Okay. It appears that the best strat for my naked noncombatant is, suprise, not to fight.
He spawns, he scrambles around the house. He buys the npcs drugs and he steals the zombie’s shoes. He puts on what he can, but lets face it, his head and hands are freezing in the near future.
Either way, with a stick/board/pipebar he smashes the fridge and flees. This is probably the most dangerous part. Zombies are so ungodly good at following him, and hes so cold. He cant really hope to do more than outrun the stragglers and find a bush to beat the lead zombies in.
That done, he claws around houses hoping for a basement cache or a flashlight.
With that done, hes on the lokout for better armor and that one rare car that runs. Ugh.
He crafts some hand wraps if he can, and makes a nailboard if he can. Honestly though nail boards are so damn fragile in this new versions. And it lacks the block tech that it had earlier. And they buffed the stupid makeshift crowbar, so make that if you can.
But, Ive had to drop several old techniques.
-I cant weave between zombies because they smell so good, so I have to stay on the outskirts of town.
-I cant light ready fires, and fires even go out faster (?), so I cant really rely on those unless I preplan and feed the fires. A few thread keeps a fire going for minutes.
-I cant light fires in houses and craft as I go because zombies can find me easily.
-I can still light a basement on fire and craft while the house above me burns, but the filthy penalties add up on a character who is cold and drunk and bd tempered and a slow learner and eating raw beans. And how long before thats nerfed out?
