Watchmen

Out of desperation, citizens during a zombie apocalypse often need to resort to one incredibly effective (yet dangerous) tactic: meat shields. Introduced in Season 6, the Watchmen is a job any citizen can choose to take up (in addition to their profession), be it Hero Hero or Resident Resident.

Use

• Any Citizen Citizen can join the Watchmen Watchmen by selecting to join at the Watchmen tab in town. They will stay on guard as a watchman for The Attack The Attack that night, and then are relieved of their watchman duty.
  • The list of Watchmen is cleared daily, after the attack. There are no limits to signing up.
• Watchmen will attempt to block off any zombies that get past the town's defense from the remaining citizens.
• All watchmen begin with a base 95% chance of survival (indicated by the icon) and block off 10 zombies (indicated by the icon). They also always risk a 10% chance of Wounded Injury, and another 10% chance of Terrorised Terrorisation.
• Certain items placed in their Inventory Inventory, Status Effects Status Effects or Professional tools Professional tools of Hero Heroes will affect the chances of survival and the number of zombies a watchman can block off, both positively and negatively.

Zombies Blocked and Safety

The following items and statuses influences the effectiveness and safety of citizens on watch:

Professional tools

Name	Defense	Safety
Riot Shield Riot Shield (Guardian)	30	5
Three-legged Labradoodle Three-legged Labradoodle (Tamer)	20	0
Voodoo Mask Voodoo Mask (Shaman)	0	0
Handyman's Toolbelt Handyman's Toolbelt (Technician)	0	0
Survival Guide Survival Guide (Survivalist)	0	0
Small Spade Small Spade (Scavenger)	0	0
Camouflage Vest Camouflage Vest (Scout)	0	0

Statuses

Name	Defense	Safety
Clean Clean	0	0
Drunk Drunk*	20	4
Drugged Drugged	10	0
Ghoul Ghoul	20	5
Hooked! Hooked!	15	-10
Terrorised Terrorised	-30	-45
Wounded Wounded	-20	-20
Infected Infected	-15	-20
Healed Healed	-10	-10
Hungover Hungover	-15	-5
Dehydrated Dehydrated!	-10	0

Heavy Items

Name	Defense	Safety
Beer Fridge Beer Fridge	25	0
Persian Rug Persian Rug	8	0
Toolbox Toolbox	5	0
Chest Chest	10	0
Hastily-built desk Hastily-built desk	25	0
Iron Chest Iron Chest	15	0
Ektorp-Gluten Chair Ektorp-Gluten Chair	10	0
Old Door Old Door	15	0
Car Door Car Door	40	0
Mattress Mattress	30	0
Flatpacked Furniture Flatpacked Furniture	15	0
Lawnmower Lawnmower	35	0
Järpen Table Järpen Table	20	0
Old Washing Machine Old Washing Machine	30	0
Trestle Trestle	5	0
PC Base Unit PC Base Unit	20	0
Carcinogenic Oven Carcinogenic Oven	20	0
Chainsaw (loaded) Chainsaw (loaded)	25	0
Engine Engine	40	0
Shopping Trolley Shopping Trolley	25	0
Rocking Chair Rocking Chair	25	0
Water Cooler Bottle (3 rations) Water Cooler Bottle (3 rations) (1, 2, or 3 rations)	20	0
Santa's reindeer Santa's reindeer	40	0
Kalashni-Splash Kalashni-Splash	15	0

Notes

• In Season 6:
  • The Watchmen Watchmen was introduced.
• in season 7:
  • Several bugs related to Watchmen Watchmen were fixed, including players rejoining/leaving post, consuming items in their chest, and assembling incomplete items without using resources (such as Radio Cassette Player (no battery) Radio Cassette Player (no battery) becoming a Radio Cassette Player Radio Cassette Player, or Wonky Shopping Trolley Wonky Shopping Trolley becoming a Shopping Trolley Shopping Trolley).
    • The Flatpacked Furniture Flatpacked Furniture continues to assemble into an assortment of furniture, however.
  • Watchmen status bug was also repaired. During Season 6 statuses changed before attack but with season 7 bug fixes this was changed so that statuses take affect before the attack. This means that Drunk Drunk status will stay on during the attack and is changed to Hungover Hungover after attack.

• If an item is Broken Broken... it will not increase the number of zombies blocked off.
• If a small enough number of zombies make it through the defenses, it is possible for a dead Watchman to report as such in the Gazette:

-->"[resident] was devoured by 0 zombie(s)!"