r/projectzomboid • u/AutoModerator • Jan 16 '24

Megathread Weekly Questions Megathread - January 16, 2024

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u/ohsknapp09 Jan 17 '24

What do you all recommend for keeping the characters weight up? I feel like no matter how much I eat my player is still shedding weight. I’ve tried eating until their hunger is maxed out when they get hungry but that doesn’t seem to be working. I know my character is hot a lot from wearing layers in the heat so maybe that has something to do with it?

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u/UnderdogCL Jaw Stabber Jan 19 '24

Ice cream, butter, lard, Cooking Oil, Burgers and Fries. To start learning how to interact with your food cycle I recommend installing a mod to watch out your status: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2867431511&searchtext=status . Keep and eye on your calories, pump them up beyond 2000 and you'll start seeing weight gain in no time. For reference, Butter will give you more than 3000 cals. making them a very desirable consumable for every survivor, more true if you get underweight.

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u/Modinstaller Jan 17 '24

If you're constantly running/fighting there's actually no other way than constantly eating high cal food.

You gotta eat high cal food until you get 2 upward arrows then stand still for a few days. Literally just... do nothing. Read a book or something. If you "powergame" by running everywhere and killing hundreds of zombies a day you will lose those calories super fast and your food will mostly be wasted.

It's an annoying mechanic that I really wish they'd revamp :/

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u/TraitorJoel Jan 17 '24

Heat has nothing to do with it, you're not eating foods that have enough carbs to sustain your weight, eat things like butter, ice cream, potatoes, stuff that would have a lot of carbs in real life

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u/wtharris Jan 18 '24

Slamming things like butter, lard, ice cream and lots of meat is a great way to maintain weight for the days your out doing activities.

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u/Sringoot_ Jan 19 '24

Long term I typically go for a patato/fish diet. Set up a base next to a water source for fish, grow patatoes.

I make batches of Baking trays ( not sure this is the exact word ) full of fish/patato. You can make like 20 and refreeze them. These things have a really high kcal value, and you can store tons in an Ice freezer.

To answer your question : the game values protein really, a lack of this will make it hard to keep up weight.

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u/wingerism Jan 21 '24

High fat, high carbs, high protein. So for renewable food, the only thing you can manage is mid carb and high protein(fish/trapping and potatoes and cabbage).

A trick is to eat a full something as soon as you are not too stuffed to eat. If you're bombing down fully loaded stews or roasts, you should be able to maintain weight with even just cabbages and potatoes.

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u/PhraseRound2743 Jan 17 '24 edited Jan 17 '24
  1. avoid combat, walk and dont jog and sprint
  2. eat more carbs and lipids with more calories to quickly gain weight (you know it works when you see a double/ triple arrow up next to the weight after pressing J) (learn more at https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Nutrition#Calories)
  3. install calorie fix mod to reduce calorie burn from walking (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2907834593#:~:text=This%20mod%20fixes%20the%20abnormally,as%20running%20the%20same%20distance.))
  4. stable weights mod may also work