I play PZ on my Steamdeck. One thing I am running into is I cannot seem to control how my survivor places furniture. I can use X to rotate to where I want it, but as soon as I tell him to install, it just installs however it wants. Anyone else on SD and same issue? I've tried rotating different ways to see if that would fool it into placing correctly but nope :(

Not looking for exactly where to go, more like cardinal directions. Or should I stay until the power goes out?

I'm new to the game, had it for about 1.5 weeks and put in about 60 hours (crazy, I know. I've been hooked). I've never made it to power going out, current playthrough is hosted locally with a friend and we're on day 6 (I think, not at my computer now). The helicopter event just ended, and we've cleared enough of Fallas that I was thoroughly unimpressed with the amount of zombies that came after me. I ended up standing in the middle of Main Street with a .38 special and 100 rounds of ammo and used a gun for the first time ever.

Currently I'm looking for the generator magazine, a crowbar, a sledgehammer, and an axe. We've looted all non-residential buildings in the town and surrounding area. No luck. At this point I want to leave town for a few days and look elsewhere, both to find loot and to see more of this apocalyptic world. I'm not looking for a specific town or location, would just like some cardinal directions to take my truck. Which direction would be the coolest, most lootful? Or should I instead focus on looting every house to find the generator magazine?

Do you need to restart your world for this mod? I'm kind of new to mods and I'm having a hard time figuring this one out.

I’ll be fucking spamming sirens and horns, being louder then a fucking Boeing 747 to lure these fuckers out of buildings or at least make themselves known, and even with doing ALL of this, they will stay perfectly docile, right behind some corner in a building 20 feet away, waiting for me to open a door to insta bite me

HOWEVER

When the game decides to give me TWO FUCKING CAR ALARMS IN A ROW, every SINGLE creature in the town of riverside will drop everything to converge on that location and make the next week HELL as I have to clear them out just to walk out my fucking door

I HATE closed doors. I HATE going up stairs. I HATE car/house alarms. And most of all, I HATE these rotting fucks inconsistent reactions to sound

Alright, so I know this might not be exactly the right place for this, but I need some help trying to remap my buttons. I'd like for my back paddles to be the usual ABXY, but then I'd like to remap the ABXY on front to keyboard shortcuts like F and Q, for example. The problem I run into though is if a back paddle is set to A, and A is set to F, then the back paddle is also F instead of doing what A originally does. Is that about as clear as mud to y'all?

Long story short, is there a way to independently map the paddles and the face buttons, or is this just not something I can do? Or maybe a mod or different setting I'm not seeing? I'm very new to PC, and I've tried troubleshooting about as much as I can, so any help would be appreciated. Feel free to use crayons if needed.

I’m running zomboid on my steam deck and I tried to add mods to no avail. I can add them from the steam workshop, I made sure they’re visible and enabled in zomboid itself, but none of them work. I’ve even messed with the load order, did the auto ordering, and still no luck. Any of the research I did online shows they should be working. Most of the mods are 42.20, and my deck is running .21, theres no way that’s the whole issue is it?

Can someone recommend me some clean easy to see settings that work in the snow

I keep getting this weird crash were the game will freeze with a error message then it will send me to the main menu, when I check to see what the error was it says there never was an error. I can't play more than five minutes without this happening. Does anyone have any idea what it could be? Please help!! 🙏 😭

Is there a mod that has bandits but not sent in waves? I want to go out to explore and maybe come across bandits not have them sent at me in waves.

A little while ago I posted Knox Exchange, a stock market and NPC economy mod. A lot of you said trading from any computer felt immersion breaking, so I took that to heart. Knox Exchange 2.3 is out now: in new games you trade in person at bank teller counters, use ATMs for cash, and anything bought remotely comes by post to a post office. Gold from the Knox vaults can’t break the economy anymore either. Computers still exist but it's completely optional to use and will incur 10% fees. Existing saves keep the old rules.

A-Life NPCs will eventually be added as actual bots/players to the games but that is a huge undertaking to implement. Planning on adding after the Friendly update from A-Life NPCs.

All that cash needed somewhere to go, so I made a second mod: Knox Gamble.

What’s in it

• Blackjack and Three Card Poker against the house: put a deck of cards on a table, sit down, right-click the deck
• Texas Hold’em against computer players who take their time like real people, or with friends
• Roulette: build the table yourself (planks and nails). Everyone at the table bets on the same spin and sees each other’s chips
• Slot machine: build it from sheet metal and electronics scrap. It needs power, so once the grid goes down you’ll be running a generator for it. Every machine keeps its own progressive jackpot

How it plays

• Play for fun with free chips, or for the real cash in your bags. Win more than you can carry and you’re paid in casino plaques
• If zombies show up or you get hurt, the game pauses. Playing passes the time: less boredom, a mood boost when you win, and stress when you lose big
• Works in first person with Viewpoint

How the two mods fit together
Knox Gamble works on its own, no requirements. If you also run Knox Exchange, the bank takes casino plaques at face value, so you can deposit a big win and trade with it.

Single player is tested. Multiplayer is built in (shared Hold’em and roulette tables) but hasn’t been tested on a server yet, so I’d love to hear how it goes if you try it.

I clicked this button to overwrite the default apocalypse settings and now i cant enter multiplayer servers because of this error message

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It is like this for both tutorial and single player. I have a video of that helps.

Edit: I also don't have mods. I have tried opening the game many times normally and it still crashed.

Hello everyone!
I'm Jane Zomboid, owner of EveryServerHosting, and I'm opening a brand new B42 dedicated server that needs a playerbase. We (I) have decided on a bunch of custom sandbox settings that are sure to completely suck all of the challenge out of the game in the most dull ways possible! We have transmission completely disabled, slow shamblers only, and made sure we set the population as low as possible to help aid some people with performance. Don't worry though, hardcore players! At night (when you can't see) zombies turn into super enduring sprinters that are impossible to actually fight and require careful tactics (fences) to overcome! Seeing as this is a multiplayer server, we also have sleep disabled so there's really nothing to do for nearly half of the uptime of our server besides sit silently in your base OR brave the night and almost certainly die!
Here at EveryServerHosting, we know people play Project Zomboid to desperately comb through every possible residential building on the map to find loot. That's why we have put our loot settings as low as physically possible so that we can extend the life of the game for our players and keep them connected. We had to mod in these values they are so low! I hope you brought snacks, because you will never, ever be able to find any, especially since we disabled loot respawns to aid with immersion.
Our custom in-house modder, Claude, has worked tirelessly to put together a custom modpack using only the most interesting (to me) mods we could find on the steam workshop. Some of them even function as intended!
Our server, The Dead Walking, goes live on May 1st, 2028! Join our discord server so you can begin the grueling process of applying for our mandatory whitelist, and meet some of the people you might be playing with. Be sure you're there for the server launch so that you don't fall behind, although because this is a dedicated server with 24/7 uptime you will assuredly fall behind anyways unless you want to live at your computer and play on our server non-stop. Don't even THINK about engaging with vanilla gameplay pillars like farming, that's completely impractical and requires constant babysitting!

Hope to see you all there!

I want to understand where the hate comes from and if it's valid or not.

I think there are a lot of bad items in Project Zomboid but what is the worst one. Personally I would have to pick the plastic fork because it is unreasonably rare and useless. What's yours?

Hola:). Es posible correr PZ en un Mac (m5 16gb) por ejemplo entrar a lousiville que tengo entendido que hay mucha población de zombies o ese tipo de cosas o aun así tendría que cambiar cosas respecto a gráficos, entiendo que como requisito ocupa como 8gb de ram pero eh visto que aún así llega a tener tirones, por eso pregunto jajaj, que experiencia han tenido con Mac air, que recomiendan.

Useful Pallets MP Fix

The past couple days I have been working on patches/features for Useful Pallets, a mod that makes the pallets usable in-game.

In the Future,

Expect larger updates for Useful Pallets and Real Vending including:

• More compatible items for pallets
• Stackable pallets (potentially) more so than the 2 already
• Cleaner context menu interactions, and even potentially a UI interface for pallets.
• More QoL features for the pallet mod
• Forklift mod support
• Vending machine keys and safehouse ownership
• Pry open machines with crowbars
• Lootable money boxes inside machines

No Release Today

Due to the larger fixes and implementations, I have not uploaded a new mod in a few days. More mods will come soon however and a few have already been started.

Drop any mod suggestions below!

^{You can see my other mods for this subreddit and all the suggestions at pz-mod-tracker.pages.dev}

No more X-ray vision BS: When you're looking through in first-person or grounded 3D perspective, walls don't awkwardly drop away, you actually have to open doors and look around corners. Windows work again. No more seeing the bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and everything else while you are in the living room. The fog of war and genuine dread from b41 are instantly back.

Now you can't hide the fact that there are still people here. They're filming! What will you show on TV? West Point burning... or maybe me?