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Project Zomboid Build 42: Machete Crafting Guide (Blacksmith)
This video provides a detailed explanation of how to craft a machete in Project Zomboid's 42 build. Starting in Muldraugh, it establishes a base at the blacksmith's house, explains how to acquire the necessary materials and skills, and guides you through the process of using the crafting system to ultimately create a machete. In particular, it offers tips related to the new crafting system, along with solutions to potential problems.
Conclusion: Machete made with steel bars made with a lot of effort when it could have been picked up and made.
1. 🛠️ 42 Build Weapon Crafting Guide Intro and Machete Crafting Goal Setting
- ✅ Resolving difficulties due to increased zombie numbers and lack of tutorials after the 42 build multiplayer update
- ✅ The goal is to help players adapt to the game through weapon crafting guides.
- ⚠️ Focusing on weapon crafting, specifically the machete, which is considered the strongest, rather than the entire guide.
- ✅ Learning the basic structure so that other crafting is possible through the machete crafting process.
00:00 - 00:35
1. 🛠️ 42 Build Weapon Crafting Guide Intro and Machete Crafting Goal Setting
- ✅ Resolving difficulties due to increased zombie numbers and lack of tutorials after the 42 build multiplayer update
- ✅ The goal is to help players adapt to the game through weapon crafting guides.
- ⚠️ Focusing on weapon crafting, specifically the machete, which is considered the strongest, rather than the entire guide.
- ✅ Learning the basic structure so that other crafting is possible through the machete crafting process.
00:36 - 01:34
2. 📍 Muldraugh Start and Securing the Blacksmith's House Base
- ✅ Starting in Muldraugh to secure weapons and survival supplies
- ✅ Securing tools and iron materials from large warehouses (hammer, saw, metalworking chisel, axe, short handle, steel bar, iron bar, etc.)
- ✅ Axes can be obtained from the basement of the Muldraugh Police Station.
- ✅ Recommending the blacksmith's house above Muldraugh among the new bases in the 42 build.
- ✅ The blacksmith's house is easy to secure with an advanced furnace, various tools, vegetables, and water resources.
01:35 - 02:31
3. 📚 Recommended Metalworking Skill Book Farming Locations
- ✅ Metalworking level 9 required to craft a machete (books 1-5 required)
- ⚠️ Difficult to acquire skill books from bookstores or schools in the 42 build.
- ✅ How to acquire books:
- ❌ Searching Muldraugh homes (not recommended)
- ❌ Louisville University Library (3-5 books guaranteed, 1, 2 not acquired, many zombies)
- ✅ Ekron University (recommended, good place for skill books, fewer zombies than Louisville)
02:32 - 02:59
4. 📜 Recipe Farming and Skill Research Usage
- ✅ Utilizing the 42 build crafting function, easy to acquire recipes from safe houses.
- ✅ Recipes can be acquired through skill research when acquiring a machete.
- ✅ Acquiring the machete blade recipe when researching a level 6 metalworking machete.
03:00 - 03:35
5. 🔨 Understanding and Utilizing the Crafting System
- ✅ Check the time required, brightness, and surface requirements when crafting.
- ✅ Check if required items can be substituted (e.g., regular hammer instead of club hammer, plank instead of baseball bat).
03:36 - 04:27
6. 🔥 Machete Crafting Process: Leveling Up and Sharpening
- ✅ Check the required level and materials after searching for a machete in the furnace.
- ✅ How to level up metalworking: cutting iron bars (coke required)
- ✅ Coke production: making charcoal from logs in a charcoal pit
- ✅ Making a machete blade after reaching level 9
- ✅ Sharpening on a whetstone
04:28 - 06:21
7. ⚙️ (Translation Mode Problem Solving) Steel Bar Production Process
- ⚠️ (When a translation mode problem occurs) Problems may occur where iron bars, steel bars, and steel rods are lumped together.
- ✅ Steel bar casting is required in the blacksmith shop to make steel bars.
- ✅ Ceramic mold production:
- ✅ Advanced kiln construction (clay required, acquired from soft ground with a shovel and empty sack)
- ✅ Making clay rod molds in a manual press (wooden rod mold required)
- ✅ Making wooden rod molds in crafting
- ✅ Making ceramic conduits containing iron (using steel iron or iron, do not use plus steel)
- ✅ Acquiring large ceramic conduits: farming at the train station warehouse next to Muldraugh
- ✅ Acquiring large clay conduits (unfired): making pottery after making a pottery wheel
- ✅ Making a stone wheel (large stone required, right-click stone in nature)
- ✅ Leveling up stonemasonry: making stone blocks from farmed stones
- ✅ Making pottery on a pottery wheel
- ✅ Melting iron in a forge to make steel bars
Conclusion: Machete made with steel bars made with a lot of effort when it could have been picked up and made.
06:22 - 06:43
8. 🎬 Closing and Recommendation to Enjoy Additional Systems
- ✅ The crafting system is complex, but the goal is to help you understand the system by making one weapon.
- ✅ We recommend you enjoy other systems as well.