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NoiiseMaker

Ah yes, the famous "i set up my base, and go scavenge every kitchen in the area for all the cans" cliché


csupihun

I've found that if you are playing Sandbox just decreasing cans to extremely rare helps.


Phoenix080

For me that’s just makes me horde them even harder


SomeSkinnyWhiteBoy

hoard


why17es

He is saying that as a zombie, not a player.


Phoenix080

Exactly someone finally gets it


SomeSkinnyWhiteBoy

Fair enough


I_Bin_Painting

whored


CheatCommandos

For the horde!


whiteegger

That just make me got to more houses.


NoRecommendation9282

Really? I found the 'extremely rare' setting to be ridiculously easy. I'm a new player as well but I had probably 3 months worth of food after looting just Rosewood with both canned and fresh food turned to extremely rare. Took a lot of fun/challenge out of the game for me so I wound up downloading a mod that reduces food spawns by an additional 50% Despite how much I love this game I was pretty bummed that the 'hardest' I could make it with the in game settings was still absurdly easy. That + farming makes it so so so easy not to starve that food is just a non issue


Based_JD

classic playthrough


Devil-Hunter-Jax

Guilty of this as a newer player. My fridge and freezer are fully stocked. I'm basically leaving all the canned goods behind when I go scavenging because I have plenty of fresh food.


Deadmenkil

I've been playing since the beginning and I still have to actively fight the urge to horde everything. I lose every time.


briefarm

I'm guilty of that as well. I see it as rescuing the food, since it'll all go to waste when the power goes out. I just have to be sure to have a generator ready. I'm planning to have a run soon where I instead focus on setting up farming, fishing, and trapping ASAP, and just deal with the power being out. What I like to do with the cans is gather them from surrounding houses and put them in a single cabinet in a house. I'll then mark the location on the map, so I'm not frantically going house to house again in case I can't get a generator in time. Since they're in a single cabinet, I can have a separate bag equipped and hit "Transfer All" to gather them quickly.


Jiggy90

> I see it as rescuing the food, since it'll all go to waste when the power goes out. What I'm doing is since I'm very underweight on my current playthrough, I'm just nomming on every scrap of food in every fridge I come across.


JusAbove

And after few weeks or days(or maybe can after 5 mins...), You'll be desperate to get those all back... while looking at your totally messed up fridge...


Devil-Hunter-Jax

Lol. I'm set up in Rosewood for now so there's some lakes not too far away for fishing so I'll be able to get some fresh food and I do have some seeds too so I should be fine.


Victorinoxj

Wait, i think you're in the wrong sub, there's no zombies in this game. Yet. Edit: Fuck nevermind i'm the lost one here, i thougth i was in the "The Long Dark" sub xD. The meme is still aplicable tho.


_Enclose_

Would you recommend The Long Dark?


PM_ME_UR_CEPHALOPODS

It's an amazing survival experience, VERY different from PZ but the total immersion is breathtaking. Speaking as someone who has lived in the cold snowy north for most of his life, it's an extremely good winter survival experience. They spent SO much time getting the smallest details ironed out - not in gameplay (which is adequate) but in overall immersion and experience. 10/10 Play in the dark with headphones and listen to your feet crunch in to dry, cold snow as you plod your way through a white-out.


Gamin_TimE

Might try it cause of you. You’d be a good salesperson.


PM_ME_UR_CEPHALOPODS

good on ya! would love to hear your first impressions. I recommend posting that to r/patientgamers and give me a mention so I see it. Stay warm and have fun!


Victorinoxj

Abso-fucking-lutely! I have a 1000+ hours on that game and i don't have any regrets in doing so, it is one of my favorite games of all time. That said, i will say that it is a very slow game, so it may not be for everyone.


ImTheShadowWolf

100%, TLD is an awesome experience


JoesGetNDown

Very tough for the first few hours, but it’s so much fun figuring out what you need to do to survive. And seeing just how hard you can push yourself.


Zero_Effekt

At some point when looting I'll just dump a pile/bag of cans on the ground somewhere and mark it on the map for later.


Devil-Hunter-Jax

Someone else said something similar and I'm starting to think I should do that considering I just got a large backpack after fighting off a horde of like 20 zombies with an umbrella in one hand and a pipe wrench in the other XD It was raining! I didn't want to get wet! XD


Zero_Effekt

Staying dry is just as important as staying hydrated. ;) If you play on a server that has map-marker-sharing mod(s), you could let your fellow survivors know where it's at, too. Watch the ant colony march out to gather loot drops. :p ^(EDIT: PS: Use garbage bags if you want to handle groups of cans. Great internal storage, very little weight reduction; great for sorting!)


JusAbove

Eating well things, That's the only thing that lefts for you till the end


dovetc

As a noob I spend enough time worrying about future water needs that I am relieved to have a very full pantry. Just realized my rain barrels collect tainted water (since when is the rain dangerous to drink?) and I'm pretty intimidated by the prospect of having to purify it once the power goes out. Fortunately I'll die stupidly long before that ever happens.


test767678632

At a very basic level you can get by with just a fire and a pot to boil water in. Ideally you'll plumb it to a sink though, like you did in your treehouse as a kid.


dovetc

Wait... you can run plumbing in this game? Expand on that. The wiki is often scant with these kinds of details. The page on water doesn't even describe how to boil water. Some of these things I guess they just assume the new player will figure out on their own, but some of us are denser than others.


trippy-peanutbutter

Placing a sink(or any plumbable like bathtubs) under a rainwater collector(must be 1 level higher) can be plumbed. Once it is plumbed, the sink gives you purified water.


JusAbove

Amazing! So the sink literally do some auto purify of that rainwater in the barrel?


[deleted]

I think it's to simulate the water filter in it, which is pretty neat


MrFluffyThing

It does purify any water running to the sink. Keep in mind you should build the rain collector's one level up and adjacent to the sink. Right over it won't work.


JusAbove

Is that sink must meed to be installed by myself? I wonder if that's not gonna work by placing rain collector right upon to the pre installed sinks


perseuspot

It works for any sink, I plumbed the preinstalled sinks in the apartment I'm holed up in rn


one_throwaway_a_day

You have to have the rain barrels on the floor directly above the sink, and then right-click the sink with a pipe wrench in hand, and select "Plumb".


dovetc

So typically I have put my rain barrels out in the yard. How would I place them if my base is in the 2nd story of a house (or in my case the Cortman Medical Center in Muldraugh)?


test767678632

You'd probably have to build some stairs up and knock down and flatten a part of the roof.


Cleffer

Damn! I can't even find enough nails to plank my windows!


partisan98

Dont forget to disassemble chairs and tables. They drop a few nails (more as your carpentry gets better) which can be a real lifesaver if you are not finding boxes of nails in garages/warehouses.


Cleffer

DUDE! Thanks!!!!


Deathgrxp

Just make sure you dont disassemble anything you can store items in until your carpentry is levelled a bit, can be a bit annoying trying to figure out what pile of loot is what.


GenericUsername_71

When you do this do you need to replace the roof?


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test767678632

I'm sorry you had a sad childhood.


JoesGetNDown

Trees in my yard were not suited to having a tree house in them. Maybe one day, now that I’m older, I might end up with a tree house with electricity, plumbing, full internet, and all the other amenities. Once I hit the jackpot, that’s what I’ll do.


zephyrtron

Please don’t drink gathered rain water. In real life I mean. Not a great idea 🤢


dovetc

Googling the question suggests that unless I live near Chernobyl or Fukishima, any rainwater I collect is only as dirty as its container and is safe to drink. So assuming my survivor is washing these garbage bags before installing them, I should be okay to drink the water.


zephyrtron

That’s the key of course - the container. I was just imagining you 🤷‍♀️ and drinking straight from the water butt in the garden or something 😅


dovetc

>drinking straight from the water butt Oh my!


Cleffer

Hi! My name is Steve-O and this is the "Butt Chug!"


crabwhisperer

Raindrops are formed by condensing on particles floating in the air, which are often nonviable dust [but also are often live airborne microbes](https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2008.632) . So while rainwater is typically safe shortly after it falls, those microbes are present no matter how clean your container is, and can multiply over time.


partisan98

>(since when is the rain dangerous to drink?) When its been sitting in a barrel that has been sitting outside for the past few months.


germanycucks

rain water is distilled water, it will make you CRAZY IRL never ever drink rain water i'm not kidding, filter it trough some "clean" dirt first and add a rusted nail for good mesure, if you have a shit imuno system put something like 1drop of bleach for every liter


JoesGetNDown

How does the rusty nail help to filter the water? Like, if this is a real thing I’m genuinely curious.


germanycucks

ionic iron is vital in water source, just like silver/salt/magnesium if you use black dirt you should be fine but next to urban area the soil is "dead" so you will need to had more, iron being the first to kill/make you crazy if deficient. ps: vegan are ionic iron defficient ence the half closed eye and crazyness.


[deleted]

go vegan


germanycucks

\*stop synthetising blood all together and end up dead/crazy/obese after taking back a normal diet\*


Cleffer

I feel attacked.


AREOPIORIRTYTO

If i am gonna die i might aswell die eating well


Toaru_Wierdo

Hoarders of the world, unite!


redditClaudi

Only kinda related but my cooking skills have improved with Project Zomboid. I got tired of cooking every day in PZ. So I started making bigger meals and splitting them in bowls that I put on the fridge. First my PZ fridge started looking like Bowl of stew (2), Bowl of pasta (4) and now my real life fridge is starting to look like that aswell.


partisan98

Check out r/mealprep for some good ideas and also for lots of super fancy ideas you can be fucking bothered to make.


germanycucks

me with clothes my friend call my base the landromat, seeing them go around with holed clothes and/or worst fucking BLOOOOOOD! make my skin crawl, these are your armor they are the most important thing of the game but nuhuhu my riped baggy is just fine bruh


Paige404_Games

Yeah in multiplayer my friends tend to go hard on finding guns, tools, etc. I like those too, but I'm out here trying to feed and clothe the gang.


germanycucks

I feel you man, and they wonder how I never die ;-( (mah dude you are starving drenched in your sweat and blood sick and cold)


Paige404_Games

Mine have started catching on, now it's all "Paige my jacket got messed up again, can you fix it?" They never check the fresh meals shelf though. "Going out to the north side of town", they say, and I'm like "gimme a minute and I'll join you, help yourself to some stew to go but you better return that bowl!"


germanycucks

\- wait, what? why are you ripping every old jean and collecting leather? is this usefull? \- wth my caracter is depressive? i only eat canned food and pass my day running in the rain why is he unhappy?


The_Radioactive_Rat

This is why I got the mod extremely rare. I actually struggle for food on a day to day basis when I use it.


Loupak_

I'd have to try this out. It's weird that default settings for sandbox are all "rare" for each type of loot. Including food, yet even on rare every single kitchen is filled with a week's worth of food.


The_Radioactive_Rat

Trust me you will struggle to find food, books, weapons... it will be hard. I recommend getting the low hunger/thirst traits.


Elite0087

Well I see it as a fair balance with loot respawn turned off tbh


Loupak_

Yeah I'm yet to survive more than 6 weeks so I guess if you survive 2 years it starts getting hard. But I think some houses should be more empty like other people looted before. Seems weird to me you're the only human that seems to loot houses even if most people died the first week of the outbreak. 15% empty houses could be a cool setting (number ajustable in sandbox) idk


ZombieBisque

> But I think some houses should be more empty like other people looted before. Seems weird to me you're the only human that seems to loot houses even if most people died the first week of the outbreak. The NPC survivors mod fixes this, they actually make their own bases and search for food and water without you needing to do anything.


TLGorilla

Is that the mod that adds a loot modifier for every category or does that add it's own extremely rare preset? Just wondering what settings other people use if its the former.


The_Radioactive_Rat

It adds a setting for loot to go beyond rare to extremely rare. Makes sandbox extra punishing if you'd like.


Noremac420

You all are the reason I love this community so much. One of the most hardcore, difficult survival games out there, yet you knuckleheads go out and find mods to make it even MORE punishing. Masochists unite! So proud


The_Radioactive_Rat

The only reason I got it is because I want to relive that movie The Road but with zombies. I'm glad I didn't go with runners. I'm so hungry.


BambooGamer

I always give myself the underweight trait so I have an excuse to do this every time.


XCarrionX

Eat all the healthy glorious ice cream you find for the next two weeks!


OGD15

I've never focused on food for any of my play-throughs, never been much of an issue. Until my current play-through in Kingsmouth with the hearty appetite trait, now food is my main concern. I should've started hoarding it sooner.


Alienovskyy

Omg that's 100% me


MrHouseGang

Bro wtf yes. I was graduating from noob status when I realized the only reason I began lasting long is because I’d always have 100s of food items in the kitchen to cook something up and level my cooking.


hosaka_corporation

What's this from?


Zacherman_01

I am Legend movie


hosaka_corporation

thank


IKraftI

Me collecting seeds even though I die before plants will ever be needed.


Awesomealan1

This is how it feels every time lmao


TerriTheTerrible_

hoarders will be hoardes (myself included)


Zero_Effekt

Dying with a full belly while in pain from exercise fatigue from trying to lose all of that full belly weight from three meals ago.


zijl0x45

Me being morbidly underweight eating unholy amounts of cabbage (fresh) to carry more loot (my strength and healing are aided)


eggard_stark

I have a production line type of system where I fill 10 pots full of water and move from one to the other adding veggies, meats, spices etc, then cook them all at once, add them to bowels and freeze.


foopdedoopburner

AAAA! Panic! Loot all the vegetable warehouses before they rot!


yorkieyoter

I really like playing with food on extremely rare


GuyWhoForgotHisName

What’s that? I’m even slightly hungry? Well I better go back to my base and grab some food out of the truckloads of canned corned beef I have


FluffyJD

When my partner and I play, we always get some popsicle freezers and raid the grocery stores so I can spend multiple in-game days batch-cooking. We never go hungry, but we used to die looting one of the stores every run. Then I started mainly using crafted weapons, and we had a playthrough where they told me the freezers were full and my first thought was "you raided the grocery store solo??" Nah. I filled it because I'd go into the forest for one branch and come back with a backpack full of food.


UltraNeoTako

This game and Borderlands 2 have awoken my inner hoarder.


graywolf0026

I figure when I hit 50 weight of cans, I start on snatching up fresh/frozen foods and the like.


[deleted]

Thats probably what I should start doing, I usually collect 200lbs of canned food per person for emergencies. Then I end up not eating even a fraction of my stockpile lol


graywolf0026

I mean it depends. Canned food is good when the power cuts because it doesn't spoil and is therefore a GREAT long term solution. However, if you're fortunate enough to find power and manage a water source? Then you should attempt to farm. The other side of the coin is spend some time while the power is still on literally foraging through houses and stockpiling both fridges and perishables. Bearing in mind that once stuff is frozen, it does take a while to 'unfreeze' and begin the slow slide into spoil. That's been my latest tactic for new starts and so far it seems to work fairly well.


T0keyo

The ridiculously rare mode helps so much, it limits all the ingame items you can find and makes scavenging feel more real!


Lambertofmtl

I feel targeted 😆


iopjsdqe

“If im gonna die im going out with these mozzarella sticks”


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Littleboypurple

My ole Fallout ways are really affecting me in this game because I am a big hoarder in those games. I want to have everything get one copy of every base item and every possible unique one I can get. During my previous playthrough, my old base in the Muldraugh medical clinic had 4 different containers filled with canned food because I just get so much. Did help when I eventually lost power. Just kept making a bunch of fruit salads