Starting Funds
- Plenty
- Starting funds +50%.
- Standard
- Starting funds unchanged.
- Tight
- Starting funds -30%.
- Scarce
- Starting funds -60%.
Difficulty and weather
A new game picks a level for each difficulty setting, or a preset that sets them all. The weather is not random: every run follows the same schedule, and Extreme Weather changes it the same way every time, so the calendar below is exact.
On this pageDifficulty settings
1Difficulty settings6
Prep Time
- Very Long
- Pre-disaster preparation time +3 hours.
- Standard
- Pre-disaster preparation time unchanged.
- Short
- Pre-disaster preparation time -1.5 hours.
- Very Short
- Pre-disaster preparation time -3 hours.
Survival Consumption
- Lenient
- Reduced consumption, faster Life regeneration
- Standard
- Consumption remains unchanged
- Strict
- Increased consumption, Life regeneration halved
- Brutal
- Greatly increased consumption, Life no longer regenerates
Zombie Horde Intensity
- Weak
- Zombie damage -50%, HP and numbers -25%, crawlers halved.
- Standard
- Zombie horde intensity unchanged.
- Strong
- Zombie damage, HP, and numbers +25%.
- Very Strong
- Zombie damage, HP, and numbers +50%.
Extreme Weather
- Rare
- Extreme weather greatly reduced.
- Standard
- Extreme weather unchanged.
- Frequent
- Extreme weather more frequent.
- Extreme
- Constant extreme weather.
Exploration Resources
- Abundant
- 30% chance to find double the amount of each supply item.
- Standard
- Exploration rewards unchanged.
- Rare
- 25% chance for each supply item to not appear.
- Very Rare
- 50% chance for each supply item to not appear.
2Presets5
| Presets | Starting Funds | Prep Time | Survival Consumption | Zombie Horde Intensity | Extreme Weather | Exploration Resources |
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| Fully StockedYou've got plenty of supplies to see this out. Perfect for those who want to peacefully decorate their home and experience every story. | Plenty | Very Long | Lenient | Weak | Rare | Abundant |
| Standard SurvivalDefaultThe authentic Survival Log experience. Stock up well, and you'll live well. | Standard | Standard | Standard | Standard | Standard | Standard |
| Potential PerilThe walls are thinner, the nights are colder, and the sounds outside are getting closer. | Standard | Short | Standard | Strong | Frequent | Standard |
| Supply ShortageA hard fight from day one. For those who never give up. | Tight | Very Short | Strict | Very Strong | Extreme | Rare |
| Under SiegeHoard to your heart's content, but be prepared to defend your stockpile with everything you've got. | Plenty | Very Long | Standard | Very Strong | Frequent | Standard |
3Weather9
Light multiplies a solar panel's base output. The last columns count the hours of each weather over the whole schedule on each Extreme Weather level.
| Weather | Light | Cold | Wind | Rare | Standard | Frequent | Extreme |
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 Clear | x2 | 0 | 0.1 | 1206 | 952 | 952 | 952 |
 Cloudy | x1 | 0 | 0.1 | 216 | 470 | 233 | 0 |
 Rainy | x1 | 0 | 0.2 | 436 | 436 | 217 | 0 |
 Mild Cold | x1 | 1 | 0.3 | 12 | 0 | 261 | 518 |
 Moderate Cold | x1 | 2 | 0.4 | 82 | 24 | 12 | 0 |
 Severe Cold | x1 | 3 | 0.6 | 74 | 144 | 156 | 168 |
 Heavy Rain | x0.5 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 96 | 315 | 532 |
 Continuous Rain | x0.5 | 0 | 0.2 | 230 | 230 | 230 | 230 |
 Heavy Smog | x1 | 0 | 0.1 | 48 | 48 | 24 | 0 |
4Extreme Weather
Extreme Weather changes the schedule in two ways. Once a day it can clear up a whole Cloudy day. Each hour it can move the weather one step harsher or milder. A step never leads to a second step, and the same day and hour always roll the same number.
Rare
- Each day: Cloudy turns Clear
- 50%
- Each hour: one step milder
- 50%
Standard
Plays the schedule as written.
Frequent
- Each hour: one step harsher
- 50%
Extreme
- Each hour: one step harsher
- 100%
- Clears up
- Cloudy > Clear
- Harsher
- Cloudy > Mild Cold, Rainy > Heavy Rain, Moderate Cold > Severe Cold, Heavy Smog > Mild Cold
- Milder
- Severe Cold > Moderate Cold, Moderate Cold > Mild Cold
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Every hour of the schedule on the chosen level, one row per day, midnight to midnight. Point at a block to see its weather and hours.
- Clear
- Cloudy
- Rainy
- Mild Cold
- Moderate Cold
- Severe Cold
- Heavy Rain
- Continuous Rain
- Heavy Smog
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6Good to know
- The rolls depend only on the day and hour, so every run on the same level gets exactly this weather.
- The next-day forecast lists the schedule as written and ignores Extreme Weather, so on any other level it can be wrong.
- After the last day on the calendar, every hour is Clear.
- Endless mode does not use this schedule. It rolls its own weather.