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Salvage, Locate & Store Building Supplies.

This article will explain how to find, salvage and store resources to rebuild society and maintain the necessities. It will also discuss implementing and converting some of the items. In the days of dystopia resources become vital and knowing where to find them can become quite difficult. There are so many mundane items that hide valuable attributes. If it cannot be re-used then it can be recycled. Knowing where to find a piece of equipment to fix that water pump, homemade potato cannon, or the toy that keeps kids quiet can be a stressful thing. Pulling apart equipment is time consuming, and long-term storage can be a problem without prior knowledge.

Salvaging Fluids For Vehicles & Mechanical Maintenance

Ensuring your vehicle is in top working condition before and after disaster strikes is important to most survival plans. But what happens when it all settles down and you're getting low on engine oil?

How To Make A Fire!

Fire is a tool which human beings have used since ancient times. Fire has been a destructive force that has helped to shape this planet in many ways even before the existence of humans. The destructive power of fire is believed to be one of the reasons for the extinction of the dinosaurs. Farmers today use fire to renew the soil in a technique known as slash-and-burn. The ability to control fire is a skill that has set human beings apart from other animals, but can still vexhumans and cause some amount of trouble when mishandled and/or mismanaged.

Signaling and Communicating Without Radios


Signaling others (the means to signal without the use of radios)

These are the 5 methods of communication without radios covered in this article.
• Colored Fires
• Smoke Signals
• Flares
• Flashlights and Morse Code
• Possible Written Codes

This is a general overview of each of these methods along with examples of how you can use each. However, further customization by your own group is encouraged, to allow the message to be unrecognizable to outsiders.

Colored Fires

Survival Map

In order to completely be prepared for any disaster, you need to have your ultimate weapon armed and ready to go. As you have probably guessed, your brain is that ultimate weapon. Unfortunately there is too much for you to memorize to be a super survivor like MacGyver. Sorry, you’re just not cool enough.

The Bug Out Bag.

What is a Bug Out Bag?

The Katyusha MK II Projectile Weapon

One of the things us here at the ZPI strive to find/invent/stumble upon is the ideal anti-zombie heavy weapon. Many designs have been suggested, some brilliant, some not so brilliant, and some just bizarre. Most or all of them have common faults- slow reloads that result in breaks in the fighting, an inefficient design that results in wasted munitions, or a reliance on rare or valuable resources. I have cobbled all of these ideas and suggestions together, and, drawing off of historical weapons and plans, I have managed another step towards the ideal weapon- the Katyusha Mark II Projectile Weapon.

The Leichefaust Kinetic Projectile Launcher

(note that Leichefaust literally means “corpse fist” or “corpse smasher”- just me having fun with German.)

The primary means of destroying a zombie require you to damage or destroy the brain. There are hundreds of diverse and gory ways to accomplish this- from a bullet to the frontal lobe to fire to Rube Goldberg-esque chainsaw traps, all must end in brain failure in the target.

The Trash Kannon

In a zombie dystopia, there will be those survivors who will be unable to acquire any great deal of projectile weaponry, which rapidly seem to be the ideal weapon against both the living dead. Therefore, it is vital that there be a weapon that can be made from almost household items that will be effective against both foes. The Trash Kannon, named for its original design involving a normal trash can, is such a weapon.

Turtle-Armor

Zombies are notorious for their persistence, an attitude which, combined with their usual habit of gathering into large groups, can bring down all but the strongest of bastions in time. On the streets, your vulnerability is in its greatest amounts. They are easily attracted to movement, the scent of blood, bright lights, loud noises etc. A light, easy to carry, and resilient armor is required to navigate the streets of any city with any degree of safety. For this purpose, I give you the T-Armor