FrankTheHealer,

Water purifier: you need water to live. Otherwise you’ll die in 3 days.

Jeep: While not the most reliable, they can go off-road and can also be a source of shelter in lieu of a house or tent.

AK: Extremely reliable and easy to service. 7.62 ammo can be harder to come by depending on where you live, but regardless, the AK is a solid weapon.

Fire Axe: Good for chopping down trees, cracking heads or breaking down doors. The practicality is what makes it the better option

GR4VY,

Going with all but the water purifier. Fresh water is too easy to come by where I live. We have pristine wild rivers here, and it rains a lot. I’d be living in the forest anyway if this happened.

So I’m going with AK, Jeep, body armor, and Axe.

phoneymouse,

I chose the same top 3. Torn on the 4th between fire ax, first aid, or flash light.

FilthyHookerSpit, (edited )

I chose similarly but changed somethings for longevity.

I subbed out the jeep for body armor. The jeep will run out of gas eventually, who knows how long the apocalypse will last for. Body armor will be last near indefinitely. Also would swap out the ak for a machete. Ammo will probably be hoarded by others so will be a difficult find.

Fire axe is a great utility tool, once it becomes dull, it’ll be a good blunt weapon. Machete will not be as good but if you learn how to sharpen or find a whetstone, they’ll last you as long as you need.

bam13302, (edited )

Most body armor is good for 1 strike. Kevlar thread break, ceramic breaks, and you really don’t want to use dented armor, best case it’s a weak point, worst case is pushing in your chest cavity preventing you from breathing. Any body armor that is remotely mobile is effectively one time use. Now admitted (normally) used body armor can still provide some protection and can be better than nothing (except in situations where the damage impacts you, ie the plate metal being dented and pushing into your chest). And some can be repaired or replaced with the right materials and tools, but those are heavy, and take space

Sidyctism,

Camera, motorcycle, ak-47, radio

I call this loadout “twitch streamer of the apocalypse”

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar
  • Armor, provided it comes with a helmet & is bite-/scratch-resistant
  • Doggo, because sensing danger is important & loneliness would almost be a bigger killer than zombies,
  • Machete, as a tool & method of defense
  • Water purifier, provided it doesn’t require an outlet of some kind
_TheThunderWolf_,

And then scavenge around a city, getting an axe, a flashlight, a first aid kit, a bicycle (not motorbike because fuel), a survival kit (matches/flint, compass, etc.) and some survival guidebooks such as general survival guide or foraging guide. Now you’re all set for making a shelter in the woods and staying away from everything, making occasional trips to the city for supplies. Maybe you’ll even manage to make a kinda comfy home up a tree or something.

EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted,
@EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Forgot about the first aid kit. Good point. In this new world, antibiotics and even basic sterilization supplies would be more valuable than gold.

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Which four will I be least likely to kill myself by tripping over in the night?

And009,

Difficult to trip over the tent if you’re in it

Caitlynn, (edited )

My beloved crowbar didnt even make the list :(

BedSharkPal,

Are you from Boston by any chance?

hakunawazo,

Well, it’s not called “unforseen cosequences: Gordon Freeman is working overtime.”

TheControlled,

I read Max Brook’s “Zombie Survival Guide” and “World War Z”. The choice is very clear for me. Armor, suppressed pistol, machete, purifier.

Zozano, (edited )
@Zozano@aussie.zone avatar

Depends where you live. A lot of this stuff can be acquired afterwards.

As an Aussie, firearms are very hard to come across. Also, I’ve never fired a gun before, so I would pick the shotgun because I know my terrible aim would be mitigated somewhat.

Water purifier. Duh.

Fire axe. Utility + weapon.

Tent. I live close to nature, so my game plan is to stock up on nonperishables and go camp for as long as I can, and hope that the zombies have thinned out by the time I need to start scavaging

aidan,

Bad luck, the shotgun is full of slugs :/

Zozano,
@Zozano@aussie.zone avatar

Damn, snails would have been better, since they have shells

starman2112,
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Dog, car, motorcycle, radio. Zombie apocalypses ain’t shit, I live in America. One dude is gonna bite someone and get turned into pink mist by every nearby CCW dude. Those would all be cool to have when we start rebuilding in a week

Zink,
@Zink@pawb.social avatar

The best way to survive a disaster is to have someone else deal with it

Taleya,

You lot couldn’t even handle wearing masks, some dipshit is gonna tout zombeism as a natural cure

SeeMinusMinus,
@SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world avatar
  • Water purifier because I need water!!!
  • first aid kit because not having a first aid kit is a very stupid idea
  • flashlight because I will need to find my way through the many empty building and shit
  • machete because it is quite useful as both a tool and weapon
768,

Why AK-47? 7.62 × 39 mm would be kinda hard to loot for this audience.

Ookami38,

Curious what you mean, as 7.62x39 is about as common where I am as any other caliber.

768,

I’m basing my assumption off of C:DDA, which plays in New England and there it apparently is fucking rare.

Ookami38,

Ahhh, yeah I’m in southeast USA, so it’s all everywhere lol

Pappabosley,

Shotgun, ak-47, pistol, katana. I don’t want to live long term in a zombie apocalypse, just need the firepower for a bit of fun before I go. After I run out of ammo for the shotgun and the AK, I use the pistol to kill myself - the katana is just in case I get caught short at close range

AnarchistsForDemocracy,
@AnarchistsForDemocracy@lemmy.world avatar

First Aid Kit, CB Radio, Water Purifier and Flashlight

Pharmacokinetics,
@Pharmacokinetics@lemmy.world avatar

Flashlight, machete, first aid, water purifier.

Vehicles require fuel, and weapons require ammo. I dont know why I’d need a gas mask either.

Litany,
@Litany@lemmy.world avatar

I think it depends on the nature of the plague, is the zombie contagion airborne to some extent? If yes, I think I’d take the gas mask over the first aid kit.

AstridWipenaugh,

If the zombie plague is airborne, fuck it. Give me a barrel of bourbon and and a couple pounds of weed. That’s guaranteed to last me the rest of my life.

UndercoverUlrikHD, (edited )
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev avatar

Could be a the Last of Us (the game) scenario where plague is airborne locally where the air is stale.

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Was it different in the show?

UndercoverUlrikHD, (edited )
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev avatar

It’s not airborne. It’s was spread through ingesting infested flour or something like that.

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, that’s pretty different! I didn’t see enough episodes to get to that, I guess.

UndercoverUlrikHD, (edited )
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev avatar

Didn’t enjoy the show?

The thing about how it spreads is “revealed” during episode 1 though. But you got to pay close attention to the details.

samus12345,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, then I wasn’t paying close enough attention! I just kinda stopped watching it. I didn’t think it was bad or anything.

brianrlawson,
@brianrlawson@midwest.social avatar

Fast zombies or slow zombies?

NegativeLookBehind,
@NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social avatar

How much ammo does each gun have

GigaWerts,

asking the correct questions. No ammo means that the guns are useless.

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