Walk in the Woodz

[agile swan]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2023/01/walk-in-the-woodz/

[fierce osprey]

immediately thought of this song upon reading the thursdoid title https://open.spotify.com/track/4p5W6MGMVgEmgLwZhlnXe8?si=68aea5fd9adf45f5

[last gulch]

RAATS, YES
I hope we can stomp them to death and make minced rat meat

[stuck birch]

Based devs, if you're fiddling with gas siphoning, please add support to store gas in metal barrels. And if such barrel is placed near generator, you could siphon gas directly

[old oasis]

I hope the ratties do run away from zombies at some point later on in development but it's still so cool to see them in action

[brisk lion]

yo, dat fishing dough

[cobalt summit]

cant wait for the new build 😍😍😍

this video of the mice and the spider was awesome! I hope I can die from spider poisoning in PZ

[kindred niche]

insects

very interesting indeed

[cobalt summit]

enter the new basements and a spider crawls through the ceiling, bites your neck and kills your save, that would be amazing haha

[neon agate]

has there been any mention of dogs being a new animal in b42?

[radiant ingot]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/content/uploads/2023/01/image-52.png

I can see a compass

[raw elbow]

I love the new info!

I hope we get to test out some stuff soon!

Even if the build is something smaller that’s finished

[cobalt summit]

release the open test 😭

[ember lotus]

fr

[radiant ingot]

its nice to see that the devs are in the internal testing.

[sudden tiger]

😟 Sir are you ok?

[radiant ingot]

[little oxide]

[radiant ingot]

that meme

[last gulch]

im hungry for rats

[median oasis]

if im in a silly mood 8

[median oasis]

would be cool but there would be so many bugs 😭

[craggy carbon]

Can't wait for pz character to reel in fish with text box saying
"You sir are a fish"

10- waffle stomp in the shower

[lusty stag]

rare taste in music

[cobalt summit]

8

[fierce osprey]

I have terminal, late-stage Tally Hall syndrome

[clear siren]

https://tenor.com/view/rock-one-eyebrow-raised-rock-staring-the-rock-gif-22113367

[tropic gulch]

Gang playing dnd whilst waiting for the horde to move on

[tropic gulch]

I see a dnd game

[cobalt summit]

open test beta please i beg you

[tropic gulch]

@agile swan our Lord prophet, can we get a basic outline of how big the map will be in 42

Like a red line outwith the current map even

Next blog 🥲

Have a nice day

[cobalt summit]

plz 🙏🙏🙏

[cobalt summit]

it would be interesting to provide an open test with a very large watermark warning that it is a test version

[agile swan]

We're going to release it on the beta branch as soon as it's ready.

[cobalt summit]

🥹

[sleek plank]

YO WHAT?!

[sleek plank]

Think they mentioned that they added compasses to help new players figure out which way is North, given the isometric camera

[frank glade]

"hose now required for gas siphoning" you're telling me I can't use my superhuman lungs to suck out the gas in b42? you're killing me devs

[shut venture]

Will the dice be functional? I need some intense DND sessions with my group

[sage crystal]

gonna make the 10mm socket super rare with a small chance to disappear when dropped

[shut venture]

so true

[wicked jewel]

Immediately thought of Shane from TWD saying “They’re in the woods” lmao

[cobalt summit]

it would be a bad joke if they weren't functional

[serene thicket]

all things considered, because of the persistent perspective (the camera is always oriented the same way, for example), I'm not sure how useful a compass would be generally speaking

[radiant ingot]

when using the PZ map featured on a website would make things useless.

[cobalt summit]

rats looks nice

[radiant ingot]

I wonder if we could domesticate some rats or even rats could be threats to your food supply tearing holes in your bags of chips and other food items with thin materials.

it would be nice to see some bird AI

[median oasis]

yeah, could for sure add more of a threat during winter. mouse traps could also become more useful to make sure the house does not get infested with micr

[serene thicket]

I mean like, you always have an orientation for north

[sudden tiger]

I want a little rat friend 🥺

https://tenor.com/view/ugly-rat-gif-22685082

[radiant ingot]

pets stores to find some cute animals to adopt that are still alive.

[tawny patrol]

No literally, bouta be me fr

[worthy apex]

😂😂

[jade vessel]

@agile swan do you currently have any information on exactly how Aiteron's new fishing mini game works (and if spears still work to fish with)?

[wild gull]

Joe Hawley 🤘

[warped orchid]

What if you could lure rats by leaving food on the ground and have them eat corpses around your base

[fierce osprey]

fun fact: there is, or used to be, tally hall porn on rule34.xxx

[wild gull]

Yeah that's what rule 34 means

[fierce osprey]

Sent that in the tally hall discord one time and everyone got really upset

Screenshot of the tag that is

Not the porn

[wild gull]

[torn mulch]

I wonder if we could have some more realistic hunting experience

[cobalt summit]

its gonna be in b42 i think

[torn mulch]

ye but still i wish i could know if it on indie's todo list

[cobalt summit]

seeing how b42 is about animals and crafting, hunting and fishing are prob gonna get an overhaul

just like u saw with fishing minigame

[torn mulch]

i fuking love that fishing game

hel ye

[wild gull]

Hunting is gonna be super realistic, a previous blog post mentioned it. One thing that stuck out to me was the fact you could hunt the local animals extinct if you killed all the parents

[radiant ingot]

tracking animal footprints or even blood trails

finding a deer being mauled by another animal.

[lime vale]

or a zed.

[sleek plank]

It's just for newbies who don't understand that up-right is North.

[serene thicket]

I suppose

[sleek plank]

I imagine that search mode will let us find animal tracks and stool

[warped orchid]

So will you be able to choose which voice your character has in the creation menu?

If so how will it work for existing characters

[sleek plank]

My guess is that Build 41 games will be incompatible with Build 42?

[radiant ingot]

I would start a new game once build 42 comes out.

[cobalt summit]

anyone who doesn't start a new game in the new build is crazy

[tropic gulch]

If I survive till build 42 then I've officially won build 41 then?

"This is how you survived"

[torn mulch]

based

[tropic gulch]

🥲

[torn mulch]

btw anyone remember if indie has announced when will first test version of b42 releases?

[cobalt summit]

nope

maybe this year

i hope

[median oasis]

im hoping these 4 months??

[sleek plank]

*starts a run* *doesnt play it for the rest of the year*
I win!

[cobalt summit]

that's a lot of time

[radiant ingot]

until indie stone shows a new update to the roadmap

!roadmap

[half sun]

https://i.imgur.com/VL87SPo.png

Read about it in more detail more here:

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2022/01/2022-and-beyond/

[torn mulch]

considering it takes a whole year from b41 released to this stable version i doubt you might be a little bit too optimistic

[neon agate]

Im sure within 4 and a half months

[raw elbow]

I don’t think they were talking about the stable build I think they were talking about the beta branch

[sleek plank]

We're not talking about stable releases. We mean alpha/beta branches.

[radiant ingot]

people are hoping for that build 42 IWBUMS.

[gloomy marten]

If fishing is going to be so much more involved I really hope yield is being increased to match

reminds me of old vs. new foraging so far

[radiant ingot]

I wonder if spear fishing is also going to be overhauled since we haven't got any videos on that.

[neon agate]

I hope everything is as difficult as possible that way I dont have to install mods that makes everything harder/rarer

If you know the base game mechanics surviving isnt a challenge anymore. Loot abundance is really hard to fix because of the density of loot spawn points (or houses) in the map

[sleek plank]

I don't think so. I'm guessing spear fishing will remain unchanged. It's a completely different mechanic

[radiant ingot]

fishing rods have been difficult to find.

[sleek plank]

You know, it'd make sense if houses in Riverside, West Point, the East-side mansions in Louisville and a couple of buildings in Fallas Lake had a higher spawn rate for fishing gear.

[wild gull]

they do

[prisma kindle]

@radiant ingot wanna go on a walk in the woods?

👉👈

[short wharf]

It seem that we miss something : Congrats to Fenris, Amz and Pat Bren .
It's good to see that the team take care of our modders. Hope to see their works in the futures update

[sleek plank]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RAdpqhtTPtI&t=1m19s A walk in the woods, alright.

[vast berry]

Am I the only one who thinks adding NPC's might ruin the zomboid feel?

[tawny patrol]

They should be toggleable, and if not modders got that

[vast berry]

Yeah that makes sense. It's just that the devs has to spend alot of time on developing working NPC's and in the end it might not be worth it

[signal shuttle]

Why do you think that?

[vast berry]

I think it might ruin the zomboid feel, make it feel more like a MMO ish if the NPC's also give out quests (I'm hoping they don't). I like the whole lone survivor feel to it, especially with friends. Seeing NPC's could kinda take away that feel.

Its like when they introduced humans to subnautica in below zero

Just didn't feel the same.

[warped orchid]

You could always just turn them off

And I’m assuming survivors will be somewhat rare and still have the “lone survivor” vibe as apprised to civilization trying to rebuild

You probably will barely run into survivors

Maybe like 1-2 per town

[median oasis]

agree with the quest part

[sleek plank]

I don't think it'll necessarily be as simple as "quests" but maybe something a bit more natural than that. But I am very much curious how dialogue will be integrated into this system. Will it take natural, human-typed language, or will it be predetermined text?

[raw elbow]

What if it’s randomized

[misty sun]

Choice based would be cool

eg. you find a survivor behind a door that s being attacked by zombies and if you choose to save him/her you could either get a friend or an enemy, in addition, a dialogue would be cool so you could maybe asses if the person in question is friendly or not

[sleek plank]

Basically, you can do things in the world to improve relations with someone whenever you find them (help them fight zombies, give them something that they want at the moment), and in return they'll act differently. Maybe they'll be willing to trade, or help out with something, or give whatever they have at hand or at base.
But given how the AI is gonna work, I'd imagine situations where you'll come across an NPC who says "I've been starving for days. I'd kill for som food." and you can give them food and they'll be happy. But if you don't' give them food right now, they'll still be off doing their own thing, and maybe they'll find a bunch of food some other way. Then when you meet them again, you can't really offer food to increase that friendliness any more.

Basically, the NPCs are their own people with their own lives, and you can improve relations by helping them in the moment.

Imagine even bigger (and programmatically complex) ones, like helping people track down their loved ones.

Or eliminating their enemies.

And you know that NPC phase 2 or 3 will involve NPCs creating their own factions, and that phase 3 will have full on faction relationships and politics.

Unsure if they ever said it, but you KNOW that this is what they eventually want to do.

[misty sun]

Yea all of this you mentioned sounds really awesome and would greatly improve the game, as other people said above I'm sure most of these settings are going to be an on/off switch. Very excited what the future of PZ has to offer.

[median oasis]

jesus christ yall im not reading your guys’s 8th grade essay

[frank glade]

Having conversations: no longer allowed (this is my way to say that was an odd/silly thing to say. there is nothing wrong with talking at length about something you care about)

[agile swan]

Nobody needed to know that, just don't respond at all?

[median oasis]

Jeepers! Sorry for my irrational behavior 😂. I did actually read it all, i was just joking.

[quasi grail]

tu eres?

[median oasis]

no hablo espanok

espanol

[quasi grail]

aero pier to

[strange bear]

Someone mentioned birds earlier and it has got me thinking about how they can interact with the world

If there is a pile of dead bodies then perhaps scavenger birds could start causing a ruckus around it, maybe even attracting nearby zombies if there are enough of them squawking about

Nobody ever talks about how crows are the biggest winners in a zombie apocalypse

I would also love to live out my fantasy of being a redneck duck hunting woodsman surviving out in the wilderness

[sleek plank]

That's only in a world where birds can't get infected. Or you get those birds from one of those terrible Resident Evil films.

Otherwise, yeah, scavenger animals get a big W.

[prisma kindle]

can someone walk in the woods with me ? it scares me

[median oasis]

they in the whoods they in the rvv

[wild gull]

I think you should argue with the devs

never back down
viva la resistance

[sleek plank]

"They keep walking

Walking my way

If they're talking

Can't tell what they say

They keep falling

From the stuff in their way

Dead dudes walking

Can move in a day."

[cobalt summit]

👏