Build 42 Unstable Out Now

[unkempt atlas]

Maybe it's an automated build? But it happens at different times of day.

[hallow adder]

[vague trench]

me waiting for nasko to ge tback like

can you guys come home

[hallow adder]

Or check the tools shop in Rosewood. There is a basement there.

[pallid hinge]

si is development build, nightly is automated - So I am sure someone is tinkering during the holidays

[keen gorge]

I just noticed

Holsters have a condition now and zeds can bite them to oblivion

[pallid hinge]

whoa, that is wild

had no idea

[keen gorge]

Only regular holsters though. Shoulder holsters seem immune

[pallid hinge]

I haven't found a shoulder holster yet, but I did find an o' double

[red hazel]

does bloody weapons break faster or it doesnt matter?

[pallid hinge]

I don't believe it affects condition

[keen gorge]

Sharpness affects condition

Not sharpening your weapons causes them to break faster

[glacial cape]

There's a tools shop in rosewood?

As far as I know only places with tools there is the fire stations & house garages

[pallid hinge]

no tool store in rosewood that I know of

[keen gorge]

You could get lucky in Rosewood and roll a basement that has tools

[frozen wyvern]

AGH WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ZOMBIES IN WINTER IS COMING

[pallid hinge]

[mossy tangle]

What is the fastest way in B42 to get carpentry to 6? I just want the composter so I can farm lol

[hallow adder]

Steal composters from the farms out in Ekron / west of Echo Creek.

[hallow adder]

Riverside, sorry, not Rosewood.

I keep thinking of that small hardware store near the river, located next to an accounting office.

[frozen wyvern]

I think my world is confused on if it has power or not lmao

[hallow adder]

Yeah, known bug on the official forum.

I think the vending machines emit light when it shouldn't.

[cosmic yoke]

do you guys like my beautiful chicken coop

[hallow adder]

Remember, next possible patch would be January 17, given the devs will return next Monday, and that they need time to start working on the bugs over the holidays.

If not January 17, it will most likely be around January Thursdoid.

[keen gorge]

Axes are way too common

[scenic ingot]

idk havent seen much of em lately

i have a turkey problem, how do i stop one from attacking me, without serving it as a meal

[scenic ingot]

absolute masterpiece

[mossy tangle]

God damnit you brilliant bastard why disnt I think of that

[mossy tangle]

Hopefully a hot fix for draining consumables can be done faster if it’s a small issue

[hallow adder]

It could be a bigger issue.

[mossy tangle]

True!

[hallow adder]

I think you need a food trough for that.

[scenic ingot]

i have made feeding thingy and hutch

also zone is assigned but for some reason it looks like they are constantly trying to run away

[ionic barn]

has anyone else noticed weird visual artefacts? a close up i got

edges are really jagged and messy, like that

[frozen wyvern]

I cant tell what Im looking at haha

[ionic barn]

its the edges in particular

the seemingly pixelated edge

[glacial cape]

Oh already looted that only got 3 gravel bags but I want more

[hallow adder]

It's normal. Did you know? The original textures are all 2D sprites, and it's just your camera zoomed in on the sprites.

Also, it could also be an anti-aliasing issue on the textures.

[ionic barn]

anti-aliasing issue is what im leaning towards right now

this isn't an issue i've had, at all, in b41

[hallow adder]

New rendering engine? Dunno, report it as a bug when you get the chance on the official forum.

[ionic barn]

game just feels.. weirdly lowres, because of this issue

[pallid hinge]

I noticed this on quite a few things in B42 vs B41

like the cutouts around gnomes, or chairs

[desert spire]

I'm guessing they nerfed the plumbing a rain collector over a sink strategy since I can't seem to get it to work.
Are we just forced to boil our water from here on out?

[pallid hinge]

It's bugged atm, I think it is planned to be fixed just not working atm

[desert spire]

I noticed it too. during a heavy fog the gnome was shining like a beacon.

[pallid hinge]

Glory to the gnome!

[desert spire]

Anyone see the new FPS b42 has been touting? I just was curious about the performance improvements.

[pallid hinge]

I get a constant 165 (when I cap it at my monitor's refresh rate) with dips to 90 sometimes - or when I cap it at 60 it stays at 60, I do noticed during sunrise and sunset there is some microstuttering with the light updates (on the 15 recommened setting, I have not tested higher or lower update rates)

[vague trench]

i average between 80 and 244 fps

depends on the locations some of the new areas like waverly hav ea lot of zombies so understandable that is probably wip regarding performance but compared to 41 i can tell in the overall smoothness and hd quality of the enviorment

anything i do have fps issues with is already known about

[pallid hinge]

yea still a massive upgrade from B41's preformance even with the light update issue for me

[vague trench]

yar even combat feels like smoother or something visually , hard to explain

[unkempt atlas]

The engine is much improved. I sorta wish they hadn't also rebalanced the game quite so brutally tho

[pallid hinge]

that is what unstable is for, it will ping pong back and fourth in balance till they find the sweet spot

[hallow adder]

This is why it is on the unstable branch

[frozen wyvern]

The biggest problem with performance for me is the stuttering, but it is still very playable

[unkempt atlas]

I used to be a semi-purist, y'know? It physically hurt to change any of the sandbox settings from the Apoc default. But now it feels kinda necessary if I want to have any fun

[vague trench]

Why , i dont get this , people in steam forums do the same and i dont get it

[unkempt atlas]

Why change the settings, or why feel bad about it?

[vague trench]

Apoc is supposed to be how tis envision their gameplay

[vague trench]

Why feel bad about it

I view apoc as like a challenge thing

[unkempt atlas]

You just answered the question yourself. Apoc is supposed to be how TIS envisions the gameplay.

[pallid hinge]

I am not a purist, I was enjoying 8x-16x runs and I don't enjoy respawns but I am enjoying my apoc run so far

I do plan to go back to sandbox at some point, but they balance for apoc so gonna be playing that for now

[vague trench]

yeah same, normally i play just sandbox and have to tweak quite a bit of things so far outside of saliva only , rainy and months since apoc i havent had to change anything

[pallid hinge]

The thing that has been stressing me out about apoc currently though is the respawns lol - I am still killing my way into guns unlimited, and running low on food and I want to go collect more but I am worried that if I do that I am gonna get respawns at the shooting range and all my work will be undone

[ripe nebula]

I’m genuinely so disappointed that spears were nerfed into the ground because they were too good before

[pallid hinge]

yay for sunk cost fallacy

[ripe nebula]

Like I’ve not wanted to use mods for anything until the spear thing

[vague trench]

i turned my respawns on low and its too low so im gonna try just regular and see how it is

[vague trench]

lol im not, i never used them but the one time i did use them god it was op

*no wonder people use these * lol

[ripe nebula]

Yeah spears were a little too good before

Like before B42 spears were kind of fucking insane

[frozen wyvern]

In all fairness spears thtoughout history have kind of been the superior melee weapon

[ripe nebula]

Spears have completely dominated the world of martials arts for basically forever

The best weapons have almost always been spears or a variation of the spear

Or something similar to a spear in shape and function like a halberd which is basically just a spear and axe combo

[vague trench]

theres some really nice 1h melee weapons i have found in pz

[oak mango]

bro what 😭

[severe egret]

What i dont understand is why you revere TIS as the gods of zombie apocolypse gameplay.

[frozen wyvern]

I mean thats not really what they said

[severe egret]

Basically saying anything else is wrong though lol

[frozen wyvern]

Uh......ok?

[unkempt atlas]

Because they as the artists actually do have a privileged vision into the meaning of their art (and postmodernism is therefore bull-pucky)

[ornate parcel]

that's the day I get back to work

[valid escarp]

Tbh, they should honestly back away from that statement and just stick to a general you make the gameplay how you want it type of mindset to not make people feel bad from switching from Apoc to Sandbox, IMO sandbox has so much more fun options than before it's honestly the best way to play it

[ripe nebula]

Fuck yeah

[severe egret]

We all have different ideas of how zombies work. If they didnt understand this, there wouldnt be sandbox settings. Its less about the art and more about the concept

[ripe nebula]

Now we need paint and gas huffing in vanilla

[valid escarp]

some people be artificially limiting their fun by not messing around with sandbox settings

[unkempt atlas]

I mess with the sandbox settings, I just feel bad about it. Mixing fun with guilt is a fine human tradition going back thousands of years

[frozen wyvern]

There's nothing to feel bad about, you bought the game haha

[ripe nebula]

Apocalypse kicks ass

[vague trench]

There is nothing wrong about playing apoc/sandbox and my intention was not to make someone feel bad for trying different settings during unstable to find ones that work for them , we all do it and theres nothing to feel guilty about the game is already hard as is

[severe egret]

Many people adjust settings to make it even harder 😅 difficulty isnt really the point of contention i dont think

[vague trench]

yea its just a very unforgiving game

[keen gorge]

Just a reminder that you can physically pick up and fill up wooden barrels with tap water

[severe egret]

When i change a setting its usually because i feel like something doesnt make sense. It's usually not drawn from any kind of difficulty i have playing the game. Its about making in game consequences line up with real world expectations. But the game relies so heavily on RNG and arbitrary mechanics that break the rules of reality, that this can be relly hard

[pallid hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/crying-pepe-laptop-crying-pepe-laptop-gif-24151788

[ripe nebula]

And gasoline

You can bring 600 liters of gasoline back to your home with a rain collector barrel

[vague trench]

Lol

[lucid ginkgo]

I play sandbox heavily tuned to what makes the game fun for me. Sometimes I use debug to cheat and gimme stuff that's taking me forever to find :V

[blazing coral]

:0

[severe egret]

Yeah I'd never feel guilty about spawning a genny mag. A sledgehammer on the other hand...

[vague trench]

i just deleted a sledgehammer and then i needed it for something a week later an di was like where is that hammer lmao

[heavy crown]

Generator magazine isn’t too much of a problem as long as you disassemble electronics in buildings as you loot

[valid escarp]

Yeah it's not really about difficulty for me but adding more interesting features like rare sprinters, increasing the basements, road stories making cars spawn way more realistically, etc

[severe egret]

Fr. To claim that the devs have implemented the perfect gameplay and that to want to change it in anyway is heresy, is ridiculous 😅. There's just too much to it. There's no way they can get everything right for everyone and they know it

[lucid ginkgo]

I like low-pop but random helicopter events

keeps things interesting but not overwhelming

[vague trench]

and meta events!

love the meta events

[civic drum]

So I was looking at it, and this bar right here is a direct recreation of the bar from Blues Brothers (1980)

I think it may actually be a perfect recreation even.

[cosmic yoke]

can u not pick up spinning wheels? 🥺

[vague trench]

dont think you can pickup a lot of the crafting stuff right nowp

some new lamps cant even picker up

[cosmic yoke]

aw :(

[vague trench]

they moved that box in lv checkpoint lol

[cunning turtle]

Shame on you for getting older everyday

[cunning turtle]

[brazen jetty]

[cunning turtle]

[lucid ginkgo]

Do I have the patience to re-organize 5 50-capacity counters worth of clutter...

[keen gorge]

There's a bug with rotten food

If its rotten and uncooked, just cook it to turn it fresh

[desert citrus]

seems like welding has become a closed loophole no one can get into

[chrome widget]

i beg to differ, feels fine to me

low on propane? meet this bad boy.

[desert citrus]

yeah but dissasembling dosent give you any xp anymore

forcing the player to make floors out of all things for a long ass grind

[red hazel]

I thought scrapping car wrecks give welding exp?

[mossy tangle]

Plus all the propane is bugged and running out once you take it out the bbq haha

[desert citrus]

not anymore in b42 unless you renable the setting

[red hazel]

hmmm I'll look at it again

[red hazel]

I couldnt even refill the welding torch lol

[desert citrus]

its not a completly closed loop

but very hard to get into

for one you're always consuming fuel that's very hard to find

with every propane tank i check its barley a sliver of fuel

[hasty dagger]

You are playing a really boring version of the game if you play on default settings.

[desert citrus]

you dont even know my game settings thats weird asf, i play with 2.0 global xp and increased loot for guns, ammo, books, and vhs tapes

i also gave myself 8 traits points so i dont have to take negative traits since all of them got nerfed into the ground since the devs are also falling into the loop of constantly trying to remove a meta

same loop arrowhead fell into a few months ago

whatever that was "meta" and the players used was nerfed because people used it

devolving into a torture simulator nobody wanted to play for weeks until the devs were given a reality check by the ever decreasing player numbers

there is a lot of nuance when it comes to game balance for one i'd rather avoid mistakes that were made, like the current state of leveling welding, this is not a dirrect effect of someone intentionally making leveling welding a fucking chore, rather the lack of options you had for leveling welding back in Build 41, what would a sane person do to level welding? well dissasemble things of course mainly cars, now thats not an option if you dont have a setting enabled, which i went into this run thinking nothing would prevent me from finding other ways, well i was wrong and now im suffering because of it

[cunning turtle]

[gleaming perch]

USE FUCKING PERIODS BRO

[desert citrus]

i use them sparingly because there's only ever few of good things

[desert citrus]

also you sound like you're on one right now, calm tf down

[gleaming perch]

idgaf just use grammar when you write lots of words

it ends up looking like a jumble without proper grammar

[vague trench]

this is a discussion forum not a discussion about pedantry who cares , ignore them if you dont like it

[gleaming perch]

True I shoyld do that rn

[vague trench]

if it got their point across doesnt matter

[desert citrus]

Truly grammar

it looks like you should fix your own before complaining about someone else's

[red hazel]

Seems I was able to get exp from scrapping car wrecks at apocalypse default settings. Still possible from the looks

[desert citrus]

i should try it maybe they didnt remove it

[red hazel]

though I got like 4exp from it and it took the whole welding torch gass lol

[cosmic yoke]

came back to my truck to find my trailer upside down. disconnected and reconnected it. my truck (and the trailer) flipped entirely around and landed on a tree :(

cant have shitttttttt in kentucky

[granite tusk]

how do i git gud

[lethal wolf]

Welcome to my world

[late cloak]

lets gooo

[lethal wolf]

Project Zomboid x Space Engineers collab with Klang himself gracing PZ vehicles with His Blessing

[viscid belfry]

We worship the Klang

[lethal wolf]

Difference being, PZ players can only pray, grind teeth or bury their faces in their hands in despair and disbelief...And Space Engineers players will weaponize Klang physics...

[hearty pond]

i mean if you flip hard enough in town... you might kill some zombies on your way out

[lethal wolf]

At least in PZ Klang usually remains within its vehicle shell. In SE, Klang can result in an extinction event.

[cosmic yoke]

i sure feeling like conducting an extinction event right now trying to get my damn trailer flipped

[lethal wolf]

Push it with spare vehicle

Or ram it

Disconnecting it might work or it might summon Klang

[cosmic yoke]

im away from my character's base so id have to go a ways to get a spare lol ive just been ramming it. over and over. then reconnecting

[lethal wolf]

Someone mentioned me a type of livestock trailer that is...physically less unstable

[ionic barn]

I do get stuttering in B42

more so than I'd ever get from B41, even modded

[red hazel]

Whats with the garden fork, rake baseball bats being trash lol. I found the schematics for them at a prepper's house, spent time getting to carpentry lvl4 just to find out they suck more than the sheet metal one that requires only carpentry 2 lol. The sheet metal one has like nearly triple the durability and equal damage even though the damage stat is lower

[vague trench]

LOL

[vague trench]

i found a battery charger in a trash once lol

[lethal wolf]

I found a book with the word Crust in its title and I thought of you

Not weird at all to say that when most do not know the context

[vague trench]

what the crust

i love the book titles , im always like i wonder what these mean lol

[lethal wolf]

I miss my 2nd run with a book title mentioning third reich

Really funny run with lots of bold book titles

[vague trench]

yah lol

[cosmic yoke]

OMFG. i finally did it

[lethal wolf]

Are you still alive

[cosmic yoke]

yes, i only took a fair amount of damage getting hit by my car repeatedly

[red hazel]

I still havent found the item called "saucee pic" again since my first b42 playthrough

[vague trench]

lol trailers are so weird everytime i hook them up i just hold my breath

[lethal wolf]

I found a photobook of study of nudity. Among 3rd reich history books, Dear Leader referring one..

[cosmic yoke]

that damn trailer had me considering turning to religion

[lethal wolf]

Praise Klang you hath not invoked His holy wrath

[red hazel]

That trailer is the worst of the two. It flips so easy. The other one feels more stable

[tulip rampart]

Ye

Guys are ramps used anywhere on the map rn?

[keen gorge]

No

[opaque schooner]

Wait until modders do stuff with them

[tulip rampart]

Omg would it be possible to make a pla e

Plane

[opaque schooner]

Helicopters 100% but planes probably won’t ever be a thing

[vague trench]

lol tgat wiykd be so funny and buggy

[frozen wyvern]

Is that a challenge

[real fox]

the weirdest thing has happened to me, i go and load up my save and suddenly the world is very different in my town, i found new car crash sites, theres alot of zombies at my base even tho my last save when i exit had none,

[cunning turtle]

[real fox]

IT DELETED ALL MY STUFF?????

its like somehow the map remade itself? and basically deleted all the things that happened in the cell

[sinful veldt]

Shotguns can indeed hit multiple targets. See #pz_b42_chat message for clarification.

[cunning turtle]

Sadness

[spare breach]

:C

[real fox]

DESPAIRRRRRR

[pallid hinge]

I hope you have been backing up your save!

[real fox]

character was only 2 days i didnt think too haha

[pallid hinge]

fair

[cunning turtle]

[real fox]

its so weird, i cant really tell what happened

its like the map or world file got replaced by an entirely new one, its like i never spawned here and it procedurally generated new shit on my save :0

[severe egret]

I suppose a sandbox setting or a mod to add tracers would alleviate any doubts

[real fox]

weirdly some cars i had were still there, but everything in the cell as wiped besides that and my inventory

[pallid hinge]

that is super strange

[real fox]

back up the saves is basically going to user/zomboid and then copying the zomboid folder i think right

[gleaming perch]

any errors show up when you loaded in?

[pallid hinge]

you can just do the zomboid/saves/apocalypse (or sandbox)/save name instead of the whole folder

[real fox]

it did yes it was error 141 or 142 i think

[tulip rampart]

[pallid hinge]

and then copy it, I have a folder called backups right in there

I should probably delete some lol

[real fox]

i should make a script to auto save them on exit

[pallid hinge]

yea you could totally do that!

[real fox]

then maybe make a mod lmfao

[pallid hinge]

and then share it with the class cause I am lazy but would enjoy having that 🙂

[real fox]

i love how im lazy and not talented just really lazy lmfao

YES if being in tech has taught me anything is being lazy is the key to success lmfao

[sinful veldt]

The ranged weapons in B42 have a tracer effect. It is 1to1 with the bullets fired. There are .ini files that exist for each weapon type that can be modified. I tend to lower the speed value to slow them down so that I can see them easier in my builds.

[pallid hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/this-ukodor-fabled42-this-post-beard-gif-17164034

[severe egret]

Ahh i see! Ive never noticed, ill have to look harder and maybe tweak my .ini

[real fox]

question what exactly is corpse grapplness???

[severe egret]

Not that im at all concerned about any of this, would just be interesting to see how where my shots are going

[cunning turtle]

With painkillers you become brave ngl

[real fox]

fr?

[cunning turtle]

Wait I meant, beta blockers

[sinful veldt]

They can be seen here. Also seen is the -imgui editor for each ammo type.

[cunning turtle]

[severe egret]

Oh wow, that spread look really on point. Good work i say

[real fox]

new build

outdoorsy is gonna be based

[cunning turtle]

[real fox]

new style of character lets go XD

[cunning turtle]

Lmao

Looks like a gangster

[real fox]

cholita lmfao

[cunning turtle]

😂😂

[keen gorge]

I'm starting to think the Brandenburg checkpoint is chock full of zeds

[cunning turtle]

Makes sense

[frozen wyvern]

Ive been wondering how to access that UI ever since it was first shown, is it part of debug mode? Or do you put -imgui in the launch settings?

[magic tree]

is farming bugged? when I select farming it fires up An error.

[frozen wyvern]

Any mods?

[magic tree]

no mods purely vanilla playthrough. although I am playing in the Deck maybe this caused the error??

[frozen wyvern]

Yeah thats most definently it

Controllers arent supported for 42 yet

[magic tree]

so if I use mouse for it would probably work right? I mean I could configure the deck controls to play like mouse and keyboard.

[frozen wyvern]

Probably

[magic tree]

btw is the building part of things okay? I can select the building but I can't move it.

[real fox]

reroll of chracter was based god car and shotgun day one

[cunning turtle]

I can't believe it

[vague trench]

meanwhile i found a starpillow in lv and get bit lol

[cunning turtle]

F

[vague trench]

such far walk lol

[pallid hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-sun-light-power-kitty-gif-23715814

[cunning turtle]

That cat lmao

[real fox]

i found 3 maps already

never foundt his one tho

[cunning turtle]

Louisville is lowkey calling you

[vague trench]

Yah lol

[real fox]

I CANT FIND A FUCKING HOSE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

https://tenor.com/view/hose-fail-splash-gif-10742502

[pallid hinge]

at first I thought you said horse

[cunning turtle]

Same

[real fox]

LOL

[pallid hinge]

"I CAN'T FIND A HECKIN' HORSE!"

[vague trench]

Hold your hoses

[pallid hinge]

🤣

[cunning turtle]

hoses

[real fox]

"peter, the horse is here"

[vague trench]

Lol

Gonna end up calling a horse a hose now

[real fox]

have any of you been to LV in b42

im scared with population changes lmfao

[cunning turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/project-zomboid-zomboid-project-animan-studios-animan-gif-27677994

[pallid hinge]

If my save lasts that long I might try it lol

but not quite where I want to be in this save lol

I did go to mili checkpoint in debug to test cell to cell migration

[real fox]

never been to LV low key

[pallid hinge]

it is scary

[cunning turtle]

I knew it lowkey

[pallid hinge]

but good fun

[real fox]

i never play mp thatmuch in zomboid but omg once they release MP for unstable lmfaoooo the grefing that i see happening lmfaoooooo

imagine pulling up and all your animals are dead or stolen 😭

[pallid hinge]

MP with a small group is so much fun 🙂

[cunning turtle]

I didn't think about that lol

[vague trench]

Yah this save im on right now , just got there and got bit lol i had to use car alarms to move hoards theres ao many lol

[cunning turtle]

Type shi

[vague trench]

I wanna try and live in the center of town by the church, never done that, do animals even spawn in lv?

[real fox]

im not sure , but LV has no basements apperently from what i saw on a video

[vague trench]

Makes sense from the sky scrapers, maybe theyll get added later? I dunno dont mind cause those building are huge lol

[keen gorge]

From what I understand there's a 32 height limit above and below

[pallid hinge]

yea it is both

[keen gorge]

So LV exchanges basements for skyscrapers

[vague trench]

Thats fair

[pallid hinge]

Unless they did end up changing it https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/19fembp/comment/kjnqzfi/ it is up and down

it is possible they went with the earlier version that was up or down for now until performance increases

[keen gorge]

Performance is good, though I guess I have to make do with 6 hour sessions since going beyond that gives me some severe stutter

I'm guessing it has something to do with Java's garbage collection

[pallid hinge]

Yea the only time I really get any stutters is when I haven't re-logged in a while, I imagine that is a memory leak somewhere. And when the lighting system does major updates (sunrise, sunset)

[vague trench]

I get it when lightning during storms its so weird

[cunning turtle]

[astral brook]

Speaking of the height limit, there is that distance limit issue. When you do go up high enough, the map won't load, instead it's just black squares or the void beyond it. My guess is the map won't load after a certain distance away.

[severe egret]

I seem to get stutters in specific places, and was starting to wonder if it's when crossing between chunks or cells or whatever. Never confirmed it in debug though

[wet timber]

Damn, I started living in a forest and thought to start catching food with traps. But trapping is fucking broken, its impossible to start from lvl 0

Box, cage and snare traps are locked by trapping level requirements to craft them. And two other traps can't be made without learning the recipe

So I can't do it without scavenging for recipes or premade traps

[stable pilot]

https://tenor.com/view/no-no-gif-17511868351874922325

[cunning turtle]

Lmao

[wet timber]

I'm going to starve in that damn forest because my char is to dumb to use a crate and a stick

It's just insane how skill progression is locked behind that same skill requirements

[pallid hinge]

I don't know if it has changed or not, I am guessing not. But the reason for this is that only about 200 chunks (Chunk is actually 175x175 so it is probably 200 tiles) are loaded in around a player at any given time so those areas aren't being loaded in because they are outside the draw distance. It could also be a limitation with the z-axis (vertical) not loading things below a certain height, I am not sure.

[ripe nebula]

It would be nice if we could throw rocks to get zombie attention

Rocks would be good for sneak characters as a way to get zombies to turn around and investigate the sound from where it lands

[red hazel]

I'd like it we can run over stop signs and road signs. I've hit plenty of them and it always feels like my car collided with a concrete wall lmao

[pallid hinge]

Did you see what I found yesterday?

[real fox]

what did u find 👁️

[pallid hinge]

D U C K I E

[real fox]

OH SHEEIT

[pallid hinge]

I like that the category is Duck xD

[pallid hinge]

137 kills in the first two days on B42, with a shovel no less is wild

[real fox]

tbf tho im doing 2 hour days this run

im really liking it

[pallid hinge]

ahhh yea

[severe egret]

Lmao every time i come in here i see you basing at yet another of my recent spots 😂

[pallid hinge]

I like 2 hour days, it took me a while to like it - I have mostly played it in MP

[severe egret]

Same its good to have extra daylight time

Anything above that though and i feel it drags on

[real fox]

i love this car

[red hazel]

I never found the keys for this one. Can't hotwire either

[blazing coral]

#1318684957526458450 message bogos binted?

[real fox]

OH MY FUCK HAHA

[vapid trail]

where does it even spawn? i've seen all new vans but this one

[red hazel]

It was at where my mouse cursor is. Between the supermarket and clinic in Maldrough. Likely spawned by chance

ahh mouse cursor didnt show up lol. Between the green and pink buildings

[vapid trail]

oh, so its somewhere in muldraugh
thanks for pointing it out!

[cunning turtle]

[blazing coral]

anyone noticed zombie pathfinding kinda weird in areas with a large fence perimeter?

[fierce mountain]

I like the new louisville maps they have condensed them down into less maps overall and named them differently.

Its so much better than having 9 of the same name maps for the different segments that they had previously

[twin warren]

How do I get rid of this TAA effect on my game? Just downloaded B42 and I can't get over the slight visual blur

[sinful veldt]

I came across this Project Zomboid map, SO I MARKED IT ON THE MAP.

[scenic ingot]

where have you found this van?

[fierce mountain]

Random unique spawn.

[scenic ingot]

oh so it doesnt have designated location like strip club?

[twin warren]

What am I missing?

[scenic ingot]

maybe try filling it up with water

at least when i cook i always do that, havent had these problems

[twin warren]

I tried placing it on the countertop but the saucepan just disappeared after I did that :p

hopefully crafting is made easier than this

[scenic ingot]

ive had this issue when my game crashed and i had duplicate pot of stew which later on fused into one when i placed them in a fridge lol

[fierce mountain]

Saucepans are bugged for that right now you need taunted water in a cooking pot to boil it.

[twin warren]

What why lol

[fierce mountain]

It goes in the cooker container not on top

Its a unstable b42 that was hurried to give us something for christmas. They had to prioritse crashes and such.

[scenic ingot]

oh no youre one of those people who carry water inside the gas can ):

[twin warren]

It's my only other container to store water

[scenic ingot]

ahh makes sense then

btw guys i need your insights for improvements on my new base location which i published in #1162438206516645948 under Ekron Church base name 🙏

cant post screenshots here unfortunately

[keen gorge]

Ekron church has two basement levels

I reckon you can use that for crafting/storage

[scenic ingot]

yupp ive seen it on a map, one of my point why i chose that location, love basements

for storage i chose church since its easier to access first floor rather than basements, not to sure what should i use basement for but might put clothes and other items that i dont need in it

[glacial cape]

I've still yet to go to any of the new towns, they're kinda far away from where I live & I've been enjoying my peaceful farming life

at some point I am going to start blacksmithing as well

after some base renevations & building an gravel road because I hate travelling on dirt paths

[desert citrus]

have fun with trying to find a mason's trowel

[glacial cape]

I think I have one

[tidal solar]

b42 cdda really is busted

[glacial cape]

that'll be what I plan to do next, after my current run

zero 2 hero cdda please wish me luck

[cunning turtle]

[gleaming perch]

like what Jalleo said, this is bugged

[cunning turtle]

You're missing pasta

Jk

[real fox]

Fill it with water and instead of using the crafting menu to put the food in it right click it like you used to in b41 and it should put it in there the UI is just borked rn

[cunning turtle]

borked

[gleaming perch]

They need to make it so you can use Carpentry Chisels for knapping

[blazing coral]

I'm borked. Went to lectromax factory and no generator magazine

[cunning turtle]

u're borked

[ornate laurel]

electrical 3

[blazing coral]

haven't found electrical II book yet. I'll have to dismantle half of riverside

premium technologies (yellow) is the better one, right?

[cunning turtle]

[umbral raven]

Yeah that’s the best one. Though use the blue one if you’re trying to level electrical, you can fix it more often

[ornate laurel]

Yes

[glacial cape]

Out of curiosity does anybody know if spears are still high dps & high crit?

Despite being sp fragile now

Idk if we've had any spears users in b42 come in here and talk about them

[autumn pier]

I’m in the same situation ngl

Oh wait, nvm I have electrical 3, just that there’s too many damn zeds from all that noise! 😂😭

(Getting fuel from gas station)

[red hazel]

found a house in Muldraugh that has two stories but no stairs that goes up. It has stairs in the house that leads to a basement instead lol. The placement of it is super off too. Basement stairs in the middle of the house

[autumn pier]

In the gated community?

[real fox]

I know which house your talking about I was pissed lmfao I needed loot

It has a basement I believe too but the stairs next to the basement don’t work at all haha

[red hazel]

yea

[autumn pier]

Haven’t been to that house oddly enough

I’m sure it’ll be patched though

[lucid ginkgo]

I am pleased to report that I have acheived my first prime cut

[cunning turtle]

Claps

[vague trench]

Lmao yay im so prous of you

[opaque schooner]

Yes

[blazing coral]

found the book and finished grinding it out 😄

[real fox]

Is this still a thing in build 42

[vague trench]

whar

[real fox]

https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1enm0x6/psa_always_press_space_when_opening_doors/?chainedPosts=t3_1hrv929

[reef pecan]

Wait
So does electrical 3 just give you generator knowledge in vanilla now?

[real fox]

Yes

[vague trench]

i dont think so with how doors open now

quick someone go test it lol , NOT IT

[real fox]

No the bathroom party or suprise zombies like that

[vague trench]

oh lol , i hope so

i remember clearing a house with a friend and they went upstairs and opened a door and i heard them scream and i just ran downstairs and it was a bathroom party

[civic drum]

@lyric saffron I need to know: Was this bar, the Outside Notes, intentionally a reference to Blues Brothers?

[vague trench]

lol

the spiffo insider

[blazing coral]

I have 2 holstein cows and not enough buckets

[cunning turtle]

[vague trench]

for blood?!

[blazing coral]

white former blood, yes

[vague trench]

https://tenor.com/view/blade-it-cant-be-noo-you-ready-gif-18662902

[blazing coral]

lol I haven't killed a single animal of mine yet. thinking of sending one of the bulls to the city

[reef pecan]

Holestein cows good for milk?

[blazing coral]

I have 2 holstein and one of that brown/white breed and both holsteins produce much more milk and more often

[reef pecan]

I see

How do I make my animals breed btw?

[blazing coral]

I think you just leave them in a pen with a bull. My cows were already giving milk when I found them

[lucid ginkgo]

gotta wait for mating season

[blazing coral]

this info comes with husbandry lvls?

[reef pecan]

I need to get a truck or something because dragging an animal trailer with a car is painful 😭

[lucid ginkgo]

I assume so, I got some levels and started seeing "Mating Season: No"

[reef pecan]

Well now that we have sheep in the game people can start making cults with sacrificial lambs

[regal spindle]

Bones~

[gleaming perch]

This hard

[regal spindle]

I didn't expect the bone mask to fit this helmet so well

[gleaming perch]

What did you need to level up to get this attire @regal spindle

[regal spindle]

tailoring and carving

and yanno have a good supply of BONES, you want carving about 5 and tailoring 4 for the fancier peices but there's a nice choker that just needs tailoring 2

to maximize drip I suppose I'd have to get some hand-crafted clothing to go with it

That needs burlap though which I don't have much of

[blazing coral]

must be > lvl 3

[lucid ginkgo]

Yeah I think I started seeing it at 4

[regal spindle]

Question about chiggens, whats the egg hatch door about on the hutch?

[blazing coral]

I think it's so you can take the eggs without letting the chickens out

[regal spindle]

aaah

how does the chiggen breeding work?

I only got a couple hens and a rooster right now

[lucid ginkgo]

all you need

[blazing coral]

there is an option for meta-predators (off by default apoc) in which your chickens may be attacked by the like of foxes and you need to close them inside the hutch for the night

[regal spindle]

do new chickens come from eggs that I leave in here or are those just edibles or what

[spare breach]

apparently it works a bit too well because egs randomly started hatching in my fridge

[regal spindle]

I'll be impressed if these ones hatch

[lucid ginkgo]

I could always tell when I'd walk up and suddenly my fridge is like 20 over capacity, appraently chicks are heavy af. I solved this by just cooking the eggs after getting htem.

[gleaming perch]

Hey genuine question- anyone know how to level up Maintenence quickly?

I need to make a stone axe and I forgot to choose the Trait which gives me Maintenance Level 1

[spare breach]

i killed them andkept their dismembered heads in the fridge to scare off the other eggs

[regal spindle]

so should I take the eggs out the hutch and just put them on the floor or something

[blazing coral]

thin skinned = trees try to kill you by scratching you on the neck

[spare breach]

i genuinely dont know. try to keep them in the hutch for a bit, see what happens

[reef pecan]

I’d honestly say it depends on the chickens you got

[blazing coral]

chickens lay unfertilized eggs without a roster in the same pen if you want to avoid the chicks

[reef pecan]

Unless you have a rooster in with your hens I wouldn’t worry about the eggs hatching

Also idk if anyone tested this or not
But are chickens more likely to lay more eggs in a hutch section if there’s already eggs present?

[spare breach]

chicks give absolutely zero meat but you still get bones, i believe

[blazing coral]

I've had this hen for 15 days alone in this pen. Haven't collected any eggs to see if they would hatch and they didn't yet

[reef pecan]

Oh great
Power went out and I’m without a generator

[frozen wyvern]

F

[blazing coral]

and since I didn't collect the eggs you can see they are all in the same section

[hot grail]

Technically yes, but helicopters make more sense

[tulip rampart]

With the new height limit they could have a lot more funcionality

[reef pecan]

Chat I think my bull and cow did seggs

[hot grail]

Yes. Also vehicles can go up and down. The only problem is the isometric perspective. Would be very confusing to know where the helicopter is

[reef pecan]

On another note angus cows suck for milk
Or I just suck at milking rn

[hot grail]

A solution is to add a proximity sensor to the helicopter, like a sign in the dashboard that says YOU HAVE A BUILDING IN FRONT OF YOU or something like that

[reef pecan]

Also just found out they did not in fact seggs
My angus cow can just do that apparently

[regal spindle]

I find myself wierdly enough not wanting to use cats eyes because it makes the new darkness at night a little too bright

[visual sand]

Delighted to see sprinters are still horrifying and now sound it too

[heavy crown]

Anyone with a long-term B42 save know if erosion changed at all?
An issue with long-term saves had a lot to do with how much base visual upkeep involved managing rampant tree growth that sets in like 3 months later

[elder flax]

Holly shit, i would've fuckin lost it, glad sprinters aren't there in apocalyps settings lol

[true smelt]

Guys, Do the vending machines have a NEW UI? Or has it not been implemented yet? I'm trying to access this new UI but it doesn't appear.

[opaque schooner]

There is no ui

[true smelt]

So it wasn't implemented?

[opaque schooner]

You read the article that showed the ui, right?

Anyways, it was just a proof of concept to show what modders can do

[opaque schooner]

It was a proof of concept as far as I know

[true smelt]

Ah....

[true smelt]

Thanks

[opaque schooner]

Ofc man

[dawn elm]

some day those vending machines will be requre money or a key to break into them.

[vague trench]

yah , i been trying both and so far i like no cats eyes

[regal spindle]

Cats eyes with pitch black darkness is brighter than no cats eyes normal darkness

[gleaming perch]

100%

either that or a mod will do it for us

[regal spindle]

You know I would have thought a metal spearhead would outlast the shaft but apparantly not

[lethal wolf]

crude metal, but what metal exactly

[regal spindle]

I dunno I made it at the forge, it took like metalworking 5 to make so I had assumed it wouldn't be complete ass

[lethal wolf]

I salute your metalworking level at least, I got no idea how to get to 1 metalworking in this run yet

[ornate laurel]

with a high enough animal handling (need to test which now that i think about it) you can see if a uncooked egg has the "fertilized" trait

[regal spindle]

I had hoped it would fare better than a random knife taped to a stick but thats that I guess

[lethal wolf]

I feel all weapons with sharpness quality are poor against zeds, they lose sharpness really fast to my experience

[regal spindle]

yeah everyones singing the praise of blunt of late

sharpness also appears to cause condition to drop rather than lower its damage oddly enough

[lethal wolf]

feels bad to have Park Ranger +1 axes when I can't really use axes against zeds without destroying the sharpness, but against trees, never lose sharpness

[regal spindle]

speaking of animal care, how exactly does one go about raising that

I mean you get a little bit from petting I guess

[glacial cape]

As a spear main would you say spears are still worth using for a zero strength & fitness build

[regal spindle]

Honestly I've yet to find one that doesn't break really fast

[glacial cape]

Petting, cleaning out chicken hutches and collecting eggs seem to be the way to level it

[regal spindle]

crafted ones were supposed to be better but I've yet to get one?

[lethal wolf]

if fitness + strenght still ignore the bonus xp modifier, its whatever, but if they don't, you're a madman

[glacial cape]

I heard carving is the way to go for spear durability

[regal spindle]

what, make bone spears?

Come to think of it I've got an advanced forge but I don't see a way to make real spearheads, just knife blades

[glacial cape]

Not sure I haven't used them but I've heard the fire hardened spear & using a stone spearhead or any other one is better for the spear

[lethal wolf]

how do you get the fire hardening part done? I've seen the thing on crafting menu but with unclear manner how to make em

[regal spindle]

you need a fucking recipe to do it I think

there's a lot of items right now that need recipes that make you go "what?" because apparantly your survivor couldn't possible think of doing it themselves

and obviously you need an open flame nearby

[lethal wolf]

or high enough skill level in the skill given that seems to be the magic word apart from Laine's auto manuals

[keen gorge]

I'm pretty sure fire hardening is given at start

[regal spindle]

some of the skills attached to specific items can be questionable too

[keen gorge]

You need two skills for spears to shine, knapping and carving

[regal spindle]

I still am baffled at the idea that stone blades are better than metal ones, even if they're crude

[glacial cape]

Ah thats where I heard that from, is it true spears are great for leveling maintenance as well?

[keen gorge]

Combat maintenance yes

Since extra combat maintenance XP is given everytime a weapon loses condition, spears are S tier for training maintenance

[glacial cape]

So it scales with weapon degrading?

[lethal wolf]

Pat Bren needs to get to work and add Spear skill manuals with funny names like "Polishing Your Speartip", "Handling The Shaft", "Art of Thrusting"

[glacial cape]

Lol I wonder if we will get skill books for other combat skills feels a bit unfair with guns & long blade getting the spotlight on that

[regal spindle]

Random things are just missing from recipes lists it seems, like I can make a wood axe head, but not a regular axe head, or even a hatchet head? what?

[glacial cape]

Maybe not nimble or maintenance though

[keen gorge]

Maintenance is too easy to level now

[lethal wolf]

its all the weebs and gun owners in the US, no one thought wielding a modern hammer needs a combat manual

[keen gorge]

Even just using whetstones and not touching the other crafting methods level you to 5 quickly

[regal spindle]

I don't see mace heads in the forge either, where are these weapon recipes supposed to be

[glacial cape]

Wow really? I'm guessing I've been doing maintenance wrong because I'm only at level 3, 3 months in

[lethal wolf]

I found some mace head crafting manuals in the Military Surplus store, "Blunt Forge" was it called

[regal spindle]

Well thats the thing, I have that recipe unlocked, but it's not on the forge menu

[glacial cape]

Yeah the recipes are nonsensical at times but I'm giving it a pass since it's unstable

[lethal wolf]

ah. Bug report time then

although I would assume you need AN ANVIL for the mace head, forge is not where you shape it

[regal spindle]

here we go, no mace head in the list, and the forge comes with an anvil, you need an anvil to make a forge

[lethal wolf]

I'll load my 2nd run save and see if I got the mace head

[regal spindle]

You'd think the anvil would be the biggest pain in the butt to make a forge, but no, it's the goddamn bellows that did my head in

I think it's a case of missing recipes

[regal spindle]

even if I don't know it, it should still be on teh list though, my settings show all recipes regardless if they're known

[lethal wolf]

I don't even have the mace head in my crafting menu although I've read that

[regal spindle]

hell I got a mod thats supposed to fix this and the short bat recipe and I still don't have them aaa

[lethal wolf]

hell that other recipe from the mag is not in my menus

[regal spindle]

I think it's not even on my discovered recipes and media menu either

[lethal wolf]

seems pretty clear evidence that the magazine exists, but it doesnt actually teach anything atm

[regal spindle]

but if I open my debug menu and check the item spawner mace heads do exist

[lethal wolf]

and there's no such recipe available no matter what

[regal spindle]

and other things that just aren't in the recipe list, like spear heads

[dawn elm]

I ran over a chicken with my car from one of those road wreck scenes

[vague trench]

lol

[pallid hinge]

dinner!

[dawn elm]

almost every home I have seen has zombies spawning in the yards logic

[real fox]

Took me a week but grinded electrical, got a generator , set up camp at the bar in riverside, found 3 good vehicles, next to gas station, and got lots of food frozen

I think my goal is to clear the entirety of RV, and rn I’m slowly clearing out the infested asf school that I know will get worse during peak day, trying to loot as much as I can before peak day

Water went out on day 5 lmfao but thankfully power is still up and running

Found this crazy ass grandma who had a WHOLE BASEMENT full of ammo like a shit ton

[vague trench]

lmao a grandma

[real fox]

She might’ve been a hunter ( found those deer heads there )

Grandma was strong asf too was a sprinter and would not DIE

[vague trench]

lmao , all those oatmeal rasin cookie

[pallid hinge]

never mess with sprinting grandma

[vague trench]

how bad can it be

[real fox]

Does this only affect the beginning of the game? Or whenever you spawn in

[vague trench]

no idea lol

[real fox]

I’m confused what this entails

[vague trench]

thatd be frickd if the game is like here were gonna sprinkle some around your spawn as you spawn in too

[pallid hinge]

in B41 it had a chance of happening

[regal spindle]

man why do I get neck pain from sleeping on a good bed with a pillow

[pallid hinge]

oh I have an answer for this one sec

[pallid hinge]

Mr Lamprey has been doing tests

[cyan blaze]

is black screen issue fixed on amd devices?

[vague trench]

dont think so

i wanna go to lv but not the pop be insane , do need to chagne population multiplier too? or is that only for respawning

[regal spindle]

cool, cool, now I need to figure out the best way to scale the UI

[cyan blaze]

i think you need to change population multiplier

[vague trench]

tanks

[lethal wolf]

Butchering a single roadside cockerel somehow resulted into 2 full chickens, 1 extra unbutchered roadkill cockerel...I guess my protein is sorted for the day of exercising

I think it had something to do with me trying to butcher the chicken with fastest forward on, it didn't consume the thing and still I got the output items in my bags

[fringe barn]

afaik, there's no machines or systems currently using those mechanics, like the ones they also showed with the water pipes and stuff

I'm really hoping they will be implemented soon, but if I had to take a guess I bet they will add the rest of the crafting trees first, and I have a feeling that is going to take while, so...

[true smelt]

Hmnm make sense

Thanks!

[regal spindle]

yoinked a rat

[static heart]

so next week devs get back to work ?

[vague trench]

can we tame those? lol

[spare breach]

im around 2 months in but i have made the erosion twice as slow i think. So far its alright, but i'm still in the early stages

[opaque schooner]

Yes

[vague trench]

yes they come back

[lethal wolf]

put em in an animal zone and they should be "tameable", but recommending walls/fences...

[vague trench]

https://tenor.com/view/pretty-little-liars-pll-lucy-hale-aria-montgomery-sad-gif-18618769

[static heart]

I miss Pat

[vague trench]

sweet! i found a white rat and named it puppers!!! but then i got bit lol

[static heart]

I miss... "not today" running gag

[vague trench]

lol "no"

[lethal wolf]

I re-found the Crust book but didn't pick it up, or was it a magazine...

[vague trench]

lol

[static heart]

yee

[vague trench]

i dont even drink soda but i dont know why this sounds so good lol

or that bubblegum one !!

[lethal wolf]

I found something that strongly resembles Fanta Berry, my cardinal sin, and its only an american import here

[vague trench]

fanta berry sounds good lol

[lethal wolf]

it is until you end up in a dental surgery one hot summer

[vague trench]

yah that would do it rofl

[lethal wolf]

I have a feeling americans really do use different sweeteners in their drinks vs europeans...

[clever imp]

Well, yeah 🤓

[keen gorge]

Man I love the new loot settings

Extremely rare is indeed extremely rare and insanely rare could mean you could loot a whole city and not find what you're looking for

[tired hill]

I used to run Insanely rare to increase the difficulty; now I dread the thought of looking through half the map for a welding mask (On default apocalypse it took dozens of garages and several industrial storages to find one on the ground xd)

[vague trench]

thats awesome i really like the settings for loot now too

[civic drum]

So do pigs destroy all fences or just short fences?

[jade haven]

One the comments suggested door flashing, but door flashing just ain't gonna work any more, now will it?

[vague trench]

no but you can hold e and melee really fast

when opening thats what i been doing otherwise i just been hitting doors now lol few times got bit just opening it

[lethal wolf]

Any fence or wall made of wood as far as I know. My previous run wooden fences and walls got deleted.

[civic drum]

Home built metal fences work then?

[lethal wolf]

Should, and barbed wire fences

[vague trench]

i think so cause there was some pigs in muldrag in one and i dont recall them ever breaking out of it

[civic drum]

They eat wooden gates too, or just the fences?

[lethal wolf]

Barbed wire seems easiest if you find the magazine to get wire from broken fishtraps via fishing. Large wooden gates got destroyed by a ram, not sure about pigs.

Problem remains, how does one grant roofing for animals hellbent on destroying any support structures...

[jaunty gyro]

Some magazines are bugged due to mismtached names, they will be fixed soon

[regal spindle]

Aaaah gotcha

[frozen wyvern]

I wish we had the variety of soda here irl that Zomboid has now, we only have cherry or lime based ones lol

[unkempt atlas]

The USA has the best junk food in the world. Even here in Canada it is not as good as what the USA has

[velvet egret]

your health and well-being would be jeopardized if you ate American junk food lol

[blazing coral]

I had that on default (off) and a zombie spawned on my basement anyway

maybe it was a random basement and didn't count as the starting house

[blazing coral]

guaraná is all you need

[frozen wyvern]

I dunno when i lived in Japan they had alllll kinds of different sodas

Melon soda my beloved 🤤

[reef pecan]

Has anyone figured out how to get small metal bands yet for wooden buckets?

[frozen wyvern]

Ive heard its basically only possible through finding them on the floor of looted buildings haha

Might be best to just spawn em in eitb debug mode

[red hazel]

How did my ice cream go rotten before it even melts?

[opaque schooner]

Being frozen doesn’t keep food fresh forever

[pallid hinge]

It's funny cause americans say the same thing about our junk food 😄

grass is greener I guess

[red hazel]

I guess so in real life. In this game however, is different and I'm only 2 days in and the icecream went rotten lol. The norm is fresh>melted>rotten

[dawn elm]

RIP icecream being still edible after melted

[red hazel]

did they just changed it?

[true smelt]

Does anyone know if there is a way to remove all of this?

[true smelt]

In

[misty musk]

unsealing multiplayer when?

[magic tree]

any news on controller support??

[vague trench]

no eta , they havent even started hotfixns yet

[versed niche]

I found a graphical bug/mistake by the devs

I'm fueling this van by the left side, while the gas tank is on the right in the model

[echo lynx]

Yo, i noticed that my generator is not giving power to the basement of my base, is it the same for you guys?

[vague trench]

tink its a known issue

[echo lynx]

oh, thanks for letting me know!

[opaque schooner]

Rip

[vague trench]

bruh lol therse like a huge hoard behind

[prisma oak]

do we know when multi player will be avalable for 42?

[cunning turtle]

McNugget

[pallid hinge]

This was changed in the last patch of B41

[vague trench]

no eta

[prisma oak]

la sad

[vague trench]

prolly better to wait anyways , i dont think people would like updating their servers all the time

[cunning turtle]

This year

[keen gorge]

Nah

It has been delayed indefinitely because y'all keep asking

[pallid hinge]

I remember when B41 MP came out and the updates + mod updates constantly made server owners very frustrated lol

server owners were literally begging for the updates to slow down

[vague trench]

yeslol they were very mad lol

[wet timber]

Because we INVENTED IT! And then we PERFECTED it so that NO MAN could best us in the RING OF HONOR

https://tenor.com/view/team-fortress-2-tf2-meet-the-soldier-soldier-meet-the-team-gif-5973890219255947351

[cunning turtle]

Nah I don't think so

[keen gorge]

Just in case anyone wants to do it, you'll run into some engine bugs if you use the excavation mod on Louisville to build a basement

Also disassembling player built flooring at ground level will open up a void

[cunning turtle]

@real fox Luna is not playin as usual, something has changed in the timeline then

[real fox]

I’m trying to fix my sleeping schedule

I’m so closeeeeeee, went to sleep at 5pm last night and soon my sleeping schedule will be around 8 or 9pm

[cunning turtle]

Lmao that's nice, but I love the night than the day frfr

[vague trench]

I can see that lol, im in lv right now basing by the skyacrapers and my fps goes to 20

I wanna go in neds church!!!

[keen gorge]

The rats

Exterminate the rats

[frozen wyvern]

There are so many rats after a bit haha

Like im only like 2 and a half months in with my char and they are EVERYWHERE

They dont seem to affect performance tho so its cool

Sometimes one will get between me and a zombie and ill kill it by accident lol

[vague trench]

there was is many rats lol

[real fox]

Crazy? I Was Crazy Once. They Locked Me In A Room. A Rubber Room. A Rubber Room With Rats. And Rats Make Me Crazy.

[vague trench]

https://tenor.com/view/ratpeople-gif-18106476426751425559

[keen gorge]

Louisville 12 months later

https://tenor.com/view/a-plague-tale-requiem-rats-gif-22617470

[pallid hinge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3399431185

https://tenor.com/view/kekw-twitch-twitchtv-twitch-emote-kek-gif-19085736

[keen gorge]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3399395227

My man Ellis is on a relaxing vacation

[real fox]

Choccy milk

[cunning turtle]

Makes sense

[vague trench]

And it begins lmao

[sturdy wren]

i feel like some recipes require way too much water

[raw parcel]

have they fixed anything yet?

[pallid hinge]

They don't officially come back till the 6th https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2024/12/merry-christmas/

[raw parcel]

i wish i could take such long holidays 🤗

[pallid hinge]

but it looks like someone has been tinkering on the si (internal dev branch) branch throughout the holidays cause I keep seeing it get updated

[magic tree]

other than a pick axe are there other tools that can be use to mine flint??

[fierce mountain]

Controller support is a low priority right now. Focus is on getting rest of crafting in, fixing bugs and the other planned stuff for unstable. They want to fix controllers after they have the better new crafting panel in. They arent even back from their christmas vacation yet......

[fierce mountain]

They only went on holiday Christmas week...... Most likely once they got that last hotfix out abd confirmed it works.....

[severe prawn]

Project Freakoid

[keen gorge]

It's been a while since I watched the television shows

Is it just me or did they update the transcripts on some

[real fox]

they added new tv channells but as far as scripts im not sure

the radios seem to have be unchanged for the ones ive watched fully ( nnr and knoxtalk

[scenic ingot]

does any of these new channels adds some sort of skills while listening?

[scenic ingot]

where is this place? i want a drum set for my church

[real fox]

riverside bar

[scenic ingot]

looks cozy

[cunning turtle]

I thought u were sleeping lmao

[real fox]

i woke up at 1am

[cunning turtle]

Lmao

[real fox]

im trying to go to bed early

[red hazel]

Prepper house on a For Sale empty house is such a scam

[sturdy ermine]

they died before they could get furniture

[fossil vector]

How do you guys get clay. I Only found some in, schools i think

[granite tusk]

That

🥵

[granite tusk]

Sus

[cunning turtle]

[cunning turtle]

u were right

[granite tusk]

perfect basement

[desert citrus]

these vector moodles look so out of place

i personally think they dont fit the game at all

a broken egg for the hurt moodle like, what? how does that make sense

[tender cave]

a broken bone is better

[desert citrus]

yes

[tender cave]

the egg one is like "balls hurt"

[mental laurel]

no

[cunning turtle]

Pat lore

[wraith rune]

Have you got your St. Tola yet Pat?

Had some over christmas, still so good

[mental laurel]

@viscid oracle @static heart CHEESE UPDATE! All my cheeses arrived! Not generally a fan of goat's cheese but the St. Tola was very nice. I got too much though and had to throw out the end! The Manchego was nice and mild. Having the Tomme de Savoie last, and enjoying it, even though eating the rind gives me stomach cramps!

[wraith rune]

Awesome cheese update, and yeah St Tola doesn't last too long!

Please add a variety of cheeses to Project Zomboid, thanks Pat

[hoary token]

That'd be awesome

[real fox]

almost 500 kills in 9 days

[hoary token]

Really looking forward to when brewing alcohol/ale and such gets into the game too

and pickling foods

[mental laurel]

More nerfing required

[real fox]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

https://tenor.com/view/waah-waa-sad-wah-waaah-gif-25875771

[hoary token]

next update the first couple zombie kills panic you and make you anxious for a week, you just killed another person

[cunning turtle]

[fierce mountain]

It seems that they run faster now and they added in adverts before and after the shows. (If I am wrong let me know)

[keen gorge]

Alright guess it's another round of me locking myself in a room surrounded by televisions to find out the differences

[cunning turtle]

Interesting

[scenic ingot]

how can i remove crosses?

there is no pick up or dismantle option

[frozen wyvern]

People keep throwing a stink about these but i still really like the new moodle icons

[severe prawn]

I honestly also kinda like them. But old style icons still should be an option for vanilla.

[frozen wyvern]

I agree, an option would be cool

But in all honesty the old moodles do feel outdated

Doesnt mean i dont hold a special place in my heart for them

[severe prawn]

But they have a charm to them

You know. This pixilated and goofy art style

[frozen wyvern]

Yup

[chilly atlas]

i kinda get it if u came into the game before b41 but having not rly played older builds til recently they didnt look at all out of place

[frozen wyvern]

I do think nostalgia plays heavily into people not liking them

[keen gorge]

Shortening clothes give ridiculous amounts of tailoring XP

[hallow adder]

Oh wow, I did not notice this. Thank you for your contribution to mythbusting while you were on holiday break.

[hallow adder]

Debug build, inaccessible without dev privileges I would wager.

[keen gorge]

I have like a surefire way to grind almost every skill easily except for welding. Anybody figured out a strat there yet?

[wet timber]

Ayo "Status_MovementRestricted.png"
"Status_Sedated.png"
What the hell are they planning for MP reintroduction? 💀

[severe prawn]

Idk honestly

[frozen wyvern]

Time to tie players to chairs interrogation style

[wet timber]

I hope you're right

[chilly hawk]

guys any news about multiplayer in beta?

[chilly hawk]

https://tenor.com/view/batman-black-black-batman-watch-watch-black-batman-gif-1194737969369160005

[wet timber]

Because there's some worse ways it can go. Don't y'all forget about new animation mechanics added

[glacial cape]

Does this mean we get to keep build 42?

[frozen wyvern]

No its gone

[glacial cape]

https://tenor.com/view/noooo-no-no-emote-emote-nooo-emote-gif-23071619

[frozen wyvern]

The cheese has taken over

[wet timber]

Imagine surviving all the zombie hordes just to end up sedated and grupleteched in someone's p didi basement

I'm not going to trust randoms in mp

[glacial cape]

Aw hell nah pz mp is becoming day z at this point 💀

[frozen wyvern]

Hell yeah

[wet timber]

pz pulling "real monsters you need to avoid are people, not zombies" (or whatever it was) card wasn't on my 2025 bingo

[glacial cape]

After the way I treat animals I don't blame them

Still haven't gotten over rimworld even in a different game with npcs

[keen gorge]

I came from RimWorld and Kenshi

First thing I'm gonna do in MP is hogtie someone and drop them off to the Louisville checkpoint as a distraction so I can get there quicker

[frozen wyvern]

Good idea

[glacial cape]

Lock them inside a police cruiser with a siren on, perfect

[wet timber]

I'll use "cover your face to hide player's name" feature to hide in peoples vehicles and bases

"Parasite" type shi

[blazing coral]

that's because the zombies in dayz are an absolute joke

[real fox]

how my riverside character is doing rn

[blazing coral]

post office loot any good?

[cunning turtle]

What's your favorite weapon

[real fox]

im noticing alot of magazines in post offices

[real fox]

metal baseball bat or crowbar

[cunning turtle]

Nice

[blazing coral]

[cunning turtle]

[real fox]

So if you need to learn a recipe that’s locked behind it post offices have been good, make sure to empty the bags inside the containers ( mail whatever it’s called ) and check all the parcels

[blazing coral]

yea a lot of good loot spawning in bags inside containers in b42

[real fox]

Good loot in riverside seems to be towards the gated community and sometimes rng

I found a basement near spawn that had buttloads of ammo

You might not find many guns in riverside, but brandenburg or whatever is close by ish

Which I haven’t checked out yet

I got lucky and found a shotgun and three pistols so far

[blazing coral]

neither have I. been living the farm life north of lectromax

[wet timber]

Where's that?

[real fox]

If I live long enough my goal is set base in every major city

[blazing coral]

factory southwest of riverside

[real fox]

They changed the factory near riverside loot pool

[wet timber]

Thanks for the tip, I've been struggling to find them

[real fox]

It’s mostly a welding manufacturing plant now, mostly found steel pipes and ingots

So good if you wanna smith stuff I think but I haven’t tinkered with smithing or welding yet

[blazing coral]

the good stuff are the lectromax vans parked around it and the warehouse with misc loot

[wet timber]

Abandoned one?

[blazing coral]

It's not abandoned. You can find flyers with job ads for it

#1318684957526458450 message luna marked it on the map. bottom left

[wet timber]

Well, I'm confused right now

[wet timber]

Oh, right

I know that place

Forgot that it exists though. I thought you're talking about that one in between Riverside and Brandenburg

[cunning turtle]

When a review of Louisville

[thick laurel]

They should add plants that can shoot peas at zomboid

[blazing coral]

and a bucket helmet

[thick laurel]

Yeah, that’ll make my base feels less insecure

[real fox]

I’m too fucking scared

[fluid panther]

can you say mod to write in the map?

[red hazel]

draw on the map

[reef pecan]

Let us coat our sticks of butter in sugar

[fluid panther]

ty

[cunning turtle]

Where ur big balls at

[real fox]

LMFAO

[gleaming perch]

Is this Apocalpyse mode

[civic gust]

multiplayer out when!

[static heart]

no

[civic gust]

[static heart]

guess where I get my inspiration from

[versed dagger]

[native spear]

the man pat himself

[hallow adder]

Loot Muldraugh propane tanks, then head over to Irvington, where the trains are blocking the road access. Use welding torch to disassemble the trains.

And train rails while you are there.

[real fox]

yes, with some minor tweaks like adding 1 percent sprinters and increase farming speeds a bit, and making livestock a bit more rare and taking a bit longer to produce babies to avoid the reproduce bug happening

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3397635749 peak

[cunning turtle]

You has to change it to waiting for B42 mp now

[vague trench]

Yay its almoat hotfix start day!!!!!

[jade haven]

Hm. A thought: superhero landing mod

[lucid ginkgo]

I thought disassemble didn't give exp anymore, or is that only for carpentry?

[reef pecan]

What reproduce bug?

[real fox]

where animals reproduce way to much and spawn in hundrends of animals lmfao

[reef pecan]

Oh…

All my animals are gestating rn should I be worried?

[real fox]

they seem to happen to fast reproducing animals

[vague trench]

can just use debug if they get out of control

i had a chicken egg hatch in a cupboard lol

[jade haven]

Hell of a glow up:
B41 vs B42

[glacial cape]

Muldraugh might be worth spawning in now :D

[vague trench]

it is its great !

lots of really good spots

[floral breach]

Since they released 42.0.2 I can't play because I get caught all the time and i need to force exit 🥲
anyone knows what can i do or why its happens?

[regal spindle]

It's kinda not tbh, at least I find it kinda mid for loot

[glacial cape]

At least the road isn't pain

I've explored a little bit of the town already since I spawned there and I've went over a few times for supplies

[vague trench]

like it hangs up ?

[regal spindle]

I set up in cortman this run and I'm kinda regretting it

I mean it's a nice place but I feel like I've tossed most the town fairly quickly

[glacial cape]

I was orginially going to do that but I got chased out of cortmen by the heli event and decided to setup in a farm on the outskirts of fallas lake

[vague trench]

lv sux lmao i dieded , jumped out a winder got a foot fracture

[rich shuttle]

Rip :(

[glacial cape]

oof yeah lv is even more of a death trap this build

must mean the loot will be way better surely right? Right?

[vague trench]

yah i even turned popstart to low lol

[rich shuttle]

How painful would a fully pacifist run be on apocalypse setting?

[vague trench]

yah a golden chicken somewhere !!

nice vehicle loot lol

[severe prawn]

Are dews actually planning to add npcs for b43

[vague trench]

yeah

[severe prawn]

Just the thought about it makes me excited

That we might get npcs in two years or something

[hallow adder]

Hmmm, yeah, I thought it's only carpentry and tailoring. I guess welding still counts?

Also, someone pointed out a generator bug: https://youtube.com/shorts/jMRYBM5vjqU?feature=shared

[lucid ginkgo]

I mean as far as bugs go, seems pretty low-priority. Who's gonna wanna maintain the exploit every top of the hour

[silk nova]

sadly not all the town got it, maerch ridge is still the same i hope they will glow up also it

[unique pulsar]

In going to light a baby on fire

[granite tusk]

@cunning turtle how's it going

[floral breach]

Yep, it freezes completely, and I can’t do anything. I have to force close the game every time

[vague trench]

#1019767076094758924 i would try there if havent, just make sure no mods i cant think of anything at the top of my head that would cause that

[reef pecan]

So smaller animals like rats and rabbits instead of cows and sheep?

[granite tusk]

Have you tried launching your game through the batch on root folder instead than library?

[floral breach]

I was wondering if this is a common issue or if it’s just happening to me for some reason…
Actually, I was playing fine, but then the game froze. I exited and went to Steam, and I saw it was updating to 42.2. After the update, I tried playing again, but now it keeps freezing every time I play ://

[vague trench]

i would look in there , i only know of the amd issue havent really heard of people loading in the game then freezing right off the bat

[floral breach]

Thanks for the help! I’ll check the mods just in case. It’s weird that this started happening right after the update

[vague trench]

try verifying cache too or if that doesnt work full reinstall?

[floral breach]

I reset my computer a couple of days ago, so I’ll reinstall Steam, check the mods, and give it a try. Hopefully, that solves it.

[granite tusk]

Replied to the wrong person, but I had the exact same issue on startup since 42.0.2 rolled out
Which oddly never happened when i launched my game through batch, rather than the executable or in library

[vague trench]

are you playing with mods in 42? cause that could be an issue if you make a thread in pz support make sure you disable any mods before posting it

[floral breach]

So now do you always launch the game from the batch file?

[cunning turtle]

I haven't had time to play yet, what about you

[granite tusk]

I do

It's essentially the same game

[floral breach]

I had some mods downloaded, but it was a while ago and on another computer. Honestly, I don’t know much about computer stuff hahahh, so I’m not sure if they’re still activated or what. I’m redownloading the game now and will check it out

[vague trench]

yah just make sure theyre disabled in your workshop sector , just incase lol when i first loaded b42 my mods from 41 were still installed and it didnt load some things rofl

[floral breach]

The map works to you? That another problem I had 🤣

[vague trench]

the new map spawn?

[floral breach]

Well, the mini map, the map in general

It’s as if all the lines drawn moved when moving the map and appearing and disappearing

[vague trench]

what the crust lol yeah make sure you have mods uninstalled

[fierce mountain]

Did you find many vans outside the factory in the southwest?

[real fox]

yes

[fierce mountain]

What type of loot spawned in them overall?

[vague trench]

damnit i forgoot batteries dissapear when you take them out lol

[pallid hinge]

[vague trench]

was wondering why it didnt make my char heavy but shrugged it off lol

lol it changed the color of the can

[wispy yew]

Has anyone had luck finding concrete powder? I have looked at 3 different cities, Muldraugh, Riverside, and Westpoint in the possible locations I have found them in build 41.
I am starting to wonder if it is glitched. It might be that concrete powder has a very low chance in the loot table or has been forgotten to be added to the loot table for hardware stores and industrial areas.
Let me know if you have any insights, thank you!

[keen gorge]

I have better luck searching at those industrial vans

[wispy yew]

How many have you found and can you send a location point on this map? Thank you!
https://b42map.com/

[keen gorge]

It doesn't have a specific location since it's a random spawn

It seems to be weighed to spawn there more since I can still regularly find materials I need at vans even at low loot settings

[real fox]

progress

[regal spindle]

Man, do we know whats causing batteries to slowly drain?

[keen gorge]

Bug with drainables

[regal spindle]

cos this thing was 100% in this van I've not used in ages

[keen gorge]

There's a nasty bug with some drainables going on right now

Car batteries, regular batteries, and propane tanks are hardest hit

[vague trench]

the sodas stole all the energy

[regal spindle]

blood splatter from some weapons really gets all over your clothes now

I think I'll keep them like this

[mossy tangle]

I’ve found lots at lectromax

[spark vine]

oops

[hallow adder]

I don't know what is wrong with me right now. I just don't feel like wanting to play B42 right now.

[civic drum]

So I've experimented with this. Apparently, if you end your game while in a car that is turned on, it won't drain the batteries. Same goes for flashlights/propane torches that are equipped and held in primary/secondary slots.

[vague trench]

nice

[real fox]

I saw you can plant wheat now, can you make bread now?!?

[pallid hinge]

if you can't yet then I think that is the plan 🙂