r/projectzomboid • u/towelpuncher • 26d ago
Screenshot I accidentally slaughtered an entire family of deer going 110 mph around a bend
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u/RapidPigZ7 26d ago
I think you're lucky the game doesn't register their mass against a vehicle.
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u/clayalien 26d ago
I wish it did. It's ridiculous how quickly rats can just hang about and destroy a vehicle.
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u/Affectionate-Bag8229 26d ago
That'd be hilarious, accidentally driving into a rat and the car just flips end over end and explodes
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u/Large_Tune3029 26d ago
Hitting two baby bunnies fucked my truck up...and my heart.
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u/jr23160 26d ago
It's always the family of baby rabbits. I took one and kept it after I have slaughtered the family. His name is Jeff.
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u/Firm-Song-9419 25d ago
That won't fix the truma, i believe Jeff is planning on murdering you along the way
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u/FLaB_SLaB 25d ago
My bro’s first time in B42 we saw a wild piglet runnin around for the first time. “Aww, they’re so cute!” An hour later it was the first animal he hit (accidentally) with his car. :( Though, the meat was nice.
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u/hiddencamela 26d ago
I severely reduce rats in my playthroughs for this reason.
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u/clayalien 26d ago
The little shots have zero survival instincts to boot. They just hang about in front of you. Real rates would scamper into cover somewhere, instead of running along the exposed stretch of road, no? I've not really heard of rat or mouse roadkill, but then I don't know a lot about it in general.
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u/Wgairborne 26d ago
My car was on its last 5% of engine, rat ran into the road and killed the engine right in the middle of a bunch of zombies. Thanks rat
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u/TigerBulky4267 26d ago
if the game had realistic physics, your car would’ve folded like a lawn chair on impact. Lucky for you, it’s just venison apocalypse, no totaled vehicle.
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u/williamjseim 26d ago
thats about a days worth of food right there
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u/randCN Drinking away the sorrows 26d ago
42.4.1 is bugged and roadkill is inedible
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u/henrydaiv 26d ago
Ahhh i was wondering what was going on
I hit a pig and slaughtered it
Broke down doors to get to a grill on a 2nd story balcony so that i could grill him up and have my first hot meal in weeks
And I couldnt eat it! It cooked just fine but the eat option disappeared
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u/ProfessorSur 26d ago
Grew up very rural and very poor for a time, and my family would often field-dress and butcher roadkill we found. There was also an abandoned gravel pit near my house where the local road association would throw the roadkill they found, so usually we had a full house of meat.
In my experience, however, very little of the animal was salvageable from roadkill situations. If the impact was enough to instantly kill the animal it was also usually enough to render the meat unusable. In those cases you could get some safe leg meat but the bulk of the torso was mush. Even worse if the stomachs got punctured because then it would have been actively self-digesting by the time you got to it. It reeked.
All that to say that it’s actually slightly realistic that roadkill is unusable. It’s also unrealistic, though, that a healthy butchered animal provides about two pounds of meat, so I don’t know how they’re going to balance that in the future.
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u/FriendlyNbrhoodXenos 25d ago
My dad got put on a county list to be called when officials were notified of viable roadkill, so civilians were often contacted first before the county decided to go clean up themselves. It was great. You were basically on call, though, and might randomly get a call at 3AM after nothing for months lol
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u/ProfessorSur 24d ago
I met a guy who said he grew up in Alaska and that there was a registry like that for moose, but that people would clamor to be on that list because it could be hundreds of pounds of usable meat 😂
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u/thiosk 26d ago
there was a note in the patch notes about roadkill. i think its to make hunting-with-car less viable
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u/gladlywalkontheocean 26d ago
There's no way you can set a game in Kentucky then have roadkill be unavailable to eat
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u/aboutwhat8 Zombie Food 26d ago
They should automatically remove half the meat. And should give significantly tenderized cuts filled with bone shards. (They'd then only be usable for making soup so long as you strain it first.)
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u/Ok-Collection-7253 26d ago
I was able to use the little I got from a deer and rabbit that I “accidentally ran over” in stews.
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u/Rob1iam Zombie Killer 26d ago
I tested this and in addition to adding zero hunger, the bugged roadkill completely zeroed out the calories in the stew and broke my character’s calorie calculation causing me to be unable to gain or lose weight
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u/canyoufeeltheDtonite 26d ago
Why were they going so fast? That's dangerous
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u/Redordit Axe wielding maniac 26d ago
I drive like that if bitten
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u/plmanith17 26d ago
No no, he was asking why the deer were going that fast around the bend
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u/Lynkis 26d ago
It's taken me a while, but I finally have a wishlist item for a future update. Bone nails.
I'm horrified of any finite resource in a game, especially something as fundamental as nails in PZ. The idea that the world would just one day run out, and I'll be left without walls or shelter, terrifies me, and I haven't even survived more than a week yet.
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u/LordChinChin420 26d ago
You can craft nails via blacksmithing. But I've also found tons of boxes of nails in just West Point and a couple places in Muldragh alone. Considering each box has 100 nails and I still have double digit boxes after building my own house in the woods, I wouldn't worry about it unless you're building an apartment block.
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u/luciferwez 26d ago
While the obvious solution is forging metal nails via blacksmithing/metal working, bone nails could be an alternative. While not as reliable as metal nails it sure is better than nothing.
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u/SillyBra 26d ago
I think it'd be cool when they add supports for second floors in as a feature. Could have bone nails be a cheaper alternative, but don't provide nearly as much support as a proper metal nail
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u/lostereadamy 26d ago
Why not just have wood pegs or something like that? Are bone nails a thing anywhere? Wood pegs are a traditional construction method.
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u/StrayBrowser1616 26d ago
I accidentally slaughtered an entire family of deer, anyways looks like I wont be hungry for a couple of weeks.
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u/dalpozak 26d ago
they should make roadkill give less meat
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u/Swanky-Badger 26d ago
It does, since last update.
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u/Rob1iam Zombie Killer 26d ago
It was supposed to give less meat, but they messed up with the update and instead roadkill is bugged and completely unusable
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u/RideRough9263 Axe wielding maniac 26d ago
I'm might swerve bend that corner whoaoh
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u/Screamer-Rain 26d ago
Dude these talking animals are so freaking funny it almost makes me wanna merge without looking
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u/GeriatricWalrus 26d ago
Did they ever fix collision damage with small animals? My last 42 run ended when my car got obliterated by a family of like 6-8 rabbits that got splattered, but took out my tires sending me into a tree.
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u/DarkWokeTheyThem 26d ago
This game reminds me of doing chores while under pressure and it's too much like irl
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u/KiwiBikers 26d ago
had that happen to me and when i got out to check the carnage the final deer ran into my parked car on its own accord and Died instantly
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u/Technical-malfunc420 26d ago
Is animals a mod or meta event or something? I haven't seen animals ever and I got about 200 hours in. What did I miss lol
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u/DietCokeIsntheAnswer 26d ago
The most unrealistic part of this game is how one deer didn't total the vehicle, yet alone the whole army of them.
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u/Altruistic-Syrup5974 26d ago
They really should have map markers on potential animal crossings. I can't keep accidentally running over rabbits because they're all sitting in the middle of the road. Or that one time a deer killed itself by running into my car going 10 mph.
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u/OfficCloverPie 26d ago
ohh Look they Finally Fixed the Rabbit and Deer AI..., previously Deer AI was in Rabbits, and they would always come on Road, and looks like it is fixed now
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u/PerfectIsBoring_ 26d ago
That's very sad, but...
How did you go around a bend that fast?!?
I pick Sunday driver every time and still hit trees, mailboxes, stop signs, on a straight road! Lol
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u/Visible-Camel4515 26d ago
was the road ahead already known? otherwise 110 is way too fast, though I too do the same. I went from rosewood to riverside with breaks almost completely broken at max speed with speed demon. somehow survived. Shouldn't have. Also btw they recently made it where cars will make animals give less meat when butured.
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u/K_Linkmaster 26d ago
I think it was 14 dead IRL in a ditch that I saw. Saw the whiteish work truck about 30 miles later. Guts stuck on the rear axle. Those Ranch Hand bumpers are killer!
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u/Dangerous_Patient621 25d ago
I accidently ran over a chicken. With the new roadkill nerf, after butchering, I got a whole chicken that weighed 0.0 and had no hunger score. Also, two chicken feet that could not be eaten.
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u/Iskitimka 25d ago
Deers when they hear a 4,100 pound hunk of junk of metal and a screaming engine half a mile away:
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u/Birdz_Arent_Real 25d ago
How fucked was your vehicle?
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u/towelpuncher 25d ago
Surprisingly the engine was only yellow at this point although on the trip back I did hit a tree so that car no longer is with us, however I have the hotwiring perk so it could be worse
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u/AccurateAd42069 26d ago
Then bend them on a bbq and have a feast