Overview
This is a Project Zomboid (PZ) – link collection, which was primary carried together for the German Project Zomboid community[project-zomboid.de]. You’ll find a bunch of really helpful links… to survive the zombie apocalypse better due to really good guidesto participate on an awesome communityto craftto add and use community mods & mapsto find troubleshootings or help from the devsto set-up and manage a PZ-server….a.m.Good luck and don’t get bitten!
COMMUNITY
>>> German Project Zomboid Forum[project-zomboid.de] <<<
>>> German Project Zomboid Steamgroup <<<
HOW TO – join the GERMAN project-zomboid.de Server [GER] (by ScOoBy)
+ project-zomboid.de Mod Collection
+ project-zomboid.de Map Collection
WIKI
- Project Zomboid Wikipedia[pzwiki.net]
GUIDES & TUTORIALS
GAMESTART
- >> Einsteigertipps zum Überleben in der Zombie-Apocalypse (by FCKNZS) << (ScOoBy’s favorite)
- Project Zomboid Quick start tips and tricks – The importance to survive a small guide [ENG] (by частный)
- Project Zomboid Explained: A guide for newer/less experienced players (by kendakari)
- Einsteigertipps fürs Überleben (by Dr_Cox1911)[project-zomboid.de]
- Project Zomboid – Weapon List (by JD Cuda)
LONG TERM SURVIVAL
- Alone in the Woods, a guide to leaving concrete behind (by [W] Turbat)
- PZ survival guide (by cyberspyXD)
- Long Term Survival Guide (Advanced) (by NeoN)
- Cruel Moose’s Guide to Foraging (by Cruel Moose)
MOODLES, MEDICAL TREATMENT, TRAITS & SKILL AND LEVELING
- Project Zomboid: Moodle-System-Guide [GER] (by ScOoBy)
- The medical system and Wound/Sick treatment. [ENG/RUS] (by Glowth)
How long should a broken leg be splinted? from projectzomboid
- Traits[pzwiki.net]
- Best proffession + traits combination tips
- Metalworking Guide[pzwiki.net]
- Skills and Easy Leveling Guide (by Axz)
ScOoBy’s trait recommendations
HighThirst;Hemophobic;WeakStomach;SlowReader;Dextrous;Outdoorsman;Lucky;FastLearner; (Strong;ThickedSkin)
Notes: Occupation & trait saves are located under: %UsersYOURUSERNAMEZomboidLuasaved_builds.txt
ScOoBy’s hint for doctors
If you like to level up the “first aid skill”. Read the “First Aid book” for the multiplier bonus. Get some tweezers, bandages, needle and thread and jump through a broken window repeatedly. Fastest and safest way to level the first aid skill atm.
VIDEOS
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ7WogW7ti8yplimk7lgtLG_evymNOvd7
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvDs7ZvbbXRQz5_2PmnSxYE1k98MNQXFn
- Project Zomboid: Survive and Thrive! (by HappyDays)
CRAFTING, GATHERING & SCAVENING
- crafting recipes, items list, equipable armors, profession list, character build planner. a.m. [undeniable.info]
- Items[pzwiki.net]
- CRAFTING Recipes[pzwiki.net]
- Standard Farming Guide[pzwiki.net]
- Advanced Farming Guide (by LlostSoul)[pzwiki.net]
- Barricade[pzwiki.net]
- HOW TO COOK[theindiestone.com]
- PZ Solid Beginner to Intermediate survival guide (by TKs-Dreff) (How to set-up a solid tower base)
- How do you light up your house? (Note: If you disable shaders in Options, lights will work properly at night.)
ScOoBy’s hints for chefs / carpenters (you’ll not need the profession for it)
Put your food ingredients/carpentry stuff into storage boxes / fridges / freezers close to your hob / desired build, then you can prepare the food / build by pressing “B” within your crafting-menue directly. Moreover you’re able to use extra spices a.m. to improve the qualitiy of your food and to get extra side-effects.
ScOoBy’s hint for bookworms / faster leveling – XPboost
Seperate your book library from beginners to expert – each stage in a single bookcase – to get an extra XPboost after reading the actually required books in the right direction. Really useful if you died once and you have to level up quickly and specific again.
also check this to organize your library better:
>> No double skill books / Keine doppelten Bücher mehr (by jadari).
ScOoBy’s hints for gathering wood effienctly
1. your occupation should be: Lumberjack
2. make sure that your future safe-house is close to a forest to reduce the wood logistics. And ensure that there’s already a huge wood fence to attach your walls. And use 8 planks for each window to secure them with barricades.
3. use a fireaxe and chop a lot of trees down (preliminary work)
4. rest sometimes
5. use 2 hiking bags or smth. similar to it. Wear one on your back and equip the other one as secondary. Now you can carry 2 logs in each backpack and additional 2-3 in your inventory.
6. deliver the logs directly to the required build-up-project.
ScOoBy’s 10 Quicktips for farming
1. Make sure there are 2 spaces between each crop plant. To prevent disease from spreading.
2. Only plant when it’s raining. (watering with the watering can)
3. 4 minium rain barrells.
4. Check them once every 1-2 days.
5. Get empty sand bags and a spade/shovel. Fill the empty sand bags with dirt. Put the dirt on a roof that you have access to. Use that to farm.
6. There are 7 crops in vanilla. Never use radishes (have little nutritional value) or strawberries (watering level limits are a pain). Cabbages, broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes, and carrots are the best for farming. Carrots -> most difficult due to water limit. Cabbages can be grown year round outdoors, with very little effort or work required to maintain them. Broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes are also good for indoor planting. (5 month, November-March, requires oven or campfires as heat source). During the outdoor season between April-October, they can replace some of your outdoor cabbages. To be an effective gardener, you will need the following, trowel, shovel, lots of empty sacks (both to move dirt, and to make compost), a few watering cans, eventually some carpentry skills (to make compost bin for rotten food), seeds, gardening spray cans, milk, cigarettes. Potatoes and cabbage are really easy to farm.
7. LOTS OF WATER. (use the Drip irrigation farming (mod))
8. Never harvest until you can harvest the seeds too unless its an emergency.
9. Always water immediately after planting.
10. Make sure to have a good ratio of crop to water supply. What I mean by that is don’t plant 500 crops if you can only water 100 crops.
source: 10 Quicktips for farming (by megaman204)[theindiestone.com]
ScOoBy’s rules for scavenging
- Create different character profiles to handle your projects (f.e. LumberJack to gather logs etc.)
- Make a priority list of really required items before you expose yourself to a dangerouse loot-tour.
- Always run without equiped stuff in your hands to pass long distances faster! Use “1” button to equip your weapon quickly if it’s gettin’ hard (you’ll run so much faster)
- Always unequip your weapons with “1” to transfer stuff into containers faster.
- Never remove glass from windows without an equipped weapon in your hands! (you’ll bleed to death quickly)
- Avoid depressions, agitation or panick when you like to transfer stuff faster.
- Avoid panick and exhaustion when you fight against zombies (you’ll hit the zombies more exactly)
- Hold “STRG” and move your mouse out of your “display” to look farther
sneak close around zombies by holding STRG to skill lightfooded
don’t eat unkown foraged beeries. You’ll get sick soon! Read the The Herbalist[pzwiki.net] recipe magazine to identify them first. - Only shoot with guns to pull zombies away or in emergency cases.
- Stay cool towards strangers. Don’t shoot on sight. In PZ the people are almost always friendly.
- Use the shortcuts to act faster (f.e. “H” to toggle your health stats, or “V” to toggle ALL etc.)
…..to be continued.
MODS
- Project Zomboid – Steam Workshop (mods, maps, buildings)
- MODS (Entwicklerforum / developer forum)[theindiestone.com]
- ScOoBy’s [PZ] ULTIMATE MOD COLLECTION
Note: mod install folder is located under: %SteamSteamAppsworkshopcontent108600
MAPS
- PZ MAP-Project (by Benjamin ‘blindcoder’ Schieder)[pzmap.crash-override.net]
- ScOoBy’s [PZ] ULTIMATE MAP COLLECTION
- Foraging-MAP-Tutorial
1) Locate yourself on the PZ MAP-Project (by Benjamin ‘blindcoder’ Schieder)[pzmap.crash-override.net]
2) afterwards check the red highlighted areas on this foraging-zone-map (by msarabi)[http//urlhttps] to find a good place for it. Foraging is only for certain areas. This areas have to be designated by the dev’s as foraging eligible. Actually not all “forest biomes” are implemented/recommended to forage inside of it.
3) OR try this: forage fix mod
Note: map install folder is located under: %SteamSteamAppsworkshopcontent108600
SERVER / MULTIPLAYER
Server set-up
Windows
Server-Tutorial [GER] (by Dr_Cox1911)[project-zomboid.de]
How to create a (Steam) server (by nasKo)
CentOS
[CentOS 7][64bit]VPS Zomboid Server Setup Guide (by relin)[theindiestone.com]
hamachi
How to create a server with hamachi – Build 36.4 (by Method™)
Server settings
Project Zomboid: Server.ini and Sandboxvars.lua descriptions / explanations [ENG] (by ScOoBy)
Note: server settings are saved to %YOURUSERNAME%zomboidserver
Project Zomboid Server Tutorials (How To Whitelist a.m.)[support.multiplay.co.uk]
Spawnpoint settings
Mod and Map installation
Mod and Map installation instructions on a PZ multiplayer server (v 33.20) (by Tosayu)
Server management
How to Administrate a Server (by RobertJohnson)[theindiestone.com]
Project Zomboid: HOW TO manage a PZ-server ingame with the Admin-Panel [ENG / GER] (by ScOoBy)
IWBUMS
IWBUMS – Eine Erklärung (by Dr_Cox1911)[project-zomboid.de]
Misc
PZ IRC chat (for FAQs)[kiwiirc.com]
COMMON
- PZ developer forum / Entwicklerforum[theindiestone.com]
- Claim Tutorial (by Dr_Cox1911)[project-zomboid.de]
TROUBLESHOOTING
- Project Zomboid: Troubleshooting [ENG] (by ScOoBy & Paul Redeker)
- Multiplayer FAQ (by Connall)[theindiestone.com]
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to all the authors and the awesome german PZ community.
A special thanks to Dr_Cox1911 – the German Project Zomboid community[project-zomboid.de] & German Project Zomboid Steamgroup head admin. Without your work and efforts, PZ would never be so well supported in germany!
