103 Zombie Survival Tips by richboy23mj

  1. Stay away from heavily populated cities, such as L.A. and New York City, as the high population increases the number of zombies there, along with adding an extremely high number of other people who will kill to survive.

  1. Avoid hospitals at all costs. Since a bite will usually be treated at a hospital, most people will go there after being bitten. Eventually, the entire hospital will be overrun with undead patients, security officers, and staff.

  1. Although movies make Wal-Marts and malls look like havens, most will be full of people who are arguing and eventually killing one another. Use them for looting, if you use them at all.

  1. Use a bus or van for transportation since they hold the most people and are stronger than cars and trucks. If you have boats or air travel, use them.

  1. Stock up on non-perishable food, gas, water, ammunition, guns, and people prior to the outbreak or as early as possible. They are all critical to survival.

  1. Never engage a zombie in a fistfight. You will lose every single time.

  1. Alcohol, cigarettes, gas, ammo, and transportation will have real value. Money will be best use to signal people after being lit afire.

  1. A horse is much better than most cars or trucks because horses can hurdle some obstacles and require food and water, not gas. Gas will be very limited, while food and water will be readily available.

  1. Crowbars, actual combat-ready katanas, and machetes are the best melee weapons.

  1. A semi-automatic assault or regular rifle is best.

  1. Without ammo, a firearm is useless, just like a car without gas. It will just weigh you down while you search for the source of its power.

  1. A military base is great as long as you take a safe approach (white flag waving, announcing over a loudspeaker, etc.) and they don’t openly accept people who are obviously infected.

  1. Never go below ground, unless it is the basement of your fortress or a foxhole.

  1. Blowdarts and poison will NOT work on zombies.

  1. Short hair and tight clothes are the best non-weapon defense you can have.

  1. NEVER wear a trenchcoat. They are baggy and can easily be grabbed.

  1. Instead of running or driving through a horde of zombies to kill them, fire into the crowd with rifles while in a line. When few are left, kill the remaining zombies with melee weapons.

  1. Even though zombies are extremely slow, they will catch up to a car without gas or a winded runner pretty quickly. Try walking or using a bike.

  1. Zombies don’t need oxygen, water, blood, or food to survive. So, shooting a zombie repeatedly in the stomach will just knock it down and waste your bullets.

  1. Unless you have properly modified the vehicle, don’t try running over groups of zombies. You will damage your car.

  1. If you have a plane or helicopter, try getting to an island or offshore oil rig.

  1. Gunshots are loud and will attract zombies, so don’t try to kill a horde of zombies with firearms unless you are planning on moving elsewhere or have silenced weapons.

  1. Being on an island doesn’t guarantee safety. You will need a way to purify water, food, a means of communication, and make sure no zombies are hiding on the island. Also, watch to make sure that none walk up to the surface and onto your island. The main problem will be getting there.

  1. Never consider cannibalism, especially of a dead zombie corpse. The infected skin and blood will kill you or infect you.

  1. Always barricade your fortress as best as you can. Use anything that you have at hand.

  1. Fire is a bad weapon as you can accidentally burn your fortress down to the ground. Machine guns and chainsaws are also bad weapons as machine guns waste bullets, chainsaws waste gas, and both are very loud.

  1. If you actually have a nuclear weapon, don’t shoot it. You will kill survivors.

  1. Don’t be a vigilante. Don’t think you can walk into the street and just kill any zombies you see with your crowbar. You will attract attention and WILL be killed by either people who have snapped and just kill anything or by zombies.

  1. Gas is the most important thing for vehicles. Try to have a vehicle with good mileage and readily available gas.

  1. If you travel at all, travel during the day. The night will obscure your vision, and zombies don’t need to see you to eat you.

  1. Almost anything can be used as a barricade if used correctly.

  1. An alarm system is a must for your fortress, just in case a few get in.

  1. Grocery stores are great for looting, horrible for surviving in. As soon as the power goes out, most food will go bad, there are too many entrances usually, and they will easily be broken into and are hard to fortify.

  1. Aim for the brain or eye. That is the only way to kill a zombie. Severing the arms and legs, breaking the jaw, shooting the heart, and anything else besides extreme electrocution (not recommended), headshots, and burning the brain will NOT work.

  1. Melee weapons are better than firearms because melee weapons only need to be cleaned and require no ammunition.

  1. Stay in areas with light so that you can see what is going on.

  1. Most airports, seaports, and highways will be clogged up with vehicles and undead.

  1. Zombies are attracted to noise, light, and the smell of flesh and blood.

  1. Don’t “rescue” people who are being attacked. The best option is to walk away or kill the zombies who are attacking. If you “rescue” them, you may end up having to kill them at close range when they reanimate.

  1. Remain as silent as possible. That will keep a lot of zombies away from your fortress. Instead of shooting into the crowd from your roof, read a book or do a puzzle.

  1. Fill anything you can up with water. This water should be used for cleaning and drinking.

  1. Put bombs at the exit to your fortress so if they get in and you have to leave, you can blow up the zombies who are following you.

  1. Always have supplies ready for an exit from your base in your vehicle(s).

  1. Although military vehicles are very tough, they get poor mileage and are hard to find.

  1. Always have a journal or video camera so that you can record what is going on.

  1. NEVER even consider leaving your group unless they try to kill you or are wasting valuable supplies.

  1. Only trust this text and “The Zombie Survival Guide”, by Max Brooks.

  1. Pack only the necessities for survival. Anything extra is extra weight.

  1. People on the radio and the news will lead you to overrun rescue stations and public buildings that are not secure.

  1. Always check other survivors for bites and wounds. This may prevent your demise from a bitten girl you found and accepted into your group.

  1. Never let your guard down.

  1. Put bandages over any and every cut.

  1. If being pursued, don’t go directly home. Go in the opposite direction and as soon as you lose them, go home.

  1. If you are going out for supplies, only bring the vehicle(s) that you need.

  1. Avoid “attaching” yourself to others. If you see them get bitten or die, you might even commit suicide.

  1. If you get infected bodily fluids in any body opening or are bitten, you will get infected. In this case, either commit suicide by gunshot to the head, kill as many zombies as you can, or do your lifelong dream.

  1. Keep all guns in semi-automatic form. Full-automatic will waste bullets.

  1. Use guns only in a cinch. Melee weapon are best used primarily.

  1. Don’t capture zombies, unless for true scientific purposes. They are not toys or pets, and your relatives will try to kill you if they are zombies. Plus, there is no cure.

  1. Proper medical training could prevent a tiny cut from making you bleed to death.

  1. Do NOT attempt to rescue loved ones unless they live within 5 miles of you.

  1. Zombies are unable to climb or fly, so the top of a truck or a rooftop are somewhat safe. The higher the better, although that increases the risk of you falling to your death and lowers the temperature and amount of vegetation. Don’t climb to the top of a mountain unless you know how you can get down and know what you are doing.

  1. Don’t act playfully. This is a serious situation. Acting silly only gets a bullet in the back of your head.

  1. Do your best to make your fortress look abandoned. Close the curtains, lock the doors, and avoid being seen or heard.

  1. Either stay mobile and go to a different location almost every day or stay where you are. If you fortify a location for a week and then leave, you have wasted energy and supplies. Stay there as long as possible. However, don’t stay in an unfortified place. The zombie hordes can easily break through glass or knock down a door.

  1. Stay physically fit. Don’t just sit on your butt and watch pre-recorded shows or DVDs. Get on a treadmill, read a book, do a puzzle, or just do something to prevent dark thoughts from getting into your mind and desperation from setting in.

  1. After 5 years, most zombies will have decayed completely. Zombies in wet and humid areas (Hawaii, rain forests, underwater) will decay much more quickly. Zombies in polar regions could last 50 years or more.

  1. Don’t even consider using a knife or chainsaw as a primary weapon. This is self-explanatory.

  1. Not all other survivors will get along with you. There will be religious fanatics who believe God is bringing down wrath, psychos who have snapped under pressure, and other survivors who want your supplies. Try to reason with them. If that fails, prepare for a battle.

  1. Develop a signal within your group. Use bandanas and hand codes.

  1. Eat whatever you get your hands on, regardless of your opinion of the taste. The only reason to complain about the food is if you are given scraps and the leader gets caviar.

  1. Hunting wildlife is a dangerous, yet rewarding way to get food.

  1. Video games will be a distraction. Do NOT play portable video games ever. They will keep you from hearing a zombie breaking the window or a survivor stealing your car.

  1. Try to keep track of time. Keep a calendar and a watch.

  1. NEVER build a barricade by yourself unless you are by yourself. Teamwork will put up a barricade and keep you from being attacked while building.

  1. Don’t shoot at anyone you see unless you are 100% sure they are zombified or hostile.

  1. If being shot at, announce “I am an unbitten human being” until they stop shooting. If they don’t stop shooting, either run away or shoot back.

  1. If you find out that someone is bitten, ask them if they want to kill a bunch of zombies or be killed immediately.

  1. The news is NOT a good way to find out where to go. Get to the nearest island, offshore oil rig, military base, or home. Most other places will be too dangerous to go to or too difficult to get to.

  1. 3 distinct advantages you have over a zombie are that you can operate weapons and vehicles, have the ability to climb, and are smart enough to make or get your own food and avoid zombies. 3 distinct disadvantages are that you can feel pain, and zombies can’t, you need food, water, and oxygen, none of which zombies need, and you won’t always work in a group to complete an objective, while zombies will.

  1. NEVER be an overlord or a leech. A leech is a person who does nothing and convinces people they did the work. They provide little to no input and are useless. An overlord is a leader who takes control of everything and doesn’t let people try to do things on their own. Being a leader is OK, though.

  1. Whenever you travel to a new location, look for supplies during the day and rest at night. Look for other survivors, weapons, ammo, gas, water, food, and vehicles.

  1. A Molotov cocktail is easy to make and many can be made quickly, but they are best used for burning a pile of corpses or stopping a hostile car from chasing you.

  1. If the lights go out, make sure to set up candles and flashlights. The dark is the most dangerous place you can be.

  1. Answer to ALL radio broadcasts that you hear. If they are far away, try to travel in short distances over long periods of time.

  1. Lighting a horde of zombies on fire or using explosives is NOT a good idea unless you want to battle about 2 times as many zombies as there were before. The fire or the noise of explosives going off will attract hundreds, if not thousands of zombies. If you use explosives, you may also splatter zombie blood all over you, and explosives are difficult to make.

  1. Suicide is not a good option unless you 100% know that you won’t survive.

  1. Blunt melee weapons are usually better than sharp melee weapons.

  1. If a zombie is far away enough that you need a sniper rifle, it is easily avoidable.

  1. Heights are an advantage. Mountains and skyscrapers are great. This does not mean climb Mt. Everest on Z-Day.

  1. If you have a bus or garbage truck, tie a rope around a fellow survivor’s waist and tie the end of the rope to an anchored down part of the vehicle. Tell them to aim for the brain with their gun(s).

  1. If you are in the middle of the desert, stay there until you run low on supplies. The desert is too hot for most zombies and they will be easy to see without trees in the way or hills to obstruct the view.

  1. The only thing worse than getting lost from your group is getting bitten, which will probably come soon after getting lost.

  1. If you are without a weapon, use whatever is best at hand. If you are a butcher, take a meat cleaver. If you are a carpenter, take a sledgehammer.

  1. Always have a secondary and primary exit from your base.

  1. Always use rifles, if you have them. They are best for saving ammo because most other weapons will have to be sprayed through a crowd, which could kill no zombies.

  1. Remember, video games are NOT firearms experience in any sort of situation.

  1. Don’t hesitate to take the shot. They won’t hesitate to eat your throat.

  1. Always have a Plan B, and sometimes have a Plan C.

100. Keep your soldiers morale high. Low morale may lead to suicide, depression, bad decision-making, and even snapping and killing people who are near you. High morale is a necessity, and causes happiness and also prevents them from uniting against you in a mutiny.


101. Always fight for tomorrow. As long as the sun is shining and there are trees left, there is a tomorrow. Fight for it.

102. Although this is cruel to say as I am Christian, God cannot help you. If you see 1,000 zombies knock down your defenses, by all means pray, but have your gun loaded next to you.

103. Earplugs are one of the most important pieces of equipment besides your gun and ammo, food and water. The moan is the worst psychological weapon you could possibly face. Hearing it hour after hour for only a few days may convince you to kill yourself. However, earplugs have a few disadvantages. Although they keep bad noises out, they also keep warning signs out. If they break down your door and you don't hear it, they will more than likely get in and devour you in your sleep.


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richboy33lb I Ain't An Expert 4 Oct 18 2008, 9:17 PM EDT by alicestar
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These are 101 tips I put together based on knowledge from the Zombie Survival Guide and general knowledge. I can't tell you when, where, or how the zombie apocalypse will start, but I will help you survive it.
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UnUndead These are the ones I mainly have problems with: (page: 1 2) 29 Jul 18 2008, 10:39 PM EDT by richboy33lb
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24: Never consider cannibalism, especially of a dead zombie corpse. The infected skin and blood will kill you or infect you.
Only consider cannibalism if you are 90% or more sure you will die otherwise.

35: Melee weapons are better than firearms because melee weapons only need to be cleaned and require no ammunition.
But firearms are better than melee weapons as long as you have ammo because firearms allow you to match your strength against their strength in combat. Why fight a zombie close up when that is when they are most effective at combat?

55: Avoid “attaching” yourself to others. If you see them get bitten or die, you might even commit suicide.
Attaching yourself to others allows for bonds, trust, and hope in a team. If you don’t attach to others, you will become a sociopath, and no one likes a sociopath.

56: If you get infected bodily fluids in any body opening or are bitten, you will get infected. In this case, either commit suicide by gunshot to the head, kill as many zombies as you can, or do your lifelong dream.
If you get infected bodily fluids in your system, do not commit suicide or any other rash acts. Instead, have your team members secure you in an observable room that you cannot get out of without help. There is a chance you are immune or otherwise resistant to whatever causes the zombies.

58: Use guns only in a cinch. Melee weapons are best used primarily.
Only fight zombies in a cinch, and when you do, use firearms primarily for this reason: Firearms are ranged, and zombies are ineffective at fighting from a distance.

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With #17, if you surround a group and fire into them, there is a chance you might miss and hit an ally, A better option would be to form a straight line and march slowly while shooting the crowd.
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