30 Floors Up Weapons

Nothing in the footage hands you a weapon at the start. A beginner video by Radex Tips says you search the apartment for what you can defend yourself with and names a baseball bat, a frying pan and a hammer, and the 13 Tips run shows a rolling pin near the shelves on Night 0.

The knife and the bolt cutters turned up on Day 4 and Day 5 in two different runs, when the objective read A quiet day and then Inspect supplies, keep defences up, and rest at night. That fits the game description about scavenging and building up your apartment, but we haven't seen a fixed spawn, so treat each location as one player's run.

The game's own pitch is to stay quiet as zombies fill the hallways. The tutorial teaches locking up, the peephole and the door chain before anything else, and Daniel's first advice is to keep the noise down.

When the zombies do show up they show up at the door. On Day 3 in the long co-op run the objective changed to Something is gathering in the corridor: check the peephole and prepare the entrance before they come. After the attack the next objective said furniture braces hold far better than a lock alone. A weapon matters once the barricade fails; the footage shows players walking the hallway with a pan or a knife in hand and a barred gate between them and the zombie.

Health is the other half of the fight. In the 13 Tips run, with a zombie in the Day 5 hallway, the health bar read 79 in one frame and 36 a minute later, so a fight in the corridor is not free.

The Frying Pan beats the other two on both numbers in the stat cards, so if you find one, take it. Between the other two it's a trade: the Kitchen Knife hits harder (18 against 16) and the Rolling Pin reaches farther (5.5 against 4.5). We don't know the swing speed, so we can't say which is faster in practice.