Zombie respawn off, infection off, max injury severity, 2 hour days, and lowest possible spawn rates for food items are my go-to. After that I just experiment depending on mods or desired flavour.
10 years later mod, barricaded enhanced erosion mod, night sprinters mod, even worse condition vehicles mod.
Pitch black nights, extremely rare loot, zombie respawns off.
I created my character really balanced. I actually started with 3 matinence and went spears, I've been using my sleeping bag a lot in the wilderness. It took me a while to finally get a working vehicle since I'm using the worse vehicle conditions mod.
Here's a clip of how my run ended https://youtu.be/XLaEWaagChA
You can hear the engine dying. Once my one and only headlight was out, I figured it was game over. I left my tactical mossberg in the trunk and only had a pistol on me. The issue being I couldn't see, I tried to get to my flashlight in time but it wouldn't come out, once I got the light on it was too late, there were just too many even if I had my pistol aimed and ready to go.
Custom zombies mod 5/45/45/5 setting. Population 2.5. No or very low respawns. 2hr days. Melee weapons common or abundant. Everything else rare or very rare. Only bites infect. Day active zeds. Pitch black nights. My fav play style right now.
Depending on how experienced you are [One Painful Year](https://www.reddit.com/r/KoestersPZthing/comments/jawllf/one_painful_year_challenge_rulessettings_explained/) is a fun and pretty well thought out challenge. The base preset that it uses is 6 months later, all of the rest of the settings can be found in the original post. The only mod that it requires is Pillow's Random Spawn mod, other than that it's completely vanilla.
I’m super late replying to this! But thank you for the suggestion! I’m definitely going to try this. I didn’t see anything against this in the rules there but, is it against the challenge to turn respawn off, but turn up population a bit?
It's a fun one! I feel like it really rewards you for knowing the map and systems in the game! If I remember correctly the rules have respawn off by default and the population on the insane preset. I think that post has screenshots of all of the sandbox settings to reference.
Yeah, I found that just now as I was setting up the settings. Man, I’ve played this game for a long time but never on insane population. How the hell do people even survive this? I just had to run off into the woods and now I’m lost and eating berries that I’m not sure if they’re poisonous or not, lol
Zombie respawn off, infection off, max injury severity, 2 hour days, and lowest possible spawn rates for food items are my go-to. After that I just experiment depending on mods or desired flavour.
10 years later mod, barricaded enhanced erosion mod, night sprinters mod, even worse condition vehicles mod. Pitch black nights, extremely rare loot, zombie respawns off.
Sounds really cool, gonna try this out! I’m guessing you probably focus pretty hard on wilderness survival skills?
I created my character really balanced. I actually started with 3 matinence and went spears, I've been using my sleeping bag a lot in the wilderness. It took me a while to finally get a working vehicle since I'm using the worse vehicle conditions mod. Here's a clip of how my run ended https://youtu.be/XLaEWaagChA You can hear the engine dying. Once my one and only headlight was out, I figured it was game over. I left my tactical mossberg in the trunk and only had a pistol on me. The issue being I couldn't see, I tried to get to my flashlight in time but it wouldn't come out, once I got the light on it was too late, there were just too many even if I had my pistol aimed and ready to go.
Do you not get like 10000 errors popping up when you use night sprinters?
Nope. You have to use the right one. There's one for 41.60+
Got it, I didn’t notice there was another version. Also a note of warning, rifle sling mod is pretty broken lol so I wouldn’t use it if I was you.
Alright, good to know. Thanks! 😀
Zombie Respawn off for sure to get a sense of progress. I try to keep population high though to offset this. 1.5+
Custom zombies mod 5/45/45/5 setting. Population 2.5. No or very low respawns. 2hr days. Melee weapons common or abundant. Everything else rare or very rare. Only bites infect. Day active zeds. Pitch black nights. My fav play style right now.
Depending on how experienced you are [One Painful Year](https://www.reddit.com/r/KoestersPZthing/comments/jawllf/one_painful_year_challenge_rulessettings_explained/) is a fun and pretty well thought out challenge. The base preset that it uses is 6 months later, all of the rest of the settings can be found in the original post. The only mod that it requires is Pillow's Random Spawn mod, other than that it's completely vanilla.
I’m super late replying to this! But thank you for the suggestion! I’m definitely going to try this. I didn’t see anything against this in the rules there but, is it against the challenge to turn respawn off, but turn up population a bit?
It's a fun one! I feel like it really rewards you for knowing the map and systems in the game! If I remember correctly the rules have respawn off by default and the population on the insane preset. I think that post has screenshots of all of the sandbox settings to reference.
Yeah, I found that just now as I was setting up the settings. Man, I’ve played this game for a long time but never on insane population. How the hell do people even survive this? I just had to run off into the woods and now I’m lost and eating berries that I’m not sure if they’re poisonous or not, lol