Dos and Donts

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DO

Read the Town Forums

The town forums are the single most important part of the game. Most of the game happens through the town forums. Die2Nite is about working together, helping each other, and building an organised community. Solo play will get you killed or shunned every single time. The town forums are where construction projects, building upgrades and expeditions are discussed and is where you go to ask for help if you become trapped.

Communicate with your fellow players

Communication is one of the keys to a successful town. Inform others what you are going to do. Ask for consensus when doing certain tasks. Common posts on the forums include noting why an important object was removed from The Bank, discussions on what to construct and upgrade next, a request for someone to volunteer to close the gate, and messages of distress when one is trapped in the World Beyond.

If you are unsure about something, you should ask on the town forums. The more experienced players would much rather answer even a stupid question than to have you waste resources (which includes ). You should use the town forums to let other players know what you are up to. Your fellow citizens will thank you for contributing and the town will have a better chance of delaying certain doom. The things active players like most are having others post on the forums.

Scan the Watchtower Every Day

It helps estimate the number of zombies that will be attacking that night and doesn't cost any .

It takes 24 citizens to get the best estimate from the Watchtower and it's important so you will know how much more defence you will need for the nightly attack. Once you have an estimate and have enough defence to hold back the nightly attack your town can concentrate on helpful or longer term projects such the Water Purifier, Vegetable Plot, Defensive Focus or even Faucet.

Work at Constructions Sites

As a newbie it is safer to work at construction sites than going outside. It is recommended you work at construction site.

Each building has different requirements on APs and resources. A player cannot complete on its own. Players has to cooperate to work on buildings to safeguard the town. There are different buildings with different uses. Discuss first so you know which building you should spend APs to spend and don't waste AP for less important buildings.

Residents should not upgrade the home, especially without asking for consensus. Upgrading home is usually frown upon by the community. It only provide half defence point to the town and is usually considered a waste of . There are usually far more important tasks to do. Only upgrade your home if your town is badly disorganised and people are not working together, or when you get community consensus.

Tent is the basic requirement of building home improvements, and only heroes can build home improvements, so heroes can upgrade their house to Tent if they plan on building useful home improvements (Home Laboratory or Kitchen). However they should not upgrade their home further.

Most home improvements are useless or ineffective and should not be built (like fence, large curtain, reinforcements). Lock, more storage, or rudimentary alarm is wasteful unless we have hostile players in the town. The payoff day of Siesta Time is long (~10 days). Your APs should be better spent on more important tasks first.

Ask before repairing an incomplete item

If you want to combine items to build something with them, you should consult with the other players as the town might need those objects for another more important reason.

Repairing the Shopping Trolley uses a Copper Pipe which is needed for many water buildings starting with the Pump. Building the Chainsaw may use the Engine that was needed for Faucet as well as a Handful of nuts and bolts which are required for the majority of defences and always in short supply. The Battery Launcher Mk. II may use the only Electronic component needed for the Searchtower.

It's best to ask before building, always give the town time to respond and never build before you have received a response.

Put Defence items in the Bank

Defence items provide the town with 2 defense each (more with Defensive Focus) if they are stored in The Bank. If stored in your House they only add 1 to home defense and 0.5 to the towns defenses.

You should in fact, put all items except your initial food and water in the bank. Most items are useless on their own - they only become important when given to the town. You will likely be shunned or hanged if you are caught hoarding defensive objects.

Plan your Expeditions

Prepare well before you go outside. Don't go if you don't want what you are doing.

Calculate the cost of of the route you will take before stepping into the World Beyond. Remember that for every you use heading away from town you will need one to get back to town. This will prevent you from getting stuck outside without food or water. Even if the other citizens forgive such as mistake, they may not have the to help you.

If you are Infected you may also find yourself abandoned as the cost to rescue you, when you have a 50% chance of dying that night anyway, may outweigh the benefits of the rescue.

Use Third-party Map

There are two useful tools which help players to exchange information of the map in the World Beyond:

• http://d2n.duskdawn.net/
• http://die2nite.gamerz.org.uk/mymap/

They are enhanced version of the original in-game map. Remember to authorise external applciations in the settings tab of your Soul page for the map to work.

Players can keep track of data which they cannot maintain in the game itself. It helps players to organize what they have found in the World Beyond and it keeps players in touch with what is happening around them.

It enables you to mark all the items, buildings, and other useful things you've found out in the World Beyond in one useful spot. It also contains other helpful information, such as construction buildings and a viewer of the bank, which cannot normally be seen while you're outside. It takes less than two seconds to click the "update current zone" button whenever you pass through a zone, and it helps everyone else in town plan their scavenging and building so much. This is a necessity - not an option.

Update Map Information

Use third-party external maps since you can update more map information.

Map does not update automatically. It requires your input.

One of the most important information is to tell other players whether an area is depleted. Mark it as "depleted zone" so it stops others from wasting AP in going to a zone which is already depleted.

For the areas you have visited, please mark zombie count so other players know exactly how many zombies in an area. This makes expeditions and rescues far easier and safer.

Mark them too if there are some items to be picked up in an area and you are unable to pick them up because your bag is full.

Autosearch when scavenging outside

If you stay in the one zone after your initial search, you will autosearch every 2 hours (you don't need to click anything). You can potentially find more resources without spending any additional . This saves and prevents you from wandering too far and getting trapped. Auto-search works even when you're not online, so it's very useful to log on before you leave in the morning, spend the day at school or work autosearching, and head back to town when you get back, before the attack.

Auto-searching does work in depleted zones, but you will only find scrap, so it's much better to move to an undepleted zone.

Call for help if you are in trouble

Each citizen has 2 control points. The more citizens on the same area, the more control points you have. A zombie has 1 control point. You get trapped if the point of zombies is higher than yours. Don't panic. Don't flee. Zombies won't attack you until 23h00 (server time). You may try to use weapon to kill some zombies so you can move again. Don't kill zombies with bare hands because the chance of success is low and you will waste .

If you are in trouble in the world beyond, make a post on the forum to ask for a rescue, give details of how many zombies are in your zone and if you need anymore . When creating the thread designate it a call for help, your location will be given automatically at the upper right of the post.

If your players in your town are not using the third-party external maps, you may use the in-game map and select the "Call for Help" marker to mark your area. But don't forget to change the marker back to the relevant state after you have been rescued. Don't leave the zone without changing it.

Return to town before the zombie attack

Remember to return the town before the gate is closed. Ask what time the gatekeeper will close the gate. A well-organized town will usually close gate around 20 minutes before the attack. If the Portal Lock has been built no one will not be able to open the gates in the last 20 minutes if it is closed, and you will be trapped outside.

If you know you won't be able to get back to town before the attack because of real-life commitments, head back to town before you log off, or don't go outside at all. It's better to stay safe in town than to die outside out of carelessness.

If your town does not assign anyone as a gatekeeper, reserve at least 1 if you return late. When you return and there is less than 20 minutes until the attack and there is no one left outside, close the gate yourself instead of waiting for someone to close for you.

Only camping with full preparation

Camping means hiding in the World Beyond during the attack at 23h00 (server time). Camping is very risky but potentially rewarding. Camping is also essential after Season 3 to receive rarer blueprints, however you should plan carefully before setting out.

Camping is not recommended for newbies unless you get trapped outside and rescue has been unable to reach you before the end of the day. Camping is the only thing you could do to save your life at that time.

If you really decide to go camping for a blueprint, you should plan accordingly and consider the following:

• Camping in open zones is extremely risky and the scavenge bonus fairly minor. Buildings have much higher survival chances and each will grant a blueprint for successful camping; making them both the safest and most useful camp site.
• Announce your intention to camp on the town forum, you may need help setting up or rescue tomorrow.
• Control the zone, zombies lower your survival chances.
• Don't have more than 1 person camping a zone, only 1 is needed for the blueprint and each successive camper has lowered chances of survival.
• Consider your carefully you need enough to reach the zone and spend a considerable amount improving the campsite, you may need help setting up.
• Plan to return the next day and bring enough supplies for the return trip. You will need less the next day without having to set up the camp site but you still need to get back and prefereably take advantage of your Learned Camper status.
• Passing your blueprint to another citizen heading back to town before you if you intend to stay outside the next day, the town needs the blueprint quickly so it can be considered in the days construction plans.
• Call for help in the morning if the zombies have trapped you overnight, letting people know of your intentions before setting out is important if you expect to be rescued the following day.

If you still have questions, read the Wiki

You don‘t have to know everything, just where to find out. Whenever you are not sure what to do with an item, just look it up here:

• http://www.die2nitewiki.com

If you click all kinds of buttons just to see what happens, the other players won't like it, because it actually hurts the town. Read this so you know more about the game and play better. Keep it up!

DON'T

Don't Upgrade your house without asking

Unless the community decides to allow it. It is usually considered a waste of and is frowned upon. You'd better spend APs at construction sites. There are important buildings that need Twisted Plank. Don't use it on home upgrade.

A tent (home level 1) may be okay if the town requires a small number of extra , or you are a hero planning on building useful home improvements. But always ask for consensus first. A tent is enough. Don't upgrade further.

Don't Vote for a Project without asking

Each project has pros and cons. Building wrong projects at the wrong time will hurt the town. Always discuss first. A single vote will do the trick and the more experienced players will take care of this.

Don't Eat or Drink when you have more than 0

Normal food fill you back up to 6. You'll still only go up to 6 whether you're at 0 or 5. You should be getting 18 every day if you only eat or drink when you are at 0 .

Eating only refill your to full once, so does drinking. Extra eating or drinking does not refill any .

If you have the option of eating or drinking first, always eat first. Drinking water should be the last "AP refill" of the day.

Don't Eat Meaty Bone

There is a 50% chance that you could become INFECTED. You could let a hero "cook" a Meaty Bone so its safe to eat. Meaty Bone can be used to build a "Lure" (a Temporary Defense). Don't eat any item related to human flesh or raw meat. You may risk getting infected.

Don't Construct Temporary Defences without asking

Temporary Defenses give relatively good defense, but they are "temporary" and only last one night. They can often waste planks, iron, and other resources that could be used to make more useful, permanent defenses.

You should only build Temporary Defenses when there seems to be no other option. These can possibly save your life in the event of a large spike in zombie numbers, but try not to rely on them unless you have no choice.

Sometimes you may have spare at the end of the day. If there's nothing else to build, or you just have that 1 left, its ok to spend on Temporary Defenses, but DON'T finish it! If you construct it when there is no need too, you have wasted resources that the town could have used for something else - but it's okay to leave it at halfway finished if there's nothing else.

Don't go outside without preparation

It is dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. It is recommended you stay inside and work at construction sites if you know nothing about scavenging outside.

Don't Open or Close the Gate unless you volunteered on the Town Forums to be a Gatekeeper

Opening and closing gate requires 1 . You should not close gate when it is day time and people are scavenging outside. You are wasting others' to re-open the gate.

Experienced players will assign someone to be a gatekeeper so you don't normally need to worry about it at night.

If it's a new day, feel free to open the gate if you're the first one to go out.

Don't Enter Unexplored Tiles

Don't enter unexplored tiles unless you are one of the first few to venture outside for the day.

If there are undepleted zones, stay there and autosearch. Remember to log in and go back to town before the gate closes. YOU WILL GET LOST AND DRAIN OUR RESOURCES in rescue attempts if you decide to waste your AP running around the desert when there are open, safe, and plump squares for salvaging.

Don't Panic. Don't Flee from Zombies

Trapped in a zone with zombies? Don't panic. Zombies won't attack you until 23h00 (server time). Just ask for help on the forums.

If you decide to flee from zombies, you will get Wounded and make you Infected eventually. Both are hard to cure because the Bandage and Paracetoid 7g needed to heal you are rare.

Don't Fight Zombies Without a Weapon

Unless you are extremely lucky, you will never land a hit and waste .

At the end of the day if you are still trapped with zombies and no hope of rescue it is now better to spend all your on camping improvements and hide overnight. Punching would most likely use all your and have a much lower chance of success than camping.

Don't Use the 'EMS' to Fight Zombies

It will wound you and you will eventually die. This should only be used in an extreme emergency and then firstly by a citizen who is already infected, or by a citizen with a bandage after the town has been given a chance to approve its use.

Don't Use Drugs

Unless it is life or death and the gate is an hour or less than closing. You may get saved. If you use drugs, there is a very high likelihood that you will become addicted and drain our precious medical supplies every day or DIE. HOWEVER, in an emergency using ONE Anabolic steroid may be acceptable if your city agrees to it, as this makes getting addicted a very small risk. Bear in mind having 1 steroid in the bank is essential for the architect's study and using that last steroid/vodka for anything may get you severely punished.

Don't Go Too Far

When scavenging, try to stay at least "six" zones around town, unless you're doing a expedition with multiple people, or if it's the first day when there's barely any zombies around.

Why six? The maximum AP limit is six. So if a citizen is coming to save you, he only needs to being one food/drink to get back. And if you wanted to go scavenge in a specific spot and you got stuck, and the citizen that is coming to save you "wants" to scavenge with you. He only needs to bring one food/drink, so that his/her rucksack isn't clogged, and has room to scavenge.

Or, if you don't have any AP to get back into town, then yes. The same concept applies with the clogging and the citizen coming to save you. He'll have to bring food/drink/drug in his rucksack to save you, and also have some for itself to get back.

You don't have to stay six zones around town of course. But thinking of conversion, and how many items from the bank it takes to get you and your rescuer to get back - it's recommended.

Don't Try to Use Heroic Actions as a Resident

The magical teleport won't save you unless you're a Hero.

Don't Stay Outside past 22:40

Most towns will close and lock the gates before then and if a portal lock has been built the gates cannot be re-opened.