Building Your Own Base Is A Trap In Project Zomboid

Don't waste your time decorating your base. You need to patrol the area under your control every two or three days to make sure there aren't any zombies migrating to your area. It is easy to kill a couple of zombies. But when you have hordes of 10 in your areas, it will get out of control pretty quickly.

Very helpful thank you

I just turn off "zombies can attack player buildings" settings. I just think it's silly that some walking corpses can slap a solid log wall down

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I really hope the team fixes all these issues, because building a perimeter would be pretty cool in the right circumstances.

the problem is you built a ground floor instead of a floating treehouse. Rookie mistake.

The real downside of building a base is just finishing building the base and then getting nibbled a little bit

All this video taught me is that project zomboid isn't a finished game, so i won't play it.

Thank you

give us the ability to zone the player built house so they treat it like pre-existing structures that they dont pound the walls down

how do you grab the flags? is it a mod?

Just wondering, does the building being preexisting versus player created affect how heat is handled? Probably a moot point since this will likely all change for build 42, but I figured I'd ask.

if you place the car close to a wall or window, then a zombie will not be able to crawl under it and break your house! You can also place the car door opposite the door of the house and safely enter and exit it.

ya but base building is 90% of the content

just add a mod to add moats then make a man made river with a boat mod and BOOM. no more issues, island time

So moving objects makes them vulnerable?

man you guys put way to much thought into this clunky ass game.

Zombies are just weak dead people.
There is no way they are able to damage anything..
So, the only real solution is to just untick the "Damage Construction" option.

Build your base on poles, problem solved. Or, just build your house inside a larger non-player building, industrial warhouses or the country club comes to mind for instance.

didnt realise how completely broken base buliding is. glad im waiting for this game to be fixed

Never played this game , but explain to me why would a Zombie attack empty furniture while inside a room. Like a desk. Or a Table. Or a Tv. Or whatever. Other thing. A Zombie would never tear down a wall. At least not in Europe where evrything is from thick bricks. A door ? maybe. But the door would have a barricade. Or be reinforced. No logic in this.

Generally a pretty good idea to find a house or apartment building, knock out the bottom flight of stairs, and build ontop of that

Use sheet ropes to get in and out

Some good points in this video and one of the main reasons I never build my own base.

I started just modding homes to fit my needs, even if I gotta add a 2nt/3rd floor.

Also fishing is not really inf fish/food it can run out within a time frame based on server settings, but ya probably not need to worry about it unless multiple people are fishing in same area.

I remember I finally got Zomboid figured out and survived for something like 2 months. I started farming, building, all the good stuff. Then, in the backyard of my base, I was standing next to a campfire in the rain, left for about 10 seconds to get a snack, and the fire spread one tile directly underneath me and killed me before I could get back to the game.

It's a fun enough game, but I'm not playing so long as bullshit like that can happen.

As a nomad, I see this an as absolute win. I only need gas and my RV

Kinda sucks that the game disincentives proper base building to such a degree. I love the idea of building a base from scratch out in the woods, foraging and fishing and minding my business, but the game REALLY does not want you to play that way. Even without zombies constantly pathing towards your location, it’s such a chore. The game really just wants you to engage nonstop in repetitive, uninteresting combat until you eventually die. I have such a hard time staying invested in PZ because of how hard it works to incentivize a high-risk playstyle when the game would really benefit from some flexibility. Also, it’s insane that metal structures burn, and that zombies can destroy them. For a game all about becoming self sufficient, it really hates when players try to sustain themselves without being limited to urban centers.

It's not very interactive though. You can't even sit or lay down to the couches, only rest when your character is tired.

Is building on top of "stilts" and platforming your base not an option?

Solo haz una muralla... Problema solucionado.

Soo what I'm getting at is make a base that is on stilts

All this video tells me is this game will never be complete to my standards and will always have a niche playerbase

When I last played it, they didn't attack vending machines so all windows, doors etc. I put a vending machine in front. I suppose theoretically you could build a wall of vending machines around the base but I could never be bothered with that

I've personally just always built around an ingame location and focused on adapting them instead of replacing things for this exact reason

Some walls and doors are completely unrealistic that a zombie or 20 of them can destroy in proyect zomboid. A barricated door wooden door can stand easly 10~20 men pushing. A metal door one, there is no human/zombie way to break it just by pushing or punching it with your hear and fists.

A wooden barricate should stand easly 100 zombies in proyect zomboid. Scratches should deal 0 damage as IRL. Only extremely large masses of zombies could/should break wooden barricades.

Oh yeah thats good info dont do the only thing the game has to offer

I find rebuilding from the half destroyed ruins of your base after an intense attack where you barely got out alive just as satisfying as building it from scratch

Is their any reason what so every to play PZ when Cdda is available for free? Pro tip : naw

The ultimate fix would be to scour the workshop

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too many layers .

I don't even play this game, why am I watching this video?

how does food/infection sickness interact with being on a different level? if this hasn't been tested then it's still may be viable, because he never said anything about building stairs and such.

intresting nonetheless.

I really don’t understand why the zombies can break metal walls and barricades so easily. But not other buildings, I wouldn’t mind if they could not break player built stuff at all. I wouldn’t make it what much easier, only if you sit in your base all day

good video thx

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My go-to spot for building my own base is the lake in the woods just east of Muldraugh. No zombies at all (I think a couple can appear at first, but once they're cleared out I never see another enter that space), a nigh-endless supply of trees for lumber, a lake right there for fishing, and a pretty quick and easy path back into town. I don't know anything about zombie populations or migration patterns or any of that; I just got curious about the lake I saw on the map, went to explore the area, and fell in love.

I love it when a single weak strength zombie breaks a level 10 plastered wall by simply headbutting it for a few minutes 🤗

I’ll be placing composters around my base until they add/improve proper barricade system.

TLDR: Zomboid is a miserable piece of shit only fun in multiplayer with friends.

its reached the stage where i can confidently say i’m pretty damn good at this game, and have almost completely stopped losing characters before i get bored. However when playing multiplayer i’ll happily be the base bitch and spend all this time setting up walls, escapes, organising, furnishing etc. what i want is a mod that’ll make it so zombies path find around your walls, but to counteract it give us a meta event similar to helicopter where it attracts massive hordes to the walls for a last stand type deal. because when its only a couple critters it just pisses me off cause now i gotta drop whatever i was doing and go haul some logs over and it messes up my flow

The fact that metal barricades and constructions are literally the same as wooden ones infuriates me to no end