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HumanitZ: Advanced Guide with 25 Essential Tips and Tricks
This advanced HumanitZ guide provides 25 tips and tricks for intermediate to advanced players, covering topics such as CB radio, protective clothing, weapon and vehicle maintenance, animal taming, resource management, combat, and more. It also includes a bonus tip on how to hack keypad locks.
1. 📻 CB Radio and Airdrops: How to Get Valuable Resources
- ✅ Build a CB radio early in the game and activate the radio tower to advance the main quest line.
- ✅ By activating the radio tower, daily airdrops will start appearing (or more frequent, depending on the server settings).
- ✅ Airdrops contain high-level items that are essential for survival.
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1. 📻 CB Radio and Airdrops: How to Get Valuable Resources
- ✅ Build a CB radio early in the game and activate the radio tower to advance the main quest line.
- ✅ By activating the radio tower, daily airdrops will start appearing (or more frequent, depending on the server settings).
- ✅ Airdrops contain high-level items that are essential for survival.
00:50 - 01:07
2. ☢️ Radiological Protection Clothing and Skills for Radioactive Zones
- ✅ Save radiological protection clothing (hazmat) to enter radioactive zones.
- ✅ One of the missions requires entering a radioactive zone, so dress appropriately and use a good mask.
- ✅ It is recommended to invest points in health and obtain the controlled breathing skill to reduce mask degradation by 50%.
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3. 🔫 Weapon Durability and Clothing Repair
- ✅ Make sure your weapon's durability is high to prevent it from jamming frequently.
- ✅ Repair your favorite clothes regularly. If the durability of the clothes reaches 0%, it will be destroyed.
- ✅ Use a sewing kit to repair clothes and a tailoring bench to make leather clothes for the winter.
01:40 - 01:58
4. 🚗 Vehicle Armor and Additional Storage
- ✅ Install armor on your vehicle if you have built the vehicle workbench.
- ✅ Prioritize the front and rear if you have few resources.
- ✅ Add additional storage to the vehicle. The APC is the only vehicle that cannot be equipped with armor currently.
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5. 🛠️ Melee Weapon Workbench and Unlocking Advanced Weapons
- ✅ Build a melee weapon workbench to unlock weapons that you will need later in the game.
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6. 📢 Zeke Distraction Method for Looting Locations of Interest
- ✅ To loot locations of interest with many zekes, make as much noise as possible to attract them.
- ✅ Use an alarm clock to attract most of the zekes, then pick it up and run away to loot the area safely.
- ✅ This strategy is key in nightmare or permadeath mode to reduce the zeke population.
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7. 🔫 Where to Find Weapons, Ammunition, and Materials
- ✅ Weapons and ammunition: Loot armories, police stations, checkpoints, bandit bases, or military bases. You can also craft ammunition at a weapon or ammunition workbench.
- ✅ Materials (valves, tools): Loot hardware stores, construction sites, and industrial sites.
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8. 🌱 Where to Find Seeds and Car Parts
- ✅ Seeds: Loot farms or food stores.
- ✅ Car parts: Loot junkyards or auto repair shops, or dismantle harvestable vehicles.
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9. 🚗 How to Unflip an Overturned Car
- ✅ To unflip a car, you need to find a jack in an auto repair shop.
- ✅ Use the jack on the overturned car to lift it and put it back on its wheels.
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10. 🐴 Horse Taming: Food and Saddle
- ✅ Horse taming is possible. You need a saddle, which you can find or craft at the sewing bench.
- ✅ Make sure you have enough food for the horse before taming it. Horses eat hay, carrots, and grains.
- ✅ Place the food near the horse's head to feed it.
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11. 🌾 Hay Harvesting with Pitchfork
- ✅ To harvest hay, you need a pitchfork.
- ✅ You can craft one at the workbench or find it in the world.
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12. 🐶 Dog Taming: Food, Armor, and Commands
- ✅ Dog taming is possible, but you need dog food and to craft a dog bowl to tame them.
- ✅ Build a dog house to house your pet.
- ✅ Equip your dog with armor to reduce the damage it takes and give it storage space.
- ✅ Use the Z emote sign on your keyboard and scroll with the middle mouse button to give commands to the dog.
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13. 🍖 Feeding the Dog
- ✅ Feed your dog raw meat or dog food.
- ✅ Place the food near the dog so it eats when it's hungry.
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14. 🧰 Importance of Tools and Their Performance
- ✅ The type of tools you have matters. Tools come in tiers, and the tier of the tool determines how much yield you will get from it.
- ✅ Improvised tools yield the least, and power tools yield the most.
- ✅ Don't forget the handsaw if you want more wood from logs.
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15. ⚔️ Best Melee Weapons for Combat
- ✅ The best melee weapons for combat are more deadly than others and can kill almost any zeke in one hit.
- ✅ If you see a trader offering these items, be sure to buy them and repair them frequently.
- ✅ The weapons mentioned are: spartan spear, katana, sword, fire axe, and tactical machete. Also the longsword.
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16. 🔭 Using Telescopic Sights on Firearms
- ✅ If you find telescopic sights for your weapons, install them to get a longer view when scrolling with the middle mouse button.
- ✅ The longest view is obtained with the hunting rifle with a sniper scope.
- ✅ You can shoot very far with this weapon and the bandits won't even see you coming.
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17. ⛽ Gasoline Tips: Gas Stations and Manufacturing
- ✅ Gas stations slowly but surely respawn gasoline.
- ✅ You need to do the main mission to turn off the power station and find a valve. Place it in a gas station.
- ✅ You can also manufacture gasoline. Collect animal fat and use the fat conversion bench to make oil. Collect potatoes and use the distiller to make liquor. Use oil and liquor to manufacture gasoline with your gasoline container.
- ✅ You can also extract gasoline from other cars if you have a hose.
06:43 - 07:03
18. ⛏️ Mining Nodes and Their Location
- ✅ Mining nodes are distinguished by color with the glow.
- ✅ Mining nodes are located randomly near roads and also mark them as you find them because they will respawn.
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19. 💧 Water Containers for Storage
- ✅ If you have a surplus of water, be sure to take water containers from the world and take them back to your base for use.
- ✅ This will help you store clean water from your rain collectors.
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20. 🛠️ Crafting Improvised Shovel for Crop Plots
- ✅ You can now craft an improvised shovel at the workbench.
- ✅ This will allow you to build crop plots more easily.
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21. ♻️ Composting for Fertilizers and Plant Growth
- ✅ Craft a compost bin to throw away your old or spoiled food to make fertilizer.
- ✅ Fertilizer can help speed up the growth rate of your plants.
- ✅ This can help if you are trying to grow all your plants before winter or the season in which they cannot grow, because once that season arrives in which they cannot grow, the plants will die, just like in real life.
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22. 🤝 Finding Traders and NPCs
- ✅ Venture out to find other survivors who offer better trades and other rare items.
- ✅ Try talking to all the NPCs you find. You never know if they might have a mission for you.
- ✅ The traders are in B1 in this video.
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23. 🚪 Zekes Don't Damage Base Doors
- ✅ Zekes will not attack your door.
- ✅ If they encounter your base, zekes can go through the doors, so try to make a gate instead for your base entrance.
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24. 🔓 Bonus Tip: Hacking Keypad Locks
- ✅ For those who stayed until the end, this is for you if you didn't know. If you have come across these keypad locks and wondered where the code is.
- ✅ First, you need to unlock your explosive skill and invest in the hacking trait.
- ✅ Then, you need to craft a hacking device at the workbench.
- ✅ Then, you can unlock those advanced locks. Try raiding some electronics stores or looting computers to get the materials.
- ✅ Hacking this could be difficult if your timing is horrible like mine.