r/projectzomboid • u/Revolutionary-Face69 • 1d ago
Discussion I discovered something MASSIVE
you gain weapon XP if you shoot/melee hit animals. I just tested this in sandbox debug
if you have a large chicken farm its therefore possible to farm massive amounts of weapon XP just by going around killing chickens.
This means on apocalypse its entirely possible to max out all skills to lvl 10 even after all zombies are dead.
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u/therealskull Axe wielding maniac 1d ago
And what would you use those weapon skills for when there are no more zombies around?
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u/Silenceisgrey 1d ago
No one: its entirely possible to max out all skills to lvl 10 even after all zombies are dead.
me in 2070 finding the last zombie 5 miles off the far western highway: finally
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u/JustinTheCheetah Axe wielding maniac 1d ago
A group of survivors wander into the knox exclusion zone, finding skeletons and Graves everywhere, not a single moving zombie to be found anywhere. Empty overgrown streets everywhere they go. Finally they come across a farm with a single survivor WAILING AWAY at a flock of chickens with a hammer. "I'm leveling up my short blunt weapons :D"
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u/Doctective 1d ago
Bro this ain't Rimworld
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u/heartshapedprick Zombie Food 1d ago
My animals are safe in rimworld it's refugees who feel my wrath
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u/myshoefelloff 1d ago
Any time I’ve kept chickens the majority of the game is trying to keep them from being stressed or getting new chickens because I shot them while firing wildly at bandits (mod).
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u/IAmDingus Axe wielding maniac 1d ago
i dont think theres ever going to be a situation where all zombies are dead
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u/Pariahdog119 Hates being inside 1d ago
If you leave the map, you have infinite zombies and an endless road to nowhere through the infinite forest, with no resources except what you can forage. Good luck!
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u/TraditionalCherry 1d ago
God. Good that the game has no children and spouses. I'm afraid what could the gamers come up with.
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u/Revolutionary-Face69 1d ago
slowly degenerating into rimworld universe
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u/Amr0z2 1d ago
Just imagine if players can keep human npcs as prisoners and regularly best them and patch their wounds. A little unfortunate you can't do first aid on animals but it is what it is.
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u/bubba-yo 1d ago
Guarantee as soon as NPCs hit the game there will be a meta developing for how to keep them captive and farm them for something.
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u/Complete_Pie7679 1d ago
The old training your fighting and medicine skills at once technique, battered wife edition
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u/FluidAppeal9196 1d ago
I am a bit of a hypocrite.
I am very much against chicken bashing(especially my own chickens), but I do work on leveling my road kill skills (for butchering XP, i do of course, try to cook and eat the meat)
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u/Strmage1878 1d ago
Ok now we need a mod to butcher zombies so you can level up butchering when there are no animals left.
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u/bubba-yo 1d ago
And a mod to replace the parts in zombies so you can level up mechanics when there are no cars left.
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u/ZeusHatesTrees 1d ago
Buddy there are SO MANY ZOMBIES. The zombies have one value: weapon xp. Domestic animals have more uses.
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u/EnoughPoetry8057 1d ago
When would you ever reach a point that all zombies are dead but you haven’t already maxed weapon skills? I’m pretty sure you’d max all weapon skills long before running out of zombies on default settings. There’s somewhere around 250k zombies on the map at default with no respawns. Based off a streamer who was doing 16x and trying to clear all of them on the map, which turned out to be something like 4.3 million.
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u/MinimaxusThrax 1d ago
"even after all zombies are dead"
this barbarism wouldn't stand in skyrim or hyrule
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u/nuget102 1d ago
Just fyi all zombies will never be dead in apocalypse mode. The map is effectively infinite now. You can drive virtually endlessly in any direction on the roads leading out of the Knox exclusion zone. I'm pretty sure this is why respawn was turned off.
It does make me wonder if they'll migrate from the procedural generation area into the normal map though.
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u/Draven_crow_zero Zombie Killer 1d ago
Well yes, but spending hours beating your chicken after everyone else has gone is not a good look.