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Survive the zombie apocalypse
Submitted 11 months ago by balderdash9@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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figjam@midwest.social 11 months ago
pandarang@kbin.social 11 months ago
Pistol.
End of list.
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I would opt for the crossbow, machete and axe then use those to commendeer better equipment. Specifically that choice of weapons because ace is useful for chopping trees, machete is a weapon that doesn’t require ammo and it’s a lot easier to make crossbow arrows than bullets. Also take the night vision goggles in the off chance they’re of the high tech variety and not the of lighting based kind. Then use that stuff to basically steal everything on this list and more.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Since you can easily scavange most of these things you only need the hard to find stuff, and stuff that will help you scavange. So body armor and the ak to keep you alive. Axe to help get into places for supplies. Jeep to haul your shit. Drive down to dicks and load up on the rest.
Long term you need a spear and knife for weapons. A horse and cart for hauling shit. Dog for guard duty. And ways to get water and food.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Jeep: unparalleled utility. It’ll die eventually, fuel is finite, but it’ll let me establish.
Shotgun: need a weapon, and while not the strategically beat weapon, I have an image to maintain.
Water purifier: water.
Machete: backup weapon, infinitely useful tool, more rugged than the katana.
I think this combination gives me a good shot at establishing a base of operations, securing the area, and settling for long-term. Between the jeep and the machete, most obstacles can be overcome, and scavenging is easier and quicker. Strategically, the crossbow is probably the best weapon just due to the reusability of the ammunition, but it’s not infinite and what you gain in that, you lose in ease of use, which is paramount in a stressful situation. Opting purely for usefulness, the pistol (assuming subsonic rounds and as quiet as possible) probably offers the best balance between reliability and forgivingness, but I like shotguns.
Water purifier is a pretty easy one. Gotta have water, and while most of that will come from rain or scavenging, there will inevitably be periods of literal draught. Finally, the machete. A knife, a backup weapon, a crowbar. Good for clearing small-medium vegetation. Honestly, the uses are limitless, perhaps second only to the jeep.
Honorable mentions:
Dog. If it’s pre-trained, top tier. If you have to train it, mod at Best plus another mouth to feed.
Any other firearm: mostly preference, each has pros and cons
Body armor: depending on the zombies, top tier (walking dead style, feral gonna bite you zombies) or reeeally not useful (anything spread by spores, fumes, fluids, etc.)
Gas mask: invert the body armor.
Motorcycle: quicker, less utility than Jeep. I wouldn’t say it’s the worst pick
Everything else is either marginal utility at best (cb radio, NV goggles) or easy enough to scavenge (flashlight, first aid supplies, tent, honestly everything else on the list.)
Something_Complex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bro, it’s a zombie apocalypse, you can just walk outside and steal any car you feel like
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It says outbreak, not apocalypse. They’ll still expect you to come in to work.
olutukko@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You will still need keys or a really old car that you can actually turn on with wires
beerclue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Project Zomboid players be like: where’s the crowbar?
But if I had to choose, the body armor, machete, fire axe, and the mighty katana.
PS: in my current PZ playthrough, 3 months and 5k kills in, and just found my very first katana. (lowest loot setting, highest zombie pop).
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Yeah I’ll just take:
Fire axe, fire axe, duffel bag, lock pick
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I thought the fire axe was a lock pick?
bi_tux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk about you guys, but you are legally required to have a first aid kit in your car where live, so there are plenty to salvage same is for water, there are tons of water bottles, that don’t go bad in the supermarket and your water purifier is gonna break at some point, so you’ll have to move to alcohol anyway.
Filthmontane@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I live in Florida and I’m pretty sure they consider first aid part of the woke agenda.
Armageddon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I live in a small town in Florida, can confirm
Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Chainsaw Body armour Mask Shotgun
doomguy
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I wanna know what kind of zombies I’ll be dealing with. Slow shamblers? Fast runners? Intelligent undead?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jimmy Buffet fans.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Unfortunately, copious amounts of alcohol isn’t in the selectable item pool, so I might as well take one of the guns to mercy kill myself so as not to suffer too long.
Tyfud@lemmy.one 11 months ago
The worst kind of Zombie.
Glemek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Crossbow, respirator, fire axe, water purifier.
Crossbow can reuse ammunition as long as you can find your bolts, and improvising shitty bolts is simpler than anyvother ranged weapon.
If zombie plague is airborne, full mask respirator is gonna be essential.
Fire axe is a decent survival and breaching tool, not really considering it a weapon.
Water purifier essential so you don’t die of dysentery, or if the zombie plague is waterborne.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If it’s airborne you’re toast, you gotta remove it eventually
Glemek@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It being airborne doesn’t mean its in all air everywhere all the time.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How many goodboyes can I pick?
Fabrik872@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So many questions like is the bullets in the gun and gasoline in jeep and batteries in flashlight? Also if yes are there any sources for more consumables?
Evotech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean it’s irl so whatever you think you can get
maiskanzler@feddit.de 11 months ago
I’m fine with three! Tent, Flashlight and Camera. That way I’ll have the easiest way out by being the sidecharacter who gets murdered during the exposition before it all goes to shit.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 11 months ago
dog x4, ez
esserstein@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Purifier, Jeep, NVG’s, magically silent pistol. If pistol is just realistically suppressed, I’ll take the machete.
Water hard, gotta get around to loot, gotta see to loot, gotta be able to wack Z’s without too much ruckus.
This post brought to you by too much dayz.
EatYouWell@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Body armor - protection against bites Crossbow - silent weapon, semi unlimited ammo, hunting Machete - good weapon/tool Fire axe - for looting abandoned buildings/emergency escapes.
Then I’d head off into the woods and start building a tree house.
Floey@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Probably the handgun, body armor, jeep, and flashlight. On the first few days the jeep will offer mobility and storage, while the flashlight is necessary for maximizing the search for gear. Handgun and body armor to give you an advantage over your fellow survivors. Then acquire a boat, food, containers, and other resources and become a pirate. I might consider a fire axe or crow bar necessary if everything wasn’t glass doors and easily breakable locks.
workerONE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tent, water purifier, machete, first aid kit
Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
crossbow, axe, dog, ak47
The crossbow can be used indefinitely for hunting, the axe can be used for nearly everything, the dog is useful for hunting and protection, the ak47 is an emergency tool. There’s going to be less zombies and gas in the wilderness. Why are binoculars, bicycles, and horses not on this list?
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Two man tent,axe. and ideally a boy scouts guide and foraging books. Ideally getting myself far way from civilisation as the zombie population is probably just going grow over time
First aid kit would probably be quite useless you can’t put a plaster on a deep wound nor take glass out with a couple alcohol wipes
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jeep and 3 dogs please.
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jeep, water purifier, first aid kit, katana. Wish I could take flashlight, but it’s a 5th option on the list.
No reason to take guns since rounds will be gone quickly and you’ll end up with a worthless piece of metal.
Jeep adds to mobility, which is very handy
Water purifier will allow you to move on without acute diarrhea
First aid kit is a must in literally every survival situation. You should be able to prevent infections and restore mobility as quickly as possible
Adalast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Katana is too difficult to maintain, crossbow bolts can be fashioned by hand from found materials, first aid kit can be scavenged pretty easily. If this is starting gear, go for the stuff that is either rare or likely to be scavenged first, and that is easy for you to maintain by hand. Jeeps aren’t rare, real body armor is. The machete is the go-to blade for many parts of the world for a reason. It is heavy enough to cleave small brush and limbs alike, sturdy enough that it isn’t likely to break on you, and you can get a utility or survival version that has a saw on the back and other useful tools included in it. Only take the Jeep if you are proficient in maintaining it and know how to make biodiesel. If you have those skills, go for it. Your assessment is correct. If not, it is prioritizing short-term benefits over even medium-term. Even on a full tank, you have less than a day’s travel in it. Then it becomes a hard-walled tent or tiny home, take your pick of feel-good terminology. Depending on your starting location, that half-day of travel may not be enough to get you safely away from population centers. If you are in any major US East Coast city, you are fucked. You can barely make it into the Appalachians on one tank, and certainly not remote enough to be safe. As you move further and further west, that becomes less and less of an issue. If you are in the SW, a Jeep becomes top tier pick because it lets you navigate offroad to somewhere truly remote and provides adequate hauling capacity for scavenged materials for setting up a secure base of operations.
aidan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No reason to take guns since rounds will be gone quickly
Depends where you live, imo, no reason to take a sword because it’s easy to find one in any hardware store.
dutchkimble@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Jeep, body armour, radio, handgun
ReCursing@kbin.social 11 months ago
First aid kit, water purifier, jeep, cb radio. I'm shit out of luck on my own so the radio is to find a survivor enclave, the jeep is to get there, the water purifier and medical supplies are to trade so they'll let me in.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Machete, first aid, water purifier, flashlight
justlookingfordragon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Machete, Water Purifier (provided it does not need electricity to work), German Shepherd and the tent. If the water purifier requires electricity, I’d opt for the body armor.
Stuff that requires fuel, electricity or ammo will become obsolete after a certain amount of time, so the flashlight, crossbow, motorcycle, chainsaw etc. only have limited use and become dead weight eventually. The first aid kit might help with “regular” injuries, but is likely useless against zombie bites getting infected with whatever virus is responsible for their mutation. The respirator mask is only useful if there’s something dangerous in the air, and will only stay useful until the filter gets too dirty / too old and needs to be replaced.
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The reality is that every item is finite if you can’t maintain it. Some are naturally longer lived than others (machete, fireaxe) but require sharpening and will eventually break. The better metric is what kind of utility it provides during its life, with a second metric for how easy it is to maintain. Something like the Jeep may only get you a week of functional time, but it’s going to allow you to set up so much easier.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Katana, machete, axe, and body armor so I don’t kill myself with all these implements of cutting and hacking.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
First Aid Kit - Zombies are dangerous but so are infections from minor cuts and lacerations. Gotta prep for the unexpected.
Machete - Most effective and common sense weapon as all the others require some level of skill or maintenance and only the machete would be good at making pointy sticks for improvised spears.
NVGs - Something people forget about is that when the power goes out you’re going to be looting some dark ass buildings even during the daytime. Stock up some batteries or a charger and looting just got so much simpler. Plus, if you hear a bump in the night, you can go looking for it without letting the neighborhood know where you are, like with a flashlight.
Water purifier - You can go approximately 3 days without water and the pipes stop working when the electricity does. That river and lake isn’t safe to drink, neither is the rainwater, and do you really want to whip out your firekit and draw attention just for sippy sips?
Boring picks but I think these are the biggest bang for your buck. Everything else will take so much just to maintain that it isn’t worth it. Including doggo.
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why not the fire axe? I don’t think it would be that difficult to swing. Granted, it would be much heavier than a machete, but long term the axe is gonna last longer and dull slower.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fire Axe requires you to be pretty dead on with every swing. You miss or misalign the edge coming down and it bounces off their skull. They feel nothing and now you’ve got to lift up that axe for another swing. You’ll tire yourself out pretty quickly but if the edge lasts long enough I suppose it could be used to make spears as well. Spears, even just makeshift ones from sticks, are light and if you miss it’s almost effortless to get another go at it.
emberwit@feddit.de 11 months ago
Also might come in handy as a tool in more ways than the machete. Open doors, smash windows, chop firewood and you’d probably still manage to sharpen some sticks with it. As a weapon I do not think that a machete is easier to use without any training.
galloog1@lemmy.world 11 months ago
See, light and water I can make/clean myself. I’d replace them with one of the firearms to counter other humans and maybe the dog for danger detection.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah but see, a firearm requires cleaning, oil, and ammunition. The suppressed sidearm will lure in your neighborhood while anything unsuppressed is going to call everything within 8 blocks right to you. Dog is a mouth to feed, mess to clean, and is also loud unless you’ve trained them very, very well. Making light isn’t hard but everyone can see light - including zombies. NVGs are just for you. Water you can clean yourself but I assume you mean boiling which would need a fire… and everyone can see the light and smoke.
bi_tux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
On the other hand one supermarket probably has enougth packed water for years
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Absolutely the last place you’d ever want to be. Everyone loots stores, it’s safer to loot locally first. Best case scenario everything is cleaned out. Worst case, you find other people. Or other “people”.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Which has a shelf life.
My partner worked at a water bottling station and they kept a “dead archive” of production for quality control: dark, cool room, away from machinery and chemicals.
Archived samples were cleared after 5 years. Out of curiosity, they decided to try the water before emptying the bottles and it was foul. Blamed on too long storage time.
When the plant shut down, the archive was fully cleared and samples older than 6 months were drinkable but not pleasant to, older than a year tasted bad.
Water does not stock well and even worse when exposed to sun light.