Getting Started (Tutorial)

Getting started

So there you are, dropped into a town, in the middle of a vast desert filled with zombies and other nasty stuff. Great! But what should you do next? This document attempts to help you through your first day, and give you some tips on how to survive the rest. In the beginning, the help texts and balloons that Die2Nite itself provides are very helpful. If you don't like them (or if you have learned all you can from them) you can turn them off by clicking on 'deactivate rookie mode' on the left-hand side of the screen. Also very helpful is the Help section of Die2Nite. You should consult this guide whenever you want to know more about a specific something.

First steps

Water

Water is one of the most important items in this desert world. So naturally, the first and most important thing to do is to get your daily Water Ration from the well. Drinking water restores your AP and makes you refreshed. Two important things you should remember about water:

• Save your water for last! You should eat before drinking water. This is because eating food can make you Thirsty, and if you go to sleep thirsty, you'll wake up Dehydrated the next day. If you go to sleep dehydrated, you will die.
• You should drink every day! If your town does not yet have the pump, do not use your water for anything else than drinking. This will prevent you from becoming dehydrated.

Forums

The forums are the place the town organizes. Pay attention to these! In there, you will be able to coordinate what construction projects should be completed and who is going to close the gates (amongst other things). It is near impossible to survive if citizens don't cooperate, so make sure you check the forums often.

Your house

The first thing you should do when you go to your house is upgrade it to a tent. This doesn't cost any resources and upgrades the towns' defenses (more about that later). Don't upgrade it any further than a tent, though! This will cost resources that are needed for building public buildings (like the workshop). Once you've done that, you should open your Doggy Bag and Citizen's Welcome Pack. The doggy bag gives you a random food item; keep that yourself for restoring AP later on. The welcome pack yields a random item. It depends on the item you get what you should do with it; most of the time, it's easiest to put it in the bank.

Exploring

Now you're ready to explore the world! To get out of town, you have to go to the town gates. From there, you can leave town. The land around the town is divided into squares, all of which have coordinates. For example, the town is situated on square [0,0] and if you go one to the right and one down you will be on square [1,-1]. Moving from one square to another costs one AP (though entering and exiting the city doesn't cost any AP). Make sure you always have enough AP to get back! If you run out of AP in the desert and you have nothing to replenish it, you will have to be saved. If you are not saved by the end of the day, you will die. To be saved, you'll have to make a topic on the forums asking for help. Make sure you include:

• The coordinates of the square you're on
• What items to replenish your AP you have already used today
• If there are zombies in the zone, and if so, how many

You also have to be careful that you don't run into a group of zombies. In Die2Nite, humans and zombies are given points. Each resident is worth two points, while each zombie is worth one point. If the number of human points in a square is equal to or greater than the number of zombie points in that square, you are safe. When there's more zombie points, you're in trouble. You won't be able to move, unless you flee. Never flee from a square which is controlled by zombies; if you do, you will almost certainly be Wounded. This is most of the time fatal. Ask for help on the forums if you are stuck in a zone which is controlled by zombies. You should always include these things if you are asking for help:

• How many zombies there are in the zone, and how many humans
• If you have got enough AP to return to the town after being freed
• What times you will be online

If humans regain control of the sector (human points outweighing zombie points), you will be able to get out of the zone. There's a thirty minute window after control of a zone has been lost in which it is possible to flee from the square. Make sure you are back in town before the gates are closed! Normally this is discussed on the forums; if it is not, it's best to be back in town at least an hour before the attack starts.

Scavenging

This is the good side of exploring. To scavenge, all you have to do is press the 'search the zone' button while you are in the zone you want to search. Do this in every zone you come through! It costs no AP, and you always have a chance of finding something, even in depleted zones. After you've searched the zone, you'll automatically enter autosearch mode. This means that your character automatically searches the zone every two hours. You don't have to be online to autosearch a zone. If you find an object, but your inventory is already full, you will drop it on the ground. You should think about what item is most important and possibly swap items to take the most important items back to town. Remember that you or someone else can always come back to a square to pick up what you have dropped!

Note: this is still a work in progress. Feel free to add to this tutorial or finish it.