Project Zomboid Base Defense Guide 

I'm a freaking lunatic man. Even once established, I will continue to sleep on the ground floor, and not bother to board up my windows or doors unless they get broken. The only thing I bother to fence in is my garden and my fishing spot, so zombies will not molest me as I work on that. The rest of the game is just endless combat patrols. *Blood for the blood god. Skulls for the skull throne*

I built log walls all around that one house with the long spiral dirt road leading up to it. Took two real days just for me to leave the microwave on and burn the place down

I think a cool base defense idea would simply be a remote-lowered ladder. We already have remote controls in the game, but right now they are only really set up for a small range of items, like noise makers. If we could make what is effectively a fire escape ladder that works by remote, we could replace the old sheet rope option (with its inherent flaws and unappealing aesthetic) with something MUCH cooler. The downsides could be noise when it lowers/raises attracting attention, how long it takes to lower/raise potentially leaving you vulnerable, and perhaps requiring a decent battery source (either constant flow of small batteries or something larger like a car battery). In MP servers, it would also be a good way of restricting base access to only those you wanted to have it.

the best project zomboid guide i've ever seen, it's so informative, interesting, and calming, wow

The calmest zomboid player makes a tutorial. Great!

As a duck that will hopefully be getting Project Zomboid soon and is looking at videos to help prepare me for the game, I appreciate the random duck interlude.

Metal working is totally worth grinding. You can easily fix car hoods and use cars to intentionally clear out zombies with cars.

For real, low fences and windows are literally your only option when dealing with sprinters. They are TERRIFYING

I just got the game and am starting to learn how to simply survive, so today I decided I would "go loud" for the first time in order to clear an area of zombies so i can setup a base, but I didn't realize one box of shotgun shells wasnt going to cut it

Tbh yeah the only non-cheese way to have a base completely immune to zombies is knocking out the stairs and having sheet ropes, as it would basically work in real life too. Unless a hundred zombies die outside your window and the pile of corpses gets so high that they can climb on it.

This is just turning Project Zomboid into The Last stand and I’m all in for it.

Your audio being layered in this had me actually spooked for a minute

one of the best base defense videos for PZ I've come across, cheers!

Thanks for the video! Good advice. And you threw in Golden Hour from LIS at the end...that deserves a "like"!

Damn that wire fence shooting or viewing section is genius.

12:41 my boi was going crazy with them swings XD

As a Kyle, I agree with everything in this video lol. I would add if you have the carpentry level for stairs, and have a floating base, keep all the material needed to create a set of stairs on the 1st floor, just in case a few or more zomboids decide to rip all your sheet ropes down. Because if all your tools, supplies, and materials are on the 2nd floor and you're stuck on the 1st, well from experience that can be a horrible situation, if not game ender.

You level metalworking also by transmuting large sheets in small and vice versa. The cost is time, propane and some material is lost in the process. But with all the cars, ftidges ovens etc it's hardly a problem. Also there is a mod that lets you dismantle any car, not just clunkers.

Nice video and really useful tips, even after 400 hours! I also appreciate the other videos on your channel. Thank you!

Burnt out cars prevent zeds from crawling through. You can fairly easily tow a few rust buckets to block up entries and enjoy relative safety until you leave your “walls” This is usually how I survive living in the tow yard in Riverside til my carpentry is high enough to place a double door for my vehicles to come and go

This was very insightful for a new player. Thank you for the vid!

I just wish there was a setting where zombies would treat your construction like other construction and not attack it unprovoked.

amazing video, very chill to watch, direct to the many important points instead of messing around. LOVED IT!!! 👏👏👏👏

I'm high and appreciate the duck interlude

Brilliant, I will definitely be incorporating this in to my playing.

He is correct though, the core design of the game rewards you for clearing zeds around your base and town area with mostly a trouble-free sanctuary zone by the time you have the skill reqs to build a fence. If the game had a random generated wandering-horde mechanic, this would be more practical to justify the building of one.

You can actually shoot through the Metal Bars. You just need the glass to be broken or open first. I use this to create lanes to blast zombies from the comfort of a wall.

Can also stab through wire fences (spears make it op)

Have you thought of using the spear-maintenance-remove top, repair top, make spear, with an indestructible wire fence method of taking out zombies?

I am new to the game and still learning - this was helpful.

Great Video! Thanks!

2:35 I'm 99% sure this is our groups current base, we also have a car in there, a pain to get around, but amazing when you make a shooting range.

I'm not far enough into the video yet, but you can vault composters by building wooden door frames on the sides you want to vault through One on either side you want to travel through

nice video, altho i can't remember what was it about becaus of baldur's gate music rocks

Yeah, I use the zombies can't destroy player structures option, rather than a cheese base. With sandbox you can set the game to what you like to play in.

"I am paranoid" no sir, you are clever, paranoid is when nothing is out to get you but you think they all are, which would make you horrible at coop :3 slight difference

Cool vid, all the help is much appreciated

How to protect your base from zombies? Just kill the zombies in your area. Yeah that checks out

always found the cheesy methods a bit boring and refused to use them. some good old walls and bariades do jsut fine afterall. Would be cool if they added static defences like spike walls that degrade with each zombie impaling themselves. Zombie hordes naturaly spawning near the players base could also be cool. I find that defenes become useless quickly and hordes would add soemthing to work towards and prepare for which I feel this game needs(The lack of goals tends to be why I personally stop playing)

Im fortifying base because i always tow cars and make a loot of noise since im going reversed to make it esaier and always i manage time to time to attract zombies near my base area even in Rosewood after cleansing the town

i recognized the baldurs gate 3 music immediately 💀

Love the BG3 music lol

For some reason when I had a hammer, planks and nails in my inventory it still wouldnt show the barricade option on windows.

Where can i get the goofy front flip mod in the intro

I wish player constructed walks were immune to zombies

great video! Loved it!

One question, does player-built windows get damaged when zombies lunge over it?

I love the background music. - what's the name of the music?

You can't stab through fence with a spear??

hey! is that rimworld music i hear in the background? :)

lol started a new game and moved in to the house with the for sale sing

nice video

Thank you for the random duck interlude at 6:02 , I was just about to lose attention

Gave the like when the ducks showed up

i prefer 1 storey places, i only barricade windows after theyve broken, and i dont use any barriers. i just kill the zombies near the house an d kill them as soon as they start banging on the window or door and ive never had a problem with over 250 hours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edge?

Does anyone have a Discord server I can join? I’m fairly new and looking for a server to join

Liked for the ducks

best zomboid tips in YT for me . thanks!

Are you really using Baldur's Gate 3 music in a Project Zomboid video? wtf

Ok so half of this video is 🧀

0:28 Cheasy lol

Kill the AL the zombie...really? i guess youyr tips are going to be 100% useless for anyone then right... NOT all of us play on easy MATE killing all the zombies is NOT possible. as it would not be possible if this was real so why bother cheating or being lame.. zombies REPAWN!! by DEFAULT even on the easiest setting.. so killing all the zombies is impossible in in local areas as they also MIGRATE by default

wait fridges dont stop them from coming through? my whole base it blocked by fridges and boards XD good thing I kept the bedroom door on

from a 3k+ hrs veteran I salute you. well done. I even learnt at least one or two things that I'm excited to implement now. thanks

I need a player-made patch (mod) that makes zombies take proportionate damage from destroying objects. Zombie*s* should be able to break through wooden walls by sacrificing some of their number. A single zombie should only destroy itself by trying. A single zombie being able to tear through an infinite number of steel walls is silly. I wish the devs would fix that, so building walls isn't a waste of time.

that fencing one is actually really cool, like little peekdowns to fight zomboids without the use of stairs, then again, metalworking is a pain lmfao

I always disable zombies being able to damage constructed items because it's more immersive. Zombies are corpses. They are decaying and don't use weapons. How can a corpse beat down a fence or wall with their bare hands? Drywall, maybe. Glass? Sure. But thick wood fences? Nope. A metal fence or wall? Nope. I'd love to see a human go out and beat down a wood/metal fence or exterior door with their fists and see how long it takes, and human strength is quite different than a mindless corpse fighting off rigor mortis.

I'm just getting started in my zomboid journey, and after dozens of videos, this has been my favorite resource so far. Thank you Kyle!

Wow that was very informative and straightforward. Learned quite a bit from that short video

12:46 talking about a *indestructible fence* and showing a map of invading Berlin 1945

I didn't expect life is strange music here, but I sure do appreciate it.

I can't escape Baldur's Gate haha. Not even the background music of Zomboid videos! Too good.

Love your attitude towards these videos, thank you for making this

I didn't know composters were indestructible. I hope they don't patch that out cause I'm putting down some composters in my base tomorrow haha.

Like for Random Duck Interlude

Random duck interlude

I'm in a semi rol server, so can't use the cheesy ones but this is going to be usefull af

6:36 if you place the chair so you can sit in it, you can also sit in the chair quickly get up and walk down the stairs.

Hello, great video! What music is playing roughly up to the three minute mark? I believe I recognised it from Divinity Original Sin 2 or something. Can anyone help me?

Music is too loud for me. Love your guide though. 😊

Thanks really helpful. I'm having a hard time as a new player.

i found a place with 3 trailers and a big empty area with logs and it has tall wooden fences all around and small metal gate which can be destroyed so if you defend that you got a safe base

That was great! I feel much more prepared now, thanks for putting this up.

Thank you for taking the easiest approach to understanding buildables and bases in this game. I had the same opinion retarding not worrying over which barricades have the most health when theyre all going to break if left unmaintained, but didnt know if it was ignorant or not lmao.

I just build walls and replace them if they break. If you pick a safe spot they won't break for years if ever. In a more semi realistic zomboid, I'd imagine if the zombies can't access the stairs they should have new AI to destroy the foundations of the building to cause it to collapse. They can already destroy built walls so it wouldn't be strange for them to destroy the foundations holding up a building. Just would be a pain to code building collapses.

the music around 5.30 is from the p music mod in rimworld right?sounds really familiar

Base defense is kind of weird. Building walls requires lot of time and resources, and since you're more likely to be out at the perimeter of your base building these walls, you'll likely just end up having to kill the zombies before the walls ever get built. I guess it works more in the case where you have the sandbox set for a higher rate of migration and zombie respawn though since eventually they'll make their way to your base. The problem for me is that most of my deaths don't come from defending my base, but from being out in the world, taking risks and making mistakes. I tend to make my base out in a farm house near the middle of the map where there's hardly any zombie spawn anyway, so typically the only thing I do is double plank each window and call it good. I don't even seal up the doors.

We have blocked off our base with TV's. They are indestructible and the zombies just stand at them doing nothing. Probably the ultimate cheese but im a new player and it's made it easier to learn the ropes in this game without dropping the difficulty settings. Only downside is when you have a horde after u and you are over encumbered, you cant jump the fences to safety

Yup, before i knew any of these so called "cheat" like zombies pretending to not know where you are but keeps wondering into your place isn't. I quit when i cleared out my neighbourhood 3 times burning half the town just to wake up next day for a so happened to wondering by hored even when i turned off respawn.

I feel so stupid not thinking about breaking the floor instead of the staircase, thank you so much lol

You’ve seen captain yellow beard haven’t you

I've been playing multiplayer PVP for too long, what the hell is a base?

I've been in the gated community in the lower bottom corner of Muldraugh and after clearing I almost never see any zombies and simply sheeting up the lower windows has done the job for at least like 100hrs. I recently added 2 wooden boards to the lower windows for peace of mind. With just 2 boards you can still see out and it still lets light in. Make sure to put the boards on the outside to protect the windows. If you've cleared an area and know there are no zombies around. Sheets should be enough.

The trick of destroying tiles next to stairs can be combined with the trick that lets you jump over one tile gaps for an alternative to sheet ropes, I think.

Can a zombie attack a window if a car is parked right up against the window? I saw that you said they can attack walls/fences, but can they attack a window?

All I’m getting from this is don’t give them a reason to come to your base, and nothing will be destroyed. Unless you use the destroy the way they can go up a story to get to you. And I heard bases on the water works as well since zombies are too dumb to swim to yea

I wish they would finally add traps, like how are we living in a zombie Apocalypse and have every tool known too man kind awailable but cant dig a trench and put some pointy sticks in it, or pointy sticks at a wall and so on

Really would love a carpentry building revamp on the zombie pathfinding and aggro

Thanks, I learned a lot. Mainly that I'll NEVER play with sprinters on...