a little longer to fell a tree so I never pick this one.
*Fitness instructor:* Yea, it's alright if you don't intend on exercising, but nutritionist is a useless trait and you may as well go for the fit/stout/strong trait for the 14(!) starting points you lose by picking this.
*Burger flipper:* Kinda alright, actually. Get a small bonus to cooking and the cook trait for cheap, but there are better options.
*Electrician:* Levelling electrical is a pain in the ass, but I always find generator guides no matter where I go, so that's never a problem for me. A matter of taste, hit or miss for me. Can be compared to carpentry, but electrical seems to be more of a luxury where carpentry is a vital survival skill.
*Engineer:* I never use aerosol bombs or traps or any of the other engineer recipes, and while 1 in electrical and carpentry is okay, you're better of speccing in either electrician or carpenter.
*Metalworker and Mechanic:* I think there are better occupations to pick. Like most mediocre occupations, you're shooting yourself in the foot not by picking a "bad" occupation, but rather by picking one where better options exist.
When I wanted to level my first aid, I ran through broken glass barefooted. Yeah. I survived with a tiny health bar after almost completly bleeding out with the trait that makes u bleed faster (forgot its name) and the trait of healing less fast
Yea that had to have been scary
@@Pr1vateLime i remeber going through a window at the start of a play through and had nothing to clear the glass. Ended up spending the next 20 minutes looking for tweezers to get glass out of my hand and had to change bandages every 2 minutes for the rest of my life
Haemophilia maybe?
@@doomtrooper3184 No it was with more traits, so Anemic
+ Strength also heavily increases critical chance, which is different from straight up damage increase and more important in my opinion.
+ I don't know if it's just me, but L-Alt running gives me no exp.
+ Combat exp is the highest when you are in top shape and have no debuffing moodles (for example, even if you only have the first endurance moodle, you will receive ~3 times less exp); also (generally), the higher the damage the weapon has, the more exp it gives; plus, the most exp per single hit is given when you perform a critical or when you attack a zombie that is on the ground.
+ Maintenance exp is not earned when you lose durability, but when you hit things, and the longer you can hit things without your weapon and the thing you're hitting breaking the more efficient it is. For example, the most safe and easily achievable way to do this, is to get a decent amount of ripped sheets, then forage for materials, then create Stone Axes and Stone Hammers, then cut down some trees, then build Log Pillars and smash those with Stone Hammers, rinse and repeat. (Besides Stone Hammers, the best weapons to use are those that do the least damage to doors, for reference use my sheet here: www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/mc6w4d/all_melee_weapon_stats_in_excel_sheet_damage/).
+ Higher levels of Carpentry also increase the repair percentage when using Wood Glue (and only Wood Glue) up to 75% with the first repair with level 7 Carpentry. The main use of Wood Glue is to repair Axes, so if you're into those you want it.
! 1 day??? Damn, I thought you can only do it once! You live, you learn. Thanks for that!
+ Keep in mind that with Tailoring, if you want to max out the protection, you will have to wear a lot of clothes, so you will overheat a lot. Running is definitely not recommended. Also it is very easy to level up, as long as you have all the books, Tailor trait and all the required materials (~300 ripped sheet and ~70 full threads, both of which you can get from ripping clothes). It is pretty grindy though. Also, you only need a single piece of clothing, I recommend Long Johns because it has the most slots for tailoring.
Some real juicy fucking tips here! Ill pin it!
@@Pr1vateLime hey you can sew leather strips as patches onto clothes for more protection
Sounds like the combat XP earned is similar to how firearms work...the XP earned is based on the damage dealt. High damage=more XP. That would explain the negative moodles affecting the XP gain, as it also (generally) decreases damage done (slower/weaker/less accurate/etc).
you disgust me...
@@NIXISTIN Who? Why?
I like the idea of preparing for winter like a squirrel or rat person, except with gathering a ludicrous amount of insects, as opposed to nuts and berries.
I'm always saying players shouldn't sleep on Foraging. The first time I baked a cake in game was only possible (for that play through) due to Foraging. For some reason I could not find eggs anywhere and most of the food I came across was rotten. I started foraging and cooking what I found until I unknowingly picked up some wild eggs one day. That charcter ate celebratory cake and retired.
Yea, those wild eggs are seriously awesome!
1) Thank you for posting this. I know I requested it, and you did not disappoint!
2) I know this must have been a *LOT* of work. Thank you so so much!
3) The mechanics 24 hour cooldown is a fantastic thing to know! I'm going to start incorporating modifying my car each morning routine at 9am.
Yep no problem!!! Happy I could help you out
"the hardest trait to level, first aid" tell that my char that ran around with 4 wounds for a week, all that changing&washing bandages sure did level me a lot :'D
Lime I wanted to thank you so, so much for this video. I have gotten FAR further than I ever have after following the suggestions here (in particular disassembling digital watches and the bit about lights, batteries, radio).
I'm sad there wasn't a fun accent to go along with this guide like there was last time, but still very informative and fun. Love all the vids Lime, keep it up.
Glad you enjoyed it! I wanna do another fun guide like that soon!
great video lime, after 1200 hours i am still surprised to learn new things, so thank for the educational video
one tip so far people forget about electrical, i am not sure what level but maybe 3? you can craft with a screw driver and 1 electrical scrap a 'battery charge connector' with various outdoor lamps, so you can have lights in a house without a generator, but it requires batteries to power, which is neat when you want light in your wooden shack but no generators
Oh damn! I forgot bout that!
Nimble actually climbing fences dont level it up, and from my excessive testing it dont affect chance for tripping (huge chance of tripping no matter your skill is when you are winded).
Other things:
nimble sprint and sneak (if there is zeds) can be leveled up by walking in place against wall/window.
Maintence can be cheesed with hitting log walls (cheapest with highest hp, best to use is blunts like police baton or metal pipe both damage only 1 to walls).
Spears are 100% durability at level 3 carpentry
Cooking gives nothing outside of level 7, literally no benefits in hunger reduction or stres.
First aid is easiest to level up with only one cheese step ;) you can level it to max in 3-4 days. Overall not very usefull skill because only benefits it gives: bonus to your healing (each healing have timer set you get just bonus start to it) longer lasting bandages (0 vs 10 actually make huge difference nearly 5 x times longer last before they became bloodied) On some higher skill you can see how severe is scratch but that dont give you that much info (its literally saying "severe" if its bleeding new scratch)
Electronic - about generators its not worth leveling up because each scrap have base 5% repair value already max electronic worth is 3 because its gives you to possibility to move some specific furniture
Metalwork - disasseeambling dont use fuel in your torch worth noting
Mechanic - gives you bonus to repairing parts mostly noticeable on engine parts
Tailoring - you didnt pointed out that you can full repair clothes at level 8
Aiming- is kinda stupid because with level you deal more damage and faster aim, some weapons have lower base aim chance but higher aim gain from skills but from level alone you dont need to use these because you deal insane damage with 9mm already and its most common weapon. On high level its monster of skill. Oh and you can shoot faster with higher levels very noticeable with glock when you test 0 vs 10
Foraging- you level up by finding stuff but not quality but amount and highest amount you get its from medical stuff.
I hope that will give you some new insight because for me It did, didnt know that aiming actually levels up from damage! :D
Ahhh, all of yall are dropping a lot of great tips here!
love how he starts talking about the firearms skills in a school
Use the bugs to catch fish, and level up the foraging even more to get eggs!
heck yea!!!
Just dropping this here, but your cooking level does help beyond just allowing you to make rotten food into meals.
higher cooking levels influence how much benefit you get from cooking custom meals like roast veggies and other mish-mash dishes you put together, increasing hunger gain and increasing the caloric value slightly as well as possibly decreasing cook time slightly.
ooooh shit okay!
@@Pr1vateLime yeah you'll notice the biggest difference with foods you can cook twice like raw meats or anything that says (uncooked).
Cooking it once by itself and then cooking it again in the combined dishes gives you the biggest improvements, doing it with fillets of fish is pretty nuts as far as the bonuses go.
Small note but you've probably heard of this before at 9:10 metalworking is still up for the mechanic skill section.
I love it when he is showing strength that his character is a chad
You know id pull it out!
As a beginner, your tips seem to be the best on TH-cam. Thanks.
Glad you think so! Happy to have helped you out!
@@Pr1vateLime Can you stop responding to every single comment? Pfft look at you, being a loyal, kind and helpful youtuber that actually tries to help his community...it makes me 🤢
Love your vids, keep it up ♥️
Foraging and trapping is the two skills i always get as high as possible when i start, nice vid btw
Thanks!!!!
The burglar occupation also allows you to hotwire cars from spawn forward.
Super useful for early game
i go mechanic instead, then i can spend a day getting 1 electrical and can still hotwire.
Burglars are better as throwaway characters imo, for MP anyhow, die, make a burglar to get a car quick and transport whatever you need when your last character died.
@@JustinK0 with more traits mod you can also take hobby technician and then you get one electric and one mechanic and start with 4 and can Hotwire
Great video man! I got a note of warning to add on disassembling furniture in your world to increase your skill:
If you keep track of when things respawn in your world, do not take apart furniture that has a chance to spawn the loot you are either gunning for or desire (that is, until you got it. Purely a situational thing). If your playing the vanilla game, furniture does NOT respawn. If playing online and they do have respawn furniture, omit this whole thing. :)
For me, at this moment, I'm trying to bulk up on Concrete Powder and Plaster at the Lumber Warehouse east of Rosewood. The Wooden Crates have been amazing for loot in everything but what I need desperately haha. (you take the main, big highway road northeast of the Rosewoods gas station and head southeast). Without ranting, how I've leveled my Carpentry up was disassembling everything that can be disassembled for Carpentry. This includes:
-End Tables (All Tables really)
-Doors
-Beds (big points)
-Chairs
-Church Pews (big points)
-Low Tables where TVs sit on top of (You will have to pick those TVs up and put them on the floor if you want the table, highly recommend saving TVs until you've read Electrician Skill Books. Same goes with Carpentry Skill Books before doing any disassembling if you can swing it)
-Turning Logs into Planks (most sustainable way to lvl imo)
-Ttc (might be more thats the meat and potatoes of it)
Wooden Crates in select areas spawn a specific type of loot given their location. Learned Warehouses in the middle of a number of Farm Fields usually nets alot of Rotten Food, perfect to stock up your composter with to help boost those potato yeilds in your farm before Winter arrives!
Don't wish to make a novel but those were some tidbits I learned from my current run. :)
I think you're the first one to discover the insect cooking XP exploit, I've never heard of it both in the wiki and in PZ forums.
Its a real clutch way to powerlevel cooking
What about the drunk exploit for fitness?
@Aluzky you use alcohol to reduce pain, and the same time rest and repeat exercise until fatigued at 100%
This is explained reallllly well!! Well done
No problem!
watched your day 1-7 and watching sub-zero playthroughs. convinced me and a friend i shared your videos with to buy the game. keep up the good work and videos like this too
Hope you and your friend enjoy the game!
I’ve been playing this game for like… 4 years? I NEVER KNEW you could workout to build skills!
5 star chief: How did you manage to learn how to cook better than *me* during a zombie apocalypse in just a few weeks!?
This guy: *Cricket mass extinction in my oven.*
For first aid, I built a little masochism room in my base.. it consists of an obstacle course containing 3 fences and 3 broken windows... i sprint around jumping the fences and through the windows for my nimble skill, and bandage myself up whenever I get an injury. I also have a sink and medicine cabinet in there so i can easily clean the bandages. It's kinda tedious, but it's safe at least. :)
A ´Easy´ way to level up first aid, is to stitch up deep wounds, I recently stitched up a deep wound, and once I removed it I got from lvl 0 (0xp) to lvl 1 (with a bit more xp too). Tough this is obviously risky, bandages get dirty realy quick, and you can relatively easy die from such a injury.
So many nuggets of golden info in this vid, thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
*abundance of digital watches*
Gerald:*sad clock noises*
That run was so cursed with the lack of digital watches
And a warning to everyone, Just because the power is gone doesn't mean the alarms have stopped working.
0:56 I love the fact you made a chad character for this exact thing.
My character just died from one zombie that got me from a corner outside my base, he bit me... I was doing so well, i will never trust corners again
During the tailoring section, you forgot the ability to make better (or more effective) clothing repairs, on top of those listed, but I guess it is though kinda self-explanatory, nevertheless thought id mention it, Good vid.
oooh yea I missed that
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Do not use metalworking at all untill you find and read the books.
Propane is VERY limited and rare to find.
I'm so glad you said about fishing in the morning and evening. I thought I imagined it.
Me during the day: I can't wait to go to bed again
Also me at 3AM: I don't need sleep, I need levels
Ahh, seeing our bois hugo and chad again, very nostalgic.
Very nice to have a summary of all skills in one video!
Much appreciated!
Great video with excellent breakdown. Im currently using the house the carpentry character is in as a base!
Those 2 story homes are great spots for a base!
Pairing foraging and nimble allows you to level both up with increased awareness for picking things up.
Perfect video, keep going. The game is growing up day after day
Boi i watched it before but when i did it again many more tips came to my attention ! That digital watch deal was amazing !
MECHANIC SKILL OOF RIP you labeled it metalworking
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I love that my man doesn't believe in second takes.
@9:20 on the mechanic skill it still says Metalworking. I enjoyed your video
VHS tapes are incredibly slept on, i got from carpentry 1 to 10 in like 3 hours with a combination of 4 woodcraft vhs, all 5 carpentry books, and that bar and grill outside of the maldraugh genfac co
I've heard strength gives the players ability to push a zombie automatically when one gets too close and it also prevents them from pulling you down into the ground and feasting on you
No, leveling up weapons does that. If you have high level long blunt for example, and are holding a baseball bat, and a zombie comes from the front, there's around a 25% chance for you to automatically push it away.
You automatically push every zombie after it damages you, if you mean that there is a chance to push em before they damage you, then thats really useful
"Insects are OP"
Unhappiness goes brr
Thank you for making this video, very consise and well put together!
My pleasure!
Thanks man. Im obsessed w this game rn
No problem
2 years and this is still relevant
update, you can actually level tailoring by removing patches, too. so that makes it a bit easier, just put on and remove patches
About leveling first aid: sewing wounds, and removing glass shards give a lot of XP, so the set up with the broken window is good.
i usually take off my shoes, and walk through the broken glass on the ground for instant deep wounds on the foots. After taking care of the wounds i climb through the broken window until i have 4wounds on arms and hands. (move the broken glass on another spot so that you don't step on it, by climbing through the window)
All you need is a needle and thread (surture needles are too rare, and you get thread by ripping clothing), also bandages/ripped sheets and a water supply for cleaning them.
Tweezers are good to have, but optional. Also disinfectant, it is enough to disinfect a wound only when it is infected.
Maybe my character hates me, but she has FIrst Aid on level 7. She is still alive, so i think the torture will go on until she mastered it.
Thanks for explaining how "Nimble" works didn't know that yet.
Ahhh, thats a smart one!
Another way to rapidly level your Carpentry as I found is by chopping down a lot of Wood and then turning the Logs into Planks by using a Saw.
I had no idea but my skill suddenly popped when I did that and I realized it was leveling my Carpentry. Neato.
You forgot to mention that Burglar can Hotwire vehicles from the start.
Aww Yiss, Survivalist stuff. That's my yam.
- And you forgot to mention that if you pick Hunter, you get all Trapper stuff from the start.
- Angler gets fishing stuff
- Foraging can be improved further by picking Herbalist or finding the Herbalist magazine.
Ahh, thanks for leaving some extra info there!
@@Pr1vateLime No probs!
Gotta work together before dem xombos munchies us all.
Training Nimble is no joke. What’s probably going to do my character in on this play through is a deep bleeding wound he got on his arm when manteling over a picket fence. It’s been infected twice and I keep having to apply bandages, it’s been about two weeks because I can’t find any sutures.
some of the best metal working exp is disassembling the large dumpsters behind stores and iron beams at construction sites.
you failed to mention the bonus from herbalist trait when foraging. but i think it was covered from the bear grylls video so its ok.
ooooh, yea I forgot bout that
I am too afraid to level up metalworking, since it use durability of blow torch and welding mask... which is a lot less common than a theoretically infinite hammer.
disassembling doesnt lower durability! As long as it isnt a car wreck
That's a big tip for cooking bugs it was so obvious but I'd never thought of it, thanks! Side note what video editing software do you use?!
Happy to help! Its a super sleeper xp trick
Love your voice it calms me down
thats nice of you to say (￣▽￣)
A very simple way to level up first aid is by standing on broken glass and repeatedly removing glass with tweezers until the desired level. You cannot die from it, just make sure you can stitch yourself back up
I think it would be cool if they added characters with occupations have special skills like in Don't Starve.
ooooh that would be fun!
I’ve watched this video so many times over the past few months
This Helps A Lot Lime, Thanks!
Im happy to hear it helps!
Actully pretty good advice! Cheers!
watched a few of these now and had to sub for the helpful info, thank you :)
really great informative video thanks for sharing!
no problemo! Happy you got some info out of it
My boy got his skills up so high, he was basically playing Diablo.
Thanks mate. There were a couple of skills I was hazy on. Got some other tips too.
Good to hear!
Maintenance is leveles up by just using weapons. Slowly levels up over time.
yep!
Mechanic section is called Metalworking on the top left.
The sneaking and lightfooted one is actually easy to level up, it doesn’t have to be around zombies. If you just crouch walk everywhere you go, then you’ll level it up in no time
Thank you for the episode also it really helps
Yea, no problem man! Happy I could help you out
I wish you went into more detail about the fitness mechanics. In every game since I picked up B41, workouts, even short ones lead to my death and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong
Maybe in the future!
I wonder if when they decide to add bows (and maybe crossbows) to the game if they will have their own category or if they will use what is already in the game... considering bows at least would use an entirely different skillset than guns in how they work... and would probably cause lots of tiredness using them constantly (which could make up for them being silent)
I think they would definitely use their own skillset, shooting instinctually with a bow is nothing like shooting with a gun.
It will probably be slow as hell and require a lot of concentration for balancing
@@Pr1vateLime maybe at the lower levels... but a skilled archer can shoot arrows pretty quickly... its more about the strength and stamina required to keep firing thats really the problem.
@Aluzky yes we know.. hunting and animals will be added BEFORE NPCs...
A silent ranged weapon would be great. Maybe higher levels give you chance that arrows don't break so you can pick up arrows from the zombies and reuse the arrows.
Great Video! I don't know if you noticed that you headed Metalworking and Mechanics both with the title Metalworking in your font there. Thanks for the infomation. Keep up the good work!
I feel personally attacked, during the carpenter segment he is in my house dismantling all my furniture. It's one of my favorite homes in muldraugh due to its high fences and pond and forest access.
... it was then he turned around and exclaimed dryly "Oh, the census taker is finally here." He looks you over intently. He seemed somewhat displeased, as though you were chopped liver before adding " I was wondering what I was going to pair with the fava beans and that nice Chianti." As he had done so it appeared as though he were peering through you, no into you and it felt as though your was stomach unsettled. It's almost as though it were moving in an effort to avoid his all consuming intense gaze.
Chad Thundercock just running around zeds is what gets me lmao
Very useful video my dude, thanks!
Glad you liked it! Always appreciate hearing my vids are helping you out!
@@Pr1vateLime I'm currently binging your Zero to Hero series while I work, and I'm enjoying it very much! So keep up that good work :D! hehe
Can you do mod showcases for Project Zomboid, showing what you like to use and what goes well with each other?
I did a mod video real recently
@@Pr1vateLime Yes quite like that, there are a good bit of mods added often that could use a little attention.
The use of chad clothes (with the correct colors) when showcasing strength was a good meme.
Just started the game and your channel is perfect for beginners love it bro keep it up🖤✨
Hell yea! Thats the entire reason for these guide vids!
You get Maintenance exp whenever a weapon/tool you use doesn't use exp. Fighting with a crowbar (1/70 chance to lose durability by default) is fantastic! And spears, terrible.
Speaking of spears, their durability is strange. It's equal to Carpentry + 0/1/2 at random, but cannot go below 2 or above 5.
Finally
Heck yea! No problem!!
if you want to hotwire fast choose the Burglar profession. you can do it from the game start and get a bunch of stealth shit
Liked and subscribed! Great video!
Awesome thank you!
It's really easy to lvl up First Aid. Once you have a base, build or find a fence, take off all your clothes and sprint back and forth over the fence. There are plenty of other safe ways to lvl up First aid without aggroing zomboids
It would be cool if there was something like a chemist skill, that allowed you to make things like gunpowder, drugs, alcohol, etc.
I almost always take fitness instructor. I can train everything else and be fine, but right off the bat... I need to kill zombies.
I think the defense bonus was called guard. I saw it in build 40 of the game.
Yea, its mostly hidden now, though still there
There are characters shown in this video that I miss
I miss ya Hugo
Big F for Hugo's friend Actual wildman
Ill drop an F for wildman as well
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Actual Wildman a.k.a. Actual Legend. To Trash! He's surviving in the great beyond now. 🥂
@@plasmashade6339 :(
the experience multiplication option saved my life
Wow, fun to watch and helpful!
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it