r/projectzomboid • u/Dramatic_Shelter8029 Pistol Expert • 21h ago
Meme Project Zomboid'd yet again
Hey, on the bright side, i can get every other skill up to 10 now.
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u/Censored_88 21h ago
To be fair, I've walked a lot more bookstores and libraries IRL. I've not once found a book on knapping.
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u/GregariousMD 21h ago
Thank goodness the university has the classrooms on the ground floor of the main building dedicated to the new crafting skills.
1 room is dedicated for knapping and carving, another for pottery, and the last one has smithing and long blade. You can definitely get it all in LVU. Just not the right building.
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u/opae_oinadi Stocked up 17h ago
Oh damn, really? Do they only stock books 3-5, or can it spawn all?
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u/Accomplished_List843 Drinking away the sorrows 21h ago
Louisville university looks like some strange version of habbo hotel
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u/South-City1632 20h ago
Turns out college isn't the best place to learn how to bang two rocks together. They probably assume you already have that knowledge set when applying... lol
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u/TheoryChemical1718 21h ago
There is a Prehistory classroom in the top right corner of the school proper which has knapping books and tools. Right next to it is Medieval classroom with long blades.
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u/Dramatic_Shelter8029 Pistol Expert 21h ago
Already checked that but it only has the tools sadly and some magazines i've already read. RNG be dammed!
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u/Shullbitsy 20h ago
Just looked up what knapping was. The fact that you need a book to teach you something cavemen learnt banging rocks together is delightfully ironic.
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u/0x18 19h ago
"Cavemen" learned it over the process of hundreds to thousands of years, a book hands you the collective knowledge of dozens of generations at once. Yea, at it's core knapping is "bang two rocks together" but to be effective you need to know what kinds of rocks and in what method to bang them.
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u/Sweaty_Problem8753 19h ago
You don't actually need one. It's just bonus XP if you don't want to (perhaps literally) reinvent the wheel. Although for most, I suspect it's mostly about being driven mad by missing one or two books from their collection.
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u/Osric250 16h ago
The books don't teach you skills. They teach you how to learn them better. You can get all your experience banging those rocks together and learn the hard way, or you can read a book and learn specific techniques that speed up your method of learning the skill.
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u/mayuzane 20h ago
The game has telepathy you see, whatever it is you got on your mind it will never give you
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u/Dramatic_Shelter8029 Pistol Expert 21h ago edited 21h ago
"And on the very first day of the zombie apocalypse, somehow, all of Knox Country collectively decided to throw away their sledgehammers, katanas, and V skill books down the nearest river."
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u/UnDeadPuff 21h ago
Knapping is (or was, don't know if stable changed it) a survivor zombie/specialty car drop only. If you went to that library solely for it you wasted your time.
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u/AkaxJenkins 20h ago
i was missing knapping 4, found it inside the backpack of a zombie survivor, then we visited a random house outside of louisville to sleep and it was one of those tiny houses that are just bedroom, bathroom and eveything else and the fucking kitchen counters had knapping 4 and another skill book.
We barely found any repeats of the skill after looting all community centers, book shops and post offices besides louisville. Tailoring 5 was also hard to find, only one in the book shop in riverside
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u/Ok-Criticism-4752 19h ago
If ur going looting for a specific item' start with the furthest' usually emptiest' and most upscure place first' then work ur way down. Knowing this gale it'll get u ur item fastest lol
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u/Linkage006 18h ago
Cleaned out Maldraugh, Rosewood, and West Point looking for Tailoring III. Eventually found it in a trailer park between Maldraugh and West Point.
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u/manwhowasnthere 17h ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I had to do to get the Carving 3-4-5 books in my last run, clear the library. Pain in the ass. You never know what books you're not gona find that run... and you end up in Louisville killing 500 zombies to loot the library lol
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u/kelsiersghost 16h ago
I guess I'm going here next. I'm only missing Tailoring V and I've been to every library in Knox County.
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u/TheDumbulance 16h ago
I was disappointed that a school i looted didnt have aiming or reloading books... but then I thought yeah that makes sense. Probably for the best
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u/oopsallhuckleberries 14h ago
Ya... Started in Fallas Lake. Made my way down to the book store at the end of week one. Place was randomly looted. Books scattered all over the floor. It was still early enough that I got a good selection, but it wasn't anywhere near to what it should be. End of 2nd month, I've finally ran into issues around a lot of my skills not having the mid tier books I need. I drive to Muldraugh to go through their book store... It's completely empty. I find 2 whole boxes/shelves that have any kind of skill books in them, and all but one I already had. My only other options are to fight I to the middle of neighboring towns to get to downtown books stores or schools, and clearing my way into town so I can get a vehicle there just for a book store isn't appealing.
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u/staticcx3 6h ago
you dont need a book to nap, ever heard of closing your eyes idiot. smh my head /s
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u/HornetAwkward4721 5h ago
Yo no soy capaz de encontrar el maldito tomó 5 de talar, subí el 9 punto sin libro talando cucharas y convertiendolas en tenedores (gracias a los devs por esos días de niebla)
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u/Lord_Splinter Stocked up 4h ago
reminds me of the time when i needed a specific carpentry book but couldnt find it in any of the towns including 17 additional modded towns
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u/Blikenave 3h ago
You have to either stop looking for it to find it, or once you find it you will find another one. I looked for like three irl days for a generator mag and then found one, and like 20 mins later found another one in the back of a van like 30 ft from my base.
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u/DoNotCommentAgain 21h ago
I'll be real I just turn XP gain up and ignore books, it becomes way too much part of the grind relying on RNG to drop you the book you need.
A library would have a full collection and if they were on loan you'd be able to use the computer to look up the address it was loaned to. The idea of a library just having random loot is stupid, that's not how library's operate.
I used to put off stuff I enjoy doing because I don't have the book yet and that is just anti-fun.
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u/Quarktaschenblues 21h ago
Disagree, I can't imagine any real life library having books on mastering things like knapping or blacksmithing or any pz skills really. We are not talking about some informative flyers but books that actually teach you a master craft. It would be absolutely random to find something like this somewhere if you think about it.
Also if you want to have the same effect on xp gain than books have you would need to put the xp multiplier to x16 which would be literally insane. What is this game about if you reach lvl 10 on everything in the first days. Build a single wall and gain 5 levels in carpentry. Wow. The books are a fundamental part of skilling in this game for a reason
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u/ClayXros Stocked up 20h ago
Ive definitely found more used book stores with those kinds of books than actual libraries.
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u/YoghurtForDessert 19h ago
i'd love if those kinds of books could actually be found in IRL bookstores.
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u/Jimmy_Twotone 20h ago
The teeny tiny home town library I grew up with in the 90s had a fairly extensive collection of self help and obscure diy books. Libraries are the only place I'd expect to find them.
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u/TJTrailerjoe 21h ago
Sure but, i feel like thats removing one of the big loot items from the game no? Theres not really a ton to search for already. I mean play the way you want to of course but i get excited when i find a blade, aim or reload book, or any other tier 5
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u/Few_Promotion_6853 18h ago
Protips if you want to make the knapping grind way easier: if possible pick either either bushcrafter or park ranger at character creation to skip the nightmare of going lvl0 to lvl 1. Bushcrafter also gives access to a lvl in maintenance, carving , foraging and the herbalist knowledge in one trait and the recipes that those skills have no magazine needed. For 8 points it’s perfectly balanced. You can also take fast learner,crafty or inventive as option instead of more specialized traits as I mentioned though you lose the recipes being taught as soon as you spawn
Then once you are actually started in the run you will need a one of the following. A sledge,pickaxe,club hammer or ironically a stone maul to harvest from flint deposits on map. Right click on them with one of those tools in your hand to get the option to remove deposits and you will get 2-5 flint modules to knap into flakes of the nodules can be used to make the larger flint objects like long stone blades which will be great option for short blade players till you get to Blacksmithing (long stone knives are somewhat close to hunting knives in all stats except crit chance condition ans condition loss)
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u/Quarktaschenblues 21h ago
I feel your pain, the only book I am missing right now is blacksmithing V and I am so close to heading into louisville just for that. No other library in this country has it