Every survivor is on a mission at all times. The default is guard duty, which they'll return to after other missions finish. Missions are also used to scavenge, kill zombies, reclaim buildings, interact with factions, hunt, etc outside the fort. On buildings inside the fort survivors can farm, research tech, preach at a church, etc.
Missions are in-game actions, performed by your survivors. All survivors are constantly on a mission, defaulting to the guard mission when left inside the fort without other instructions. Missions can be ordered in one of two ways, by clicking directly on the building or "Square" that the mission is to be performed on and selecting the mission and which survivors to send or by dragging and dropping a survivor portrait onto the "Square" where the mission is to be performed. This method brings up a radial menu that allows you to select which mission type is to be performed, using the survivor or survivors that you dropped on the "Square".
There are multiple mission options available, depending on wheather the "Square" is inside the fort, outside the fort, inside another factions fort, has a trader present, has attackers or raiders present and on the building type.
Mission Types
Inside fort
- Guard Duty - the default duty, your survivor guards the walls, reducing the risk of death or land loss from a zombie attack.
- Build - allows you to change the type of building located on the "Square".
- Scavenge - Scavenge the resources and food from this "Square". Please note, this only works if you claimed the "Square" before scavenging it.
- additionally there are building specific missions that can only be performed inside the fort, please refer to the building specific list for full details.
Outside fort
- Scout - scouts the building, providing information on survivors present, number of zombies, resources and revealing the sorrounding area.
- Kill - Kill the zombies in this "Square".
- Scavenge - Scavenge the resources and food from this "Square".
- Recruit - Recruits any survivors in the "Square".
- Claim - Allows you to fortify the "Square", adding it to your fort.
- additionally there are building specific missions that can be performed outside the fort, please refer to the building specific list for full details.
Other Factions Fort
- Scout - *Scout - scouts the building, providing information on survivors present, number of zombies, resources and revealing the sorrounding area.
- Trade - initiates a trade with the other faction.
- Raid - Sends survivors to raid the other faction, stealing some of their supplies, weaking them and lowering respect.
- Attack - Sends survivors to attack the other faction, destroying their walls around that square and making it unclaimed, potentially killing some of their survivors and weaking them. Lowers respect.
Traders/raiders/attackers
- Trade - initiates a trade with the other faction.
- Attack - Sends survivors to attack the other faction, destorying their caravan/raiders/attackers and potentially gaining you resources.
Building specific list
- Farm - Farming, by assigning a survivor to farm you increase the farms food output. Inside fort only.
- Church - Preach, by assigning a survivor to preach you will gradually increase moral. Inside fort only.
- Bar - Bartend, by assigning a survivor to bartend you will gradually increase moral. Inside fort only.
- Field - Hunt, a survivor assigned to hunt will produce food. Outside fort only.
- Park - Hunt, a survivor assigned to hunt will produce food. Outside fort only.
- Lab - Research, allows you to research technology. Inside fort only.
- Workshop - Create Items, allows you to create items such as ammunition or explosives. Inside fort only.
The standard mission menu, accessed by clicking directly on a "Square" and pressing start mission.
The standard mission menu, is accessed by clicking directly on the "Square" you wish to perform a mission on and clicking start mission. This will present you with mission options based on the "Square" type and its location, after selecting your mission type, you will be able to select the survivors to assign to the mission from a list.
The radial mission menu, accessed by dragging survivor portraits to a "Square" and dropping them on it.
The radial mission menu, is accessed by dragging and dropping survivor portraits on a "Square". This will bring up the radial mission menu, which lets you select the mission you with to perform using the survivors you dropped on the square.