REINFORCING THE BARRICADES

[simple nexus]

https://projectzomboid.com/blog/news/2026/05/reinforcing-the-barricades/

[cosmic sage]

Peak, and I haven't read anything yet

[timid zenith]

peak

read through it all

[willow minnow]

mmm barricades

[grave vortex]

delay the update

[stuck mountain]

and where are the barricades mentioned?

[glass coyote]

wher b43 NPC announcement its highest time 😭

[latent turret]

oh this peak

[worthy rampart]

[flint lark]

🆗

[fluid adder]

Pleasant to read the translation reconsideration.

[silent kindle]

There is a render issue with the zombie just under the player there

Damn, nothing that interesting this month

[worthy rampart]

Im very interested in the bug fixes and the SFX fixes

sfx was a big thing i reported and im so glad it got addressed

[covert summit]

same. need my animal trailers to stop killing me

[dawn cloud]

Is this what the thursdoids are now? Just like information about internal policy and a "hey we're still fixing bugs." It's just a bit sad that we went from one a week with exciting information about the future of Zomboid to one every two weeks to now one a month and with nothing interesting in them

[warped tinsel]

They are in the final stretch of unstable, and that means the devs are hard at work fixing bugs and improving performance of the game, not adding new features every blog. Doing a blog every week or 2 week just takes resources away.

Any new features we get are surprises.

[ruby sapphire]

Relax we still have other builds like 43,44,45 and so on. Since we are at the end of this branch we will find it common for them to frequently announce balancing and fixes

It's not the end of the world, they worked on the game since like 2013

[dawn cloud]

Idk its just like they are designed to be boring for people to stop reading them so they can turn once a month into just cancelling them

[simple nexus]

Bug fixes aren't sexy... but that's the majority of the work right now

[worthy rampart]

which is good news btw

[ruby sapphire]

so far I have seen enough things being added just like the old roadmap

[worthy rampart]

Which means TIS statement on b42 stable being in the end stages is fortified with them mostly releasing bug fixes now

ironing things out

[ruby sapphire]

And then releases to stable and modders are ready to start developing

[worthy rampart]

most modders wont touch modding due to waiting for stable

[ruby sapphire]

I have my own created mod for the game. But I don't want to update it yet unless it comes to stable

[worthy rampart]

which is understandable

[ruby sapphire]

Internally, b42 alone already has a lot of new stuff to offer over b41

I must say one feedback which I recommend TIS to continue finding a way to reduce redundancy due to how many things break every update

[simple nexus]

huge task, on our agenda, but not something easily done

[ruby sapphire]

Cuz boi that fixes list is longer than a college essay

[ruby sapphire]

it's one of the most annoying tasks in development after all, even worse when the game is big

[simple nexus]

And technology has changed so much since development started as well... tech debt just builds with time sadly

[narrow wyvern]

Me thinking it was an update that added new traps and barricades against zombies 🙁

[ruby sapphire]

I am aware that the community always wanted new stuffs which shrinks the time window to tackle data redundancy

So far I can only wish TIS a goodluck

[modern river]

New update, let's goooo

[covert summit]

so what you're saying is its time for a full system rewrite..... right???

[simple nexus]

shouldn't be too difficult yeah?

[crisp nova]

planned for next week*

[covert summit]

just a lil bit of code here, and a little bit there. should be done in no time!

[simple nexus]

sounds like a lot of copy and pasting anyway... shouldn't take more than an afternoon

[crisp nova]

this sounds great and all, but when will TIGS implement orange raccoons to the game?

[simple nexus]

very good question

[proper carbon]

Being on the agenda is all one can ask for when it comes to tech debt

But I know all too well how a task can sit on a backlog for a million morbillion years

I do hope it's something that can be done before the eventual 1.0 release

[simple nexus]

We do plan to tackle before then

[proper carbon]

Hell yeah

[kindred summit]

good stuff with the localisation, respect for that. and the optimisations for driving were very much needed.

but there's still no recipe for long sticks lol
surely it cant be that hard to add, so i assume it's excluded on purpose for some attempt at balancing?
not being able to make them out of wood logs/planks is just really odd. it feels really out of place in a realistic game to have a material gated like that.

[calm narwhal]

What platform will the future localization use?

[vague forge]

Again, guys…. Why tf can’t hunter get both tracking and trapping. 🤦‍♂️ why do hikers get trapping but hunters don’t??

[simple nexus]

It’s called Weblate.

[simple nexus]

Matter of priorities. Recommend making a suggestion

!suggestion

[toxic tendon]

Your suggestion here will be lost to the void. While not actively responded to, suggestions posted on our forums or Steam are actively read, so we recommend you post there instead:

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/forum/20-pz-suggestions/

https://steamcommunity.com/app/108600/discussions/2/

[simple nexus]

That’s a balance question, also recommend making a suggestion so it gets seen

[vague forge]

Sir yes sir… man I’m just so confused. At least remove short blade and give it trapping or something

[simple nexus]

I have unfortunately not been involved in these decisions so not sure why they have gone one way or another, but suggestions will at least get seen by the relevant people

[covert summit]

sully, what part of the game do you work on

[simple nexus]

I'm the community manager, so I have very little impact on the actual game outside of general ideas and feedback.

[cosmic sage]

My only complaint is that the tracking skill is still useless, so that was just a hard nerf

[covert summit]

oh cool! makes sense why I see you in here the most out of the other team members

[spark bloom]

tracking doesn't even work lol

these updates feel like they're going in circles anymore

[gentle spear]

Thanks for all you do, devs. 🙂

[empty prairie]

Man good to see the progress they make. Im so glad you guys fix stuff even if people complain about mods breaking IN UNSTABLE what a shocker and not like other Slop companies like bethesda did with skyrim and called it a day. So everytime you fix something im so happy that this games gets better and better and i will be over the moon as soon as we reach stable branch because im hungry for build 42 and boy i waited long

[covert summit]

its called attempting to balance

[stray haven]

Doid doid

[vague forge]

"attempting" feels like the big thing here lol... I don't think they're succeeding

[shrewd vortex]

why don't they just give hunter both trapping and tracking? I really don't get it

You're telling me that the hunter has never followed a rabbit but has trapped one. And then you change your mind and tell me that the hunter has followed a rabbit but hasn't trapped one.

[vague forge]

literally removed hunting from hunting and gave it to HIKER lmfaoo. Like, I cannot.

[shrewd vortex]

And like it's only +1 to a skill hardly anyone ever uses

Just do both...

Maybe next playthrough I will do some trapping

[vague forge]

-8 points is still a ton, it can definitely squeeze in both lol

[shrewd vortex]

You're kidding

That's crazy xD

[spark bloom]

balance like that this early seems fruitless when the game isn't finished

[vague forge]

It just feels like balancing for the sake of trying to balance rather than to solve an actual problem

[spark bloom]

i feel the same way about controller support

[shrewd vortex]

You're right because the way animals migrate on rails but you don't know where on the rail they are means that even with 10 tracking you won't find them unless they just recently passed you

[spark bloom]

i've tried tracking a lot and it only ever works if there's an animal literally on your screen somewhere

[mild solar]

Got so excited then realized I was served a nothing sandwich 😔

[shrewd vortex]

Just like a lot of other things it is an over engineered system that isn't even realistic. The rabbit that was in my backyard yesterday didn't walk all the way from Cincinnati to my yard

[spark bloom]

personally i think it should work in a way where you progressively find fresher tracks and eventually it just spawns the appropriate animal near you

but i only play mp so animals are much rarer

[vague forge]

giving us some form of snare would fit in iwth the way it works now very well I think, let us find their rails and trap them there

[shrewd vortex]

Well even if you know the rails you still don't know the arbitrary phase shift of where the animals are on the rails

Also I'm pretty sure traps don't even care about the actual animal entity? Like a rabbit just appears in the snare one day I thought

[vague forge]

right, so snares would mean we don't need to know where they are, only where they travel frequently, which would be perfect lol

oh I forgot snares were a type of trap, i'm talking like, bear trap snares. Something that can catch deer

[vague forge]

also you're correct

[shrewd vortex]

Yeah I looked it up, a family of rabbits tends to live within a few acres of territory. They don't wander around the whole state.

[mild solar]

Agreed. Was so excited to see a ping just for it to be… eh. I’m happy bugs are getting squashed tho. Just really hoping we are close to the full release of B42 so we can finally get some B43 action in.

[solid cliff]

is cars will be fine this 42.19?

[shrewd vortex]

White tailed deer also are home-ranging animals so they also don't wander the whole state typically

[solid cliff]

i hadn't removed car damage limiter yet as there were no patch notes for it this 42.18

[shrewd vortex]

But this is the same game where the size of fish you pull out of the water depends on how much fishing you've done in your life already...

(and remember they did that because people were fishing for calories and it was working too well)

realism

[vague forge]

https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/95637-assorted-balancing-changes-id-like-to-see/ thoughts?

[shrewd vortex]

I shall support your endeavors

increase sunday driver to +6 points

Well ok not that one xD

[vague forge]

haha why nooottt XD Nobody I know of picks sunday driver, it would make it at least a little tolerable

[worthy rampart]

Something ill be making tomorrow is a suggestion to revamp meta predator event, as is it prevents you from ever leaving your base and prevents long loot runs.

but overall very happy with the direction TIS is going

[covert summit]

agreed. i personally disable it. ill add it back once theres actual predators that i have a chance of stopping, but rn it feels no fun

[shrewd vortex]

Why? Do you come back to dead animals?

[covert summit]

theres just a chance they'll be killed while you're away from base

i think its mainly chickens? but i may be wrong

[cosmic sage]

It only happens to chickens because only chickens can go into hutches. If you don't want your chickens dying to meta predators while you're away, you can just not give them a hutch (or close the door and lock them out before you leave)

[upper charm]

I have to humbly disagree - seeing things get fixed is most definitely sexy

🧡

[iron vale]

why baseball player only get +1 long blunt? arent baseball player should have +1 running too?

[iron vale]

yes, hunter got nerf bruh. should added +1 tracking but not remove the +1 trapping.

[vague forge]

damn that's a good one, put it in https://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/95637-assorted-balancing-changes-id-like-to-see/

[iron vale]

and also isnt brawler should have +1 long and short blunt and remove the +1 axe? what do you think?

[vague forge]

ngl, i like the way you think XD

[iron vale]

and also angler and sewer should cost only -3 poin? what do you think?

[vague forge]

lmao put it in the fourm post so it's seen

[iron vale]

i also want to put suggestion that smoker can quit smoking and non-smoker can get smoker trait.

and there still a lot of trait that need cost balance like fast & slow metabolism, puny, unfit, etc.

[spark bloom]

i think if smoker is meant to be made into a more viable trait then we should get craftable rolling papers

should also be a pack of them, not single use. irl you get like 50 papers in a lil thing of them.

[iron vale]

smoking is bad in real life. What i want to suggest is smoker can quit smoking and non-smoker can get smoker trait.

So this will teach the player to pick smoker and then quit smoking for good.

[spark bloom]

smoking is bad in real life. not in the 90s babe 😎

i take smoker every time no matter what

[gleaming jewel]

U crazy? They updste monthly, before 1 a year

[upper charm]

Considering we are in bug squashing phase of b42 unstable I would like to say that is a good thing?

[tepid inlet]

I dont think we should be able to get rid of smoker, I think it should remain a negative trait, I feel like people would just pick smoker trait and in turn it becoming a meta trait that is eventually a free trait due to being able to get rid of the negative aspect

[iron vale]

well, should be able to get rid smoker trait but the smoker trait just give +2 poin

[iron vale]

or maybe smoker should just give +1 poin

smoking is bad in real life. should give just +1 poin but can quit smoking

[shrewd vortex]

From a gameplay perspective smoker should give more points since it completely changes how you play

[fluid adder]

I always wondered why smoker doesn't impact fitness or some aspect of stamina. Seems like it could go a long way to balancing it if quitting becomes an option.

[sullen blaze]

So many players will cry if it will

[tepid inlet]

lol

[covert summit]

+8 points on smoker, make it have 1.5 level lower endurance

[tepid inlet]

how many points is smoker right now?

[crisp nova]

zombies should be attracted to cigarette smoke and finishing/dropping a cig in the forest should roll the chance for a forest fire to start

[vague forge]

+3

[torn ice]

thanks for putting out thursdoids again <3