Project Zomboid (tuxdb.com)

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Hello all! A brief and more hastily thrown together Thursdoid this week Im afraid, as were currently at a messy but exciting turning point in b42s development which will be setting us up for the remainder of development, and rather than try to scrape together content for this weeks blog while were in the guts of it, we would rather save what we have for a much more exciting Thursdoid down the line when things are also a little less hectic. However, well explain the situation this week to give people a better idea of whats happening. Firstly, months of multiplayer reworking has made its way into the main development build, which is our efforts toward moving a lot more of the codebase to being server authoritative, particularly with a completely server side inventory system, to aid in making future PZ builds a lot more hack proof. Secondly, the core systems of the massive crafting rework are also being merged into trunk, ready for the wider team to start building on it for the much anticipated deep crafting trees and new post-apocalypse professions for our overhauled crafting systems. The crafting overhaul is quite huge, changing how recipes and items work on a fundamental level, and will require some work to port over existing items, along with any that have been added elsewhere during the course of the new systems development, and as such touches on many areas of the codebase and is a difficult one to integrate. As such, things on the main branch are in a bit of temporary disarray as these big systems get integrated into the main line, its going to be a busy week as the team bugfixes and gets the development build ship shape to start pushing forward with all the integrated code toward getting it to a point we can start looking to push it out for public testing. This new systems allows for:

Multi tile machines and crafting stations
Support for networks of items, power, liquids or gases (ultimately a buildings power, heating and plumbing will use these systems for example)
For items both crafted and looted that have varied statistics and unique properties that alter how they function beyond the simplistic condition of existing versions of the game, and providing much more deep variety to gameplay to crafted and looted items.
The recipe system has become much more in-depth and customizable allowing for much more interesting crafting processes and possibilities.

Unfortunately this also means some work in getting all this cool functionality pushed from its branch into the mainline, but this has to be done and once it is the situation going forward will be a lot more exciting. Once this is done, and we have a large portion of the code team contributing to building out the vast crafting trees that have been designed, we should start to have some exceptionally cool stuff to show off in future Thursdoids as we start to feature the crafting overhaul (something quite a lot of people are most excited about) a lot more on the run up to build 42. Were aware that on the whole this aspect of b42 has been shown off in Thursdoids the least, mainly because the work done (outside the cool fluid systems and the crafting station vid shown a while back) has been mainly code for foundational systems to allow the crafting overhaul to reach the heights we are aiming for, which in itself facilitates extremely cool stuff but is rather hard to blog about in itself. Were excited that its reached the point where we can build on those foundations and hopefully begin to show off what we have planned. While build 42 is still a way off, weve reached the point we were excited to reach, where we can start actually filling out the tasty and much more bloggable content that will make up the crafting overhaul. Without re-treading over old words, you can read an in-depth description of our crafting plans here. Along with the new crafting systems, animal husbandry and hunting, the extensive map expansion, and the multiplayer reworkthe only other branch left to combine into the build 42 main vein is the tech upgrades that weve detailed over the past few months. Including basement support, big optimizations to tile rendering, new lighting propagation, anderm. this [previewyoutube=IrBqw-FpOIs;full][/previewyoutube] The tech upgrades will likely be the last to be integrated, however will be the easiest once the times comes since the systems it changes, for the most part, do not overlap so much with ongoing development on other branches. There has been some other cool stuff in the pipe, as hinted at in the screenshot at the top of the blog, but well discuss them in more detail next time! Thats all for this timeapologies if its rather thrown together this time but were really trying to push towards getting this stuff integrated so we can start showing off the cool crafting stuff we have in store for build 42 in future.

[ 2023-03-16 17:14:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Project Zomboid

The Indie Stone Developer

The Indie Stone Publisher

2013-11-08 Release

RPG Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Coop EA Tags

Game News Posts: 210

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support

Very Positive (258153 reviews)

http://www.projectzomboid.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Project Zomboid Linux Depot [1.41 G]

Project Zomboid is an open-ended zombie-infested sandbox. It asks one simple question – how will you die?

In the towns of Muldraugh and West Point, survivors must loot houses, build defences and do their utmost to delay their inevitable death day by day. No help is coming – their continued survival relies on their own cunning, luck and ability to evade a relentless horde.

Current Features

Hardcore Sandbox Zombie Survival Game with a focus on realistic survival.
Online multiplayer survival with persistent player run servers.
Local 4 player split-screen co-op
Hundreds of zombies with swarm mechanics and in-depth visual and hearing systems.
Full line of sight system and real-time lighting, sound and visibility mechanics. Hide in the shadows, keep quiet and keep the lights off at night, or at least hang sheets over the windows.
Vast and growing map (loosely based on a real world location) for you to explore, loot and set up your fortress. Check out Blindcoder’s map project: http://pzmap.crash-override.net/
Use tools and items to craft weapons, barricade and cook. You can even build zombie proof forts by chopping trees, sawing wood and scavenging supplies.
Deal with depression, boredom, hunger, thirst and illness while trying to survive.
Day turns to night. The electricity falters. Hordes migrate. Winter draws in. Nature gradually starts to take over.
Farming, trapping, fishing, carpentry, cooking, trapping, character customization, skills and perks that develop based on what you do in-game.
Proper zombies that don’t run. (Unless you tell them to in the sandbox menu).
A ton of amazing atmospheric music tracks by the prodigy that is Zach Beever.
Imaginative Challenge scenarios and instant action ‘Last Stand’ mode, on top of regular Sandbox and Survival
Full, open and powerful Lua modding support.
Xbox Controller Gamepad support on Windows. [Others pads can be set up manually. Gamepad support not currently available on Mac]

We’re a small team at the moment, but we’re also committed to providing the following:
Planned Features:
The return of our PZ Stories mode that also serves as first ever tutorial actively trying to kill you at every turn. Kate and Baldspot return!
In-depth and varied NPC encounters driven in a persistent world, powered by a metagame system that turns each play-through into your very own zombie survival movie with emergent narrative gameplay.
Constant expansion of the countryside and cities around Muldraugh and West Point
Full wilderness survival systems, animals and hunting for food.
More items, crafting recipes, weapons and gameplay systems.
Steam Workshop and Achievements support

For more details on the game follow us on @theindiestone or visit http://www.projectzomboid.com

A huge thanks to the wonderful MathasGames and Dean Cutty for making the awesome intro video. If you love indie games their channels are well worth a sub.

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: Intel 2.77GHz Quad-core        Ubuntu LTS 16.04/Steam Machine. Requires Libgcc 6 or higherMemory: 8Gb RamHard Disk Space: 5gigVideo Card:  Dedicated graphics card with 2 GB of RAM minimum. OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.2 support (generally 2012 or newer)        Sound: FMOD compatible sound card
Memory: 8Gb RamHard Disk Space: 5gigVideo Card:  Dedicated graphics card with 2 GB of RAM minimum. OpenGL 2.1 and GLSL 1.2 support (generally 2012 or newer)        Sound: FMOD compatible sound card

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