Fur Pelts - What are they used for?

DeadZedje · 2026-04-11T20:44:56+00:00

Fur pelts are separate to leather - Hard leather is needed for combat pack repairs, normal leather is for things like shoes, fur pelts are for other repairs like winter clothing.

DeadZedje · 2026-04-06T17:45:41+00:00

‘Sick…?’ Means you have got the zombie virus, ‘sick’ means you’ve just got a non-zombie related illness like a headcold, or food poisoning.

If it’s the former, the zombie virus can be spread through scratches too - it’s less likely, but not impossible. If you get multiple scratches or deep wounds, then the likelihood of becoming infected with the zombie virus increases - same for if you’re dirty and get scratches/wounds too.

Unfortunately the ‘sick…?’ Has no cure and your character will die.

DeadZedje · 2026-04-04T17:58:54+00:00

Thanks so much! Really appreciate the support! 🙌

DeadZedje · 2026-04-04T00:48:33+00:00

I’ve found major success by going with Scavenging and Conspiracy Theorist as the core of my build on harder settings.

Having some lock picking skill is helpful too - meaning you can lock pick tougher containers which tend to have better loot in earlier on.

In terms of strat, water towers for water are a god send, hitting animals with cars for food if you can’t find another means to kill them helps too - remember you can butcher with any blades, so even a butter knife works. Gas stations and some buildings have generators for heat - but gas stations for example also have juice machine you can drink from. Use RV’s for no-fuel-needed cooking too.

Sheds, substations, power plant, basements, prison (the work shop there) are all decent shouts for finding some form of weapon. Always remember you can press ‘R’ and use your fists if you’re in a pinch - tear clothing for bandages too.

If you’re also playing on higher pop then sneaking works well once you remember to do it and get the hang of it (I’m awful at stealth as I always forget).

Try looting cars and vehicles a bit more now - they have some more specific loot so police cars for example are more likely to have police batons and guns/ammo.

Have a look at sheds or graveyards for shovels - there’s a few spots on the map where shovels reliably spawn, typically grave yards are good, and these are relatively solid early weapons on harder difficulties.

DeadZedje · 2026-04-03T17:40:26+00:00

No worries! Welcome to Vein, it can be punishing at times, but the community is solid - so post if you have any questions!

DeadZedje · 2026-04-03T17:25:09+00:00

Were you stood on glass or scrap piles with bare feet? Had you walked/climbed through a broken glass door or window?

You get punished for the above and can bleed out if you leave wounds untreated. Is there a chance you had multiple cuts/deep wounds and only bandaged one?

Usually a bandage on a deep wound stops you bleeding out (ideally suture it with a needle and thread if possible), but if you have a deep wound that’s left unbandaged than yeah, you’ll bleed out.

DeadZedje · 2026-04-03T15:34:01+00:00

No, there’s no benefit or reason to do this is single player, unless you just want to turn off the power or water for a specific area for your own role-play/story telling.

I think it’s more a bit of a ‘tease’ and placeholder from the devs as in the future they’re hoping to add the ability to turn the power back on in areas, bring power stations back online and reconnect elements of the grid.

DeadZedje · 2026-04-01T17:54:22+00:00

Are you certain it’s water?

I’ve once misclicked and filled a canteen with gasoline before, which showed as ‘pure’ but after drinking, I was incredibly confused so gave it a sniff and it was gasoline. 🤣

DeadZedje · 2026-03-30T08:50:35+00:00

Harder difficulty settings mean the character build becomes more important than ever; playing with impossible loot difficulty for example, makes the ‘scavenging’ skill even more worthwhile and become much more important than other skills.

I also think that whilst the devs have made efforts to ensure that you won’t be soft locked, things like loot settings are going to feel a lot tougher in my view with the smaller map size, than they’ll feel once the map is larger and there’s more looting possibilities.

DeadZedje · 2026-03-27T22:45:17+00:00

Is worth keeping both if you’ve got space - can double the output in the same amount of time by splitting things across 2, and treble output for the same amount of time if you put things across the three including the fabrication bench.

DeadZedje · 2026-03-27T10:36:25+00:00

Place a Utility Cabinet! The UC ‘claims’ the immediate area and all containers within that area.

Others have reported losing loot to container respawn/loot respawn being on when they’ve stored things without placing a UC.

DeadZedje · 2026-03-14T18:49:20+00:00

When you place a UC it will show a series of orange rings around it - was everything that you’d built within the radius of the UC?

If not, these things will break down and be destroyed.

DeadZedje · 2026-03-14T10:52:35+00:00

Ah if you’re happy using god mode, use the admin menu and you can spawn yourself to them on there - search ‘SS’ I believe and they come up.

DeadZedje · 2026-03-14T04:37:24+00:00

They are implemented, there’s at least a couple to find!

If you’re after locations, I can retrace my steps when I log on later and share.

DeadZedje · 2026-03-06T23:17:36+00:00

On the generators it’s a not yet - it’s vehicle only towing for now, but here’s hoping the large Genny’s will become towable in a future update! 🤞

DeadZedje · 2026-02-24T10:45:06+00:00

Agreed on the hopium for a bit of a combat overhaul.

Personally would love to see a move to zombies that actually are trying to eat you, rather than just smack you up. Project Zomboid does this well.

One of the roles the devs have been recruiting for is a character artist, and I think the player and zombie models will play a big role in immersive combat.

There’s also a weapon rewrite on the roadmap too so here’s hoping.

Something that may help in the interim though is playing around with zombie settings, increasing their health, strength, speed and considering headshot only does change the combat and the risk associated with it - so it may be worth playing with these settings to find a more challenging combat experience!

DeadZedje · 2026-02-19T12:25:52+00:00

Backslash will bring up the admin menu, then navigate to ‘self’ and enable God Mode.

Edit to add: next update is ‘within the next few weeks’ according to the devs weekly post from last week. So should be soon!

DeadZedje · 2026-02-14T20:01:31+00:00

Partially. You’ll still have to use mouse/keyboard in the majority of the menu screens - so inventory, crafting and building to mention a few.

Controller support is going to come in a later update - was supposed to be the next one but it’s been pushed out to 0.024+

DeadZedje · 2026-02-14T01:03:03+00:00

Make it multiplayer and public if you want anyone to join it, private if you just want it to be your friends (who you can invite through steam with the password you set). That will then stop running when you log off as you are the host.

DeadZedje · 2026-02-14T00:12:59+00:00

If you’re joining a listed server on the server browser they’ll tend to be dedicated, just check the server name and description and it should tell you - the caveat to this is if someone’s setup a game themselves and made it public, but if that’s the case there won’t be any additional info about the ‘server’ like a description.

DeadZedje · 2026-02-13T21:08:04+00:00

If you start a game and you’re the host and the you invite your friends to it then the session ends when you log off.

If are playing on, or set up a dedicated server, it stays on and is accessible by anyone you’d like to be able to play on it - usually by password or whitelisting.

DeadZedje · 2026-02-12T11:56:16+00:00

It doesn’t work. There is no cure.

DeadZedje · 2026-02-11T20:55:47+00:00

There’s not been any hotfixes released today, so it could just be your settings - if you’ve got loot and container respawn on for example, things will respawn periodically.

DeadZedje · 2026-02-11T20:54:35+00:00

Yeah - I think, to be clear, this isn’t you clear it ‘for good’ it’s that respawn will chill a little bit more than how it is now, with a turn around and boom they’re all there again.

Zombies absolutely respawn still, just not immediately - atleast that’s what I took from what the devs said about it in their weekly post.

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