How To Properly Lose Your Cold In Project Zomboid

[@Retanaru]

PS: You get common mallow from foraging while having read the herbalism magazine or by taking the herbalism trait.

[@grease_monkey6078]

what amazes me the most is that Indie stone havn't hired you to be their official youtuber staff

[@perteks7639]

@@grease_monkey6078 I hope not because its bad for him

[@KissyKaede]

No common mallow in the wintertime either, as far as I know.

[@huff3782]

The main way I play solo zomboid is the CDDA challenge and this video cleared up SO much for me. In retrospect the fatigue check explains most of my "permanent" colds . If you don't find alcohol, sleeping pills, or a needle you can't sleep until near-max fatigue because of the groin pain. And you can't loot or do much of anything with a max level cold and high fatigue. I'd get frustrated and neglect other moodles and eventually abandon the save.

[@Galipheo]

The hardest part of CDDA is losing the initial cold, as it seems like every time you cough/sneeze your character makes more noise than honking a car horn. I figured out that the barn next to the farm house north of the initial spawn is a great area to kill a cold by sleeping inside (since I would run with claustrophobic and every other structure made it impossible to sleep inside).

[@NeosDany]

Character when inside houses: how boring is being here, I guess i will turn unhappy. Character when inside houses with a cold: how entertaining is here, I'm happy.

[@SvendleBerries]

This is one of the reasons why I always take the outdoorsman trait. I like to spend a lot of time outside building stuff, and the trait makes it really difficult to get sick, and any cold I do manage to catch is easy to get rid of.

[@steveweast475]

outdoorsman is broken, it also gives fat foraging bonuses

[@davidburnett5049]

Have you ever caught a cold in the game? I haven't. I also take the bad traits that make it more likely

[@Retanaru]

2 points. Saves you from colds when you do stupid stuff, scratches when you run through trees like an idiot, and gives a foraging bonus.

[@everythingsalright1121]

@@davidburnett5049 its not easy to get a cold but thats a good thing. The stat reductions make it a lot harder to survive not to mention coughing or sneezing. Youll also lose hp over time and depending on the weather it can be a death sentence (high temperature summer with a fever is real bad). I usually get sick by being cold and in the rain for too long. But if you take outdoorsman you dont really get sick from cold and rain nearly as much

[@SvendleBerries]

@@Retanaru I forgot about those other bonuses. Neat :D Thanks, Ret!

[@notme5844]

The boredome reduction is quite nice. Makes sense too, if I don't feel good im not gonna feel bored from not doing anything.

[@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson]

It blows my mind that this channel isn’t well past 100k subs. Easily the best resource for learning PZ game mechanics.

[@shikzantrahat9932]

My dumbass was wondering why I have constant cold in my Cryogenic Winter playthru, I was thinking it was because of the prone to illness trait. Turns out zomboid wants my character to have a week's rest indoors while being sieged by Zeds

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

oh if only I could get besieged by zeds.

[@shikzantrahat9932]

@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 Just get the horde at night mod. Or just plain old get caught by the helicopter camera man.

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

@@shikzantrahat9932 helicopter is not an issue once you've cleared out the area. Especially if it's a more remote one Horde night feels so forced and curated. Also they're way too aggressive. Zombie hordes moving through your area should be something that occurs naturally and hiding them out should be an option. Horde night forces you to fight every single one of them because they're hard locked on you.

[@shikzantrahat9932]

@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 true , helicopter event is really not an issue if you had time to clear out an area. Horde at night is just something we added as a multiplayer server mod since it's too easy in multiplayer.

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

@@shikzantrahat9932 have you tried, 1 hour respawns, full respawns (1.0), 1 hour migration intervalls? This basically means only your immediate area (1 cell) around your people is safe, and new zombies will constantly migrate to your door from outside. It is the closest I've seen to "being besieged" although it is too normal to make it interesting Don't try it with x4 x4 pop though, it will get insane.

[@lazerpie101]

I spent 5 in-game days at 'stuffed' and overheating, wondering why my cold wasn't going away. It was because I was on the roof. Thank you

[@TeeIeh]

Over 600 hours in this game and I've never had a cold. I think I've pretty much always taken outdoorsman though, so I guess that proves its efficacy.

[@KissyKaede]

Yeah, even in the C:DDA challenge, after I've gotten rid of the initial cold, I never catch it again. I'd go as far as saying Outdoorsman is so necessary that it's overpowered.

[@Man_3336]

Wanted to thank you for all your work, learned a lot

[@niteshade5783]

Outdoorsman master race.

[@Drakefance5]

This is the information I was looking for. Just a shame it wasn't available during W4sted's server :P Ah-choo!

[@symmetryking8884]

I love the video and the Long Dark-esque style thumbnail. Keep up the great work!

[@himedo1512]

Definitely should be changed how cold's work. No matter what you're doing, you should get over it with time. Rest should just speed it up.

[@iumiforgot]

boredom reduction is actually very good to tell when you've fully lost your cold, basically just sit around till you get bored & you know you are fully healed.

[@quineloe]

you don't sneeze or cough when you're under the first moddle threshold. So you will not lose boredom buildup.

[@iumiforgot]

@@quineloe true, wonder if waiting till then isn't 100% safe.

[@KyleMiddleton7]

Damn. I never expected this was so intricate.

[@isaaccarter7786]

Never have I ever seen common mallow in all my hrs on Zomboid

[@AuthenticPeach]

I still have PTSD when I was trying to lose that one cold while on that one LV raid.....

[@BrainwashingDetectiv]

I lost my character last night because of a cold. I stayed out in the rain out on the north edge of Muldraugh a little too long and got the first sign of the snifflies. The worst part is as I was heading back down the freeway, I could hear just a very faint soi soi soi soi soi... Slammed on the gas to try to get inside before it spotted me, but it was too late. I had a helicopter trailing me, the sniffles turned into a fullblown nasty cold, and what's worse the drowsy kicked in as the helicopter showed up. Died at sundown from the fever and trying to find a safe sleeping spot, gas still running on that truck. RIP Cathy Pipkin. Anyways on my next run I'm taking Outdoorsman and keeping an eye out for those magazines.

[@CatChat240p]

Please never stop using FF9 music it puts a smile of my face every time

[@gerogedamon1573]

You're killing me with those discreet FFIX tracks in the background. Anyway, that's good info, mainly because I've literally never caught a cold outside of the one you're guaranteed in CDDA even with Prone to Illness and no Outdoorsman, so I probably dragged that cold for a lot longer than I needed to, hah.

[@BanglaBish]

I was absolutely terrified of it after seeing my friends never stop sneezing so I've religiously used, and dried, towels and washed my character to never ever catch a cold. (Also found out you can't dry towels any faster over flames). Thanks to this I don't have to be too scared of it anymore.

[@Archmage90]

Well thats realistic. You may feel no symptoms, when you are almost recovered from common cold irl, but if you go out in a cold it will result in another sickness, bcs you are weakened.

[@RvsNRise]

Except for the fact that cold temperatures don't result in developing a cold.

[@Archmage90]

@@RvsNRise Of course, cold temperature and cold water makes you immune system weaker and you can catch illnes because of that.

[@nikolainyegaard]

Hey, I just found your channel, but I love your style and voiceover. Subscribed :)

[@silvernightingale8208]

Props for Dali.

[@GamingGranny56]

Oh my who knew a cold could be so difficult.🙃

[@TrinityUser]

Commenting for the algorithm.

[@RoseDragoness]

"What is cold?" says one that always play with outdoorsman

[@CAMSLAYER13]

For all its realism it's weird you get colds from being cold. With no people diseases like the cold would die out as well

[@Retanaru]

Most of PZ is partly realistic but very exagerated.

[@caracalfloppa4997]

Because PZ mechanics are gamified, they're meant to appear realistic but only represent a real world phenomenon rather than copying it. Intuitiveness wins out over pure realism in almost every single game design decision with this game, and lots of corners are cut to smooth out the gameplay experience. Conventional wisdom is that if you're cold or wet you'll catch a cold. So PZ emulates that.

[@knightshousegames]

I basically lost a run because I spent a month trying to get rid of a cold, because it was an outdoor only run where I was living in the woods outside Riverside Kinda hate that losing a cold isn't just tied to eating, body temp, and rest. Kinda kills the viability of doing outdoor survival challenges

[@JK-fc8xp]

You could build some building and stay in it

[@knightshousegames]

@@JK-fc8xp Not really, I tried it, the building mechanics aren't sophisticated enough to actually build a functional house, mostly on the grounds that building a roof is pretty much impossible

[@JK-fc8xp]

@@knightshousegames After you get to some level there's a way to build stairs, which allows to craft some roof

[@knightshousegames]

@@JK-fc8xp Oh, I've been to Carpentry Lv 10, but the trouble becomes the fact that you can't close the roof, theres always that hole where the stairs were. And you can't really do temporary scaffolding, because you can't remove floor you put down because it's bugged and leaves a random piece of ground where you remove the floor Basically, the building system in this game isn't tailored to building something you can actually live in, just defensive structures...and it's only just OK at that I am hoping some of the advancements they've made in Build 42 under the hood are going to make reworking the building system easier down the line, because it's one of the systems that seriously needs work.

[@JK-fc8xp]

@@knightshousegames Damn, i didnt knew that - i was sure that you could build whole building from a scratch. Good to know, thanks for explaining

[@KommandantGSR]

Average project zomboid player: Having to do multi-set tasks to remove a simple cold My friend and I: Simply stands over massive large groups of corpses with the queasy moodle all because we want to find a pair of stockings every time we play

[@OneManMilitia69]

A genius with a big brain told me if I drink disinfectant and it will be gone before Easter.

[@grub2928]

grub

[@Boingy420]

Regenerating your Fatigue is the same. There's a hidden 25% status of energy to regenerate. You can confirm you fully regenned your stamina when your rest bar stops.

[@dimic1777]

i always thought the soups in pz helped against the cold guess it was just because i was full to bursting every time

[@familyphotosman]

Would've been nice to see this video like two days ago, but great video nonetheless

[@ShadyMilksYoutube]

the mechanic doesn't really make a lot of sense, you dont get *more* sick from not taking care of yourself when you have a cold, you just stay sick longer with worse symptoms. with the current mechanics its possible to stay sick forever, which is impossible (unless u have 0 immune system)

[@zavierlee695]

Colds make no sense in this game. You don't just catch a cold from being in the rain.

[@perteks7639]

I knew about being inside and losing at 20% but never checked what else is into it. CDDA challenge is only realistic thing to worry about that mechanic

[@wiegraf-FNC]

good tips

[@TalkernateHistory]

Getting a cold from literally being cold is an extremely stupid system

[@quineloe]

I just worked away a cold in january by working out indoors to maintain high body heat. It's so cold inside the house that I reached chilly, but once I did sit-ups i worked the cold away that way. very unrealistic and shouldn't work that way.

[@badxradxandy]

Subbed

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

what say you about the method of just sprinting in your safehouse to maintain a high temperature?

[@JaysonCarmona]

Nice music. FF

[@Tender00-00]

the first time i got cold i drank some booze and went to sleep right after, and it was gone completely

[@KissyKaede]

Because all you have to do is eat, drink, and stay inside and the cold goes away every time. Booze provides a lot of hunger and calories.

[@krkrbbr]

who do you catch the cold from tho colds are not caused by low temperature

[@KillerDiablo27]

great video! how do you catch a cold?

[@Retanaru]

Stay out in the cold without much insulating clothing until your coldness moodle hits hypothermic seems to be the easiest way. There's a mechanic with being soaked that claims to make it easier as well.

[@MerrStudio]

Shouldn't 9 common mallow be enough? 9x12=108

[@tylerchristian6627]

wait.... so what happens if you take outdoorsman? like, how fast is gain to getting a cold?

[@KissyKaede]

In my experience, you don't get colds. I have nearly 1000 hours in Zomboid with Outdoorsman and I've never caught a cold. Ever.

[@Retanaru]

It's near impossible to catch a cold with outdoorsman. You pretty much have to be trying. Even in my testing without outdoorsman every time I caught a cold I was already hypothermic.

[@tylerchristian6627]

@@Retanaru Yeah I figured that would be the answer honestly. I always run outdoorsmen because it's nearly impossible to catch a cold. I just thought you would try to show how slow it is. compared to not having the trait.

[@tylerchristian6627]

@@KissyKaede same bro... same.

[@maclegend9169]

Can you do a mythbuster on the "police officer hidden aiming bonus"? People claim that even at level 10, police officer have a hidden aiming bonus that lets them shoot more accuracy at max level than any other class. Please debunk/prove!

[@Retanaru]

I likely will not. The only proper way to debunk/prove it would be to show the decompiled code which I refuse to do. There's a similar thing going on with lucky/unlucky.

[@maclegend9169]

@@Retanaru Could be possible to fire a gun X number of times and see if there's a large discrepancy between professions.

[@quineloe]

@@maclegend9169 we are talking hours of shooting here with dozens of hours to write down and analyze that data...

[@rubsome]

Are the mechanics different if you have outdoorsman and get that 1% chance to catch a cold?

[@Retanaru]

Nope.

[@plasmashade6339]

Do these methods work for other non-zombifying sicknesses?

[@quineloe]

there are no other sicknesses.

[@AlyssaMcNeil]

Does this work in real life too?

[@deemwinch]

Ai thumbnail image?

[@Retanaru]

yes

[@CP-zu5pi]

Top tip, you can recover from a cold extremely rapidly in a warm car.

[@bmxdude1337]

Hopefully this isn't nerfed, they nerfed being able to use melee weapons while in your driver seat, drive by bat swings lol, so sad about that

[@Mister_Lamprey]

First...

[@SvendleBerries]

Boo! BOO, I say!

[@radsoon9707]

Ai generated thumbnail or did you paint it yourself?

[@Retanaru]

AI it is.

[@radsoon9707]

@@Retanaru seems like a Smart idea, AI saves a lot of time

[@buzz1234]

@@Retanaru i would argue your other thumbnails are better, and ai hurts artists the way it is now.

[@cd4953]

Wait, you guys survive long enough to get colds?

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