Terminus: Zombie Survivors: Lazy Guide For Survive 100 Days Achievement

This guide is just to help people get the specific achievement, survive 100 days, as fast and easily as possible. There’s no ‘exit plan’ on helping with an ending, but you’ll at least have a car and fuel by the end of this, so you can probably just get to terminus relatively easily if you so choose.

To start off, we’re going to pick Driver. We’re going to be going back and forth a lot during setup, and the cheaper fuel means easier trips. Also, starting with a roadmap to see what’s around you helps a lot.

Throw all your 3 free points into strength, we’re gonna be carrying stuff until we get wheels repaired and/or found.

Mandatory Trait for this plan is Adaptable Sleeper. We’re going to need to be able to sleep outside. You gotta have this unless you want to hunt down the camping tent and keep repairing it constantly. Since this is a plan to be lazy, I’m recommending the 4 point trait to not deal with that.

Other Trait Recommendation: If you have points leftover, I’d recommend All-Around the most. Costs 20, but +1 to all traits when you aren’t maxed on any by default is nice. More carrying, less AP moving, more AP regen, and better combat, and a little more dexterity to fix the car faster. Everything to get through the set up phase more easily.

Beyond that, spend points as desired, but generally don’t worry about anything regarding morale or food consumption. We won’t care past the early game, and you can maintain early morale on fresh food and alcohol we find as we travel, usually. A bible or novel in a pinch.

So now we have our driver, and we’re going to loot our starter house and start using our road map. Check around you, and start finding points of interest. We’re looking for hardware stores and electronic stores mostly, and a single gas station. In houses, just loot the fridges and the kitchen counters and move on. We don’t care about books, we’re not going to craft a darn thing, we don’t care about cooking recipes, we don’t even care about combat skills. The only possibly helpful books are guides to tell you where hardware or electronic stores are, or where gas stations are.

Items to also take if you find them are:
-Gas Cans. We’re gonna want as many of these as we can find. The more you find, the easier the last step of set-up will be.
-Screwdrivers. We need a few of these too, unless you want to find absurd amounts of batteries, they will come in handy for repairing. What are we repairing? The next item we’re keeping an eye out for.
-Hand Crank Generator / Advanced Hand Crank Generator. This is one of the key pieces. If you find a survivor with one, either barter or intimidate repeatedly until you get it. Fortified houses can trade them too, or you can check stores for one.
-Any type of alarm clock. One is fine, take more if you have space and they’re decently charged.
-Batteries: Allow you to be lazier, and potentially skip finding a hand-cranked generator if you get enough.
-Any one source of firestarting. Lighter, match, whatever. As long as you can start a fire once, it works.
-A wrench to fix our car to start driving instead of walking.

That’s it. No, really, that’s all you need to survive 100 days. Weapons? Take enough to beat away irritating annoyances in the way while looting, but that’s it. Get a car fixed, get to a gas station, fuel it up and start using that gas station as your stopping point to foray out and gather the other items on the list. If you get leftover bags, light sources, or clothing, consider stopping at a fortified house and doing some quests for them. Turn in favor for food and water if you somehow can’t loot enough, but otherwise spend all those tasty points on more fuel cans. Once you have all the items,it’s time to start finding our forever home.

We’re going to start driving around and using our street map to find the beach and marina next. That’s where we’re going to spend the rest of our days. Why? Well, the beach has two entrances, one of which is to the Marina, which is always blocked. We like that, because zombies don’t spawn from a blocked entrance! There’s only one spot zombies can come from, and they can’t do that if you’re occupying that square. That’s why we’re taking adaptable sleeper. We’re going to live on that square, blocking any zombies from entering our tile. Forever.

But why all the tools and set-up then? Well, you can only sleep under 3 conditions: energy is missing, you have a status effect, or you have an alarm to set a time to sleep to. That’s where the hand-cranked generators, batteries, and alarm clocks come in. We’re going to sleep as much as possible to speed through the days.

As for food and water… who cares? Remember all those gas cans I had you collect? We’re going to light a fire on that square, and dump tons and tons of gas into that fire. The entire zone of the beach will max out on temperature. You’ll never be cold, and most importantly, you’ll always be warm. Warm heals you for +1 HP per turn. Being starving causes -1 HP per turn, at 0 satiation. So if you have a cozy fire, you never need to eat again.

What about water? Well, when you sleep, you regenerate even more health. More than the -1 HP you get for not having any hydration! So as long as we are sitting by a fire and sleeping, we can hibernate forever, with no food or water, and not die. Zombies can’t enter our tile, because one entrance is blocked by rubble and the other has us sleeping permanently on it.

Drive back and forth from the gas station, and get that bonfire roaring with fuel can after fuel can poured on it. I got mine to ~2500 and called it quits. You need 24 fuel a day, with extra for -5 fuel a turn when raining instead of -1.

Once this is all set up, the only thing you need to do is hit Z to sleep, select 10 hours to pass, and repeat. Over and over and over. Occasionally you’ll need to recharge your alarms, with a hand-crank or batteries. If the hand-crank breaks, repair it with a screwdriver, and then get back to sleeping. That’s it, enjoy your sleep until 100 days (or longer, if you wish, until you get bored or run out of ways to keep your alarms powered), and enjoy the lazy way of earning your survival achievement.

If you find a partner with adaptable sleeper, as a bonus you can bring them along and also score the “Survive 30 days with the same companion” achievement!