Im fairly new to the game, and after some short runs and research, I found for what I think is, one of the best characters builds for 42.20

The Traits:

Construction Worker
Thin skin, Reluctant Fighter (it gets neutralized by fast learner), Conspicuous, Prone to Illness, Slow Healer, Clumsy (100% more chance to fall by large fences, and 140% larger step sound radius), Fast Metabolism, High Thirst, Short Sighted (just grab the glasses when you chose your character and grab those you find for backup), Slow Reader, Weak Stomach, Speed Demon, Dextrous, Whittler, Cats Eye, Vehicle Knowledge, Gymanst, Fast Learner, Fit, Stout

Pros:

1 Carpentry, 2 Carving, 2 Masonery, 1 Maintenance, 1 Mechanics,

6 Fitness, 7 Strength, 2 Short Blunt, 1 Long Blunt, 1 Lightfooted, 1 Nimble

This means you will want to use blunt weapons, and you will be able to craft them in the long term, as we have carving, for bats, and masonery, for making stone maces, witch I heard they are pretty good and they need a short bat as a handle, witch I heard are pretty good weapons too.

And with the mechanics, you could get it to level 2, and level electronics from 0 to 1 and be able to shortwire cars, with the speed demon trait, you could borrow cars for zombie killing purposes.

This character has Cats Eye for better vision at night and Gymnastic for easier leveling of light foot and nimble, good thing for combat

Cons:

I was thinking about replacing High Thirst with Cowardly or Claustrophobic, and maybe manage it with alcohol but I heard is not that bad to drink double the water

And Clumsy seems dangerous, you should not try to escape zombies by going over tall fences

First Days:

And what I want to verify here, as there is not a lot of updated info about the game, is why Fast Metabolism is better than Slow Metabolism:

-You can pick fit with Fast Metabolism but you cant with Slow Metabolism

-With Fast, you start at 70kg and need to get to 75 (you can get 3kg per day)

-With Slow, you start at 95kg (actually not super sure) and need to get to 85 (you can only lose 1kg per day)

-> In little time, you will overcome being thin and you will end with a 7 fit, strong character

So, with this build, you will want to eat all you can for the first days until you reach the 75 or 80kg, (you could do it in 2 days? you want to eat until you see a double up arrow in your weight in the health tab, there is no triple arrow) and for the long run, I did not find evidence that the trait makes you eat more calories, it makes it harder to gaing weight but not to lose it? (wiki) So technically, if you never lost weight, by regulary eating, it will be not different from anyone without Fast Metabolism

And for the Slow Metabolism, It will make it slightly better for the long run, because it will make losing weight slightly harder, but only by 300 calories which dont sound like a lot, and you cant pick fit with it, and for me, is a very important trait

What you guys think about this build?