30 Floors Up Guides

Welcome to the 30 Floors Up guides hub

30 Floors Up drops you into Bellwether Heights on floor 30 during a zombie outbreak. Your win conditions are clear: survive 100 days inside the tower, or escape by securing routes that eventually reach the roof through careful scavenging, neighbor quests, and quiet movement. This hub indexes every guide on the wiki so you can jump straight to the pain point you are searching for.

Start here if you are brand new, then branch into weapons, neighbors, codes, and lobby settings as your campaign deepens.

Video guide

Featured guides

Getting Started

Day-one walkthrough for Night 0 objectives, early barricades, water discipline, and what to do when Daniel knocks. Read this before you burn Gems on random classes or sprint into dark hallways with a Kitchen Knife.

How to Escape

Rescue (100 days) versus roof, lobby, and east-stairs escape routes — including Lift 2 shaft steps, wrench hatch, and bolt cutters risks.

Water and Food

Buckets, bathtub storage, treatment tablets, pantry spoilage, cooking, and the Floor 27 valve riser that restores taps.

Floors Guide

Mapped floors from the roof and Dev Patel on 31 down through Eli, Arthur, the valve, community kitchen, smoke floors, and the lobby.

Tools and Keys

Wrench, bolt cutters, triangular key, emergency key, and the Okafor route that unlocks the Floor 27 valve kit.

Vents and Lift Shafts

Screwdriver grates, bolted vents, triangular-key lift doors, and shaft ladders to the roof and mid-tower floors.

Core survival loop (quick reference)

Every successful run repeats the same loop with tighter margins:

1. Secure the apartment — peephole checks, furniture barricades, noise control.
2. Manage food and water — sealed bottles, treatment tablets after taps fail, Floor 19 community kitchen when the route is clear.
3. Restore building systems — Floor 27 valve riser trip restores water; bring a wrench and a long-reach melee.
4. Help neighbors — Daniel, Ruth, Mara, Eli (29), Arthur Hail (28), Dev Patel (31) gate tools, lore, and escape progress. Full notes live on the Neighbors Hub.
5. Push vertical routes — keys, bolt cutters, screwdriver, and Lift 2 shaft access toward the roof.
6. Decide the endgame — stabilize for day 100, or commit to an escape push with a coordinated group of up to four players (you + three friends) on servers that hold up to 30 people.

Guide topics covered on this wiki

Topic	Where to go	What you learn
Beginner onboarding	Getting Started	First hours, noise, early objectives
Escape routes	How to Escape	Roof, lobby, east stairs, rescue
Supplies	Water and Food	Buckets, tablets, valve, pantry
Building map	Floors Guide	Floor directory and routes
Tools and keys	Tools and Keys	Wrench, cutters, triangular and emergency keys
Vents and shafts	Vents and Lift Shafts	Quiet vents and lift shaft ladders
Free currency	Codes Hub	Update2 for 30 Gems + 900 Cash
Melee and classes	Weapons Tier List	Bat S-tier, class S–D ranks
NPC quests	Neighbors Hub	Floor-by-floor neighbor tips
Patch history	Updates Hub	Update 2.0 systems
Scripts (optional)	Scripts Hub	ESP / fullbright / fly loadstrings
Lobby setup	Lobby & Controls	Create a Group, difficulty, save slots
Full overview	Game Wiki	Platforms, co-op, loop summary

Beginner priorities (first 10 days)

• Join the Dateline NBC group and redeem Update2 on the Codes page before shopping.
• Unlock Medic, Cook, or Electrician if you can — they are S-tier supports for long campaigns.
• Prefer a Baseball Bat (26 dmg / 8.0 reach) over the Kitchen Knife as soon as it appears.
• Treat every door like a threat: peephole first, swing second.
• Stock water early; Floor 27’s valve riser is easier when you are not already dehydrated.
• Do not ignore Daniel’s Night 0 knock — neighbor trust starts immediately.

Mid-game priorities (days 10–40)

• Clear a safe path toward Floor 19 for the community kitchen when food pressure rises.
• Complete Arthur Hail (28) and Eli (29) objectives while you still have stamina buffers.
• Keep wrench, screwdriver, bolt cutters, and keys in assigned packs so the wrong player is not holding the only tool.
• Practice Lift 2 shaft routing on Normal before you attempt Hard escape lobbies.
• Rebalance classes if someone is stuck on Survivor or Night Watch without a plan.

Late-game priorities (day 40+ / escape)

• Decide whether the lobby is going for day 100 stability or a committed roof escape.
• Assign point (bat), support (Medic/Cook), and utility (Electrician/Locksmith/Plumber as needed).
• Use the Tier List to stop carrying dead weight knives into the final push.
• Review Dev Patel (31) and remaining upstairs tasks so the last floors do not stall.
• If you use client helpers, keep them secondary to callouts — see Scripts safety notes.

How to use these guides with friends

30 Floors Up supports solo play or a private-style group of up to four through Create a Group. Before you press start:

1. Set difficulty in Tools (Easy / Normal / Hard).
2. Pick New vs Temporary campaign intentionally — Temporary is for practice, New is for keeps.
3. Share this Guides Hub link so everyone opens the same Getting Started checklist.
4. Split neighbor ownership: one player tracks Ruth/Mara indoor help, another tracks Eli/Arthur/Dev vertical quests.

Video learning

The embed on this page is a full-guide style walkthrough you can pause while mirroring steps in your own lobby. Pair the video with written hubs above rather than watching passively — pause at water, valve, and roof segments and match them to Floor 27 / Lift 2 notes.

Related hubs

• Getting Started · How to Escape
• Water and Food · Floors Guide
• Tools and Keys · Vents and Lift Shafts
• Codes · Tier List · Players
• Updates · Tools · Wiki · Scripts

New written guides will appear under /guides/ as child pages. This hub will gain a short summary row for each one the day it publishes — always linked with trailing slashes and never as bare URLs.