#8 · Zombie Survival
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This is how you died — slower, if you respect sound
The Indie Stone
Featured setups
First house, quiet loot, fences, and the helicopter — not a shotgun in the street.
Rosewood · Day 1–3
First House
Two-story, fence if you can, sheets, water, a rope. Rosewood or Riverside — not West Point.
Best for: Spawns that immediately walk toward the prison or downtown
Any town · One pull
Fence Split
Walk away, close a door, put a fence between you and the pile. One zombie at a time.
Best for: People who fight fifteen zombies in a street with a pan
Riverside · Each outing
Loot Priority
Water, food, bag, weapon, medical. Books when the street is quiet. TVs later.
Best for: Characters who die under a TV and a generator
Start with these jobs
Carpentry and quiet looting first. Downtown last.
Carpenter
Sheets, walls, rain collectors
The best first job. You make the house a base. Skill books before you saw random furniture for 40 minutes.
Scavenger
Quiet loot, bags, priority
You fill the base without printing a horde. Over-encumbering then jogging is how moodles become a bite.
Melee Clearer
One zombie, not forty
You thin an area so the scavenger can work. A shotgun in a suburban street is a magnet. Walk away from 15 zombies.
Towns worth learning first
Rosewood or Riverside before West Point and Louisville.
Rosewood
The kindest first town: fire station, suburban streets, and a prison you should not tour on day one.
Riverside
Gated houses, a river, and a town that still punishes a shotgun on the lawn.
Muldraugh
The classic strip: warehouses, a dense main street, and the town that taught everyone to hate sirens.
West Point
Downtown density: gun stores, a horde on every block, and the town that ends overconfident runs.
Guides
Beginner path, base, sound, skills, vehicles, moodles, and sandbox.
Project Zomboid Beginner Guide
Rosewood or Riverside, sandbox sliders, and why the frying pan is not a personality.
Zomboid First Base and Loot Routes
Where to live in week one, and which loot is actually worth the bite risk.
Zomboid Combat and Sound
Fences, shoves, guns as last resort, and why a suburban shotgun is a dinner bell.