about 3 years ago - Crater Creator - Direct link
Briefly, the start of the game is the most survival heavy. So my first night (night is when zombies run), I can’t think much about base building because I have more pressing survival needs to attend to. I build a little survival shack and/or build onto a rock outcropping or building remnant if I’m sure it’s clear of zombies. My priority is to have a safe place to spend the night.

I’ll often have acquired some pressing survival problem, like a broken leg, an infection, or simple hunger/dehydration, that are worth focusing on fixing ASAP. If it takes a couple days to get things under control, that’s okay. Then it’s on to figure out where my base will be. Location matters less than you might think (unfortunately). Basically, just build close to the trader to reduce travel time. Base design is a whole other subject so I won’t dive into it right now.

You may feel you’re playing the game “wrong” because of the way the tutorial misleads you. It has you build a bedroll before anything else, but that’s nonsense. The bedroll sets where you respawn, but you spawned in a random location and you have no stuff or base to come back to yet. So there’s no reason to put a bedroll down in the middle of nowhere. Later you’re told to make plant fiber clothing, despite having new player weather protection which makes weather survival a non-issue.

So do the tutorial for the points and trader location, but don’t take it as a successful player strategy. Prioritize a place for shelter & storage, then worry about food/water/medicine, and then hopefully you still have a couple days to choose a build site and construct a horde night defense.





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