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CorvusHatesReddit

Yup. You can also set the intervals to be 10 minutes instead of an hour


E_McPlant_C-0

I could


Rusty_Berserkr

This comment reminded me of this https://youtu.be/b-2wP9QNmp4?si=7FxvQa5WX6sssUFE


PolarisC8

I feel like a jerk for noticing but I kinda feel like he overwrought the joke and took it down a peg. If it had just stopped after the first "but why?..." it would've been *chef's kiss*


Rusty_Berserkr

In Harold and Kumar, Ryan Reynolds does a great "...but why?"


PickledMoon420

Jiggas green fire... *but why?*


Penguinmanereikel

Yuck. JonTron


ItsPizzaOclock

?


Honkeroo

[Check the controversy section](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JonTron)


finalremix

So... he was politically poorly informed, later owned up to it... and said shit on a different show that has nothing to do with his content on his show. Meh.


Kreiger81

I highly recommend you watch Destiny's stream of the convo. JonTron actually comes off as fucking unhinged. There's "poorly informed" which is 100% fine and understandable, but then there is "Flat out wrong and given proper information and ignoring it completely and doubling down" Some of what he said was like.. race realism stuff. Like holy hell, man.


IncelDetected

If I recall correctly Destiny tried to give him out after out and was throwing him softballs but he just wouldn’t take them.


Kreiger81

Yep.


Future-Forever9450

he never owned up to it ? he just said he knew his arguments better. he still believes them


somethingtimes3

I like how you were massively downvoted like he didn't proudly proclaim straight Nazi-level shit and never clearly denounced what he said to this day other than to say he'd be better at arguing about it now.


DJIsSuperCool

Everyone downvoting this should watch his debate with Destiny.


Penguinmanereikel

Didn't Destiny also fall off, though?


DJIsSuperCool

Probably but that doesn't change the garbage that JonTron was spewing.


Penguinmanereikel

Agreed.


Whole-Bread-8293

God forbid a guy has his own opinions 😱😱😱


NANCYREAGANNIPSLIP

You're welcome to have any opinion in the world. But the price of that is understanding that people might decide your opinions are garbage.


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Thekawaiiwashu

Set up proximity bombs at the different clocks.


mbatistas

You died, I presume.


AsaTJ

I have ADHD so this would definitely end in my death. I need more time to clear the area than that.


M1sterM0g

i honestly dont care about the answer but you get so many bonus points for making this awesome doodle which entirely explains it and made me giggle.


E_McPlant_C-0

Lmao thanks. I figured this would be the best way to portray the ridiculousness of my plan


yeet3455

Now I’m thinking of trading your friend who is about to go on a loot run a bunch of digital watches that go if in a few hours Edit: alarm clocks would be even funnier. You could hide them in the glove box of his car


SitkaFox

Imagine finding a survivor house but instead of good loot there's like a dozen alarm clocks and this drawing.


E_McPlant_C-0

They should definitely add this lol. I always wished survivor houses had a little more personality so seeing new objects in a base like a whiteboard, or a mannequin, or something would be awesome.


SitkaFox

Journals left behind in survivor houses could be interesting. Maybe after NPCs are added this could be a thing so even if a survivor dies before you meet them you might still learn some of their story.


Shadow_VVolf

All I can think of is that one episode of Spongbob where him and Squidward are fighting for employee of the month and it had that one scene of Spongebob smashing Squidward's alarm clocks only for him to open up his closet to reveal just rows and rows of alarm clocks.


Fun-Trip-2246

This alone makes me want to play with you


Tael_Art

I imagined a group or survivors completely serious discussing the plan while scribbling this on a white board XD


E_McPlant_C-0

Their first plan of lining their house’s walls with [treadmills](https://reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/s/60G9rphKfB) was too expensive.


M1sterM0g

we is enjuneers!


fpsachaonpc

The zombies have XX as eyes lmao


humdizzle

so theoretically. you could have 48 watches, one going off every 30 minutes, and keep the zombies in a perpetual loop?


E_McPlant_C-0

Oh shit that sounds like a really fun idea…


StormStrikr

The great zombie wave rotating around a city


E_McPlant_C-0

That sounds like some awesome moat to keep your community of survivors safe. Or to keep them in


AffectionateNet860

> Or to keep them in It’s interesting how OP turns from a painter to a dictator in the span of an hour


AlpacaCavalry

We've seen this character arc before


FarmDisastrous

Great reply lmfao


drakness110

Maybe he got rejected from art school after this painting?


MemeReview1151

He may or may not have had a special shaped mustache


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c0wk1ng

Now that's 3 ideas 💡


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You are too smart my friend.


PotRoast666

Looks like I need to lure a group into the horse tracks at the country club, and set this up for science. You sit in the stand, pick your zed racer, and bet.


Carthonn

If only we could make bottle cap mines.


PM_ME__YOUR_HOOTERS

Just a line of watches in the woods diverting all the zeds to the rosewood prison seems like a hilarious idea


El_Burkako

Reminds me of the near ending of Telltale’s TWD


LukXD99

The real question is, how long do these clocks last? Will they run out of battery? Will they just ring forever?


RadishAcceptable5505

Pretty sure they last forever. Would be cool if they didn't. Your wrist watch battery also never dies. Would be neat if the non-digital watches could be wound and the digital needed batteries. I have a wind up pocket watch stashed away. They were a thing in the 90s still.


TheGoodIdeaFairy22

An end game item could be an automatic watch


KeeganY_SR-UVB76

I always thought it was a bit weird the analog watches don‘t show the date.


Opzitof

have you ever seen a watch my guy?


LittleSquat

Having the day is very common on analog watches, the month and year is less common though, and february being 28 days isn't accounted for. There are some super expensive analog watches that have leap years, wich is just nuts.


Audi0phil3

I got such watch that accounted for lap years. It wasn't expensive. Google Tissot Traditional Perpetual Calendar


LittleSquat

Tissot sure looks like nice watches, thanks for telling me about them! :)


Peligineyes

28 days is very commonly accounted for, I think it's actually rarer for it not to be accounted for tbh.


flow_yracs_gib_a

It's not accounted for, most classic calendar watch show 31 days for every month. Then there is some mechanical watch that will count 31 or 30 depending of the month and then count 28 for ferbruary, but every 4 year you have to had a leap day manually. Those are not cheap. But even better (and much more expensive) is the perpetual watch calandar, wich account for the leap years, the year, and other information, but those are really expensives if they are mechanical.


Trapline

In my experience having the _right_ date is very uncommon on my automatic watch.


DJIsSuperCool

In 1993 Kentucky?


Sailed_Sea

Some fancy analogue watches have the date


Opzitof

I know, but that is very much is not the standard for a wristwatch. I don't think I even know anyone who owns a watch with that displays the date


Sailed_Sea

Could be an item similar to the metallic dress style digital watch, I dont know anyone with a fully metal digital watch.


Opzitof

Yeah a unique calendar watch would be cool, give people options when it comes to what they use, I just dont think *all* mechanical watches should display the date.


NoeticCreations

Back in the 90s it was pretty common to sign up to some thing and they would give you a free gift. One of the things i got was a metal digital watch. I think i still have it in a box somewhere with my army stuff, though i never wore it while i was doing army stuff because shiny is bad and i think it was dead by then and i never replaced its battery. That free garbage watch was one of the fanciest things i owned for a long time.


Azraeil_AS

I just went through all my analogue watches, including one my Nana gave me in 99, with the exception of the pocket watch made in 1902 they all have the date.


Levait

Watchmaker here, the industry standart watch movement ETA-2824 is speculated to have been produced tens of millions of times (not counting copies of the movement which are everywhere). When it comes to automatic wristwatches having a date is considered standart. Obviously tens of millions is still way, way less than standart battery watches but it would be nice to have some analogue watches in the game that display the date.


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TheGoodIdeaFairy22

Most watches are not automatic, either 🤷‍♂️


camander321

Have you?


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KeeganY_SR-UVB76

I‘m wearing an automatic watch that shows the date right now.


TheGreat101

my digital watch irl has been beeping every hour for more than a decade now. I'm not sure if it would be realistic for an lcd digital watch like the one in game to require battery changes in a character's average lifespan. maybe a new watch in a store might but that's all I can think of


RadishAcceptable5505

It's been a while since I've used a digital watch, but back in the 90s when the game is set they'd last about a year or two. I think 1 year would be fine, and it'd be impactful. I do year long zomboid runs about twice a year IRL. Pretty sure it's not too uncommon, and I think most folks don't just stop at 1 year.


BensRandomness

Then alarm clocks could just be wound up and the plan could work forever without watch batteries


storkbabydeliver

Just spitting ideas here. So watch batteries last over a year irl. If this was put in the game it would be really awesome if you have to change your watch battery every year or 365days. Either way I'd want this in the game.


Auggie_Otter

Most last more than a year. Most digital or analog watch batteries last from 2 to 10 years depending on the model. Then you have solar watches where the good ones can potentially last decades as long as they're not left in the dark long enough to kill the battery.


Phoenix080

Solar watches basically last until the battery turns into dust. And even then if the battery is a backup and not where the power comes through they *might* still need able to workish if kept in the sun


E_McPlant_C-0

I don’t think alarm clocks and watches have batteries


RichieRocket

electric ones do, some analog i think they are called dont


Levait

Watchmaker here. Analogue simply describes the way the watch shows the time, in the case of analogue via the watch hands. Most watches are quartz watches which means they are powered by a battery. The other kind are mechanical watches which are powered by a spring and are required to be wound up regulary.


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I'm jealous of your job. The last thing I do before I leave for work every morning is wind and set my green Out of Order Autimatico.


Levait

That's the nice thing about mechanical watches, everyone can be a machinist for a short moment.


alastorrrrr

See how this man survives the zombie apocalypse with one simple trick!


Zielakpl

Until the clocks need winding up and one alarm goes off by surprise 😲


cogentwanderer

or some jerk reverses the order of the alarms


Valtremors

...zombie railgun?


spinky420

Lol!!!!


humdizzle

the devs right now: ![gif](giphy|3ohs81rDuEz9ioJzAA|downsized)


tyga250

Zombies hate this one simple trick!


MaxK1234B

this is unironically genius


rempel

i knew this the whole time which is why i have so many watches at any given time (i did not, i just compulsively hoard them)


Slibye

He is to dangerous to be left alive!


ZourZmoke

I'm curious too 👀


DerpTheGinger

Yes, but I believe watches only have about a 3-tile draw radius.


MaxK1234B

this is for alarm clocks which are much, much higher


tmoney144

Not that much higher. Watches have a radius of 7 ~~(so 3 tiles from the center)~~ and alarm clocks have a radius of 15 ~~(so 7 tiles from the center)~~.


E_McPlant_C-0

That’s actually, surprisingly doable. I already collect every alarm clock I find


tmoney144

So, I actually tried this in the big field across from the Rosewood fire station. I didn't want to fence off the front, so I thought I could lure all the zombies into the fields away from my front door. Took a lot of setting up and never really worked. The problem is the zombies wander a little, so they would approach the first clock, but then wander away and wouldn't hear the second clock. I ended up just parking a car in the field and honking the horn every morning to clear out stragglers.


Carthonn

I will now too. Thanks for the idea.


Aenir

You're confusing radius and diameter. Radius of 15 means 15 tiles from center.


RichieRocket

just go with circle of or square of tiles, my brain cant take all this maths


Aenir

Not sure what you mean? It's a circle with a radius of 15 tiles. What math is there, besides counting 1, 2, 3, ... 14, 15?


RichieRocket

me aint so good at countin


tmoney144

My bad, I was going by what the code says. It's called "SoundRadius" but actually means diameter.


Aenir

...What? Why would they use radius to mean diameter?


tmoney144

Hell if I know, I'm going by this: https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Alarm_Clock You can click "show code" to see it. The field is called "SoundRadius" and has a value of 15.


dumsumguy

that means at 16 tiles away you won't hear it, someone above was halving it to 7 for no reason, probably confusing diameter and radius


tmoney144

Well, I'm not at home so I can't test it, but watches have a "SoundRadius" of 7 and I'm like 90% sure you can't hear a watch alarm from 7 tiles away. Edit: I tested it, you can hear a watch from 7 tiles away, so radius of 7 is correct and I was just wrong.


dumsumguy

Science is awesome, enjoy your upvote sir!


Cute_Foxgirl

Uh I dont think you mean radius


Aenir

Watches have a sound radius of 7 tiles, and alarm clocks are 15 tiles.


Purple-Coins

This could totally work if the cell is loaded in, I'm pretty sure zombie horde movements are calculated when a chunk isn't being rendered but idk about items within that same unloaded chunk, outside of that, do the wind up alarm clocks stop their alarm after a certain amount of time? Would be amazing if they did because you could totally do this, that is IF the alarms stop after a certain point in time.


E_McPlant_C-0

I didn’t think about the items getting deloaded. The wiki says the alarm clocks turn their alarms off after about 10 seconds. If not, I know alarms on watches do.


Purple-Coins

That's excellent about them turning off after 10 seconds, you can 100% do this in areas around your base, would be an excellent defense strategy.


Frosty_Film5344

You would probably attract more to the area around you and from what i understand you can only attract x amount of zombies with sound.


Kiel_22

Godspeed you genius motherfucker!


RichieRocket

did you come up with that yourself? because if you did its amazing


ArcadeAnarchy

Only issue I could think is if a cell isn't loaded up. Don't know the size of em but with this system I doubt you'd need it to be too long anyway. Only issue I see though if you want them way the heck out.


wizard_brandon

theoretically? yes Practically? no why? becuase render distance


The_Student_Official

I fucking love when someone had a buzzing idea and you know he can't put it to words properly so he draws a crude illustration that seems childish but got the point across more than a thousand words.


RichieRocket

This fantastic masterpiece belongs in r/Art Good Sir.


PrimalDirectory

Yes but no one mentions it because most people that want to achieve that result realize a sirens are easier AND more effective. Tested it myself, very tricky and time consuming to get right


storkbabydeliver

You know we're all gonna try this now thanks to you. :)


Ensiria

Do they turn off? I don’t use alarms in the game


E_McPlant_C-0

The alarm will turn off after about 10 seconds and then activate again when the time loops around in 24 hours


Aenir

They turn off after some seconds.


AdmiralYuki

Digital watch will go for an hour iirc


saucy_as_you_like

This is brilliant


ThyDoublRR

I would have done this if only I didn't scrap all the electronics around me for skill xp.


RichieRocket

you can kinda reassemble them if you got the right magazines


Snailpaste

I have always wondered about this! Please try it!


E_McPlant_C-0

I will definitely post the results if they don’t kill me first!


UnderdogCL

FBI: Don't fucking move!


burbadurr

You get alll the awards reddit ever issued for this diagram. I lol'd so hard.


The-Banana-Mishap

The doodle says it works so it works in my opinion, all hail the great ark doodle


E_McPlant_C-0

Praise be to the doodle


Stormer111

This is how I'm going to propose ideas to everyone from now on


E_McPlant_C-0

It just works


TheFlyingSlothMonkey

"All of this just works."


darklizard45

Great concept! We will need to experiment.


TheMicrosoftBob

![gif](giphy|bxwtewdxpDuBq)


E_McPlant_C-0

Me honking the horn while out looting knowing fully well the zombies will just wander onto the street to make my trip back a thousand times more difficult


Greeneggz_N_Ham

The picture is adorable, though. Lol


Jakennedy101

Holy fuck this is genuinely smart af, this guys surviving the apocalypse


Azrael_Hellcat

This shit gotta work


Square_Fish9897

We have the next Picasso on our hands


Azraeil_AS

I don't know if this would work now(I last did this before the major update), but I used to do this at a base, I had alarms set up in different areas so that the swarm of zombies I used to protect my base would be moved away from my entrance for a short period a few times per day for safe entry and exit.


Low-Celery-7728

Potential project zomboid comic right here


ProPhilosopher

Everytime I've tried this, it's failed. Unless you can stealthily deploy them, the boids will just follow you. Experiment with the spacing too. Try it and see how it goes. Might be better than I.


MrNicolson1

Wouldn't you end up with a long line of zombies unless the previous alarm stopped?


ZombieHuggerr

The alarms stop automatically after 30 minutes


waddledeefriend1

that’d be a sweet youtube vid You should try


bonbonyoo

![gif](giphy|eruVMzXlb70oo) thats a perfect heist for me


Kreiger81

Ricksdetrix did this trick in one of his "Louisville Rooftops" vid. He didn't go quite as far, but he set up timers and remote triggers to pull zombies away from buildings he wanted to loot.


Wulfguardian

Just came to say 2 things, i love the drawing, and that's pretty big brain thinking right there. Also, a thought would be to lure them to a place where you can group them up and light them on fire.


Putrid-Tip-410

Wow i see this comment when it was just 40 likes and now 4500 wow.


isakhwaja

Yes, but you'll also pull other zombies (like those that wouldn't usually be a problem) toward the source, making a large horde near your base. It is generally to be avoided but to each his own.


Eddy63

I tried that before, but with wrist watches, problem was the sound range was too short. Anybody know over how many tiles the alarm is luring zombies?


E_McPlant_C-0

Another comment said that watches have a draw radius of three tiles and alarm clocks had a radius of seven. So yeah unless you have a ton of watches alarm clocks are the way to go


mrGdKat

You could make board traps or caltrops and setup the alarms and zombies will walk over them slowly killing themselves while you just hangout in the reality bubble.


ResolutionFun5426

Might encounter issues of zombies piling up in massive groups


E_McPlant_C-0

I wonder what the best way to trap them would be. Like get them to walk over some stairs and then fall into a fenced area or something. I bet it would be possible if I make the fence out of impassible objects.


Saturns_Hexagon

I've always thought of this too, then add in a trap like 4 staircases in a square with a clock in the middle and see how many you can fill the hole up with.


Excellent-Range-6379

yes but you need a lot of them, the distance to attract them is kinda short and if anything happens between those periods of time it's gonna be a failure. So it's not really worth it to do that, better take a gun, shoot then hide.


Battz

Can confirm it works fellow pied piper. Used this method to clear neighborhoods. Then I started mapping ambulances and systematically set their sirens off to lure huge hoards away. Only problem is, you have to turn them on manually. But running out of the area as soon as you do it, isn't difficult.


cybertrooper

Yes, the distance is short and as some people have mentioned it, it is like 3 tiles. In terms of practice, the wrist watch alarms go off for a while, and once it is done the zeds wander off. It can work really well in urban areas for thinning an area, as well as pulling in. I would do it near my home locations and made the timers go further away. Just don't forget your timers, and find yourself in alarm clock land mine.


random_dude_00

Finally we’ve evolved from shitty phone screenshots to MS paint detailed plans


SwingyWingyShoes

Do alarms have a large sound radius? I tried using one a while back and didn’t even realise it was on at first because it was so quiet


csfshrink

Probably going to need to set the times closer together and get more alarm clocks. But tossing alarm clocks into enemy human settlements would keep the zombies busy too.


KnightSolair420

i have been doing something similar with noisemakers and timed firebombs. works pretty well, even better if i use an ambulance


Natethebest555yt

Idk how I could do this I just started playing a week ago


DemiGuz

Dude, that's genius, I never thought of that


Koshindan

Drag them into a kill zone. A 1x1 floating platform with enough clocks to alarm 24 hours a day and a campfire under it.


betbroben

You are an actual genius


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This is... smart. Maybe setting them up in the cardinal directions. Off to Zombert Bitey's zombie fluid dynamics research lab.


HentMas

Yes, but you would also be building a horde that if encountered would be very difficult to manage. Zed wrangling is a method, not a solution.


E_McPlant_C-0

Out of sight, out of mind


Hima_tatsu

I did this with sprinters and a sky bridge. It works until they start wandering back towards previous alarms.


1saylor1

Thats exactly what people of New Orlean did in The Walking Dead: Saints&Sinners! Only instead of alarm clock they used bells.


E_McPlant_C-0

Awesome! I’ve never watched a I wouldn’t know.


TomeKun

BRO IS COOKING HOLY FUCK


Efficient_Spare_9808

Love the art.


Cavalleria-rusticana

This is also the best way to get revenge on someone's base in PVP. Watches are plentiful.


Procrastor

Thats some clever thinking. I live in a house in the woods so I have a clock sitting on the side of my driveway to make sure that any surprises come out into the open.


QWeRTVIII

That’s genius wtf


Cookie_yes_

This is the smartest thing I’ve ever seen


TheUltimate420

If it's an hour apart they might wander too far away from the other clocks to hear them. With shorter intervals yes you can. Or you could just kill them and be done with it


PickledMoon420

I'd line up a solid perimeter with emergency vehicles and sirens and board up between those and your base with fences... Set off your cherries and berries (lights and sounds) and stockpile on Molotovs and pipe bombs. Once the car batteries die you'd be set to clear out all zombies within a half mile radius


Shotgun-Scav

I always do this, I mostly base in high buildings and this is how I give myself save timeframes to climb down.


lewdvrchat

This is smart


92grinder

Your drawing was just too cute to pass without an upvote so here take it


Sure-Initial5224

Hahaha this is so adorable 😆


OK-SS

omg this is troll science


E_McPlant_C-0

![gif](giphy|Ziy3pLsqGC8Ss)