The Biomic Man

[worn moat]

running through a forest away from zombies and run through a web

[bronze orchid]

chiggers , mosquitos , gnats lol

[worn moat]

speaking of gnats

[bright notch]

would be neat to see ants going after foods on the ground

[worn moat]

fungal gnats, and white flies to attack your farm

[elfin venture]

bees bees bees bees bees

actually i’m pretty sure the snake modpack has beekeeping lol you can build apiaries

[bronze orchid]

oh no!!! lol freaking ants

[worn moat]

snek! 🐍

[bronze orchid]

yah im looking forward to seeing what mod creators come up with !

sapphie add ants lol

😆

[bright notch]

yeah, i remember old b40 hydrocraft having bees as well

[elfin venture]

it’s kinda jank tho so id rather a full system

[bronze orchid]

is it like hydrocraft lol

[elfin venture]

aren’t we getting actual pipelines and wires for this update

[bronze orchid]

cant believe i thoguht that mod was like a must have when i first started playing lol and wondering why my fps always dunked

[elfin venture]

never actually built one idk it’s a trait you start with

[bright notch]

yeah same - but it was pretty cool at the time

[worn moat]

ahhh yes hydrocraft, the mod that will not die even though it was never meant for this day and age

[bronze orchid]

yah lol i always suggest people try it at least once in their life

[iron fulcrum]

More like hydrocrap amirite

[bronze orchid]

thebaby horses haha

[elfin venture]

it was too advanced for us mortals

[bright notch]

wait - am i sapphie?

[bronze orchid]

yea lol i forgot but we came up with it in pz chat yesterday

[elfin venture]

you are indeed sapphie

might as well say sapphire

[bright notch]

oh - okay then

[bronze orchid]

[iron fulcrum]

https://media.tenor.com/kDei0FmRUhgAAAAi/epic-cat-the-best-cat-gif.gif

[bright notch]

yea, it was a unique mod that i have a lots of good memories in it

[bright notch]

silkworms too!

[bronze orchid]

ooo silk worms !!

man that would be laborious irl holy carp

[elfin venture]

ticks showing in medical tab after rummaging through trees

[bronze orchid]

NO LOl

[worn moat]

😱

I need that spiffo.

[normal patio]

Billions must wait…

[tribal valley]

the vast majority just doesn’t know it

[normal patio]

Hot take but I’m not at all a fan of the spiffo plush

[elfin venture]

the look?

[normal patio]

His bodily proportions are just different enough from what I’m used to that it gives me that uncanny valley feeling

[elfin venture]

[torn hare]

[brisk pasture]

You're gonna get your comment deleted

Not by me. I'm just saying it's gonna happen

[elfin venture]

too late already halfway full

[torn hare]

[brisk pasture]

I just commented 🫙 on the first Spiffo Plushie thread and it got removed

[torn hare]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3058353533

[brisk pasture]

Sugar? Shouldn't it be salt?

[torn hare]

and how do you know that

[elfin venture]

the spoon picture in the sugar looked like smth else so

[tribal valley]

shouldn’t be any milk or sugar or salt. Should just plop the Spiffo in the jar

[worn moat]

I don't want to pickle Spiffo 😭

[torn hare]

oh that's not the kind of spiffo in a jar

it's a different kind of spiffo in a jar

[potent lava]

[lament salmon]

Just ordered my Spiffo plush! I want this lil guy to be on my desk as I play build 42 and beyond! 😝

[worn moat]

😍

[iron fulcrum]

what comes first: the plush or b42

[bronze orchid]

sthap

[normal patio]

I mean am I the only one who thinks they got it wrong? The head is too big

[lament salmon]

I just wanna know when we can expect Kate and 'Bladspot' plushies?

[shy roost]

thats kinda what all plushies are

[normal patio]

I disagree

[elfin venture]

its a plush

bro wants

[tribal valley]

the plushie better come with an actual nailbat and an actual can of pop of my choice (Dr. Pepper)

[midnight harness]

It will come with an actual can of beans from 1993, enjoy

[tribal valley]

just what I need! It’s bean a while since I’ve had beans. I’ll sue the company if I die tho

[bronze orchid]

lol bean a while

[primal shard]

head too large i think mr westfallen is right

[tribal valley]

Spiffo’s extensive knowledge requires he have a big head. The real injustice is the lack of nails on the bat

[jovial mural]

Why stop at regular nails, let's introduce nails rusted by blood for a free tetanus booster

[worn moat]

Gotta send it to 'new england wildlife and more' to be consumed 😄

[gaunt valley]

Can we add tetanus so your character can just fucking die in the worst way possible

[shy roost]

wooooo july 9th

[formal scroll]

right, the knox event day

[amber junco]

Alright, who here is playing Project Zomboid with time speed set to "Real Time" in custom sandbox?

I bet you can't last even a day there. I can't.

[fathom umbra]

As in can't survive, or can't bother continuing with the save?

[amber junco]

Both. It could be either one.

Imagine if it's July 16 and a helicopter event happens. In real-time.

It will feel like you're hosting a LAN tournament on a Tuesday.

[tribal valley]

today is the day

[lament salmon]

Went on a walk and didn't see any zeds so I think we're safe.

[formal scroll]

It's actually easier this way. You need much less food and could gather up and do much more stuff than with 1h=1day (the default).

[bronze orchid]

I did once

Zomboid crossing

[primal shard]

I once got to 3 days.

across 4 weeks

[primal tiger]

How much?

My powers of having a broken down car means my ability to game is unsurpassed

[amber junco]

1 dumpling.

I'm hungry. Grabbing some food.

[primal tiger]

[narrow bronze]

2-3 weeks until next thursdoid, important to realize

[tribal valley]

what’s a Thursdoid? We 1993 boomers have not heard of such concept

[pseudo marsh]

after this week we only have 2 more thursdays left this month.

[narrow bronze]

PZ textbook definition of a thursdoid:

A phenomenon we, the players, know for relatively sure will happen within the same month, around same time, every month. Not to be confused with B42 which only exists in our dreams, until it does not.

Three things in life are guaranteed, paying taxes, death and a PZ blog post.

[bronze orchid]

Can we have a way to unplug furniture im using fridges and tvs as barricades and theyre eating my electricity

[narrow bronze]

do TVs consume fuel even if not turned on?

[bronze orchid]

No i just checked thnx lol

[narrow bronze]

thank goodness...I'd probably try to use car husks as barricade some day

at least they cannot be destroyed, and they can line walls so zeds cannot destroy either

[bronze orchid]

Junkyard maze!

[narrow bronze]

Did we ever hear about B42 bringing in changes to terrain itself? Not the grass update, but elevation

I can't really get zeds to follow noise to a walled "pit" since they seem to avoid using stairs entirely unless a player is trapped in the said pit, so perhaps with natural elevation I could make such a personal "collection pit" work

[bronze orchid]

I cant recall anything about terrain off the top my headbean

[amber junco]

Other than the garage ramps which has an actual incline, no, no other elevation changes to the terrain itself.

I don't ever recall the devs wanting to add hills and bumps on the terrain, especially as part of the procedural generation in the outskirts.

Maybe a future mod idea?

[narrow bronze]

a pity, elevated terrain gives some tactical thinking a chance

but I'll live and hope that I could at least lure zeds to a kill pit one day where they stay, unable to break out (atm via building box wall with fences lining them)

[midnight harness]

"Atm" being the key part of that

[bronze orchid]

Lol

[narrow bronze]

...Until the gods above taketh what they had given. Can't I just have a zombie apocalypse game where I can be guaranteed to be safe at one point? 😄

Now, to wonder...if "they" can ever take the immortal car-wall defense away from us.

[bronze orchid]

Lol nope

[shy roost]

trust me, u can

in my 9 month run, abt 3-4 months in it was so rare to see even one zed in a 200 tile radius around my base

[shy roost]

its already removed eseentially

they made it so some zeds crawl under

[narrow bronze]

You can always ensure you have that 99,999% safety, but I guess I'm trying to have realism in a zombie apocalypse game 😄 Actually.........

[narrow bronze]

But they cannot destroy a full wall while they are under the cars as far as I know

That meaning, I meant a player-built wall, that is reinforced with parked cars so close the wall that zeds cannot get up to destroy a full wall

And what comes to realism in a zombie apocalypse, plenty of factors that makes such an apocalypse much easier to endure...which are not in the game so far and likely won't be.

eh, I just wanna be a refined gentleman psycho some day on PZ, out of boredom - "domesticating" zeds in places where I can use them as target dummies for ranged weapons without them being able to do jackshit about it. Which should realistically be able to do, but I ain't gonna start a fight with the devs about what PZ should absolutely contain for my personal liking 😄

[brisk pasture]

They do. It's gonna be part of Wilderness 2.0 near the end of development.

[amber junco]

End of development? That's pretty far off from now.

I'm not worried. I'm pretty sure they will introduce it with more details in their blogs.

[brisk pasture]

Hey, has anyone considered the possibility that, with the grapple tech, we may get fake dead zombies that come back while they're being dragged?

[tribal valley]

that’d be a shocker lol I think they’ll just “wake up” before the dragging animation ensues tho

[bronze orchid]

Nah, ever since i got jump scared by a floor waffle zombie i dont play around qith them lol i make sure those suckers are dead

[shy roost]

i'd like more freedom with combat

lemme stomp on a corpse just to "make sure"

[bronze orchid]

Its like those assholes in alien isolation that are on the ground but playing dead or taking a nap lol

[distant summit]

Can be done... Which is scary. I hope we get an option to double tap dead zombies

[distant summit]

You already can. While aiming, press left alt and you'll attack the ground

[shy roost]

it doesnt actually do anything to them tho

[distant summit]

No, but it work if you want to roleplay idk

[elfin venture]

am i the only one who found it weird to make the school less grand and then continue to make a grand 7 story library?

[torn hare]

[midnight harness]

The school is in Muldraugh, library in LV. They're very different cities.

[elfin venture]

oh we’re chilling

with the talk of muldraugh glowup i assumed its still talking about it

but ig better to know the map

[distant summit]

For context, this area is the Louisville university and that building in the red circle is the current library

A giant library kinda makes sense. Imagine going to a university that big and finding a two story building without a lot of bookshelves

Talking about books, I'm excited to see the new book system for B42. Looting the university library felt kinda weird cause it was full of carpentry, fishing and foraging books lol

[elfin venture]

firstly i wonder how the surrounding buildings are gonna look. Interested

Secondly im scared its gonna be a lot easier to get what you need since buildings are so loaded now

[distant summit]

That's Louisville for you. High risk, high reward

[elfin venture]

i guess so

they need to add more unique buildings in cities

like unique to the city

[distant summit]

I dare them to add the giant baseball bat

[tribal valley]

😲

also, still wondering how fancy the Cortman Medical building was

[elfin venture]

i’m confused isn’t cortman’s some rundown shack with house tiles

how less fancy can it get

[tribal valley]

it’s the only medical clinic in Mauldraw

[elfin venture]

yeah but i’m confused are they saying they’re making it even less fancy

[tribal valley]

I’m gonna guess it was a similar situation with the Muldreraeuuughh school. Whatever changes and additions they did to Cortman’s initially was considered too fancy, so now they toned it down a bit

[elfin venture]

oh

sounds kinda useless to tell us that

was never shown

[shy roost]

i have a screenshot

[elfin venture]

wait actually i feel like i remember hearing they thought they showed it?

[bronze orchid]

whats cortmans

[tribal valley]

yeah, n45K0 said they thought it was shown to us

just for fun: I imagine it’ll have more surrounding parking spots, a garden or hedges surrounding the building, be fenced in, and just be larger in general (more bathrooms, a larger waiting area, etc..)

[elfin venture]

yeah that’s what i remembered

i think i even said might as well show it now 😂

[shy roost]

rundown shack i think

[tribal valley]

although that image is outdated lol there’s three parking spaces nearby

[shy roost]

it looks like it was copy and pasted without shadows

[bronze orchid]

oh right lol

[tribal valley]

here's a better image

[distant summit]

Cortman medical was my first ever spawn. So many memories (I died after three minutes after failing to use a pair of scissors as a weapon)

[primal shard]

a wolf

[primal tiger]

You gotta admire folks complaining that the devs made something look too good lmao. The devs going "nah, you're right" is just icing.

[worn moat]

🤣 right? Pretty wild.

[primal shard]

My first ever spawn was a log cabin

i drank from the river and died shortly after

[tribal valley]

yes?

[primal shard]

are you a wolf in real life

living in a cave with a laptop

[tribal valley]

yes and yes. I left the pack due to one laptop being shared among nine other wolves. I grew tired of this, so I took the laptop for myself, and journeyed to Kentucky and now live a peaceful life in the countryside

[bronze orchid]

Lol how mines been eating rotten stuff

[tribal valley]

my first spawn was that one corner house very close to the lake in the wooden gate neighborhood in Malldro and my first death iirc was trying to climb a tall wooden fence but I fell back then got munched on

[weak quartz]

Just curious
Am I the only one who knows that you can cut trees faster by two times just by moving slightly into it's direction right after the sound of hit occurs?

[calm cosmos]

uh

You can cut down faster trees by doing it manually and doing the animation reset to hit faster with your melee weapon

[primal shard]

You do it fastest by slamming the tree with a car moving at 60 mph

[weak quartz]

Axe?

That's what I meant

[calm cosmos]

You said by moving slightly towards it but that's not what I explained

You can animation reset attacks

https://youtu.be/bpwEV6mQxTI?si=EGYEqHtZDqZ8hUcx

[weak quartz]

Wha

[weak quartz]

It's harder

I'm talking about something else

[calm cosmos]

Yeah ik

but idk the thing you're talking about

[iron fulcrum]

Not the only thing that's harder 😏

[primal shard]

A concrete wall?

[amber junco]

a sledgehammer not being able to destroy a garbage pile.

[primal shard]

yeah

you pick it up, what the fuck

do you expect to hammer away at a garbage pile and it goes poof?

youd just spread it everywhere

[amber junco]

Even better.

If I can spread it around more, foraging the manipulated tiles will give me more trash to loot.

[primal shard]

that would be busted

[pseudo marsh]

Trash piles are good for foraging some amazing items

One time I found a generator magazine from foraging trash piles

[iron fulcrum]

That's probably just amazing luck

[pseudo marsh]

I always check trash piles for some good loot

[jovial mural]

be me smashing a wrecked car in CDDA and I get showered with scrap metal and shrapnel

[bronze orchid]

more trash piles for decorations!!

[worn moat]

🎉

[west knot]

imagine having a degree in foraging

[rotund escarp]

you could call it trash luck

[pseudo marsh]

recipe magainze are good to find on trash piles when foraging.

[grizzled parcel]

Thursdoid this week?

[distant summit]

No. Last thursday of the month

[grizzled parcel]

Next thursday?

[tribal valley]

32nd of July

[narrow bronze]

2 weeks at least

[sick moth]

botany and ecology

[primal tiger]

Garbagemaxxing

[brisk pasture]

Tbh, I actually kinda like the new depression moodle. I think it's just the zombie moodle I don't like.

[iron fulcrum]

I think I'd like these noodles

[primal shard]

one facial expression in life

[bright notch]

well, in-game you won't be staring at the zombie moodle that much

if I die It takes maybe 20 seconds to decide if I want a new character or not

[bronze orchid]

[amber junco]

New moodle?

[brisk pasture]

COW SKULLS ON A STICK
#tweets message

COW SKULL DECORATIONS BABYYYYY

[bronze orchid]

i cant wait to decorate my base with dead shit

[devout iris]

Very same house on my first time
Though I remember just spending the first days indoors because I was too scared to go out

[amber junco]

Do decorations get stained from blood splatters if you kill a zombie next to it?

If so, then it discourages me from using decorations in my base.

[bronze orchid]

WHY

bloods the best part!!

[amber junco]

Don't like that I would have to clean them from time to time.

[bronze orchid]

its liquid flavoring yah

[narrow bronze]

blood is love in wear-and-tear form

gotta let life to show

[amber junco]

Need a dev's opinion about this.

[narrow bronze]

I mean furniture so far doesn't get stained by blood, only floors and walls yes?

[amber junco]

So, decorations are like furniture?

[narrow bronze]

Anything you can pick up and move

floorboards can be picked up but they're not the hardcoded floor, just the "skin"

We have lawn flamingoes, neon signs etc, I'd say they are more decor than furniture, they don't get stained by anything for the time being

[amber junco]

Ok, then it's the default behavior. I preferred that.

[bronze orchid]

yay were getting decor!!

[narrow bronze]

more goodies for those who enjoy simpler lifestyle with only mother nature to provide for them

Can we have cloth/leather draped wall pieces for primitive zug zuggers?

[bronze orchid]

rofl

[bronze orchid]

can we make chickens wear friendship bracelets as necklaces?!

[worn moat]

Ohhh effigies, I can't wait 😍

[iron fulcrum]

Oh god lmao

[bronze orchid]

can we make vodoo dolls of our friends out of their hair?

[narrow bronze]

Can we line our bases with impaled zeds to establish dominance?

[bronze orchid]

haha

corpse sickness wall

[narrow bronze]

...far enough that players don't get sick from it

[bronze orchid]

heck nah i wanna pollute my sector so i can wear mask

[narrow bronze]

Would Kentucky happen to have nuclear reactors in the area around 1994...?

like subnautica, go fix a reactor or half the playable area is contaminated at least 😎

[jovial mural]

kentucky currently has no nuclear reactors in the whole state

surrounding states do

[narrow bronze]

They knew how to pave an easier road for PZ

[brisk pasture]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!

[bronze orchid]

[flat verge]

Taxidermy when

[narrow bronze]

Dyeing armour of metal and leather type please

[sick moth]

i'm curious if we'll ever see the inclusion of other states

i could potentially see it happening and also not happening

[amber junco]

Maybe in some future Build XY where X is closer to 5 or 6 and Y is some number.

[idle tide]

that would be such a great idea, they could be released as free DLC for modularity so that players who don't have a lot of space can enjoy the base game Kentucky.

it could start off being the surrounding states, expand to the entirey of north America, the Americas, and maybe the world, would take lots of work but could be a possible point of improvement after 1.0 releases.

gotta be one of my biggest dreams for this game

[hollow island]

we are absolutely not getting the entire united states let alone the whole world

[idle tide]

eh, you're right. but a mans gotta dream

[devout iris]

Some crazy dedicated mappers and modders could make that a reality

https://youtu.be/rym5aTzFUmM?si=6AkGsaRczNQg6BK6

Seeing mappers doing projects like this, I don't think it would be too impossible

[gusty atlas]

I was thinking about a US entirety PZ for fun and I think the easiest way to do it would be to leverage a combination of the random generation and tailor made geography. Its more of a daydream that would never happen, but if it did, the best way would be to make rivers and roads always the same but then designated zones of random generation for forests, farms, rural towns, small cities, and then large ones equivalent to louisville.

[primal shard]

Will the zombies stink more giving us corpse sickness after 3 corpses instead of 10?

[formal scroll]

Why 3 though? I'm sure 1 body should be enough.

[devout iris]

Thinking of gameplay, 3 seems like a good estimate for when you start accumulating bodies in a spot without being too annoying and frequent
Though yeah in a reality sense 1 would make sense

Maybe corpses for sickness will be something we'll be able to tweak in sandbox settings

Can imagine having to clean bodies very frequently would be a bit of a chore

[distant summit]

It will require the use of AI to pull off tho

[muted sigil]

you could use an AI to crunch geographical data and put it in zomboid (but you would probably have to program it yourself)

[muted sigil]

Yeah I guess that's the long and the short of it

[bronze orchid]

I always turn it up

Its only 10 corpses?

[shy roost]

arent we getting air filtration or something

with air tanks

i remember seeing it

[primal shard]

yes

[bronze orchid]

I dont remember anything about filtration just masks

[shy roost]

yea but the masks were hooked up to air tanks

[bronze orchid]

Man for the longest time i would get mad cause id never get sick lol

[bronze orchid]

I dont remember, thats cool though

[shy roost]

https://youtu.be/fcMlwffzvuw

[muted sigil]

holy shit I clean forgot about this

[bronze orchid]

yah i didnt see this somehow lol

[muted sigil]

I feel like if not innately a part of the update modders will make ventilation so you can have your gennys underground

using this framework

[bronze orchid]

amz just huffin gasses

[primal shard]

im huffin and puffin and lovin and cutting

[devout iris]

Yeah, that seems likely
Though a big project with many modders could happen, or say different mods for each states/zones that can work separately as their own maps, or work with some compatibility in the same way community maps do in the base map

[pseudo marsh]

carbon monoxide and masks finally make more sense.

[pseudo marsh]

for winter season for project zomboid would be amazing to build one of these.

[golden badger]

oh yes absolutely

i'd have a stock of winter carrots just for this

[primal tiger]

I'd steal the sticks and coal for fuel and the snow and carrot for soup, and the hat and scarf for bandages. The pipe is just so I'd look even cooler than I do now.

Your seasonal cheer is my +8 hunger.

[golden badger]

u fiend, destroyer of festive cheer. i dub thee grinch

[primal tiger]

Tremble in fear, Whoville. For I will min-max your holidays.

[narrow bronze]

how do you minmax PZ if you didn't even invent a wheel yet

[primal shard]

Will inconspicious and conspicuous traits get a rework

[primal tiger]

Big club, small brain.

[wet sparrow]

i will swap out an oygen for a propane tank sometime to some dude i really hate in MP

the old Barotrauma special

[fleet thunder]

imo it works better in the vanilla game to be focused one state . maybe like the edges of the surrouding states idk . other states you can travel to would be cool as mods though

[toxic anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/that-shits-delightful-amazing-awesome-great-dale-gif-15127965

[bronze orchid]

[amber junco]

Are there any oxygen tanks?

[tribal valley]

I hope they add helium tanks so that our characters do high-pitched coughs and hey!’s

[west turtle]

I remember there being some sort of gas mask, filtration thing in a dev blog. I can’t remember if oxygen tanks was a thing or what the gas masks would be used for.

[worn moat]

❤️

[jolly mesa]

If I recall correctly one of the benefits was avoiding corpse sickness

[torn hare]

would love to see that, but I imagine that'd require an overhaul of the game's visual stealth entirely

[primal shard]

It would require making the ticks per second a little less

[normal patio]

BILLIONS... must wait patiently for an update

[grizzled parcel]

Teaser next week?

I wanna see a stress test of zombie hordes before vs after engine update

[elfin venture]

blog is 2 weeks

[pseudo marsh]

July 25th is most likely

currently we have 6 thursdoid blog posts left this year.

[marsh heron]

does the first iteration of B42 touch the music at all? like more tracks, easier modding?
does custom track length still need to match the Zomboid track it's replacing?

[keen veldt]

i dont wanna decorate my base with skull and bones

i want to use plushies

i want spiffo on my wall

[proven rover]

crucifixion

[worn moat]

I know that noise works/Formosa has being working on the dynamic music stuff a ton https://youtu.be/HJGk1VlSK94?si=TLAXrUpbwTTW-7s9

From the upcoming features page https://projectzomboid.com/blog/upcoming-features-b42/

[marsh heron]

Thanks!

[brisk pasture]

Man, that dynamic music sounds so gooood! Got me actin like this:
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/997595120935383110/1233918593062670426/image0.jpg?ex=6695acbd&is=66945b3d&hm=faf5841f18317eaf7371783fe6baf199b7ebce9d5b6ef05375b6b85af152b2a6&

[worn moat]

I am pretty excited about it 😄

[rotund escarp]

New moodles looking funky

[devout iris]

Feel like this would be a great way to go about it too

[primal shard]

new pz moodles looking wild

[amber junco]

Asking if there will be a moodle indicating sleepy after food coma?

Like, let's say you ate a really hearty meal. You run the risk of food coma.

That would be more realistic, since people can get food coma

[torn hare]

What's food coma? I'm not american

[bronze orchid]

when we over eat and get sleepy or something

[pseudo marsh]

refeeding syndrome would be dangerous if added.

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

[torn hare]

That's it? COMA sounds like if you instantly blackout if owerate

[bronze orchid]

think its just a figure of speech for overeating lol

[torn hare]

You guys been talking about being lil sleepy and I thought it might be some medical condition or something

[pseudo marsh]

would be interesting for malnutrition to have more effects on the body scurvy , beri beri and other types of malnutrition.

[torn hare]

Lol

[bronze orchid]

nah lol just a weird phrase

[iron fulcrum]

COMA balls

[elfin venture]

they should make it so instead of the mechanic skill just making u work on cars better they make it so you see more details better

so 0 mechanical when opening the hood would just show “looks bad” instead of all the stats lol

then taking the car and realizing the engine was on life support after driving a bit and it stalls in a horde

[golden badger]

yesssss

[narrow bronze]

not a bad idea

make me look into the car inner workings and I can't tell shit unless its in multiple pieces

[amber junco]

That idea sounds more likely if we're starting B43 or beyond.

[elfin venture]

yeah ofc not b42 theyre almost done

though if planned beforehand it wouldve been good with the stat balancing theyre doing for this build

[amber junco]

Planning for the future, yay.

Wait, maybe B43 will introduce to us animal husbandry.

I wanted to know how to breed animals, and not have to feed them and capture wild farm animals forever.

[elfin venture]

wdym

can you not breed in this build

[elfin venture]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2022/03/milky-milky/

[amber junco]

Checking

Yeah, that blogpost mentioned about animal breeding. But what I am thinking about animal husbandry is the idea where in multiplayer, players own their own cows/pigs/sheep. But you won't be able to control the breeding populations. With husbandry, you can breed them and then galvanize them to stop them from breeding out of control.

And then in B43, expanding on more animals, the breeding feature turns into a fully fledged husbandry system.

Are we going to have plans as such?

[grizzled parcel]

Build 44 plant husbandry

[shy roost]

i thought abt this yeah

i wasnt sure how'd they implement it tho

cuz how does a burger flipper know the exact ounces of gas in a tank

[brisk pasture]

O.O
I've never even considered that! Plant husbandry would be sick for long-time survival!

You'd be the farmer with the biggest harvests from selective breeding!

[primal shard]

what are we gonna do with all that harvest bruh..!

we already got insane food from farmng regulary

[elfin venture]

well i think they said farming is now gonna take longer to grow plants and there’s gonna be a lot more conditions to take care of to grow healthy plants

[bronze orchid]

that will be nice this playthrough im on right now i started farming i think its like my 3 or 4th time farming lol and its

[gusty atlas]

I do like how theyre doing that, but with pottery itll be easier to make the stuff to preserve food instead of having to rely on jar and lid drops, so crops will go further than they did before. seems to me like the sustainability will be about the same. Kinda related, I hope they add more realistic nutrition some day and make it so you have to get all the macros or suffer debuffs

[tribal valley]

no. Only cabbages for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also as a snack.

[bronze orchid]

kill the cabbage meta!!1

[gusty atlas]

My character eating 30 heads of cabbage a day to keep the weight on while doing 24/7 pushups

[elfin venture]

watching a video and i see this and oof i guess people really hate that😅

made me think of pz with a better building aspect and how good it’d be

[grizzled parcel]

Lmao

[sick moth]

valheim has a good system for it, you can only build structures so far upwards and outwards without a connection to solid ground or other strong structures

it's a good construction anti-cheat, but there's no way that's a simple matter to translate to pz

[elfin venture]

yeah ik i always think of that

even a very simple pillar system where “you need something on the ground if it’s 5 blocks out” would be 10x more realistic than what we have

especially since PZ isn’t built on “height,” it’s build on levels. If they just simply have a ground level, then every 5 connected tiles above the ground should be checked to see if it’s connected to a block(s) under them that links to the ground

single handedly saved this game 😎

[wanton quest]

what the skibidi 🙀 🙀

[primal tiger]

This, but Muldraugh. I swear it's like 5 degrees hotter there than anywhere else.

[primal shard]

Goosebumps

[bronze orchid]

Whats he squeezing lol

Pink lemonade

[pseudo marsh]

lol

[native maple]

indie stones pls add Dermaptera to the game in b42

[worn moat]

❤️

[midnight harness]

You Sir are a man of taste and a scholar.

[native maple]

Thx

[pseudo marsh]

excellent

[runic marlin]

Huh. I didn't actually know that name for those until a google search just now. Neat!

[tribal valley]

still another week left

[primal shard]

International Stone.

[dense gyro]

There, there. 🫂 Next week will be here before you have the time to remember how to breathe through one nostril at a time.

[primal shard]

im imagining weird ass shit

wdym by one nostril at a time

[pseudo marsh]

next week for some amazing thurdoid.

[bronze orchid]

its already been a month?!

[pseudo marsh]

Next week is the final Thursday of this month lol

We can dress with deer antlers lol

[brisk pasture]

I wonder how protective bone pads are.

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/b5qh8gH6VVGBW-Yy27Jh_Z0OyVjji9GpoH-R3Nr2FLA/https/pbs.twimg.com/media/GSyzzTJXwAAmANd.png

[bronze orchid]

nice hat

[distant summit]

Have you ever gotten a fracture from a zombie bite? I think they are very good

[shy roost]

i hope we can wear them over/under clothing at least

[worn moat]

this is the dream!

[brisk pasture]

Probably

[iron fulcrum]

I got a bone under my clothing

[pseudo marsh]

imagine zombie bones as armor

[tribal valley]

or the bones of our enemies

[odd holly]

bones huh? dog companion hint?

[ashen harness]

no

[grizzled parcel]

Ye

[ashen harness]

ok, why?

[grizzled parcel]

The Thursday after next is August 1

[ashen harness]

its not true

[grizzled parcel]

Jo mum

[pseudo marsh]

another thursdoid more juicy content

[primal shard]

what if it releases on a wednesday 👁️

[gusty atlas]

the world ends

[rotund escarp]

residents in kentucky will begin reporting a certain flu-like illness

[iron fulcrum]

Playing with friends, I realize now why the devs are going this route for gameplay

We are beginning to run out of things to do

[bronze orchid]

yup lol

its not something you really can understand until you ran a server

[elfin venture]

6 more days

[iron fulcrum]

well if it were me I would make it more challenging

but I have friends who are completely new and tend to die a lot and they are probably already frustrated

[bronze orchid]

ya my friend slug cant really get into the game cause of that , even with skill journal , and sandbox settings lol

[worn moat]

So many friends that refuse to play cause it is too hard and they keep dying, and ignore my advice 😭

[bronze orchid]

lol yea , i met my pz pals here !

[worn moat]

"you should focus on learning the combat" "I'm going to be a mechanic!" Levels up a few times then decides to fight and gets bit on first zombie encounter

[bronze orchid]

ahah

i had a friend run straight into the woods

after stepping in glass

[worn moat]

🤣

Classic

I had one smash a window and then surprise Pikachu when he fell over dead after me saying multiple times to cover the wound quickly

[bronze orchid]

Lol

"Its not a phase mom, i can do itmyself"

[worn moat]

😁

[sharp hemlock]

b42 is coming i know it

[dense gyro]

everyone knows it's coming, just not specifically when 😏

[torn hare]

between now and 2042

[dense gyro]

lol

[narrow bronze]

1400 posts until this thread passes the previous hype one

[tribal valley]

we’ll find something to discuss the day before

at least that’s when I anticipate there to be lots of activity again

[proven rover]

never

[marsh heron]

1397

[primal shard]

B42 will release in 1984.

[untold perch]

how do you know bruh

u sayin that we need to survive ww2 first?

[torn hare]

Guys, I was snorting coke with Nasco last weekend and he told me that the "42" in b42 means that the update will be released in 2042

[pseudo marsh]

lol

[dense gyro]

lmao

[bronze orchid]

[west knot]

Ww2? You mean there’s gonna be a second?

[torn hare]

Coz I'm the dev

[elfin venture]

5… more days….

[primal shard]

https://tenor.com/view/starving-alien-gif-21681479

[dense gyro]

😂

[pseudo marsh]

the 7th thursdoid of 2024

[pseudo marsh]

!roadmap

command broken?

[tribal valley]

for a while now

a relief to many

[pseudo marsh]

so far 5 more months left in 2024

[golden badger]

what did it used to do?

[gusty atlas]

make an image appear that hasnt changed in 7 months that people think gives updates

[pseudo marsh]

hopefully the road map progress bar is more updated.

[elfin venture]

i rly hope build 43 is gonna be mostly engine and foundation updates

but changes that show to everyone

like a better building system

not just more tiles

[amber junco]

Get targeted by users and causes nonstop spamming of the same roadmap.

[golden badger]

ah yeah, that sounds frustrating

[elfin venture]

4 more days

[grizzled parcel]

https://tenor.com/view/later-spongebob-time-after-a-long-time-gif-16251057

[worn moat]

We slowed down 😢

[mild blaze]

Message

[brisk pasture]

Mmm...society

[brisk pasture]

Blessed day to us all!

[brisk pasture]

No matter how much we tell them it hasn't 🤦🏽‍♂️

[brisk pasture]

They're probably gonna update it when the new build finally drops.

[narrow bronze]

We still got time! 4 days until final thursday of July. But for real, people probably expected a lot last thursdoid and they got sated, in good or bad. And so, this thursdoid they're not going to expect massive news

[normal patio]

BILLIONS…

Must wait for the next thursdoid

[amber junco]

Do note, actual updates would drop out of nowhere, with no prior announcements, in-between monthly Thursdoids.

So.... outside of Thursdoids, I see no reason to keep hyping ourselves thinking updates will drop on Thursdoids.

In fact, I wanted to point out that new players are still struggling with the game, even when they beat the tutorials. I think the tutorials definitely will need some revising, especially when we will be introduced to new systems in B42.

[pseudo marsh]

I remember when thursdoids were bi weekly

[worn moat]

Maybe break it up into a second tutorial or something to break it up a bit

[worn moat]

Yeee, also I remember when it was weekly. And when it was Mondoid. 😍

[pseudo marsh]

Monday blog posts back in the day were a fun thing

I remember the 1st thursdoid teasing this but never came out yet.

[runic marlin]

If we're being real it's partially because the roadmap command is no longer hooked up LOL

[worn moat]

🤣

So very glad that isn't being spammed anymore

[rotund escarp]

line of life: roadmap gets spammed, people remark on it being spammed, roadmap stops being spammed, everyone dies

[worn moat]

That's ok, we still out here living our best Apocalypse life

[tribal valley]

[elfin venture]

it’s okay atleast you’re not this guy

[proven rover]

remember mondoids?

[untold perch]

when next thursdoid?

this thursday?

[tribal valley]

yes no, it’s the 32nd of July

[normal dock]

yes. unless they want to delay it

[formal scroll]

so what do you think will be in this week's issue? i hope to hear that the last feature branch has been merged and it only needs some bugfixing before unstable

[fathom umbra]

Personally I think the entire blog will be about how we'll be able to rotate placed items on a second axis

[torn rose]

yeah it has to be some feature that is just like, an astounding amount of work, like a full 3 dimensional rotate with yaw, pitch, pan, etc, and everyones just tears pouring down their face, like "we never asked for this"

its somehow the next step to NPCs

[hoary drift]

every item and object now has realistic physics so you can knock over a chair if you walk into it and step into food to make it crushed (gives a happines debuf). Euphoria physics engine integration

[normal dock]

Well they've shown off some bone armour, so I'd he surprised if those images aren't in the blog somewhere

But I wouldn't expect anything major. They are winding down and just trying to get that beta. So temper yourself.

[pseudo marsh]

I hope to see some more crafting , perhaps many more other amazing items and even towns being reworked.

[elfin venture]

3 more days…

honestly it’ll be stupid not to have the build come out in the next month

it was estimated 2024 but then took out a whole tech tree that supposedly cut down the time by a lot

[pseudo marsh]

once the July blog post is here we only have 5 more left in this year.

[elfin venture]

i have a feeling it could come out at the end of the year

[pseudo marsh]

I think the developers said build 42 will be public some time in 2024

[elfin venture]

because they said they didn’t want any more unnecessary delays so they took out the bowyery, meaning if it was still gonna be added, it would’ve been 2025, otherwise how would we know it’s a delay?

so i have a feeling taking it out made them justtttt squeeze into 2024 🙄

[pseudo marsh]

build 41 beta released in October of 2019

almost to the 5th anniversary of build 41 being playable.

[formal scroll]

b41 was barely playable on release

did you forget that MP was turned off for about a year?

[pseudo marsh]

MP should always be last in every build.

[formal scroll]

wdym last?

[elfin venture]

lol wonder what’s gonna be the worse release b41 or b42

[formal scroll]

the team is bigger than it was back then so i hope b42 will be better

[amber junco]

Did the devs mention anything about hunting on the second floor and up higher will still work normally as if you are on ground floor?

Like, let's say you have a custom map where you put down traps on the 30th floor with forest tiles and such. Will animals spawn on 30th floor supposedly as ground tiles in the custom map?

Same with stick traps and crate traps on 30th floor. Will they work normally at high altitudes?

[pseudo marsh]

I really hope stick traps work well on roofs

[amber junco]

Yeah. Otherwise, custom maps would still stuck if players can't hunt or trap animals when they are all high up.

[sharp hemlock]

It’s this thrusdoid guys I feel it

[ashen harness]

https://tenor.com/view/no-body-asked-man-talking-to-wall-black-man-talking-to-wall-speach-bubble-gif-23545089

[untold perch]

48 more thursdoids

[amber junco]

Mouse traps only work in certain areas on the map? (Indoors only? Outdoors only? Or on specific biomes?)

[pseudo marsh]

in thursdoid we trust

[west knot]

Calling it, b42 will not be released next month

[golden badger]

mice and rats are most likely to be found on the farm, trailer park, and town biomes
https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Trapping#Zones

[runic marlin]

Trapping probably uses the same zoning as Foraging in B41 right? It would explain confusion with where it works and doesn't. It also adds a bit more excitement to B42 since they're reportedly fixing that zoning problem going forward

[torn hare]

I'd love to play on a map with elevation made out of indestructible nature tiles. Also sailing in a boat sounds fun (like aquatsar or something) but useless because roads and bridges are on a same level as rivers

😭

[primal shard]

That can definetly be chnaged!!

[hoary hazel]

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-upset-sad-cry-boys-gif-6858682649598278649

[torn hare]

Yeah, those rumps from underground parking lot video would work greatly for bridges and highway crossroads

[elfin venture]

https://youtu.be/gFNDUyAMZtk?si=T5f7ojGo4hY95aKT

[radiant quiver]

New moodles in lowest tier, opinion disregarded

[amber junco]

It's a cosmetic upgrade, doesn't seem to have a huge impact on gameplay when relatively compared to other features in B42.

[elfin venture]

i swear if everyone voted in a secret poll about the moodles the first day it would be mostly positive

everyone thinks they should hate it cuz everyone hates it

[pseudo marsh]

vending machines are going to be more fun to loot now that we need to find keys or use money to buy from them

cleaning dirt from building and adding wall paper making buildings look more pretty and have more beauty to it.

[formal scroll]

moodles are ok imo but it is often unclear what they do. a proper description wouldn't hurt. also, on a large display it's often easy to miss when a new one appears

[amber junco]

That's why they are adding 4K resolution support.

[elfin venture]

my biggest problem is how it’s unclear what stage the moodles are in without mods that show corners or levels

[formal scroll]

oh yeah, i forgot about that because of the mod

[elfin venture]

yeah or how the condition is very vague

imagine not knowing you got like 95% melee reduction when sleepy😂 poor vanilla players

[pseudo marsh]

melee weapons have been my only best way of surviving long term

[primal tiger]

I find moodles more interesting tbh, it's a lot more true to life than some dude going "I am 73% thirsty."

[primal shard]

I am 1.23 tired, Please sleep..!

[brisk pasture]

2 MORE DAYS UNTIL A DEVLOG, PEOPLE!

[primal tiger]

I'm illiterate, so I have no idea when that is

[primal tiger]

Easiest +6 points I ever made

[rotund escarp]

Yeah but their vanilla descriptions really don't convey how devastating they are

the first drowsy stage is something like "getting a little sleepy"

which is not at all like the 80% (?) combat reduction

[pseudo marsh]

dev blogs are the best thing to see some fun new features.

[primal tiger]

That's just what folks should know from IRL experiences of trynna stove in a guy's head with a plunger at 4am.

[elfin venture]

it’s the fact that the first stage of sleepy is a whopping 80% but being on the edge of collapsing is only 15% more debuff. barely any difference and you should always just get rid of the first stage

[devout iris]

Sadness is a thing ingame, I do wish some things have you a positive mood debuff as well with some benefits

gave*

[round talon]

They're actually adding a use for money now? Thank god

Now all we need is a use for toilets baths and showers, I use a mod that makes it so you need to go to the toilet to add more realism to my game

[golden badger]

i think that's one of the features on their list of "things they'll never add"

[dense gyro]

For those in need of some good copium.

https://youtu.be/Xbu0MOuGcSE?si=ySI6gDkp0en4r3VF

😁

[ebon cloud]

B42 is gonna be so cool

Rooting for the devs rn they cooking so hard

[sick moth]

honestly yeah, i could never get behind those mods that give you data sheets for your character

[round talon]

Well I guess its good we have a workshop then lmao

[mortal girder]

Inversely, cant really get behind having zero data either. Percentile values may not be true to life but you still experience sensations which give you a general idea of the intensity of what's happening. The current vanilla descriptions dont really do that. There's a middle ground to be struck here

[sick moth]

the tiers of the moodles represent the general idea of what you're feeling. And the fact that you don't know exactly gives you these moments where 'oh i wasnt as hungry as i thought' or 'i need just a bit more'

giving the player the exact values of what they need will cause you to subconsciously start minmaxing everything, which feels out of touch for a game trying to feel natural and nuanced

[round talon]

Very true, I remember when using a mod that shows the values of stuff I was constantly checking it and making sure I was always max on important moodles such as hunger, without that values it feels more natural

[high vault]

Just one more day...

[elfin venture]

grapple tech…

[somber quarry]

What do you guys think, which month will be the release?

I say it’s gonna be December

But hype is already here

[formal scroll]

i hope it's September

[mild blaze]

I’d be fucked up if it releases when I start uni

[calm bolt]

My money is on October/November. Once they have implemented the update, they will still have to take a bunch of time to make sure things work well together. But December release can be tricky because of holidays, so that month is best for just bug fixes

[ashen harness]

I think that in August everyone will say

[untold perch]

november or october

just for halloween themes😹

[sharp hemlock]

Guys clearly it’s this thrusdoid

[rotund escarp]

mr. indie stone said so

[primal tiger]

I need a data sheet IRL tbh

[mild blaze]

Feels like a couple months ago they made that new years tweet, and you lot are already talking about December coming up:(

[pseudo marsh]

now that we got a dev blog coming tomorrow I hope we get some other possible new features.

so far I have not seen any mice and squirrel AI for build 42.

[weak quartz]

Thursdoid tomorrow or next week?

[sick moth]

If they’re only wrapping up what they have for a hasty release I doubt we’ll get any new announcements

[pseudo marsh]

final thursday of July tomorrow

[elfin venture]

the thursdoids have definitely decreased in content

mostly paragraphs of explaining situations and more teasers of stuff we know alr

so it’s prob gonna be the same

[pseudo marsh]

maybe the developers are in a tuning stage of build 42 development where testing and balancing the features before the unstable update launch.

perhaps we could see some content creators getting some early access to build 42 before the public unstable build.

[weak quartz]

:(

[weak quartz]

Wdym "of july"?

[high vault]

There were several thursdoids in July, didn't you hear?

[pseudo marsh]

every thursdoid seems to be the last thursday of every month.

[pseudo marsh]

I am predicting we get to see more reworked parts of existing towns on the map perhaps Rosewood could shine seeing a police station getting reworked and even the school

maybe riverside could get a bigger police station

[mortal girder]

Not really though if the first stage of tired is an 80% debuff lol. Nobody is expecting that from a tier 1 moodle. Like i said, hard values bad. But so is complete ambiguity

[sick moth]

I’d say it still lines up to reality. Drowsiness hits hard and fast in the real world, you don’t feel 20% tired on your lunch break

But if this is about the actual descriptions of the debuffs, then I could agree that some clearer language to tell you what things are effected would be good

But not how much or how little each moodle’s strength is in decimal points

[rotund escarp]

Reality can't be used as a frame of reference because it's a game

It's impossible to know whether something will make sense to reality, or be game logic

It's all well and good to try and have an uber realistic game but the fact is its a game, it can't be a perfect recreation of reality

[mortal girder]

Lol yes, thats all this is about. Its all the first guy was saying that started the topic too 😅

[sick moth]

Zomboid explicitly attempts to maintain realism, and even when it doesn’t, to maintain believability

So I think it’s perfectly reasonable to say that Zomboid can use reality as a frame of reference for capturing the human condition

[calm cosmos]

...?

I must have missed something here, because you definitely can use reality as a reference for games and it's already done

[tribal valley]

life is a game; Project Zomboid is reality

[fathom umbra]

This is true about drowsiness, but adrenaline also exists in real life so it doesn't really line up

[worn moat]

My body is ready ❤️

[amber junco]

I need a body that is jiggly.

https://tenor.com/view/bunny-bunny-dessert-spank-jiggly-bunny-jiggly-gif-25255921

This is how I feel when I hit a zombie on the ground with a crowbar

[worn moat]

https://tenor.com/view/wiggle-bunny-pudding-gif-16788634319041805892

[tribal valley]

1300+ messages by tomorrow

idt it’s happening

[distant summit]

I mean... Kinda makes sense. They had to cut some content from the initial release so they aren't working on new stuff right now. Just polishing old stuff

[worn moat]

[elfin venture]

yeah i agree im just giving them no hope for new features teased

[worn moat]

Maybe it will start popping off again before Thursdoid goes live, last month it went up like 400 messages before it dropped

[high vault]

Come on guys

We'll finally get a look at the expanded erosion that Lenny said would happen in this thread 2 years ago and nowhere else

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/s/B54N23VEfu

[elfin venture]

seeing the word “thursday” is crazy rn

i neeeeeeeed it

[pseudo marsh]

Thursday is the best day for PZ fans

[mortal girder]

Especially when it drops on a Friday in your timezone

[pseudo marsh]

glad I live in the eastern standard timezone in Canada

[void ferry]

why does the !roadmap not work

is b42 out

[tribal valley]

!pamdaor

[formal scroll]

because it moved a little too far

[burnt nebula]

!roadmap

Dayum, even spiffo got effected by crowdstrike

[mortal girder]

Always...
summons Spiffo patronus

[elfin venture]

hopefully amputation is still a maybe for devs

since a long time ago

[high vault]

You can amputate your limbs but blood flows at a realistic speed so you have to speedrun your way through the menu to amputate the estimated place where the infected blood would be, otherwise your turn.

[edgy snow]

Are we getting a thursdoid tpday

[formal scroll]

It should be today, yes.

[somber quarry]

!roadmap

[high vault]

On the 32nd

[cobalt token]

you don't have a 32th day in july 😂

[cedar inlet]

I’m so damn ready for this Thursdoid

[shy roost]

thats the joke

[edgy snow]

33rd*

[dense gyro]

Are your bodies ready?

[calm bolt]

My body is ready. I need my monthly dose of dopamine

[shy roost]

i swear if unstable releases today when im out of state

[narrow bronze]

big doubt but we can always have dreams

[jolly comet]

at least we know the release is getting closer with each passing day

[narrow bronze]

and allegedly during our lifetime

[heady lantern]

will the post be released today?

[calm bolt]

Thursdoid? yes

[heady lantern]

thanks i will wait

[calm bolt]

typically id say another 5 hours

[heady lantern]

on usa?

[calm bolt]

just 5 hours from now. its usually around noon/1pm est, but realistically there is no exact set time

[heady lantern]

oh okay

it will 20:00 for me

[hollow island]

build 42 will release in 3 minutes

spiffo told me

[acoustic halo]

2 am for you right now?

[calm bolt]

If you check back here and see this is locked and you cant post on it, you are probably within an hour of the post

[acoustic halo]

I mean pm

[heady lantern]

3

[acoustic halo]

ok

[heady lantern]

[brisk pasture]

For all we know, it could end up being around 4:00 PM EDT

[calm bolt]

It happened one time. It was like 5pm est

[wet sparrow]

new thursdoid out

[narrow bronze]

if it was, this thread would be locked

[wet sparrow]

check the site

im not lying

[narrow bronze]

nah, good try tho

[wet sparrow]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2024/07/cortman-by-night/

You still think im lying?

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always

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Look at this date ^

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RIOT BOYS THEY HAVENT LOCKED THE THREAD

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if you know you're right, why do you try to prove it to someone who keeps pulling your leg

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Theres enough paranoid people online

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RIOT CHAOS AND FLAMES

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no blacksmithing mentioned in the picture?

metalworking and welding separated