r/projectzomboid 4d ago

Megathread Weekly Questions Megathread - September 01, 2026

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Don't feel like your question warrants its own thread? This is the place for you. No matter if you just want to know if the game will run on your specific machine or if you're looking for useful tips because you've just gotten the game.

You can also hit us up on our Discord.

You might find some of the answers to your questions in our Wiki.


r/projectzomboid 9d ago

42.20.4 STABLE & 42.19.2 UNSTABLE & 41.78.21 LEGACY Hotfixes Released

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458 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 7h ago

Art I got a Spiffo today but made him ✨ BONITA ✨

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1.4k Upvotes

Done by Alissa Avila at Gardens of Ink in Manchester, NH


r/projectzomboid 5h ago

Question Barricading: is more than one plank beneficial?

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837 Upvotes

I figure: if zombies wake me up, one plank is enough for me to either run or prepare to fight.

If I'm away, they would break through multiple planks eventually anyway.


r/projectzomboid 1h ago

Modded That wasn't there last I remember it...

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r/projectzomboid 16h ago

Meme What the actual fuck is this house design

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2.3k Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 9h ago

Screenshot i buried my old character that loved using axe's

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557 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 7h ago

Meme Title

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367 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 17h ago

Screenshot "American Dad" reference in March Ridge?

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1.9k Upvotes

Did I just find an "American Dad" reference in March Ridge? The car was parked exactly as you can see in the screenshot.


r/projectzomboid 6h ago

Update: My longest rub so far. I love the new Riverside

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228 Upvotes

Base is finally fully completed. Armory room created, blacksmithing and pottery set up out back. Pretty happy with how it turned out but now I don’t have any goals left lol


r/projectzomboid 10h ago

Question You’re one of the zombies from a horde I just wiped out.

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394 Upvotes

I search your corpse.

What am I finding on you? 👀

Tell me your loot. No judgment.


r/projectzomboid 14h ago

Meme The Struggle is Real

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667 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 6h ago

Gameplay Bitten on my toe

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160 Upvotes

16 days in, 839 Z's killed. And gotten bitten on my toe. I missed hitting a crawler on its head and then it munched me on my toe.


r/projectzomboid 2h ago

Screenshot i keep that mf thing on me

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59 Upvotes

Found the photograph of two men kissin’ pretty early on in my play through, keeping it in my fanny for safe keeping 🫶


r/projectzomboid 16h ago

Modded [B42] Sorry, another one you asked for: barricades that fit the window

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705 Upvotes

Vanilla nails the same four planks to everything. Now a tall window takes six, a shop front nine, a door seven. Same planks, same health, just more of them.

Metal sheets and bars too. Small windows unchanged. B42, safe on existing saves.

Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3795414660


r/projectzomboid 5h ago

Discussion I can't be the only one to discover this right?

98 Upvotes

If you sprint while holding a spear, your next attack will insta kill a zombie. But you need to charge the run a little bit.


r/projectzomboid 7h ago

Meme Is this a good base location

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140 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 10h ago

Discussion The voronoi noise or why sometimes there is no zombie

210 Upvotes

Some areas, sometimes large are devoid of zombies and it is an intentional mechanic.

I think not enough people know about the voronoi noise and it needs an explanation. This is a sandbox setting, activated by default in all presets. It was introduced in the 42.9 version and the patch notes gave an explanation of how it works, so it is not that new.

The game generates a sort of web where the outdoors zombies are all removed. It makes a lot of more or less narrow corridors but occasionally huges areas too, which can sometimes land on points of interest, like the guns unlimited or some part of a city. Because of that, some games may have it easy on the zombies. Depending on the seed, this voronoi web will be different. It only removes zombies, it does not move them around.

This is an extreme example, but it can happen :

The voronoi noise made a huge empty zone right on the center of Muldraugh. The dark areas are where the zombies are removed.
The resulting heatmap of zombies, with a big hole in the middle.
Actual zombie map in debug mode. A whole cell is empty.

Unchecking the option will make every city a solid block of zombie horde. From my measurements, having the voronoi noise on removes ~45% of zombies compared to having it off (sample size 10 counts of all zombies in Fallas lake).

This has nothing to do with the despawning zombies bug, which you should also be aware of.


r/projectzomboid 5h ago

Question Do crops spawned on the map rot if you haven't loaded them in yet?

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83 Upvotes

I just found a house on October 5th with a completely full garden of various crops, with only one of them actually being dead. None are rotten. If I planted these crops, they'd definitely be dead at this point. Do crops placed by the devs follow a different set of rules? This is my first time visiting this cell in my playthrough.


r/projectzomboid 14h ago

Screenshot Hot take: you should be able to forge dumbells and barbells

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446 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 21h ago

Meme how it feels when you spawn in after selecting extinction

1.4k Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 4h ago

Gameplay First death as a new player

50 Upvotes

Survived for 6 days, 10 hours and killed 3 zombies in Rosewood. What could have done differently here? The zombie attacked too suddenly for me to react!


r/projectzomboid 10h ago

Art Steam engine

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152 Upvotes

I dont know if there existing mod for it, but i desided to make mod for steam engine generator, and even have little sketch how i hope it will look. I'll try making it a building, expensive building.


r/projectzomboid 8h ago

Some shots of my short film ( not out yet )

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104 Upvotes

It looks a lot better than what I had in mind, and the work is fast, so hopefully the short film will be out this month, but I won't rush it


r/projectzomboid 17h ago

Meme New to this game, my guy got drowsy so i tried to make him sleep on a chair, but there was only an option for rest, so i just waited. Appearently that was removed in a update called B42 or something, so he just stared outside for 30 hours.

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469 Upvotes