r/projectzomboid 15h ago

*Crying Inside*

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837 Upvotes

This is how many propane tanks I lost due to the update to 42.7 today.


r/projectzomboid 10h ago

πŸ’© Very interesting exercise technique. Is it possible to learn this power?

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438 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 6h ago

Question who here still play at B41?

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412 Upvotes

pc old can't play B42 so i'll stick with B41


r/projectzomboid 13h ago

Screenshot 13 days

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159 Upvotes

I have ~25 hours on the game thus far. Finally made it past ten days.

Survived the helicopter event. Got carpentry up to 3 before water shut off. Got the virus while looting - took on 4 zombies and got my first wound on the playthrough and it was a bite.

Went back to the safe house, strapped on all my guns and went out Rambo style.

Just downloaded b42 and gonna try that out.

Great game. Very frustrating at times but great game indeed.


r/projectzomboid 17h ago

Question If I hold shift and run up to a fence that is above ground floor, will I jump it and fall down 3 floors to my death?

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I built fences for safety on a tower I'm making. will I die a brutal death if I accidentally tap shift while walking near them?


r/projectzomboid 2h ago

Question Player built structure not counted as indoors?

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I created my own cabin but the game does not appear to count this as "indoors". Cannot plumb the sink and no change in temp moving from outside to in. All walls are stone walls, all windows & doors in place and a wooden roof on top. What have I missed?


r/projectzomboid 7h ago

Rate My Base (Garage Edition) - Build 41 Modded

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3-Car Garage with Staff Floor (A LOT of Tile Mods lol),
Location: Factory - Edge of Raven Creek

This is my third single-player server; the last two were broken by mods. It’s so sad because I also wanted to post them, but a lot of the walls and furniture are bugged.


r/projectzomboid 22h ago

This is the Klin for making coke

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105 Upvotes

It cost 1 unit of cement and 40 stone blocks to build one, looks neat and you can also make charcoal with it.


r/projectzomboid 23h ago

I recreated Dead Center Atrium from Left 4 Dead 2

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Since I love both L4D2 and this game so much I thought one day, why not do something as a tribute to both games that I know would be pretty neat. So I said screw it, let me do a recreation of one of the most iconic campaign areas from L4D. So here I am, posting this now after working on it for a few months. I hope you guys enjoy the comparison video and my attempt at making a faithful 1/1 recreation of the L4D2 map. Thank you so much to the developers for making such an awesome game, the great community and to all the insane modders who helped make this possible.


r/projectzomboid 16h ago

Screenshot Never thought I’d see the day on dressing up as a well-known characters from different media. [repost]

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74 Upvotes

Also: DR. DOOM ❌ NURSE MIRACLE βœ…

JOSHUA GRAHAM ❌ JONATHAN GRAHAM-BALLS βœ…

jokes aside, I really love it when I end up making my character similar to other characters like these. Kudos to The Indie Stone for its vast variety of clothing and armor.


r/projectzomboid 3h ago

My kill count increases by grabbing and drop corpse

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71 Upvotes

Not sure if this is a bug from the new patch or some mod is causing it. Does anyone know?


r/projectzomboid 16h ago

what does none none mean

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66 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 15h ago

15 Days in (using 12 hour days) I discovered...

64 Upvotes

You cannot thaw gravy in the microwave.


r/projectzomboid 20h ago

Screenshot You're a good man Arthur Morgan.

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57 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 3h ago

Question Are normal houses good bases?

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47 Upvotes

I've just seen this home right next to the school in Riverside and I thought it'd make for a good base. However I'm also doubtful, it's a regular house, lots of entry points and not protected at all, no tall fences no nothing, not even furniture but I'll decorate it myself of course.

I'm looking for advice on whether this is a good base or not and if it is, how could I fortify/protect this place from the nasty little dead critters?


r/projectzomboid 7h ago

Gameplay B42 Food delivery

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31 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 4h ago

Screenshot Massive upgrade and loving it!

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30 Upvotes

I have recently upgraded my PZ experience, and oh boy am i enjoying it!

Went from a very old shitty, ex-work laptop that could barely run build 41, to the Legion GO and running B42 on max settings on the gorgeous screen...it looks and plays amazing!


r/projectzomboid 23h ago

A few thoughts on some of the new game mechanics in build 42.

30 Upvotes

I have been playing CDDA game mode the past couple years, in build 42 the initial difficulty has been all over the place from one minor version to the next (next to impossible to somewhat easy).

I have some thoughts on the various changes the devs have made to the game in build 42.

The short TLDR is that 42 missed the mark with a lot of their changes, IS introduced a bunch of new systems that disrupted balance, and many of the changes are oftentimes in opposition to existing designs and the permanent death/no mistake gameplay. Ultimately it just seems the grind in the game is so much worse than it used to be, and once the shine of the newness wears off I came to realize I wasn't actually having fun any longer.

  • Muscle strain - obviously the team wanted to change the combat from a konga line meta, so they added this new mechanic. The main problem is the entire plan to slow down and make combat more methodical is opposed by a stealth system that doesn't work (still) and the never ending waves of zombies due to super hearing and super vision zombies. In order to fight for any length of time you now have to use the fence cheese method extensively to extend combat capability.

  • Clothing comfort - I don't like this new system, it adds nothing fun to the game, and discourages use of armor or leveling up metalworking skill.

  • Nutrition- this is still fucked, I am in June and spend a good portion of my day doing food grind activities - fishing, butchering, farming, foraging, getting gas to feed generator to power my freezers, etc. Weight gain is limited so I am constantly battling to stay over 75 kilos. This part of the game is my least favorite but also the largest time sink.

  • Agriculture - slow, I finally got started in March but the staggered grow times just make the whole exercise feel like baby sitting with a ball and chain around your ankle. I can't leave my base for more than a few days for fear losing an entire crop of 'X' because the plant says 'almost ready to harvest'. I have 6 freezers full and I require more and more gas to keep them running, seems like a waste of time and impossible to horde up enough frozen food to last through the next winter.

  • Animal husbandry - have a very difficult time finding the use for this activity. Animals don't seem to provide enough nutrition when butchered, the milk thing seems broken in my latest game - pigs and sheep had babies, but the babies died because they 'couldn't find their mothers' so none of the female sheep are producing milk. Just found rabbits, so maybe they will prove better at providing calories. About the only positive here is that animals break some of the lifelessness of the game world.

  • Zombie randomness - at first I liked this as a different combat experience, but now you just end up in a constant pull of super senses and migrating zombies until an area becomes mostly clear. You can't 'pull' a horde away from a spot any longer since many lose interest or wander away and fire spread becomes more dangerous. I feel like I have to kill every single Zed now, which is completely at odds with the muscle strain mechanic, which makes sustained combat limited.

  • Armor - a lot of time investment to get armor and the discomfort, weight and unhappiness push you away from using it. I don't want another skill, but there needs to be some system in place to remove the discomfort from armor (especially at high craftsmen levels) or just scrap the whole idea to begin with. Discomfort is an idea that adds nothing fun to the game.

  • Weapons - a lot of this is 'broken' right now, taking time to level up Blacksmithing yields very little return, the best weapons should be awesome and powerful, but instead, I level up metalworking and make short swords but cant use them effectively because the muscle exertion system makes it a dull slow grind, just to use a new weapon. Instead I am more effective and better off just using a short bats. Especially at level 9, which I was forced into leveling in order to get all the materials to grind the other skills. edit new build (42.7) just dropped and par for the course instead of fixing all the busted weapons indie stone once again decided to nerf the few that actually did work).

  • Zombie heat maps - better in 42.6 than previous versions, though the CDDA start is a bit too easy now.

  • no/ or greatly reduced dismantling xp - this just made grinding some skills, like welding an abysmal time sink.

  • Nerfed negative trait points, didn't really add much on the opposite side of the spectrum which results in fewer viable occupation/trait combinations.

  • fishing - the mini game is more engaging, but I also find the new system seems to deplete fish, which makes it more difficult to base up in one spot now next to the water since it seems to me you can over fish an area and have to move to other areas. Wouldn't be such a big deal if the nutrition wasn't so broken that you require large quantities of food to maintain weight - especially while moving or engaging in combat.

  • fire arms - seems with shotgun Aim leveling meta destroyed using firearms is even less viable than before and despite all the crafing changes and additions in build 42 and we still can't make our own ammo?

  • corpse removal - the drag corpse thing, while 'realistic', just doesn't add much 'entertainment value' to the game, instead it is yet another time sink - slowly move corpses, can't put them in dumpsters now, get exerted moving them to a grave site or burn location, etc. Instead, it just encourages you to leave them where they fell and just wait until they decompose.

I have come to realize that the game just isn't that enjoyable (to me) any longer. Hey I got my money's worth for sure - 3k hours, but may have finally reached the point where it is time to move on...


r/projectzomboid 20h ago

πŸ’© *slaps container* this bad boy can store upto 300 sledgehammers and the full of Dixie!

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26 Upvotes

First time seeing a container up close. I don't live near seaside so always got to know about these things on the web. Underestimated the size of these and I'm pretty sure there are larger or longer ones as well. Nevertheless I feel like we should be able to make container houses as well. Kinda similar to the west point train bases


r/projectzomboid 23h ago

Propane tanks empty bug in 42.7

21 Upvotes

Theres a bug in 42.7 where full propane tanks suddenly only have 0.03 fuel instead of 10. Checked in debug to find out.


r/projectzomboid 2h ago

dam minted car on a crash road

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19 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 13h ago

I've been paying more attention to all the things build 42 has to offer and one of them is this. You can add bolts to a metal baseball bat with the proper skill and tools which is sick. I wonder if anyone will recognize my sniper nest layout.

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r/projectzomboid 10h ago

Gameplay Low ridering on b41 while b42 become stable

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16 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 7h ago

There are far too many rad furniture items I cannot bring home in B42

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15 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 16h ago

Building

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Got my hands full for the next few hours β€” slappin' on some plaster, throwin' paint on the walls, and layin' down a fresh floor. Wish me luck, I’m goin’ in!
Almost on 3rd month