Quick aside about cleaning: you can also use mops and sponges for this, so they aren't as useless as expected. I love how almost everything in this game has some little esoteric use.
I don't have as many hours as you, but im up there a bit too and didn't know this either lol which is probably why i keep clicking these videos when i see em. didnt know the makeup was actually useful too
They should introduce alternative methods of power generation now that gas stations have limited gasoline, or at least a method to preserve meat like salting or smoking.
@@heyitsjustaz If that's the case, I kind of wonder why they even bothered to limit them at all. Just sounds kind of odd that they'd make a change like that that has basically no effect whatsoever. Seems like kind of a waste of time.
I personally think blood on the walls and floor add to the apocalyptic aesthetic of a home. You won’t find any “live laugh love” throw pillows in my base.
I generally agree, altho a hemophobic character (if you're into that kinda masochism) will get anxious around bloody surroundings, so it's nice to know how to clean up for those people.
The cleaning is actually an important gameplay mechanic. Idk if it's implemented again after the huge update, but previously Zombies can smell rotting corpses of other zombies, wet fresh blood, bleeding wounds on you and NPCs and, you guessed it, dried blood on the walls. If this feature isn't already in build 41, it will be readded eventually. Cleaning had a purpose in the past and if it doesn't currently, it will again. If you really like having the blood on the walls, you can disable the Zombie's sense of smell in the sandbox mode. Just be aware that your aesthetic decorating choices may have a gameplay impact either currently or in the future :)
Something to add onto the floorboards thing too, It can also be your end too, as if you don't notice it right away and step on it by accident, it will creak loudly and give your position away to any zed nearby
Ahhhhh now I know what killed me.... "Corpse Sickness". I just started last week and finally got the ball rolling(after dying so many times lol). I got a solid base in a rural part of town, was building fences and log walls around my base, fully stocked kitchen and supplies, and building up my skills. But also, I decided to bury corpses just to make things tidy, and I guess that was constantly making me exposed to dead corpses. I usually only wore my fireman helmet, boots and nothing in between, so maybe I just got exposed to a disease from zombie corpses. Also didn't help that I didn't stop working on my logwalls even when it was pouring rain. So, I eventually got sick and it just won't heal, no matter what I did. I kept bleeding even when I had no scratches and I had to wash myself daily. Even after several nights of sleep(with aid to sleeping pills), chilling in my base and resting, taking pain meds and vitamins daily, and being well-fed with freshly cooked meals, my health kept deteriorating. I noticed I had a moodlet of "Nervous Wreck" and figured this is some zombie virus. But all of this, I had no scratches, wounds, bites, etc. I knew I was gonna die cause my health was getting low, saw I was critically ill, and I wasn't able to sleep even with sleeping pills. So I stocked up my pick up truck with weapons and food, and roamed around parts of the map to explore and kill zombies. Went back home and died in my base "peacefully" lmao
i got a scratch in MP while fighting a giant mob getting guns in Muldraugh and was hanging around there for a long time, killing, and looting the guns, books and VHS store in the area, and sorting the car with all the dead around it. I thought for sure I was infected when the sickness moodle cam up, but as I was making my way home to stash the loot and drink some bleach, I thought about it twice and remembered corpse sickness. Turned out that's all it was.
You got a wound bee4 and the infection from dead bodies got inside thr wound. It has happened to me actually. But I don't think you can get sick by just being close to dead bodies. At least I've never slept surrounded by curpses._.
@@theman20033You do get sick by being near dead bodies for too long. It can be pretty deadly, especially if you take a nap near them. As for the infection, it's only from zombie hits.
Always make sure to get a spoon and some empty bowls. If you just tell your character to 'Eat' the food once it's done cooking, they'll slurp whatever it is right out of the cooking pot. If you have empty bowls you can portion it out and freeze it, but more than anything it increases the happiness your character gets from eating food. You can basically avoid getting depressed just by regular hygiene and using cutlery.
The cleaning is actually an important gameplay mechanic. Idk if it's implemented again after the huge update, but previously Zombies can smell rotting corpses of other zombies, wet fresh blood, bleeding wounds and, you guessed it, dried blood on the walls. If this feature isn't already in build 41, it will be readded eventually. Cleaning had a purpose in the past and it will again.
i'm pretty sure they can smell rotting of other zombies because whenever i have a huge pile of zombies i will ALWAYS get more in that area it gets really annoying when it's near the storage unit in Muldraugh.
@@nathanielweller25 my current character has been using that to simply draw more in and now that entire street to the church is a bloody nightmare I try not to get to close to so I don't get sick. That hotel next door is also pretty thick with flies at this point.
@@namekman01 Yeah nah, PZ zombies are much more closely related to Romero zombies. Not 100%, but you can pretty much take any Romero zombie rule and apply it to PZ if you don't know the specifics of the game.
OMG.. I found a map with a single house marked with no text.. went there, found nothing. It HAD to be a floorboard I must have missed!? I am going back to check! 😎 I never knew about those, many thanks Lime!
There's a reason the devs chose green and red light for those electronic lamps... Realism! In real life, militaries have long used low level red light in dark situations where they need to read a map or look at something but cannot risk burning out or "bleaching" their eyes' innate night vision abilities. Low level red light doesn't bleach your night vision because the rods in your eyes are less sensitive to the color red within longer wavelengths of light. Although red is the iconic "night-use color" of light, there has been a shift recently to using green light or a blue-green light instead of red. Green allows retention of night vision as well as greater visual acuity and better differentiation between colors, but this is of course still at low-light levels. Fun fact: You probably know your eyes contain two major types of photoreceptor neurons: rods and cones. Cones are active in brighter conditions and they're also responsible for color perception. Rods are active in low light or dark conditions. This is why when you're outside at night without any light sources, you might start to notice everything looks almost totally "black and white." Color perception is biologically tied to the type of photoreceptors which are only active in higher-light conditions (cones.) Rods outnumber cones 20 to 1 (you have about 120 million rods vs about 6 million cones,) so your rods, overall, are more sensitive because there are just way more of them.
i always assumed the red light thing was so the light would be less visible over distance, so less chance of giving you position away while still being able to see what you are doing without nvg, never occurred to me it was meant to protect your eyes. guess ya learn something new everyday
@@AtrociousAK47 I was taught this in the military, but I never really thought red was that much harder to see at distance. I honestly think @Nick C 's explanation makes more sense lol
@@AtrociousAK47 It's actually easier to see at a distance. Think about the sunset- it's the last color you see. Laser pointers are another good example. You ever see yellow laser pointers
The floorboards bit surprised my newbie ass when I'm playing. I was dismantling a bed when it showed that there is a floorboard loose filled to the brim with magazines-- I quickly assumed that whoever slept on that bed, is a guy, and laughed a bit 'cause I thought it's a clever easteregg left by the devs.
on one of my most recent runs i found a house full of corpses like not zombies but just regular dead people and further inside the house a hulking zombie came towards me and tried to kill me it had leather gloves a hockey mask and a machete on it all covered in blood so i made the logical assumption on what happened there. It's interesting that the game has little lore bits like that in it. I've also heard of another player going into what they described as a room that looked like a teenager's bedroom inside the found a rope, i think they said a pencil, and a empty notebook.
One of the houses we went into had two naked zombies in the bedroom with clothes littered all over the floor and alcohol all throughout the house. I love the way they leave funny things like that since our morales were low when we found those two lol.
A lot of people often miss the utilisation of luring zombies indoors to loot a key, with locked garage groups. If storage area has a row of storage units and one of them is opened, you can lure zombie in it and kill it inside storage cell. If the zombie drops a key - it will unlock all other storage cells in this row.
@@Vogt156 nope. If you get some zombies spawn specifically with cars - like a police roadblock with a handful of polise officer zombies nearby - there is a hefty chance one of the zombies has a key. But for random cars in the parking lots - no. You can't lure zombies to a car hoping that the key will eventually drop.
@@pavelZhd yea that's why i always learn hot wire skill rather fast... In my last run i even cheated keys to cars i already hotwired since (as far as i know) it's just a cosmetic thing
That's just cheating though, not a helpful tip. I don't care if you cheat in a singleplayer game, but the point is more that you may as well just change your settings to not have any locked doors, if you don't enjoy the game mechanic of locked doors. Much easier.
Yeah, That feature can be really handy, but I had to turn it off for once instance with the superb survivors mod. I was reading a book and trying to fast forward through it but the game kept slowing it back down because a group of hostile survivors where pushing eachother outside the house i was in. I was like some old guy who couldn't be bothered, staring out a window shaking my fist like "hey you darn kids, Quite your tomfoolery, I'm trying to read."
Regarding sneaky back attacks, the same thing also applies to zombies. If you manage to sneak behind zombies, knives have a one-shot animation that always work when hitting zombies from behind. I'm not sure about other weapons, but they also might deal higher damage without special animations.
If you have multiple inventories in range (e.g. a warehouse with boxes) you can switch quickly between them by keeping the mouse pointer in the inventory area and shift-mousewheel.
Another tip: never put more than 2 barricades per window side, as it will block your vision to the outside. Part 2 to this tip: you can barricade both sides of a window, providing double the security.
Challenge idea: Train life. You start with 3 vehicles (I think you said that was the max total? The way you phrased it sounded like you could hitch two cars, plus the driving car, for a total of three) and they stay hitched together the entire game. You can switch around which one is in front, but you must always keep all three cars, and that must be your only base the whole game. One benefit to this challenge is AMPLE amounts of storage. Plus, even if you only ever use one car as the front car, if you find a source of gasoline you can always fill all three tanks up and just siphon the gas later for your main care. Some negatives, though, are no fortifying anything, slow speeds, and a lot of repair work, so I think there's a decent trade off! I'd love to see someone try something like this. Bonus: If you use a boat as one of them, you might even be able to drag the cars out into the water! I'm not sure if they sink, though, I've never tried it. But it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't based on how the game works, so you could switch things around so the boat is the leader and just head out into the water for a while. Zombies can't swim so you could easily use that for safe sleeping, if that does work.
Wow, I recently started playing PZ and wouldn't of even thought that the floor boards were anything other than cosmetic. Thank you for my future cool loot :)
Quick tip for towing! When your towing a vehicle similar to real life if your in low gear in this game preferably 1 you can tow the cars at a higher speed. The way I keep it from shifting into second is keeping the cruise control at a very low speed and it won’t shift up which will let you go much faster.
6:41 i think this also works if theres a pesky wreck blocking a road you frecuent, say if you have a set road to do a gas run to fill the generator every time, then you can actually tow and move the wrecked cars that are in the way, of course this doesnt work with completely destroyed cars, those you still need the blowtorch and wielding mask to get rid off, but i have used this feature a lot to clear out roads hehe
Another benefit to cleaning up blood is that you want to clean any blood on ground where you plan on growing crops. If infected blood is on that ground when you plant, you can easily get diseased crops.
Not entirely hidden but you can use bleach bottles to store water, seen so many let's players looking for water bottles and mugs while they could use the emptied bleach
@@t7_br0k3n3 If I remember right, the text tells you that you can only purify the contents in a microwave, because the bottle is plastic. So if you're trying to purify dirty water, you can't do so in a stove or fire.
I would say around 95% of these "Things I wish I knew before playing" videos are filled with things I learned myself early on within the first week of playing a game. Well I've been binging this game for about a week now as a new player but THIS video is filled with useful information I did not know! Thank you for making this.
If you take the hemophobic trait the cleaning becomes a lot more important. Your character will become panicked by the blood around your base, making it important to keep a clean place.
I like your voice. Its clear, even when you mess up, and concise enough to easily understand. Your points don't ramble, and you have just enough playfulness to add personality to the video. Nice
After watching this, my long term runs have been getting a ton more entertaining, with all these tips it helps me live longer, then in term gives more things to screw around with. Like base customization, dicking around with some new mods, or just havin fun smacking a few zeds silly. Your videos always makes me chuckle keep on making stuff, because I'll keep watching it.
I don't know why, but that red at 3:21 reminds me about the 28 XXX later saga (28 Days Later & 28 Weeks Later). When the official NPCs made their way trough, it'd cool to use that lightning in a refugee camp before a zombie attack.
Instant Sub, after seeing so many people cover the same things constantly. this is the first guide where I didn't know like 80 percent of it. Thanks a lot, super helpful
Hidden feature I only learneed this year; You can replace windows if you have a crowbar. The higher your carpentry, the lower the chance the window will break when you remove it.
Those tips might seem small, but they can make a real difference when playing! I didn't actually know about those floorboards myself, gonna have to keep an eye out for those :D
I'll add a common one. Under settings, if you change the 3D Icon on and off, you can see car keys and objects on the floor easier. It doesn't look as pretty as with the 3D, but you can turn it back on once you're done with your item hunting.
Hey Lime! Thanks for the content you make just chilling and waiting to see my main man Boxman. I saw a video about a zombie game named Terminus on steam. Maybe it might peak your interest because it seems like a turn based project zomboid.
Best tip: Never ever step a foot further than riverside, zombies from West Point are brutal and no matter how few of them are, you will die. I died as soon as i drove over the border
As someone that likes vehicles, the towing one is really useful. Don't want to be doing a ton of mechanic work in a dangerous area, so it's good to know you can tow it someplace safer.
This was awesome! I've been playing PZ for years, and some of these I didn't know! (I've even been known to move my base because it got dirty from zombie gore! This is a huge lifesaver!)
O lord. I have played PZ for hundreds of hours and did not know about Melee outline option and resume normal speed! That really is 2 options that should be ticked on by default! Do not like the outline but when I started playing it had helped me a bunch! But that return to normal speed sounds like something really useful that I must check out! If only time was able to pause if a Z got to close to you... So many deaths to a Ninja Z sneaking up to me when I take a sip/eat and speeding up the game! You expect to have time to take your eyes of screen and BAM! A Z bite strike! :C Have cheated multiple times due to that kind of unfair deaths over the many games of PZ! Rest I have picked up on my own, except the face painting stuff.
Quality content. Really helpful video with nothing superfluous, incomprehensible, irrelevant, self-indulgent, irritating or otherwise time wastey. Thanks.
Another feature you need to mention is how MANY good mods this game has, it makes the game so much better to add the right mods, such as the trailers mod, maybe do a video with which mods are best to add to make your experience better and more in depth. :)
Oh dude no idea about the floor stashes and towing. The latter will be so useful as there are a couple accidents near my base and I can clear them out of the road. Great video!
Thanks for sharing man. New to the game and really dig your videos. Yo, whats the mod you are using @ 5:50 that shows the percentage of damage going down for the body part?
Any chance you'd consider making a playlist of your tips&tricks and guide videos? I'm only recently starting up the game again after I don't even know how many years since buying it (even then I didn't play enough to learn much, though it was very basic at the time anyway) and your videos of this type have been super helpful for me so far. I'd love to be able to easily link a playlist like that to my friends once I manage to convince them to play it with me, so they can get up to speed on some of the less obvious aspects of the game.
Underated asf. If only I heard about you a little sooner that trick with the aim outline would've been so much more useful because so many times I'm wondering why my character is pushing the wrong way even tho the zombie is right next to him. I just started looking through every setting and I found it a few days ago but if I found this video...
Corpse sickness is nasty 💀 I was taking out a large group of zombies one time, got tired, and figured I'd hop into my truck for a little power nap. I didn't realize I was still in range for corpse sickness. Woke up fully sick and died in a few seconds.
Me, 8 minutes ago: "Let me guess, that will be one of those _10 things you didn't know_ videos that contain facts nearly everyone knows about." Me, now: "I learnt a lot of things. Thank you."
when a vehicle is turned upside down, by your own doing (the little jeep) or just one you find, towing it with another vehicle usually flips it back on its wheels... when I move bases I prepare multiple vehicles chuck full of stuff, and then at every trip on the way to go I tow a dart-car, the lightest and smallest and then the next day I return with only the small car... rince and repeat... at every run there's an extra car at the new base... before actually moving best to go and clear the road, hotwire or drag cars that block your way, or dismantle them entirely...
You can get super whacky and find other color lightbulbs in vanilla too, they are pretty hard to find though since arent labeled as different. The icon will be a different shade of bulb though instead of just white.
Towing would be nice to know yesterday. I found a taxi with the keys in glove box not too far from base. In State of Decay 2 you need to manually drive any car you want to keep so I didn’t think about it. I dropped off my main car, ran to the taxi, remembered I forgot the gas, ran back to base, back to the taxi, took some tries to start it. Took it to base. If I knew about towing, it’d be one step. Thank you.
The other day I was just messing around and I found a house with a bunch of cheerleader and jock corpses and a bald zombie carrying a machete and wearing a ski mask, which I thought was a neat Easter egg
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Pls, make a video on how you can stall zombies by drinking pepsi with them, also a pepsi cap can save your character's life
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Quick aside about cleaning: you can also use mops and sponges for this, so they aren't as useless as expected. I love how almost everything in this game has some little esoteric use.
I had a feeling, but didn't know how to make it work. I also enjoy the multitude of things in this game that have no explanation.
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Ooooh good one!
You can use a broom also.
@@matteoclementi What is it for? 0_o
Several hundred hours clocked and I didn't even realize floorboard stashes were a thing. Keep up the good work, Lime!
I don't have as many hours as you, but im up there a bit too and didn't know this either lol which is probably why i keep clicking these videos when i see em. didnt know the makeup was actually useful too
I am at almost 1300 hours ingame.... That`s new to me, as well!
I had no clue!!
I wonder how have i never seen them considering i always run with the inventory menu open...
I saw weird floorboards in a house today. Was like. Thats weird. Never considered a stash...
They should introduce alternative methods of power generation now that gas stations have limited gasoline, or at least a method to preserve meat like salting or smoking.
that would be nice!
Given the time period, there should be some solar panels somewhere in Knox County
There's many gas stations around the map tho, thats A LOT of fuel to go through
@@heyitsjustaz Nice, so it's not as limited as some make it out to be. Still, more preservation method would be pretty cool!
@@heyitsjustaz If that's the case, I kind of wonder why they even bothered to limit them at all. Just sounds kind of odd that they'd make a change like that that has basically no effect whatsoever. Seems like kind of a waste of time.
I personally think blood on the walls and floor add to the apocalyptic aesthetic of a home. You won’t find any “live laugh love” throw pillows in my base.
I generally agree, altho a hemophobic character (if you're into that kinda masochism) will get anxious around bloody surroundings, so it's nice to know how to clean up for those people.
Lol, nice.
The cleaning is actually an important gameplay mechanic. Idk if it's implemented again after the huge update, but previously Zombies can smell rotting corpses of other zombies, wet fresh blood, bleeding wounds on you and NPCs and, you guessed it, dried blood on the walls. If this feature isn't already in build 41, it will be readded eventually. Cleaning had a purpose in the past and if it doesn't currently, it will again.
If you really like having the blood on the walls, you can disable the Zombie's sense of smell in the sandbox mode. Just be aware that your aesthetic decorating choices may have a gameplay impact either currently or in the future :)
Live, Loot, Let Hordes Pass
Or, Live, Loot, Learn
Something to add onto the floorboards thing too, It can also be your end too, as if you don't notice it right away and step on it by accident, it will creak loudly and give your position away to any zed nearby
Now all of China knows you are here
Ahhhhh now I know what killed me.... "Corpse Sickness". I just started last week and finally got the ball rolling(after dying so many times lol). I got a solid base in a rural part of town, was building fences and log walls around my base, fully stocked kitchen and supplies, and building up my skills. But also, I decided to bury corpses just to make things tidy, and I guess that was constantly making me exposed to dead corpses. I usually only wore my fireman helmet, boots and nothing in between, so maybe I just got exposed to a disease from zombie corpses. Also didn't help that I didn't stop working on my logwalls even when it was pouring rain.
So, I eventually got sick and it just won't heal, no matter what I did. I kept bleeding even when I had no scratches and I had to wash myself daily. Even after several nights of sleep(with aid to sleeping pills), chilling in my base and resting, taking pain meds and vitamins daily, and being well-fed with freshly cooked meals, my health kept deteriorating. I noticed I had a moodlet of "Nervous Wreck" and figured this is some zombie virus. But all of this, I had no scratches, wounds, bites, etc. I knew I was gonna die cause my health was getting low, saw I was critically ill, and I wasn't able to sleep even with sleeping pills. So I stocked up my pick up truck with weapons and food, and roamed around parts of the map to explore and kill zombies. Went back home and died in my base "peacefully" lmao
That was a roller coaster to read, rest in peace
i got a scratch in MP while fighting a giant mob getting guns in Muldraugh and was hanging around there for a long time, killing, and looting the guns, books and VHS store in the area, and sorting the car with all the dead around it.
I thought for sure I was infected when the sickness moodle cam up, but as I was making my way home to stash the loot and drink some bleach, I thought about it twice and remembered corpse sickness. Turned out that's all it was.
You got a wound bee4 and the infection from dead bodies got inside thr wound. It has happened to me actually. But I don't think you can get sick by just being close to dead bodies. At least I've never slept surrounded by curpses._.
@@theman20033You do get sick by being near dead bodies for too long. It can be pretty deadly, especially if you take a nap near them. As for the infection, it's only from zombie hits.
The hidden floorboards thing is so clutch! Local loot goblin approved
Never had any idea....100's of hours in this game.
I actually had this happen last playthrough, but it was under a corner cupboard so i was really confused!
Loot on!
Always make sure to get a spoon and some empty bowls.
If you just tell your character to 'Eat' the food once it's done cooking, they'll slurp whatever it is right out of the cooking pot. If you have empty bowls you can portion it out and freeze it, but more than anything it increases the happiness your character gets from eating food. You can basically avoid getting depressed just by regular hygiene and using cutlery.
Ooooooh that's what it's for
I was just using the "drink/eat half" option
Thanks
The cleaning is actually an important gameplay mechanic. Idk if it's implemented again after the huge update, but previously Zombies can smell rotting corpses of other zombies, wet fresh blood, bleeding wounds and, you guessed it, dried blood on the walls. If this feature isn't already in build 41, it will be readded eventually. Cleaning had a purpose in the past and it will again.
i'm pretty sure they can smell rotting of other zombies because whenever i have a huge pile of zombies i will ALWAYS get more in that area it gets really annoying when it's near the storage unit in Muldraugh.
@@nathanielweller25 my current character has been using that to simply draw more in and now that entire street to the church is a bloody nightmare I try not to get to close to so I don't get sick. That hotel next door is also pretty thick with flies at this point.
oh dang, i was going by walking dead rules, i thought the corpses were keeping the others away
@@namekman01 Yeah nah, PZ zombies are much more closely related to Romero zombies. Not 100%, but you can pretty much take any Romero zombie rule and apply it to PZ if you don't know the specifics of the game.
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But Zomboids don't seem to be afraid of fire...
OMG.. I found a map with a single house marked with no text.. went there, found nothing. It HAD to be a floorboard I must have missed!? I am going back to check! 😎 I never knew about those, many thanks Lime!
OOoh, hope it goes well
@Noice guy beats krap why portal man
Did you find a stash?
And did you find it?
I think a sneaky bathroom zombie got em
You can also remove the panes of windows with a crowbar and replace ones in any base you might have
YO my base needs this so bad and I actually have a crowbar!! Thank you!
Update: My character died a long time ago but I forgot to tell until today.
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There's a reason the devs chose green and red light for those electronic lamps...
Realism!
In real life, militaries have long used low level red light in dark situations where they need to read a map or look at something but cannot risk burning out or "bleaching" their eyes' innate night vision abilities. Low level red light doesn't bleach your night vision because the rods in your eyes are less sensitive to the color red within longer wavelengths of light. Although red is the iconic "night-use color" of light, there has been a shift recently to using green light or a blue-green light instead of red. Green allows retention of night vision as well as greater visual acuity and better differentiation between colors, but this is of course still at low-light levels.
Fun fact:
You probably know your eyes contain two major types of photoreceptor neurons: rods and cones.
Cones are active in brighter conditions and they're also responsible for color perception.
Rods are active in low light or dark conditions.
This is why when you're outside at night without any light sources, you might start to notice everything looks almost totally "black and white." Color perception is biologically tied to the type of photoreceptors which are only active in higher-light conditions (cones.)
Rods outnumber cones 20 to 1 (you have about 120 million rods vs about 6 million cones,) so your rods, overall, are more sensitive because there are just way more of them.
i always assumed the red light thing was so the light would be less visible over distance, so less chance of giving you position away while still being able to see what you are doing without nvg, never occurred to me it was meant to protect your eyes. guess ya learn something new everyday
@@AtrociousAK47 I was taught this in the military, but I never really thought red was that much harder to see at distance. I honestly think @Nick C 's explanation makes more sense lol
In addition, red is the last visible colour in the spectrum as it has the longest wavelength.
We had red plastic filters to use on nightwatch for our flashlights in bootcamp. You knowledgeable, great explanation!
@@AtrociousAK47 It's actually easier to see at a distance. Think about the sunset- it's the last color you see. Laser pointers are another good example. You ever see yellow laser pointers
The floorboards bit surprised my newbie ass when I'm playing. I was dismantling a bed when it showed that there is a floorboard loose filled to the brim with magazines-- I quickly assumed that whoever slept on that bed, is a guy, and laughed a bit 'cause I thought it's a clever easteregg left by the devs.
lmfaooo, thats great!
on one of my most recent runs i found a house full of corpses like not zombies but just regular dead people and further inside the house a hulking zombie came towards me and tried to kill me it had leather gloves a hockey mask and a machete on it all covered in blood so i made the logical assumption on what happened there. It's interesting that the game has little lore bits like that in it. I've also heard of another player going into what they described as a room that looked like a teenager's bedroom inside the found a rope, i think they said a pencil, and a empty notebook.
@@nathanielweller25 There used to be houses filled with toiletpaper, but they removed those for being to factual...
@@SeedlingNL nope, they still exists, found one in my recent run.
One of the houses we went into had two naked zombies in the bedroom with clothes littered all over the floor and alcohol all throughout the house. I love the way they leave funny things like that since our morales were low when we found those two lol.
A lot of people often miss the utilisation of luring zombies indoors to loot a key, with locked garage groups.
If storage area has a row of storage units and one of them is opened, you can lure zombie in it and kill it inside storage cell. If the zombie drops a key - it will unlock all other storage cells in this row.
Does this work with cars?
@@Vogt156 nope.
If you get some zombies spawn specifically with cars - like a police roadblock with a handful of polise officer zombies nearby - there is a hefty chance one of the zombies has a key.
But for random cars in the parking lots - no. You can't lure zombies to a car hoping that the key will eventually drop.
@@pavelZhd yea that's why i always learn hot wire skill rather fast...
In my last run i even cheated keys to cars i already hotwired since (as far as i know) it's just a cosmetic thing
To each his own, but this sounds really cheesy for me so I'll actively avoid it.
That's just cheating though, not a helpful tip. I don't care if you cheat in a singleplayer game, but the point is more that you may as well just change your settings to not have any locked doors, if you don't enjoy the game mechanic of locked doors. Much easier.
Dude. Over 100 hours in and I had no idea there were floor stashes, or battery powered lights, or face paint.
Keep in mind if you mod the game these may appear empty. If using mods that replace vanilla weapons like Britas weapon pack.
Thing is i knew about this my first hour playing when i found 2 in 2 different houses in the same play thru
@@kaliban4758 count yourself among the 1% my friend lol
One thing about this game, no matter how many hours you've put into it, you still find out things you didn't know before.
100%
@@TheBeardedScotsman for real, im a newbie and i spend 8 hours a day to play
One thing you forgot to mention is that when you fast forward, the game will slow time back to normal when an enemy approaches.
Does this also apply if you’re doing an action.
@@Krab17 yeah. If your reading or working on a car when the zed gets close it will go back to normal speed.
Yeah, That feature can be really handy, but I had to turn it off for once instance with the superb survivors mod. I was reading a book and trying to fast forward through it but the game kept slowing it back down because a group of hostile survivors where pushing eachother outside the house i was in.
I was like some old guy who couldn't be bothered, staring out a window shaking my fist like "hey you darn kids, Quite your tomfoolery, I'm trying to read."
but you need good reflexes. its like half of a sec left to zombie attack you
1:39 tip by the way. Blood around the house causes bandages applied to you to get dirty faster and may get the wound infected
Regarding sneaky back attacks, the same thing also applies to zombies. If you manage to sneak behind zombies, knives have a one-shot animation that always work when hitting zombies from behind. I'm not sure about other weapons, but they also might deal higher damage without special animations.
Yeah, just watch the other hand (not holding the knife) suddenly moves up. That's the time to strike.
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With other weapons what you can do is push them, they will fall to the ground instantly and you can kill them
I think most weapons have a much higher chance of knocking the zombie to the ground, also if you crouch while sneaking up on them you get sneaking xp
they need to add "depression" moodle like in rimworld where the aesthetics of the room effect your feelings.
-3 ate food without table
@@Pr1vateLime xD
This already exist.
@@Pr1vateLime I cry everytime. No table why live.
eat some plain pasta and your lad will be on the verge of committing
If you have multiple inventories in range (e.g. a warehouse with boxes) you can switch quickly between them by keeping the mouse pointer in the inventory area and shift-mousewheel.
I never knew this, thanks for the tip!
or just mousewheel in the middle section
Another tip: never put more than 2 barricades per window side, as it will block your vision to the outside.
Part 2 to this tip: you can barricade both sides of a window, providing double the security.
Challenge idea: Train life. You start with 3 vehicles (I think you said that was the max total? The way you phrased it sounded like you could hitch two cars, plus the driving car, for a total of three) and they stay hitched together the entire game. You can switch around which one is in front, but you must always keep all three cars, and that must be your only base the whole game.
One benefit to this challenge is AMPLE amounts of storage. Plus, even if you only ever use one car as the front car, if you find a source of gasoline you can always fill all three tanks up and just siphon the gas later for your main care. Some negatives, though, are no fortifying anything, slow speeds, and a lot of repair work, so I think there's a decent trade off! I'd love to see someone try something like this.
Bonus: If you use a boat as one of them, you might even be able to drag the cars out into the water! I'm not sure if they sink, though, I've never tried it. But it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't based on how the game works, so you could switch things around so the boat is the leader and just head out into the water for a while. Zombies can't swim so you could easily use that for safe sleeping, if that does work.
500+ hours of game play and i didnt know about floor stashes! Thanks for the insight
same here lol, how am I still finding new stuff about this game xD
Wow, I recently started playing PZ and wouldn't of even thought that the floor boards were anything other than cosmetic. Thank you for my future cool loot :)
Quick tip for towing! When your towing a vehicle similar to real life if your in low gear in this game preferably 1 you can tow the cars at a higher speed. The way I keep it from shifting into second is keeping the cruise control at a very low speed and it won’t shift up which will let you go much faster.
6:41 i think this also works if theres a pesky wreck blocking a road you frecuent, say if you have a set road to do a gas run to fill the generator every time, then you can actually tow and move the wrecked cars that are in the way, of course this doesnt work with completely destroyed cars, those you still need the blowtorch and wielding mask to get rid off, but i have used this feature a lot to clear out roads hehe
Another benefit to cleaning up blood is that you want to clean any blood on ground where you plan on growing crops. If infected blood is on that ground when you plant, you can easily get diseased crops.
Not entirely hidden but you can use bleach bottles to store water, seen so many let's players looking for water bottles and mugs while they could use the emptied bleach
I did this but when i hover the mouse over it it says something about purifying contents in the microwave so im a but afraid to use it
@@t7_br0k3n3 If I remember right, the text tells you that you can only purify the contents in a microwave, because the bottle is plastic. So if you're trying to purify dirty water, you can't do so in a stove or fire.
@@HolyApplebutter ohh now i undertand thanks
And if your on multiplayer and want to get rid of one of them you can just swap the water for bleach 😂
Whiskey bottles are better. They have the best water to weight ratio
I would say around 95% of these "Things I wish I knew before playing" videos are filled with things I learned myself early on within the first week of playing a game.
Well I've been binging this game for about a week now as a new player but THIS video is filled with useful information I did not know!
Thank you for making this.
If you take the hemophobic trait the cleaning becomes a lot more important. Your character will become panicked by the blood around your base, making it important to keep a clean place.
I guess that means having a blood room would be a good idea for boredom.
I like your voice. Its clear, even when you mess up, and concise enough to easily understand. Your points don't ramble, and you have just enough playfulness to add personality to the video. Nice
Your commentary is becoming very refined and charismatic
Great content as usual
Glad you think so!
You don't need the towed vehicle to be facing the towing vehicle. You can connect it's back as well.
After watching this, my long term runs have been getting a ton more entertaining, with all these tips it helps me live longer, then in term gives more things to screw around with. Like base customization, dicking around with some new mods, or just havin fun smacking a few zeds silly. Your videos always makes me chuckle keep on making stuff, because I'll keep watching it.
Wearing any type of masks, .ie face mask, gas mask, welding mask, helps preventing corpse sickness.
I don't know why, but that red at 3:21 reminds me about the 28 XXX later saga (28 Days Later & 28 Weeks Later). When the official NPCs made their way trough, it'd cool to use that lightning in a refugee camp before a zombie attack.
Oh yea! That would be a great raid aesthetic lol
The melee weapon outline CHANGED MY LIFE! Thanks for the video!
Instant Sub, after seeing so many people cover the same things constantly. this is the first guide where I didn't know like 80 percent of it. Thanks a lot, super helpful
Hidden feature I only learneed this year; You can replace windows if you have a crowbar. The higher your carpentry, the lower the chance the window will break when you remove it.
Another thing. When you burn bodies or have burned ash piles a broom can clean that up.
Oooooooh, I didnt know that!
i just discovered this on a reddit post, if you boil water you can use it to sanitize bandages you can pickup curtains too.
Those tips might seem small, but they can make a real difference when playing!
I didn't actually know about those floorboards myself, gonna have to keep an eye out for those :D
It really blows my mind that people that have played for 100s of hours still don't know some of these things.
It's not surprising considering that none of it is explained, and in a game with no saving trying something new can get you killed
What blows my mind, is I try to learn all I can; I read the wiki a bunch, and still I miss things.
@@nerfherder4284 Yeah, that's the charm of this game. Play smart, play safe lead to stay safe. Knowing your limitations save your ass 95% of the time.
@@nerfherder4284 It is explained very clearly in the patch notes with each release.
I'll add a common one. Under settings, if you change the 3D Icon on and off, you can see car keys and objects on the floor easier. It doesn't look as pretty as with the 3D, but you can turn it back on once you're done with your item hunting.
funny how I've played almost one thousand hours of this game and NEVER knew about the hidden stash. :O
Hey Lime! Thanks for the content you make just chilling and waiting to see my main man Boxman. I saw a video about a zombie game named Terminus on steam. Maybe it might peak your interest because it seems like a turn based project zomboid.
I'll check it out!
Best tip: Never ever step a foot further than riverside, zombies from West Point are brutal and no matter how few of them are, you will die.
I died as soon as i drove over the border
As someone that likes vehicles, the towing one is really useful. Don't want to be doing a ton of mechanic work in a dangerous area, so it's good to know you can tow it someplace safer.
good voice, good editing, and a lot of things i didn't know you deserve the like keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do!
This was awesome! I've been playing PZ for years, and some of these I didn't know! (I've even been known to move my base because it got dirty from zombie gore! This is a huge lifesaver!)
O lord. I have played PZ for hundreds of hours and did not know about Melee outline option and resume normal speed! That really is 2 options that should be ticked on by default! Do not like the outline but when I started playing it had helped me a bunch!
But that return to normal speed sounds like something really useful that I must check out! If only time was able to pause if a Z got to close to you... So many deaths to a Ninja Z sneaking up to me when I take a sip/eat and speeding up the game! You expect to have time to take your eyes of screen and BAM! A Z bite strike! :C Have cheated multiple times due to that kind of unfair deaths over the many games of PZ!
Rest I have picked up on my own, except the face painting stuff.
Happy to hear that the vets are getting something out of it as well!
I always pause when I have to do something irl you should too it’ll save you big time, even if I’m in my safe house I pause.
Quality content. Really helpful video with nothing superfluous, incomprehensible, irrelevant, self-indulgent, irritating or otherwise time wastey. Thanks.
Great video! (as always!) The makeup tip is new to me! Thats cool and funny, I always wondered what that was used for.
Another feature you need to mention is how MANY good mods this game has, it makes the game so much better to add the right mods, such as the trailers mod, maybe do a video with which mods are best to add to make your experience better and more in depth. :)
I never knew you could clean! This changes everything!
Your channel turned me into a major fan of Project Zomboid
This fancied my tickle well done! *I found orange bulbs on the previous idk about the new one.
Oh dude no idea about the floor stashes and towing. The latter will be so useful as there are a couple accidents near my base and I can clear them out of the road. Great video!
Didn't know you could clean blood off the walls.
The more I know about this game the more I fall in love.
Thanks! :D
Thank you PublicLemon, very cool!
Ive hardcore played this game for a bit a while back, never knew you could tow other cars. Idk if its new or old but thats awesome.
It’s a feature that was added in a patch or two ago, I forget when but it’s great.
The clown makeup will forever change how I play Zomboid. Appreciate it!
Cleaning, cosmetics, and towing are the new things I learned about from this video. Thanks! :D
Thanks for sharing man. New to the game and really dig your videos. Yo, whats the mod you are using @ 5:50 that shows the percentage of damage going down for the body part?
Not a mod, just the games debug mode!
You can enable it by using "-debug" in the launch code options
This game has been in early access since I started high school 9 or so years ago
Ive been playing since I was like 9
Learned a couple things (floor boards was a big one). Thanks.👍
Brilliant! Thanks as always Pr1vateLime
i have close to a hundred hours in this game and i still learned about cleaning and towing, that sneaky vehicle menu is very sneaky but useful
The Cleaning, Lamp Lights, Floor Stashes, and Towing were all new to me. Thanks 😁
Oh, those weapon caches, never knew that XD
Gonna look out for those.
Great job going over features we veterans still didn't know!
In one of my runs with friends- we actually learned about the corpse sickness. So I mostly just started burying bodies like it was nothing lol
Any chance you'd consider making a playlist of your tips&tricks and guide videos?
I'm only recently starting up the game again after I don't even know how many years since buying it (even then I didn't play enough to learn much, though it was very basic at the time anyway) and your videos of this type have been super helpful for me so far. I'd love to be able to easily link a playlist like that to my friends once I manage to convince them to play it with me, so they can get up to speed on some of the less obvious aspects of the game.
Underated asf. If only I heard about you a little sooner that trick with the aim outline would've been so much more useful because so many times I'm wondering why my character is pushing the wrong way even tho the zombie is right next to him. I just started looking through every setting and I found it a few days ago but if I found this video...
Corpse sickness is nasty 💀 I was taking out a large group of zombies one time, got tired, and figured I'd hop into my truck for a little power nap. I didn't realize I was still in range for corpse sickness. Woke up fully sick and died in a few seconds.
Interesting, I never realized the usage of coloured light bulbs for until I watch this. Also that make up now is really I will NEVER noticed. Thanks!
Very good tips! Despite playing some 100 hrs I wasn't aware of most of them, thanks!
thanks!!!
Great video! A ton of things covered that I had no idea about!
Also worth noting, if I remember right gas masks negate sickness from corpses
I know I’m a year late, but I learned a couple useful things form this! Thanks man!
hidden wisdom enters my brain!!!! Thanks man! I hope you have a great weekend!!!
YOU CAN TOW CARS?! My whole life has been a lie until this point.
Weow! Nice dude, I didn't know the map thing or the towing thing.
Me, 8 minutes ago: "Let me guess, that will be one of those _10 things you didn't know_ videos that contain facts nearly everyone knows about."
Me, now: "I learnt a lot of things. Thank you."
I knew about most of these, but I didn't know about towing. Thanks for the vid!
This guy has all my recommendations
Gred? Im glad you kept that in that fucking killed me lmao
I had to lmao
when a vehicle is turned upside down, by your own doing (the little jeep) or just one you find, towing it with another vehicle usually flips it back on its wheels... when I move bases I prepare multiple vehicles chuck full of stuff, and then at every trip on the way to go I tow a dart-car, the lightest and smallest and then the next day I return with only the small car... rince and repeat... at every run there's an extra car at the new base... before actually moving best to go and clear the road, hotwire or drag cars that block your way, or dismantle them entirely...
You can get super whacky and find other color lightbulbs in vanilla too, they are pretty hard to find though since arent labeled as different.
The icon will be a different shade of bulb though instead of just white.
Best thing i liked is that you can make a paper hat out of a newspaper. Made my day😊
OMG THANK YOU LIME ^0^ I ALLWAYS WONDERED IF YOU CCOULD CLEAN WALLS AND STUFF
These helped so much! I'm on my first few playthroughs. This game is super complicated but I understand a bit better now :)
Towing would be nice to know yesterday. I found a taxi with the keys in glove box not too far from base. In State of Decay 2 you need to manually drive any car you want to keep so I didn’t think about it. I dropped off my main car, ran to the taxi, remembered I forgot the gas, ran back to base, back to the taxi, took some tries to start it. Took it to base.
If I knew about towing, it’d be one step. Thank you.
That towing one........ CLUTCH. omg how many times I have played leap frog moving 2 vehicles
I had no idea that there could be hidden caches under the floorboards! I'll definitely keep my eyes peeled in the future! Thanks Lime!
The other day I was just messing around and I found a house with a bunch of cheerleader and jock corpses and a bald zombie carrying a machete and wearing a ski mask, which I thought was a neat Easter egg
Last one is great tip, had no idea that was possible
I have a decent amount of hours in Zomboid, and I was unaware of a lot of these tips. Thanks!