Your First Week | Project Zomboid Tutorial Gameplay Build 41 Day 1

alrighty guys welcome to a new guide or tutorial series on the channel i feel like a lot of newcomers are having trouble and since my first day video was so well received and helped you all out i decided to turn that type of video into a series going over the first week in project zomboid i'll be playing just through an apocalypse save with a clean slate character and just going in depth about my thought process and decision making i hope you all enjoy also before we continue make sure you are on build 41 build 41 is with all the cool animations and sneaking and all those cool features so make sure you're on build 41 or else your game will be completely different from what i'm actually playing ciao alrighty guys welcome to your first week in project zomboid after the disaster the mechanics series that i did i decided i'd take a little chill pill on things and i just go through a normal week an apocalypse real slow paced real cool and just go into my thought process and what i think and what i want to do when i'm surviving hopefully it helps you guys out and hopefully you guys can survive longer as a result now we spawned in muldraw moldova is definitely one of the more beginner friendly cities that in the riverside i think are the best rosewood is definitely third and lastly is gonna be west point west point you don't really wanna spawn in there as there are a lot of zombies to deal with anyways it seems like we spawned in the richer type neighborhood this is a very common spawn in muldraw and actually i think we're going to base up here now when you first start off zomboid you don't want to go too far away from your beginner house if you can help it usually the more familiar the terrain is the better you will do especially with how we're going to be clearing out some small groups of zombies so we're going to give this entire place a little run down see what we actually have cooking we have some remy laid yeah nothing too crazy ice cream actually really good ice cream is actually one of the best items to take food wise since we're gonna be living in here i'm not gonna worry too much about it because you know it's already in the freezer but this never goes bad and it almost has 1600 calories in it so it's very dense very low weight type of food here so we're just gonna be trying to look for a weapon we have a can opener can openers are good and i guess before i loot anymore some of the items you want to take on the way at least at the very start is going to be a bag a weapon and basic tools like a saw and hammer with those you'll be able to do a lot more with your character so if we could find it that'd be great another thing is you want to be mindful of actually how much weight your character takes on so i highly recommend not taking any canned food other than canned corn beef or can of chili because this canned tomato here it only has 90 calories yet it almost weighs an entire kilogram and since we only have 12 kilograms of space because we don't have a bag that's not really the best if we're trying to get a lot of loot and keep on the move now we're actually getting a lot of good stuff here a can of oats is probably one of the better as well 1500 calories with minus 50 hunger really good and coffee is actually one of the best things to grab with you your character gets tired over time and so having this on hand basically eating this entire thing of coffee allows your character to stay awake for much longer there's really no side effects to it as well other than the thirst and unhappiness of course so actually now that i think about it i'm gonna take this tea bag and i'm gonna keep it on my character basically this is gonna be like a nice little energy drink eating the entire tea bag seems a little bit iffy but trust me it'll help out if your character's tired and out in the middle of nowhere we also got some vitamins which is basically like a tea bag without any of the you know downsides i'll take that as well so we're just gonna be taking a look around probably not going to get a lot out of here but this is a very good spawn so i'm very happy about that hopefully luck continues to rear its head so we're going to go check upstairs now the first thing you want to know as well no zombies are going spawn in your starter house so feel free to just take it as slow as you want there's gonna be no one banging at the door upstairs now actually right here we have a radio this is gonna be especially useful if we wanna level up our electricity skill which we currently can't do that right now because we don't have a screwdriver but it's also going to be useful to check them just in case if they have the emergency broadcast system all i did is i right clicked the radio and went into device options sometimes these radios will have a hidden frequency and that will basically give you the news of an incoming chopper or just the weather in general so it's really nice to keep an eye on these you can also get free batteries out of these if you want to power up a say a flashlight or something all you have to do is right click it to remove the battery since there's nothing on this right now we're gonna leave it be especially since this is our starter home now if we could get a bag out of the start that would be good but it doesn't seem like we're gonna get that lucky yeah we're gonna have to venture out a little bit further check out the neighborhood maybe clear out a few zombies here and there okay right here we have quite a bit of good stuff disinfectant is gonna be great we're gonna leave it in here as that's gonna be real useful to have for medical purposes we also have a sheet here now sheets are really useful because what you can do is you can right click it and rip these into sheets these uh rip sheets are essentially makeshift bandages for your character always having like i'd say five bandages on your inventory at all times is a must in this because it is very easy to scratch your jugular and bleed out really quickly like you won't even realize like you will have blood out now if you don't find a sheet normally you can also find a window here there's a lot of options for this window see this actually has a pair of curtains on it so what we can do is we can remove the curtains and then we can rip up the sheets that way or on the contrary i'm actually going to keep this pair of sheets on me or this the sheet on me because what we're going to be able to do is we're going to be able to make makeshift curtains so if some of the windows downstairs don't have any curtains we can add them on as you see there's some more right here but this is another easy way to actually get bandages you can remove the curtains and rip up the sheet and if you're really strapped for time you can rip up your own clothing into makeshift bandages as well we're gonna try and make this place as defendable as possible so getting some curtains on some of these windows is going to be nice thankfully it seems like we actually have a few already on here we also have some skill books advanced to metalworking and first aid for beginners the way these skill books work is um let's say you take first aid for beginners you read it all the way through you're gonna get a stat multiplier for the first two levels of that skill so it's i think it's a 2.5 increase so you won't get any xp from reading the books directly but reading the book and then doing the skill will increase your workload by a lot so what we're going to be doing right now is we're going to be closing these curtains and we're also going to turn on this television there is a life and living tv show and we might be able to get some skills out of it uh i think it's six to nine to some of these there i'll drop the actual times for each of these uh tv shows but basically what this allows you to do is get some skills very early on if the right program is playing it yeah see as you see we're getting carpentry level 12 i mean not level 12 xp right now just make sure on the life and living tv channel sadly we don't have a clock so we can't exactly gauge what time this is but it's always good just to keep them on when you're looting through homes in general because it is going to be very nice to level up very quickly yeah i will keep all the time stamps for each tv show for each day in the description that'll take up quite a bit of a chunk but hopefully it'll help you all out okay so that seems like it's gonna be it for now and as you see that immediately increased our carpentry level to level one okay we're just gonna leave that running we're gonna make sure it's actually at a small volume as well we're only gonna go one bar on this so it doesn't attract any zombies nearby so let's go add in a sheet to this window and we're gonna go close that as well there we go okay so we still need a container and we still need a quite a few things so the back door there is one but we don't actually have a lot of windows which is great so we're gonna add in i don't think we can add in oh we can't add in a sheet onto the store there we go and we'll close the curtains on that as well okay so at least we've kind of like shut ourselves in nice little quarantine and i think it's about time we head outside sadly we weren't able to get a weapon or a bag in our starter home but maybe we can get lucky by checking out the neighborhood you can press e to quickly open doors or you can click it normally as well okay so first things first what you want to do as soon as you leave your house scroll out all the way and just take in the inventory you know what's really going on here as you see we have a group of five zombies that's not exactly something we want to take on right now and we're just gonna hug the wall of our house here one cool little thing is that the closer you are to like furniture in the wall the less detectable you are as you see our character is kind of doing like a half's half squat you can press c to go into this mode by the way in the sneak mode and as you see if we get closer to furniture and to the walls our character takes on a little bit lower her profile which does actually help out with detection so we have quite a few zombies in the area this is not exactly the best this is why you don't want to like run out immediately when you first start and actually we have ourselves a mint condition minivan here holy hell this is really good chances that it's locked are probably high yeah okay so we're not going to be able to break into this just yet if we get a weapon we might be able to smash open the passenger side but that van is completely off limits to us right now so we have quite a few zombies in the area not exactly the best we got quite a few at that wreck up there i think what we're gonna do is we're gonna try and cut through this way there are a couple of zombies but it should be no problem for us if they do see us generally fighting two zombies is gonna be a little bit of a pain you gener generally want to go for a 1v1 scenario that's gonna be the best and it's probably gonna be the most survivable okay there are actually quite a few idiots here let's just keep on coming into the side let's see if we can actually open this up it's just this guy in here right now okay so we got one zombie on us now whenever we want to engage with combat we always want to be moving while holding right click you never want to stand still and push because you know that the chances that you actually get grabbed are a lot higher now once we push them over we're going to be able to right click left click and bash his brains in but before that one cool little tip i've covered this in the first 24 hours but i'll cover it again because it is especially useful you can sit on top of a zombie and they can't move this goes with zombies as well say there's a zombie on top of a downed zombie they're not gonna be able to move until you leave off their corpse so what this allows you to do is stand on top of a zombie you pushed over and then attack the one that's coming at you that's standing up super useful for taking on 2v ones so we're going to bash in his head it seems like no one else has hurt us okay so let's try and attract this guy without too much of a problem we're going to enable sneak mode and uh they're getting pretty close together let's see if we can attract at least one of them hey there we go okay it seems like she did see us there are quite a few here now thankfully they're coming in one on one and we won't have to you know run away or at least do some invasive maneuvers here let's bash her brains in you can also press space okay now we have two zombies coming in so we're always gonna be backing up make sure no one's coming up behind us and we're gonna back up and push just keep on backing up and pushing we should be able to get them over in time and now we can bash in her brains and then this guy's going to get back up we're going to make sure no one's coming up behind us and we're going to push him over okay he did get away there we want to be very cautious with these zombies and there we go we just wiped out four of them now this guy actually does have a leather jacket on him and i would suggest wearing this as it does give a lot of armor defense here i guess i'll show you guys so if i were to say wear this jacket right now and i were to go into my health menu this is a health menu by the way this is where you're gonna be able to see exactly what's going on with you you have your info you have your skills health and your protection as you see wearing that leather jacket has given me 40 scratch protection and 20 bite defense now the only problem is that it's gonna it's gonna it's gonna heat us up so we're gonna leave this on the floor right now we'll come back for it later when it's a little bit cooler we're also gonna drop uh the clothing off these zombies on the ground as zombies do decay over time so if you survive for let's say a month or so these uh once you know rotting corpses are gonna be skeletons and then they'll be reduced to ashes now this zombie actually had a classic wristwatch so we're going to be wearing that just so we can tell what time it is there we go it's currently 2 30 so it's pretty decent time for it we got all their clothing on the floor so it doesn't decay when they decay so let's continue trying to assault this house with our beautiful watch in hand so before we even think of entering it i want to make sure that this place is completely clear and it seems like there's still one more idiot lingering here let's also do zombies up over there so let's see if we can attract him we're going to go into sneak mode and we're going to press q to actually go into a whisper shot type deal this is really useful for if a zombie isn't like actually targeting you and you want to um you want to get their attention it is a very it's very low radius but that's probably for the best as you want to be pretty stealthy when you're doing it so we got his attention let's push him over and bash in his brains there we go didn't have anything good on him now these windows right here they're smashed and if we had say a melee weapon on hand we'd actually be able to remove this broken glass and go through it safely but because we don't have an item in our left or right hand we're not going to be able to go through there so we're going to look for an untouched window and we're gonna try and jimmy it open we can press e or we can right click and try and open it up there is a chance that it is completely jammed and we're not gonna get lucky but it seems like we did the window chance uh i think modifier is actually affected by strength so the stronger you are the more chances you will actually have of uh succeeding so this is a little bit of a hot zone we know our potential exit but before we do anything else i want to make sure this door is unlocked and ready to go this is gonna be one of my potential exits and if it does hit the fan i'm gonna be running at a moment's notice and just zooming right for the exit okay so we have an idiot here let's um attract your attention with a quiet shout yep bring her down over here we're actually going to lead her out into the open i don't really like fighting zombies inside enclosed buildings like this if i can help it being out in the open gives you so many advantages now i guess i'll go into the moodlets a little bit right now we're getting a little bit peckish a little bit thirsty and slightly panicked so panic is pretty bad basically the more zombies your character is introduced to the more panicked your character gets and that means they are less effective in combat so you always want to keep an eye on your panic if you say fight a group of seven zombies your guy is actually gonna be like crapping his pants so we took out that zombie lady in the bathroom it seems so we're gonna make sure there's no one else in here we're also gonna hurry up and switch the uh switch the uh tv channel life and living we might be able to catch a channel now you can religiously follow this but um generally you just want to keep that you want to keep it in the back burner though if you want some skills off to start pick the times of the skills that you want the most i think carpentry goes from like 12 to something like that and then just work off there okay so what i did there is i actually spammed e if you spam e really oh okay maybe that wasn't the best idea okay maybe not but usually spamming allows you to get a nice little i guess window into his you know into like an area now that didn't really work out maybe i'm not so fluent in dorfu but we actually did get a house key so that actually allows us to lock some of the main doors so since we are so close to home we are going to be taking just about everything we can get our grubby little mitts on right now a cooking pot actually really good you want to you want to stockpile cooking pots and containers especially since uh the water and electricity will go out so just filling up as many containers as possible is gonna be very helpful for your survival okay so we have a closet here now a few things you can do is you can do a quiet shout on the other side of the door that should attract zombies just in case if there are like a group of five zombies behind the door because there are times when there will be like 10 to 20 zombies literally jam-packed into a bathroom so there's nothing in there and another thing we can do is we can push it if we push the door there's no one behind here so if you're not feeling too confident confident you can always do that and it seems like we actually got ourselves our first weapon so that's gonna be really nice so we got ourselves a metal pipe not exactly the best condition in damage probably gonna last like three zombies but it is better than nothing so what we're gonna do is we're gonna right click it and attach it to our back this lower hot bar here is actually kind of like your quick your quick selection so since we attached this metal pipe on our back all we have to do is press one and we can equip it immediately and if we want to unequip it we can press one again so it's pretty useful to have and it definitely helps out when you have your main weapon on your back so we actually got quite a few books here now um if you aren't staying nearby your starting house taking books like expert foraging probably won't help you immediately i'd only take beginner or intermediate level books because this is only for level seven to eight and getting to that point is going to require a lot longer than a week another thing we'll do since we're getting a little bit thirsty as we'll drink some of this water coming from the tap now right now it's actually in an unlimited supply as you can see here it says water unlimited you can also wash yourself off completely in these but once the water goes out you will see that it will have a ceiling so we're gonna keep our weapon equipped and we're gonna slowly take it okay there's an idiot here let's see if we can attract his attention with a quiet shout hey buddy come on okay seems like it's not working he's a little bit too preoccupied on the door so we're gonna sneak up behind him and we're gonna hit him in the back of the head and we're gonna finish him off there we go as you see having a weapon really helps oh my god this is really good this right here is actually great we got metal working for inter beginners forging for beginners foraging for intermediates and electricity yeah this is all great this right here this is this is so good and we're also going to take the book because it helps its unhappiness and all of that jazz okay dang that's really good we also got a few magazines for all models of vehicle now i'm still hearing banging so let's make sure that the rest of this place is cleared out before we do anything else okay badger one clear shove this make sure no one else is on the other side okay bedroom two our bathroom clear we got another sheet here and actually this is another thing that we want we want a water container now we could have actually used this empty cooking pot for a water container but i like to find water bottles or even better yet bleach bottles so you're not going to want to drink the bleach what you want to do is you're going to take that into your inventory and what you can do is right click it and pour the bleach on the ground and basically this is a water bottle on steroids it's also very low in weight so we're actually going to do this with the other one as well we want to stockpile water as soon as possible and get ready for the upcoming the upcoming hard times we'll go fill it up at our original house so we're not completely overweight but there we go we got three empty bleach bottles and now what we can do is fill up one of these and this can be our water bottle to go now the good thing is is once you get a water bottle in your inventory you don't have to worry about i guess drinking manually your character will drink automatically so long as there is a bleach bottle or any type of water bottle in your inventory okay so we cleared out our first home here didn't really get anything too crazy one thing we want to keep our eyes out for is actually a um hammer and nails with that we would actually be able to get some barrication done so we're going to open the door let this idiot in and we're going to bash him in the head there we go make sure he has nothing good on him absolutely nothing okay so just like that we cleared out our first home we're taking it super slow we're getting kind of hungry and as a result the more hungry your character is the weaker they are in general so as you see because we are hungry we have a fairly heavy load now the the main downsides to having a heavy load on your character is that you won't be able to do a lot more things so yeah definitely gonna oh i don't really like i don't really like that so we might actually clear them out but for right now i just want to slip into the back of my house here try and avoid them to the best of our ability and we're gonna drop everything off just into this shelf here we can do some inventory management later but for right now that doesn't really matter one thing that i will actually do right now as well is grab my water bottle and we're gonna right click it and we're gonna favorite it so what we're gonna do here favorite and that way we can't actually drop it on the floor accidentally i'm also gonna do the same thing with these sheets there we go another cool thing about um the bourbon that we just got actually is that we can use it to either drink our woes away or we can make a molotov cocktail or we can disinfect rags and use it as a type of disinfectant so if your character does get scratched we're going to be pretty good now it is six o'clock so we might be able to catch a quick broadcast and see look at that we're back on exposure survival so i think the main times are going to be six o'clock three o'clock and 12 o'clock are gonna be your main times you can also change um the time setting so if you don't want to use military time you can uh you can change it to standard time there we go we got ourselves a couple of fishing skills pretty nice pretty nice pretty nice i actually don't recommend speeding up watching through that because sometimes you won't get all the xp that you need so i kind of did a little bit of an oopsie there but we should be all right and before we actually decide to go fight this last group of zombies we are going to grab a quick little bite to eat i want to go through the non-perishable the perishable stuff first so we're going to eat this remelade hopefully we can find some more stuff in the future i want to save the canned stuff for when winter actually hits so we're still slightly peckish but that doesn't affect our strength so now we're gonna head out and i'm gonna teach you a little bit about horde clearing or at least group clearing so we're gonna slowly sneak up on this and as you see all of them are looking at one direction other than this one zombie basically what you want to do is you want to play the awareness game so you want to kind of like bob and weave in and out of their little awareness bubble so it seems like we got this guy pretty isolated so we can bash his brains in real lickety-split now he actually does have a varsity jacket which is one of my favorite jackets because it gives you bite and scratch defense while also not slowing your character down generally with um a lot of these jackets they're uh they're gonna weigh you down by quite a bit we're actually gonna take his entire outfit we're gonna drop it off inside this little laundry room make sure no one else is coming up on us yeah they changed uh it changed location so we're gonna drop this on the floor we're also gonna drop our tank top and t-shirt right now because we don't really need it and all it's going to do is uh is make us a little bit more sweaty and exhausted because it is a hot summer day in kentucky so so i see each of them are looking in separate directions right now i see that this lady right here is looking downward so we're going to try and play with her awareness bubble and we're gonna try and just lead her away so we're gonna slowly move up here try and attract her away from the group there we go okay that's uh that's really good for us let's have her slowly come over we'll shove her over we're bashing her brains now one of the main ways to level up weapons is actually to use them so you can't just use your feet all the time if you want to level it up okay so it seems like these two zombies actually hurt us and that one didn't but since i kind of want to demonstrate group combat real quick i'm gonna attract this guy as well so come on buddy let's go okay so this is when you need to be very cautious about fighting zombies this is this is do or die right here so let's see it okay we're gonna turn around as you see they're all coming in the line this is a good time to attack them because they're all they're all coming in perp and like they're all coming in in a horizontal line and our weapon actually broke so we're gonna try and shove them all away while stepping back i don't recommend fighting more than this amount when you um when you're first starting off but we should be able to shove them over and just try and just keep on backing up while shoving them over we might honestly not get lucky here there we go okay so now we can bash their brains in just keep them all on the ground whoever gets up first you just have to kill them first there we go okay she got back up but since we're standing on top of purple jacket guy they can't do much honestly i recommend wholeheartedly to hop into a little bit easier of a difficulty and just get a gauge for the combat because combat can be a little bit tricky and a little bit finicky okay see that right there uh we just jogged which might have been bad you don't want to jog i highly recommend actually sneaking and then pressing shift to jog because this is a little bit more quieter the only downside is that it exhausts you a little bit faster okay but when they're side by side you don't want to you don't want to attack them when they're side by side that is a no-no so we're going to get weight from them and there we go now they're a little bit more you know hor a little bit more vertical as long as they're not horizontal we should be all right let's see if we can get one more to get shoved over we don't want to be out any longer than this so we're gonna try and kill them right now another cool little tidbit is that the weapon the amount of damage you do with the curb stomp is actually determined by what you're wearing so shoes do more damage than sneakers but sneakers also make you run faster so it's a little bit of a give and take and the boots make you run super slow but they are the most damaging and the most protective okay so we took them out one of the things we need to worry about actually is exhaustion uh a lot of people they'll just keep on going and that will be one of the worst pro like that'll be one of the worst problems you'll ever do because in this game when your character gets tired their productiveness tanks it absolutely tanks into the negatives like the far depths of hell so we're not gonna go out past eight i want i'm gonna head back inside because i don't want to get caught being exhausted outside the only reason why we were able to take on this group of five and be able to be such a powerhouse even with no actual like skills or anything is because we don't have a lot of negative moodlets going against us if our character was exhausted and tired we would have had much harder of a problem killing these idiots so we're gonna head back inside and i think we're gonna call it a day here of course calling it a day is not um actually it yet we're gonna be doing a little bit of reading and we're gonna rest up if your character has been doing a lot of running in a lot of combat going to any chair any bed or any couch even and right clicking and pressing rest allows your character to actually regain their stamina not their fatigue just their stamina which is gonna be super useful so our character is good to go now he's ready to run for the races so yeah we're gonna slow it down for today probably gonna go eat some we really don't have that much food for us yeah we're going to go have some canned tomato we're going to open it up with this can opener and this is going to be food for tonight it should be good enough for dindin straight out of the can see the good thing about vegetables is if your character is overweight it'll be very easy to lose weight but since we are not overweight we're not really bothered by it okay so we're going to spend the rest of the time reading up um we have metal working for beginners forging for beginners and electricity i honestly think forging for beginners is going to be one of the more important ones i will dabble into foraging a little bit this week so what we're gonna do is we're gonna sit in front of the tv and i'm gonna read until around 11 o'clock 11 o'clock is generally a good time for it so since i'm pretty safe in here we have all the windows shut no actual sight lines we can sit down and read for a little while so we're gonna wait till 11 30. okay that should be a good time we're gonna slowly head upstairs we're also gonna turn off this uh tv just in case there we go okay everything's looking good as you see we got through 74 pages out of 220 and if we were to go into our skills we could see that there's an arrow going here and we have a point nine multiplayer the more pages you read the higher the multiplayer it is so we're gonna pick the master bedroom yeah this is a good um a good area we're also gonna shut the curtains in this place as well zombies can sometimes spot you upstairs and if they are nearby i don't suggest turning on and off the lights because that can't attract them to your location so we're going to go to sleep almost 12 o'clock we should be able to get a nice six or i'd say yeah around six hours six to eight hours of sleep and it seems like we actually woke up at 4 30 so we slept a little bit too early 5 30 is generally when it becomes light out so we're gonna wait just a little bit longer speed up time read a little bit more of the book and we're ready for another day out in the apocalypse alrighty i'm gonna end the episode here though if you guys liked this episode please like favorite share subscribe for more and we will continue our second day hopefully we can get a little bit more lucky with tools and supplies but i gotta say that was a pretty good first day anyways you guys liked this episode please like favorite share subscribe for more the next episode will be out shortly i'll see y'all later peace out

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Length: 30min 31sec (1831 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021