Project Zomboid fertilizer dose: what each use actually does
The first fertilizer use adds 10 health and cuts 40 growth hours (20 with weeds); later uses remove 25 health each and can curse it. Compost never does either.
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Project Zomboid butchering yields: track your own
Wiki butchering numbers often don't match what you get in B42. Log your own meat weights instead of trusting a table someone else measured.
Songs of Syx race requirement matrix: who you can actually mix
A per-species matrix of food, housing, religion, aptitude and brawl risk in Songs of Syx, plus a method for deciding which demand your roster must fix first.
Mistfall Hunter death rules: soul separation vs real death
Dying to a monster and dying to a player are two different systems in Mistfall Hunter. Here is what each one costs you and how recovery actually works.
Project Zomboid first week: what to do in what order
Two hidden clocks decide your first week in Build 42: the water shutoff and the power shutoff. Order your first seven days around them instead of around loot.
Project Zomboid: why you can't butcher every cut
The wiki says a cut is possible and the game refuses. Find which of three gates - tool, skill or animal size - is blocking the yield.
Project Zomboid chickens not laying: check these 5 things first
No eggs usually means a full nest box, no hutch, an immature bird, no water, or a dirty hutch. Check them in this order before assuming a bug.
Project Zomboid broken leg: what to do first
A fracture far from base is an ordering problem, not a knowledge problem. Build a triage sequence from your bleeding, the crowd, the light and the distance.
Project Zomboid corpse sickness: rank your base and clear it
Where the bodies are matters more than how many. Weigh your own pile, get an ordered clearance plan, and stop the doorway heap from rebuilding itself.
Project Zomboid fracture healing: what actually speeds it up
A splint heals fractures roughly 10x faster, First Aid level multiplies it, comfrey halves what remains. No absolute day count exists, only relative math.
Project Zomboid: why am I dying with no visible wound?
Five different things produce the same queasy moodle in Build 42. Feed in what you can actually see and get the one test that separates them.
Songs of Syx: why your days of food never go up
Days of food is a ratio, not a stockpile, so it falls while your barns fill. Put your own population and field numbers in and see where the balance breaks.
Songs of Syx happiness: one need is capping the rest
Happiness follows the worst-covered need, not the average, so five good categories cannot rescue one empty one. Find your floor and what it costs to lift.