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[@Mr.Ford3350]

Riverside and Rosewood are very beginner friendly, with West Point being very dangerous but also serving as the closest location to Louisville

[@Tobo226]

Yeah I started in river wood after getting eaten about 15 times in other replaces

[@ghastlyghandi4301]

I mean riverwood is like the second place you arrive in so it makes sense to be noob friendly, I still prefer whiterun though.

[@mpkp2011]

@@ghastlyghandi4301 😂😂😂

[@stainlesssteelruler143]

I start Westpoint if I'm not using Pillow's Random Spawns. 😎

[@yuehaowu]

West Point is where I first spawned. Ton of zombies all combined downtown where literally all the useful things are. Especially in the PD (at least 20 zombies) and in the general hospital. (At least 10 zombies) all of them are very small for the towns apparent population.

[@SolarFlarehorse]

Rosewood Fire Station probably makes one of the best long-term bases I've had in a Zomboid run. Big building, plenty of space, has a gym area, kitchen, second floor with plenty of storage, and it's pretty easy to make a Rooftop Garden for farming. Currently bunking there with my gf on a private server. Place is practically a fortress now, especially after we walled it in.

[@asdawasda]

what did u use to get on the roof?

[@MrRetsej]

@@asdawasda You can either build stairs to access it from the outside or use a sledgehammer to access it from within. Punch a hole in the east wall on the second story near the staircase, but make sure to build a wooden floor tile immediately beyond the hole you make with the sledge, otherwise you'll fall. If you're going the sledgehammer route, you'll want to add those wooden floor tiles in a strip between the building and the garage roof to ensure there are no points where you'll fall through.

[@lol70721]

sounds like fun. I need to find people to do co-op with. I'm trying to get my friends to give this game a try.

[@asdawasda]

@@MrRetsej i really hate the thing where you can fall through roofs its nearly ended so many characters

[@gwg2813]

its pretty good, i agree. i mostly remember it from that time a nearby convenience store kept respawning while we were there,but a horde came and killed my buddy, but i could get away. friend got his stuff back and the car we used

[@akarte7]

Riverside, no competition. Safe, many good base locations, tons of farms away from city, warehouses nearby. I started playing it rather recently when I tried the 2 months later scenario and since then I'm playing it all the time.

[@thebuffman5597]

For me rosewood seemed to be better (700 hours). The fire station gives military boots(easy zombie stomping) and overall, the video says bad loot, but they forget it's the closest city to Ekron which makes it good actually.

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

@@thebuffman5597 military boots are just generic boots, and you can find boots everywhere. There's no difference between boots, military boots, riding boots, rain boots and so on. Riverside has multiple shoe stores where you can get boots too. They are also common zombie loot. Ekron is car distance away, and with a car Ekron is easily reachable from every town except maybe Muldraugh and March Ridge.

[@thebuffman5597]

@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 There is a difference. If you have 10 strength from build and equip military boots zombie stomps are 280% more effective. On the wiki you can find damage multiplier for all shoes and boots. Also ekron for me is walk distance I am used to it. Easier to walk between ekron and rosewood than any other VALUABLE towns. For instance on a server the main spawn is in muld and I still always go for rosewood due to how familiar and friendly the envitonment is not mentioning the lack of zombies in certain areas that have good loot. Also between ekron and rosewood there is a big storage as well as a few houses.

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

@@thebuffman5597 shit man that's a long walk. I really don't stomp anymore, I don't want to waste the weapon exp. Anyways, factory / construction site zombies often wear military boots.

[@thebuffman5597]

@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 Well, for me that is a daily walk lol. #knowyourendurance But seriously playing with high fitness and being aware of how endurance works helps a LOT.

[@mokeyblackblood8356]

You can also get into police armories with a crowbar pretty easily, but the key solution usually works best.

[@LansHamilton]

Eh, I just uses axes or if I'm desperate a hammer to smash it down since you have a way higher chance of having those on hand than key hunting. If you have a hammer AND screwdriver, you can just disassemble the door as well since for some reason those cage type doors don't count as metal doors.

[@bradnewsbear]

One of my favorite things to do is lure zeds into a building one at a time and farming them until the item "house key" drops which is for all intents and purposes a skeleton key for that building, then you can click on the key and change the name to keep them sorted

[@dancan8283]

@@bradnewsbear hi i’m a big spelunky 2 player, is skeleton key a normal term or is it a spelunky 2 reference? i’ve just never heard it outside spelunky 2

[@dancan8283]

@David Barr interesting thank you

[@calmdown9094]

just use a screwdriver and dismantle the door.

[@tjlambaes]

Rosewood is S tear. As soon as you get a car you head to the army surplus store to the north west. You’ll have all the guns, cloths, and backpacks you need.

[@LS-jv9hp]

Don't forget the warehouses to the East as well, it really isn't that long a drive to muldraughs outer warehouse districts.

[@Mar_Marine]

3 months late, but West Point and Muldraugh are where the Knox Infection were first noticed. West Point technically has a good reason to have a high zombie count.

[@JeyVGaming]

Honestly, the best spawn point for me is the trailer park in Riverside. Sure, there will be more zombies but once you reached the storage facility and cleared it out then 90% percent you'll be safe throughout the game because not only it's a good base potential but also has the equipments & weapons you'll need (including tons of generators). Plus, it's near the gas station & the warehouse (which is also the best base & loot location).

[@D3aD0n3]

Before watching the video: Being a noob myself I can recommend Rosewood as a starting point. There is everything for a great start + you can build an easy "Base" there. There is a gated community which can easily be barricaded. A Police Station, a Fire Department, a Gas Station. A Bar & several restaurants. And Rosewood is relatively small. Everything for a great start

[@Mackinz92]

For Riverside, you forgot to mention the Post Office as a source of Early game grind potential. It has several big shelves loaded down with various books and magazines and you never know what you can find there.

[@ghostlyblue5735]

Crazy amount of useful books there

[@MSF_Soldier_Alligator]

I gotta say in Riverside for me, it’s a 50/50 between spawning in the trailer park or the wealthy gated neighborhood with the big two story houses. Park Rangers make good money apparently. I’d say each town has geographical advantages too. West Point is close to Louisville, and both West Point and Riverside are next to the river. If the water cuts out early and you can’t set up rain collectors you’ve got an unlimited water source easily reachable from anywhere to drink from and fill up pots and pans to purify. Also fishing. Muldraugh is central making it easy to relocate anywhere, and Rosewood is near the prison and military base.

[@woif8739]

Muldraugh is my favourite spawn, the hotel makes for a great second story complex, but also the east side of town as a good warehouse and bar to set up camp

[@Kaileris]

Alternatively for the Tip of the Video, you can just use a meat cleaver to cleave down the doors in 10 swings.

[@michaeld2622]

I got to say West Point has good base. They are: 1. South East Warehouse It's really close with warehouse that store wood planks, sledgehammer if you lucky, and some metalwork materials, tools too. To defend it you can park cars on low fences or put the carton boxes in front of it, 2 stacks. The warehouse itself has lot of boxes too, if you managed to destroy it. The northern mini storage can be opened with luring zombies inside. Minus thing is you might have to make distraction before entering the warehouse. 2. Food store near Gigamart. My personal favorite place. Once you have sledgehammer ofc, you can destroy the only stairs to 2nd floor. Large room you can adjust your needs. Also you can access the flat roof top for your farming. Still it's quite bin the town, so expect luring zombies out before storming the building. 3. Western Store. This store is very close to gas station, mechanical store, preschool, and other promising loot area. Also destroy the stairs to make it zombies proof base. Less zombies, also the first floor provides food, tools, electrical gadget, clothing, seeds, etc. Minus you accessible rooftop.

[@michaeld2622]

Little bit edit, incase you don't have sledgehammer in base #2, you can build barricade on 2nd floor hall by create a fence and two boxes or just put table behind the fence. The zombies can't destroy nor vault your barricade. Just don't be surprised when suddenly there are many hungry neighbors suddenly standing idle staring the fences.. Btw the first floor is also a tool shop and very close with post office, you might get some books.

[@texasred6814]

Don’t forget about the 3 secluded houses east of west point. Easy river access. 3 houses, secluded so not many zombies but still decently close to town. It’s just a pain to walk to if you’re on multiplayer so I’d recommend a car if you’re on MP but on SP you can just speed up time.

[@shuffle1475]

God, I love West point due to these 3 houses on north next to river

[@DilectiAkai]

Muldraugh and Rosewood are really nice since they’re both near a lot of modded maps.

[@blas_gamedev]

Started on Westpoint. Now I know the map by heart. Muldraugh is second best then rosewood. Riverside is just too easy.

[@jorge2690]

Complete agree, although I definitely can’t spawn west point as it is too difficult for me yet

[@Aaronlcyrus]

@@jorge2690 I always spawn in westpoint, loot til i find a backpack and fill it with various things, then follow the beach northwest til you find the nice houses.

[@jorge2690]

@@Aaronlcyrus mad respect, I usually spawn rosewood head to mauldraugh for tapes and then gun shop at West Point. I definitely can’t spawn there though, too many zombies!

[@aloneguy8527]

I always spawn in muldraugh purely because i love the large northern warehouse as an early base spot ; tons of hardware and tools and weapons ; destroy stairs ; put sheet ropes down the 2nd floor windows and turn it into a Living space then make a rooftop farm and rain collectors ; a week or two later get a car ; loot police stations ; west point gun shop ; Louisville military checkpoint for military gear and backpack and more guns then just grind skills and late game stuff

[@Aaronlcyrus]

@@aloneguy8527 muldraugh is for when i like a relaxing start and taking it easy. Only use west point for when im min maxing and thinking late game.

[@Butonz1]

I like West Point. It's a tough spawn, but if you can get out of town with a vehicle and a few supplies, those estate houses by the river are one of the my favorite base locations. They're very isolated and safe. There's easy access to fishing, foraging, and fresh water for farming. It's a quick drive into town to get to the Giga mart as well, which is a great all purpose loot location not mentioned here ): The houses also have fire places in them for the winter months, and an antique stove can be found in the fishing cabin by the pond.

[@KC-bg1th]

Maldraugh has a video store, allowing you to spend more time looking for books and watching VHS tapes for missed episodes. Also, the door for the armoury in the police station can be broken down with hammers the same way you would for garage doors. :^}

[@c.dl.4274]

I have all of West Point memorized. It’s got the hardware store right next to the police station, the rich neighborhood has a lot of garages for tools, and the schoolhouse has backpacks and books. It’s hard not to see how the benefits outweigh the population count. I usually hard press West Point until I can get what I want from the hardware store and escape the city. It’s an amazingly packed yet palatable design for a town and once you have a sense of direction the worlds your oyster.

[@annchovie8748]

Riverside is great to learn the fundamentals. I almost have it down to a formula. I just head east,hit the bar, make a bunch of Molotov cocktails, and then decimate 75% of the zombies early on.

[@dageta7742]

Roosewood is definitly the easiest. Everything close by and all loot possibilities. That also means warehouse loot and generator spawn in the garages. I once found 3 generators in all Garages

[@vyirafael1417]

I basically always start on Rosewood, but I have to agree that it doesn't have that much high loot at the beggining, but it's fairly easy to grind up to move to another city. My 2nd place would be Riverside, it is a really easy town but I find it difficult to loot there, specially in the gated community where the houses seems really empty. The times I've spawned in Muldraugh I found it difficult at the beggining but with some luck I got high loot pretty fast. And West Point I just find it difficult overall

[@ToastCatr]

I always start in rosewood it has library safe spawning locations fire station and police station at the same time there is a lot of wood recourses as well as free wood too

[@Likeye1]

i mean it is in the name roseWOOD

[@BaseDeltaZero1972]

Muldraugh has a book store and VHS store on the main road now The warehouse at the end of the main road with the walled roof is one of the best bases there is in my humble opinion...I'm shacked up there on my current 4 and 1/2 month run now...it will be my first Zomboid winter! I haven't played Riverside since before the MP updates, it is the first map I ever played though, so I have fond memories of being murdered every 5 minutes there when I was fresh meat. :D

[@Silly2smart]

I like starting in Rosewood and slowly working around the other towns.

[@Hittos]

For the armory tip : You could also dismantle the door using a hammer and a screwdriver (that's why you should always loot the Fire Dept first)... OR : You could hit the door too with a hammer (preferably) or any other weapon of the game until it breaks. Just check your surroundings first before doing so, cause all the nearby zeds will hear you slamming that door.

[@caleavenant6015]

that tip of the day, you can dissasemble those doors with a hammer and i think a saw, plus a fire axe can break it with a lotta swings

[@AhDeh]

Yes! It took me way too many (hundreds) of hours until I found that out.

[@caleavenant6015]

@@AhDeh theres always something new to learn in this game huh

[@AhDeh]

@@caleavenant6015 Yes indeed, 250 hours in and I can’t wait until I learn tje next thing.

[@vertigowl]

When i play with my friends, we turn zombie respawn off, but zombies are max. with that in mind, we always spawn at westpoint and use twiggys as our base. its just far enough from town to be mostly safe, right by the grocers and near the highway to mauldraugh for runs

[@Dark_Plum]

Rosewood got nerfed as start location since those warehouses around it were changed to store only food. But it's worth to mention that (in my guestimate) it has biggest percentage of rich houses (two stories with garage) that are good medium tier loot source. And it's relatively easy to find a car with keys and gasoline. Also small size makes it easier to memorize it. For me it's best place for beginners. Muldraugh has lot of high tier loot POI's, but some spawn points don't give easy access to medium tier loot POI's.

[@apui4eva]

Yes, in rosewood that warehouse is really make me sad.. its all rotten food.. and that army quarter too, its empty.. 😭

[@Dark_Plum]

@@apui4eva If you get there early you still can get a lot of potatoes and onions. In most cases food is not much of issue, but if you play on very low resource abundance it may be worth it.

[@krwalks1700]

Rosewood has ALOT of pistols and M14’s in the 2 story houses for some reason

[@Dark_Plum]

@@krwalks1700 those houses have higher chance to spawn firearm and some ammo. You may just be lucky. Or these are survivour houses (baricaded with planks), they have lots of weapons and ammo.

[@krwalks1700]

@@Dark_Plum I was surprised that none of them were survivor houses, no barricaded windows/doors and it was one street where every bedroom closet had either a pump action or an M14, I guess I was lucky lol

[@Brigand231]

West Point also has that lovely Gigamart. It's not hard to grab some popsicle freezers from the gas stations and set yourself up to leisurely grind out trapping or fishing and farming. I've always started there for years just because when I was new to the game I thought they might have built the real life West Point Academy there and it was full of goodies. That wasn't the case, but I learned my way around that area fairly well and built my first base in the wooded peninsula past the railroad tracks way back before we had cars. Maybe I start there for now sentimental reasons lol.

[@spugelo359]

I setup a base there, not a single zombie goes there. I made a gravel road to the highway and then cleared the bridge from cars, easy access to westpoint and to the eastern parts of the map.only real complaint would be lack of good houses to loot... or rather that they do exist, but are guarded by hordes of zombies. It's ridiculous how it's so easy to loot a bookstore, police station ect., but looting houses is just pain.

[@Brent22]

You can also use any melee to get into armored doors. Picaxes will knock a door down in 3 swings while nightsticks take a while

[@angermacfadden2702]

Stone Axe is cheap and expendable weapon for breaking down shed doors and garage doors. It'll break but still good way to break in.

[@WilhelmMuller88]

Muldraugh is the best hands down. The farm to the west is the best base location only zombies you have to worry about are on the farm over thats close to the highway I go over there every 3-5 days and clear out the fields. Theres an offroad trail that makes accessing the city easy and there is a pond which makes for great fishing. There are tools in the shop and great farmland. Also in the house and in the shops are books your can read related to farming, cooking, foraging, & etc. within 7 months in game I managed to fully build a log wall around the entire farm making it a self sustaining fortress. Food, water, logs, medical supplies, ammunition, guns, protective gear out the wazoo. The backroads behind the farm makes it easy to get around and loot the more rural areas.

[@gorgeouszan]

Rosewood is the best spawn point. Perfect for everything except high tier loot but there are factories just down the main road making it very easy to get everything you need after setting up in a secure environment

[@gorefist3907]

Riverside is my favorite to spawn into. My base locations are 1) Storage facility North West of town. Take the soda machines and block off the entrance and you have a safe area to sleep at. One of the storage areas has a bed and gun case. 2) PD kill inside till you get the key you can sleep in the holding cell to start off. Each area is somewhat close to homes and means of finding starting gear.

[@torap2226]

My first ever time playing was in westpoint and I still love spawning there.

[@Cloud43001]

West point is hard but if you manage to overcome the early difficulties it is a treasure trove. Still like it is said in this video, not for beginners, you need to have an idea what to do and how to properly fight and defeat entire hordes in melee or lose them.

[@jasonoakton7379]

thats so weird im at rosewood policestation and basing at the firestation ive literally an hour ago used the key spawn bait trick to get into the guns lockers room

[@Zankaroo]

You can also just disassemble the door for police station armories. I've done it several times in the Riverside station. Me and my friends have mostly been starting in Riverside and living on the farm in between the factory and the city. We only ever used of the two houses on it. There was rarely zombies there until the server we were on reset and i think they turned on the urban concentration setting, shed by houses has gun spawn too. Only think that sucks is when your car's engine is low and don't want to risk it so running into town is annoying. I don't know how some people are running from city to city, that is annoying as hell. I personally don't like Riverside as much purely because the loot is just not that good to me. Almost every single time we went in to check for stuff everything was cleaned out. And with people in chat normally talking about them being in the other areas, mostly LV or Muld, I have a hard time believing there was a bunch of people in RS and we were just always getting there late. Specially when started checking 2 times a RL day every day at different times trying to catch the 72 hour loot respawn. I know there was 2-3 others with safe houses in town and unless they are just hording all the food every spawn which I doubt both were really nice guys and constantly helping others. RS just seemed like it lacked loot for more than 3 people total. Food was a constant issue for my group of 3. To the point that two of us including me have it in our heads to always take "light eater".

[@texasred6814]

Probably a server setting with super low food.

[@thefancyapple1823]

Love seeing Unturned refrences

[@OrkSword2]

Best video so far, mate! You're killing it :)

[@MRmagic5533]

I survived 1 month In riverside it was really good I got a gun late 1st day and by the 3rd day i had enough ammo to wipe out a town. I was able to find a really good base, I'm still going I'm at a month and 12 days now I'll reply to my own comment when and if I die.

[@MRmagic5533]

I kinda forgot about this I died month 2, because of the bathroom zombie horde

[@comingstorm275]

I always prefer rosewood... the loot is low but you can drive a bit south to some warehouses to base up

[@HonkG.Womblatin]

I love west point as i can get stacked on stuff super early with whatever i need

[@alexh8208]

i started in west point without playing the game before oufffff the pain :D

[@friendofp.24]

The school in Riverside has to be one of the strongest, most OP base spots in the entire game. It's so big that zombies on all sides won't be able to detect you if you're in certain areas, and sometimes they won't even pathfind to you because it's so big. There's literally no need to barricade and set up defenses unless you play with multiple helicopters on. The fences at the back make it perfect for farming. The only thing that makes it bad is Riverside itself. It's a really boring town to survive in.

[@dr.despacito3711]

I usualy start at riverside to stock up on lighters and molitoves early weapons at the police station, good vehicles, and books and then go to WestPoint to get good access to the rest of the map.

[@Aliathra001]

you forget to mention the trailer park spawn in muldraugh which is infested with zombies.

[@oIPsychotixIo]

West Point can having amazing base locations but you have to get lucky. I spawned in West Point right next to the little hardware store and was lucky that one of the shelves had a sledgehammer, I then ran over to the three story office next to the church with some nails and sheet ropes and knock out the stairs leading to the second level inside and outside the office. It's a pretty good base location IF you get a sledgehammer.

[@nick3xtremegaming212]

I would disagree with Westpoint being the worst spawn. whilst the spawn locations are a bit bad there's decent basing locations, good looting areas, more guns and ammo then you would know what to do with, but most importantly is its location. Westpoint is almost central on the map and is only a few minutes drive away from Muldraugh, Riverside, and Louisville. Infact I would call it a high tier location just because of that.

[@hotpockethunter4886]

Rosewood, fire station, get axe, open police armory, find car, go have fun

[@Water-rg7gp]

i have rosewoods map by heart i know how to clear the entire towns loot and once its clear i camp there until power goes out and then i pack up and leave I usually shack up in the fire station because its easier to defend than the police station and has all the survival necessities for a early base to work on a car, then i keep that as a semi-permanent base with the water jugs from both the fire station and police station and boarded up first story windows. It works great as a place to start off but as soon as power goes out you are gonna want to leave pretty fast, after i leave in whatever car i have i head north out of town taking as much gas as i can with me as i go, and thats how i usually start off runs, after this i usually wander to wherever the roads take me and eventually settle down in a random building that i judge to be a good base spot, and then i spend my life doing whatever is going to keep my character alive and happy. maybe go on looting runs once in a while if i start to be incapable of supporting myself with food production or if i want to get something specific like a few spare axes so i can cut down all the trees around my base to prevent sneaky zombies.

[@Water-rg7gp]

i know the map so well i know how to loot from basically every spawn point and its always the same, house to house to the south west until you hit a dead end road then hop a fence take a left and hit the police station and fire station for weapons and armor, hopefully you get some kind of bag by this point but if not go straight out the fire stations entrance take 2 lefts and start working through the houses leading up to the school working to the left right before the schools parking lot, usually in there there should be a hiking bag or something because the house is weird like that, then make your way into the school and steal all of the candy and extra medical supplies you want from the school and then exit the school from the cafeterias exit take a right loot the first building you see and then loot the building to the right of it until you get back to basically where you started then cross the school yard and do the same process you did before but go left this time, it peels the towns loot down to the food rich shops as that raids all of the residential area of rosewood, as you get over-encumbered at every once in a while house i will drop a bunch of supplies at a houses entrance and mark it with a symbol in pencil to pick it up later and then erase the symbol when i do the pick up, i transport all residential items to the fire station and then i work my way to the right of the police station starting with the court and then moving to the shops and getting some gas at the gas station and making my way back to base with my extra loot. personally this is my favorite way to loot the entire town as it is very efficient and can be handled a week or two into the game if you work fast enough. The door drop system allows you to pick up a few houses loot at once to bring it back home later when you have the free time.

[@Water-rg7gp]

looting with or without the bag is the same because you are going to be passing the school and hiking bag spot early on anyways

[@Water-rg7gp]

i usually spend my first night or two at the fire station sorting out the place a little bit before moving on to looting the entire residential.

[@squanguslobotomus7890]

Rosewood is my go to as it has decent supplies okay zombie population, and a fireplace with great loot.

[@Likeye1]

i normally play in muldraugh and im gonna try to play in Riverside now

[@ThofuGear]

Rosewood is my go to spawn now since i modded my game with multiple map mods and most of them is close to Rosewood.

[@cmdrreggit]

In multiplayer - I always spawn in West Point, then immediately head for Louisville (usually making a safehouse at about the halfway mark)

[@djubigboss]

7:05 This, or you can grab an axe or a crowbar and swing the door

[@KonLud]

Chill, Unturned is a good game.

[@cookiez_ad]

In my opinion, Rosewood and Riverside are the best, Muldraugh is good but has very bad loot, while Rosewood and Riverside both have some decent loot with Fire Stations, Police Stations and lots and lots of convenience stores.

[@peter4210]

I don't know, my second successful character is a West point start. Base is in the north. Not hard to wall off one of the house if it's not burned down thanks to it being mostly walled off with a nice pier for fishing. Although I double walled it to block any sight with wondering zombies, I literally have no zombies there. It is a pain in the ass if you don't have a car to walk to town for loot and then come back, tired from killing zombies. ( I know this cuz my car engine died in my base while using it to gather wood)

[@SieromneDamietso-xm4pz]

Riverside spawns aren't that bad. I've spawned in houses half the time as I did in trailers. While the trailer spawn is tough, walking to town & getting started is so straightforward. Also, the houses in Riverside are some of the richest in the game, even outside the gated community. Plenty of them have garages & closets that have high dura melee weaps. With a low zombie pop, it's super easy to house hop. Compare that to the residentials at Muldraugh or West Point when getting started

[@KingSlimeProductions]

to be fair rosewood has the police station and is close to the prison and military base, meaning epic loott

[@Megan-ii4gf]

You can also just use a hammer or ballpeen hammer and whack the police station's armory door about 25 times and it'll break down like any other door. No need for a key or a sledgehammer. Cleavers work ok too, anything that is ok at damaging trees should be good at getting through the door. I have to say my favourite spawn location is probably Rosewood. Westpoint is fun as hell if you don't mind being in horrific danger and extremely high risk of dying all the time though, it's very very fun. Riverside honestly kind of just bores me. And Muldraugh is just Muldraugh, it's nice to play there.

[@mudstick]

i prefer to start in rosewood, but i dont like basing there lol. its very easy to net all the essentials, grab a car, and zoop off to muldraugh or march ridge for a more interesting base

[@iguy6571]

Bro, all you need to access the metal wire doors on armories and stuff is a hammer and a screwdriver. You can dismantle these doors at lvl 1

[@tumors1686]

Rosewood is the best in my opinion, Very easy to find locations and there is fire station. Which we can get those thicc sexy fireman suit lol and an axe. Then go on to police station to find guns and ammo and go up straight to loot shops and books

[@ИльяЮрьевич-е5п]

Rosewood is probably the best, at least for beginners. The only problem is that there are no endless water sources, but there seems to be a well somewhere nearby. In fact, Rosewood also has a lot of potential for bases. When we play with a friend, I usually act as a guard, because I have a lot of experience in killing huge hordes, but even with this experience, all our bases tend to die under the invasion... everywhere except Rosewood. As a rule, we build our base in a bar, where for some reason I don't understand, it's a huge rarity to meet zombies, and the food and water supplies nearby are just crazy. If the loot ends in the city, you can make small car trips to other cities that are just around the corner. And so you can continue However, there is one rule. STAY OUT OF PRISON

[@tatepishepard]

Very informative content. Thanks for sharing.

[@Shadowlogic420]

I like west point, challenging, but satisfying ammount of loot, basing near there almost always requires a car, in which i'll base at the warehouse near the checkpoint, with the gas station nearby can make looting runs either way, but i mostly do it in single player.

[@johnjacobtalaman9221]

Rosewood is kinda medium good loot but many zombies Riverside best to start less zombie population good loots west Point dangerous and Muldraugh too

[@blom6930]

One of my first playthroughs was in west point and i stayed in one of the two rooms above the book store and i managed to survive for 28 days and i would have survived longer if i didn't try and take the school.

[@bluepsiongamer4909]

Good. I have to say this video is good for the lovely presentation and useful information.

[@markbones3386]

Riverside also has the post office loaded with books.

[@thegoon3088]

Rosewood will always give you the best start. It’s small and easy to navigate, the secluded houses in the woods are great early game bases and the fire station and police station give you the best early game gear you can get for melee or guns. There’s also a medical shop and book store.

[@Fzidr]

to armory you can get when you spawn in police station too.

[@mustsnip537]

It's hard to to go to rosewood fire station. It's just so fun to build a base.

[@brotherzero]

Ok, I'm gonna have to disagree with you on West Point for base locations and early game grind. West Point has a ton of second floor apartments in the commercial district where you just block off/destroy one staircase and you have like 6 apartments all for yourself. Two of them are right on top of a building that has a food market, a hardware store and a room with several metal shelves and boxes filled with books and magazines, all in one building. Granted you have to make your way there first but it's well worth it

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

tbh staircase destruction for 100% safety feels like an exploit to me. You're not supposed to be 100% safe ever.

[@brotherzero]

@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 Zombies occasionally banging on your barricades is more of an annoyance than an actual threat but I get what you're saying. You could just wall off your staircase with wooden windows barricaded with metal bars (so you can spear zombies on the other side)

[@asdawasda]

@@fahrradmittelfranken8207 it isnt an exploit because its something you could do in real life

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

@@asdawasda That is some F tier thinking right there.

[@xxsmashxxpassxx]

Thanks for this, was looking for a good starter guide and found this, thank you 🙏

[@OutrageousOnPurpose]

The only awnser is with your friends ofc!

[@oscartriangle6699]

1. For singleplayer and coop (to my understanding, very few play pvp as the game is not exactly built for it), the base rating is irrelevant - you wanna move to or close to Louisville, and so you really dont want to set up base in your beginner location to later have to haul all the shit to the final home. 2. Riverside spawns arent at all bad, no. Who cares if you spawn a little further from all the good stuff? Worst case scenario - youll have to lose zombies by walking through the forest. 3. Riverside does have a VHS store. Unlike Muldraugh's, its almost zombie free. You should probably also check the Hardware store thats not too far - there should also be only a handful of zombies. 4. You only mentioned school, but Riverside's best, most densely packed supply of books is in the bookshop somewhere in the middle of the main street. Youll have to clear a good amount of zombies to get to it - but itll be a steady, slow flow of them. With that, the school and a couple houses (see below), all the blanks for beginner to intermediate books should be filled. 5. Riverside's Gated Community is great. Garages, bookcases, guns (chance for a shotgun) - all super easy to take due to low concentration of infected. 6. All of this combined will almost definitely leave you with only having to grind Electrical to hotwire a car. With a car, the extra distance you would not need to travel had you spawned in the horrid West Point does NOT matter - just learn to drive carefully. With a car, itll be much easier to roll more chances for a sledgehammer across the map. Use the gas station on the opposite side of Riverside to stock up on gas - a slightly intimidating amount of zombies may guard it and the police department next door, which you could also loot if you wanted. You can use a throwaway car or elbow grease to clear the place. Conclusion: Literally no better place to spawn in than Riverside. My opinion is most objective and perfectly reflects reality

[@egor9603]

7:20 or u can disassemble the door, break it with high damage weapon

[@Likeye1]

idc of best base spots because when i spawn i get what i want and book it to the woods where i have a perfect place next to a road and water. Or i go to another place with a prebuilt house in the woods next to a road and water.

[@LS-jv9hp]

Easily Rosewood for me, just keep rerolling until I get a sledgehammer spawn at the firestation, go to the centre of town and clear the apartment building just next to the bank and set up on the second floor. Basically have the base in the dead centre of the town so walking distance isn't far. With a book store, clinic, supermarket, rich residential houses (which guarantee 3-7 gen spawns total) all within very close walking distance and a close by gas station that is easy to clear out.

[@trixisfrux2705]

"Westpoint is at the bottom" Me who chose that as my spawn while playing the game for the first time:

[@fahrradmittelfranken8207]

Muldraugh school doesn't even have a library and the book store is sooooo far away from spawn points. Low is already very generous. You are however wrong on Riverside books. There's the school, there's the bookstore and most importantly the Riverside Yacht Club has a library with lots of books, and that place is *EASY* to get to, no matter where you spawn, as it's right by the Ohio River. So just follow the riverbank, kill the very few zombies that see you there and you're in.

[@fluffyx1556]

I set up camp in west point not even knowing it has a high zombie count

[@caracalfloppa4997]

Rosewood has a low population and consistently decent loot but doesn't have anything amazing. Its also pretty far from the other towns and Louisville. Riverside also has low population but the loot is more boom and bust. Lots of low tier housing but also better high-end loot than rosewood. It's the farthest from the other towns but at least has river access if you want to be alone in the woods. Muldraugh is a lot like riverside but it's much more centrally located and has better loot in exchange for a lot more zeds. West point has the best loot of the starting towns and is closest to Louisville but is by far the hardest spawn location due to the zed count. Would only recommend it once you know how to deal with hordes.

[@nanorai3303]

*Me playing Westpoint all the time just because I like the layout* *Not realizing that it's 10x more difficult than the other locations :'D* *Starts playing on Mp server where friend says "Not enough zombies too easy" and bumps it up to the point where it's actually World War Z* Still luv Westpoint tho

[@sugoistalin7809]

Counterpoint: Get a custom spawn mod and spawn in Louisville.

[@sanghyeonkim9718]

0:51 Where is that place located?

[@BailableBody]

You don’t need a sledgehammer for those doors or even a key, all you need is a screwdriver and you can disassemble the door lol

[@Maddiedoggie]

You can also disassemble the doors or chop them down like normal doors. They're actually not that strong lmao.

[@trevorphillips2250]

Just bought the game and spawned in Rosewood. First spawned in the center of death swarmed by 20 and died. Next round spawned as Firefighter. Jesus christ zombie jumped in the house within 20 secondsfinished it but the broken window made so much sound hordes were swarming in i ran away and hide like 2 km from house eventually noticing the bandage i placed was dirty and when remove i see: "Bitten" pretty sure i was not because nothing hit me but yes 20 minutes later i turned :/. Now i have a police guy have a great run on him but just got bit by swarm that keeps annoying in my neighborhood well sh*t. I'm gonna die again but i keep learning. This is how i died.

[@migjordanpayawal7856]

Middle Muldraugh for me.

[@mitchdevries6628]

Here I am spawning in west point every time with the express purpose of purifying that whole town. I try to keep the main road in and out of town clear but... a man can kill from sun up to sun down and his work is never done..

[@HARRAWISH]

idk why but like rosewood has the most zombies in my opinion i always leave the house and get chased by like 5 zombies

[@olaf5929]

Rosewood. It's just the best for a newbie and a veteran.

[@maticju9609]

like for me rosewood is great for start (not base :\) first u go to police and grind key then firehouse for carpentry vechicle gas can from garages food from gas station and after that all go to Erie country for more ammo/weapons and if u have bushcraft you have high chances of weapon in shop with survival equipment (farming & rural) :D

[@Kyole4255]

7:20 or you just bring an axe or machete, does the trick too if you get unlucky on both sledges and keys!

[@insomnia7337]

This doesn't take professions into account. When I started I was picking burgler and Muldraugh sucked. I would always be in the trailer park

[@mr_pukish]

I dont agree with that bases in WP are Bad. You have a whole store line you can barricade and fence off. You have a whole 2 story auto service shop. You have west point cabins. And not only that.