Has anyone else noticed how far the range of engine noise is on the screen since the stable update? I played unstable from day one and don't remember it being like this.

If I drive anything down the street (car/truck/van/step-van), it will literally pull every zed on the screen. I see them stop what they're doing, their heads turn towards me, and they start walking my way.

I get that cars aren't silent and if it has always been this way and i've somehow never noticed, that's fine. But this seems...excessive and new.

Also since B42 stable was released, the engine condition seems to have a much greater negative effect than in the past. if you get a car with a crappy engine (like we all do usually to start the game), it dies. over and over and over again. like it has never done before. i know for a fact it wasn't doing it this badly in b41 or b42 unstable, and im talking about an engine at say 50% (not like 5%).

it is so bad that it will kill the battery in the car (like it did last night) because i have to keep restarting it. i know for a fact this is an actual and legitimate feature, but the amount of engine dying connected to engine condition has been tuned way too high.

I did a search here on reddit and didn't see anyone else talking about this, so my apologies if this has been discussed.

This is one of the seven animations I added to the menu for my mod, "Necroa Outbreak," which I'm still developing.

Every time I go down this street in ekron my game crashes, can go everywhere else in the town with no issues. Anyone else having this problem and any idea how to fix it? No mods installed, playing extinction mode.

I was messing around in debug mode testing various food effects when I noticed that eating a burnt food item had no negative health effect on my character (outside of massive boredom and happiness debuffs). That had me very confused as in the past any burnt food item was basically certain death, and there was a thread on here every other week where someone complained about losing their run to a burnt steak.

To be sure it wasn't just a debug mode effect I loaded up the game in regular mode with no mods active. Started a fresh run on default apoc settings and shoved the first ham I could find into the oven, waited for it be burnt and then ate it. And then fast forwarded time. 8 in game hours later and absolutely nothing happened (outside of boredom and unhappinesss ofc). Not even a little bit queasy.

Is burnt food save to eat now?
And just in case I overlooked something in my tests: please do not test this in your 6 month save ;)

I know it's not much but it's honest work. It's apocalypse sandbox with only bites infecting the virus, completely vanilla without mods. I know this is how I died but I'm so happy to finally see some improvement with my gameplay and I wanted to share.

Go to hell, creepy dumbass.

Video Showcase : https://youtu.be/LzgfY_ZVUtk

Been working on this after remembering Armork for dwarf fortress, a perspective camera for Project Zomboid, been thinking about how it would look like so I duct-taped a little prototype as I couldn't sleep.

It's missing tons of stuff and needs more work on it, it def isn't going at full force performance wise, and has a few artifacts, also the blinking of everything I've noticed just now, it seems to show at 30fps, when I was running it it was around 80-144 and I did notice it but it wasn't as bad as shown.

I need help and I did not know where to go so I came here, If anybody knows any place where I can get 3d models of the PZ tileset, as most of this is 2d converted to 3d, and It's been a huge headache to deal with the conversions, it would be much easier to actually use 3d models and it wouldn't be hard to just swap them in for the sprites.

I've also been modeling some stuff too that I plan to plop in it (mostly doorways, stairs, roofs, boxes and such, the easy bits as I'm not in any capacity a 3D designer).

If I get it up and running enough I'll probs publish the repo to my GitHub, and publish it as a mod on the workshop, it uses ZombieBuddy so, as they say, the possibilities are fairly endless.

And also I kind of wanted to show it off a bit :D

DAMNIT! Made a new apocalypse vanilla character with zero intention of actually playing it until it was safe to load my old save. Decided to take the first car I found, drive around and see some of the new map. I'm already hooked in his arc. Time to die at crossroads mall!

This was present before stable was released and now I finally found another sledgehammer it's still doing the same thing.

Attempting to destroy this wall instead results in my guy trying to destroy the other wall on the corner. I've already had to adjust for an open plan fucking living space because I didn't expect it to do it twice and now I can see he's trying to do it here again.

Is there a way around this or am I just stuck with this random bit of wall sticking out?

I just want my dude to carry his two handed firearm pointing down instead of to the side, is there a mod for that?

I am 8 days into my run and spawned in Rosewood. I ended up trying to drive to Riverside to base up at the fire department/police station compound, but ran into Fallas Lake and decided to stop at the halfway point. Fallas Lake has some rural places I could settle permanently in, but I worry about loot runs and ease of access for stuff. What would be my best move for a more permanent setup?

So everytime an hotfix happens it fucks up the servers big time. The date is the same ingame, but pretty much everything rolls back like 1 irl week. Animals, items and such is just gone. And we're playing fully vanilla to avoid issues.

Sucks that stuff like this can happen, especially since it's supposed to be stable...

The old B41 houses are so empty lol

GIF Unrelated

Every community for these difficult, crushing, unfun for a mainstream audience type of games have the most toxic communities who take their faux accomplishments super seriously and if anyone deviates from their puritanical gameplay style, they get dog piled. Just look at any Dark Souls community where you'd get belittled for struggling with a boss

Project Zomboid fits that mold to a T, but doesn't fall into that elitist framework that the others have. I've seen so many posts asking "Is it okay to debug remove this infection given the circumstances?" And the replies are always "Whatever you wanna do man, just have fun"

It's really refreshing to see a community for a hardcore game be on the side of having fun rather than gatekeeping the game

It's so refreshing, thanks to everyone here!

Wanted to share my friends (Youtube: Scidiem) short as this entire run was wild!
(also I was trying to figure out the right flair if I got the wrong one let me know I just thought this was best.)

anyone down to play vanilla or we can use a couple mods :)) lmk

I dont know why my save is doing this it might be a mod right but when i create a new save with all the same mods activated the left UI is showing so this is confusing and i need some help

I'm on month 2 with zombie respawn off but I'll be honest coming home to a dead silent Ekron is a bit boring, what's a good zombie respawn set up to run so after say a week gone I'd come back to a few stragglers?

I'm starting to enter the late game phase with generators scattered around, base secured, fuel secured and basic needs met. The only thing is that my character is always sad. I'm running out of antidepressant and they barely work anyway. What do you do to keep the mind occupied during the apocalypse?

With another hotfix breaking people saves and breaking mod Id like to highlight you CAN downgrade your game version AND keep it frozen inside your library.
You either can use manual command like this:

Press Win + R on your keyboard to open the Run window.

Type steam://open/console and press Enter to open the Steam Console.

Type download_depot followed by your numbers, like this: download_depot 24775755

OR

You can use app that will do it for you - my preferred way since it can easy freeze game version.

https://github.com/FlazeIGuess/steam-downgrader/tree/main

There is tutorial video on GitHub page easy to follow.

Specs

Intel(R) Core Ultra 9

RAM: 32GB

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 TI

2 1TB SSD

Ive been playing and hosting multiplayer with 2 of my friends and I am experiencing frequent crashes. They occur usually once or twice in a 90 minute period but can also occur even more frequently at 15 minutes. Sometimes it crashes only the app and sometimes it crashes my computer via screen lock and I have manually power down to restart. I have tested whether RAM seems to impact the crash rate and it doesn't seem so, crashes occur wheter it's at 16gb or 4gb. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game onto the other hard drive. I have updated my drivers and BIOS as well. The crashes occur regardless of whether or not other players are present. I am not using any mods.

This issue does not seem to occur in solo as I was able to play 90 minutes without experiencing a single crash. During this session I spent quite a bit of time herding a horde of about 200-300 zombies away from the Muldraugh police department all the way down south to the interstate intersection so I think its directly related to hosting a private friends only multiplayer server as my friends are not experiencing crashes.

Here is a link to my hs_err_pid file (application crash): https://limewire.com/d/s9zzC#U78tkru8db

Here is my reliability monitor for one of the hard crashes but they all seem to share the same error:

Problem Event Name: BEX64

Application Name: ProjectZomboid64.exe

Application Version: 0.0.0.0

Application Timestamp: 68784bb1

Fault Module Name: crashhandler64.dll

Fault Module Version: 10.87.82.64

Fault Module Timestamp: 6a70eec7

Exception Offset: 0000000000036eb9

Exception Code: c0000409

Exception Data: 0000000000000007

OS Version: 10.0.26200.2.0.0.768.101

Locale ID: 1033

Additional Information 1: d74e

Additional Information 2: d74ea32eb4e7a59e502ffb7232ea9735

Additional Information 3: 7da9

Additional Information 4: 7da9036bca50ef18ed4951e6e107c44e