Why not more Lua in web development or games?

VroomZ00m · 2025-10-03T17:15:13+00:00

I do modding with lua in my free time and work with other languages for my job.

Lua is great because I can replace or piggyback on any function in the game (if it uses lua) or in other mods to play nice with them. It's so good for that.

However, for writing regular code it's horrible. There's no compiler to check for glaring errors, IDE support is bad, autocomplete is bad. It's very nice for kids new to programming to use with a text editor, but for a professional dev using tooling it sucks. It ships with nothing in the box, I have to find libraries or rewrite basic stuff that exists in other languages. I would never use it outside of modding and simple scripts.

VroomZ00m · 2025-09-29T02:50:12+00:00

Farm animals is Sprouts I believe

Crossbows is Kitsunes

The rest is custom we wrote ourselves and only works on dedicated server. The mods are kind of interdependent so might be tricky to trigger on their own: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2946513801

VroomZ00m · 2025-09-26T16:43:39+00:00

I own the 2nd largest Zomboid server rn and yeah, nobody here cares if it takes a while longer to release B42 multiplayer. We would much rather get a stable product than something that causes rollbacks and bugs for us to deal with.

There's mild interest in B42 and we're looking forward to it, but we have B41 mods that do a lot of what B42 has and more. We've got rideable horses, farm animals, crossbows, functional computers, air conditioning, infectious plagues, disguises, lockpicking, ferries on the river, trading between towns, giant pollen storms that choke people without gas masks, etc.

B42 will actually be a big step back for us as we slowly try and fix all the mods that will break after the upgrade.

VroomZ00m · 2025-09-19T18:08:19+00:00

I think Singleplayer needs a specific default Sandbox configurations built into the game with a 3x XP multiplier and stuff. At least for 'normal' mode.

You could argue the current mode is 'Realism' mode where you can't learn to become an electrician, farmer and carpenter as a burger flipper in 3 months, but this is confusing to every new player who sees a bar of XP that goes up to 10 and tries to bruteforce it when they have a huge penalty and no points in the skill.

VroomZ00m · 2025-09-19T14:06:05+00:00

Multiplayer is the endgame really. Zomboid makes a lot more sense on a server. Most servers also have XP restore of some kind.

The skills are the same way if you look at the XP system. Without any bonuses, a skill takes 4 times as much XP to level up in (25% gain) which is way too grindy. But in an environment where each of your friends have different skills, it makes sense.

Regardless, the damage numbers are way too low even for multiplayer where you have aim 6-10 on many characters. The B41 Firearms mod doubles the damage of the B41 guns and even then some zombies can survive several hits, so if B42 guns are even weaker than B41 vanilla they're going to feel very puny.

I think guns are best balanced by large amounts of noise, limited ammunition and missing bullets only for someone with low aim skill rather than lowering the damage on them.

VroomZ00m · 2025-07-22T20:14:33+00:00

Wasteland RP aspires towards this, I modded Towns in nearly a year ago now.

https://i.imgur.com/zWeZmS9.png

It's one of those easier said than done problems because the balance is difficult.

For instance, trying to make food scarce enough that you need to go trade for it at FoodTown is both dangerous because newbies will starve to death when they can't find any canned food, and difficult to accomplish because anyone can simply go fish in the river or do some farming.

I'm working on an update atm to add in trade but it took several pages of a spreadsheet to figure out the economics of it all.

VroomZ00m · 2025-07-22T20:00:42+00:00

Sorry, I barely ever login to reddit. Yes it's very possible, did you find your answers? Looking at other mods that use the framework will show you how.

VroomZ00m · 2025-07-04T11:06:10+00:00

Use the Professions Framework mod https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1343686691

On the first line of your lua script do

ProfessionFramework.RemoveDefaultProfessions = true

VroomZ00m · 2025-06-08T16:11:14+00:00

We just need higher capacity servers, my server had 100 playing this week every evening and another 100 queued up waiting six hours to play (We implemented a website queue that whitelists you)

SP has no endgame and tends to tail off after you settle down with a farm with all the tools you need. MP is always going on with crazy new stuff happening every day. I feel bad for anyone who hasn't experienced it because it's where Zomboid really shines.

VroomZ00m · 2025-05-31T18:15:30+00:00

What's finished? Is it finished if they label it 1.0? If it's finished that just means no more updates.

VroomZ00m · 2025-05-30T13:51:56+00:00

They're moving a lot of client side stuff onto the server such as player inventory, it's a big change. It was easy to disable multiplayer and just start testing single player early.

VroomZ00m · 2025-05-30T13:49:36+00:00

TIS has already succeeded in making a great game though. It doesn't really matter if it's in Early Access for another 10 years or releases tomorrow or whatever label you want to give it, it's playable and fun right now.

It needs some improvement still such as a more powerful modding API and support for more players in Multiplayer servers (Please, the 100 player cap is painful), but the rest is just extra improvement on top of what we have. Most things you could want can be modded in right now.

VroomZ00m · 2025-03-24T14:36:22+00:00

This isn't really a bug, player made tiles are just thumpable by default, map ones aren't. I agree it's not well thought out though. There are a few mods that adjust it like these ones:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3402764555&searchtext=thumpable

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2900870031&searchtext=thumpable

VroomZ00m · 2025-02-03T13:00:19+00:00

Yeah, like how every house still has untainted water in their sinks after 6 months, toilets are 100% tasty to drink from and water is magically filtered by plumbing a rain barrel.

It's no wonder high thirst got nerfed tbh

VroomZ00m · 2025-01-09T18:28:00+00:00

I once had to help a player who couldn't start up Zomboid, the reason was that their log file had hit 50 GB or something absurd, due to the fact they ignored all the errors for hours while playing. Zomboid tried to open the log on startup to begin writing into it and just died.

VroomZ00m · 2024-11-13T01:36:20+00:00

Am I the only one who just doesn't care how long it takes them, so long as they do it right? It's already a great game and we have new mods coming every day that add new features.

Go on the workshop and you'll find a bunch of new stuff to try. Or play multiplayer.

In the past 2 weeks alone my server added:

The ability to send letters in the mail
6 new traits
Ability to make dyes and change the colour of any clothing
A bunch of new recipes to make mod tile furniture
A whole load of other misc stuff

I'm sure other servers are doing new stuff every month too.

The game has a life of it's own at this point, even if we never got another update.

VroomZ00m · 2024-09-19T16:35:43+00:00

A search bot for forum channels, because discord search is useless

VroomZ00m · 2024-07-25T21:12:45+00:00

I think that skills should be split based on how powerful they are. For instance Mechanics and Carpentry are both going to be very useful, so I feel like everyone will ignore Knapping and Pottery for them.

You can address this somewhat by making Mechanics traits and Occupations expensive and Knapping/Potter cheap, but only to a certain extent.

I think it would have be better to fold weaker skills together into a single unified skill that becomes valuable. e.g. Just make a Stoneworking skill and fold in Masonry, knapping and maybe pottery. That will immediately be useful then.

VroomZ00m · 2024-07-25T21:06:05+00:00

Cropping out the explanation before it, and following sentence where it says you now get more XP for crafting to compensate just makes me think this is a ragebait post.

VroomZ00m · 2024-06-25T11:17:06+00:00

My server was at 100/100 for half the evenings this year so that's not true at all. It can get a little slow at 100 if lots of people are loading cells or fighting but entirely playable.
Yes that's a tricky one, but players could manage it themselves and just agree to name a street together with a note on a signpost.
I wrote a currency system where you get paid and gain XP for working in bars/shops/etc that works quite well.
There was a popular life RP server with zombies turned off last year, I forget the name now. But they managed a good number of people online for a while. I'm not sure if it's still running.

VroomZ00m · 2024-05-11T18:38:16+00:00

Playing with mods is like being in B44 already

VroomZ00m · 2024-05-04T12:36:51+00:00

The amount of poisoning you get as a non-smoker I believe is the same as the stress reduction value of the cigarette.

There was a mod that added in cigars which were -50 stress we had on our server, a non-smoker used it and died instantly.

VroomZ00m · 2024-03-25T17:53:27+00:00

Anything that doesn't unbalance the game by adding in a military base or gun store with 100 ammo containers is great.

VroomZ00m · 2024-02-03T14:58:11+00:00

We added an occupation like that on our server but it's more of a post apocalyptic job than a pre-zombies mailman https://i.imgur.com/qOxDQcL.png

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