"This tutorial is dedicated to Ekontheman, some prick on the reddit forums who, in an extremely wanky and arrogant manner, alerted us to the fact that a user readme and tutorial would be useful."

Hello there, and welcome to the Project Zomboid in-built tutorial. Over this 3-day course, you will learn the basic controls and a few advanced techniques.

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MOVEMENT
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W - Move Up (Towards the top of the your monitor.)
A - Move Left (Towards the left side of your monitor.)
S - Move Down (Towards the bottom of your monitor.)
D - Move Right (have you figured it out yet? It's to the RIGHT of your monitor!)

These keys can be pressed in combination to move in diagonal directions.)

Actions
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Space Bar - Open inventory panel.
Q - Shout to alert NPC of your presence.
CTRL - Go into combat mode (Doubles as sneak mode.)
CRTL + LMB - Swing Weapon/Fire Weapon
(I will go on more about combat in a later section.)
P - Pause Game.
M - Turn off Music (Not sounds.)