State of Decay

When a bloater appears, equip a gun and shoot it in the stomach. It will explode in one hit, leaving a cloud of toxic gas. Do not get in contact with the gas. Do not run them over or your car will be enveloped in the gas cloud and slowly kill you. If this happens, immediately get out of the car.

Repeatedly hit a Zed in melee combat until goes down flat or it is on its knees. Get near, then press Y  to perform an execution. You can use this tactic to take down large numbers of Zeds quickly to reach the total needed to earn the achievement. As soon as one is executed, and start on the next. The Zeds still on their feet cannot attack you while the animation is dispalyed. You can pick apart larger groups one by one without getting surprised by Zeds that get up again.

• Use a sniper rifle with a silencer to avoid attracting more Zeds while you are dealing with the Juggernaut. Up to ten shots to the head may be required, depending on the rifle used. With good aim and enough distance, you should be able to kill the Juggernaut without it charging.
• Run the Juggernaut over with a car after back into it at full speed. This will heavily damage your car, especially the tires, but will also knock it over. Quickly accelerate to get decent speed and run it over before it manages to get up again. If done correctly, it will kill the Juggernaut. If it gets up before this happens, hit him anyway and total your car. Quickly find another vehicle to hit him a third time for the kill.

To launch a Drone Strike, you must first unlock the Drone Strike command by securing two Drone Trails Zones and making them outposts. After the Drone Strike command is available, notice that you will get a smoke grenade each time an attack is ordered. To actually order the drone to attack you must launch that grenade at the location to be attacked. Order between four to six attacks and save the grenades. Deposit the grenade in your base while the Drong Strike command is on cooldown. If you order another Drone Strike with the grenade in your backpack it will not work. When you have between four and six grenades saved, go to danger zone in the northwest .There will always be about twenty zombies roaming around. Drop Drone Strikes into the danger zone, then step out and back in to respawn the zombies. Repeat the process to build your total.

Have a grenade, firebomb, or other explosive device in your enventory. Equip it, then keep tapping the button or key to activate it as you are being taken down.

At the start of a new game, head to the Ranger Station until you're in the "Safe Zone" (aka that circle on the map where zombies cannot spawn/respawn). Once in the parking lot of the Ranger Station, either run to the left or to the right while turning the camera in the direction you're running. When stamina is depleted, stop and rest till it fills back up. Repeat and watch the Cardio levels rise! This will take a while, but seeing as the opening section of the game doesn't have any zombies worse than the normal ones (plus day cycles don't occur till AFTER you get to the church) this is a great time to build up this particular stat, thus giving you a heads up seeing as how important stamina is for such things as running, climbing walls, and melee fighting.

The Campbell Used Autos business is a reference to Bruce Campbell, who starred as Ash in the Evil Dead series.

If you move to a large home base (County Fair, or Snyder Truck Warehouse) with 8 outposts, you can set them all up around whatever base you plan to move to before you actually move. If you're moving into a base with a low maximum outpost count (usually for scavenging reasons) just make sure you have all 8 in place where you want them before you move, and then move to a place with a lower maximum outpost count. You will still have all 8 outposts.

One of the houses has a line of sunflowers in front of a row of lawnmowers in its front yard.

You can duplicate resources if you plan ahead. As you search for supplies, occasionally you will find Heath, Ammo, Fuel, or Food in packs. Once you do, press DOWN on the D-pad and you can choose "Call for scavengers" to call someone to search the area. When you receive confirmation that someone is on the way, grab the resource pack. When the scavenger arrives, that same will be snagged a second time, in spite of the fact that you just took it. In this manner, you can obtain twice the supplies you should have received.