Leapdoid

[radiant pilot]

theres one other but its not interesting at all

[quiet hazel]

what it is?!

now i have a goal in pz in my games, to make the cake snack easteregg

i have never seen that

[foggy flame]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[wooden fog]

when tsusoid?

[lime citrus]

They're monthly, so a month from when this was posted on a Thursday

[tribal rose]

Every last Thursday of the month

[radiant pilot]

28th of march

[crisp matrix]

With a small chance that it will be on the 21st of March

[radiant pilot]

i will not feed into ur delusions

how are u still just an axe?? feel like ur always talking

[crisp matrix]

I dunno. I'm not that active on this server, and this is probably the server, and its the server I'm most active in.

Idk, maybe I'll get to Specialist sooner than I'll realize

[radiant pilot]

ur close to level 14

[crisp matrix]

Well, guess I'll just keep jabbering.

Um, I think it would be a good idea to use Prof's proc gen woods to lightly redesign some wooded areas inside the permanent map. There are some areas where the vegetation changes drastically that you can see it from map.projectzomboid.com

Like here:

The devs don't need to go and rework empty land like that if they don't want to. I don't think there'd be a downside to just making areas like that procedurally generated as long as it stays a complete, properly-zoned forest

If there are problems, even as small as it not fitting with their vision to have proc-gen areas within their strictly-controlled map boundaries, then I'd still be understanding.

[autumn raven]

That would be a dream

[river pecan]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[river pecan]

Yeah! I'm sure, it's moving!

[quiet hazel]

lol STOP

[river pecan]

It's really moving!

Believe me!

[wise ingot]

Remove that command and that graph TIS team I beg you

[river pecan]

[autumn raven]

Every time someone tells it's moving i can see my life leaving my body, so much time waiting and here we are, still waiting XD

[balmy quail]

[fringe wing]

arkham asylume levels of insanity

[lucid quail]

Just checked, hasn't moved

[river pecan]

hasn't?

[autumn raven]

Nope

It's not live service updated, it's just static, and was updated months ago

[river pecan]

Could be monthly updated! (I would love!)

[autumn raven]

sadly i don't think it will happen, given how much time they spent with creating the build already they should just launch it and let us play when it's ready (hope next 4 months at max)

[inner nimbus]

It's not gonna be updated until build 42, y'all can stop checking

[fringe wing]

!road

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[plush rain]

Manly zomboid (real)

Also when build 69, for future reference so kids in 2100 can say in 2024 we were coping for b69

[wise ingot]

it's not

It's just an useless command they made that just ends up annoying others more than anything else

They don't update it and probably don't plan on updating it soon

[wise ingot]

At this point let's hope they just release it as 1.0 lol

[lone prism]

Look between the F and the T, the blend in the roadmap is always there

[autumn raven]

wtf is this

looks like gigachad had a stroke

[thorn mango]

the new moodlets

[autumn raven]

Can say they are better than the last ones for sure

still they are funny to look at hahahaha

also where did you find these?

some tweets somewhere? Reddit?

[quiet hazel]

[zinc mesa]

[autumn raven]

[crisp matrix]

One thing I actually might enjoy from these new icons is updating their designs to be more distinct and easier to differentiate at a glance.

[quiet hazel]

like the monkey moodle right there lol

[frigid thistle]

People hating the new moodles forget that exist

[crisp matrix]

*Exactly!
Plus

[radiant pilot]

fr they all look the same

[zinc mesa]

true

[wide rain]

[crisp matrix]

You mean ?

[frigid thistle]

To be fair, the angry one isn't part of the game

[autumn raven]

build 42 when devs, have a whole group asking when b42 in my discord server, months without playing, everyone already bored from b41

*with mods included i must say

[mental ferry]

If they released B42 right now, I guarantee the first reply sent in here would be to ask why something was broken lol

[warm nimbus]

Wait people have trouble telling those apart at a glance? Wild.

[radiant pilot]

you'll live

[crisp matrix]

Calm down, sir and/or ma'am.
You need to wait, at max 3.5 months before we get to see it.
I'm betting, at max, mid-June. At min, maybe late April to early May.

[autumn raven]

i don't know with i will be able to take it anymore 0-0

[autumn raven]

Please let this be true

[autumn raven]

Nah, first reply would be "b43, when?"

[mental ferry]

Ah, true. Honestly, probably both in one order or the other

[lucid quail]

I mean technically we could be seeing early July as potential release date

On the positive side we can guarantee that the update will not drop for at least one more thursdoid

[zinc mesa]

lmfaoo yes that's the most likely scenario

[balmy quail]

Indeed. Each day that passes, B42 gets closer and closer…

[wide rain]

No

[crisp matrix]

I know. I was adding onto the point.

[balmy quail]

anyone thinking there will be a #knoxevent transmission sometime in July or when B42 unstable drops? Or has that been completely over?

edit: I didn't mean July in conjuction with B42 unstable release. Ik B42 unstable will likely release before July 1st. However, it would be cool if it dropped when the game starts in July lol

[wide rain]

cool maneuver

[rocky night]

I thought I heard first half of 2024 so at latest late june

[zinc mesa]

ye

luckily earlier

[quiet hazel]

maybe itll be july like sync with the game!

july!!!!!

[zinc mesa]

actually it'll be released tomorrow

[quiet hazel]

noo im not ready

[zinc mesa]

me neither

nor the build

so not tomorrow

[wooden fog]

42 build released in August

[zinc mesa]

42 build released 42th of augus

t

[lost cove]

2 more thursdays left in this month

getting closer to that next thursdoid

[mental ferry]

Releasing the update on the day the game starts would be funny, I'll admit

[wooden fog]

me too

[spare kelp]

I wish the devs didn't announce any kind of estimate cause when it inevitably gets pushed back the community turns into raging lemmings

[quiet hazel]

they havent

[wise ingot]

true

[spare kelp]

They said multiple times first half of this year which alot people are taking as an actual release date

[wise ingot]

they have lol

[quiet hazel]

they said it would come out this year

[spare kelp]

Well it's not official but Indie atone doesn't really do anything official

[wise ingot]

They said it will come out first half of the year

check the recent tweets of like 2 weeks ago and a bit more

[quiet hazel]

i dont look at that i look at the this year comment lol

[wise ingot]

your choice, but doesn't make his point wrong since most people look at the last news

[spare kelp]

Lol who cares how you look at it that's how they said it and it was dumb

[quiet hazel]

ok

i doubt anything they would say would please some people

[wise ingot]

truuue

I am pleased either way, they do their stuff

[spare kelp]

They really should drop the community updates, after a few months people will get use to just having to wait and that's it

Like how it used to work

[wise ingot]

I mean, it's nice having news about them and that they are alive

[quiet hazel]

What do you mean community updates? Like the blog?

[spare kelp]

Yeah

[quiet hazel]

i think that would be more detrimental especially being in early access and for how long it has been

[spare kelp]

No need for the dev team to have that extra work

[wise ingot]

I agree on that point

[spare kelp]

Pz has its funding and community, games old it has its base

[quiet hazel]

being in the loop is good pr for the community and future customers

[spare kelp]

No need for any kind of community updates it just gets people pissy

[wise ingot]

tbf I don't agree with this point. You will always hear the people who are mad about something before the people who love it
There will always be haters either way and they will always be the only one you'll see

The more positive feedbacks from the community you get is usually videos covering the blog posts

[quiet hazel]

i dont think it is THAT bad to remove community updates, of course you will have some people who just arent happy with things just part of life really

[wise ingot]

I'm personally happy with the news and I take them well, and 95% of the community will be like that, they will stay silent and just appreciate the stuff they post without changing much to their lives but being more ready to embrace the new update

[quiet hazel]

yea , i really love the new discussion forum for discord its great

[spare kelp]

Most players see half baked spirtes or mechanics and assume they knks what game dev is like and go rage at the devolves for not doing it right

Community updates are dumb cause community's are dumb it's extra stress and time devs don't need

I would rather shoot myself than be a discord community manager for any game kn the planet

[quiet hazel]

i wouldnt be in this discord if i felt the community was not worth my time, i think pz does a good job with their community

[quiet hazel]

have only seen this a few times and more than not it was people on steam forums who were trolling , the positivity still outweighs the negativity most of the time

[wise ingot]

If it was really an issue within the devs, I'm sure they would have stopped by now

[wise ingot]

yeah, you just don't hear the positive feedbacks most of the time

[spare kelp]

I've seen comments about how they feel about the community sometimes pz is rough

[quiet hazel]

no they said were the bestest so there

[wise ingot]

they are an indie company who's shown to do their own thing and handle it their own way, I doubt if they were suffering and ready to off themselves they wouldn't have communicated within the team

[slim prairie]

Will the devs announce when the new build will release or will we wake up one morning and just see they released it?

Just curious how they've done it in the past

[wise ingot]

they'll most likely announce it

[slim prairie]

Oh thank goodness. I wanna be able to call out when it drops.

[river pecan]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[deep creek]

https://tenor.com/view/its-moving-josef-abbott-and-costello-meet-the-mummy-its-alive-scared-gif-18797947

[fringe wing]

insanity

[quiet hazel]

Shtap lol i look everytime

https://tenor.com/view/find-urvish-gajjar-aapnu-cinema-you-tuber-gujarati-gif-18397137

[crisp matrix]

No 🤦🏽‍♂️ it 🤦🏽‍♂️ is 🤦🏽‍♂️ not 🤦🏽‍♂️

[radiant pilot]

its rage bait

[lucid quail]

It was a mild technicality, as half of july is technically 6.5 months which could be argued to still be the first half

[wise ingot]

Well uh no 6.5 =~ 7

Anyway, we'll see and stop sniffing the copium so much

[lucid quail]

I see your maths and raise you a Touhou gif

https://tenor.com/view/rumia-cabbage-touhou-eosd-2hu-gif-22601452

[slender furnace]

Erm, actually, since the current year has 366 days the first half ends on the 183rd day, July 1st. If the reddit comment is accurate—“first half of 2024 for sure”—this means on or before July 1st.

Of course, this assumes the developers are using the Gregorian calendar. In the Ethiopic calendar the current year is 2016. Coptic, 1740. Islamic, 1445. Persian, 1402. So, really, we have no idea when the release will happen. May God rest our tortured souls

[vagrant cloak]

I prefer the ones we are already past the year 5000

[wooden fog]

Byzantine calendar???

[wooden fog]

if you tell me when build 42 will be released, I will work for you

[radiant pilot]

what can u bring to the indie stone development team

[radiant pilot]

good grief

[wooden fog]

good question

i dont know

[vagrant cloak]

But if you work for me the exact date changes, so we have a paradox.

[wooden fog]

nope

[vernal cargo]

Make me an indie stone dev I'll get B42-45 Released in 20-28 business days

[wooden fog]

wow

[elder dirge]

Want thursdoid
(I know it's not even close to the correct day for that. Want it though)

[slender furnace]

Then when would b42 😨

[vagrant cloak]

Fired.

[radiant pilot]

fun fact

thursdoids are fridoids for aussies

[plush rain]

omg bro just gave hint for 1.0 release (real) 1.0 in year 5000 confirmed

[plush rain]

theire also sometimes fridoids for me, because sometimes thursdoids get posted really late for me (18:00 - 1:00 or later)

[elder dirge]

Australian time-travel technology amazes me

[warm nimbus]

Another fun fact thursdoid(fridoids for Aussies) used to be Mondoid(tuesdoid for Aussies)

[zinc mesa]

just imagine that it was on wednesday

it'd be so odd

wednesdoid

[unique mason]

yes

yes they are king

[robust iron]

Didn't it used to be wednesdoid?

[warm nimbus]

nope it has only ever been on Monday or Thursday. No Wednesdoid.

[autumn raven]

How many months before monthdoid become weekdoid again?

[frigid thistle]

Maybe after B42 since weekdoids became monthdoids cause there wasn't a lot of progress to show cause almost everything was finished but missing details

[warm nimbus]

I have a feeling it isn't going to go back to weekly... Monthoid allows TIS to cook more without being bogged down by trying to get that done every week. Most other games that do a dev blog like this do it on a monthly cycle as well

[shut obsidian]

quarteroids, yearoids, ghostoids...

[slim prairie]

"We decided to change are Thursdoids to Centennialdoids."

[radiant pilot]

its also cuz they have nothing to talk about on their blogs currently

[lost cove]

monthly blog posts can help generate more amazing progress

[warm nimbus]

100%, doesn't help for sure.

[robust iron]

I mean we literally glossed over the vast majority of discussion points in the last monthdoid because "Yeah it's cool af to see the thing yall have been saying you were doing all this time" isn't a long conversation.
It's not that there's nothing to say, it's that condensing it into a monthly blog post with demo videos wouldn't show much different from weekly blog posts with the same intent, so they can just save time and focus their efforts

From my read of things we're in the obnoxious and overly long part of development where everything that's been worked on has to come together and work in combination.

[lucid quail]

They said they switched to fortnight-oids simply because it takes like an entire ass day to make a thursdoid and it's a bit stressful meeting quotas whilst also missing out on most of a day for something unrelated

[soft plank]

After a century, we'll almost have the stable release of update 42. I'll be there, waiting.

So fuckin' excited for the late game return to medieval times, but with guns.

[zinc mesa]

don't know

[wooden fog]

Will there be a developer blog on the 28th?

[radiant pilot]

hah fortnight

[radiant pilot]

yes more than likely since they’re making blog posts the last thursday of every month

(which the 28th is)

[wise ingot]

[lone prism]

As someone said before always expect the last one, and possibly be happier if it does come a week earlier

[slender furnace]

Alternatively, expect it every day and return here daily to ask whether it'll be today

[gleaming lark]

They switched to fortnite?!?!?!?!

[elder dirge]

Have they said anything about new ways to preserve food without electricity in a previous long-term survival focused thursdoid? I know we already have pickling, but I wonder if we'll get other ways of preserving

[quiet hazel]

like thart?

[elder dirge]

Yeah! That's awesome

Thank you 🙂

[quiet hazel]

yar , do you want the link to the blog thingie? i dunno if theres mroe stuff mentioned in tha tone

[elder dirge]

Yes, please

[quiet hazel]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2023/12/zleigh-ride/

[slim prairie]

When Build 42 drops, is it safe to say you should turn off all mods, considering the overhaul to the game it will bring?

[radiant pilot]

all mods will be outdated in b42

[slim prairie]

lol damn, it's been so long since I've played pure vanilla. It'll be weird noticing all the modded features missing.
Still excited to see all the changes B42 will bring!

[gleaming lark]

Mods will break

Heavily

[quiet hazel]

best to disable anyways, mods would probably prevent vaniller stuff from spawning

[frigid thistle]

Some mods might survive

Like the Saul Goodman level up sound

[gleaming lark]

You won't

🔪

[frigid thistle]

Over half of my mods are maps so, yeah... They won't survive

[vagrant cloak]

This is how your mods died

[summer matrix]

With how much new stuff there is and the amount of improved systems, it'll feel as good as a moderately modded B41 for a while.

Will just have to wait for a few key mods to be updated.

[lost cove]

build 42 will kill all mods until their mods are upgraded lol

[quiet hazel]

all your mods are belong to us

[frigid thistle]

Just like Rimworld 1.5 making one of the most popular mods completely irrelevant

[robust iron]

Not just moderately modded, I figure there will be a few mods cooked up within the first month that are going to take heavy advantage of new update tools to make things that never could've been

[quiet hazel]

Can i wear a sheeps' clothes?

[fringe wing]

will the shrek vhs mod survive?

guess we'll find out.

[zinc mesa]

Yeah, I remember that they showed up something that was a mod for it and I thought: "yay, I'll be able to disable the mod that uses to do that"

It's cool that they add things to vanilla which are just only in mods

[summer matrix]

Fr. Plus a whole slew of new modding possibilities will be opened up

[warm nimbus]

Not only that but there has been some pretty notable times when a mod has been implemented into the base game because the devs hired that person. A few examples are farming, and In-Game Map.

[radiant pilot]

i hope the admin tools for mp servers get a minor rework or some attention

cuz rn u cant do much even at the highest rank

and with that, theres almost no difference inbetween admin ranks.

[slender furnace]

What kind of stuff would you want to be able to do

[radiant pilot]

its just u cant even rotate cars with admin tools

unless u activate debug

also the item list viewer is insanely laggy with even a few mods

[slim prairie]

It's gonna be nuts to see all the stuff following b42's release!
I'm almost certain they'll use the animal AI to make a NPC mod.

[wise ingot]

Not as much as we could think I believe

There's some mods that will implode that's for sure

Like gun mods for example since they showed they are working on improving them

But some might survive

And a bunch will probably just require a few changes

[gleaming lark]

There's a large amount of restructuring

Many mods will also be defunct

Or unnecessary at the least

[wise ingot]

Of course, that's normal

[gleaming lark]

The less mods the better for me personally

Less chance of breaking

[robust iron]

Gun mods won't implode.
As long as there's two people in the community one of them will disagree with the other over the balance of guns in zomboid

[wise ingot]

What I meant by implode is that they will all be broken

[robust iron]

Oh that for sure nvm

[shy parrot]

Call me crazy but I think thrusdoid might be on the 28th...

[frigid thistle]

Thursdoid today? 👉 👈

[shy parrot]

No 😠

[frigid thistle]

Damn... I didn't think that you of all people would lose hope

[autumn raven]

Let's cheer for last thursdoid before b42 drops...

[warm nimbus]

🥂

[lucid quail]

Nah Personally I think after this thursdoid we're gonna have to wait for the next one and then we'd be seeing a release

[spare kelp]

Wait whys that?

[balmy quail]

perhaps an April B42 unstable release. Why...? searches up an important TIS event/occasion that occurred in April

to mark (if I'm not mistaken) the 13th anniversary of when the game was first released as a tech demo

if not, I hope there's an unforeseen setback that pushes the release date to July 6th

[spare kelp]

I imagine sometime in june

[slender furnace]

I really want to see zomboid gamers become desperate enough to start doing numerology to determine the release date

“There are exactly 39 instances of the letter R in this thursdoid. R stands for release. It's 39 days away guys”

[thorn mango]

we're not ravenously hungry for games

worst case scenario the indie stone dies out

[lyric wadi]

We'll outlive you all

There is no numerology or other stuff you can do to predict a specific release date, unless you are actually a psychic and can tell us

[radiant pilot]

well i have predicted natural disasters

[lyric wadi]

How many fingers am I holding up

[radiant pilot]

april 1st indie stone will post something on twitter about adding something but its just an april fools

[radiant pilot]

6 and a half

[lyric wadi]

Lucky guess

[lyric wadi]

I don't think so, unless it's very obviously a joke, jokes don't always go down so well with the more rabid fans

[radiant pilot]

april fools unstable would be crazy lol

have all the new updates been released on thursdoid days?

[crisp matrix]

MAGAZINE ARMOR

[gleaming lark]

Finally

[slender furnace]

There are exactly 6 Rs in this message. R stands for release. It's 6 days away guys

[foggy flame]

tomorrow, 9:32PM EST

[wise ingot]

yez

[radiant pilot]

didnt even realize they were magazines lol

hottiez armour gonna be the new meta

[visual plover]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-happy-jumping-gif-26555219

[frigid thistle]

Nice. I'm tired of everyone wearing firefighter gear

[gleaming lark]

So scrap armor definitely gonna be a thing now

[quiet hazel]

Lol yeah i vould see that not going over well at all

[lost cove]

next week that thursdoid will finally be here

[gleaming lark]

Nah that'd be hilarious

[quiet hazel]

LIAR

But on another serious postit i cant wait for wallpaper

Mop mop all day long mop mop

[wooden fog]

By the way, modders can make NPCs based on animals

[wise ingot]

?

We can already do that with zombies

[wooden fog]

but it's done crookedly

[wise ingot]

I doubt modders do it with zombies

And I don't see how animals will improve those

[wooden fog]

sorry for my English, I'm just using a translator

[wise ingot]

my point still stands lol

[warm nimbus]

Half-Life 3 confirmed.

[wise ingot]

fr

[elder marten]

So, no thursdoid today?

[wise ingot]

last thuesday of the month, so next week

[mental ferry]

April fools, hear me out: project zomboid in legally distinct tabletop fantasy rpg

"I didn't ask how big the room was, I cast Big Fire Spell."

[crude lily]

I recall a mod that actually adds DND to zomboid

[wise ingot]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3155647614&searchtext=game+night

[crude lily]

yeh

[mental ferry]

Oooh interesting.
But on the same token, imagine actually casting a fireball at the zomboids to defend your base lol. As I imagine it, loud and destructive - but effective!

[crude lily]

I cast lit smirnoff bottle filled with diesel

[mental ferry]

Honestly, that's probably the effect it'd have LOL

[crude lily]

the hydrocraft mod had craftable napalm so that was probably top tier BBQ central

[frigid thistle]

Animal AI might be slightly better than zombie AI idk

[wise ingot]

We'll have to see but yes it's most likely more flexible

[slender furnace]

I'm looking forward to messing around with the b43 AI scripting teased in the latest blog (and a long while ago in an interview)

Custom AI that just follows me around telling me how cool I am, stopping only to eat enough to remain alive

[wise ingot]

hmm

[slender furnace]

Apparently the interview I was thinking of was 10 years ago and was also not an interview

I thought it was more like 5

[frigid thistle]

I'm not hyped about NPCs at all

I just want a horse and a basement

[lost cove]

glad animals are the 1st form of NPC other than the zombies

[crude lily]

I cant wait to have cats and dogs to have around in your home

[lost cove]

hunting racoons

hopefully we can tame wild animals

[balmy quail]

can't wait to track and hunt down deer

also it'll be pretty cool to see roaches and rats scatter when approaching filthy areas and/or corpses

[frigid thistle]

Are they even confirmed?

[radiant pilot]

no but we can imagine someday from either mods or vanilla they'll be here

the animal ai is gonna make it extemely easy to add animals

like modders could make rhinos if they wanted to probably lol

[slim prairie]

Same, I like TIS easing players into NPCs by giving us little animal pals first.
We're too irresponsible to handle a survivor group as of now.

[lost cove]

I just hope Human NPC wont be annoying overpowered

realistically early zombie apocalypse would have more living human NPC than in the late game.

[wise ingot]

https://tenor.com/view/math-calculate-confusing-figure-out-gif-6237717

well yeah of course

[lost cove]

dat meme

just hope gang raids would be too many issues

NPC update will make locking the doors feel more useful lol

[wise ingot]

yeah definitely

Or just play with zombies that can open doors

[lost cove]

climb over tall fence and the zombies seems to be smart enough to go around to find the player.

[quiet hazel]

first time i did that i had night sprinters on and forgot and they did a reach around on me while in my spawn house thingie

cant play without it now

[balmy quail]

then they’ll come raid us with axes or have one carry a sledgehammer to destroy our doors

or maybe some of the NPCs will be expert lock-pickers

[drowsy locust]

playing this in a roleplay server . roleplay within roleplay . Easy

[lost cove]

once human NPC's finally get added the super survivors mod will be obsolete

[balmy quail]

someone mentioned RPGs earlier and it reminded me of a tweet

[quiet hazel]

so much cool little stuff to collects

[modern forum]

🗿

[lost cove]

dungeons and dragons

[modern forum]

I wasn't aware they had assets, I spent like a day on those

Weird some of the colors match I guess I just also have a pink d6.

[river pecan]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[peak salmon]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1079967390957305857/1079972551729614919/unknown-233.png

[summer matrix]

Whats the bet zeds will still be able to get a good roll and bite right through it in one chomp somehow even if it's undamaged lol

[lost cove]

logic of zombies scratching through body armor

zombies must have knives for nails

[quiet hazel]

they have finger bones for nails

[balmy quail]

all that’s left is for players to cover themselves in zomboid guts so we can “camouflage”

[quiet hazel]

imagine the smell

[balmy quail]

instant

[lost cove]

zombie guts lol

[quiet hazel]

who needs hawaiian flower necklace when we can have zombie gizzards

[frigid thistle]

Devs already said that it will never be a thing in the game

[balmy quail]

what about some sort of camouflage in general?

like perhaps wearing a Spiffo suit will let me live and rule the raccoons in the forest and possibly prevent them from messing with all the crops I'll be growing

[frigid thistle]

Wearing a hoodie should make you basically invisible to zomboids

[quiet hazel]

lol i dont think so

thats so funny

[lost cove]

wearing a racoon hat tricking the racoons into thinking we are one of them

[balmy quail]

[wise ingot]

Tho that's early 2022, that can have changed since then

[wise ingot]

They must be british zombies then

[balmy quail]

[balmy quail]

true. Very cool either way

[lyric wadi]

Don't think it's realistic but I would be fond of a "tamer" version, like a raccoon who doesn't immediately run away if you feed it/hang out with it enough

[lyric wadi]

They won't

[lyric wadi]

Zombies are magical creatures who are simultaneously rotting corpses but can also rip living people's limbs off easily

[plush rain]

these zombies also got some sharp teeth if they can bite through thick clothing and leather

and are really strong for that their body gets dismantled by their own bacteria

[ancient quarry]

Bruh they rip my fucking bulletproof armor

[lyric wadi]

They do, it's just how zombies are. You have to accept it and play along.

[wooden fog]

developers, maybe u add new animations die for zombie??

[modern forum]

There are probably bigger fish to fry, in the meantime: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3147442677

[autumn raven]

It's all your fault, you should have worn zombie proof armor instead

[ancient quarry]

Lol

[foggy flame]

https://tenor.com/view/fallout-dog-zomboid-suspicious-gif-10712400350108666363

[wise ingot]

yess that would be great

[night oracle]

there are some mods for dat..

[wise ingot]

Still a good question anyway

[night oracle]

ark survival evolved entered the chat..

[wise ingot]

@lyric wadi more on the technical aspect of the game, I'm currently modding a lot with animations. Will there be any changes in how animations are done/handled. Especially for animals, will they base themselves on the same system than zombies and humans by having animSets or will there be technical changes to the whole system to not have to write 30 animSets just for a single animal ?

I was curious about that bcs I realized how tedious it is to many any kind of animation for the game for every single actions of a zombie, and even worse for humans

[night oracle]

we need more clothes packs.. T_T

[wise ingot]

???????????

[night oracle]

[wise ingot]

does that look like I'm working on god damn clothings ??
https://streamable.com/6sn5jb

[night oracle]

deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem

when it's finished :))))))))))))

[wise ingot]

probably max in a month

[night oracle]

gotta be fire!

[wise ingot]

yeah

no need for clothing packs to have fun

[night oracle]

agreed!

[lyric wadi]

You're asking the wrong person there

[wise ingot]

ahah np

Idk who does what at TIS

[radiant pilot]

pat does lore building

[wise ingot]

👌

[drowsy locust]

what the fuck is he doing here. why do more than 5 people including me know about this man. why is he here. im going to throw up and cry

[ancient quarry]

R u Pat_Bren

[modern forum]

Ernest P. Worell is a national Treasure

https://tenor.com/view/ernest-ernest-p-worrell-crown-crown-royal-royal-gif-23789030

[lyric wadi]

Ya

Ernest build for PZ

[modern forum]

Do you guys have like British Ernest? Is Mr. Bean the equivalent?

[vagrant cloak]

While I'm not part of the art/animations team I believe they will stay separate files

[lyric wadi]

Don't you dare imply I'm British. I guess Mr. Bean would be very similar though.

[modern forum]

Is the Queen on your currency? 🗿

Oh wait you're Irish - my apologies

Thought you were Maple-British 🍁

[lyric wadi]

I won my freedom in the Battle of the Bulge in 1916

[modern forum]

I only know that battle cause ww2 is pounded into our brains over here - but was there an earlier battle by the same name?

[gleaming lark]

https://tenor.com/view/sassy-sass-ohyeah-gif-14904347734164305987

[inner nimbus]

Is build 42 stable confirmed for 2024, or only unstable?

[modern forum]

You missed the release, slept right through it

[inner nimbus]

Oh shit. I really need to stop taking mid-day naps that last until the next day

[wise ingot]

As like a different system for animals than the rest or you mean like animSets + anim_X ?

[lyric wadi]

I lied

[modern forum]

I have content for the upcoming thursdoid: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3196111875

To put it simply, I fixed PZ.

https://tenor.com/view/sassy-sass-ohyeah-gif-4886427

[lyric wadi]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddPQAJSm2cQ

[modern forum]

No comment

[wise ingot]

The mod fixed my 300 errors from my thousand mods modpack !

[quiet hazel]

lol

[wise ingot]

🧀

                  🐁

I'm so hyped for the rats 😋

[inner nimbus]

Rats, roaches, and raccoons are going to go a huge way in making the world feel more alive

[wise ingot]

fr fr

[quiet hazel]

must collect all the roaches

[inner nimbus]

It would be really funny if we could pick up live roaches and release a whole bunch in our friend's bases

[quiet hazel]

lol

and rats , make rats eat food lol

[gleaming lark]

Lizards

I want lizards

[quiet hazel]

can we have fireflies and use them for light source

[wise ingot]

Pretty sure fireflies are terrible light sources lol

You're better off starting a fire

[quiet hazel]

lol let me boat down my river of delusion

[wise ingot]

haha

[inner nimbus]

Sabotaging an enemy base by releasing pestilence upon it would be hilariously devious

[lost cove]

next week we get another amazing thursdoid again.

[wise ingot]

Most likely yez

Moodles getting shared, community will explode once more

[quiet hazel]

lol

[ruby thistle]

all moodles become spiffo

[radiant pilot]

good idea

[balmy quail]

then all zombies become Spiffo

and sprinters

[lucid quail]

To be fair, they also said they'd never add a minimap

[slender furnace]

That was not a confirmed no on the “no” list, according to the key

[lucid quail]

There was an old list and it was one of the confirmed no, as was named weapons

Plans change and scope evolves

[slender furnace]

This is the list I was referring to with “no list.” It was not a confirmed no

On that list, anyway. No idea whether the devs confirmed it elsewhere

[crisp matrix]

Man, time flies, doesn't it? Already, next week is gonna be a Thursdoid.

I suspect, by April's Thursdoid, we'll all have a clearer idea of when B42 it will drop onto IWBUMS.

[oak fable]

They already mentioned they plan to open B42 for testing within the first half of the year, which is roughly 2 months from now on. Plans can always change however, especially when it's about timelines in software development.

[quiet hazel]

july!!!

so we can irl roleplay our doom

[balmy quail]

^yes. July 6th

[crisp matrix]

Yeah, but by April, perhaps they'll be able to give us confidence if it will drop in May or June.

[zinc mesa]

hottiez

[lost cove]

April ,May and June are Q2 if we are lucky

5 more days until thursdoid arrives

[wooden fog]

maybe this week we will find out the release date

[lost cove]

Or we get more juicy content for build 42

[wooden fog]

anything can happen

[lost cove]

Build 42 doesn’t need to be released on a Thursday.

[crisp matrix]

I don't think we're getting a release date. I think it'll be more like, we'll be told if things are progressing okay, or if they're progressing speedily. If it's speedily, I'm guessing a late April release. If it's okay, I'm guessing mid- to late June

[terse cliff]

Was B42 scheduled for this year or this decade?

[quiet hazel]

on their twitter they said this year

[slim prairie]

I'm gonna guess June. Even if they have something playable, they might as well use the extra time for squashing bugs.

[river pecan]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[crisp matrix]

First half of this year. June at the latest.

[daring hinge]

doesnt that mean the unstable will be soon and full stable release is june latest

[terse cliff]

PLACE YOUR BETS PEOPLE
DID THEY ADD ARCHERY LIKE PLANNED OR NAH

[crisp matrix]

I'm exclusively discussing Unstable. It'll be several months before it drops onto Stable.

[crisp matrix]

They probably added bows

They wouldn't put all that effort into the end-game crafting system if they haven't added bows. But it's possible that they aren't even modeled yet.

[terse cliff]

They haven't shown us a damn thing remotely connected to archery so I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't. Which would have me piiiissssssssssed.

[crisp matrix]

For all we know, we're getting a sneak peak at bows next Thursday. Perhaps the new firearms tools will help make balancing them quicker.

[terse cliff]

We better
The last two thursdoids were just filler and disappointing

[mental ferry]

Didn't we get shown an entire crafting tree? Hold on, gonna go dig.

Yeah we did

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/content/uploads/2022/08/ProfTree_Bowmaker.png

Granted this was all the way back in Slapdashdoid

[quiet hazel]

Chream cheese

[crisp matrix]

Pretty sure that says "... Stick"

[wise ingot]

Crossbow Stick

[balmy quail]

crossbow stick?

[quiet hazel]

Creamcheese stick?!

[limpid plank]

you can literally open the picture in high res

why do u do this to me

[limpid plank]

No

[quiet hazel]

Oh thanks

[modern forum]

Cheesemaking confirmed

[terse cliff]

The Ball-Bot has spoken

https://tenor.com/view/yes-clapping-applause-praise-gif-16442370

[ruby thistle]

Kinda random, but I wonder if theres gonna be a good way to make salt as a renewable resource
I know sugar beets are added and thats nice for some preservation, but I want salt for salt preservation, but I wouldnt know of a good way to get salt from nature in KY

[lyric wadi]

Greasy Snack

[lyric wadi]

Salt mines do exist, don't know if there are any in KY though

[quiet hazel]

Finally someone with class

[mental ferry]

Quick google confirms that yes, there are in fact salt mines in Kentucky! Neat

Hard to find if they're still operative, but they exist

[quiet hazel]

make it so you need certain amount of strength to pickup antique stoves lol

OR make it so if food is left outside it goes bad

[lost cove]

if winter could help preserve food from rotting

[quiet hazel]

can we get these hats

i want more umbrellas!!!!

[quiet hazel]

make it so we cant put stuff like mattresses in our backpacks

i just put a mattress in my backpack

[night oracle]

what about build 49? , SHAME!

[wise ingot]

no, unstable is for first half, stable is for whenever it is stable so no idea for that

[lost cove]

IWBUMS is usually a build during the beta

[radiant pilot]

mammoth cave update?

[lost cove]

imagine some coal mining in PZ

[gleaming lark]

lol you said bum

[quiet hazel]

yeah and set it on fire like centralia , pa so its forever silent hill

[lyric wadi]

The thing about coal mining is that any half-decent mine is probably going to have a mountain of coal that would do a group for many years

[lost cove]

noice

[wise ingot]

So we don't even need to mine ourselves

[lyric wadi]

Not up to me, that's just what I think though

[wise ingot]

Nah I agree, realistically speaking it makes sense

[lyric wadi]

You could say the same about finding a big truck filled with food though, so things have to be balanced

[wise ingot]

idk shit about Kentecky tho but if there are coal mines there, then you'd most likely have coal piles at the coal mines yeah

[wise ingot]

Hmm yeah well that's a world building issue I feel like lol. It's like the reason food stores are almost empty, lore wise it has to make sense

And you have to adapt the lore to fit the gameplay, so like not have food stores completely full or it would be too easy

Tho if there's nothing explaining why food stores are empty, then that's bad world building, and it would be the same for food trucks

[lyric wadi]

I don't think there's a need for the lore to explain every single thing, lore is bad, you can just use your imagination

[wise ingot]

Having a lore doesn't mean explaining it, but if there's bad world building then no that's really really bad for your game. If things are incoherent, people will see it and that will take them out of the game immersion, and that's not only in immersive games that are fully representative of the world, that counts for any type of game and anything. Things have to be coherent within the game but that stands for any art form involving fiction, like a movie, a serie or even more interestingly, a painting

Let's say you create a fictional universe where everyone disappears out of nowhere in a single minute, you can't just have food stores be empty right because everyone was living their lives normally and there's no reason for them to consume all the food in stores ? Well that's very similar in PZ, there has to be a reason or something coherent that explains why there isn't any food around KY ?

[frigid thistle]

You could say the same about warehouses, supermarkets, gun stores, clothing stores, houses. All of them have incredibly low loot compared to what you could find there irl. Just do the same with mines lol

[lost cove]

usually grocery stores would be the 1st places to be looted in a zombie apocalypse

[frigid thistle]

We see no signs of looting tho

At least in B41

[lost cove]

everything is currently clean as ikea showroom

lack of overturned furniture, broken furnature ect

[frigid thistle]

As far as I understand, the people of the four main towns turned into zombies before being able to loot. The ones in Louisville knew that something was happening and they did have time to loot and break stuff. The four main towns should be untouched

[frigid thistle]

I'd love to see more military checkpoints around the city

[lost cove]

maybe some buildings converted to alternate care sites like schools , malls, hotels , stadiums ect

[frigid thistle]

Louisville as a whole looks too clean. Like three or four buildings have signs of violence

[lost cove]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_care_site

[frigid thistle]

There's a mod that does that. Turns the baseball stadium into an evacuation centre or something

[frigid thistle]

I'd love to see something like this in one of the Louisville schools. Most of them have giant gyms

And schools are quite uninteresting on their own

[wise ingot]

Yeah that's my issue with the world building currently, there's no reasons for stores to be looted that much

[lost cove]

it would be interesting if schools could be survivor house scenes

[gleaming lark]

we can turn coal into gas

finally we can make our own fuel

[lost cove]

bio fuel feature in PZ be like

[gleaming lark]

i certainly hope so

[thorn mango]

i hope gas goes bad after 3 months

and you have to de oxydie it

[gleaming lark]

no

[lost cove]

looking at the walking dead when cars seem to have magical fuel

[gleaming lark]

Zombies are magic

im aware they plan on something with fuel going "bad" but itll be a setting

[lost cove]

I hear cars will wear out over time in PZ in build 42

[gleaming lark]

which I think is also a setting

[lost cove]

Aparently fridges , generators and other machinery will wear out

[gleaming lark]

if theres a way to fix them to last longer than Im all for it

[lost cove]

imagine engines wearing out over time

unless they make transmissions in cars wear out.

[gleaming lark]

there just needs to be a good balance

[night oracle]

"you have been zombified because your current character wore out-"

[shut obsidian]

I think all pre apocalypse tech should eventually fail so aspects of the game that are too easy currently like food preservation and transportation become something players have to work for

Make us go back to salting food and horse drawn carriages

[gleaming lark]

salting food yes, horse drawn carriages no

id rather have the vehicles

[shut obsidian]

I know you always want ez mode game and push back on all ideas that change that. I prefer the opposite

[gleaming lark]

ez mode

wut

[lost cove]

should canned food expire

expired IRL doenst mean its rotten

[gleaming lark]

better idea, let us can ourselves

[shut obsidian]

I imagine it'll be all eaten before that happens, they last years

[night oracle]

decades

[lost cove]

so far I seem to always find ways of getting perishable food items and eating non perishable food items feels almost useless.

non perishable foods should only be a last resort.

[shut obsidian]

I watched a YouTube video of a guy eating WW1 rations from a can 🤮

It was mostly dust by then

[gleaming lark]

There just needs to be that balance

[lost cove]

hunting in build 42 going to make winter survival more fun and being able to have more renewable sources of perishable meat.

[gleaming lark]

i'm curious to know if trapping and hunting can reduce a population

seems fishing might get that

[shut obsidian]

It should. Maybe not to the point of extinction but enough so if you hunt too many deer you start to find fewer and fewer

[lost cove]

having to wait for animal mating seasons to reproduce new wild life

I could understand birds since they migrate all over and new birds will take over.

[shut obsidian]

Yes! And we have to decide if we hunt Bambi now or wait for her to grow up

[lost cove]

hunting male deers instead of the females

[night oracle]

so they must add some (stuff) to know which are different? (not deers , the other animals-)

[lost cove]

unless animal respawns off screens balance the survival

[gleaming lark]

i mean since there are no humans hunting

now they grow

[lost cove]

age system for humans in project zomboid be like and choosing the age of the player from young adult to middle age.

[shut obsidian]

What I'm curious about is how the shooting mechanics for hunting will be. Will there be a RNG system in place that determines if you hit a vital organ like lung or heart shot, or just a flesh wound? Will you be able to choose to take a sub optimal shot like a rear angle, or wait for a broadside?

[summer matrix]

A single deer can provide 52 pounds of meat so.. hunting better be hard 😅

[lost cove]

hopefully deer meat will be called Venison in PZ

hunting some groundhogs be like

[night oracle]

cute-

[lost cove]

coyote hunting

[shut obsidian]

Or they hunt you 😱

[lost cove]

so far the only bird you could catch currently is this American Robin

[autumn raven]

Throwing corpses into bioreactor for a free methane gas

[autumn raven]

My character survived almost a month eating nothing but cereals and macncheese

[crisp matrix]

Yeah, could a zombie apocalypse use zombie corpses as an endless supply of fuel?

[lost cove]

composting human remains for fertilizer lol

[gleaming lark]

I would assume that the flesh of zombies is "contaminated"

[quiet hazel]

ew that would be horrible lol

[gleaming lark]

What I mean is it wouldnt make good fertilizer

[lost cove]

usually viruses and bacteria dont last long outside of a host

[thorn mango]

your poop is fertilier

[lost cove]

good thing we can compost poisonous plants and mushroom

[thorn mango]

eat 2 billion calories and shit on your crops

[lost cove]

chicken poop as fertilizer its very useful for farming IRL

chicken manure is also key to growing some mushroom species

[terse cliff]

Okay so
From an IRL standpoint:

It's really easy to make gas reusable after even a decade.

Give it all a good ol shake, toss some rocks or smth in the tank/can to help shake the mixture through

Filter that shit through a shirt to get rid of the rough bits of rust

Pour it in a plastic container and let it sit for a while to let the rest of the sediment sink to the bottom

Clear out the tank and fuel lines/carborator/etc while the mixture is chilling for a sec

Fill in the revived gas
Works.

[river pecan]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[river pecan]

It's moving!

[thorn mango]

yaaaay

🎉

[lost cove]

until we see the bar closer to the end

[wise ingot]

It's not, as always

[sick crow]

Npc stage one development bugs are going to be hilarious

I mean that in the best way. I live for bugs.

[frigid thistle]

Everyone talking about burning zombies for fuel, but no one thinks about capturing a bunch of zombies and making them turn a wheel forever

[quiet hazel]

i cant wait lol

[thorn mango]

hamster wheel

genius!

[fringe wing]

dangerous levels of copium

[lost cove]

if zombies could get fatter and move slower

[mild epoch]

I can already see all the unhappy reddit posts that will crop up as soon as the unstables drop.

"This naked untextured NPC led a massive zombie horde to my base before spontaneously combusting on my lawn, costing me my 2,786 year old run"

[shut obsidian]

That’s actually a really cool idea. Since zombies don’t follow any physical laws and are basically magic, the pz world could become a world where you manipulate zombies for free labour. Tie and bunch of zombies to a turbine, dangle a (figurative) carrot in front of them so they chase it in a circle and you have infinite clean energy 😂

[warm nimbus]

Totally could see this being a thing being done in PZ. They did this in Fear The Walking Dead, was pretty neat to see.

[river pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/bugs-bug-insects-cockroaches-music-gif-5045519

[young solstice]

I have to dream I'm playing b42 to cope that it isn't released yet

[lyric wadi]

No

[lyric wadi]

Same. Chaos

[lyric wadi]

No, though zombies are against the laws of physics, I wouldn't push it that far

[mild epoch]

Agree on this. Zombies are, at worst, biologically implausible, but they're otherwise still mostly grounded in the physical world. Also, zombies in PZ (and in general), only tend to go after living or very fresh meals to eat, and in PZ specifically they will only be going after humans. So, in order for this to work you'd either need an endless supply of human flesh to replace on a very regular basis - which you'd only have if you're a dystopian AF post-apocalyptic empire - or have someone luring the zombies at all times to stop them from losing interest. At best, it'd be very inefficient and not at all "infinite" energy, and at that that point you'd be better off just building a power plant

[slender furnace]

They also follow sound, so you could just hang a bell

[mild epoch]

Maybe? It's fair; a noisemaker would probably be the best shot at getting anything like this to work, but it also depends on how the zombies really behave. I think it's pretty unlikely that the zombies would hyperfixate on a ringing bell enough to walk in a circle indefinitely without being distracted, or eventually just ignoring it completely

And even if it did work like that, someone could still so much as walk by the contraption, and the zombies would probably forget about the bell, stop walking in a circle, and start trying to get out. Still way too inefficient imo

Or, hell, they may just prioritize all the sounds of human activity outside over the bell

[lone prism]

That zombies could "learn" and start ignoring/prioritizing certain sounds seems interesting

I imagine they likely would get attracted by animal sounds by knowing humans probably are around caring for them looking at b42

[crisp matrix]

I wasn't asking for this to get implemented. Obviously, it'd be OP.

[lyric wadi]

This is the sort of "intelligence" that would make for the most fun gameplay imo, without making zombies seem too bright (another danger)

[quiet hazel]

Sadistic director:sheep

[slender furnace]

I think the idea that zombies have the capacity for habituation is dubious, but yeah that'd be a problem if they would eventually ignore it. The other parts are easily solvable with soundproofing

[wise ingot]

Just make sure the zombies can't see anyone ?

[slender furnace]

I don't think this is something that any reasonable person would set up, but a fun idea to think about nonetheless

[mild epoch]

That'd be tricky, too, as maintenance and general check-ups would likely still need to be performed on the likely, many occasions that something could go wrong with it. It'd basically need to be sealed off completely to stop the zombies from being distracted. Not impossible, but it would be a logistical nightmare for such a niche source of energy when literally anything else would work better

[mild epoch]

I could see some wacky zombie-worshipping cult being crazy enough to do something like this, but it would never be worth the time and resources for a regular community to create

[wise ingot]

Well I don't agree with that at all. Creating a windmill or an electrical powerplant isn't easy at all and when you need something to let's say, power a wheel to grind wheat into flour for example, instead of having to rely on a donkey or a windmill (which isn't easy to build by itself) you could just take the same system that uses horses to power a wheel but instead put a bunch of zombies

It's not that far fetched

[mild epoch]

This is a fair point; I'll concede that it could potentially work on a way smaller scale with enough tinkering to stop the zombies from being such a loose cannon, but definitely not as a large-scale, permanent energy source

[gleaming lark]

Let us make biofuel pat

[wise ingot]

Nah it'll most likely not be large scale but who knows tbf

you don't need to feed them

Let's say you make a piston system so zombies push on it to make water flow through a turbine and produce electricity, it would only require going back and forth

and you trigger sound 1 and sound 2 one after the other

While it's not easy to make such mechanical system efficient, it's extremely easy to install tbf

[quiet hazel]

lol zombie powered

i love pz community

[mild epoch]

Barring the work needed to prevent distractions and/or zombies growing used to the sounds, I could see this working. Really depends on circumstance as to how practical it would be to actually use it, or anything "zombie-powered"

[wise ingot]

yup that's another issue in itself

[mild epoch]

There's also general safety concerns when it comes to the zombies themselves. To minimize possible harm, you would need to do the Michonne thing and remove their teeth and/or arms, and keeping walking corpses in and/or around your home generally wouldn't pass a lot of health codes

[crude lily]

Speaking of power, is there a potential of building windmills

Since we're going to get so many new workstations and structures to build

[gleaming lark]

If not, mods will happen

[mental ferry]

Iirc it's not canon/anymore, but I remember the description of the mall scenario being extra freaky. Implication that there's still some semblance of memory of their past lives in the zomboids, leading them back to the mall you're set to defend in the scenario. Sends a chill down my spine.

[balmy quail]

to exploit zombies for free labor, we hang a constant and fresh supply of brains on a stick for them

[lost cove]

brains as decoys to distract zombies

[lyric wadi]

Dawn of the Dead rip-off

You can all debate what you want, zombie powered stuff ain't happening tho

[lost cove]

if only the opening hours challenge returned

[slender furnace]

“zombie powered stuff ain't happening” you're gonna feel real silly when you see the zombie-powered flashlight mod

[lost cove]

zombie slaves

[mental ferry]

Ah, fair enough. I need to work on my zombie media literacy a bit, I've got some good ones up my sleeve but obviously there are always more (as many as the horde, even!)

Ironically, I have seen Shawn of the Dead which I find funny in combination with not having seen Dawn of the Dead. But I digress, it was more an observation of previous (no-longer-canon of course) indications of zomboid "intelligence". A freaky example on top of that, given it implies some semblance of the person the zomboid once was.

Like the walker lady in TWD S1 trying to turn the doorknob to her former home. They're gone, but with eerie echoes of their former selves

[abstract herald]

In this thursdoid i would like to see if we can place candles and lantern on the ground and if they will be still on or not

[gleaming lark]

Request denied

[abstract herald]

Is not a request is just an hope

It would be very immersive instead of camping and going around with the flashlight

Or even be able to build a lamp street light

That u can refill with animal fat or petrol

[frigid thistle]

You can't stop modders

[slender furnace]

We're gonna feel real silly when Pat takes down every mod on the workshop with a snap of his fingers

[lost cove]

being able to turn on flashlights that are placed on the ground for lighting purpose

[cunning pumice]

aalso

[frigid thistle]

We should be able to put pencils and pens on our ears for quick access

[lost cove]

pen on shirt pocket

[cunning pumice]

this u can ever mae accesible with put pencils in the hot keys

the idea of the lantern on a pole is coming about being able to live without batteries and having somenthing similar to 1700

[lost cove]

corkscrew to open a bottle of wine

[cunning pumice]

that is amazing!

[thorn mango]

climb walls and roofs

[lost cove]

parkour in PZ would be nice

[cunning pumice]

there is a mod for thatr

if u are interested

[frigid thistle]

There's a mod for that

[lost cove]

popping bottle caps in PZ

[balmy quail]

might not need so many pens

[quiet hazel]

i cant wait for pen

multipen

[young solstice]

randomly saw this and i wanted to agree and add onto this

I think mines can be balanced really easily

unstable ground or roofs, darkness, getting lost in a maze, gas..?

could also make it so that the resources have been mostly mined up

also if they make water a more tangible thing swimming, moving in it etc you could have a flooded mine perhaps..

(maybe you climb down somewhere and the old ladder breaks leaving you stranded or worse you fell climbing down)

I think mines could 100% be done by the devs but would probably be better in a distant future of the game than its current state

[oak fable]

And all that complexity just to make getting coal harder? Why not just spawn less coal instead? While all you've said is nice, it doesn't really make sense given no other places in game use similar systems.

Also take a look at sawmill, there are lots of wood log containers but most of them are empty despite it being... sawmill.

sawmill/lumbermill

whatever the correct word is, lol

[young solstice]

I guess in the most simplistic way yeah you're right

[gleaming lark]

It's easy to find in minecraft

[oak fable]

They mentioned metal etc. spawning as on-ground nodes though, didn't they?

[young solstice]

I don't remember where I heard that from but someone said something about metal nodes

[oak fable]

Let me look through older thursdoids, I think that's where it was mentioned

[gleaming lark]

They did but only for nature starts

[young solstice]

Metal nodes would be cool for smiths but not necessary for blacksmithing

Considering how much metal is all over the place

[oak fable]

Ah, yeah - you're right. I believe they wanted to make it a sandbox setting toggle as well.

[oak fable]

yeah true

[pure meteor]

Cannot wait for the new patch

[cunning pumice]

actually follow the lore the knox county i mean muldraugh westpoint march ridge and riverside been ground zero and evacuated is normal to be full of things but LV should be more emprty and looted

[wise ingot]

yeah

[cunning pumice]

and with the expansion of th emap same should be for irvington and the new town

i always left a suggestion about make more a battlefield LV and brandeburg cause by the lore they should be attacked by the infected

[sly frigate]

I feel like not all that much would be destroyed tbh

not as much as you'd expect, at least

Since everyone's infected, there didn't need to be a warzone in the city to turn everyone

[summer matrix]

Yeah id maybe expect about bit more mess (which we are pretty much gonna get) but, not really a whole lot of destruction.

[terse cliff]

I hope this game never turns into knockoff factorio else I'd be pissed

No game thus far besides map simulators managed to bore me as much and quickly as Factorio

[quiet hazel]

Completely different games lol

[gleaming lark]

I hope it does itll be cool

just imagine we make huge factories

thats what we need for zomboid

[quiet hazel]

Zombie milk factory

[ruby thistle]

it should but only as a mod, a la modded minecraft

quest modpacks for zomboid in 2073

[mental ferry]

I was talking to a friend about how nice it is to be able to make things like nails in the new update, but honestly it occurred to us that if you're playing on the main map right as the apocalypse starts, it already takes talent to use up every possible nail you could loot on the map. It's good to have an option of course, but it made me realize that as is best in a game like zomboid, you have options. Would you like to loot more nails? Or perhaps scrap a bunch of desks to pull the nails out, or scrap chairs to melt down and forge more? The choice shall be ours for the taking

[oak fable]

Crafting nails will very likely be a possible with upcoming crafting overhaul.

It's unlikely it'll be as easy as clicking one button to convert metal scrap to pack of nails though, you'd have to smelt the metal first etc.

[summer matrix]

Yeah im interested to see how its gonna work out. The point of most of it seems to be about increasing world longevity and reducing/removing the need to wipe, but it'll be interesting to see how players handle the transition to the "alexandria days" as games go for longer and looting gets replaced with crafting/farming/hunting.

[lyric wadi]

I like it from a story perspective but not a gameplay/lore perspective, it raises too many questions

[lyric wadi]

Not my arena at all but I believe this can't work atm due to technical limits but may in the future

[lyric wadi]

Officially I mean

[lyric wadi]

No parkour, it's supposed to be about average survivors

[lyric wadi]

Same, I think everyone's on the same page, we're not turning into a "production" game and in fact I think we could have lots of opportunities for fun things in this regard, like workers rebelling or made products being shit and so on, to keep it all interesting

[gleaming lark]

I should point out I'm being facetious. I don't really want that lol

[real sinew]

would u rather fight one pat sized modder or 10 modder sized pat's

[lyric wadi]

I think modders and Pat are the same size

[real sinew]

Pat == Modder confirmed!!!

[abstract herald]

Sure i don't expect total destruction of Lv or Brandenburg but u know few house burned down, or police's cars blocks and more car accidents not those burnt cars, at least not all! And while in west point muldraugh and fallas lake and riverside nearly nothing cause there where an evacuation so those town remain nearly untouched

[vagrant cloak]

Don't you mean 2023?

[quiet hazel]

was a typo

[abstract herald]

Maybe the tech guys can use the same scripts of the lamp when upgraded with the battery switch

[frigid thistle]

But that's a tile, not an object ☝️ 🤓

[abstract herald]

U mean the table lamp? The one u can upgrade when u have 5 in electrical?

[quiet hazel]

ok but can when can we wear buckets as hat

[pure meteor]

B42 and streets of rogue 2 is unironically motivation enough to keep going in life

[unreal pagoda]

tomato factory in project zomboid?

will there be armour in b42, at least scrap metal plate armour

[balmy quail]

there'll be something even better: magazine armor

[gleaming lark]

Increase intelligence by +2

Oh wait that 7 days to die

[lost cove]

increased luck by +2

[autumn raven]

Build 42 announced tomorrow or what

[thorn mango]

Yea

Come back tomorrow

[autumn raven]

Will wait with hope

[wooden fog]

really?

[thorn mango]

supposedly 5pm GMT

but dont hold your breath

[balmy quail]

lol

[autumn raven]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[lucid quail]

Guys

thursdoid in like 2 days

[wide rain]

Less

[wooden fog]

why

[lucid quail]

Some bastard invented the Gregorian calender like 500 years ago so now we have this thing called a month

[crisp matrix]

More like less than 2 days

[lucid quail]

I am Australian

It always comes out about mid friday

[zenith jay]

TOMORROWE

[gleaming lark]

Sorry everyone but I'm afraid the devs have to delay the thursoid until next week

[autumn raven]

-_-

[zenith jay]

dear god...

[autumn raven]

Stop trolling, isn't funny -_-

[gleaming lark]

What makes you think I'm trolling

[lost cove]

If we hear it from the developers then we would know

[gleaming lark]

Thursoid is super serial, please do not make jokes lmao

[lost cove]

Serial killers in PZ

[slim prairie]

Pretty much what any survivor has to become.

[lost cove]

in thursdoid we trust

[zenith jay]

thursdoid is the only thing i wish for

[slender furnace]

Bad news guys, the devs announced that they're adding a day to the week and the blog will come out that day instead

[pure meteor]

@slender furnace💀

[slender furnace]

I witnessed your question

You are not safe from my response, 2sec

[wooden fog]

I got stupid and that's why I deleted it

[shut obsidian]

I just hope no one conjures the roadmap from now until the blog post

[slender furnace]

I figured you just reread it and realized that it won't be today, but instead the new day of the week will be in July

[slender furnace]

It's definitely going to happen

[autumn raven]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[autumn raven]

You my sir, failed

[autumn raven]

Of course it will

[shut obsidian]

I just hope no one claims the roadmap is moving from now until the blog post

[slender furnace]

Wait a minute... It moved! It moved! 🫵 😲

[balmy quail]

[potent carbon]

https://tenor.com/view/george-costanza-seinfeld-it-moved-gif-26780167

[gleaming lark]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[gleaming lark]

You set yourself up so easily

[crisp matrix]

I'm about 24 hours, we're getting a new Thursdoid.... 🤤

[balmy quail]

Thursdoid predictions, anyone?

[zenith jay]

we are gonna get news

[gleaming lark]

Trapping and hunting

[inner nimbus]

I'm desperately hoping we get some news on pipes and wires

All I want is pipes and wires

[shut obsidian]

It feels a bit late in development for new feature drops. Prob just expanding on features already mentioned

[inner nimbus]

Pipes and wires were already show off in "The Connection is Made"

[lost cove]

maybe some more crafting shown , perhaps some basements and underground

more cute animals to hunt and domesticate

[balmy quail]

I’m hoping they’ll give us a glimpse of the Spiffo HQ skyscraper

[crisp matrix]

We're not gonna get any more on that after "The Connection is Made"
They made it possible, but they're not gonna actively develop it right now. Especially not this close to IWBUMS release.

Honestly, I literally don't know what I want from this week's Thursdoid beyond maybe a status report for the last month. Are things moving smoothly and we might be able to expect B42 in May? Or are things taking a while and we should expect it in June?

[solemn berry]

Happy Thursdoid eve, hope Spiffo brings you everything you asked for

[slender furnace]

I think it'd be cool if this week's thursdoid focused on how the NPCs are going to be powered by the computerized duplicate consciousnesses of “research participants,” trapped in the game and convinced it's reality. They briefly touched on it in a past blog, but I'd be curious to know more about how that'll work

[shut obsidian]

Every time we play the game we are imprinting our consciousness onto it and once they've collected enough of our consciousness, that is when NPCs will be added. We are the NPCs!

[crisp matrix]

I mean, it probably isn't an unheard-of concept to use player behavior to model non-player behavior in the gaming industry, but I don't think the game's EULA specified data collection permissions.

[wide rain]

https://tenor.com/view/chernobyl-serie-viktor-bryukhanov-gif-14535865

us when tomorrow

chief engineer fomin

[radiant pilot]

unfortunatelt i used an editor combining the roadmap from a month ago and today and it did not move

😔

[warm nimbus]

Maybe it will move tomorrow

[formal skiff]

the only thing i really want to see is them saying they have finally expanded the foraging system to cover the whole map

[frigid thistle]

I wanna see horses tomorrow

[lone prism]

Still waiting on a little peek at archery... maybe

[gleaming lark]

they will be showing only moodles

just to make people riled up

[daring hinge]

Thursdoid better be release date

[limpid plank]

No

[daring hinge]

im starving for update

[gleaming lark]

good

[frigid thistle]

What if the thursdoid is actually the release?!

[fringe wing]

how'd they even come up with thursday

did some dude go up to a group and yell "YO TODAY'S UHH THURSDAY" and they decided to go with that

i wanna see more of the moodles NGL, they're nice

[ruby thistle]

I dont wanna
because I dont wanna see the same arguments as last month again

[mental ferry]

I believe true hilarity would be to receive a Mondoid instead, this round. Just because it enables funnies, and I'm always game for a good laugh

[robust iron]

Is everyone excited to discuss the new thursdoid for two minutes and then complain about something that only took up a very small part of the thursdoid again?

[limpid plank]

[thorn mango]

yup

[warm nimbus]

Originally it was Monday (Mondoid) but it was causing issues (if I recall trying to gather info after a weekend proved s struggle?) so they moved it to Thursday.

[frigid thistle]

I wanna see the overly complicated orange juice machine again

[balmy quail]

I’m hoping for an even bigger Spiffo in-game plush with an encumbrance of 10

[warm nimbus]

I would be ok with this

Like one of those giant Costco bears that were a meme one year

[cold bane]

ALREADY THURSDOID LATER TODAY??\

march rly said speedrun time

[pure meteor]

!roadmap

[peak salmon]

Read about the roadmap in more detail here:

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

Current Roadmap simplified:
https://i.imgur.com/Q5tdnLW.png

[lucid quail]

@eberyone can we have the Thursdoid a day early, as a treat?

[hard pelican]

i hope we see more moodles in the new blogpost

im sure the community reaction will be fair and balanced

[lucid quail]

Okay the new moodles are cool

I don't like the Zombie one though

[balmy quail]

forgot who said it but they mentioned to turn all moodles into Spiffo. Sounds like a good idea

[lucid quail]

Nuh uh

[sharp turret]

[zinc mesa]

awooga

[unique mason]

new thursdoid soon??

[viral orchid]

hopefully today

[wooden fog]

100% today

[lyric wadi]

Ye know too much

[lyric wadi]

Err... that would be an extremely privacy-invading step, without it being some sort of explicit opt-in

[lyric wadi]

Spiffo's beautiful face is too hard to read in moodle form though, needs to be simpler

[limpid plank]

[lucid quail]

Give to me

Devblog early

[unique mason]

We Can Have Little a Devblog early. We are expert readers and have a keen sense ofupdate especially in the case of B42. ... We should be just fine with a devblog a few hours early as a treat.

[limpid plank]

Gonna assume this is some shite meme I'm not aware of

[unique mason]

grandpa nasko is out of touch with the youngins

[lyric wadi]

You can have a cake early if you like eating a bunch of raw flour and eggs and sugar

[robust iron]

Sauce

[limpid plank]

[crisp matrix]

Obviously.

[autumn raven]

devblog simulator then? Still no release

[modern forum]

I will continue to make cursed Spiffos until the release date is announced. Rest assured fellow survivors.

[humble hamlet]

Today?

[viral orchid]

god bless you sir

[frigid thistle]

Maybe

[modern forum]

Oldie cursed Spiffo

Chewing on jerky, cause of how cursed the sodium levels are in jerky.

[wet roost]

😋

[crisp matrix]

Thursdoid must be today. I will eat nasKo's left arm if we don't get it today.

[limpid plank]

[modern forum]

Aren't thursdoids bimonthly?

[wise ingot]

[limpid plank]

Every leap year

[robust iron]

Annualdoid

[mild ridge]

Bruh

[radiant pilot]

no

sorry bud

[crisp matrix]

I would write it as annuoid, but it's be pretty hard to say based on the spelling lol.
"Annuoid" -> "Anyuwoid"

[cold bane]

Annudoid

[lost cove]

thursdoid today

[undone roost]

question mark or statement?

I wish so

[stiff crown]

No Thursdoid?

[lost cove]

more likely we are waiting later in the day for that amazing thursdoid

[zenith jay]

I can already smell my beloved thurdoid

any second now...

[lost cove]

last thursday of this month

[modern forum]

But if they're bimonthly we already got our hit in feb

See you guys in April

[frigid thistle]

Thuwursdowoid today?

[cold bane]

not with that attitude

[lost cove]

imagine fisical thursdoids every fisical year

[zenith jay]

don't do this to me

[slim prairie]

Thursdoid today!!!
Gonna get a nice lunch with my favorite beverage and leisurely read it 🥳

[modern forum]

Quarterly thursdoids

[lone prism]

Same, going to crack open a cold one to read it

[lost cove]

imagine once a year thursdoids that would cause a dev blog drought

[mild ridge]

Nah don’t give them ideas

[humble hamlet]

Yearly thursdoids would just be a book

[lone prism]

Having to buy your physical thursoid on paper

Just like before the intwrnets

[humble hamlet]

Project Zomboid Development 2023-2024 $29.99

Physical release

129 pages

[lone prism]

If the money would go to support development I would consider it

[humble hamlet]

I’m still waiting for the supporter pack