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You can do coop, but most of it is solo
I've done 4h+ survival runs solo, its really not that hard
yep, you usually have smaller communitys that splinter off from larger discords that play together with people they know
Nah i know well enough those games are better with friends
And my friends and I are playing other games
me with valheim
I can only imagine you with Eve Online
I actually couldn't get into Eve weirdly enough
but yeah, I go hard on spreadsheets... with genshin I even went and reverse engineered the soft pity calculations
lol
thats like when a friend got me into wow and made me download all these addons and im like huh and they got mathy about it and im just like ... bro i cant even count 2 apples
Update in 4 picto seconds
thanks guys , best game ever lol
lmao
LOL
Why does this look like a preschooler's masterpiece using PlayDoh clay?
lol
The red mixed with a bit of yellow clay, followed by mashing them into a large blue clay.
Oh god. I remembered how I was frustrated with the clays being mixed together like that as a child.
I cried and cried, bawling my eyes out, while my granny tried to slowly split the clays up. Ended up with a large ball of purple clay.
It wasn't until much much later, do I realize if you keep mixing clay together and together, the PlayDoh clay will chemically react with each other, eventually turning the clay back into its original form.
So, blue -> blue got mixed with red -> purple -> keep kneeding it -> turns back into blue.
and then you eat it and be dissapointed it tasted nothing like it looked
Oh my preschool classmate did that. Ate a nice hotdog clay, and made 2 people cry.
if hotdog shaped why not hotdog taste?>!
just wait till you get into fashion frame
thats a whole different hole to disappear in
how your frame looks is very customizable

not sure if you got it already: but the nightwave is effectively your "battlepass" quotation on the battle pass
fighting is so fun!
because it usually runs for SO long, you'll get it done 5 times over

yeah warframes fluditiy is one of its strongest points, especially when it all comes together and you go zoomin
many games have tried to emulate warframes entire feeling but i dont think any one did it yet
oh hallelujah warframe now has a wiki seperate from fandom
👀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqH8OkravhU if only power outages were like this for when power is failing.
Store #3155.
Transformer explodes and this is the result.
Is B48 out yet?
lol
I would love brownout or temporary blackout that slowly get worst until the power grid fully fail
It would make you feel like you genuinely need to find a solution to power if the grid goes out
thunderstorms should cause some lights to flicker.
Fr
generators with low fuel should cause lights to flicker.
Genny wirh low fuel should start yelling at you and making as much noise as possible that lure everything.
And it start when it at 95% full Like an printer
Poor puppers 
Pupper when they see a shiny rock
Pupper more like crower?.... no? Alright i let myself out
ach its either patch coming along soon(tm) or years of gaming have injured me, debilitating nerve pain in the mouse hand flaring up badly
clearly need games where one does not need to click with a mouse...
have you heard of controllers?
one will not be able to convince me to use controllers for MMOs or PZ
regardless, carpal tunnel-related issues cannot be mitigated so easily with controller play, just bending the arm is pain
does anyone have any hot tips for getting electricity in a trailer without an integral battery using RV Interior
because this trailer i'm in doesn't have one and i'd rather not kill myself with noxious fumes in it with a gen
controller hurts me after a while too my steamdiceck does that
Steam deck is pretty heavy
gotta put it on a pillow puff
guess today will be spent visiting a doctor, physical injuries are only a concern when they restrict gaming
you should be able to just sledgehammer yourself out of it and place the generator outside
otherwise, if you attach it to a car it should technically use the cars battery, but i havent played with it in a hot minute so take with a heaping grain of salt
yeah it doesn't recognize the petyarbuilt truck cab, might just put a solar outside as a freebie
You've been playing on the deck? I'm just wondering how are you getting around using guns in PZ if you do play it there
guns are fun but they aren't needed
you sure?
anyone game lost metal door sound ? When zomboid bang on metal door like garage door on mine its play wooden banging sound
i have always been a melee player so have not tried them on steamdeck, i usually play on my pc thingie
Yes
Vanilla playthrough, or are you running mods?
I keep losing good saves to trying to use guns
onj vaniller?
Not entirely, but close enough to vanilla that the gunplay is basically the same
Like the deaths happen in a way that would have happened in vanilla anyways
Usually by multiple sprinters swarming me after firing
OHHH LOl
And I don't know how to deal with them when I run out of ammo and can't switch to melee fast enough
One or two I can push
But three or more and I'm screwed
I think I need to use vehicles with guns
But I can't reload while driving
yah i have no idea how players play with just sprinters, i tried just 1% once cause people in pz chat, and i think one save i died like 7 times lol
their screams are so cool though
Nah it's not 100% it's rare sprinters
But there are enough in large crowds that I die after firing
Sprinters is all about that fence play, 1-2 is pretty easy to deal with, but once you have three on you gotta run and find your nearest fence and make it your home
frick that lol
There could be a sprinter attack me from behind though
Guess I need to clear the area behind the fence first
😂
Yee prio number one should always be keep your fenceline clear
Honestly I might consider building a small kill box maybe out of a house
Totally!
it could be tomorrow or it could be december
when im maxxed out in warframe

Yes
You can
I did it last week
day 336 waiting for the mp
I couldn't find a the English version I just saw Spanish ones 🤣
lmao
i literally wrote "FIRST TIME" and i found like 90 gifs
Giphy be weird sometimes
This is the main reason i wish we could climb and stand on stuff like cars, crates, dumpsters to reach escape routes. Would be cool to be able to escape a sprinter situation vertically. Wouldnt mind if zombies could climb waist high objects too, only preferably a little slower than me 😅
or 2026
i wanan climb on a rat
To each their own

rat mount!
whers squeaks !?
🥰
This reminds me of when they lowkey added Pokémon battling to WoW back in the day.
now that we know for sure B42 MP got unforeseen delays already happening, we can bet your counter is gonna reach 400 days
maybe, we´ll see
🤣
Pet battles in zomboid when
2 male animals in a fenced area, winner advances to next round
winner gets all the females
As long as they dont go and Gaslight their community like The NoFun Pimps did with 7 days to die.
Then they can avoid a review bomb
well all we know is that "its going well" for MP, does not imply an ETA, but at least work is being done at a healthy rate
That is a mount from WoW lol! And now that pokemon battle system is at risk due to Palworld lawsuit lol - and technically so are mounts... not that Microsoft-Activision Blizzard doesn't have near infinite money to fight it
i did this with two roosters in pz lol
no theyre not taking my battlepets
TIS endorses cock fights
This is just a bwak bwak fight.
Donno, but from what I ready they're not adding any new ones for midnight?
maybe theyll be something specific for house decorations then ?
WoW expansion patchnotes thread
But yeah, catching pets will be just "throw a cage and succeed", no fight needed
I'll take B42 stable before any more WoW
I'd be ok with that
I tried to convince my guild to play PZ with me after sod ended, but no one wanted to 
I bought PZ for few IRL friends and they didn't get hooked, the fools they are
Maybe one day!
I bought a friend PZ in 2014, and it took him stumbling onto YouTubers playing it in 2024 to actually want to play with me
Holy moly that was a year ago
November 2024, right before PoE2 came out and destroyed my server population
Hahahha MP can have cock fights
Is the katana any better than the highest tier craftable sword?
The wiki says the katana does 8-8 damage and the sword does 2-3
Wait what? The highest tier sword has a full damage bar when I use it in-game though
Are they using the unsharpened damage? Even then I think in-game it's higher
That seems wrong.
With the highest tier sword I've oneshotted multiple zeds at once.
Also holy hell is this update taking forever lol
multiplayer update for sure 
where's b42 mp then
This is why I have trust issues in this channel.
Y'all never trusted the devs.
.... please tell me that's a joke
where's the b-42nd media player
we're waiting
Im not lol
wishlist is bows, the rest of crafting (cheesemaking, brewing etc), melee ragdolls and THEN mp lol
And a good vanilla UI
eh im used to it, but I agree that would be good especially for new players
Releasing multiplayer with this UI would be criminal and so so so many complaints would flood them, they would be asking for it at that point
Everyone has to stare at it, so everybody that can complain will complain
It's not like missing spear fishing where not everyone is doing that, so it's okay to release multi without it
yeah but people will have higher priorities, like for me UI would be last on the list becuse I just don't care as much as features lol. But thats just because I am used to it now, it doesn't bother me
It's not about priorities for most people, if they see the issue, it will be a complaint. The same people complaining about UI are not the same people who even know about missing features like bows.
But if you know about the missing bows, you definitely will know about the bad UI
It's just so common to know that I'm saying the complaints will be flooded for no good reason (because it should be worked on)
Please TIS i need this 🙏
My game is kinda updateless
Daily reminder of lowering expectations, B42 MP is not going to be faster than B41 MP anymore
Fryplates
just give me anything
i am good of single player anyway
Well maybe next week
bigger team they said
more efficient workflow they said
what's up with the UI, it's got it's charm
It is still a different team
its another whole studio working on MP which they have said several times now, so whatever hires TIS does will not affect it
Emphasis on "outside of TIS's control"
Even if you hire someone or 30 people today, they still need time to get up to speed with the codebase before they can really do much. Especially in a game that does not use a standard engine like UE, or Unity.
also i imagine most of the mp codebase for b41 had to be scrapped
considering the new systems and it having to run server side, not as simple as just a little update
They went pretty heavy into the details of the MP changes in a few of the thursdoids at one point but I can't recall which ones
pretty much any inventory interaction and timed action has to be validated by the server contrary to how it is currently
to make cheating a lot harder
On a side tangent I have now been accused of using LLM to write a response in the PZ subreddit, and that makes me laugh
Yeaaa also a lot more checks for desync so it is less likely to happen which is what I am most excited about
yeah... since helldivers reddit issues I'm just not checking game related subreddits
nothing good ever comes out of reddit
I like helping new players, that is about it when it comes to PZ sub. I never played Helldivers and I don't know about the issues there
Friends got really into it, I looked at it and said you guys will be done with this game in about a week or two, they said no! And then it turns out I was right
Lol 😆
helldivers got a lot of shit for every little thing, there's now 4 different flavour of subreddits because the communities fracture that bad
it really seems like a social experimente at this point lol
yeah, main gaming it would probably be exhausting
i just flip flop between different games these days so am never really getting too tired of anything 
They go through waves/flip flop as well - but I just didn't bother with it, I have so many games we have already gotten that we shuffle through
day 337 waiting for the mp relase
do 10 mins of pushups each time you post that and you'll be fitness 10 by the time MP comes
Day 337 of waiting for bows
lol sounds like steam forums kinda, i never go to the reddit of any game unless its for like genuine technical issues or something like that
Algorithm based content is always the worst.

especially if it is reactionary
i am convinced 90% of the people upvoting on reddit dont have a clue what they are even doing
yeah Reddit is a weird one because upvoted posts get more upvotes and downvoted posts get more downvotes. There's a weird herd mentality thing going on.
lmao
yeah i miss old hobby forums
that sucks cause reddit can be great for info n stuff like that
i am not a fan of everything happening on reddit, especially because how just how annoying it is to find things
all info on Reddit is manipulated sadly
we were so close to perfection with forum software
there was fancy open source, fancy professional stuff like wbb
honestly, we don't need to be so informed. Unplug and connect with people. What happens elsewhere in the world is so much less important.
and our brains arent exactly made for constant bad news
also Puppers, hows the waframe grind?
i found out you can decorate your ship lol
lmao
ITS SO FUN
i dont know what i thought the game was like but nothing like this lol , i showed a friend now were both addicted to it
PLISHIES?!
lol what is cavia?!
The Orbiter's interior can be decorated by navigating the Esc menu to Equipment > Orbiter > Decorate. Decorations are items that can be earned or purchased through vendors with some limited to Annual Events. Note that a small amount of decorations may be unobtainable due to being promotional...

i forgot how many of those they made, lol
you'll find the cavia later in the game
otay lol
the lore about warframe sometimes... that was dark
I'm at this point convinced not even DE has a clue whats exactly going on it kinda just happens, lol
Can I unplug and… not connect with people?
it'll cost you your bows
Me tooo! And now it is going from reddit, to discord which are arguably worse for finding information
I remember when halo first released on the PC/Mac I was apart of the halo modding community, just made skins, but it was super fun being apart of it
Same with The Sims 1 and it's community, to a lesser extent. Again just made skins, but something about being in those communities was magical
I think that might be apart of why I enjoy this community so much 🥰
yeah, but discord atleast feels like its designed to be a community software
but support/wiki over discord really annoys me still, especially for mods, like githubs mostly free, you dont even have to upload code, just use it as issue tracker and built-in wiki
true, it is going in a circle due to their adding forum channels a few years back (not a bad thing, just a funny observation)
I have not said this for the longest time but....
"Are we there yet?"
Good thing my laptop picked last night to randomly unalive
The motherboard just died for some reason
Now I won't be tempted to play before the next update
What if the new update won’t come until you fix it and play
But I've already grinded blacksmithing three times this update... I've done my part
The ancient methods are not working! Perhaps we are truly lost and the gods have abandoned us!
Since other chats can move so fast, can I ask if anyone with lower resolutions, or on laptops/Steam Deck has had any issues with accessing the UIs of workstations, or the crafting UIs? In essence, that you can open them but they extend beyond the edge of the screen and can't really be easily interacted with? And if so, which ones?
It doesn't have to be on extremely low resolutions, but they seem to be most affected. I mean if you're having it on any resolution, it's an issue we want to resolve.
That happened to me once a few versions ago, but not again
I had that issue with the building menu, I'm on a bigger screen though
yes pls. been having problems on Deck with the UI. especially crafting that I resulted using my track pads and some UI fixing mods just to play. It'll be a great help for Deck players like me.
workstation UI's also bugged. Accessing "Possible Material" Tab extends beyond the screen for both Workstation and Crafting UI's. Also if you accidentally select "Armors" Category on crafting it messes the UI that it extends vertically beyond the screen
does TIS have any times planned for Steam sale discount on zomboid?
think it was just on sale
Day 338 waiting for the mp

I'm spreading your message out. https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/1p2c222/indie_stone_developer_mad_dan_is_requesting_for/
can i hire you for some hits
Judging from the comments, it seems the UI would bug out regardless of screen resolution size.
lol what is this
Your Discord achievements.
i no dnot
Should I do a one life Vintage Story run
Damn, I'm famous
So this is mostly on the Deck then for you? I'll look into that too but sorting other resolutions should solve it by extensions also hopefully.
It looks to be the UI may have issues if the game is running at 1200x800 screen resolutions or so, which happens to be the Steam Deck resolutions, according to the Reddit comments there.
😆
hey
The real question is, what is SaneDan up to

Don't you worry about that, let's just say he doesn't exist

Is there an SadDan?
Obviously on june 12 2036
this got auto translated
so creepie
grrrrrrrrrrrr
Yes pls
Imagine finding an old crazy cat lady house and they’re all running around and the zombie is like wearing a little robe and slippers and walking around
It could be like those scene events or whatever they’re called, like when you find a birthday party or like a football watch party
I LOVE VINTAGE STORY
One life run sounds really hard
I love it too but PZ corrupted me into needing real consequences for failure to enjoy a game lol
Based. I love climbing into a mineshaft and shooting bells with a blunderbuss
Also Vintage Story actually tells you when updates are coming
Vintage Story players are probably not as petty to insult the devs when things not being as fast as they needed
That’s so real
I like the breeding mechanics
Or I should say like the taming mechanics
I like that you actually have to domesticate the animals by breeding them and tending to them for generations
It’s a really neat feature
The monsters are so OP in early game
Or maybe I just suck at combat lmfao
I primarily play Homo sapiens mode, but still died to stupid shit like entirely stalking wolf/bear which was underwater and following me from far
I turn wolves into backpacks
Technically so does PZ 
They track you literally so far
Immortal snail ahh
Well, no more one life Vintage Story runs..I actually wanna progress lol
and a friend asked if he could start a run with me, his first playtime...we should both do a first-timer "normal run" with eldritch horrors
grow a pair
that is a completely inappropriate response
Developers have lives and families!!!
They should hire someone whose sole job is to find where us annoying people work and demand to our workplaces that we finish things faster
true kinda, but damn i am right
Nice. We got clarification.
No, you're not.
Following a company policy makes you weak, apparently
who doesn't love inaccurate and impossible to guarantee ETA
Large minerals lol
great balls of..zirconium?
waiting for an update is kind of like edging, cant lie. The more you hold it, the bigger is the release.
But, in both instances it works only half of the time.
disagree, last update took 2 months and imo it wasnt 2 months worthy
its same with edging
sometimes those 8 cycles of going up and down can just be underwhelming in the end
truly a containment thread for the clinically insane
i don wan be sane
guys i love the walking trashcan that makes transformer purring noises
lmao the voidrig is no joke one of the best damage dealers
what's your opinion of Otak @hearty beacon?
wait really? lol im trying to get all the stuff to make one
BITEY SCRATCHEKINS
is that the same guy lol
lol yes
Wdym? Everyone is so happy about the delay of GTA VI, TIS should obviously do it like them /s
Love this suggestion 😂
The pz_b42 chat is flying... 😅
are they arguing
1 dude messed with the hoarde, got banished into the shadow realm
lol
oh i see it lmao, i swear theyre filling up their quota for the year or something
Was developed during a period in time that coincides with devs taking their summer vacations
So of course it was going to be light
Please stop with this. It doesn’t contribute anything constructive, doesn’t make things go faster, and just adds noise. We know it’s taking a while, we can’t help that.
Also it’s philosophically wrong, as we have been waiting for b42 mp since the first atoms were born
I think we can wait a little longer
Okay this is scratching my brain in the wrong way
Shit actually existed for so long
Omg
Did it always exist?
Or was there something before it existed
Nothing?
The newspost is where people scry for updates, not have existential crises
Those happen in #general_chat usually
just wow guys
I think it would be a better idea to start muting people mentioning multiplayer (the context, not the word).
Possibly for 1 day or so.
a mute-iny is it
That pun is good though.
pun is good, but think the idea of muting people for mentioning MP is a bit heavy handed. Not everyone spends a lot of time here and knows how often it's asked, or why our stance is the way it is. Don't want to punish people simply because they aren't chronically online like the rest of us
Ever since it was decreed that even hotfixes count in the "days since patch" prophecy, my mind was opened at long last. I have embraced to ignore the count and accepted the primordial truth of simply waiting until it is ready, regardless of the days gone, longing for the notes. I am now free.
The next patch will have notes, I can confirm
AmazingSully is the true fifth Chaos god.
Just as there are many players who complain about the lack of a multiplayer mode, there are just as many who are patiently waiting for its release
I will never stop counting
1984 days until build 43
that's, what, five and a half years?
well, b42 isnt even fully out yet
so it doesnt sound that bad ig
rephrasing, 1984 days until Build 43 MP
Build 43 is when we finally won’t need multiplayer because the LLM powered NPCs mean we don’t need friends anymore!
Friends? You mean the extra-preserved future meat for the stew?
Monster!!
a culinary nomster, I must insist
What exactly does Build 43 entails?
All I know is the NPCs will have some deep interactions.
Are we able to interact with the animals more? Actually get pets like dogs and cats, with some interactivities?
dawg we have NO idea
Bit of this bit of that
i hope there is a garbage man npc that i can buy trash from
I am okay with mobile NPC shops that walk around with no zombies chasing nearby.
B43 I think will have non persistent NPC's with basic interaction, and then by B44/45 we'll see more permanence with their bases and relation to the player
that visit 2 times a month
That means the end game would be more lively.
Late-stage end games would be more interesting.
Haven't they said NPC's will behave pretty much like a player and form teams?
And I can see how if anyone kills said mobile NPC shops, they are permanently removed from your map.
That is speculation.
I don't recall them confirming this.
I think that was a tech demo video.
Where's the thursdoid with showcase of NPC driving, I think they confirmed it then
Hmmm, was it for that tech demo?
I know they definitely said that NPC's won't see the world the same way as we do. They see it like a text based RPG with full knoweldge of the state of every cell
Dwarf Fortress esque.
I vaguely remember something about npcs making settlements. But maybe I’m wrong.
Side note, does anyone else use inventory Tetris, it's throwing an error every tick. It's not because it's interacting with any other mods too
mod?
Then it is a bad mod.
It never used to do this, but I haven't played for a while
It replaces inventory with a slighty harder grid-like system
I hate my containers being unsortable walls of text
i know people in pz chat b42 use it you could try asking in there if you want
That's something they 100% said at some point
Whether it'll come we won't know until it's here
can we have anpc to buy rare mementos from?!
"Welcome Stranger -- got somethin' that might interest ya"
THIS IS AMZING
our finest of wares
Where the half open beer
Listen man I need my driving juice and i'm running out
For some reason every time i blackout an alcohol store is completely ransacked
lol what the heck
I don't have a problem sob you have a problem
my favorite position
Wow what a gif
murray!!
Now I gotta go replay
Trim the sails and roam the seas!
A Pirate I was meant to be. High Definition HD
The Curse of Monkey Island
Lyrics:
Haggis: We're a band of vicious pirates!
Edward: A sailin´ out to sea.
Bill: When you hear our gentle singing...
Haggis: You'll be sure to turn and flee!
Guybrush: Oh, this is just ridiculous.
Guybrush: Come on, men! We've got to recover that map!
Bill: That...
what mod is that?
Damn one mod only for crying , i thought it would be like the other animation mods
yeah, but it also add the effect if you get to sad you start crying which lure zombies
lmao the modder didn’t forget the realistic aspect of crying in a zombie apocalyptic world
monkey island series are so funny
What programming languages are required to get hired by Indie Stone?
You can find our open positions here which explain all requirements https://projectzomboid.com/blog/jobs/
@hearty beacon
LOL IS THAT REAL
I dont need christmas gifts when i get fry plate!!
Not officially in-game, but I'm going to find out who I need to arm-wrestle to make it so
lol that is still cool regardless
I'll take one "other careers" please 
yes lets make sprinks n shunshines
🤣
for them* , we can be the motional support team
It’s weird but I don’t see a listing for ‘chief time since last update complainer’… have I been doing this for free?!
I mean why would we pay someone when someone is already doing it for free? If you want the opening to show up you'll have to stop for a while
The hospital ward for burn treatment is that way.
the glizzy goblin
Hot Dogs are the best foods ever.
glad we can make our own hot dogs now rather than always getting those convenience store version.
If we put tons of grenades/explosives on the ground in a pile, and then throw a pipe bomb at the pile while being far away, do we have Bungie's "Halo"-physics with the plasma grenade blasting all bombs together to create a large explosion?
Or the pipe bomb will scatter the grenades and all the grenades will explode after being blasted away in a circle?
Or it just does nothing?
Warthog flipping back in the day was so good
I hope they eventually add a meat grinder and a sausage machine 😄
How complicated would it be to make one yourself?
Probably not that complicated, theres already pork and sausage, beef and ground beef. So it would be a model for a meat grinder and then code to turn beef into ground beef, and pork into sausage when you use it. Maybe add intestine as a drop from butchering for sausage casing. I just like vanilla.
it's nothing, they don't interact with the world as items
Gimme
damn it PZ Discord, yet another e-girl friend invite
why do they all share this common Discord server!
play pz with them lol
more likely that these damsels in distress happen to need spare Nitro codes than my friendship
When expectations are consuming your every waking hour, when the yearning for a (patch) release is burning your very soul...Just give in. Be free. Let it go. Live your beautiful life without mortal restraints like hope.
*Play...other...games...*until the sweet "new message" highlight appears for the #patchnotes
I try not to have expectations, but this particular time, after all this time, i do hope the Dynamic music gets fixed
My expectations are always low, about everything everywhere #nohype
I’m distracting myself playing days gone finally, and now I just want motorcycles in pz
Low expectations people!
was metal mining/foraging vanilla integrated?
They see their reflections and briefly remember their past self
cause theyre beavers
Did I hear "Timberborn"?
'Cause that is a great distraction from waiting for next Build 42 patch.
Need more Timberborn playtime
That was great. Short and sensible!
nothing ever happens
next patch in 2026
at least
you know that the least won't happen?
My laptop is currently dead and I was hoping that the game would get updated before it gets repaired. Buuuut now that may not even happen lol
guys mp coming trust
Mp 2027 confirmed?
can we actually just streamline giving this response to MP when comments
It by far is the only official statement about MP release date - can't expect MP to come earlier than that, but if it does, we'll be happier
Sully plays the long game here like an ace
Technically untrue https://steamcommunity.com/app/108600/discussions/0/563626407201131582/
You posted the above picture after the STeam forum thing
Newer statement overrides the older
fine I'll allow it
That's it bois, next time you can ask "MP when" is summer 2036
though technically the one I linked was edited later
Never mind, MP whens are back on the menu boys
Well then, I just started a month long project so that's my war effort contribution for low expectations and waiting patiently
the efforts are noticed and appreciated
We shall see if December brings anything interesting as it'll be the anniversary of B42 unstable. Not expecting stable or MP but who knows, we have some good shit still missing
Well, I went and read Steam forums of PZ and I breathe a silent sigh
lmao why would you punish yourself like that?
Because you linked a post and then I was like "surely there's some interesting discussion to be had"
And I already dissect what you typed 15 minutes ago - you promised the earliest backers of the game with NPCs and you want to do them right.
That alone fills me with more confidence that we'll get more than just basic NPCs. Perhaps something more advanced stuff we have been speculating about...yum
LOW EXPECTATIONS!
Last promise made to oldest devoted supporters. NPCs. Previous iterations were not good enough. Ergo, they will be better in the final product.
"I hope it lives up to your expectations".
Meanwhile this fucking guy tells people to have low, low expectations so the final product doesn't need to be good??
Since Sully converted me to the church of low expectations, life is amazing
everything better when you expect nothing
It is true freedom
But even in the church of low expectations, we offer a humble prayer to the trinity of our faith
The rabbit, the blacksmith and the Count
We pray that when we have truly embraced nothing in the core of our being... something will happen. And thus the cycle will begin again.
At least if there is no patch this week, Bannerlord DLC and Stellaris fire bois can occupy some time
if there is a patch this week, my spare time will be a thunderdome lol
how recent was this
it was taken right before I posted it
Well, 17 mins before I posted it, screenshotted as I posted it...
The prophet of low expectations sold us dreams of faith all while indulging in the sins, promising things of grandeur, prophesising not the underwhelming but that of MAGNIFICENCE, HE IS A FALSE PROPHET, STRIKE THE HERETIC DOWN
In Soviet Zomboid, Sully needs to lower expectations. Of things living up to people's expectations...
Why lol
First thread I see - "They are to slow!"
Lol
I like making my own voice overs for reading thosee titles
The funny stories of how people died are my favorite
exactly what does Sully do? Is his whole purpose is just to contain us?
fire extinguisher
I am the designated person who gets yelled at + the expectation lowererererer
lol
Are we doing an uprising?
so our own comfort pillow.
no discord is nice lol
unless you mean with bread

Aww I was just sharpening my pitchforks
think there is enough of that to make a scrubber
Why are cowboy boots so weak? My twine shoes I made 1 month ago are still full durability (I have cars disabled so I walk everywhere) but my cowboy boots were shredded after 2 days
correction skishkabobs
doing what?
lol the twine shoes
Doing what?
last time i wore some cowboy boots i dont recall them losing durability that fast, yah doing what activities just from walking? stomping?
What am I doing in the cowboy boots different to the twine shoes? Nothing. Just walking around
I hunted deer in the twine shoes about 3 times, walked, ran tripped. Nothing. Cowboy boots had a hole in each foot after 2 days from just walking lol
what the heck lol
Twine shoes are insanely OP, it should be the opposite way around right?
i would think so, i walk in my games a lot too cause 12 months later, ill try and find some next time and see cause thats odd
immitation crab leather
Message Sent
I'm sending you this message because of your recent comments in the 42.12.3 Unstable Released channel, but also your behaviour in this server generally. You can be frustrated with the lack of an ETA all you want, but being disrespectful, and continually pushing when you know our no ETA policy will no longer be tolerated.
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care what u say u might be banned
Yes, we have rules, and those rules must be adhered to. If you have a problem with that, then you'll be removed. Is that surprising?
lol
Maybe dont be a jerk
jerj
Ytp
how he felt sending this
What now?
not what you posted
BUT I VOTED, i voted for silksong too although never played it
havent people been wanting to play that game for a while or something
Most of my nominations are from watching, it's not like I've played every good game out there
They had a worse development time than PZ imo lol
I almost started getting too into it for a second there, don't let me type
LOL
Steam basically acknowledges that people aren't voting games that they've played sometimes. One of the "objectives" you can complete for a steam award/achievement is playing ONE game that you voted, and another is just filling out the entire nomination sheet.
I ask myself this everyday but offline as well 
Hell yes
I also would nominate it for the soundtrack lowkey
But it's available for that sadly
12 years
Fucking hell
I mean technically the soundtrack aint working right now so...
lowkey wonder what theyre up to...
After 3 hotfixes, probably an actual update
Must…. Resist…. Sully… brainwash…. LOW EXPECTATIONS LOW EXPECTATIONS LOW EXPECTATIONS


does there exist a skill books mod that only adds them for the melee weapons and not anything additional?
arent melee skill books vanilla now?
not the actual weapon skills, no, only maintenance and inexplicably Long Blade
you'll laugh, but i actually have a set of scripts in my private mod folder that contains just melee + maintenance
give me a minute to see if it actually works and if i can upload it to the workshop lol
yeah, there's ones that have been ported over from 41 but they're either kinda busted or add redundant books in a way you can't manage, so just regular melee skill books is the ideal
thats all the melee weapon skill books (and no maintenance, kicked that out), but only axes have named volumes, and they arent really creative
thing was never meant to see the public, so its kind of in a sorry state maybe i do something about it one day or maybe not
poggers
so long as they're just uninquely colored and named I-V it should be fine, names are a nice extra
all the same color currently but I can see to update that soon-ish (added unique colors for each skill just now)
Check the forums today, but I didn't see if it was reported before.
When newspapers are spawned in, they tend to time-travel and show newspaper prints of days in the future from when the player began the game.
Like, you can read July 14 newspapers when you are still on July 11.
If there is a bug report about it, then awwwwwwwwwww dang it, I thought I was smart and hoped the Knox Event is just a time-traveling event caused by time distortions.
it's not a bug report as much as a necessary effect for being able to get the full picture of the outbreak from newspapers. if a player did a full loot run for the first week and then stopped being in civilization after that, there's no way for them to get the later newspapers to get what happened towards the end. it might not be intentional but imo it's a good way to get people to have a more complete picture without just having to loot new areas every day
Ahh, thanks. I didn't know it was reported that far back.
Update in 5 months and 25 days
Gandalf is Sully ^
Update if you guys were on santas good list 
Hey now, you can't give them an impossible task like that... it's not fair
Lol watvh me
Santa is finnish, he doesn't speak english probably
literally a real job position here btw
You guys aren’t American right? No day off for thanksgiving? Thursday is just a regular work at making multiplayer great again kind of day?
Santa lives at the north pole, that makes him Canadian. You can even write him letters. His official address according to Canada Post is
Santa Claus
North Pole
H0H 0H0
Canada
And he'll respond if you send him a letter
You are wrong but its understandable when you treat Steam and Discord people differently!
I have never once been wrong in my life thank you very much
There's always a first time, like just now
write Santa a letter and ask him then
Nah, he's a naturalised Canadian citizen now... AI says as much
I don't see him getting letters in Finland
This just in, Sully trusts AI, a representative of The Indie Stone, time to unleash the can of worms again
lmao
you can literally type "Santa Claus" in finnish to your letters without address and it gets delivered to the exact location!
the exact location... being Canada?
you're just baiting me to get muted now!
lmao
he accepts letters from all over the world though, so feel free to write him and ask
Ahhahah
at least finnish Santa eats children, not the american coca cola santa
Awh ni fair, we need the eat naugghties and meanies
naughty nuggies
https://www.visitfinland.com/en/articles/meet-santa-claus/ for Sully, learn to be better
oh please... as if he's not in like thousands of locations in Canada... 1 in Finland is child's play
your Santa would belong to King Charles anyway, canuck
you've got me there... damn commonwealth
only common, we're at least epic quality
lol for sully to learn better
it is serious business
yes Puffers
Where is the prophecy rabbit, and the blacksmith guy? For the xXPussySlayer69Xx We need new patch
Only if you gonna have Christmas puppers icon
The rabbit, the blacksmith and the Count, holy trinity of patch foresight
Damn, whats the count? Im kinda lurker, did i missed something? xD
It reminded me of that one post I saw that was literally nothing except a screenshot of a message from a red name lol
Count von Count, He Who Counts until next update
wherr lol
Haha okey! Gonna remember that, thanks xD
I'll search for it now, it's less than a week old, should be quick
the rabbit has new zoomed in photoshoots done, the blacksmith is somewhere missing in action, the Count only counts, nothing else
these are trying times, cannot possibly recall how long it is since 42.12.0, and the heretical revelation of hotfixes counting as new updates
Found it
a rare paelegic gastropod
It was posted with good intent I guess, but also, why lol
Shouldn't a reddit mod make a post on it or something
Yeah, so why does that post exist, it was so random to come across and it's such a wide screenshot
Look, it's a sully
theyre helping!
Helping a little, yes, but also not really. It was kinda funny reading through the replies as it would be like the 100 question game.
New comment: It's broken for me
New comment2: Which UI is broken?
New comment: blah blah blah issue
New comment2: mods?
New comment: yes
New comment2: with no mods?
New comment: yes
New comment: how/what have you done/trouble shooted?
I could go on and on, basically, reddit kinda sucks for this. The issue will be fixed before you can finish a conversation.
But not enough people even know how to properly report bugs or just don't want to, so...
most that play with mods dont want to
I just feel bad for the people trying to figure out what the bugs are lol
and i kinda get it but at the same time its frustrating trying to solve issues when they dont want to remove them to test if it is a vaniller bug lol
imagine if mp was enabled lmao
That as well, why even bring it up before seeing if was in vanilla first. Why does that even need to be asked of you.
I'm still biased as to not having MP for another half year or so, I've only got my laptop on sketchy internet for now
you would be surprised how often it happens, lol some people dont even know if a feature is vanilla or a mod
When you realize your player base isn't just dedicated players anymore 
MP would definitely make that worse lol
yea, im glad it isnt enabled right now, that push bug would have suckered so much
What about the double gates lol
lol
That one genuinely sucked just for being annoying
ok but bring back cocain soda agian!!
What about ghost zombies after dragging them
or the batteries dying in cars for no ravioli
hahaha yea!!
Imagine dragging a player's dead body after you just put them down
they should make a funny bug compliatiton
Ragdolls and their whole interaction with vehicles
Yes please
I swear if a zomboid update comes tomorrow, the day bannerlord DLC comes out, after all this waiting, I will riot
I cast patch delay by a week
2 months with no 42.xx patches - delay by one more month, I shall cast
Keep delaying it
lol
lol
does chewing tobacco completely remove stress from smoker trait forever?
haven't been getting stressed for 2 days after using it once
yay
Known bug, resolved internally & will be included in the next update. 🍻
Guys I'm really sorry for delaying the update. It won't come out until my laptop is finally fixed. This is all Acer's fault.
Time to start buying Lenovo Thinkpads, and prepare to sign a new contract that officially allows you to remote work 24/7
Unlimited PTOs as well.
I'll run crypto miners and anti-malware software on all of them
That should generate enough heat to melt down steel for more swords
All you're doing is delaying things.... Like the Voyager 1 being 1 light-day away right now. Just give them some space...
yea rights its in the delta quadrant

Its as rare as finding katana in vanilla zomboid
What would a tournament based, ranked competitive Project Zomboid play like?
Dash Rancher Jousting
There was this Minecraft mini game called The Walls where four teams would start off in walled off areas and each would build up gear and weapons as fast as possible. Then the walls come down and they fight to the death.
Do this but with two cities in Zomboid. Maybe have a wall between West Point and Muldraugh, and one team in each city. After a set amount of time the wall comes down and they fight to the death.
(obviously prevent the West Point guys from going to Louisville)
That would actually be hilarious haha, two teams of 10 or so people start in equivalent cities seperated by a huge amount of zombies and eventually come to blows
like the black forest map in AOE where a giant forest seperated you
Alternatively, have players start off in Irvington and race to Louisville. There could be a grace period where they can't kill each other, maybe till they all leave Irvington. Maybe start off on the speedway and they all get race cars
First person to enter Louisville mall alive wins.
This feels like a Valve's CounterStrike game.
Actually I think Muldraugh and Rosewood would be a better match. West point has a shit ton of guns. Otherwise you could give the Muldraugh team March Ridge? Idk
Another idea I had is to take some inspirations from the Sniper Wars from Warcraft 3 custom maps. When you kill a player, you get points to purchasse from the inventory shop, like the Last Stand custom challenge map in Project Zomboid.
And the loots will reset every 6 hours in-game, but limited to non-ranged weapons, foods, and items.
horse mod SOON
What are people's reasonable expectations for the final patch of the year?
Personally I've got my fingers crossed for melee ragdolls
Seems like someone reproduced the bug where baby chicks are born from eggs in heated antique stoves.
LET'S EGG-GOOOOOOOO
More chicken-pocalypse time! 😄
Has anybody tried Blacksmithing? theres a bug in crafting things from Crucible with Iron/Steel.
For instance, the Iron Anvil says it needs 32 uses of a Crucible with Iron but uses only half of that. I hope this gets fixed in the next patch
There's actually a mod for that, and it works pretty darn well. I havent had any issues with it
Yeah I think I saw @sly quiver say he reproduced that one a few weeks ago?
so I bet they fix in the next update!
Oh word? Gonna have to check that out!
Yes it's a confirmed bug that the developers know about.
I've used it extensively lol
It's why I make three crucibles for this update
hahahah yes. 2 filled with Iron, the third an empty one to make chunks hahaha
Happy thanksgiving
Too bad we aren't giving thanks FOR AN UPDATE 😛
da 42.13 is still in da oven 🔥

I ripped last night, need much thank
https://www.reddit.com/r/GuysBeingDudes/s/9liDUuMGNl
Did anyone ever had the idea to add a banana katana as an Easter egg in the game?
Unsheathing the earthly divine beast into you heathen zombies!
happy snacksgiving day whoever is eating snackerys
Multiplayer coming at Christmas I am so happy
I need some sort of low expectations hammer to smack people over the head with lol.
is that an IRC reference I see? Showing your age puppers
lmao ya
How about LOWEST expectations?
The game will never be ready. No point to buy PZ at all. Just play other games and save your money.
How low expectations do you want? 😉
how about the "give us your money, but don't expect anything in return" level of expectation... is that unreasonable? lmao
😆
Well I did pay Blizzard enough money that went for somewhere and didn't get the proper return...
I've given Blizzard more money than I care to have, and I haven't even given them that much...
And I only paid Indie Stone like 15 euros and maybe 2-3 spare copies worth of money. And I still get content that makes the game feel even better than in 2017!
For 15 euros, you maybe get the development time of 0,001% multiplayer for B42, likely far less but can't be arsed to type infinite zeroes
I'm always in a tough spot talking about the game because I was a fan before coming to work here, so if I say nice things it sounds like I'm being egotistical lol
lol i was gonna say someones gonna take it wrong
What? You don't act like EA or Ubisoft and praise your own game to the heavens and insult fans who dislike a feature as ingrateful scrubs?
😆
I can say overall I'm incredibly disappointed with AAA studios. Indie and AA is where it's at 100%
god yes, AAA gaming is either cash shop or infinite seasonal stuff with constant chores and never a day's rest to keep up...
AA is me fishing in my solitude and looking at every pixel and enjoying the immersion
And it IS an insult to call something great as AA vs AAA, less A's doesn't mean worse quality. AT ALL.
Its a funny system, the solo dev of Stardew Valley probably has WILDLY different budget than Indie Stone, but both games are...indie games, not AAA
Yeah, you'll never get clear definitions on stuff like that
This reminds me of My Summer Car, the best 90s finnish simulator. The guy who made it, made 6 million euros in the last year. Even the smallest of projects can be...lucrative
Source being: finnish tax system is open, you can check anyone's taxed income online
Yeah there's definitely money to be made, but you need to be incredibly lucky, as well as talented for it to be worth your time. So many games just die on arrival because the market is so saturated with both talent and slop.
Yeah some ideas are unique but also interesting enough...Striking gold in those unexplored veins is an enigma not many get to do
Seeing Zomboid myself the first time around 2017 was interesting, a streamer playing it. I saw isometric view, got nostalgy-bombed by runescape somehow, and how the game let you do a lot more than any other zombie game
now I'm here wasting time posting shit
Go work on your backlog... I need to work on mine so bad
My backlog atm is an unhealthy 6 hour grind everyday following in-game timers to grind currencies and materials I turn into legendary armor pieces in Guild Wars 2.
I will hate myself doing this again, so heavily considering alcoholism to cope with it
Backlog options however....
I tried getting back into GW2 recently and just couldn't. It feels so dated now. I've been spoiled by new shiny games
Took me 12 years to actually click with GW2 haha
Now that I do not waste my time doing scheduled raiding in WoW
Actually doing projects I want, whenever I want
Vintage Story multiplayer is an option, maybe Warhammer Online...can't really say I have a massive backlog
I either do my main fun projects, or kill time with strategy games like Civ 6 and/or Total War: Warhammer 3
my backlog is over 60 games....
I sure bought a lot of games from Steam sales, can't say they belong to a backlog, I didn't wanna play them back then, don't see why would I play them right now
oh right, someone from this very Discord made me buy Enshrouded a long while ago, thats definitely a backlog
I bought it literally because someone told me to, while waited for B42
man thats the only downside to steam lol so easy to just wrack up more games to play , instead of having to go to the store to get the physical copy
pz box art when
all fine unless some day Steam somehow ends and doesn't give us playable offline copies
PZ Collector's Edition for release!
a Spiffo onesie
Is there any possibility that we gonna see a fix for Craft UI for smaller Resolutions? it's unusable in steam deck and kinda sucks because otherwhise the game works so well for this device.
Mad Dan asked people in this very thread a while ago to notify the devs how craft UI works in various resolutions, also it was made into a reddit post. Devs definitely are aware of the bug and interested in dealing with it
Sadly I cannot say WHEN the next patch comes, but I would almost assume the fix could be part of it
Thanks for letting me know. I hope they can figure it out.
Having backed both crowfall and star citizen at high tiers I’m immune to disappointed
i mean... you are "just" a community manager
not exactly doing day to day coding, right?
so I'd say it alright for you to be excited about stuff, just look at warframe, the two community managers are just as excited about every little thing that comes out from their dev halls, and i reckon Rebb has a lot more insight that goes on than you do 
I'm sure you don't mean it to, so I should tell you that your comment comes off as pretty disrespectful
hence why the just is in quotation, you really couldn't pay me enough to deal with people
i think the optics is different when community managers are openly excited about the games they work on, considering they are mainly there to engage with the community its generally best if they are just as exicted about it
some of the best community managers i know are just as unhinged as their community (Almir Listo with payday, granted he was also a dev), the Warframe team, the former community managers of Satisfactory
Yeah the problem is Red name though. It changes the perception of the words to some people, so praise of the game is taken as me sniffing my own farts or something lol. Reality is there's a massively talented team that I'm proud to get to work with who make all of that happen. It's really weird being a fan first and then coming to work for the studio. You get a lot of imposter syndrome, and especially in the CM role you have to be careful because not only do you speak for yourself, but also the company.
yeah, i sadly do think that was one of almir listos biggest problems
i kinda wish we'd go back to a time devs could be way more engaging with communities without it turning to a reddit post and stupid controversy
yeah me too lol
can't tell you how frustrating it is to say something and have people jump on the words, putting whatever meaning they want to ascribe to them
you learn to be careful pretty quick
yeah, there was a "shit your pants" incident with a helldivers community manager that said a update would be really interesting
but helldivers has that little thing they release a warbond, give people a few days time to get used to said warbond and THEN release the major story twist that comes with the update, and i think it was something with the thrid faction back then and people were shittalking the CM for 3 whole days on the subreddit
until they catched on that the warbond update wasnt what the CM talked about
yeah... passion is a dual edged sword lol
I'm not sure out of what some community managers are made, but that would have made me just walk out
aint dealing with any of that
yah its pretty aggravating when i see you guys take time to interact with us and people do that 
i do feel like since games became way more popular you have a certain percentage of entitlement within most communities, and those few often spark dogpiles
which I did see become common in modding too, that people expect update and fixes like they paid for a subscription
yeah , which i will never ever understand, im just happy to play a game that I enjoy and glad steam has so many options as well as communities. If i don't like something I just go find another game or do some other hobby
When stable will release
It will release
2026 december
between now and then
@summer solstice Wrong again, Billy Bob.
Any day now we will get a new updateeee
Any year*
Cause i'd say January 2026
It will release in the cenezoic era
Love you all ❤️
If multiplayer is included in Stable, it will be in year 2036.
Otherwise, I have no idea.
I’m just excited to get my hands on the infrastructure update whenever it comes. Being able to draw water with a pump, power your home with a windmill etc. it’s been a loooong while since we saw that blogspot. I hope those features are still upcoming!
Though I have a feeling it’ll be more B43 (what I’m referring to is this) https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2023/08/the-connection-is-made/
Hey everyone. Jumping straight in with an update on the new and improved crafting system this time around if that’s okay with y’all. As we’ve talked about in previous Thursdoids, a large part of the crafting overhaul revolves around creating a unified, powerful and expansive system for machines, crafting stations and appliances. This cover...
I want a system where you have to salvage transformers and fancy gearboxes to convert the windmill output to 120/240V@60Hz before you're able to use it
mp
no mp, only sp
At least they're not being rude about it like that other user, but sort of sucks the oxygen out of the room when 50%+ of someone's comments are just "wen mp".
Thanks to everyone who actually contributes to conversation & makes hanging out in this server an enjoyable experience 🙏 
❤️
You calling me rude?? wow
No, the person who was chirping Sully a while back
dang couldnt get a canadian "sorry" from you
you have no idea how little that narrows it down lol




