How To Get And Assign Workers

As a game with a huge focus on managing resources, it’s quite important to keep an eye on your workforce in the Infection Free Zone. After all, they are the ones who are running the business in this post-apocalyptic world. So, you need to keep them happy and put their abilities to good use.

Since you will act as the leader of your community, people will take orders from you on what they should do and where they should go. Assigning workers to gather resources or adapt buildings is one of the critical parts of this game to make progress and strengthen your borders against the infected.

How To Get New Workers

The only way to get new workers is by accepting new survivors into your community. Every now and then, you will spot a yellow squad on the map. If you order one of your squads to approach them, you can talk with the survivors and add them to your community if they are willing to.

Sometimes, your squads may find survivors upon scavenging a building. Also, some survivors will head towards your HQ and ask for shelter. All of these opportunities will help you to get more people into your faction, which results in more workers.

Keep in mind that if you disband a squad, the members of the squad will turn into workers. This is a good idea to turn your squads into workers during the daylight if you are too low on human resources.

How To Assign Workers To Different Jobs

Unfortunately, the game does not feature a comprehensive system to manage workers, which makes assigning workers to different jobs a bit confusing. In order to manage your workforce, you will first need to assign all of them to one job, like collecting wood.

So, click on the Area Work Menu in the bottom left corner of the screen, and select Gather Wood. Now, drag your mouse over a massive area full of trees. This will assign all workers to gather wood. Now, if you want to assign people to do other things, like gathering metal, or working on adapting a building into something else, click on the area where you are gathering wood, and then decrease the amount of workforce by hitting the minus button. Now, you can assign the unemployed workforce to something else.