How much do you need to survive one year of Project Zomboid

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Today I take a look at a bunch of different things you need to survive in project zomboid and calculate how much of that you need to survive a whole year. Next to that I also look at other things like construction to visualize how many material are need.
Hope you enjoy!

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@pigletwalterterceiro 9 ай бұрын

A real man answering the questions we are to lazy to research

@stevethecow 9 ай бұрын

questions*

@pigletwalterterceiro 9 ай бұрын

@@stevethecow 👍

@Yeet-mp6ci 9 ай бұрын

Too lazy for English class too 💀

@fearrogue 8 ай бұрын

Very interesting data

@memeoverlord-pz5ns 9 ай бұрын

About cigs, you only need to smoke when you are "Agitated", 2nd level of stress, one cig will remove all stress. 1st level of stress, "Anxious", doesn't actually do anything and can be ignored. Biggest problems with cigs(but I hear it will be fixed) is finding lighters and matches, not being able to light a cig without them. 1 molotovs can kill all zombies on the map, if you manage to gather them in 1 spot.

@themenacingpenguin.7152 9 ай бұрын

killing 52K zombies with 1 molotov sounds like a lagfest.

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

about cigs: didn't know that about stress, thanks. and yes, the dawn maches. I normaly find 5 of them in a hour but of course if I pick the trait, nothing.

@Evasiv 9 ай бұрын

theres mods that allow you to light smokes off of stovetops and fireplaces, since you can realistically do both of those things i dont think its very immersion breaking. its literally called smoke anywhere or something

@cleanerben9636 9 ай бұрын

@@Evasiv I've watched my Mum light hers by jamming it in a toaster or turning the grill(broiler in burger speak) on high and holding the end on it. Any strong heat source should work realistically.

@aquaexnar3093 9 ай бұрын

yea zombies used to drop an insane amount of matches/lighters. wonder why they nerfed it.

@everythingsalright1121 9 ай бұрын

Also generators need electrical parts to repair over time. And cars have diff fuel consumption rates depending on the model

@ThiefSurvivor8 9 ай бұрын

no worries just get the steam generator mod

@TheDiner50 9 ай бұрын

You really only use power for a freezer. 0.16 L/h x 2 (a ice freezer is 2 units) = 0.32L/h. x 24h =7.68L a day. 2803 units a year. In game they are called units. We just make it easy and call it liters. Even now in USA Kenuky they use gallons. 740 gallons of petrol in a year? Idk. And really it is a game and the generator etc just shows how wasteful we are in general with power usage in the real world. Since we are ok to think that the character is going to survive on that little amount of water AND just looking at a wall for a hole year. I mean yea. Real players and humans would have more then enough time to scavenge for parts and fuel needed to run a 0.32 unit per hour generator. Or just ditch power generation and find enough food in the world to survive without fuel. Like really. A hole year. Ow and it is a game. The generator fuel usage is not like the characters need for water units or calories. It is more like you need 50 cans a year or something like it. Unrealistic and stuff.

@dziewiaty 8 ай бұрын

@@ThiefSurvivor8 no worries just use console commands

@ThiefSurvivor8 8 ай бұрын

@@dziewiaty i know but i like the steam generator and in sandbox settings i turn gas station amount to completely empty i don't use cars but i can literally conquer a whole town and live there forever with zombie respawns off

@iamexplosion 8 ай бұрын

@@dziewiaty QoL vs god commands, brilliant

@Sky_Guy 8 ай бұрын

As someone whose average day consists of commuting an hour to work, staring at a wall, reading three magazines during my break, commuting back, cutting down trees for my unfinished home, aggressively making 52,000 peanut butter sandwiches with butter knives, then putting a .308 round in every stray cat in a 15-mile radius, this video has been very helpful for improving my work-life balance!

@commugum 8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@josiahgames2134 8 ай бұрын

the poor cats :(

@grimmsoul3096 7 ай бұрын

you should strive for a 20 mile radius

@simbathecat2420 7 ай бұрын

@@grimmsoul3096rookie numbers I once got one at 50 miles

@user-glg20 9 ай бұрын

The problem with water is that it is impossible to estimate how much do you need to survive one year of PZ because it depends on playstyle. So, you need more water wnen you run, fights, craft, carry overweighted goods etc... and definitely less water when you do not prefer much activities. It also depends on that what clothes you wear

@nenine8989 9 ай бұрын

that's why he made "averages" all throughout the video, at least it gives an idea of the challenge that's surviving a full year.

@InGlownIgnited 8 ай бұрын

Just take the upper bound as the minimum. Realistically water will never run out because even if it doesnt rain ever again and water shuts off on day 1, Lakes and Wells are infinite and only require boiling which can be done with any source of fire (electric or not)

@user-glg20 8 ай бұрын

@@InGlownIgnited yes, I know. There is one way more to have drinkable water without cooking and raining - build barrel one floor above and connect it with sink - you will have safe water without cooking. Raining is also unnecessary, because you can fill barrel with unsafe water from lakes (but it will be magically changed into safe water from sink)

@Ugh718 8 ай бұрын

@@InGlownIgnited Wells don't require boiling:Lakes do lol. Also u don't even need to boil water from a lake:If u have a roof u can build a water collector barrel on top of it,connect it to a sink below via pipewrench,and just pour water into the barrel. It will come out as filtered and u can drink it as if it was purified from the sink lol

@numberyellow 9 ай бұрын

as far as firearms go, ammo consumption is determined by your aiming skill. once the skill is sufficiently high, you can actually consistently get one-shot kills.

@Ramelousy 8 ай бұрын

also depending on mods like advanced trajectory and brita's weapon pack.

@numberyellow 8 ай бұрын

@@Ramelousy Also true, however, i was assuming no mods are being run.

@kurkama3362 6 ай бұрын

Cool video One small issue Those cheeseburgers will be rotten in a week at most, and even with freezers they won't last a whole year So i guess you need to gather A LOT of canned food

@sheepkowalski1198 9 ай бұрын

The info box on generators is wrong; the consumption rate listed isn't in liters per hour but rather percent per hour. If it's listed at "0.5L/h" it will actually consume 12% of the generator's tank per day. Since a full gas can fills 80% of the generator, and you should get almost 7 days from each can, it would only take 55 cans to keep it on all year.

@bobjohnson1096 9 ай бұрын

Nice deep dive. I am highly active so I don't know how much that would effect hunger and depression. My last character had over 4000 kills so it is good to know the population.

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

thank, and dawn. probably doesn't effect depression but you do need to eat more. not crazzy more but like 50% prob.

@aquarius5264 9 ай бұрын

the population is basically 90's Louisville iirc

@goodsippin7523 8 ай бұрын

Not sure if someone commented on this but being outside reduces boredom so thepretically you could never get bored if you stay outdoors

@grimmsoul3096 7 ай бұрын

I mean your likely going to be doing something in most points of the game, if anything to collect the resources above, set up a base camp, fighting the hordes of the undead, etc.

@andrehashimoto8056 9 ай бұрын

Small Reminder that food, if your PZcustom run is using the NUTRITION aspect, that also means you need to balance Carbs, Fibers and Protein, or basically.... keep a minimally healthy diet instead of just downing several Pounds of Spiffo's industrialized burguers.

@acctsys 8 ай бұрын

Without mods, it's impractical to balance nutrition. It's better to ignore protein altogether and go fishing if you can.

@Totallynotkyubey 6 ай бұрын

Nah, burgers are fine if you move enough.

@willw5868 6 ай бұрын

Nutrition doesn’t actually do much, it only really matters for weight. I ate nothing but gas station candy for weeks to get my weight up after spawning, 0 negative effects.

@szpaklabs8893 9 ай бұрын

How many hits do you have to do to a tree before it falls using every weapon that has tree damage in the game? I don't need sleep, i need answers!

@SanderDoesThings 9 ай бұрын

Using the baseball bat to cut down a tree is basically like: "I use the wood to destroy the wood"

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

😆

@bobjohnson1096 9 ай бұрын

It depends what you use. Oddly a sledgehammer works really well.

@LordFlaggy 9 ай бұрын

if you aren't doing combat you could just be depressed, so you could theoretically cut out all the magazines.

@grimmsoul3096 7 ай бұрын

wouldn't combat counter the depressed by making it not boring?

@Luingar 8 ай бұрын

Regarding 228 planks only making a small cabin... Well, assuming the american standard plank is 2x4x192 inches, that'd make a box about 10 foot wide, 7 foot tall, and 30 foot long, including planking the floor. That's a pretty decent little home. Even cut down by around a third for waste and slanted roofs, that's still 200 sqft, which is, assuming each tile is 3 foot wide, about the half the square footage as what you build there.

@alexburgdorf419 9 ай бұрын

earned a sub, this answers a lot of questions

@ThePetoholicGrimJack 9 ай бұрын

My strategy is to stay in town and watch the skill shows and gather supplies and get a car and when the utilities go off then i drive to the closest river and set up a camp fire and a tent and start gathering water from the river and cook it on the fire so that its safe to drink and catch some fish

@legsundeer6108 9 ай бұрын

and what about the game?

@ThePetoholicGrimJack 9 ай бұрын

@@legsundeer6108 hello its a survival game and that's what I'll be doing with my strategy😐

@viciousyeen6644 9 ай бұрын

@@ThePetoholicGrimJackwell, I go from house to house wearing a bathrobe and only carry the bare necessities. Theres plenty of everything around

@viciousyeen6644 8 ай бұрын

@@pijazogalactico6409 some people have skill issues xD

@Konslufius 5 ай бұрын

Will Mackenzie: "These are rookie numbers!"

@Jeto 9 ай бұрын

I actually completely love this concept haha.

@yankeegaming8580 8 ай бұрын

an slight objection to the melee weapons part, it scales to your maintenance skill and the weapon skill which is very important cuz rather than disposing pipes every day like its napkins, you can somewhat use it kill the 3rd day if your not trying to recreate a madness combat animation by killing everything in sight. Also the gas is pretty limited unless you set it to unlimited if your playing sandbox, so I hope they add horses and mules one day.

@toster41 9 ай бұрын

Informative but also on the cheek kind of funny. Subbed.

@plaidtheimpostor 6 ай бұрын

My guess with water is that a unit is 8 fl oz, because you're supposed to drink 64 fl oz minimum per day, or 8 units.

@Bam_1776 9 ай бұрын

I would absolutely love to play Zomboid with this guy.

@AtelmGoldsmith 9 ай бұрын

I love your accent and videos. Keep up the good work! :)

@SirMaxim 7 ай бұрын

MASSIVE oversight when you got to the weapons. Your durability loss is pretty heavily affected by your weapon skill and Maintenence (for melee) and Aiming (for guns). Durability loss is also a chance-based mechanic, so your calculation methodology would need to change. Also, pointing out from another comment that gas usage was miscalculated.

@ShiroIsMyName 4 ай бұрын

I love people like you who have the same questions as me but not the crippling laziness I must carry as a token of God's hatred

@YukiChanC 8 ай бұрын

tysm for the informations, your sacrifice wasn't a waste

@Alex-vg8pj 9 ай бұрын

love all of your video commugum. keep them comming

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

thanks Stalin!

@donovanbolton3678 8 ай бұрын

this man has the resolve of a pre-loaded wall in pz (unbreakable will)

@the_real_squidward_lover 7 ай бұрын

For water you should also calculator summer sense if you are overheated you will consume more water.

@tovarishdimov3317 9 ай бұрын

Sweating also increase water consumption. So clothing also change the experiment.

@666hakuna666 9 ай бұрын

on how much water you need. you drink more the more you do and how hot it is + if you are wearing to much cloths will make you drink more. adding there are seasons in the game so summer time you drink more. winter time little less. and on that shed that you made you forgot the roof i think. + i think you need to repair the gun at some point. might not could be a mod i playing with that require me to fix them.

@samuelsilva8364 9 ай бұрын

Nice job, my PC wouldn't go beyond the burguers.

@revan3675 8 ай бұрын

31 days for one of those jugs is insanely slow, in the town I live in the water is not drinkable so we have to get those 5 gallon jugs and if you hydrate properly even without much movement, you will go through one of those in a week or a little over, let alone fighting hordes of zombies building and such. Not expecting realism just wanted to mention it.

@america2793 9 ай бұрын

01:53 o7 literally me: 03:09 Also welcome back from vacation :D

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

Thanks, America! (and yes I will take your statements as representative for the whole of America) actualy half, I think I have another fan called America lol

@america2793 9 ай бұрын

@@commugum XD

@TAGYT674 9 ай бұрын

Welcome back from vacation!

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@2LitersOfMilk 7 ай бұрын

dude's pc : im gonna die sooner

@dustinherk8124 9 ай бұрын

water is impossible too predict. to varies based on temperature, your clothing choices, your activities etc. there are too many variables to accurately determine the answer. only way would be too be completely naked and do literally nothing for 24 hours, and even then, the temperature outside is still varied and will make answering how much water for 1 full year, still impossible, but relatively accurate, not including water needed for farming too feed yourself.

@grimmsoul3096 7 ай бұрын

just calculate three values: 1: the most water you ever need to consume in a day ever. 2: the least water you ever need to consume in a day ever and 3: the average water you need to consume in a day. calculate this by spending a in-game week per "action" (aka wearing alot of clothes and fighting zombies, reading with not many clothes during winter, raining with normal clothing, etc).

@xandersoukal 9 ай бұрын

for some reason i didnt get a notification on youtube for this epik video

@Ulysses-xl4pv 9 ай бұрын

This man doesn’t need sleep he bleeds coffee

@trollyasociadosllc 9 ай бұрын

you talk like Ragnar from Vikings haha, I like it :)

@xBoaBoa 9 ай бұрын

just gave me idea and objetive for a new playthrough...

@michaelwest6606 9 ай бұрын

omg so helpful i want to survive a year

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

enjoy your burggers

@gzs7483 9 ай бұрын

Dude, you didnt put a roof on the cabin, need to add 1 plank for every roof tile - and add the stairs to build them

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

yeah I'm a bit lazy, but if it's any consolation. I did count it for the matarial. 103 floor. 50 for roof rest for floor

@greymamith7270 8 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken. Calories and hunger are not related. Calories only affect weight gain. The foods hunger value is the only value that matters

@zacmccollum7144 9 ай бұрын

Does the cabin include a floor on top? Ya know, to keep the rain out?

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

yes, I didn't include a lot of luxury but I did give it a roof (ar least in the resource calc)

@lavender_heart5263 8 ай бұрын

YYYYAAAAA MERICA BURGERS!!! new sub

@acctsys 8 ай бұрын

Hemophobia drastically ups water needs. Also, farming adds further water usage.

@aquarius5264 9 ай бұрын

the generator part can't be true, they use very little gas from my experience, it's really manageable

@ozzylepunknown551 9 ай бұрын

7:10 WE NEED MORE BOULETS!!!

@omegahaxors3306 7 ай бұрын

The fact the game actually lets you kill every single zombie in the game is impressive. A lesser game would just spawn them endlessly.

@ekomokiki4461 6 ай бұрын

They do respawn

@omegahaxors3306 6 ай бұрын

@@ekomokiki4461 👉😩👈 lalalala cant hear you lalalalala

@rowanweaver3241 9 ай бұрын

ngl the genny thing is kinda innacurate, for instance in my current playtrhough i have a decent survivor house with more than average fuel consumption, and a single can of gas lasts a week, so you’d only really need around 50-60 gas cans

@DZXJR 7 ай бұрын

my cpu caught on fire to this video

@andresvillalobos3474 7 ай бұрын

You're hilarious man

@mikkelnpetersen 7 ай бұрын

If you set the day length to be longer, do you "use less food"?

@obelix1996 6 ай бұрын

As far as time spent playing goes, yes, but as for in game days, you still need the same amount. So crank up the day length if you feel like you need more time to gather the stuff. But at least for me, scavenging for every last store of canned goods gets tedious pretty fast, so I'd just level up fishing as that is a fresh source of food that doesn't just end during the winter but only becomes harder. If you only have access to crafted spears you need at least level 1 to have even a small chance of catching anything during dawn or dusk (4-7am, 6-9pm) or at least 7 if you want to fish during other hours of the day too in the winter. If you have a fishing rod and some bait (note that foraging for bait becomes impossible in the winter but fishing net traps should still gain you bait fish), the thresholds drop to 0 and 1, with fishing tackle its 1 and 5. (As far as the wiki is current and correct)

@mikkelnpetersen 6 ай бұрын

@@obelix1996 It's more "if I set day length to 15 mins, do I starve half to death while walking a short distance, or do I need just as much food as if day length was 1 hour, and and if it went down at the same speed, would I need to eat 20 times every day if I set the day length on 6 hours" so knowing that it's more based on "ingame time passing" and not "real llife time passing" is the thing.

@obelix1996 6 ай бұрын

@@mikkelnpetersen Well yes, it all revolves around in game time. Set length of day to 24 real life hours and you can kill a thousand zombies with a drop of water and half a grain of rice. Set it to 1 second and you won't have time load the game before starving to death.

@eszyx8062 8 ай бұрын

16 seconds in and I can already tell you're dutch lol. nice video tho!

@commugum 8 ай бұрын

thanks man!

@90skidcultist 9 ай бұрын

“Control Yourself 7:41”. Is the game taking about your character or your CPU?

@searuxianstudios9200 9 ай бұрын

mods coming in clutch

@Drie_Kleuren 4 ай бұрын

You cant messure the amount of what you need a in full zomboid year. Yeah water and food you can somewhat messure. But when you start to cook and get higher level and make meals you can save a lot of food. but weapons are impossible to messure. Maintenence skill and weapon skill impact your durability a lot. If you are low level your weapons break faster and you need more hits to kill a zombie. If you are higher level in both you do more damage and your weapons last longer. Also when realisticly playing you are going to have days where you dont do much. Its also the same with a car, I have days where I drive my car a lot and then days or weeks where I dont touch it. The sigarettes is funny because I love to save up first aids pouches and place them and I store sigarettes in those. One playtrough I had 3 pouches full with sigarettes (I do play with organinesed so the container holds 5 spaces so thats 1000 sigarettes per pouch) I had well over 3000 sigarettes haha... I also thought you needed more. I always pick smoker but I usually just smoke even before I get the moodle to smoke. Idk maybe its because I smoke irl I also think to smoke ingame more often

@davidburnett5049 8 ай бұрын

2hours a day like my commute..

@salcefix5244 9 ай бұрын

you need 70085 rifle rounds for a year, or 25 molotov cocktails. you choose

@thinhtran2373 9 ай бұрын

With one molotov i burn all one cityc😅

@baraaalkurdi9021 9 ай бұрын

can you share the mods you use?

@zeemeister85016 9 ай бұрын

For Science!

@iwanttodie7199 8 ай бұрын

per year? my guy I have never gone past 7 days

@stephenbriddon2796 9 ай бұрын

How much for a week..?

@SgtLuke 8 ай бұрын

The fact you related the cheeseburger to America at about 1:53 is way too accurate and this is coming from an American.

@AndroidFerret 9 ай бұрын

We need more illnesses in PZ.

@somedudefromasia871 9 ай бұрын

w vid

@aquarius5264 9 ай бұрын

I'd agree with the positive comments if there wasn't so many oversights. not a very scientific way to do these things if you only run one experiment without running multiple where you change variables.

@pawelteam97 9 ай бұрын

I cant read same magazine twice? I need new one everytime? Uhh

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

Noop, same with (non skill) books. apparently you read them so hard they immediately disintegrate when you are done with them

@lackytaffy3399 8 ай бұрын

Cool, I'm at 4% zombie extermination

@commugum 8 ай бұрын

well, I might have bad news, cause normally zombs respawn

@vwem1237 5 ай бұрын

How much ZOMBOID per year?

@aquaexnar3093 9 ай бұрын

devs, i use this video to rest my case. add more damn gasoline to the game why are all the cars empty man

@corejake 9 ай бұрын

One sig every 7 hours? That's some bs, I smoke only 1 per day, and it works perfectly fine.

@heartminer5487 8 ай бұрын

has anyone tried if you could die of old age?

@Ramelousy 8 ай бұрын

half of the information is wrong, as you'd only need 254 cigarretes to stay sane in a year.

@JoshAwuh 9 ай бұрын

Make better thumbnails brother, I'm learning it too

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

This one looks shit doesn’t it. Until now, every Pz vid of mine has a thumbnail that’s primarily not based on pz graphics. I have specifically never done this type before because I realized with the first one: he, thumbnails from this game look as. But I am very curious to see if (despite) the look do well. Maybe something recognizable is better than something attractive you know. Also what do you think of the just cause 3?

@jensboot-qe2ip 5 ай бұрын

NL?

@argentin2306 9 ай бұрын

You forgot medicines, because accidents always can happen! Or you could always get the flu

@commugum 9 ай бұрын

He he, I very strategically said “some of the stuff” at the beginning of this video. I do however have an interesting fact about that. When I was researching for my “all ways to die vid” I discovered there’s A surprising lot of things that doesn’t kill you. I know just a normal wound infraction can’t kill and if I can remember correctly neither can a cold. Just makes you very weak

@bobjohnson1096 9 ай бұрын

The way I look at is is if you get hurt you are dead.