6Mo later, insanly rare loot, insane pop from day 1, no zed/loot respawn and random LV spawn
#99% Vanilla run
novel wedge
Also better vanilla cars mod
not a big game-changer
Not the most ideal spawnpoint but ill take it
its the weirdest building ever.. its some office in mix with medical gear and.... hardware?
only got shovel, metal pipe and broom as weapons but that decent
first thing i see as i step outside.. o.o
Yeah.. i did not make it
try no.2 (same traits)
this time more calm spawn
i got bit again, i forgot how to play this
third spawnpoint:
survivor car with a key right off start, this might be the run!
pallid quail
Not surprised you didn't make it through the first two spawns. Those are pretty busy spots. Tricky without weapons or supplies. The latest one looks more hopeful.
novel wedge
Yeah, those first ones were something but now its kinda calm, i can just make spears and fight my way thru and also i spawned really close to the annotated map so i might go there now
woah 
Thats not even the marked house, i am so lucky!
now just to kill the zeds following me
a litle risky with no skills but eh ill try
ofc with my luck i trip over the fence when running from them and get scratched on my right arm
Killed them all! Nothing can stop me
This along with one metal pipe was the loot that i nearly paid with my life for. :
novel wedge
the crazy guy´s house only had 2 revolvers and no ammo
pallid quail
I guess that's why he doesn't live there, or anywhere, any more: Ran out of bullets.
novel wedge
Ill try to clear out the railroad station or whatever that is and might make it my base.. only one problem is i already killed 150 zeds there and i am running low on spears
meager shoal
excited to see more of this
novel wedge
Dw i am still alive 😄
once i clear the area i will let yall choose the base for me 
option #1: The tower - has multiple floors where i can build, roof that i can go to later on and the area around is all fenced-in
Hold on, let me clear my way into the other options
novel wedge
Option #2: Whatever that is - can get onto the roof, area is fenced in, has a streetlight :p, is at ground level (more building options, less safe)
few more to deal with
meager shoal
I thnk tower is cooler
novel wedge
still tryna get to the third point but tower would prolly win either way
also my game just crashed due to too many zeds 😄
meager shoal
bro I know that feeling 😭
I used to not be able to run past like high pop
now i can do 16x with sprinters (I have played that and cried)
novel wedge
500 kills and it still aint clear 
pallid quail
Might I suggest the horse racing track? HUGE area and lots of zeds to clear inside. But also only two relatively small areas you'll have to build fences across to isolate that whole area.
As a bonus: In 6 months time that race track will be overgrown and serve as your own personal and secured forest for wood.
Ambitious, I know. But you will never be out of space for whatever you want to do.
novel wedge
Ill think about it but the place is litle too big for a solo and i prefer already having some building to expand insted of building it completly
I will probs not live in the area that i had been clearing for the past 2h and grab something else but not sure eh
pallid quail
Understandable. My last solo game I based up in there. But it took me 3 months to prep for the attack and takeover of that place before I left my initial base 😄
Probably took nearly a month just to clear it completely as well. The lots of floors in the stadium parts, large area and zombies wander.
novel wedge
woah thats a litle while, how high was your population?
novel wedge
Oh, i am on the same thing then
but i do have respawn
becouse i am terrible at this
but once i survive 30d+ and manage to perish i would just start a new save
pallid quail
Respawns are fine. I just don't personally believe in zombies mating and creating more of their own.
novel wedge
and the area i had in mind is thisss, it has alot of trees, good location and also only one entrance
novel wedge
i saw it in some epic zomboid video and it looked kinda cool so i might try
pallid quail
I play with hundreds of mods. Many of them cars and car packs. And I'm a car guy. I need space where I live. Lots of it.
novel wedge
Just a bit small for my ambitions 😄
wha.. 
oh then if its for cars then understandable
novel wedge
I play with hundreds of mods. Many of them cars and car packs. And I'm a car guy...
I do play with aloooot of car mods too but this time i had to change it up, i have like 200h playtime modded
mb, meant to say 2000 
pallid quail
oh then if its for cars then understandable
Yeah. I literally just looked for the biggest parking lot I could find in the game. Horse track was the best option.
pallid quail
From the horse racing track save 😛
That's not even all of it but I don't have pics of everything. And this was before I started restoring all of them to driveable condition.
Built a workshop under the stadium to restore things too
pallid quail
Current game is on an online server with a friend of mine. Based up in Riverside for that one and had to build my own parking lot. The car collection is much larger there 😄
novel wedge
From the horse racing track save 😛
That's not even all of it but I don't have ...
like as in... more cars then in this?
pallid quail
Yeah 😛
But also more months played. The first game I actually celebrated new years eve in!
novel wedge
Oooo nice
when you play again would you take a few screenshots of your collection aaand skills? :3 I don´t think i ever survived this long
like ever ever
i am too jumpy and always die some stupid way
might aswell take a litle inspo from you and collect every single car i see
i must beat you in this! 😅
but i have car spawns on very low and condition very low so will have it litle harder
pallid quail
There are some I don't collect. Like 80's FWD US cars. Those are just salvage fodder for restoring other cars. But I try to collect one of each and all varieties of them. In some cases two of each so I can have one with armor and one without:
Not gonna spam you down with my screenshots though. This is from the current save
And not even half of the collection really.
Most of these are restored though. I play with high car spawns and all burnt out cars replaced with ones that are technically functional. Condition is set to low though so very few of them are driveable at all when I find them.
I probably spent as much time building that parking lot as I have collecting the cars 😄
novel wedge
Had to look thru every single one of them
Very impresive
Love the armor on those Cars by KI15
pallid quail
I do "cheat" with mods that let me refill propane tanks and torches and many would call "more traits" and "dynamic traits" cheating too. Makes things easier and easier as your skill increase. Also skill books for all skills which makes gaining skills a little easier once you've raided a few libraries to get them all. Normal loot setting too and quite a few addon maps. Some of which are military bases so weapons and ammo are relatively easy to come by.
pallid quail
Love the armor on those Cars by KI15
Yeah. They great. They are ones I usually collect two of each from to have one with and one without armor.
novel wedge
I do "cheat" with mods that let me refill propane tanks and torches and many wou...
Making it easier aint cheating, everyone has their playstyle. Main thing Is having fun
pallid quail
I still try to make it hard. It takes months ingame for any of these mods to even matter tbh. And if you've made it for months you're already doing pretty well and probably wont die from something silly.
As I'm sure you know with 3600 hours under your belt the worst mistake you can make is getting too cocky. ALWAYS be careful.
novel wedge
Thats fair, month in you would be p much fine even in vanilla and only way to die would either be inpatience, bad luck or simply stupidity
Or like me, i lost my best save due to VPN update that automaticly tabbed out from pz while mid combat
pallid quail
Ouch. Bad luck!
You're nearly at twice my 2K hours, but I downloaded mods before I even started the game for the first time tbh. I came across a streamer playing it with mods and immediately fell in love with the modded game. Not even sure what it's like vanilla tbh
But back to your topic: The train station was a close second choice of location when I chose the race track. A great location for sure. Fairly central in LV as well so you don't have to drive all day to get anywhere in the city and close to the main road leading out of it if you ever "finish" LV and feel the need to explore.
novel wedge
Heh Nice, i started modded too, Malv and Rick were the YouTubers that i enjoyed watching the most And also they were the reason i bought it
I will play tommorow as Its nearly midnight fór me And i Gotta wake up at 6
Thanks for da talk and see ya later, i have to go do some things now
pallid quail
Heh Nice, i started modded too, Malv and Rick were the YouTubers that i enjoyed ...
Can't even recall the guy I watched but he was Australian.
pallid quail
Thanks for da talk and see ya later, i have to go do some things now
Have a good one and good luck on your run!
pallid quail
10 years later looks so amazing. But I have around 50 addon maps that wont be affected by it. Gonna do a 10 years later game at some point with the vanilla map and/or addon maps that accomodates that look.
novel wedge
Alot of modded maps work for it
Only few raritys
Also 10yl raven creek Is a must-have
pallid quail
Yeah a lot of them do. Many of mine don't though. I'd have to spend even more time trying to find the ones that do work and work together. I just cba rn.
novel wedge
Cleared the whole area now
novel wedge
Progress!
novel wedge
not the best situation to be in
managed to lure them away and jump the fence, now i am slowly clearing it by parts
getting low on weapons
novel wedge
finally thinking i had cleared it.... Heli sounds Well shit time to do it all over again
doasn´t look much welcoming at the etrance and its even worse inside but still i got hopes for this place
Killed 300-400 zeds using windows
novel wedge
time to clear it out for good, ill use all my ammo and in the worst case molotov
novel wedge
as if i knew that 70 shells wont do the job.. 😄
had to burn other 250 zeds and finish few 10s of them with my hammer
alsooo i maybeeee burned down the nerby forest
novel wedge
I did try to save it using debug but still perished... i only did it becouse my game crashed mid-fight and thats also reason i died 
I guess ill just make a new char... yay :>
novel wedge
Yup this is gone, the guilt of using debug got to me, i will start a new save with more car mods and sprinters
I will make you proud this time Mr. Laupstad
meager shoal
what are your feelings about settings like multi-hit?
novel wedge
In my opinion its too overpowered
at that point its not even worth using guns, just use pickaxe/axe/machete/katana/crowbar or spears and it will be much more effective
meager shoal
alright
I feel kinda the opposite because I feel like multi-hit feels a bit more realistic cause if you swing an axe at multiple decomposing bodys you would think it would just go through them and hit the next one too, but i completely see your point (I wish there were come more multi-hit options to make it so there was a max the multi-hit can hit along with multi-hit drains more endurance)
novel wedge
I feel kinda the opposite because I feel like multi-hit feels a bit more realist...
id agree with multi-hit taking up more endurance and about the first part: its based on if you play with fragile, normal or strong zeds
meager shoal
yeah I really hope they make more sandbox customization options with b42
novel wedge
they prolly will
meager shoal
like I think it would be cool if there were options to make certain pertencages of zombies be stronger hear better or better eyesight
and maybe like zone loot chances
novel wedge
you can put it on on random
meager shoal
so like you can make rosewood riverside ect have lower loot (cause they've been looted by other survivors) but louisville has more loot
meager shoal
there should also be an option to fully just make all cars not able to work (so it feels like someone already took the working ones) and you'd have to scrape together the resources to build a semi working one
like you could find like a 11% battery in a car
like a handful of engine parts in garages
and in similar places there should be more parts but in car shops is where you find like doors and hoods
novel wedge
like you could find like a 11% battery in a car
there is mod for it
meager shoal
there is?
novel wedge
i think so, not sure
i am extremly tired tho so i wont talk for long, ill just prep some save settings and mods and play it when i get home tmrw
meager shoal
alr
novel wedge
Last and final try on this
I will play later when i get home, just had to make the save
pallid quail
I did try to save it using debug but still perished... i only did it becouse my ...
Worst luck. Maybe this would've helped? At least if you died while loading in.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3149623554&searchtext=pause
pallid quail
Last and final try on this
You're having the worst luck with your spawn points. Any commercial zone in LV is a pretty rough start. But I don't remember that exact area very well so you could be fine.
My first LV spawn where I eventually took over the race track I spawned in the upstairs apartment here. Turns out there isn't a lot of zeds in that particular area and a baseball bat factory basically across the street. Also a hardware store, library and VHS store nearby. Lucky af.
https://map.projectzomboid.com/#13189x1277x4685
novel wedge
Worst luck. Maybe this would've helped? At least if you died while loading in.
h...
Will try that, thanks
novel wedge
My first LV spawn where I eventually took over the race track I spawned in the u...
OH wow thats really good
My spot Is decent aswell, i am nerby hardware and also alot of weaponary
Ill use guns more this playthru as i am playing with VFE
pallid quail
Very nice! Can't possibly be worse than your first attempt where you spawned along the crowded main street 😄
pallid quail
Looking forward to it
novel wedge
Alright i am home
spawned in some mili training building or whatever that is, got 3 556 and 45. ammo boxes/no gun
its surrounded with zeds tho
wont be easy to get out
other side of it looks like this
and my fpscount is in one digit
pallid quail
Pretty much what I expected from a LV commercial zone tbh. You might make it out and about if you find weapons. It'll be difficult bare handed.
novel wedge
how am i alive... i crossed like 6000 zeds fell twice and still stood up, i am in the more "safe" zone now but still like 2000 of them knows my location and now i will have to jump and possibly break my leg 😄
i can hardly run now
getting bad
its getting dark and still i didnt get out of there
just had to most risky sleep of my life, i jumped the wall into the gated community and slept in a house with 10 other zeds inside
pallid quail
Yeah. Not too many places to hide and loose them around there. No wooded areas and mostly open areas and parking lots outdoors.
novel wedge
yup
i will use this as my tempoary base
gotta clear it
but i dont wanna stay there
pallid quail
The refinery area wasn't too crowded last time I cleared it, but if you've gone all the way through it and they all followed it'll take some effort.
pallid quail
That house is probably a better spot for ya tbh. At least there are woods to loose them in and escape through if you get overrun.
Some of those big houses down the road are pretty good too but there's a few zeds between you and them tbh.
novel wedge
this one is really safe as there is only one entrance but the whole hood is crowded too
ill check it out rq
pallid quail
Found a working vehicle yet? That's often crucial for me when I spawn somewhere crowded. Just reverse over as many as possible until the wheels fall off it.
Avoiding head on hits as much as possible to not break the engine.
novel wedge
nope i did not
i play with worse vehicle condition mod
so its not so easy
i was just running for 30h straight
also now i am severly depressed and everything takes years :l
pallid quail
i play with worse vehicle condition mod
That does make it harder yeah. No survivor cars?
novel wedge
tbh i forgot if i turned survivor cars on
i think its on but the lowest settings
i found a police car infront of the refinery and turned on the sirens
ill hope that it lures in most of them
oh well... knife backstab animation was too slow
try no.2 gave me a bit more calm spawn
woah hold up
survivor house?!
they wont let me in, will they?
engine quality 100 on this shitbox 😢
novel wedge
managed to loot the LV checkpoint
i now have ton of ammo
still low on guns tho
and like only 2-3 close range weapons
novel wedge
first survivor zombie!
meager shoal
first survivor zombie!
wait theres those in vanilla?
novel wedge
Nah, i added vanilla firearms expansion
also not sure why but after i made second character it feels like all the zeds are gone
streets are empty
tf is that
i did try adding change sandbox options but still it did not change anything even after reset of the population
novel wedge
oh my
novel wedge
had to move somewhere better
pallid quail
You're taking over that whole area? Not a bad spot either way
novel wedge
Ill have to start over, after making new char it somehow broke the world and now there are no zombies at all
even the mall was empty
:l
pallid quail
That sucks