How to Enact Total Zomboid Death (TZD)

First, you want to make a new custom sandbox world. You can make the zombies as strong or as weak as you'd like, but TURN RESPAWNS OFF!! You can also set the pop to whatever you want, it’s basically a “time you will spend playing Project Zomboid instead of going outside” slider. Second, you need to put most loot to abundant. In making all loot much more common, you now have the means to enact Total Zomboid Death in a timely manner, because who has enough free time to do it with default loot rarity.

You don’t have to set all loot to abundant, I just like to play my TZD run like L4D. It’s completely up to preference.

The process is the same in B41 and B42. You loot up literal tons of ammo, guns, heals, etc. and go from POI to POI killing zoids. QoL and firearm mods make this process easier as your lethality increases when you don't have to worry about using ♥♥♥♥♥♥ vanilla weapons and encounters with weird bugs and stuff.

You will need to establish a safehouse in every major POI if you aren’t using an RV or other vehicle to hoard loot and sleep in. It will take anywhere from days to months to clear POIs so this is a must.

If attempting in multiplayer with “sleep needed” turned off, safehouses aren’t nearly as important as you can just live off the land.

You can also use melee weapons if you are a masochist, especially in B42.

These two beautiful gifts from god are going to be the main way you kill hordes. Hordes may seem daunting to the average/new player, but they are actually incredibly easy to deal with. You can just use all the techniques you learned from those Nuketown runs you did in 2014 to train the zoids and just light them on fire or blow them to smithereens.

You want to be able to craft pipe bombs ASAP, but molotovs can suffice for a pretty long time as there are a lot of bars. You can also just burn whole towns to the ground as well with them because who tf is gonna stop you, the police?????

Congratulations, you just spent probably 400-800 hours killing every single zombie on the map! Now you can read all the porn magazines you found along the way without some peeping zoid watching you pleasure yourself.

There's probably a zoid you missed hiding out in the middle of a forest somewhere, waiting. He's waiting for the perfect moment to watch you touch yourself. They're all perverts.

You might be saying, "I'm basically playing zombie-less realistic isometric Minecraft now, what do I do???"

It was about the journey, not the destination. Try Kenshi.