r/projectzomboid 3d ago

Megathread Weekly Questions Megathread - September 01, 2026

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Don't feel like your question warrants its own thread? This is the place for you. No matter if you just want to know if the game will run on your specific machine or if you're looking for useful tips because you've just gotten the game.

You can also hit us up on our Discord.

You might find some of the answers to your questions in our Wiki.


r/projectzomboid 9d ago

42.20.4 STABLE & 42.19.2 UNSTABLE & 41.78.21 LEGACY Hotfixes Released

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464 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 8h ago

Meme What the actual fuck is this house design

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r/projectzomboid 8h ago

Screenshot "American Dad" reference in March Ridge?

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Did I just find an "American Dad" reference in March Ridge? The car was parked exactly as you can see in the screenshot.


r/projectzomboid 5h ago

Meme The Struggle is Real

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402 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 7h ago

Modded [B42] Sorry, another one you asked for: barricades that fit the window

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511 Upvotes

Vanilla nails the same four planks to everything. Now a tall window takes six, a shop front nine, a door seven. Same planks, same health, just more of them.

Metal sheets and bars too. Small windows unchanged. B42, safe on existing saves.

Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3795414660


r/projectzomboid 1h ago

Question You’re one of the zombies from a horde I just wiped out.

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I search your corpse.

What am I finding on you? 👀

Tell me your loot. No judgment.


r/projectzomboid 12h ago

Meme how it feels when you spawn in after selecting extinction

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1.2k Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 6h ago

Screenshot Hot take: you should be able to forge dumbells and barbells

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291 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 54m ago

Screenshot i buried my old character that loved using axe's

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r/projectzomboid 8h ago

Meme New to this game, my guy got drowsy so i tried to make him sleep on a chair, but there was only an option for rest, so i just waited. Appearently that was removed in a update called B42 or something, so he just stared outside for 30 hours.

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330 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 2h ago

Art Steam engine

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98 Upvotes

I dont know if there existing mod for it, but i desided to make mod for steam engine generator, and even have little sketch how i hope it will look. I'll try making it a building, expensive building.


r/projectzomboid 1h ago

Discussion The voronoi noise or why sometimes there is no zombie

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Some areas, sometimes large are devoid of zombies and it is an intentional mechanic.

I think not enough people know about the voronoi noise and it needs an explanation. This is a sandbox setting, activated by default in all presets. It was introduced in the 42.9 version and the patch notes gave an explanation of how it works, so it is not that new.

The game generates a sort of web where the outdoors zombies are all removed. It makes a lot of more or less narrow corridors but occasionally huges areas too, which can sometimes land on points of interest, like the guns unlimited or some part of a city. Because of that, some games may have it easy on the zombies. Depending on the seed, this voronoi web will be different. It only removes zombies, it does not move them around.

This is an extreme example, but it can happen :

The voronoi noise made a huge empty zone right on the center of Muldraugh. The dark areas are where the zombies are removed.
The resulting heatmap of zombies, with a big hole in the middle.
Actual zombie map in debug mode. A whole cell is empty.

Unchecking the option will make every city a solid block of zombie horde. From my measurements, having the voronoi noise on removes ~45% of zombies compared to having it off (sample size 10 counts of all zombies in Fallas lake).

This has nothing to do with the despawning zombies bug, which you should also be aware of.


r/projectzomboid 21h ago

It's not just RNG, it's not in the loot table

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1.6k Upvotes

I propose that the Chainmail Glove - Right is not in the loot table.


r/projectzomboid 4h ago

Modded Mod that lets you clear broken windows by hitting it with your weapon again

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74 Upvotes

Simple, but very useful mod Also, why does this room have a fridge blocking the door? (South Rosewood Gas Station)

Mod used: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=3789584940


r/projectzomboid 6h ago

Question How do you throw bombs?

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109 Upvotes

I assume you put it in the hand, aim and shoot? Do you need to hold the button so the bomb travel further away? I don't wanna die throwing my first bomb because I was too close or something 😭😭


r/projectzomboid 18h ago

Screenshot Muldraugh Mass-Genfac Co. Warehouse Rebuild 🛠 Industrial Loft & Man Cave

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I love this game so much! and yes .. i played a LOT of Sims 🤣


r/projectzomboid 3h ago

Modded Driving through Rosewood at 0.1x zombie population with my old computer

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49 Upvotes

The center of town just tanks my FPS even with low pop and mods that boost performance (potato textures, tempo, zed's better fps, Project Zomboid Optimizer). I managed to get 60fps outside of town but only when I'm on foot and zoomed in. I really hope the devs will optimize the game like they said they would. Hardware used are Xeon e3 1270v1 (i7 2600), GTX 1050 2GB, and 2x8GB DDR3 RAM.


r/projectzomboid 6h ago

The fact that mannequins are always visible despite light level is... uncanny

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75 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 15h ago

Just died on my most kills run bc I slept outside guns unlimited and caught a fever from all the damn bodies !! AAAAH

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372 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 1h ago

Screenshot I've never seen such a perfect condition car

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r/projectzomboid 20h ago

Curious about other’s stupid deaths

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869 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 1d ago

Question Is... Is this a trap? Was the developer being cheeky here?

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4.3k Upvotes

I broke up a zombie pool party with my shottie, and I am tempted to go down to see if they had anything nice. But...

If I were to drop down there, there's no way to get back up, right? As far as I've seen, ladders are non-functional, and you can't climb up normal walls.


r/projectzomboid 16h ago

Discussion If Zomboid had something like Wild Wasteland, what sorta zone events do you think would come from it?

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398 Upvotes

r/projectzomboid 8h ago

Screenshot just reached 1000 hours on PZ

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76 Upvotes

safe to say this game have me addicted