when you load into singelplayer there is 4 options to spawn







You will chose Rosewood




it is pretty good start you have there and nearby

So when you want to learn with the game and all of the mechanics you will chose low on zombies and Urban focuse






In loot Rarity you will chose everything to a normale there is bigger chance to spawn guns food etc







In the In Game Map, you enable the minimap, because it makes it easier for beginners to orient themselves in the game






then in a Vehicles settings you will change that car has normal gas when you find it
and also taht the car is in general better condition






and in zombie lore you will chose Shamblers

So on the left side of scrren you have there ocupation there you will chose buglar

it is maybe the best ocupation in the game beacuse you can have car without keys






and for negative traits you will chose underweight

you must eat a lot but there is a lot of food in the start





in player look you can change your character how you want

The first quote you will say in your mind is what the ♥♥♥♥ i have to do. so the first thing is you will loot the house your key now is to find melle weapon like knife or pan etc





you will lookout for theese these boxes



when you get close to the box and clic on it you will see in the right corner loot of the box






there you go i found a Pan !!! you can see there is 2 pans next to the pan imige there is litle


arrow

if you click on it you can see there is 2 pans you can you will see which is better and you will pick it up



you can either move the pan from the box to your inventory or you can double click on it

next thing is you must find food so you will check another box




and you find food so you will pick it and eat it you will eat it when you click i on keyboard and click right on that food and click eat some of the food are only source to cook some food so it is not eatable

So you looted the house and looted others and find such a decent loot but there is zombie outside and you dont know how to fight him







there is two options how to fight zombies you can pick that you will save your weapon and just throw the zombie on a ground and stomp on their head or you can use you weapon and fight them like a real Rambo



when you choosed stomping there is tutorial how to stomp and throw zombie on a ground so first things first zombie will go to you




you will hold right click on a mouse and your are "aiming" with that if the zombie if really close you will pres left mouse click




so it is combination that you hold right and click left

when you finaly push him on a ground you will go to his head and spam space then the character is stomping on his head




when you finaly killed him you can loot him by pressing i 2 or 1 times



it is same with food and weapon you can eaither double click or drag into your inventory when you dont want the to see the inventory you will just click i and then when you want to loot you will click i again





so if you want to fight with your weapon there is first step





when the zombie is incoming you will wiat if he will be near your body anc you will hold right click on a mouse and click left click on a mouse you must hold right click and left click a t the same time or you dont will aim and you will die beacuse the zombie will bite you

[/previewicon] so you hit the zombie and spaming you can kill the zombie that that you will beat him in a stand pose or he just fell to the ground [previewicon=42164998;sizeOriginal,inline;Snímek obrazovky 2025-08-24 152951.png][/previewicon] if he fell on the ground just go to him and aim to head and press space if he is dead then you can loot him how to loot is in the stomping section up there if this section doesnt makes sense just go to the stomping sections is it nearly same but it is other aniamtions there is also tutorial if you dont want to see the inventory

so you hit the zombie and spaming you can kill the zombie that that you will beat him in a stand pose or he just fell to the ground




if he fell on the ground just go to him and aim to head and press space if he is dead then you can loot him how to loot is in the stomping section up there
if this section doesnt makes sense just go to the stomping sections is it nearly same but it is other aniamtions there is also tutorial if you dont want to see the inventory

Do not run if you just spawn if you really run ba pressing left alt you will run as flash but you will make bigger soudns and the zombie will know about you





Stay sneeaky if you will crouch and dont run you will be verry sneaky if there is no zombie you can run in crouch




Btw the zombies are slower than you so if you will walk like normal the zombies will not get you

if you somehow bleeding and you dont know what to do and where to do there is simple steps
if you dont know if you bleeding or not you can see it in the right corner there is the symbol that you will get if you will bleed



so first if you dont have bandages you need to make sheets
you make them like you need to find some clothes like socks when you have socks like from zombie you will right click on them and click on rip clothing




then you will click on a hearth in the right side of screen




then you will left click on taht and you can see that YOU ARE BLEEDING so what you need to do is right click on that part where you bleeding and click on ripped sheets












after a time the bandage will get dirty so what you need to do is clicked on a hearth and again click on a bandaged part and click on remove








and put clean bandage







now you are fully bandaged again





you can actualy clean these sheets by just go to sink






right click on a sink and press clean all sheets





and you can use these sheets again

after a long time of fighting bandaging and loting house you will get thirsty

to drink you just need to go to sink



right click on it and there is drink just left click on that and that it

If you are at the situation taht a horde is folowing you you must do this

so horde is folowing you and you must get to the house



simple the zombie thinks you are at house so they start to breaking the door but at the time the break it you will be out

but you need to get out of there sneeeeaky

so you are bandaged you are not thirsty hungry so the first thing what you wana do is get to the fire department when you dont know wheree it is just folow the left corner of screen





you some how wil lget there it i just to get to the main street and go down



when you arrived at fire department you need to get to the building for a such a best loot




so get inside and go to the most right room the room loks like this





if you are there there your only goal is to get to this room




there will be the fireaxe that is in top 3 best mele weapons in zomboid




then you must went to this locker so you can get firefighter cloth it is best cloth to the start againts bites





first thing is that you will colect the loot from locker at police station



there is police bag and sometimes guns

next thing is to get key to a basement right there

it is not that eazy as you think the key can be at the building or around the building in a zombies

so firtst you need to loot this things



if there is not key you must kill the police zombies they often have key to the basement
if you already find the key then go to the basement

you are looking for shotgun the shotgun is the best in game for the start other gun is waste of bulets for start



if you didnt found a shotgun there is nothing we can do zombies will kill you and eat you



just kidding if you didnt find shotgun just take the revolver or the pistol i would rather not use the pistol MAILNY it is only for the worst situation you will find shotgun later

so if you dont have to dont shoot this is only for how to train shooting

first if you holding r you are reloading gun



so if a zombie is going to you you need to udnerstand something if you aiming at zombie there is a colour around the zombie




it is going from worst to best if you shoot on a zombie in a red colour it will have low chance to hit him

if it is rich green it is very big chance to hit

you must also stand still to get to the colour beacuse you are on low level

so when you kill zombies you need to get out of this city

if you want to leave the city you have two options get on your own or get by car if you get on your own you will die mostly if you are not Biggest Baddest Beaver

so you chose a car what a nice man

first if you get to the car you need to check if it has gas you do it like you walk in front of the car and press e





if the car has gas you can go on a adventure




if you are folowing by horde and dont have time to check you must try it

another problem if the car is locked you need to brak the window. if you do it by your elbow you will bleed but if you are smart and do it with a mele like axe you will not bleed



always brakes another window than yours like if the car ran out of gas or something happen they can bite you or kill you

if you are at the car you need to switch seat you switch seast when you hold

v and click on switch seats




finaly you start a engine and get out of the city




you also needs to find cozy place where you want to live





another thing if you get scratch



you ok but if you are bitten

i would like to rate this guide beacuse i spent on it a long time thanks :)

if anybody dont understand something ask in the coments and i will help you :)