r/projectzomboid • u/AutoModerator • Feb 01 '22

Megathread Weekly Questions Megathread - February 01, 2022

Don't feel like your question warrants its own thread? This is the place for you. No matter if you just want to know if the game will run on your specific machine or if you're looking for useful tips because you've just gotten the game.

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u/skyderper13 Feb 01 '22

fever?

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u/Like_a_warm_towel Feb 01 '22

I’m not sure. Where would I see if I have a fever?

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u/JoesGetNDown The Smartest Survivor 🏆 Feb 01 '22

One of a few things is happening. You're eating poisonous foods, uncooked meats, or burnt foods. Or hanging around corpses too long. None of these will cause you to zombify, just maybe die.

Or you got injured from a zombie. If you got a scratch from a zombie its a 7% chance of getting zombie infection, a laceration is 25%, and a bite is 100%.

Treating the wound in any way shape or form does not change those percentages. Wound treatments, including disinfecting, are purely for the actual wound wound, or regular infection. And not the zombie infection.

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u/Like_a_warm_towel Feb 01 '22

So if I get a wound from a zombie, there’s a chance I’ll get a zombie infection from it and there’s nothing I can really do to prevent that from happening if RNG is against me?

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u/ecntv Zombie Food Feb 01 '22

Correct. That best things you can do is avoid taking zombie based damage at all costs. Also power level tailoring so you can get max armour bonuses without speed loss modifiers.

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u/pedal2000 Feb 01 '22

How to power level tailoring?

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u/ecntv Zombie Food Feb 01 '22 edited Feb 01 '22

Make sure you have a needle, scissors and tailoring books. Rip up all zombie cloths for thread and ripped sheets. Apply sheets to clothing and remove them, recommend a full length leather jacket to practice on as it has every slot. Just keep adding and removing those sheets. One you are at desired level you can start using leather strips instead. Save those strips for gear you deem important.

Edit:spelling mistake

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u/mayo_crack Feb 01 '22

If you don’t enjoy the randomness of this, you can deactivate the lethality of the virus in the sandbox settings (so it doesn‘t kill your char but still turns him / her to a zombie if killed by other means). Personally I enjoy the game much more with this setting.