
S – Athletic, Strong, Fast Learner, Wakeful, LuckyĪ – Fit, Stout, Gymnast, Keen Hearing, Cat’s Eyes, Handyī – Organized, Dextrous, Brave, Amateur MechanicĬ – Speed Demon, Brawler, Baseball Player, Hunter, Outdoorsmanĭ – Sewer, Fast Reader, Graceful, Herbalist, Gardener, Hiker, Angler, Light Eaterį – Thick Skinned, Cook, Fast Healer, Runner, Adrenaline Junkie, Former Scout, First Aider, Nutritionist, Inconspicuous, Iron Gut, Resilient, Eagle Eyed, Low Thirst I also heavily advise to use this mod, it provides you with clearer information on what traits actually do: I feel like foraging requires more testing and it’s own separate guide. Foraging based survival is a viable strategy, but it’s not as effective compared to looting towns still, better serves you as an additional tool. Reworked foraging became good again after all the recent buffs and it’s affected by pretty much every trait and occupation in the game.You can’t fast forward time in multiplayer, hence gaining XP without traits becomes an absolute hell. Most stat increasing traits are better in multiplayer due to their experience gain boost.Being a doctor in SP outside of roleplay is useless, but not so useless in MP due to PVP injuries and also because other tasks can be done by other players. Multiplayer is considered as a team play, with an idea of spreading roles (so you don’t need to be good at everything yourself as in Singleplayer) and with consideration for PVP related threats.Avoiding zombies might be cool at first, but it’s not really practical and definitely less effective compared to fighting all zombies face to face.

Surviving by stealth and foraging is less effective. As one wise man said: “killing zombies is defining the current meta and is the most effective way of surviving.” – with which I agree.Sprinters are brutal and not recommended to newer players. Surviving with sprinters has completely different meta. Sprinters are not considered in this tier list due to them being the most challenging version of zeds vanilla game can provide. This tier list is about shambler zombies.I’m not getting into builds and combinations territory because I want to incentivize players to create them themselves (one of the most fun things in PZ), nonetheless, this guide will have some notable examples.Also having max fitness or strength early has much more value and impact compared to having it in the late game. Factually this is correct, but very few people actually achieve this on practice because it takes too long and it’s boring. I disagree with “you can max your strength and fitness eventually” rhetoric. People experienced enough to survive into the late game usually die due to complacency. Majority of players rarely play into the late game, most deaths happen early into the run. There’s a solid focus on early game in this ranking.Order of placements in each tier matters.This Tier List is supposed to serve as a quick and convenient source of information on Traits and Occupations. Traits and Occupations Tier List I made with intention to help newer players and for general convenience matters.
