The following guide is a collection of information about the game State of Decay. It describes the theoretical aspects of the game like character development, building community, general rules, a list and description of achievements, and above all, a main storyline walkthrough.
This guide includes:
Bartosz "Czokalapik" Pielak
Movement / control car
Car horn
Move the camera
Flashlight / headlights / place mark on the map
Jump
Dodge / handbrake in the car
Hold: crawling
Melee attack / force the door open / open car door while driving
Interacting with objects / search
+ LT: Reload
Running / faster actions (like searching)
Use selected item
Aim
Shooting
Journal
Radio
Change quick use items
Map
Game Menu
State of Decay is a game where you have one important task - to survive . Your first character went along with a friend for an innocent fishing trip to Mt. Tanner, where he is attacked by zombies. From this moment the main objective is to escape from this terrible place, away from the living dead. To do this, roam the open world to find as many living and doing everything you can to keep them in this state by providing them with places to sleep, food, materials, etc. The purpose of your character is to search of abandoned buildings (houses, shops, clinics, etc.) and providing the base necessities of survival: drugs, ammunition and food.
Remember that State of Decay is not a linear game, at various stages you might come across other versions of events. A lot depends on whether all of the main characters survived or not. If you wait too long for the execution of a task the some missions may completely disappear or other quests will replace them. When one of the characters dies, you may not be able to complete quest. Although the goal never changes - you have to survive and escape from this cursed place!
You can choose from many different characters to play, this creates possibilities to choose hero for different game styles. During your adventure you'll find a single person or even a group of people who managed to survive, if you'll help them, you will be able to control them. Some of those will become your friends right away, others will require assistance in carrying out their tasks or personal wishes. When you're friends with someone you can talk to that person to change your main hero. Choose carefully, because if a character dies, it dies forever. Therefore, do not risk excellent sniper going on a mission that requires more melee combat or more risky exploration, for such a task better choose someone with a lot of life, stamina and advanced fighting skills. When you find yourself in a situation with no way out, without being able to heal, with small amount of health and a horde of zombies on your back, quickly pause the game and just leave the game. After re-logging you'll up in your base, safe and sound, although you will loose rucksack with resources if you had one, and progress in the mission may change (sometimes resetting it), but if you really want to rescue the active character - this is the only way.
In each new area you will find the base (or will be able to move it to given location), this is the place where it's relatively calm, where you have command center. In base you can store found resources such as ammunition, food, medicine, gasoline, or materials necessary for the survival, protection and development.
Information about the amount of resources, morale of the community, and the number of people who live in your base is in the upper left corner of the screen while on the premises. In addition, you can access base information in your journal for details and more base options.
Points of influence (Influence) are another important "resource", you earn them by completing tasks or putting items into Supply Locker. Influence is used when you send someone for resources, while moving the base to another location, building institutions or preparing meals for the group.
You can move the command center to another place in the later stages of the game. At the beginning, Ranger Station will be your base, after that - church, and later you will be able to move your base wherever you want to. Moving the base costs 100 Influence and the right amount of materials and the residents of the current database.
In your command center you can build different types of facilities, each of them has a purpose: to provide a place to sleep, storage space, place to train, to provide better quality food or faster treatment.
You can build different types of facilities, each of them has a purpose: to provide a place to sleep, storage space, helping to train, to provide better quality food or faster treatment.
Cooking Area - Having a clean place for cooking preserves the health of residents.
Dining Area - A place where people can eat together, reduce the amount of conflict and tension in the group.
Garden Area - Here you grow plants that then go to the food resources.
Library - You can research new possibilities of production in library.
Medical Area - Accelerates regeneration of life and increases the chance of curing serious wounds.
Radio - Allows you to ask for help in the search for resources and survivals.
Sleeping Area - This creates the place to rest, reducing stress and tension in your community.
Storage Area - Increase the storage capacity of the base.
Training Area - Here you can train inactive characters and other enclaves, you can also activate bonus for melee combat experience.
Watch Tower - Allows for greater protection against zombies.
Work Area - Speeds up construction and allows you to create items, especially useful when you just start to build a new base.
There are two types of items in State of Decay:
Resources can be found in closed containers when searching different sites. When you find the package you can:
Keep in mind that resources are important and crucial for survival. In the early stages you will need materials for buildings, then food and medicine, and in the end game you will start running out of fuel and ammo. So try every time you leave the base to go back with rucksack, and if you can - call runners.
In search of resources and survivors Lily, the radio operator will be very helpful. Just select last tab (Home ) in your journal, mark a Radio Room and ask for help in locating any type of resource. After some time on the map magnifying glass icon appears, it marks where to find the resources needed.
Constructing additional buildings apart of normal building materials, you will often require specific items. If materials resource will exhaust while building is in process Lily will tell you that they you need to find, for example, copper pipes, pans, bolts, or punching bags to finish your construction. This kind of items won't take place in a backpack nor you have to wear them as a resource.
Instead of looking for such items, you can use the "Construction Advice" on the radio, it'll complete the construction immediately, without the need to provide additional materials.
Every day your community consumes a certain amount of resources. You can create outpost in place, where there are some resources instead of running every time with loaded rucksack
To organize such a place you must clean out the zombies and complete search, do not take resources, do not call runners. For example, if the restaurant you can find 3-4 packages of food, select the radio option "Establish Outpost", so that resources left will be added to your base until exhaustion.
Outposts are marked on the map with green icons with a progress bar, list of all outposts is also available in journal.
The journal icon for each of the outpost shows what kind of resource it provides. When the outpost runs out of resources the icon changes to watchtower, you should destroy it and search for new outpost (with resources).
Getting resources in this way is easier and safer than continuous running. If, for example, you will find six centers with materials and 2 of ammunition, you should not have any problems with the protection and expansion of the base.
The first thing about the expansion that game will hint you will be need for an additional place to sleep in the church. Apart beds, you should also think about upgrading the kitchen.
In the church you can, build the gym allowing you to improve your inactive character's skills. In this way, when your current character dies the rest of the characters will be a little trained and you will have better choice.
Selection of buildings is up to you and from you tactics of development. In the later stages of the game think about building the library and perform and do some research. This allows you to, for example, the production of advanced medicine, a collection of vegetables from the garden, etc.
No matter how many Influence points you have, how you organized your home and trained your hero, your character is always the exposed to death. Therefore, you must always carry some medicine, a cup of coffee (or something else to renew stamina), melee weapon (and one backup) and some optional extras in the form of firearms and ammo, bombs, or even firecrackers to distract the zombies.
Zombies are not very smart, but in this game they are fast, and extremely sensitive to sound. Regular running or even searching some shelves can alert nearby horde. All the time you have to be alerted, even the smallest sound can lure a zombie, and the sounds of fighting will lure next ones.
Sounds can, however, be used to fool the "zombies", drop them firecrackers or set the alarm clock to concentrate them in one place. So a group gathered can easily be eliminated with a grenade.
Cars play an important role in surviving, if you're in the car, you are much safer and more dangerous. When you fight with a horde of zombies while on foot, you have a rather small chance of survival, in the car, however, you are deadly. Therefore, when you are dealing with a infestation or horde, use your car horn several times so zombies hiding in a building will come out straight under the car.
Remember that cars are not indestructible, fast Dodge is easily damaged after a driving through several hordes ... or a tree, slow pickups are more resistant, but harder to control. The best car in the game, forming a combination of strength and speed is police car.
In addition to regular zombies you will have to deal also with more serious enemies, marked on the map with larger red dots:
Feral Zombie, yellow, strong and very agile opponent can knock you in the blink of an eye and hold on the ground. Such an attack can be fatal, especially when lying on the ground while other zombies can attack you.
Screamer is not dangerous zombie, it have no arms, it won't attack you. His weapon is a cry that stuns form for a short distance, and most importantly alarms nearby zombies. Try to eliminate screamers in the first place, preferably from a safe distance with a headshot.
Bloater have a very unusual appearance, thin limbs and gat belly, it's not too dangerous opponent, but if you kill it, it'll generate "smoke" that hurts you and consumes stamina. This type of enemy is especially dangerous if you are in a car, because the stench of the Bloater stays is in the vehicle.
SWAT Zombie, the armed zombies are pretty strong opponents, especially difficult to kill because of the armor they wear.
Big Bastard (Big Un) is the most dangerous of enemies in the game. It will charge you, can tear you apart, it is very difficult to kill, car does a little damage to him and even shots in the head won't kill it quickly. Try to avoid Big Bastards at all costs, and if you need to kill one, try to arrange it so that you will be on a mission with the other survivors to use them as a meat shield.. If you can shoot at Big Bastard's head few times, and when it'll get close hide in a house where he won't be able to enter, and continue shooting.
Each person in your community has a basic set of skills:
Cardio - determines the stamina
Wits - allows you to search faster, quieter, and speeds up the process of surveying
Fighting - determines the amount of life and unlock special attacks
Shooting - makes it easier to shoot, each star reduces recoil by 10%, increases the accuracy
Each character also has additional skills specific to him or her. All the skills you develop by actions associated to them (running increases Cardio, fighting increases Fighting). Each skill has 7 levels (stars), when you reach a certain level you can choose the specializations associated with it, for example the ability to Double Kill allow the killing of two zombies at the same time (required to achievement).
There are many ways to develop your character: you can create hero for melee fighting and running, the other to fight at a distance, you can also balance each character in order to cope with different situations. But the truth is that ordinary hand combat and survival skills is paramount, so any development path that allows the survival will be good.
In State of Decay, there are two types of missions:
main, story related
secondary, often repeating event to help other survivors
You will meet Lily in the church, she is your primary contact and will keep you up to date on new tasks.
State of Decay is not a perfectly linear game, instead of one main chain of quests you have few separate plots. Advances in each of these chains often depends on the progress of other tasks. Some of the mission may fail due to the death of some characters, some may be delayed by the appearance of other tasks, etc.
As soon as you start playing, you'll be attacked by a small group of zombies, kill them and go (breaking through zombies or stealth) to the Ranger Station marked on the map with icon of green house. As soon as you get there you start a brief conversation with Thomas Ritter, who is asking for your help in searching nearby cabins and climbing the water tower, where you could look around the area.
Surveying, search the area from the higher ground
The Water Tower is located right next to the ranger station, at the top use the aim button to enter the observation mode. Check the question marks to discover new places. You have to fill the bar on the left side of the screen (Surveying) by checking the area.
Once you have completed survey start searching nearby tents and huts. Pay attention to the markings on the map:
This icon indicates that the place is fully searched.
Remember that white circle with a red stroke indicates that the area should be safe.
Head south following the sound of shots from a distance. You'll find Maya there, she needs help with fighting the zombies. Your task is to help a stranger defend against attackers, and then come back with her to the ranger station.
After getting back you will find that most of people there were killed or disappeared. When your friend starts to search the corpse of Thomas Ritter, he will wake up and bite Ed. In this situation, together with your companions, you'll decide to leave the location in search of help. Luckily, you have the keys to the car parked nearby and walkie-talkie, through which you talk with Lily Ritter, the daughter of a recently killed zombie.
You have to go south along the road, problem is, there is broken bridge, you probably won't be able to cross. There is a small chance to jump the bridge with a car, but it is more likely that you'll end up in the river. If you won't make the jump, you have to find a rock staircase just west of the bridge, and climb up to continue the journey.
Rock stairs leading to the other side of the riverOn the radio, Lily tells you about the church in Spencer's Mill, where there is a group of people who have managed to survive a zombie attack, to get there you must go to the eastern part of town.
Each base is marked with the icon of the green house with the flagAlong the way, avoid groups of zombies (Zombie Horde), the easiest solution is to drive the car. When you get to the church, Lily will show you around, and at the end of the tour you will get the task of finding a medical center to get medicine for your friend.
To find the location of the drugs you need to climb to the observation point (such as the tower, billboard) to look around the area, it is the task of a Survey.
Every time you see a tower or other object, on which you can climb, try to look around the area, marking the new map will make it easier to move around the world (this way you can see a horde of zombies and stronger opponents).
When you look around the area on the map there will probably be some new tasks (for example, save a group of survivors and bring them to the church). However, your main task is to help Ed, to do this go to the veterinary clinic, which will give you antibiotics.
Green cross in the western part of Spencer's Mill is veterinary clinicNear the clinic Alan and Sam will be waiting for you. Help them find the drugs and return them to the church. Unfortunately, you can not go by car, Alan will be arguing that the noise of the engine will attract too many zombies. Going east, try to avoid the hordes (they are dangerous, even if you bring your companions).
After a while, Sam starts to complain that they are losing items out of the rucksack, so go get the car and drive Sam to the church (Alan will not go with you, but do not worry about it, he will reach the place).
Shortly after finding the drugs you will get a mission to find Jacob, the brother of Lily. Jacob hides with Eli Wilkerson in an old barn. When you mark the mission icon on the map Jacob will contact you on the radio informing that he can not withstand long and needs help quickly.
Barn where Eli and Jacob are hidingAfter reaching the place and watching the cutscene you will have to distract the zombies in order to escape with Jacob to the church. Prepare your car and choose from the quick use items firecrackers (Jacob will give it to you at the end of the previous conversation) or other object causing the noise, you can also just use a car horn.
When you stand in the right location you'll see progress bar "Distraction Progress" on the left side of the screen that fills up when your make noise (eg, repeatedly pressing the car horn).
Upon completion of this mission new quest chain will be available - Wilkersons.
While exploring you'll encounter different military activity, you need to check it. As it turns out, the army is not treating survivors too well, so remember to control what are they doing.
When Lily will tell you on the radio that the army was noted in the area go to the place marked with a green circle (south-west of the church) and talk to the military. It will not be the most pleasant conversation and ends that you have to leave the area as soon as possible, in exchange for Sergeant Tanwill pretend he didn't saw you.
Upon completion of this mission judge Lawton will start broadcasting invitation to their community opening new mission chain in Marshall town southwest of Spencer's Mill: Courthouse.
Woman named Karen will broadcast info of another army activity. Your task will be to go to the destination, where you will meet again with Sergeant Tan, this time he will quite sharply expels two survivors, warning them that he may use all possible means.
Fortunately, there is no bloodshed and the sergeant lets the couple go free, and suggest you that if you want to be helpful you should look for them in the surrounding houses marked with blue markers on your map.
When you find the survivors (Karen Tolbert and Brett Rodgers) take them to church, shortly after Sergeant Tan will contact you to start a new mission.
Sergeant Tan asks you to help find the zombie hordes, climb cell tower near church to do so.
After targeting two hordes of zombies army will bomb them and you'll finish the mission.
In this task, Sergeant Tan turns to you for help in saving a house full of survivors, because his captain refuses to help.
Three soldiers will help you in this mission, you will meet them near the house. Be prepared for a massive zombie attack, perhaps even the Big Bastard. With soldiers helping you this is pretty easy fight, do not run at the first fire, try to backup your companions instead.
After the mission, the radio option becomes available to call air support.
When Lily tells you about problems sergeant Tan have with crossing the bridge, go to eastern bridge, north of Marshall and west of Spencer's Mill.
On the spot, it appears that the sergeant has problems with crossing gates, trying to get in touch with the army on the other side, but (as your character correctly observes), it seems that there is no one there.
Tan will ask you for protection, while he will place explosives under the gate Once you reach the other side of the river use advantage of soldiers following you and search the surrounding houses. It's best to start with surveying the area from tower near helicopter.
If you're ready to go to Tan, who after finding that the army left the area entirely, decides to contact the command center. After the mission, the western bridge also becomes available.
This short and simple mission is to respond to the call of the sergeant and go to the military base where the accompanying dying soldier says something about the water supply.
Tan will ask you for a moment alone with the soldier, and when you go out, sergeant will shoot him so he won't turn into a zombie. After that, you'll have to go with a sergeant in the direction of water resources in the area.
On site you will see a terrifying sight of dead bodies in the water, this discovery will strengthen the desire to escape out of this cursed place.
Heralding the end of the game mission will be to answer the radio call of sergeant Tan, he has a very important matter.
When you reach the north-western edge of the military base you will see a big wall, and beneath it the sergeant telling you that this is the only sensible way out. The problem is that making holes in it will be loud and will attract hordes of zombies. Lily has an idea to blow up wall and Tan agrees with her recommending the survivors to gather some resources and prepare to flee.
Tan will call you on the radio asking for help in obtaining explosives from a military base, Lily, however, immediately will warn you that the storage is packed with zombies. Before setting out on this mission make sure to equip yourself in large quantities of drugs and coffee to regenerate stamina, a large number of ammo, at least one backup melee weapon, and preferably several grenades (as well as firecrackers to distract an opponents).
Once there, you will join a group of soldiers, but even with them you will have hard task of getting to the warehouse following path full corners where zombies in the company of "Screamer", Feral Zombie, or Big Un hide, so beware. Try to eliminate Screamers and Bloaters first, turn attention of groups of enemies with firecrackers and regenerate your health as soon as your health drops to 2/3 or even 3/4 bar.
When you reach the destination, sergeant Tan will collect C4 and the mission will end.
The mission starts in the company of Lily and two other survivors, all trying to protect Tan when he plants a charge under the wall.
While you will be exposed to numerous attacks of zombies, this task is much easier than the Armory.
After planting C4 Tan will order the withdrawal. Unfortunately, something went wrong and there won't be a "big bang". The only way out of this situation is to manually detonate C4 charge. Lily will volunteer due to serious disease and rather short lifespan. Ultimately a hero is sergeant Tan, who being aware that he had caught a "black fever" and will soon turn into a zombie decides to dedicate his life for the others.
After blowing up the wall two survivors accompanying you, will immediately go through the wall, Lily leaves an object on the ground, ensuring that others when they see it, will know that you two were here. If you go over a broken dam game is over.
When Judge Lawton broadcasts on the radio that all those who survived are welcome at the courthouse, you can start the mission "Law". If you decide to check this offer, you will come across a discussion between the judge and the sheriff on the spot, after a while the judge will give you the tour around the place explaining what rules apply in their community.
After the trip sheriff asks you to help remove the infestations nearby, set off with him and another member of their community.
After clearing one of the infestations head towards another one, at the moment you will hear the desperate cry for help, you decide with the current companions to answer. Nearby you have to kill some zombies and save the survivor.
At some point in the game you will hear on the radio news that a large group of zombies is coming to the courthouse. To help, go quickly in this direction and join the fight against the horde.
After cleaning the area one of the survivors will tell you that the sheriff and the judge died in the first minute of attack.
This is the last mission with the participation of this community.
When you find out where a doctor who can help your friend Ed is, the first involving rather long series of Wilkersons family will unlock. The task is to reach the doctor and bring him to the church, but to do so first you'll have to help a family in an old farm defend themselves against the attacks of zombies.
Start with barricading all the windows (holding the interaction button), immediately after you will strengthen the defenses zombie waves will attack, take care, because Big Un will also attack.
Try to deal with zombies in a safe place, next to a door or windows where you can quickly escape inside. Stay away from the Big Bastard, and when he approaches retreat inside if you haven't already, from where you can safely shoot him in the head.
When the attacks end, the doctor will go with you upstairs and announce that Ed won't survive. When everyone leaves the room you will have to kill a friend, and then the doctor will come back with you to church.
Some time after the defense of the farm Lily will inform you, that some survivors complained that they had been robbed, suspicion falls on Wilersons.
To check if accusations are true go to the Wilkersons to the east and talk to Job and Micky, who will assure you with their innocence.
After leaving the farm, Lily will warn everyone to be more careful when they set off for resources.
In this mission, you come to the farm Wilkersons, where you will see owners of the farm, and beaten stranger. Wilkersons gave him a lesson for not paying off the debt and ask you to drive him home.
The entire mission is very simple, come to Wilkersons, get stranger, drive him to the marked location on the map and that's all. The victim will be very grateful, but asks for discretion in this matter.
As always, Lily will tell you about the mission, this time letting you know that some nervous survivors probably needs help. The mission begins in the south of Spencer's Mill, where you will see Wilkersons threatening a stranger.
It turns out that Wilkersons want to collect a debt in the form of ammunition from a survivor, after a conversation you need to make a choice: help a stranger, refuse the mission, or delay it. Since the choice of help means that you need to provide 5 ammo resource make sure you have it before you accept the mission.
When you start a task, you have to go with a stranger to your home base where you tell him to carry ammunition. You need to drive stranger to Wilkerson's farm.
After completion of the mission, as a reward you will get the option to ask sharpshooter for help on the radio.
The final task of the Wilkerson quest chain is to help in the exchange of resources between Wilkersons and another group of survivors. Lily will let you know about rater unwelcome guest at the base - one of the Wilkersons, he will ask that you take part in brokering a deal between the Wilkersons and another enclave.
After accepting the mission in the eastern part of the Marshall marker appears on the map, there you will find one of the parties of the exchange. Once there you will have the opportunity to talk with a group of survivors and help them to trade, or persuade them to cancel it because you can not trust Wilkersons.
Cancellation of trade will end the mission, but if you choose to help you will have the task of driving newly met friends to the east, where an exchange will take place. You can not participate in the completion of talks, to end the mission leave the location. From the distance you will hear gunshots, and after returning to the meeting place you will only find three rucksacks. Unfortunately, a group that you helped "supposedly" was killed by zombies.
This series begins with the mission similar to other where you have to help the "Stranger in trouble", after hearing information of mission from Lily go toward the marker on the map, there you will find two survivors worried about their friend. To help a friend find survivors search nearby buildings marked with blue circles. Start Location of the mission, and the place where the third survivor hides is random.
After finding lost friend, survivors ask you about transport to the Grange in the west of Marshall, where they established a base. Completion of the task will unlock part of a series involving Wilkersons.
Some time after helping the community from the Grange you will be asked to assist in strengthening their base defense. Once you reach the Grange, you can start a mission, but be prepared for a long battle involving some stronger opponents. It is recommended to take a large amount of ammunition and at least one backup melee weapon, set of medicines and snacks / coffee. You will fight against several waves of zombies which can be risky itself, not to mention the hordes that can be lured from the road nearby.
While others will strengthen the defenses, you and a few people need to protect that location from the zombies. In case of problems try to escape somewhere aside and let others take care of zombies for a while.
During the defense you'll hear information that someone has trouble providing resources, go to the new markings on the map and save runner. Watch out for more serious threats, such as Feral Zombie or Big Bastard, they may spawn in the area.
After rescuing courier carrying materials, zombies will continue attack for a while, fight until the watch tower is built.
It is a multi-stage mission which you begin at the Grange, to the northwest of Marshall. Quentin asks you to help with digging up some information on Beccka he has a deep affection. Quentin tells you that it's best to ask the sheriff if he knows anything from her past.
At the courthouse, you will be directed to a place where the sheriff went out to hunt extremely dangerous zombies. When you find sheriff, he asks you for help in finding a Feral Zombie in nearby houses.
After the hunt Sheriff Carl will tell you about the history of Beccka as a prostitute, but he also suggests that she is a good girl and some things should be forgotten.
After returning to Quentin you will have to make decision whether to tell him about the Beccka's past or not. More positive choice is withholding information about the girl, this choice also leads to unlocking achievement.
Lily tells you, that some "good guy" called Ray wants to meet with you as soon as possible.
Ray is on the roof of a building in Marshall, beware of the infestations in the area and in the same building Ray is on top of, you dont have to fight the infestations, just drive to southern part of the building and immediately jump to the ladder leading to top.
When you reach the top, it turns out that Ray wanted just to tell you that it is very happy to help anyone who needs it, take care of your car, provide resources etc. After the cutscene, the mission is completed and shortly after Ray will contact you to give you a "gift".
When Ray Santos will contact you, he will ask you to meet in the east of Marshall. It turns out that he has a bit of material to give group of survivors, and for that, he will give you a car. The only thing that is associated with accepting gift is driving Ray to a place where survivors in need of materials are.
When Jacob settle in the church, you'll see a cutscene of fight between Lily and her brother when returning to church. Jacob believes that you should look for bigger and more secure place for the home base. After talking to him and accepting the mission you will have to go to a town called Marshall to the southwest.
Before going on a trip, try to gather in the church at least 100 points of influence, 50 materials, and 12 survivors, with all that you will be able to move your base to a great location.
Try to use every survey point to see the surrounding area. You will see the potential new homes, locations of resources, survivors in need etc.
Old warehouse - a place to move the base determined by the taskWhen you get with Jacob to the point marked by the task, the mission will take you further along the road to an abandoned warehouse. The task will end when you reach your destination, you do not immediately move hideout.
The mission begins when Lily warn you, about someones problems at the cemetery. This is a typical task to help survivor defend against zombies, except that as the award you will receive a radio frequency of Dr. Hanson.
When the mission starts head to the east of the church to the point marked on the map, there will need to help your doctor to overcome the horde.
As a reward, you can contact Hanson on the radio to remove the maximum live limit (Medical Advice).At the beginning you have 2 uses of this option per day, (every two hours in game day-night cycle), next uses will add up once a week.
It is a very short side quest, it requires you to find a watch of Lily's father in the ranger station.
At some point in the game Lily asks you for a souvenir after her father, you had to go to the ranger station in the north, but this time there are no survivors there, instead ranger station is source of infestation. As the amount of zombies in this mission is very random try to prepare for the worst.
After clearing station of the enemies pick up the watch from the middle of the room and go back to Lily.
This mission is similar to the typical zombie hunt, when you get to Sam, who is asking for your help in finding a friend start searching for nearby locations marked on the map with blue circles.
When you'll finally find Andy, it turns out that she is already a zombie, kill her and the mission is complete, allowing the selection of Sam as the active character.
This mission occurs when Lily gets in touch with survivors willing to exchange resources. You set off from your base in the company of someone carrying a rucksack for the exchange. Get close to the mission marker on the map, in order to exchange and watch back of traders because some zombies will attack you.
After a successful exchange get back with a companion and new resources to your home base.
There are no hidden objects in State of Decay, no secrets etc, the only unlockable additions are avatar awards:
Swine & Bowine Restaurant in Spencer's MillShark Hoodie - After upgrading training area to dojo you will get option to train other enclaves, use that option to unlock hoodie
Swine & Bowine Mask - You have to kill the zombies in Swine & Bowine restaurant and fully search it to build an outpost there
Zombie Mask - This is the first avatar reward that you will get, just visit the cabin in Tanner's Lake.
You can get 30 achievements giving a total of 400 points. None of the achievements is hard to get, but remember that there are some missable achievements, so if you're interested in getting all carefully review the following list.
Achievements related to the story, will be unlocked when you reach certain stages of the game, they do not require additional actions:
I Can See My House From Here (10G) - Complete your first Survey activity.
Cannibal Family Picnic (5G) - Get to the ranger station in Mt. Tanner.
Holy Rolling (10G) - Escape from Mt. Tanner and find survivors in the church.
Survivor (20G) - Escape from Trumbull County (finish the game).
It Was Just a Police Action (10G) - Find out what's army up to.
In the mission "Sgt Erik Tan" you will meet army at the bridge, help them cross the bridge to find out what their plans are.
Arrested Developments (10G) - Complete the mission Trouble at the courthouse
Gun Thugs (10G) - Help Wilkersons resolve their differences. Achievement received after completing all the tasks of a series of Wilkersons.
Watch the Birdie! (10G) - Distract the zombies to complete the task. In the mission Jacob Ritter, you have to help find Lily's brother, you have to use an alarm clock, fireworks, a car horn or other types of distractions to complete a stage in the mission - here you will unlock the achievement.
Mercy Shot (10G) - In a certain stage of the game the pastor becomes ill and Alan will suggest that you should kill him. Try to stay close to the base, because after some time, Alan finally shoot a pastor, but he, too, will get sick, you then have the opportunity to talk with him and to propose a "tour" in isolated place to shorten his suffering.
Home on the Grange (10G) - At the end of the mission Discreet request when you have to choose whether to talk about the Becca's past, select to conceal what you have learned (No) to unlock the achievement.
Most of the extra achievements will unlock along with the character development, the community upgrading or the mission of a particular type, but some require specific actions:
Land Usage (20G) - Build every possible type of facility.
Home Improvement (10G) - Build any type of facility.
I'll Be There For You (10G) - Get 500 Fame.
Come and Knock On Our Door (10G) - Persuade other enclave to join your community.
Manifest Destiny (15G) - Build 8 outposts.
Everywhere You Look (20G) - Get 15 people in your community.
Movin 'On Up! (15G) - Move your base to a different location.
Rule # 1 (10G) - Max out a community member's Cardio skill.
Badass (30G) - Complete 50 missions or activities with one character.
Vehicular Zombicide (20G) - Kill 250 zombies with a car.
Gotta Enjoy the Little Things (10G) - Kill a zombie with an open door of a car.
Pest Control (20G) - Kill five infestations in one day.
Trust Me, I'm an Expert (15G) - Select a specialty in any skill.
Horde Hoard (20G) - Kill 10 zombie hordes in one day.
Ya Were Always An A-Hole Gorman (10G) - Take home-made bomb, and go somewhere where zombies will be able to overwhelm you. When opponents will down you and you will have only one exit, press the jump button quickly. If you manage to stand up, your character will say ("Only one way out"), then use a grenade or Molotov cocktail to kill zombies along with you.
Torn Apart (10G) - Let the zombies kill you.
Get Yo 'Freak On (10G) - Kill one of each freak zombie type .
The Bruce (15G) - Kill 3 Zombies with an exploding propane tank Search for the barbecue, in which is installed a propane cylinder, place an alarm clock there and wait until zombies will gather around it (to be sure you can carry two alarm clocks, because after a while zombies will attack you). When the zombies will gather around the grill, shoot in the cylinder.
Double Dead (15G) - Kill the two zombies in a single attack. For this defensive specialization "Double Kill" is required, which allows you to kill two zombies with one attack.
Get Outta My Dreams (10G) - Kill one of each freak zombie type with your car.
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