SURVIVOR

Move WASD · Run Shift · Attack left click (toward the mouse) · Jump Space · Zoom mouse wheel or + / − · Aim hold right click · Interact E (Q picks a different action) · Bag I · Build B · Map M · Flashlight F · Horn H · Phone P · Hit a friendly hold Ctrl · Next song N · Music on/off Shift+N · Change view V (Zomboid, third person, first person) · Rotate camera C · Zoom scroll or + / −. Areas you can't see are darkened, like Project Zomboid: look through windows and doorways.

Search every house. Doors can be locked: kick them or climb through a window. Zombies hear noise and see you through windows. Barricade doors and windows with a hammer, planks and nails. Take furniture apart for planks, pick it up to rearrange your base, and build walls, doors and fences. The water gets shut off after a week.

Upstairs: walk up the stairs in two-storey houses; jumping out of an upstairs window hurts. Riverside lies east past the woods on Route 9. The Lobos run it: pay their toll, work for El Lobo and they will trade guns with you, or cross them and they shoot on sight. Winter comes on day 11: stay indoors at night, near a fire, or find a coat.

Wounds (K): zombies scratch, cut and bite. Bandage bleeding wounds fast. A bite almost always means the Knox infection: fever, then death in a day or two. The Army was working on a serum at Fort Mercer, the overrun base south of town. Skills level up as you use them.

Power goes out on day 5. Fuel a generator with a gas can to get lights, a working stove and a cold fridge back, but it is loud. Fresh food rots, so cook stews and soups. Some houses have a basement through a cellar door in the kitchen. Use a hand radio (from your bag) to call in Army supply drops, order from the Lobos, or broadcast to survivors.

The river runs between Maple Hollow and Riverside. Fish from the bank with a rod, forage for berries and mushrooms in the woods, and hunt deer and rabbits (they spook easily). Butcher with a knife or axe and cook meat and fish before eating.