PC How to level with no zombies

[DEADication]

Well, I made it to day 8 without killing any zombies, and... I've just turned level 3.





It appears that clearing a POI doesn't work if you don't kill the zombies.

I placed both sleeping bag and claim block, but they kept spawning.

I spent some nights using the camp fire in the same room as sleepers, it was surreal.

50 minute days, nomad, zombies only walk.

 

[The-Walking-Dad]

Mod it?

I have a modlet for this style of game which I can share, reduces experience required to level to your chosen value. Currently set to 500 but may raise it to 750 or 1,000 cos looting gives a lot of xp.

Let me know if you want it.

 

[DarKnight770]

Punching grass might be the fastest way. Costs almost no stamina, no tool degradation, grass is everywhere, 10 xp per punch.

Cactus are ~90 a pop

 

[Ghostlight]

Looks like I am going to be the first to say this....

They have indeed buffed the XP you get from mining, and I think it is now incredibly OP. LOL.

Please note that I have Bunker Buster mod on my Pick, and the Wood equivalent on my Axe, but even knowing that.... right now I get just under 500 XP for chopping down a tree with 1200 HP. That is almost as much as killing a zombie would give. However, I can find and chop trees ALL DAY with no pause. I can't kill zombies with such regularity. So I declare mining is now OP. :/

 

[Kattla]

Why do we have no diminishing XP on zombies ?

Most likely a glitch that will eventually get fixed. Thank you for reminding them..

 

[lyssa22]

Thank you, everyone, for the ideas! I'll definitely give some of them a go. Y'all are awesome!

 

[ZanySerendipity]

lyssa22... you are not alone. I also play with no zombies, along with my husband, daughter, and son-in-law. Trader quests are a good way to get XP - however, in the previous build recovering a treasure would always cause a pack of zombies to spawn. I haven't had a chance to test the latest build to see if it's still happening. I did report it as a bug, but it was only hours later that a new version was released.

For quests to clear a POI of zombies, it does make sense for it to spawn zombies, but not so much for the treasure quests.

Anyway, be prepared - I was not prepared for zombies the first time we did one of those quests and nearly jumped out of my chair. I had no weapons on me, so just ran. You only get a short time to kill the zombies, then they despawn anyway.