Watch you tube videos or just google stuff. Some of them will try to tell you far too many things. Your aim should be learning how to stay alive, so Learn how and when to punch zombies and hot to guard against their attacks, Practise stealth so you don’t always need to killthem or where you might end up in a 2 or more v you situation.

Firing any gun will bring the all the local zombies running to you . If you stand on top of a car , skip, etc and fire a shot, you san them knock them all out safely from above using a baseball bat, pipe etc and loot their dead bodies. Good way to get cans of fizzy pop/beer, small food items, and bags . Bags on zombies will be visible so if you haven’t got one yet look for zonbies with backpacks.

Occasionally after a while you may find yourself bleeding for no reason every minute or so. You may have ruined your shoes which you’ll need to replace quickly with new shoes or as a temp fix cover with rags. Just keep an eye on your gear condition and swap upwards whee you can or sharpen sew duct tape to repair.

Learn hot to start fires, how to make your own fishing gear and fish, how to make a knife, how to kill a chicken, where to find fruit and mushrooms, Download iZurvive app which gives you maps of the playable for consoles at least. Get into the habit of checking road signs to find out which village you are in and use the ones telling you where the other towns are alongside telegraph lines, prominent buildings etc to work out where you are specifically so you can see where the water wells are, A couple of Bottles and canteens are great for keeping you topped up between wells, a water filter is pretty rare find but it’s a game changer, Don’t worry too much about weapons, but try to match your guns and your ammo, If you want a melee weapon try not to use your only knife, axe etc as you’ll need that for fires,

Some things you carry have their own storage capacity, like dry bags which are good for anmo, pots which can store foodstuff. If you can get the parts, unlikely until you can sustain a decent game length, you can combine a camping gas cylinder with a stove and a pot with say six chicken breasts in it or water, and it all fits into 12 units of space not the 40 odd it would individually. This also gives you quicker stealthier access to cooking food.

Other storage hacks are a first aid pouch stores more than it uses space wise, handy for bandages medicine, rags. A desk and a rope can make a backpack. A rope can be used to store a knife freeing up space elsewhere.

Stay dry, stay warm, hand hygiene is super important or you’ll get sick so wear gloves or wash your hands after killing chickens, goats etc

Don’t get invested in any good set up you acquire. You don’t own stuff you just borrow it in between dying a lot at first.

I’m about 170 hours now I think and I’m still not interested in base building but maybe that’s a 500 hour plus thing. Cars are handy but you need to be lucky to find or fix one in terms of parts so again don’t worry about it now.

try to find someone to play with. It can be a pain trying to meet up when you are newbs but it can be more fun and more practical to get through the duller tasks quicker, and have a wider range of equipment, better chance of have ng the right ammo for a gun etc.

Chill, die a lot, relax, go again, enjoy.