Hi if you played Zomboid you’ll know how hard it is! That is why I thought I’d write some useful Project Zomboid Guide 2024 & tips new players and old players alike can use to make the game more fun and help you!
Project Zomboid Guide 2024 – 20+ Tips for NEW & OLD Players
You can disinfect bandages by boiling water and using a rag or bandage. You can take out radios in cars for batteries and electrical parts; it takes no skills to do this.
The herbalist trait can be super useful, and the more you level up foraging, the more use you get out of it. Plus, some traits and occupations increase and decrease chances of finding certain items. Short sighted can lower the chances of finding something, while Cat Eyes helps you find things!
Don’t put generators inside — it will kill you. Generators have a chance of exploding at lower percents. Always forage in homes; you could find extra goodies.
At a higher cooking skill, you can use rotten foods as ingredients, and they will be safe to eat.
Nimble is a super important skill for combat. Make sure to level it up as much as you can by holding the right mouse and moving.
As of at the time of this guide, you can put TVs together on the same channel and get double XP for it. Life and Living is the best one for this.
Sneaking is good, and Lightfooted is how quiet your steps are. Didn’t know this one for awhile. You can use the same key for a door by disassembling the door you have the key for and using the doorknob from that door for your door.
You can barricade a window and door from the inside of a building and the outside. It’ll make it way stronger. Cooking insects is a great way to level up your cooking.
Be careful around corpses. You start taking damage if you stay near them too long. You will get a moodle when you know you’ve been there too long. However, keep in mind if the corpse is there for long enough, maggots will start spawning, which are good for fishing.
The more damaged a gas tank is, the less fuel it can store and the more fuel it uses.
Panic makes you trip more, and other moodles cause similar secret effects. For example, being hungry lowers your body’s heat generation.
Alcohol is a good painkiller and sleeping pill alternative. However, don’t take a sleeping pill and drink.
Vitamins can’t kill you if you take too many.
The emergency broadcast signal is amazing. It is randomized for everyone what frequency it is, but if you find it, you’re good. For example, you can get an idea of when the power’s gonna go out a day in advance or when the helicopter arrives. It’s also good to know what the weather will be like.
You can filter water from a rain collector via plumbing it to a sink. You’ll need it to be plumbed, which requires a pipe wrench and the rain collector above the sink (so the taps inside the house and the rain collectors outside, for example).
Bloody clothes increase non-zombie infections to wounds. You can plumb a washing machine just like a sink, and it can be used to clean clothes and, oddly enough, drink from.
When you have finished with a book, instead of throwing it on the ground, throw it in a fire instead.
Headphones and earbuds can allow you to listen to radios (not ham ones), ValuTech disc players, and walkie-talkies without making any sound.
You can spawn in a zombie-filled home. You can spawn in a home with a house alarm going off.
Shockingly enough, heat and cold can’t kill you, but if left unattended, a small gust of wind could kill you at that point.
You don’t die of old age (old myth). Always loot cars if you can, but be careful — there’s a slim chance a car alarm will go off. Putting the keys in the car, however, if done fast enough, will turn it off.
Carrying too much won’t kill you, but it’ll weaken you for sure. Don’t take too many sleeping pills — it’ll make you sleep forever, or painkillers can do the same thing.
