If you want to stay alive and build up your base while stomping zombies in State of Decay 2, you are going to need a lot of resources, which can be scarce. Constant scavenging for food, medicine, ammo, and fuel is all well and good, but having unlimited food and molotovs is better.
One group of survivors, in particular, will have you go out on a rather annoying series of fetch quests, but once that’s out of the way, you can use them to potentially get an unlimited supply of food and molotovs!
Unlimited Food Cheat/Hack
When you come across the drunk survivors trying to re-build their whiskey distillery, be sure to complete all of their requests and keep them as happy as possible — but don’t recruit them to your group. As recruits (rather than free-roaming survivors who offer quests) they aren’t very helpful at your base, and they won’t be able to call in food airdrops.
While interacting with these survivors, they will constantly ask you for food, and go into fights drunk out of their minds, which makes it easier to wash your hands of them and go on your merry way in the apocalypse. Don’t make this mistake, however, because they become extremely useful if you put in a little extra effort!
While gathering supplies for the survivors during the questline, you’ll eventually need to grab a wheat sack from a barn. The wheat item looks like a standard food rucksack but will be marked with ! as well. Because it seems like standard food, be sure NOT to deposit it at your own base, as this will screw up the quest.
The wheat sack is also available for pick up before this section of the quest starts, which can completely nerf the whole quest line as well. If you accidentally grabbed the wheat before meeting the survivors, return the rucksack back to the original location where you picked it up at the barn.
Pick it back up again when you have this particular objective active. That should reset the item position and let you proceed without any problems.
After going through their fetch quests, one member of the drunk group will eventually get infected and you will have a limited amount of time to return that character to their base to save them.
Make absolutely certain to complete this section of the quest within the 10-minute timeframe, and then finally ask the group to start making medicine instead of whiskey. Turns out they just needed a little guiding hand to get on the right path.
Raining Unlimited Food Airdrops
From this point on, the distillery survivor group is available to call in an airdrop that can be repeated over and over for infinite State Of Decay 2 food supplies. Each airdrop will only cost you 75 influence, and with the cooldown timer, a drop can be called in once every 8 minutes.
Every single airdrop will always have a ready supply of food, molotovs, and luxury liquor to sell for a return of 35 influence. By repeating this airdrop each time it resets, you can end up with unlimited food and molotovs for very little effort.
If you bring the whiskey distillery survivors into your group, exile them, let them die, or otherwise ignore their requests for help, you sadly won’t have access to these easy resources!
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