Slapstick Apocalypse

You can tame a stray. It follows you, spots zombies before you do, and joins the fight. It also wants feeding, makes noise, and dies if you send it in wrong. Every breed plays differently.

The base mod brings five: the Caramelo in towns, the German shepherd around police and military, the golden retriever in houses, the husky outdoors in winter, and the border collie. Four more arrive as their own mods. Chihuahua: learns fast, picks up zombies 15 % sooner, will not fight. Rottweiler: front line — your melee swings cost less endurance while it stands next to you. Doberman: weak to start with, the deadliest breed in the mod once trained up. Labrador: the worst fighter of the lot, deliberately so. It trains Hunting twice as fast and is the only one that reliably brings prey back — from the first rabbit, not just at high skill.

Since 07.08. a dog is luck, not a shopping list: half as many stray around, a pregnancy runs 21 days instead of four, and a puppy needs 120 to grow up. Neglect one and the bond fades faster than it used to, and it carries less than it did. In return the rested bonus now lasts almost a full day. Harder to come by, worth more once you have one.

Companion Dogs [ALPHA] — Workshop 3740052292 · plus Chihuahua, Doberman, Rottweiler, Labrador · B42.18+, save-compatible

From the 2CV to the DeLorean to an eighteen-wheeler. Plus trailers, freight containers, RVs with a walk-in interior, and a bus the whole crew fits into.

Armor and tuning are built in, wrecks are spare parts rather than scenery, and repair and salvage each run through their own overhaul mod. Fuel is still something you go looking for: gas stations run dry, and every tenth one is dry from the start.

KI5 · WayMoreCars · Filibuster Rhymes' Used Cars · FRCert RVs · RV Interior · Standardized Vehicle Upgrades 3 · Repair & Salvage Overhaul · Autotsar Trailers

The zombies do not just stand around. Every so often the server sets a horde moving. You get a direction marker, a warning sound and a line from your character — and then enough time to make up your mind. The mod allows a few seconds. We think that is too tight.

And then the important part: they are not hunting you. Pursuit and pathfinding are both switched off. The horde is pointed in your direction and passes through. Stay and you have a problem. Leave and you do not. That is a decision, not an ambush — and the reason nobody here gets pulled off the screen for stepping into the kitchen.

Two kinds come by. The small one more often, a handful of them — the mod would send several times that. The roaming one less often but on a wholly different scale: that one crosses in a broad front and leaves again on the other side. Nothing spawns inside buildings, and night is no different from day.

It scales. But at some point it stops — this does not run off into infinity. The big cataclysm events the mod ships with are switched off on this server. So it never gets very much worse all at once. Just slowly a little fuller.

Dynamic Horde Events B42 by Frozen_Heart — Workshop 3716405632 · warning window much longer · pursuit off · cataclysm off · size capped

Two web pages mirror your game onto the second monitor. Pulse shows the whole character sheet live: health, skills and XP, protection values, body temperature, moodles, plus weapon condition, clothing, carry weight and open wounds.

Map does the same for the map: your position live, with markers and labels. Useful when somebody radios „I am at the gas station" and nobody knows which one. Both are read-only — no reaching into the game, no advantage, just fewer menus covering the screen.

PZ_Pulse — Workshop 3753700423 · PZ_Map — Workshop 3770149036 · addresses in the mod options

What you have learned writes itself down. When the character dies the notebook stays — the next one reads up and does not start from nothing. On this server that is the only kind of progress that survives a death. The others are allowed to read along.

Other people's journals sit on shelves and on bodies. The bloody ones give more than the worn ones, the cursed ones give the most — and those dissolve eventually. Find one and you had better read it soon. There are reasons for that, and they are in the notebook.

Burd's Survival Journals — Workshop 3639628777 · 154 settings, all of them set

Vanilla lets you claim a safehouse. Not here: Faction Framework replaces that entirely. Land belongs to a faction, and the claim is the only way to keep a base safe from other hands. It grows with every member — and if you die inside it, you come back inside it.

On top of that: missions that track themselves, a shared bank and a perk tree that upgrades both the faction and its members. Alliances, pacts, wars. And raids: bring enough people, hold long enough, and a rival claim burns down. The land is freed, not handed over.

Cars and outposts go separate ways now. A claimed car stays yours, server-authoritative, through our own mod. Outposts you take, clear, and power back up with a generator. After that they hand out supplies and need defending against hordes.

Faction Framework — Workshop 3768321178 · Slapstick Vehicle Claims — 3803432189 · Dynamic Outposts — 3791152383

PhunMart vending machines stand scattered across the map and take a currency you earn yourselves: through zombie kills and through the time you survive. No starting capital, no donations, no deals with the server staff.

This is already running. Wallets, purchases, kills and playtime are recorded on the server — anyone who has been here has a balance. PhunZones 2 manages the zones behind it: what sits in a machine depends on where it stands.

PhunMart 2 — Workshop 3689006725 · PhunZones 2 — 3676252660

Known And Collected remembers what you have read and what you have found. After two months nobody recalls which skill book is already done — past that point this stops being convenience and becomes the difference between searching and knowing.

Lifestyle: Hobbies gives you something to do that has nothing to do with surviving. And Hot Brass lets you load your own ammunition. Once the crates are empty, that decides whether a firearm is still a firearm.

Known And Collected — Workshop 2881764317 · Lifestyle: Hobbies — 3403870858 · Hot Brass Ammo Crafting — 3637364024

Four mods from a single evening that together change something hard to name: how the world feels when you touch it.

Cars can be pushed when the fuel runs out. So can furniture. Doors open when you press against them instead of clicking them. And zombies get in each other's way instead of walking through one another — which turns a doorway back into a bottleneck.

Push Vehicle — 3780639614 · Furniture Push & Pull — 3781319724 · Cye's Push Doors — 3780683663 · Skully's Zombie Collision — 3778511497

Build 42 has a great deal more crafting than Build 41 — and a menu that did not grow with it. So the Neat framework sits on top of building and crafting here: searchable, sorted, and it tells you what you are still missing. Plus a recipe browser that says what you can make out of whatever is in the fridge.

Around that: Clean UI, a tidied hotbar, a compact status display, a kill counter that includes car and fire kills. Every Neat window switches back to vanilla with a right-click.

NeatUI_Framework · Neat_Building · Neat_Crafting (+XP addons) · Project Cook · CleanUI · CleanHotBar · MiniHealthPlus · KillCount