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Maybe some lockpick skill? Could extends it to the doors and windows. We got the metalwork now, we could use a torch too?

Maybe some lockpick skill? Could extends it to the doors and windows. We got the metalwork now, we could use a torch too?

Maybe some lockpick skill? Could extends it to the doors and windows. We got the metalwork now, we could use a torch too?

character should be able to encounter locked containers,such as drawers(also in desks),cupboards,wardrobes,small metal chests.
he would be able to open in three ways:
-by finding matching key
-by prying with crowbar
-by just smashing container

Hmn, I seem to remember reading a bit on Tv Tropes to that effect (I think it was in the Walking Dead). A zombie brushes a door handle. The zombie next to it interprets that as the other zombie trying to break in, so that zombie starts moving towards the door. This carries on until there's a group of zombies trying to break in (including the original zombie who accidental y touched the door). So when one zombie makes an innocent action which creates noise, this can create a chain reaction which winds up with a horde trying to destroy a house.
 
Uh, my point being that that could be a good way of starting off hordes, but that it might not be a very stable way. If a zombie were to create a noise in the opposite direction from where the horde was heading would the horde turn around and follow that (resulting in them going in circles; jumping at every noise), or perhaps after the horde became a certain size only small numbers of zombies would detach themselves from where the main body was heading? Ah. but anyway, perhaps something more for the suggestions board? =P

Sweet release! For the food preservation, perhaps you could add cold storage underground. Requiring digging and then constructing a roof, door, stairs/ladder, and shelves/crates inside.