Tyrope

Bringing a story to a player without NPCs? Easy*... we have literature the character can read, we have a chatbox... quest journals... Some (cliche?) obvious ideas: Figure out the cause of the zombies? (Medical reports?) What happened to [family member/important person in town]? (Journal in your spawn house, which might lead to other places) My point is, it's not hard to tell a story with no in-scene actors. *) Easy idea wise, I have no clue if it's easy to implement.

Good point. Never thought of that. Perhaps time skips forward until morning? Not quite the most realistic approach, but it'd work until a better idea comes around.

This is definitely not a mod I'd like to see on PvP servers, RoboMat. I agree with you, but for PvE servers, this is a pretty needed feature, especially because boredom.

Greetings stranger, After watching many videos on youtube I decided to pick up PZ, together with a friend. We were surprised by the fact we couldn't sleep, and hence boredom was a huge problem (after all, too dangerous to whack zombols outside in the dark for 2 newbies. ) My suggestion is a system to incorporate sleeping into multiplayer games: Vote to sleep. (For those who know their minecraft mods, I borrowed this from 'morpheus'.) One can sleep in a bed as normal, but instead of instantly falling asleep, they just lay down. This fires a global chat message to the server with something like: "Mr. Admin wishes this night was over (x/y, z%)" where x is the amount of players 'wishing the night was over', y is the players connected, and z being a % display of x and y... for example: (1/2, 50%). Not sure if mods can have server configuration settings, if not 50% (inclusive! so 1/2 2/4 etc should pass the night) should be fair game, otherwise having 50% as default and changable by server owners would be awesome. Thanks for your time reading. Signed, Tyrope