The BEST Ways to MAX Skills in Project Zomboid

leveling up skills in Project zomboid is one of the most time consuming things you'll need to do in a playthrough after you've put multiple hours into a character you're always just one mistake away from needing to start all over again that's why in this video we will learn how to maximize leveling up your skills the first optimization we're going to cover are character skill XP boosts which are provided by increasing a skills starting level traits and professions influence these starting levels and the higher the starting level from the Baseline the higher the Boost is and one thing to keep in mind is that strength and fitness do not have an XP boost by default as the base character level for both of these skills is five our next optimization is going to be by reading skill books and these skill books are found in containers and bookshelves and are only available for skills in the crafting and survive rivalist categories there are five books for each skill and each book covers a two level range and in order to read these books your current level for the skill has to be within the books range that it covers if you are currently a level 5 in farming you can't go and read the level 9 book the expert book in farming you have to wait until you get to level nine now these books provide a multiplier for your XP gains that is increased for every 10 percent of the book that is read and as an added bonus the maximum multiplier increases for every book in the same skill there's a maximum multiplier of 3x for levels one and two and it goes all the way up to 16x for levels 9 and 10. and also something to keep in mind is that the multiplier needs to be above 1.0 in order to start giving a bonus for example a multiplier of 0.3 will still just give the base XP that you get without any multiplier applied in the first place now if all of these skill books are read optimally the total XP needed to max out a single skill is reduced to 2754 from 32 775 XP points per skill that is an absolutely huge reduction especially when you take into account the 16x multiplier for the levels 9 and 10. the third optimization we're going to cover in this video is watching the life and living channel in the first nine days of a playthrough now this is only going to happen once you can't use this if you end up dying but make sure to take advantage of this through the first nine days life and living mainly covers cooking and carpentry but there are also some episodes for fishing farming trapping and foraging in my opinion I think carpentry is the most valuable and it is usually on at noon daily there are only two exceptions to this on day eight it is on at six pm and day 9 doesn't have a carpentry episode at all it just has cooking at 6am and then the life in living channel will never be on the TV again and now why do I think that the life and living channel is an extremely efficient way to get the XP if you have the fast learner trait equipped you can get a total of 900 XP for carpentry or about a thousand for cooking with the fast learner trait equipped which increases your XP gains and that XP amount provides approximately three and a half levels if you're starting at level one and this is absolutely huge for carpentry because gaining levels in carpentry is very time consuming and requires materials like nails and planks and tools and all of those sorts of things that are harder to acquire cooking you'll just be able to work on over time and if you do happen to catch all of the carpentry episodes you'll be really close to be able to build the level two walls to start fortifying your first base you now have all the knowledge that you need to level up quickly and efficiently in Project zomboid thanks for watching and good luck on your next trip into Knox County

Channel: Retz13

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Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Tue May 02 2023