well guess who just "lost" a run due to some very convincing impossible shape being thing who happened to show up floating above a blood splatter after a cataclysm happened while i was running up and down the road to keep up my lifestyle

guess all the time i spend patching up my new food truck to peak condition is gonna be left for some lucky clysm survivor

edit: added discussion tag cause none seem to fit but i cant use none

I always played vanilla CDDA but now I wanna try something that will restore my curiosity.
Which mods you guys run and what are the pros and cons of playing with that mod?

are there anyways to figure out what a artifact does without using it? and if not how do i go about it safely.

Was playing on my steam deck and I'm away from home now so I don't have pictures but will upload some later if not many people know about this :D

Went into pawn shop, cut through a barred basement door with acetylene, and inside was the basement pawn shop scene from pulp fiction.

Just a small room with two chairs in the middle, rope, bondage suit, gimp masks, a high steel Katana, and 3 zombies lol.

Anybody ever found this? As soon as I stepped down the stairs I was like dude is this the scene from pulp fiction lmao, and then I found the katana 😂

So now I also have a high steel katana for my middle aged, overweight carpenter to wield.

IDK about y'all, but the act of finding the torch, the welding mask, the canisters, and carrying them with me to go looting too much, when there's never a guarantee of loot. If it's a gun store, fair play, if there's loot it's gonna be worth the trip. But I've waded through cities with all this gear before just to get behind a door that only had like alcohol for example.

So If its believable that a certain area was left unlocked or there was a different method besides destroying a place to get in, I just debug. Sometimes I'll debug, see amazing loot, and then reload to go back and earn it. But I have had times where I'm just like "Well I'm glad I didn't make a whole evening out of getting behind this one door, not worth it,"

Thoughts?

Fairly new player here. My latest character "willed it" last run after a week. Now again I almost reached one week mark. Question is I looted two pawn shops near my base (megacity start), and found multiple swords like broadsword, arming sword, long sword etc. I've been using cudgel/spears and lately bats and bayonet. Should I start using swords, are they good weapons in early game? I am at melee 2 for now with 2 bashing and 2 piercing. Overall should I switch or keep using bayonet and bats etc. Thanks. I am on stable btw.

I'm finally gonna start a week long cdda run once more and I wanna try mind over matter mod since most people says it fits really well with base game. Doesn't make your character overpowered unlike other mods (looking at you magiclysm). I Start reading every .md file and now I'm checking json files as well to get every possible knowledge/spoiler for the run. Is there other things/tactics I need to know. Best ways to get or unlock new powers etc. etc. I need mind over matter veterans to guide me :p

I killed a zombie that had one of these, i took to my base thinking that maybe i would be able to fix and clean it, do any of you know how i may be able to do that, or maybe just say that isn't worthy or its impossible?

Hello, I recently became very interested in this game due to the sheer amount of content and potential things you can do in it. I have played a lot of project zomboid but really wanted a more detailed game where zombies are actually dangerous.

I started out and wanted to try one of my favourite zombie scenarios in the form of clearing apartment to apartment in an apartment complex and it has been going quite well so far but I think I might be misunderstanding the game a bit?

I have practised my skills, read all the books, gathered and stocked one of the apartments and am even trying to get into chemistry but when I try to fight any of the zombies it does not go so well. At the ground floor there is a horde of highly mutated zombies and a zombie litch and 200 bullets of .22 did not manage to kill it (I missed a lot).

As someone interested in doing a melee build and pretty much ignoring ranged as my fantasy in the martial arts way it feels like I do not stand a chance, my best weapon is a cleaver and when I tried to kill a zombie predator I managed to hit it once.

Reading online the game seems to be quite time constrained as well and me "wasting" a week lockpicking doors and training my skills seems to have put me on the backfoot.

I feel like the game wishes me to be more fast paced and for example instantly try to go to a police station or army depot instead of chilling in my apartment, wich I mean fair enough. But it's not really the type of experience I am after.

My wish is to slowly build up my character's skills rpg style and then eventually become a zombie killing menace. But from what I have read from the melee guides and such most of the mutated zombies are very strong against melee. Is there any mod setup or settings which fit this? I have searched around a bit but haven't been able to find much.

I've been getting into CDDA but I can't seem to quench my thirst, I only got it to decrease once after chugging one bottle of fresh water (which did nothing) and then drinking a can of beer right after (Which took thirst from very thirsty to none). After that, I got thirsty again and chugged another bottle of water, doing nothing, but this time the beer didn't help and I was out of water so I chugged some from a river and I could not get my thirst to go down. Is this a bug?

I haven’t properly tried using vehicles in a while, I didn’t particularly like the addition of limiting the number of times you can repair parts or that the tyres constantly burst. I realised that welding rods and acetylene is pretty easy to get in large quantities and it’s not that hard to pull broken parts off other vehicles and use them to replace the broken ones on yours.

I find a van and fix it up a bit, new wheels, batteries, an extra tank, a few body repairs. I have a frame that is about to break so I decide to try replacing it. I arrive at a light industry and get everything I need, pull a frame in good condition off a nearby car, and remove the broken one from my van. I go to add the new one and it says I can’t add that part.

Some reading online reveals that you can no longer add the standard frames to cars and you need to use the wooden or “tubular steel frame” parts. You need structural steel to make those, and there’s none to be found in the light industry. I don’t want to use a wood frame either after getting all the mechanics tools collected, so I’m basically stuck with a van with a big hole in the middle of it.

Is this just how it is for vehicles now? They were already pretty hard to keep in good condition and now it doesn’t seem worth the effort. Do you just drive around in a wreck until it falls apart then find another? Stick to dragging a shopping trolly around? It used to be a blast living out of an RV and travelling around and they just seem like too much work now.

My muscles also spasm sometimes, leaving me stunned. I dont want to go into combat with this many debuffs

So i was wondering in the trans coast logistics when i got jump scared by a nurse bot that injected me with something that turned me unconscious the it proceeded to gut me and take my air filteration CBM that i got from the exodies and i had no chance of resisting

Anyway i woke up and deactivated the bot(gonna sell it to the exodies) and took my air filteration CBM back and tried to install it back in the autodoc room but then i learned about the CBM sterilising process (correct me if I'm wrong)

1 clean the CBM

2 mend it

3 put it in the autoclave to be sterilised

Well when i tried to use a washing kit the CBM didn't appear so i assumed it's already clean but i tried to put it in an autoclave the game asked me to mend it and when i chose to do so i get the message "you are currently unable to mend the air filteration CBM this way"

I have both the tools and the skills required so what am i missing?

I'm playing on 0.H stable and i have these mods "MoM, Aftershock, magiclysm, skill through state, tammable wildlife,"

Once upon a time you could roll around in deathmobiles. These days even an armored car seems like it's made of wet paper.

How do I get through these doors in the lab?

I've already cleared the first floors of three labs, collected two dozen passes and a bunch of notebooks. But I can't find what will help me get inside these doors.

There were a lot of wasps in one of the labs. It was unpleasant...

I have Xedra and MoM mods. But the character has no unusual abilities.

Hey everyone!

I've been lurking here for years, and figured this would be the best place to share something I've been working on.

CDDA has always been one of my favorite survival games. Nothing else really comes close to the depth and freedom it offers. The problem is, every friend I've tried getting into it has given up because of the controls and learning curve.

So I started making Rotland, a 2D zombie survival sandbox inspired by CDDA, but with pixel art, modern controls, better menus, and a proper tutorial. The goal is to keep that ridiculous level of depth while making it easier to actually get into.

Here's some of what's already in:

• An Earth-sized procedural world with towns, cities, and wilderness
• 211 building types, 2,300+ items, and 500+ pieces of original art
• Individual limb damage, bleeding, infections, and dismemberment
• Crafting, farming, fishing, construction, and skill progression
• Fully customizable vehicles, including mobile bases
• Spreading fires, weather, scent, noise, and zombie hordes
• Data-driven systems built with modding in mind

I'm not trying to replace CDDA. I have a ton of respect for everyone who's contributed to it over the years, me inclided. I just wanted to make something similar that more people could get into, with more ease of accessibility.

I'd love to hear what you guys think.

Join the Developer discord to stay updated on news also!

https://discord.gg/9QwUTXhvy

He's just standing there menacingly! He's not even milling around!

Anyone else notice permanent un-mendable faults happening on their melee weapons extremely quickly? The first actual degredation on every one of my melee weapons this run has been a permanent fault mainly being cracked and turning the weapon text orange. Its happened on three machetes, two butterfly swords, f-s fighting knife, and a katana. It wouldnt be that much of a problem if it didnt take such long time to craft or find such weapons. In previous runs ive never had this happen. Melee and cutting skills are 5+ and strength is 4.

I'm crying. My character was a prime mage. I got some bad irradiation from a zombie/feral radiation mage so I thought - why not channel that into some magic mutations...

I read some guides and took all 7 concentrated mana primers I had + 4 mutagen catalysts.
My idea was to break the threshold. I've got robust genetics from character creation so it should go well... right?
I already had the 3 medium mana traits from character creation. 2 of them evolved to Greater...
I lost a bunch of positive stuff from character creation. I only gained "Very Smart" as a new positive
I got ~6 new negative mutations including Albino and Deterioration.
I didn't even break through the threshold...
I can't even lift my standard gear anymore. Going from 110 kg I can carry to ~50...
My Dreamer Karma arms can't be covered so if I step outside in the day with them I get to severe pain in under 30m....
My available "playstyle" is reduced to a night scavanger who glows in the dark...

How do I fix this?.... I've made it to mid-summer. I don't want to abandon this character and I haven't used any debug to get this far... I'm mentally defeated, I was pressing Q to find out it doesn't exist as a keybind in Ito (original stable) anymore

I don't know it need battery's to work