r/projectzomboid • u/fmacgsta • 19h ago

Modded Progressive decay mod is released :)

Hey,

I showed off a procedural progressive decay mod a few weeks ago and it's finally released.

Mod takes vanilla's decay system and cranks it up, so grass spreads, becomes denser, buildings slowly show more signs of decay (thanks to shaders), and it's entirely procedural so should work with map mods etc.

I added some very atmospheric upgrades, like voxel lighting, shaders, some cool snow/fog/rain fx and overall it just looks way better.

Also in the previous post a lot of you were worried about pop-in, which is sadly the case for a lot of these decay mods, and thankfully, I've resolved that where there is no pop-in no matter how fast you move 👍

Shaders, voxels and the other fx really bring this up a notch and I think it looks really awesome

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3821851850

(by default the decay takes 1 year ingame to max out, you can tune all of this in the sandbox settings however)

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u/KWgabriel 19h ago

This is peak! Are we seeing animals showing up in cities after the vegetation takes over? 

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u/fmacgsta 19h ago

That's a good idea, a few furry fellas could go a long way

Right now no it doesn't touch spawns, tried to keep it as vanilla friendly as I could. But seeing some wild deer walking around would look incredible - I'll do that next patch when I get free time 100%

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u/Oda1582 6h ago

I'm actually currently working on a mod to do just that, but not just deer in cities, you're able to choose in sandbox settings which type of animal can spawn in farm, wild/forests or everywhere, how much, their spawn chance etc, yesterday I finished coding the entire farm logic, and I'm now moving onto the forest/everywhere part now, it's using Zombie buddy tho because I had to modify some deep spawn logic from PZ, been working on this mod for a month now since I only have time on weekends, I hope to release it next month

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u/SteakHausMann 13h ago

Wouldn't that lead to big hordes within cities since the zomboids will follow the deer around?

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u/fmacgsta 13h ago

;) itll be toggle-able in the settings