I thought I'd finally got into a position to grind tailoring for the second time in 700+ hours. I've got the first three books, and I thought ahead and shredded a whole load of clothing...but I realised I lack one thing.... A needle. The one game that I can't find a needle. Sometimes I wonder if there's a dev just watching me in real time, playing sadistic DM ; - ;

Man tailoring is a skill many don't pay attention to, but it ends up saving you a lot of times. One time I managed to get it at level 10, patched my desert camo outfit in leather patches and it saved me from 3 attacks in a row because that goddam violin sound freaked me out, making me open chrome by accident.

Army Coat, Long Johns and Overalls are god-tier when it comes to tailoring, just by how much they cover. With level 10, you can have ~70 bite / 100 scratch protection on your entire body* (with the exception of neck and hands).

There's a four-way highway intersection south of west point that has a gas station, used car lot, spiffos, and clothing store. Every playthrough I grab the mechanics, electronics, and tailoring books and read them while gorging myself on ice cream to fix my underweight. Then I rip up all the clothes for thread and tailoring and mess with all the cars for mechanics and disassemble radios for electronics and wait for the helicopter to show.

I never realized how OP Protect From Melee was in Project Zomboid.

There is a mod in the workshop basically use "Auto Tailoring". The char patches and unpatches the clothing, which really eases the pain in training it up.

Also: look out for Home VHS cassettes! Two of them give xp in tailoring!

grinding Tailoring on a MP server is the whole reason I'm actually afraid of dying on that server. Lile hell I'd want to do that again.

Here's some really good clothes i suggest people layer: Hawaiian shirt (Super low insulation) V-neck sweater (relatively low insulation) Denim shirt (good base protection and lots of coverage) Bandeau/crop top (These give no insulation at all) Desert camo jacket. (low insulation) Desert camo pants (super low insulation) long socks (also covers shins) Long johns (Covers entire body) Yes, all of these can be worn at the same time. Then of course, there's helmets (I strongly recommend any sports helmet as these dont give insulation) Leather gloves and any boots. (Just take sneakers)

I found 3 sewing kits, tore apart all clothes of zombies I killed in a month Didn't make level 1 Tailoring after removing and reapplying ripped sheets; dear lord do you need those books lmfao. I feel like using Denim and Leather strips ought to give more exp

Tailoring is even more powerful when used with the mod that lets you cut strips into thread, turn thread into twine, and twine into rope (and in reverse with a material loss). Having turbo-patched clothing is great, and so is having enough rope to bundle up and haul the small field of trees you just cut down. :p Especially with a big box van.

Having gotten tailoring to level 10 on a character (and about to again) hot damn do leather patches save your life. If I remember correctly I had long Johns, Bandue, T-shirt, jacket, scarf, balaclava, hat, pants, and long socks all giving me layered defense, and was basically untouchable at full durability/patches.

Everybody's talking about how to rip clothes, but nobody takes time to say RIP Fireman Gear as we can't repair you. :'|

unrelated but if you hold alt (manual ground attack) and space while holding a melee weapon you attack without delay, very useful if using fences.

Runescape, Elona, and Zomboid. Truly a man after my own heart

I had no idea that you could get thread from ripping up clothes, thanks for mentioning that 👍

You can tailor while driving. Just take patches on and off while driving long distances and you'll level easily.

Just watched a video from September. I came back to this video to comment on the audio, but you have actually made your voice louder+clearer vs the background music! No comment needed ^^ so, thank you!

thank you been trying to get my friends to listen

Tailoring is really nice, I decided that while play MP my most recent character would try to be a tailorer. I think with like 5 or 6 I was reaching really high protection and felt good. The next three times I got hit, it was on the hands, the one spot you have minimal options to cover. RIP(ped sheets)

also another thing I discovered recently: the firefighter helmet can be worn alongside the welding mask for practical purposes + layering defense Edit: turns out this is an added feature from the Scrap Armour mod

Straight to the point and informative video. I hope you're enjoying Leagues 3.

LOL The prayer flick intro XD Love your vids dude keep it up!

I've basically compiled a list of different clothing that gives you the best stock protection, and then layer everything with leather strips. Basically, you create the armor of god! 😁 And I've stockpiled around 100 denim and leather strips so far, as well as around 600 ripped sheets!

Great video. I'd love to see you cover fishing. It seems pretty self-explanatory at face-value, but I'm like 90% sure there's no meaningful difference between fishing with tackle and using a spear, despite it being very easy to assume otherwise.

Tailoring is so good and a should skill to grind. After much grinding and accidents, it can save you especially if your focusing on melee. Multiple layers makes you probably invincible if the zed doesn't bite your neck.

Remember that as long as you play single player you can easily manipulate time to incease tailoring grind speed. Just enable "resume normal speed when timed actions complete" under "accessibility" game options tab and then hit F6 (fast forward x3) right after you click to apply/remove patches. Doing that tailoring is always the first skill I hit level 10 at. Works for grinding other skills, like reloading, too!

I recently had a game where I had my tailoring to level 10 and patched everything up with leather strips. It was my first game with level 10 tailoring. After that, I decided to go on a food looting run in residential houses while leveling up my electrical skill to level 3 to carry with me a washing machine (you need electrical level 3 to pick up a washing machine) Once I got on the third house, I decided to put my looted stuff in the trunk but because inventory management takes a long time in this game, I sped up the game. A group of three zombies suddenly came at me and bit my hand, the one part that's least protected to bites. So i thought I'd just try to kill as many zombies as possible to get their thread before my character gets infected so I can give all the thread to my new character and have him level up his tailoring. But my attack speed with melee weapons were so bad with my bitten arm so I couldn't farm too much and my firearm selection wasn't too good either.

The OSRS music combined with the zombies changes it from Runescape to Run Escape

Grub

Could you do a video on horde/swarm dynamics? Like how they come to together, how they move, how the leader is determined, and how many there can be?

They really should change the look of the patches at least for when you get a high enough level so it looks more like proper added padding instead of looking like a hobo's clothes.

Mulit-layers is actually not only increases water consumpition but also lead you to faster exhaustion at summer time.

My motto is "just don't get hit bro" I'm previously a heavily armored type of guy but when i got scratched by a lunging zombie and dying from it months in the game i changed sides. I only wear minimum amount of clothes (to avoid overheating or cold) or good looking ones to reduce weight as much as possible.

I always thought tailoring to be OP specially with leather arm/legs wrappings. After a while I discovered that those wrap armor were from Paw Low Loot mod and not Vanilla lol

i like how direct you are in your videos you only take a minute to explain how to do something while others take like ten or twenty

another wholesome video

You got that pray flick in the right tick my dude

I noticed that a back stab always seems to target the least protected part and I think it is a guaranteed break through regardless of resistance. Also, I am not sure but it seems like zombies still tend to attack the least protected body part. From the multiple times I have ran around in full protection on most parts but I seem to keep getting hit in the neck, hands, and groin where I lack layers something like 8/10 times when attacked from the front. I have mostly abandoned heavy protection for light weight gear. As a side note in my tests I found that weapon skill block chance is allot more effective in preventing death.

Flicking that prayer. Very efficient.

Saw the prayer flicking and insta subbed ;)

So strong I can't find expert tailoring books on mp E.also are you trying to include rs content

Liked for the informative video. Subbed for the prayer flicking.

wow what a needed vid dud great job omg!

I prefer finding a leather jacket full of holes and just patch holes then remove, seems to give more xp. I have a jacket with seven holes on it.

There is a VHS tape that will level it up as well.

I prefer the armor bits mod I have to this. Scrap armor that allows decent protection of the neck as well :) I’ve got shoulder pads that protect the neck and shoulders, and thigh guards in case any scratch me as they fall. Had a couple close calls, but they’ve finally been what I was looking for to save my clutzy arse from the undead I probably couldn’t outright solo an entire hoard, but I’m not scared of a single zombie anymore at least :)

lmao at the prayer flashing hahah

Can you make a guide on the timing for prayer flicking?

The wiki says that using leather gives more xp, don't know if it's accurate though. I always have plenty of leather so I started grinding with it. Thread is always the bottleneck

Question: I'm an avid user of layers and the tailoring perk. Wearing layers in the summer will use more water due to overheating, but you didn't mention how it will also make you soaked with sweat really quick. How do you best mitigate that issue, cause it can cause you to get a fever and die very quick which has killed me more often than a zombie scratch has.

for a game that aims for realism this is just silly, but very useful, thanks

Can you do a video about whether or not darkness affects zombies noticing you? Maybe inconspicuous, light footed, night owl, and graceful are much more effective when you venture out at night

we need a searchable haystack somewhere in the world with a guaranteed needle

Finding a needle can sometimes be like........finding a needle

Read the title, agreed. Read the comments, also can't find a needle when I want one, and 3+ when I don't need them. Love this game.

What it was in the end? :D

Get the auto tailoring mod. All it does is add a training option which will patch/unpatch the current slot until you run out of materials. If you really don’t want to add that, use clothing with lots of slots so that add/remove all does more per click. Pro tip, try to kill zombies in one small pile. You’ll be able to rip clothing from anything within range, which makes ripping a lot less tedious.

So tailoring is OP. Holy Moly... I will give an extra attention to this skills on my first run. Guess will be recorded to be uploaded someday.

Ever since I got a gun and many ammos, I no longer use any shirt. I just go around half naked with jeans, aviator glasses, and a cowboy hat with a big iron on my side. Unless it's winter where I go outside with black long sweater, black jeans, black leather gloves, a balaclava, and a ski goggles.

Can you do a Prayer XP guide for Project Zomboid next? I want to Pray Melee. :P

Wow that is just like real life. Kinda I know a guy who was attacked by a mountain lion while wearing a whole winter suit and he was barely hurt because the clothes stopped most of the scratches and bites. I had seen another guy on the news who had been attacked by a mountain lion while wearing just shorts and a t shirt and oh boy it wasn’t a pretty sight.

You can fing Vhs tapes for tailoring too. Tailoring 101 and Granny Nanny. Read the books an stop the tapes when the multiplies wears off.

Nice prayer flicking

Have you tested how Thin/Thick Skinned interacts with clothing? I'm surprised there's barely any information at all about it.

Ayo what was that Cthulhu shit I saw at the end

damn nice prayer flicking

Hey Retanaru, would you do a video on the thin and thick skinned traits? I see a lot of strong opinions on both sides and it would be awesome to have some actual data, particularly on how they interact with clothing protection levels. Thank you for making quality content! I love how concise your videos are.

Probably going to need to level this up considering I keep getting stun locked, which is infinitely worst than being bitten imho

Yes its strong but... not as much as irl Idk if the game got updated but having 1 arm worth of patch from a full asz leather jacket is kinda stupid Also thread is like really easy to salvage (at least with my experience who boil down to getting myself stab with a needle for 1h just to add a pocket) And you can add pocket so storage, make clothes, make metal patch (with a pointy thingy a cisor and a metal plate) and padding for the little cost of a lot of material and dexterity

Love the rs reference xd

wow nice prayer flicking

there are also rarely leather pants in louisville jsyk :)

love that osrs/zomboid combo

Tailoring also has bullet protection, if you get enough cloth you can survive more than your enemy, actually.

Retanaru, could you do a video on resting in a bed VS just sitting + Standing? The wiki seems to be lacking on the topic. I'm not sure what the best approach is for quickly removing exertion when power levelling fitness.

Nice prayer flicks :)

I don't know if this's been brought up, you can turn a nail into a needle with a hammer, I think its vanilla, but may be handy for when you're stuck with looking for a needle in a ... well, haystack ?

You can install a mod for auto-tailoring grind, so you don't need to apply patches and rip them off on your own. IMO that's a good QoL mod

the highlight of my game is when i find a needle.

If I could find a damn needle

question- what do lacerations count as in the context of the armor screen?

Conversely you can just not let zombies touch you.

Love your theorycrafting videos mate! Query, is the chance for clothes to not be damaged by wading through trees cumulative/additive from the thick skinned trait/outdoorsman and the park ranger/lumberjack profession?

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I wish they improve the graphics of the patches.

Gotta work on those prayer flicks

Lol I figured you'd be playing the shattered relics league

I use the AutoSewing mod to do the grinding automatically. No more click-fest.

For me, it is time wasted most of the time, with infection on, it's mostly death anyway if they grab you once. Even with protection.

Someone is playing shattered league i see :o

I feel like this is less of a 'how good is tailoring' video and more of a 'how does tailoring work', which I think most people already know. What I wanted to know is what's the best protection you can get? is there finally some way to get hand protection above the base 30% bite 50% scratch and put it alongside other body parts? Because as of now I don't want to even bother with tailoring until there is literally nothing else to do. You can kill entire hordes without any armor much more easily as you aren't slowed down by it and if you do get grabbed by the horde or even just 3-4 zombies you die even with the best armor you could possibly get because they keep taking turns stunning you with no way out or straight up drag you down. Not to mention all the accidental deaths the armor does completely nothing against such as falls, food poisoning, car crashes. Spending all this time lvling skill that only has a CHANCE of working against 1-2 zombies that you let bite/scratch/lacerate you, I would rather spend that time learning basic combat or lvling up my weapon skill so that never happens... Not to mention all the leather patches make my character look ugly. I think tailoring should level up easier than Carpentry so there is no cost of the painfully long grind for the effect it has or offer something real cool such as repairing holes in clothes or protecting clothes from being damaged as the patches take the hit instead of the clothing item which you could easily replace or creating duplicates of clothes I already have but with color of my choosing. I don't want the armor to be 100% protection from everything because that would make the game super boring, but at the same time I don't want to bother spending IRL hours grinding a skill that doesn't significantly increase my chances of survival or enhance the gameplay experience. For example you only need lvl 1 electrical for the car hotwiring, but if you reach lvl 3 you can move washing and drying machines which is just great quality of life improvement especially for when you play with the Hemophobic trait. It's really no big game changer but I enjoy grinding for it as it makes me spend less time staring at progress bar go up and I can spend it doing something more productive and fun. Something similar needs to be made with Tailoring, Medical and Trapping.

Lmao prayer flickin

protect from meeleee

needles are so insanely rare it makes tailoring so painful

I always would recommend sewer as a trait to get +1 in tailoring. With level 0 you have 0% chance to find thread by ripping cloth. So it's super hard to find enough thread to get from lev 0 to 1.

Will you do videos on the exact effects of some zombie lore settings? I'd like to know how much poor hearing and poor sight make zombies oblivious, for instance

99% of the time I'll just wear a helmet, gas mask, leather gloves, military boots and speedos in the summer because hugh fitness+ high nimble + high weapon skill make protective gear pointless 😁 if you are getting scratched or bit you are making mistakes that will get you killed. And yeah, for me it seems there's an unnatural amount of hand and groin lacerations from frontal attacks.

There really should be an icon replacer mod for Runescape icons it would be sick someone with a skull above there head after they pked some one Knox county "wildy"

You playing the new osrs league my dude?