

Use that to gather resources and complete the starter quests as quickly as possible, and to find a building near the trader's base worth holing up in. You have about eight in-game hours from when you start where no zombies will spawn in the area around you.The only real trap option for perks is Well-Insulated, good clothes will handle temperature resistance just fine.Most of the good crafting perks have a minimum character level requirement, so start looking into Intellect (especially Hammer and Forge) once you're about level 20, and work on making a forge, iron tools, and building a bicycle. If you're not sure where to put your perk points, focus on Strength, especially Pack Mule and Sexual Tyrannosaurus.The higher your level, the more perk points you get, which you can spend on things like dealing more damage, increased based stats, and better recipes. You can level up by crafting, looting, and killing zombies.Most achievements don't care what your world settings are, so feel free to turn zombies to always-walk if you want a more chill and/or authentic Romero experience.Randomly generated worlds have no radiation zones, but there are certain points of interest exclusive to Navezgane. The ground and air are tinted sickly green. If you're playing on the Navezgane map, rather than a random gen world, there are radiation zones that mark the edges of the world.This sucks, as all the stuff is permanently gone.

It is possible, due to cave-ins or explosions, for your backpack to get destroyed after you die. Look for a little blue backpack marker on your compass to lead you back to where you died. Those items will be left in a backpack on the ground for you to go back and get where you died. Depending on how you have your game setup, when you die you'll either lose just your quick slots, just your inventory, or both.Also turn on the setting that marks airdrops on the map, it sucks to be so focused on what you're doing that you don't notice the sound of the plane until it's already gone. Once you've survived Day 28, you're probably ready to restart on Normal. For your first game, you probably want to start on Easy. Adjust difficulty, zombie spawns and all the other various settings according to how good you start getting at the game.
