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This will be a long journey into darkness, as I fight to stay alive in the Zombie apocalypse. Also, may have minor spoilers for the game 7 days to die.

So, I have finally lived long enough to have some chance of surviving. The first 3 journeys ended before my first night finished. So, on my 4th attempt, I decided to find the last quest store first, and then search for somewhere to call home.

By this point I had realized that buildings are freaking dangerous, so, this time I decided to....avoid them....at least till I had a decent number of arrows to shoot from my bow. With this in mind I crafted a stone axe, grabbed a ton of loose stone and wood, and created 100 arrows. When I leveled up from doing the baby quests, I increased my weapon crafting skill so my bow and club both had 50 durability as well.

With this in hand, I went searching and found a nice 2 story house with only a few zombies inside (Figures, I prepare so much this time and there was no nead). I did encounter a wolf, but shot it with my bow while it was trying to get over/around the porch (revenge for a previous wolf death.....I thought it was a friendly dog, went to pet it, and it ate me).

Of course, you can't just go into a house in 7 days to die, you have to break down the door, and in the process of breaking down the second story door, a small horde of zombies decided I looked tasty and broke through the door downstairs (and the wall around it). I got hurt a bit, but managed to slay them all, and then fixed the wall and created a new door for downstairs (at least this way I didn't need to break it down and replace it so it wasn't locked).

First mission accomplished, I now had a secure place to hang my hat, a bunch of places to store stuff (Fridge/counters/cabinets/stove). I placed my bedroll, although the only advantage I get from that is it prevents zombies from spawing downstairs (not upstairs though), since if I die, it's game over (usually you get teleported back to your bed).

All this hard work was making me thirsty (it wasn't the pretzels really!), and with fairly bad luck I had not gotten any bottled water along the way. I did have a bunch of murky water...but yeah, nobody wants to drink that.

So then began my second quest (with a few interruptions), the quest for drinkable water!!!!

Now, you would imagine that with a campfire, bottles of murky water, tin cans and a whole freaking house full of stuff, I could boil my water and be done in no time...fastest quest ever!!!

Nope, in fact you need a cooking pan for your campfire in order to boil water. In the craziest requirement in history, you can not create a cooking pan without an anvil and iron. You can't make an anvil without a forge, and you can't make a forge without bellows.

I traveled back to the trader place hoping they would have a forge or bellows or leather (they did have leather but it's 60 gold each piece, and you need 20 freaking pieces). They also had an anvil, but that is worthless without the forge.

It was getting a bit late, but....I figured I'd just search around and maybe find some animals to kill and get leather off them, or a house to raid (I was killing zombies left and right along the way for fun). I traveled due west for what seemed like hours and arrived at a large town.

Large towns in 7 days to die are dangerous, with lots of zombies everywhere...it's not somewhere you want to end up at night, but I was brave (stupid) and decided to explore anyway. In the process of breaking into about 5 homes, I found that some of the couches can be hacked up and give leather (ended up with 17 pieces of the 20 I need so far). In addition, on the 3rd house or so, I found 2 cooking pots in the kitchen. I then proceeded to find 2 more in both of the next 2 homes, ending up with 6 of them (only needed 1).

There was about an hour till 22:00 (official night time when zombies are much faster), so I decided to book it back home.
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