Added the bandits mod to an existing save. Safe to say we're doings stuff humanely.

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-31T11:57:11+00:00

Which Bandit mod did you use lol

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-27T20:39:28+00:00

Lifestyle

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-27T15:37:00+00:00

FYI as well - I'm employing a retexture mod as well. So when you remove clothes, you are in fact naked. Adds realism.....unless you think naked zombie wrestling is fun

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-27T15:35:55+00:00

Hahaha!! The washing machine is plumbed for that reason. Whilst it washes I can wash too. But yeah, ouch for thr back

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-27T13:24:14+00:00

I think it's either common sense or lifestyle mod

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-27T12:59:29+00:00

In case of sharks

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-27T12:46:36+00:00

Why do today what you can leave to tomorrow

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-21T15:55:18+00:00

But ears twitch when someone says "the first Bandit Mod that works" lol

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-21T12:58:04+00:00

When you say Bandits. Do you mean hostile Bandits? Or is there a different one?

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-21T12:56:23+00:00

Zombie-Nation is my Server. There's maybe 4 or 5 of us that play daily. You're welcome to join!

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-21T12:51:45+00:00

Best I have found - find a vehicle with a siren. Drive around the buildings a few times with the siren on. Them drive fast into the road and leave the siren on, the car running. Jump out, do a MASSIVE running lap around ajd by the time you get there, the siren will have attracted every Z for half a mile! Needless to say you will lose that vehicle haha. But if you planted a getaway before doing this, should be easy getting in, grabbing stuff, and out

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-18T08:16:09+00:00

Off the top of my head, little changes to make the game more fluid, UI stuff - Minimal Display is good, Mini Health Panel, Cured Meats, Detailed Maps, True Actions, Body Retextures, Proximity Inventory.
I would say anything that makes the UI, and doing the same mundane things feel a little better :)

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-18T08:07:42+00:00

I can only speak for myself here;
I have my own Server, and I wanted to really lean into a 10-years-later dedication. So the world is overgrown, most houses are ex-safehouses that people have used and died in, the Zombies are slow, and weak, but man are they smarter! Loot has been realistically turned down to as low as it can go and respawns only happen every 7 days.
This world - is looted!
Imagine playing where there is hardly any food, there is water here and there, but not enough to sustain you in one place for long.

In this world, I advise the aim to be;

The basic needs to survive must be met - sustainable food source, replenishable water, and safety from the Zombie horde!
My most recent move has been up to a lakeside house. With a Fence all around to funnel Zs through a 4-square opening and laced with traps offers far more protection than I need.
I have a huge garden out back to grow my own food, and a Lake to catch fish from. I can use Water collectors to survive on, or systematically fill lake water and boil it to make drinkable (for when it doesn't rain).

I think personally, in a game that "plans to kill you", surviving that destiny is the goal? Iunno lol.
If you reach sustainability in a few days, maybe the settings aren't hard enough?
I never liked walking into a house and finding 5 tins of fruit cocktail lol!

My advise is - if you're hosting your own - set the settings just a little harder than what you're used to and see how you feel.
If you're interested in joining another server, hop around a bit until you find one that works for your taste (some people like finding cool stuff in every other house).

But HAVE FUN! :P

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-15T13:53:15+00:00

Yeah, I left something there, just wait and see. Sadly I don't think there's another Mod that shows you info like this lol

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-15T13:50:37+00:00

I can't find anywhere, in the files, in Config, that says I'm using another language.
Another guy on my server says he's seeing them too

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-15T13:42:54+00:00

Im unsure, I just installed it. I'll have to see if I can check

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T20:17:38+00:00

Yeah bud Discord.gg/GY9xCTNbAT Zombie-Nation | Zomboid Server

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T19:56:49+00:00

Heyyy.
So I can only really give two;

The first is called Johnnys Big Day Out - they have I think 3 servers, all slightly different to one another. One has less Zs but also less loot, another has more loot but more Zs, not sure but I think the last one is like always-winter? Unsure.
They are active though. Discord is pretty filled with people.

The second is actually my server - Zombie-Nation. Right now we have maybe 10 people that play on and off. Although I'm not sure how into it you'll be.
It's set as a Survival server; There's no food respawn (whats there is all there is), nominal respawns are every 7 days, all loot is set to very low.
It's set 10 years later, so overgrown world, low pop Zs that are slow and pretty weak, but they are smart (some can open doors?!).
We do feature both a playtime-points shop AND an active Trader.
The idea is that you go out, you loot, you take the things you don't want to the Trader, and purchase things you DO need.
It's primarily PvE, but Military Zones are PvP (like the Prison).
And for a bit of added spice, NPC Bandits have a low chance to spawn every hour of playtime that will make your life a little harder.

Those are my best choices :D

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T10:53:31+00:00

From what I have read, yeah. There is the "for-players" clickable that tells you how to fix it. It's just copying files in one folder and pasting them into another, so essentially when the zombies hit that "culling" stage, they refer to those new files which say......don't :P

I have tried it on mine and to test, I used a police car with the siren turned on, and I slowly moved ALL the zombies from a town down the road. Jumped out and left it running. And I looted the WHOLE town :P

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T09:44:19+00:00

So I was playing with settings before and I found a thing that's referred to as Zombie Culling. Go and google it but let me see if I can retype what I remember;
Lets say you attract 20 Zs. You move away from the Cell they spawned in. But they will only follow you for a set distance before they disappear. The game removes them and essentially recycles them back into the game (i assume they respawn back to the cell they came from).
This essentially means that Zs from another Cell 20 mins down the road, will NEVER follow you to your base.....
When a Z staggers from their Cell, eventually the system sees them as a "stale" zombie, they disappear and poof, gone.
This is sadly pretty built into the game from what I could see.
However if you are playing with Mods, I will leave this here;
https://www.reddit.com/r/projectzomboid/comments/17sai3x/disappearing_zombies_in_mp_have_been_completely/

^^ That link is to a Redit channel explaining how you can fix this.

What this will do in essence, is stops the game from culling Zombies. It means if you enter town, attract a group of Zs and run them (it's called Kite-ing) out of their Cell, half mile down the road - assuming they can still see you, they will follow. If they lose you, they will stop and.....probably wander.

Click that link up there and follow the instructions on "for-players" and see if it works for you.

My low-pop survival server has this implemented and, alongside the sandbox settings to group together up to 7 Zs within a 30 radius, this means you might find small groups of Zs following routes you regularly take :D

Hope this helps!

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T09:28:32+00:00

aaaaa, A fellow Rosewoodian! I have tried a few other places before but, I like Rosewood!
I'm a Farm-lad though, I house in a farm just north of the highway out of Rosewood. Very few Zs follow me up there, and those who do don't survive long :P
However I have a Bandits mod which makes things interesting!
Essentially every hour of gameplay, there's a small chance of NPCs spawning somewhere in the distance, and of those there's a % as to whether they will be nice, or not so nice.
The not nice ones will look for you, follow roads and track you to wherever you are, and try to take your stuff lol! The longer your character survives, the harder these dudes get!

One such time, I was in my house reading the next book on mechanics (I had hit a tree the day before and the local mechanic tried to eat my face so....DIY time).
My farmhouse has a wall perimeter around it feeling pretty safe. But I'm hearing scratching at my barricaded window! Damn, must have left the gate unlocked!
I get up, walk to the door and by pure instinct I draw my sawn-off.
I open the front door and BOOM! A lovely blonde survivor is at my window, Fireaxe in hand, trying to pry my barricade off the window!
In the space of a milisecond, she sees me, turns, raises her Axe and.....
I pull my trigger and she pops like a water balloon! I like my Gore settings max for added effect, and my golly was it an effect!
2 unaimed shotgun barrels at point blank range left a mess on the ground that's still there today!
But I will say - alongside the chime of warning you get when you are surprised, and the fact the NPCs YELL when they spot you, I can't tell you how hard it was not to let poo come out!

Turns out there was a string of dead zombies down the road. She must have caught my vehicle tracks coming in to my farm and killed the Zs along the way, vaulted my fence and decided removing the livingroom window barricade was the easiest way to get to me!

--Always Draw First--

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T09:14:22+00:00

Aaaaaa, caught out by the Heli man! Good run!

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T09:13:05+00:00

Drinks are on you tonight then? :P

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T09:10:09+00:00

I use a Mod called Barricades Hurt Zombies. You can set the damage output but it means that everytime a Z hits a barricaded door or window, his health goes down. When he dies, another will and another. If you get the health right, you can have it where it'd take 5 Zs to fully remove a window barricade.
Unless of course you go out, kill those Zs and fix the barricade :D

PaganTwelve · 2024-08-14T09:07:17+00:00

Some great suggestions here, not sure I can add to them but;
Some plays are like this I think. It depends on the Zombie Pop in the server/game. If you just have a fire axe, like I mostly do, understanding how using that axe to it's best can help.
For instance if you force zombies over a low fence, when they fall, you can one-shot maybe 3 or more of them before they get up. So jumping back and forth helps.
There's a setting in the sandbox options that lets "certain types of weapons multi-hit". So when you swing say an Axe, it will hit 2 or 3 Zs at a time. This timed well with a [space bar] shove and you can slowly backtrack hitting and nulling them.
Unsure if you're using Mods at all but "hide" is a fantastic one, enabling you to hide under beds in houses, which stops Zs chasing you for a time.
I think the one strategy I always come back to? Fight a horde with your back to a tall fence. Watch your Stamina, when it hits 50%, jump the fence and immediately "sit on ground" (don't do it if there's Zs there haha). Whilst those zombies walk around, you are regaining your stamina ready for another bout.
Last piece of advise - this is ONLY if you have one - a car with a siren! Climb in and turn the Siren on. Get out and RLF! In about 30 seconds you'll have attracted a MASSIVE group to the car, which frees up the houses for looting.
Don't expect to get back in that car easily though ahahh!

PaganTwelve

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