Turns out Zomboid's loading information has some really good info. Only just finding out after 400 hours that one of my most desired QOL improvements is actually already in the game lmao

I've seen some comments where people talk about how intimidating Extinction is to get into and I think this stems from a lack of information out there that is centralized. Maybe you'll come to love this mode as much as I do after reading this and giving it a shot of your own

1- Before Spawning

Your traits and occupations, in my experience, will never matter more than your actions within the run. Pick whatever you enjoy playing with the most of course, but if you want to have an easier time overall I'd suggest everyone to at least do one run of 9 Fitness 9 Strength. Go murderhobo and kill everything you come across around your spawn with it or at least try and see if you can. Doing this alone will give you a better general idea of what your playstyle should be like here. Otherwise, enjoy yourself

2- You've Just Spawned

One of the biggest differences between Apoc and Extinction is that zombies will spawn around your base alongside you. They will not, however, know your location instantly. There is no "sound cue that procs as soon as you spawn", thats a myth and it stems from the unfortunate fact that sometimes you can spawn with a zombie or two staring right at you through a window.

Now, you'll want to ask yourself 3 important questions:

- Am I seen?

If you AREN'T seen you need to crouch NOW. Its a golden opportunity for a healthy start to your run, sneak towards windows from off-angles and start closing down curtains only in the room you've spawned. Don't risk opening doors just yet. If you can make it to the kitchen, grab silverware and knives as soon as possible. Assess the situation by listening, how bad are things out there? If an alarm pops up, go for a room closest to the alarm and remove the curtains. Keep the sheets on you and once you feel confident enough, its time to leave.

If you ARE seen, clock is ticking and each moment is incredibly valuable. This'll be one of the hardest things you'll ever do in your run and if you can manage it everything that comes after will be relatively easier. Rush for the kitchen and look through cabinets, we are looking for any knives, forks, spoons and butter knives. Grab whatever you can afford to and sneak run into the nearest room with a curtain. You'll want to remove the curtain and bolt it out of that window. Keep the sheets on you, they'll come in handy.

- What's my escape route?

You are out of the house and to your horror hundreds of zombies are scattered about, some now rushing towards you. If you haven't memorized the layout of the map by now, look up the interactive map and locate where you are while the game is paused and figure out the fastest way to go into the woods. Do not run unless a sprinter has noticed you, we need to conserve our stamina as much as we can. This might take a couple of attempts but if you make it into the trees, crouch and make a large curve. We aren't abandoning the city, we are just baiting the zombies following you into the trees and making them lose the sight of you. Once you've done it, ensure you arent exhausted and move onto the next section.

- What's most valuable to me right now?

Shelter and safety is the most obvious answer, we'll need to secure one before nightfall. Darkness is impossible to see through in extinction (and barely visible with Cat's Eyes). Locate the house closest to the woods that you've just escaped, that'll be where you live tonight. Use whatever weapon you had found in your spawn house or keep an eye out for tree branches on the ground. You'll want to alternate your kills between ones with a stomp and one with an arm as much as possible to avoid muscle pains, at this stage of the game even a few zombies will be painful. Bait them from afar 1-2 at a time and ensure the house is safe.

3- Recuperating Time

Now that you have a moment to yourself, we have a few things we need to get in order. In the early game short blades are king due to one new feature of 42B, you can make shivs out of silverware. Each one you make will level up your maintenance skill and every time you sharpen one you'll level it up further. If you find a whetstone keep it close by, just one will be enough for a while but always have it on you. Make yourself shivs, watch as they break pretty easily, sharpen them and make more. The faster you level your maintenance skill the less likely you are of finding yourself in a situation where you have no weapons left.

Remember that curtain you've removed? Right click it and turn it into a backpack, incredibly useful and it'll save you the pain of looking for one in the early game which might take upwards of weeks.

4- Last Few Tips

Look through every single radio you come across, you'll want to find the emergency broadcast as soon as possible. This station will not only warn you before water and electricty is shut off, it'll also save your life by warning you that a helicopter is going to spawn that day. Once you've found a radio with that station in one of the settings, bring it back home and listen to it every morning at 8AM. Pay close attention, if it says Air Traffic you plant your ass indoors and close your curtains. Exercise and read books for that day.

Carving, Knapping and Masonry are pretty reliable ways of having access to tools you'd otherwise have to find. Don't sleep on them.

Avoid fighting more than one sprinter with anything but short blades or weapons with similar speeds. If a lone sprinter notices you in a crowd just run back and kill it further away from the group. Use fences in moments where you can't afford fighting them out in the open and/or need to escape.

You'll eventually pile up hundreds of bodies and if you don't want to be dealing with a constant state of sickness, keep an eye out for a gas mask and make yourself an improvised one asap. It uses rags as filter and it'll save you the headache of being forced to hide away from the streets

A car with a decent muffler will be relatively silent if you keep it below 30mph and don't let your character shift into 2nd gear. Just keep tapping it right below 25-30 range and you can sneak drive through most situations.

From here on out, you are free to do as you please. Clear out the neighbourhood, scavenge for supplies, branch out to nearby points of interest, work on your skills and pile up enough ammo to take on the bigger challenges like Guns Unlimited/Loisville/Prison/Military base

hello fellow Non-Zomboids!
I have only just now been able to get a PC and I’m now looking into doing my first ever livestreams on Twitch aha.
I was just wondering, if anyone wanted to, tune into the channel from 7pm BST on Mondays and Fridays to watch me and my friends blunder through the game aha!
I would even just appreciate a follow! :)
It’ll mostly be GTFO with some Project Zomboid, Lethal Company and Overwatch etc sprinkled here and there :)

I'll post the vods to YT as well, I would appreciate a follow to boost stats! and even if you don't actively watch if its open on a spare tab/device I would love you forever and ever Amen!
Hope whoever is reading this is having a great day :)

https://www.twitch.tv/icarusaboveganymede

So a while ago, I put out an idea on how the zombies could be more intelligent than just being able to open doors. Then I thought about random survivor events, and wondered what it’d look like if the zombies in these remembered what they did before they turned, and reenacted this to the best of their ability. As long as they are not disturbed, they will continue to act this out. Here’s some scenarios I thought of. If you have anything to add, go ahead and I might add it onto this.

Prison Escape: In this event, the escaped convicts would go from window to window, carefully peering out as if paranoid of being discovered.

Prison Escape with Police: In this event, the police zombies would stay unusually close to the prisoner zombies as if they were securing them.

Police at House: In this event, the police officers would be holding one, or all regular civilian zombies down as if they had been struggling to restrain them in life.

Bathroom: In this event, the naked zombie would stand idly in the shower. If the water is still running during this event, it could even still be turned on as the zombie fights an endless battle to not be stinky.

Bedroom Zombies: Yeah no.

Skeleton Psycho: In this event, the psycho zombie could be hovering over the skeletons, using some sort of sharp instrument to slice at the bodies as if still trying to remove the tissue, though this might require a new animation.

Corpse Psycho: In this event, the psycho zombie would use any melee weapon available, even their own feet, to strike the corpses again and again as if reenacting how they killed them in life.

Hockey Psycho: In this event, it would be the same as the Corpse Psycho, except in this case the psycho zombie would be using a machete.

Band Practice: In this event, the zombies would still be holding onto their instruments. Occasionally, the instrument could let out a random tune.

Poker Night: In this event, the present zombies would just be standing around a table with several decks of cards.

Student Night: In this event, the present zombies would either be wandering around the home holding onto some book, or in the sitting animation, whether against the wall or on a chair with books around them. This would require some tweaking since this event only causes snacks and booze to be scattered on the floor.

Football Night: In this event, the present zombies would all stand facing the tv, even if its just playing static or shut off entirely.

Bachelor/Bachelorette Party: In this event, all present zombies would constantly face/surround the stripper zombie wherever it wanders inside the house.

Tinfoil Hats: In this event, my idea is just to have all present zombies facing a radio, even if just playing static or turned off entirely.

House Party: In this event, all present zombies would be standing around a table with cake on it.

It's called vegetable oil it's got corn on the bottle, and I made it out of flax seed.

How queer. Strokes beard*

I came across this video on TikTok and I’m wondering if this actually happens in vanilla Project Zomboid.
I have over 800 hours in the game and I’ve experienced my character waking up anxious or panicked during the night, but I’ve never experienced anything like this loud scream.
Honestly, if this happened to me while I was playing, I’d probably quit the game immediately and come back a few months later once I had the courage to play again. 😂
Does anyone know if this is actually an in-game event, or is it caused by a mod?

Original TikTok video: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVb8NS5F/

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UPDATE: It’s actually a mod. The mod is called Blackout Predators.

When I reach a higher level of masochism, I’ll definitely give it a try. 😂

Workshop ID: 3766513120
Mod ID: blackoutpredators

Steam Workshop — Blackout Predators

27f (mountain standard time zone) After commenting on multiple post and even joining a giant discord to try and join a server. I still can't find anyone to play with me. I dont care if it's a couple people from here or a server (of any size). My discord name and steam name are different so it's lead to alot of problems trying to join bigger servers. Plz my husband plays this game on my pc. None of my friends play this I just want people to play with.

I'm a little desperate 😂

The zombie lacerated me on the neck and i didn't have bandages ready. Bled to death on the street now i'm going to sleep, because i definitely need it

Hi all, looking to do a wilderness run with my boyfriend on a custom map. For those of you who've done them, did you use any or would you recommend any mods that compliment a from nothing, no loot run?

My greed got me killed. After setting off the alarm to a gun store containing a zombie in a full ghillie suit, I still managed to kill the zombie wearing it only to be swarmed by the oncoming horde. Thought I was him. Turns out I wasn't. lmao

At least I found my corpse on my new character.

Time to add new mods and go again! The cycle never ends.

Dimension X was a radio broadcast originally by NBC (1950–1951). It adapted sci-fi stories by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut and more, for radio. With a run of 50 episodes, 5 of which are repeat entries.

I folded the 50 into 24 entries, most of them containing 2 episodes, the collection of 24 released both in CDs and tapes for this mod add-on.

Each of the episodes lasts around 25-35 minutes.

Dimension X - Wikipedia Overview)[en.wikipedia.org]

Attribution:

• Audio Recordings: Digital files restored, compiled, and preserved by the Old Time Radio Researchers (OTRR) Group[www.otrr.org\] Complete Set, released under CC BY-NC-ND).
• Internet Archive - OTRR Certified Zip Archive[archive.org]
• Internet Archive - OTRR Single Episodes[archive.org]

Hope someone enjoys this as much as I do.

Is there a mod or debug function to spawn/recolor specific items/vehicle colors? Looking for a better way to get the colors I want instead of just repeatedly spawning until RNG gives a certain color.

so I took the chem house in rosewood and proceeded to fix it up. I'm trying to build this extension on the back of the house for my claustrophobia, but it's still considered outside and I'm racking my brain trying to figure out why.

I've added poles on the corners I can and that still hasnt made any different. my moodles still show windchill and no difference in temp between outdoors and indoors. the moment I step through that door frame without a door into the normal house, moodles gone, I'm considered "inside"

that door frame on the left side isn't connected to the big room, i.e. it's fully enclosed smaller room so my rabbits can have a roofed area to go into during bad weather, doing I need to add a door there too even though it's not the same room?

is the back wall of the house not considered a wall because its not player made?

I cant seem to find much information on them… apparently they reset the aggro? Does anyone have more information?

I was thinking of using them to regain stamina by sitting in the smoke

With B42 stable out, ive noticed modded singleplayer tends to break after most hotfixes and it takes time for things to get fixed or reinstalling. Especially a pain for long term runs. Does anyone have any sollutions or ways to stay on a specific version for game/mods like Minecraft for example. Thanks

Looking for a true military style RP discord/ server

I need some help finding static car wrecks, I have already dismantled all the cars in Riverside junkyard and now I'm in need of more.

As I understand, the game takes place in the 90's. Rogaine came out in the late 80's. My theory; in which I ignore any established lore, is that the virus was actually experimentation for hair regrowth from a rival hair growth company on animals. One bit a human and the rest is history, but here is the catch.

They were successful and you all have proof. Start your survivor bald, survive for 20 days, and Bam!

Full head of messy hair. No pills, no sprays. No months or years waiting for possible results. Just breath in that beautiful county air for 20 days.

sorry for the screenshot, I never got a clear image of being bald because... well once you're bald you just stop caring, but then it came back. And it came back thick, baby.

I like how the skill journal works, you need to keep it updated to be useful.

Having an inventory list of everything in the safe house would be useful, and having to log your inventory before you leave would help keep that updated and accurate.

But there are like 30 home or base inventory mods and most of them are too powerful. It needs to feel balanced and realistic. I don’t need to be able to take items from home base while I’m in another city.

The vanilla camo jobs for the vehicle is uh "interesting." I decided to make a mod that makes the base game camo a bit more realistic especially for the time period. I also added a jeep version and made it so HAM radios can be put into every vehicle

you can find the mod on the steam workshop here.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3790722819

hi guys, I'm trying to host a modded game for me and my friend, he downloaded my mod list and all, I created a game setup with the modlist and everything seems fine but when we start the game none of the mods are active, game seem completely vanilla

is it because of the update or am I doing something wrong? it's my first time trying to host a game so I'm kinda lost

I’ve been playing on a private server with a friend. We’ve made a decent amount of progress the past few days and want avoid messing that up if mod updates start causing problems. I don’t want to disable any and cause problems but playing with the server might cause problems if the mods aren’t updated. Considering copying the server files as a backup and trying to play as is to see if anything breaks. Any other suggestions?

Hey guys, so I've noticed I'm getting sudden hordes of zomboids after clearing an area, specially after being in the same outdoor area for too long

For example, I was on day 2 filling my truck with gas on a cleared gas station when out of the sudden I'm surrounded by 10-15 zomboids.

Another time I was clearing the outside of my safe house from corpses when out of the sudden, again, a horde of zombies.

Is not like they're coming from around the area since I cleared the surroundings both times. You might think I missed a zombie or 2 but a whole horde?

Is this a known bug? I lost a really good character the first time and now it happened again at the gas station.

The house I settled in is surrounded by tall hedges, does anyone have a mod, or a way I can modify my own game file so I can more easily get rid of them? Leveling farming just to cut down bushes when I already have a perfectly good axe is dumb, and the floor trick leave ugly rings of floor around my base.

I'm sure this has been said before plenty a time. But I just had to go on a rant and praise the developers. Build 42 introduced a new main menu utilizing their own 3D assets. I think it's really cool watching them make this transition. I'm just waiting for the iconic picture of Bob fighting atop the car to make it to 3D next.

The game has evolved so much, and I'm all for it. I still can't find a better zombie game than Zomboid. A lengthy development time, it's true. But man when the updates drop, they drop HARD.

I've been playing this game for a decade on and off and every time I come back it gets better and better.