DeadPoly – Tips for Getting Started

I’ve put a few hours in to the new build and here are a few tips and bugs. Perhaps a few things to make more obvious in the game.

Starter Tips

All credit goes to GiddiOne!

Tips

• When you are in the game, press (Esc) and at the top is “Menu”. Use that to exit the game.
• Press (Tab) to go to inventory. At the top left is “Craft” for basic crafting and “Skills” for skill levels.
• The rope symbol is fibre. Punch small shrubs in the forest to get it.
• Press (b) for more complex Crafting.
• There are no torches or workbenches yet.
• Your main issue in new build is hunger, but don’t really worry about it as there seems to be no negatives to going hungry.
• Plant lots crops early on when you’ve decided where you want to base around. It just costs wood, water and doesn’t need seeds. They take around 5 in-game days to grow.
• Non-user containers replenish random items fairly often so leave them alone.
• The best way to get money is finding/selling weapons and monitors.
• Put drink bottles into the dew collector to slowly fill up.
• Press (z) for torch. I assume this runs down batteries in inventory but I haven’t tested it.
• The flashlight is ‘wood powered’ for the time being. So long as you hold at least 1 wood in your inventory you can use the flashlight.
• The scrapper takes almost anything except weapons (and raw materials like stone). It runs automatically now so just set something, like a T-Shirt, in there and wait ~5sec to see it turn.
• The game doesn’t automatically chamber the first round for your weapon. So drag/drop a round into the “Chamber” slot and it should work.
• The “Tactical” slot is currently a placeholder for future additions (like laser pointers or flashlights) so there’s nothing to worry about there.
• No vendor currently sells Sights. You can either search around for one, barter online, or purchase the AUG from the medic-tent vendor just to strip the sight that comes with it.
• For other readers: If your gun has a “Trigger” slot but no trigger in it… the gun won’t shoot.

Bugs

• When you break down a table for wood, anything sitting on the table disappears.
• You always resume in daylight even when you quit during night.
• The crops don’t always show progress. One of my first crops doesn’t show any green while I’ve harvested it.
• If you hit a zombie that doesn’t see you, they will immediately hit you. You’re better off letting zombies see and chase you first as they have less chance of hitting you that way.
• I can’t seem to be able to harvest the bear.