Upgrade Guide
Attributes
Life
- +1 Life Cube (1 AP required)
- +1 Life Cube (1 AP required)
- +1 Life Cube, Increased Survivor Life (2 AP required)
- +1 Life Cube, Increased food effect/duration (3 AP required)
- +1 Life Cube, Health regeneration (3 AP required)
- +1 Life Cube, Survivor Recovery (4 AP required)
- +2 Life Cubes, Full health regeneration (4 AP required)
Inventory
- +1 Inventory Slot (2 AP required)
- +1 Inventory Slot (3 AP required)
- +1 Inventory Slot (4 AP required)
- +1 Inventory Slot (5 AP required)
- Mobile Locker Blueprint (5 AP required)
Melee
- New Skill Move, Increased Melee weapon durability (1 AP required)
- New Skill Move, Increased Melee damage (2 AP required)
- New Skill Move, Increased Melee weapon durability (3 AP required)
- New Skill Move, Increased Melee damage resistance (4 AP required)
- New Skill Move, Reduced chance of enemy grapple (4 AP required)
- Increased Melee weapon durability, increased melee damage (4 AP required)
Ranged
- Increased ranged weapon ammo (2 AP required)
- Increased firearm damage resistance, increased fire/explosive damage resistance (3 AP required)
- Increased ranged weapon damage (4 AP required)
- Armor piercing bullets (5 AP required)
- Increased ranged weapon ammo, increased ranged weapon damage (5 AP required)
Mechanic
- Increased crafting speed (1 AP required)
- Vehicle push (2 AP required)
- +2 Maximum posse size, increased male survivor damage (3 AP required)
- Increased vehicle damage resistance (4 AP required)
- Increased crafting speed (4 AP required)
- Indestructible vehicles (4 AP required)
Agility
- Increased sprint duration (1 AP required)
- New Skill move, no fall damage (1 AP required)
- Increased spring recharge rate, increased sprint duration (2 AP required)
- Increased Knockdown recovery time, increased dodge recovery time (3 AP required)
- Increased sprint maneuverability (3 AP required)
- Zombie crowd swim (4 AP required)
- Infinite Sprint (4 AP required)
Smarts
- Increased PP Gain, Increased detection radius (1 AP required)
- Beer Hat blueprint, Buffet Cart blueprint (1 AP required)
- +2 Maximum posse size, increased female survivor damage (2 AP required)
- Increased PP Gain, Less kills to enable skill moves (3 AP required)
- Increased effects from books (3 AP required)
- Increased PP Gain, Increased kill streak timer (4 AP required)
- Equip all books simultaneously (4 AP required)
Books provide players with useful passive bonuses. Only one can be equipped at a time. Two books, Outbreak Survivor and Mechanical Trends, are part of Day One DLC.
| Title | Effect | Location |
| Lone Blade | Increase melee weapon durability | Ingleton (Safe Zone) |
| Stunt Devil | Increased damage with unarmed attacks | Ingleton (Safe Zone) |
| Thrifty Trader | Increase amount of PP earned | Central City (Safe Zone) |
| Leadership for Losers | Increases the damage inflicted by survivors | Central City (Safe Zone) |
| Top 10 Drink Mixes | Increase the duration of combo food effects | Almuda |
| Eater's World | Increases Life recovered by food | Almuda (Safe Zone) |
| Four Wheel Fun | Increase vehicle durability | Almuda (Safe Zone) |
| Undead Solutions | Reduces zombies' detection radius | Sunset Hills (Safe Zone) |
| Fortune Fighter | Increases firearm damage | Sunset Hills (Safe Zone) |
