"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!)
CTRL - Go into combat mode (Doubles as sneak mode.)
SHIFT - Sprint
These keys can be pressed in combination to move in diagonal directions.)

**These directional keys can be altered in-game to move in cardinal directions relative to the world, rather than to the monitor**

Actions
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Space Bar - Open inventory panel.
Q - Give a shout to alert NPC's to your presence (and also Zombies.)
CRTL + LMB - Swing Weapon/Fire Weapon
CTRL + SHIFT + {1-9} - assign a main-hand and off-hand item combination to a hotkey.
(I will go on more about combat in a later section.)
P - Pause Game.
M - Turn off Music (Not sounds.)

World Interaction
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Click a container to open it. Also, click on an object to interact with it (lightswitch, door, window, curtain, etc)
Double click to move an item into inventory
Click and drag to move an item into inventory
Right click to clear the selected item into inventory
To equip, drag an item to the circle at the top of the screen.
--Large circle is weapon hand
--Small circle is off-hand
To craft, click crafting button at bottom of inventory.
To place an item in the world, or to drop an item, drag the item out of inventory and click where you want to place it
CTRL + drag - will move the entire stack of items, rather than one at a time

First Steps
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First, what you need in this game - weapons. It may be an Axe, Hammer, Knife, or maybe even a Pen. Grab the best of what you find, and take it with you.
After this, you must find some food, and a place to stay, your "Safehouse" or "Fort". You can live in any house, but make sure what you've got there: Ovens, microwaves, refrigerators, some place to leave your supplies, and most importantly, a bed. (Or anything, that you can sleep on).
After that, you start your survival. Your next steps - close all windows with something. If they have curtains, use them, otherwise use sheets (you'll need nails to put sheets up.). Better then both of these, you can barricade it with wooden planks. Zombies need only 5 hits to break your windows, but if it's barricaded, it will take a while. Each plank adds 10 health onto a window, with a maximum of 40 extra health. Also, each level has a different amount of visiblity, for example at 1 plank you can still mostly see in and out the window (Along with NPC's and zombies), while at level 4 nothing can be seen at all. This is your home's protection, but don't forget to go outside for supplies every now and again so you don't starve.