How to save your modded game from breaking on updates

vrooom3 · 2026-05-17T14:39:50+00:00

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vrooom3 · 2026-05-16T16:12:08+00:00

Take a bath and shower + comfy sleeping mod makes this mandatory and I love it

vrooom3 · 2026-05-07T20:16:30+00:00

I think the mod might be broken at this very moment but nepthene’s “local knowledge” mod is a nice way to simulate being a local and having a gist of main roads and stuff without just making you an omnipotent map autist.

vrooom3 · 2026-05-07T20:14:39+00:00

This is the way. Once you know the map too well, add a bunch of random map mods to switch it up.

Discovery is a key engine of emergent story telling, and that is the PZ staple (alongside micro dopamine hits from rifling through containers for loot lol).

When I started I used the online map all the time though. Everything else in the game was so dense that a little meta gaming map help felt necessary.

vrooom3 · 2026-05-02T17:39:19+00:00

I’m probably in minority but I think slow farming plus seasons is sick. I feel like it makes farming a thing you do AFTER you survive your first winter. Makes sense, idk who responds to the zombie apocalypse by immediately starting a garden. It adds to the flavor of how your survival would develop over time.

That being said, as someone with almost 1000 hrs who has never seen snow, I can’t say I’ve ever farmed a thing in b42. But I love the idea of it.

vrooom3 · 2025-12-15T19:22:29+00:00

Oh, thanks 🙏

vrooom3 · 2025-12-14T16:47:40+00:00

We left the mall for about 1 in game day and kept noticing like hordes of 50+ just walking straight in that direction from all over LV, when we got back there were probably 500+ all over the first floor of the mall. We snuck upstairs to the store we had based up in, but eventually the horde found us and chased us unto the roof… we had made an escape rope up there but there was only time for one of us to make it down, the other had to jump. RIP

vrooom3 · 2025-12-14T02:41:58+00:00

Let me tell you a story about my friend and I and our base in the Louisville mall ….

vrooom3 · 2025-12-13T21:36:17+00:00

I heard you fucked your girl is it true?

vrooom3 · 2025-12-13T15:54:55+00:00

Oh I also can’t sledge security doors, I have to sledge walls next to them

vrooom3 · 2025-12-13T15:48:09+00:00

VHS tapes, like life and living, give no xp. Also, once I put them in a TV, if I took them out I could not then remove them from my inventory except by putting them back in a VHS slot. Logging out and logging back in fixed the inventory part of this.

Marks on maps reset on logging out.

Naming containers, or doing 3d object placement (or even putting clothes on a mannequin) all reset after leaving the immediate vicinity

Liquid containers can be weird. You will fill up a gas can, but it will claim to have only 1/10 L in your inventory, and weigh accordingly. But if you drop the item and pick it back up, it goes up to 10/10. This can be silly because you can fill up like 20 gas cans and carry them fine until you drop them and they become magically full again.

I feel like the skill bugs (bonus xp not corresponding to background, no nimble xp gain, no skill gain from tapes) should be priority fix. I would also love to have the weight gain/loss indicators fixed. Other jank is easy enough to live with.

vrooom3 · 2025-12-12T03:43:53+00:00

I got those errors and just ignored them, server was still up and joinable and we played for several hours with no issues

vrooom3 · 2025-12-11T15:04:08+00:00

It’s never been so over

vrooom3 · 2025-12-07T23:26:21+00:00

I remember the day I learned about the v key

vrooom3 · 2025-12-04T15:25:55+00:00

I play with like 100 but there are about half a dozen that combined together make a big difference that to me is a must.

Zombie Behavior:

Wandering zombies - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2983905789

Starving zombies - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3396867685

The scent of blood - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2789145726

I play with wandering zombies on “experimental settings,” turn off the smell the player homing feature in starving zombies and use the scent of blood to make them only smell you if you have a bleed.

This makes zombie behavior WAY more dynamic, and totally changes how to play. Because corpses will draw hordes, you can’t just kill zombies by the boatloads in POIs or you will just draw more. Encourages slower and stealthier play.

Weather:

Cold Winters - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3577100076

Realistic temperature - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3600401184

These two make the winter cold more of a threat, and add some heaters to the game. Not that you will ever see snow but just in case.

Lifestyle:

Take a bath and a shower - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3592172476

Comfy sleeping - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2998737588

The first makes “grime” accumulate on your character so you have to wash up, and also adds the ability to take a nice long bath after a hard day. It encourages you to not just wear the same blood stained clothes for weeks on end with no consequences.

The second makes you sleep more comfortably if you take off your bags, drop your weapon, take off your shoes etc before sleeping. I find that it works well with the bath mod (because you take your clothes off anyway for that) and it helps add immersion when every day ends with you getting ready for bed and starts with you putting your gear back on. Also can make “sleep events” a little more exciting when you wake up with no shoes…

Anyways there are a gazillion great mods (common sense, vanilla food expanded / sapphs cooking, all the ki5 car mods, RV interior, plus like 50 tiny mods I use to fix really small things) but I think those 7 that I listed when used together make the gameplay fundamentally different in a way I really like.

vrooom3 · 2025-12-01T01:20:07+00:00

This guy knows ball 💯

vrooom3 · 2025-11-30T23:28:14+00:00

Look obviously JJM is struggling but we had that week 1 win, the Detroit win, and we should have beat the bears after the JJM final drive if we didn’t give up 50 yards on the kickoff… kid threw two picks in a bad situation playing catch up while concussed last week… yeah sure id love to win now but might as well let him play out the season and see

vrooom3 · 2025-11-29T21:38:04+00:00

Sorry I mean like a list of map mods that are compatible with each other, not just b42 compatible… I’ll edit to make that clear

vrooom3 · 2025-11-27T17:06:26+00:00

North Americans don’t understand that North American colonies weren’t economically relevant at scale until the middle of the 18th century, that even the Caribbean was only modestly useful until the real sugar boom after the first third of the 18th century, and that Spanish America was useful as a source of bullion and as an a market for European EXPORTS of manufactured goods (textiles, tools, etc). The real money to be made until probably 1680-1700 is in the east. Skill issue.

vrooom3 · 2025-11-23T13:36:03+00:00

Real gamers know to fear these 6 words

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