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You know you play PZ too much when you scratch yourself doing yard work, rush inside, douse it with whisky and wrap it in a bandage.  

Congratulations Indie Stone forum member. You have been promoted to official tester of Project Zomboid. 
 
As such, you will now have access, if you should so desire, to much more frequent, but likely or potentially much more broken versions of the game, if indeed this is of interest to you.
 
So say hello to the 'iwillbackupmysave' branch of PZ. This will be updated with builds as soon as we feel we can safely make them public, to aid us in finding remaining issues before it is rolled out to eveyone.
 
Anyone who wants to share details on how to get on this branch, please respect our wishes and forward people to this post and insist it is read in full before any downloading commences.
 
Before participating, please read the following bullet-points and scream I AGREE at the top of your voice at the screen:
 
I accept by playing the game on this branch, at some point I am almost certainly going to hit crippling bugs, and potentially lose progress or worlds. I will therefore back up any saves I deem important (located in C:/Users/<Username>/Zomboid on windows systems, HD:/Users/<Username>/Zomboid on Mac, and /home/<Username>/Zomboid/ on linux. I will not get angry or complain of any bugs, or balance, or changes, or remark that 'this build is more buggy than the last one!' or similar - That is the entire reason it's on this branch. If I have problems with the final build as released to the main branch, then of course a bad review is perfectly valid if the game has not lived up to my expectations. However, I accept that negative reviews with justification based on the stability, or otherwise non-final status of IWBUMS builds will be justifiably flagged. If I encounter problems, I will either wait until the final build, or discuss my thoughts and concerns civilly on the forums so the final build has the opportunity to address my concerns. I will title my streams and/or videos accordingly, stating that the shown build is a work in progress and part of the IWBUMS beta branch. I know what the console log is, and on the event of a crash I know to post the text therein on this forum, and not just say 'it crashed!' Right. We good?
 
Right click Project Zomboid in your Steam library and select "Properties". Navigate to the Steam Beta tab and select the "iwillbackupmysave" beta branch from the dropdown.

No password is required.

GIF Instruction for Steam:

For Build 41, it does not matter if you subscribe to the "build41" beta or "iwillbackupmysave". The two are identical.

GIF Instructions for GOG Galaxy:


The Linux users of GOG will be able to access beta branches through the offline installers in the Downloads section for PZ in your library.

 
 
The IWBUMS branch allows us to have much wider and faster feedback on general updates, while allowing us to concentrate on wider more in-depth, focused and crucially less time-pressured/demanding testing with the testing team. Hurrah!
      Extra reading
Still here? Awesome! So, if you run into a bug, the best thing to do is to either report it on our bug forum. If you've a spare 10 minutes, give this a read. It explains how to report problems in a way that can let us help you easily. (Seriously, please read it. Please. Pretty please. With Pink sugar icing on top.)
 
If you can, always post your console.txt file. On Windows, you can find this in C:\Users\Username\Zomboid (Where Username is your windows username). On Mac and Linux it'll be in your /home/username/Zomboid/ folder.

You know you play PZ too much when you scratch yourself doing yard work, rush inside, douse it with whisky and wrap it in a bandage.  

You know you play PZ too much when you scratch yourself doing yard work, rush inside, douse it with whisky and wrap it in a bandage.  

And another...
....you see a discarded Vitamin water bottle next to the train tracks and think: "I should take that, I might need it..."

You know you play Project Zomboid too much when you take a stroll in the woods and start gathering tree branches for absolutely no reason.
 
You know you play Project Zomboid too much when you hide the bleach better because you're afraid you could accidentally drink it.

I figured I would start a thread on this. I posted this video of my wife and I on reddit playing and losing the safe house... My wife obviously can't keep it together in the heat of battle. Enjoy ...
 

Tired of the same old character build?
Want to try something new but don't know what?
Have a great build that you want to re-use but will forget?
 
FRET NO MORE!
 
This mod adds a button to your Character Creation screen to create a random build for you!
It will select a random profession, add up to 5 positive and up to 5 negative traits, and then wiggle those traits until there are between 0-3 positive skill points left to spend.
 
Obligatory screenshot:

 
It also adds the possibility to save character builds and re-load them later on!
Also implements dropUp menus on the side
 
Another obligator screenshot:

 
And even more obligatory download:
randomCharacter_v2.1.0.zip
randomCharacter_v2.0.0.zip
randomCharacter_v1.0.0.zip
 
Changelog

OVERHAULED, New version (Done by different forum member): http://theindiestone.com/forums/index.php/topic/16405-the-walking-dead-prison-map-now-on-steam-v12/
 
 
Here we go. I was waiting for it long enough, but nobody seemed to start making it so, I thought : "Why the hell not?".
 
Right now I'm working on the exterior look of the prison, will be adding interior details fairly soon.
 
Images of progress for older versions :
 
 
The prison is pretty much finished!
 

 
 
Download link (IWBUMS 32.17+) v3.3 (Mod support)
 
 
Screenshot :
 

link to screenshot on steam : http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=467338783
 
Boring copyright bollocks v


 
 
 
PLEASE don't forget to make backups!
 
If you ever want to return to the old map and fully "delete" the prison, verify your game cache through steam.

Hey all I've been recording my online play, the characters I meet. The stories that unfold within the RP.
Sorry about the rough editing and voice overs. hopefully you enjoy.
 
 
Volume 1. 
12 hours after the outbreak the ever-growing epidemic spreads throughout Westpoint and beyond. The situation is getting worse as the recently deceased are returning to life. A few weeks into the outbreak The Mayor of WestPoint and he's bodyguard Terry find refuge in Bedford with a small group and begin trying to survive. 









 

 

 
 
 
Volume 2.
The Mayor is gone but the group continues to go on. Bryce and Rob Wallace have taken over leading the group and are using the Mayors idea with being walls around their homes. They built a safe paradise around a small empty neighborhood in Westpoint. The only danger they meet now is on food runs, but that's about to change as one of the new survivors is not what he seems.
This Volume also shows the conclusion to Dr Webb continued experiments on his family.
 
 

 

 

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idlNMm9o7ck
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FENllbB6i64
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHHv32I0ymE&list=UUdAskUXGtiRN7CFsZ54yZ1A
 
 
Volume 3
Still safe in the Paradise things take a turn for the worst. A group member is murdered and then the assailant declares an all out war on Bryce and Terrys home bringing with him a army of the Walking Dead.
This volume was a game changer featuring many lost characters.
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_407of---Lk
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1EO_nBVc3c
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQfZgoB4LfA
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e26onO6AlRI
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KczC8ZZjo8
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ziXpzFE-0M
 
 
Volume 4
With Paradise lost, Terry and River find refuge near Westpoint. The zombie have now taken over most of the entire world. Terry and River look back on their past, on the future and wonder if there are any other humans still alive...
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY-zRauufHQ
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUkTtER-MTc
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQKa2nVt98Y
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyz8kkRJAk4
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEVxNFJbnyI
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr81iFKCD6o

Early in, I decided to sleep in the upstairs portion of a large house, without a sheet rope for escape. I did not l know about those yet...or that you shouldn't sleep in the upstairs of houses without one, of course. I likewise forgot to close the door to the room, though the door to the house was closed. I seem to recall hearing breaking glass just before nodding off.
 
I woke up to a massive hoard of them. Armed with only a single golf club, I started swinging. For some reason I cannot recall, I had opened one of the windows, and every other zombie I hit would go flying out the window, only to get up again and reenter the house through the broken window below. It was ridiculously comical. Finally, the golf club broke and they ate me.  

It was the third day since the outbreak. I was in West Point, KY, with my trusty shotgun. I was a newb to the whole "Zombie Apocalypse" scene, and stumbled upon the school. I waltz in through the side door to be surrounded on all sides by zeds. I found a door, where it led I didn't know but I opened it, ran inside, and closed the door behind me. To my disappointment I find myself in a 3x3 room with a fridge, cot, and sink. Everything I could possibly need.
I stay here two days, hearing the crash of glass and banging of doors. I decide it's time for me to make a move. I pull put my shotgun, get my gear together, and get ready to roll. This is it, the moment of truth. I open the door. At least a dozen zombies are waiting for me, but I can take them. I pull the trigger. The only sound is a faint click. I forgot to reload.

Early in, I decided to sleep in the upstairs portion of a large house, without a sheet rope for escape. I did not l know about those yet...or that you shouldn't sleep in the upstairs of houses without one, of course. I likewise forgot to close the door to the room, though the door to the house was closed. I seem to recall hearing breaking glass just before nodding off.
 
I woke up to a massive hoard of them. Armed with only a single golf club, I started swinging. For some reason I cannot recall, I had opened one of the windows, and every other zombie I hit would go flying out the window, only to get up again and reenter the house through the broken window below. It was ridiculously comical. Finally, the golf club broke and they ate me.  

It was the first days of multiplayer being released. I hadn't played PZ in awhile and had been awaiting to play coop with other people. So once I started I was all fine and dandy, I met a carpenter who found me in my base and he helped me fortify it with his skills. (This was an RP server mind you.) So one day he goes out to loot some nails for us, and finds the school in the middle of town. He tells me that we might be able to take it over and fortify it. The plan alone sounded awesome and too good to pass up, so he got his sledgehammer and I gathered all our equipment and we headed South. There were tons of zombies inside and around. Our plan was that I hold the zombies off while he destroyed the steps to the second story, and then threw a sheet rope out the window for me to climb up. We had control of the second story of the school, and soon we devised another plan to lure the zombies away from the school. After doing so, days went by and we started stockpiling equipment/meds/ and ammo. People started noticing us at the school and one after another started joining our group. We had all the bottom windows and doors barricaded and all around us was clear of zombies. Despite being all bloody and filled with corpses. Eventually the inevitable happened, and my friend, the Carpenter, got bitten. Being a master carpenter, he barricaded himself in his classroom and refused to let anyone inside. I talked to him for at least 10 minutes before complete silence. After he had gone, I decided to take charge of the school. We cleared out a wide radius of infected around us, and set up campfires/water barrels/ and fences on the roof for looks outs. Had a library full of learning books at everyones disposal. At one point a survivor in our group came to me and said she was leaving to head further west. When I asked her why, her exact words were "You practically own West Point" and I won't lie, that felt awesome. It was such a great experience. Sadly, all that was gone once the server reset, and my character never met his demise. I wish I could find another PVE server like that, but I've had no such experience since the day I took over the school. R.I.P. My Carpenter friend. 

Early in, I decided to sleep in the upstairs portion of a large house, without a sheet rope for escape. I did not l know about those yet...or that you shouldn't sleep in the upstairs of houses without one, of course. I likewise forgot to close the door to the room, though the door to the house was closed. I seem to recall hearing breaking glass just before nodding off.
 
I woke up to a massive hoard of them. Armed with only a single golf club, I started swinging. For some reason I cannot recall, I had opened one of the windows, and every other zombie I hit would go flying out the window, only to get up again and reenter the house through the broken window below. It was ridiculously comical. Finally, the golf club broke and they ate me.  

This is not exactly an adventure or a trip .
 
I was just extending my base ... when I fell down the stairs (see picture   )

4 days to recover , then I went out and set tu going to the center on the city...
 
after two hits on a single zed, Cynthia begins to suffer and have heavy  pain , and instead of one or two hit from my fireaxe to let sleep e zed, I have to hit 5 o 7 times ... impossible to survive so ... I went back to the base , luckily for me with only a few scratches in more than before ... They dont infected me ... 
 
 

Early in, I decided to sleep in the upstairs portion of a large house, without a sheet rope for escape. I did not l know about those yet...or that you shouldn't sleep in the upstairs of houses without one, of course. I likewise forgot to close the door to the room, though the door to the house was closed. I seem to recall hearing breaking glass just before nodding off.
 
I woke up to a massive hoard of them. Armed with only a single golf club, I started swinging. For some reason I cannot recall, I had opened one of the windows, and every other zombie I hit would go flying out the window, only to get up again and reenter the house through the broken window below. It was ridiculously comical. Finally, the golf club broke and they ate me.  

One day, my character got bitten in the groin by a female zombie (ironically) in a 1vs1 fight, and when I'm infected I usually go on a zombie killing spree, so I attracted many of them as I can in the Knox bank, and covered behind the counter and started shooting. I killed most of the zombie in front of me, but then I realized that they started breaking doors, and the only door that was left was the one at my side (If you've been at Knox bank, you'll probably know what door is it), I thought that I was screwed, but somehow I discovered a new tactic: Open the door, shoot, close the door, repeat.
The whole bank was painted red, I took a breather and I said "Yay, I managed to kill +150 zeds without a single scratch, and in before I lost against one, let's celebrate with the finest bleach in Muldraugh" GG.

I went to the mall that one time, not for loot, I went there because I wanted to see it, I was ready for everything, I had canned food, water, planks, guns, ammo, tent etc. Two Big Hiking Bags full of stuff to survive. So I finnaly make it, I break the window and get in, immediately I'm chased by a horde too big to even hope to be able to take it on. I ran around the mall and up to the second floor. During my chaotic running the horde that chased me quadrupled in size. I locked myself in one of small offices, and started shooting zombies through the window (Most brilliant thing I EVER DID) until they got close enough, I went to the back room of that office, barricaded the hell out of the door and... I spent 8 days in that damn room hearing zombies banging on the door (Don't ask me how it's possible the door didn't break, I assume it was a glitch) I drank all the water and ate all the food but one can of beans. I decided to try and get out, so I unbarricade the door and start Open\Swing\Close tactic until I accidentally broke the door because I forgot to open it before swinging and I got eaten by a few dozen zombies that poured into the room.

I have never tried venturing into the mall after that. That character was very important to me as it was one of my best games. Remember, ALWAYS CARRY A SLEDGEHAMMER WITH YOU! if I took one I would have made  out just fine.it

Mine is similar to yours but in a previous build:
 
I was looting the neighborhood of Cortman Medical, but it was getting dark, my bags weren't full and my safehouse was the Sunstar Motel (and it's quite far) so I decided to sleep inside one of the houses. Went upstairs, close the door of the bedroom and as soon as I put my character to sleep, a gun fire near me. I could hear the speed up banging of zombies while sleeping but I though it was fine.
I wake up with the moaning of zombies but still confident that I was safe. I open the door... no sign of zombies on the second floor. I descend the stairs to discover that the whole floor was full of zombies. A group of them saw me and chased me upstairs, I managed to enter and close the door of the bedroom. They start banging on the door. I was trapped. Only one way out... so I jumped out of the window.. and, waiting for me as I landed, there was an horde that teared me appart in seconds.
 
That was a bad day.

What is your craziest Project Zomboid experience? Were you looting a grocery store when you heard glass break behind you and turned only to see a horde funneling inside? Did you walk across the city only to find that your destination is overrun? Whatever the case may be, tell me your craziest Project Zomboid experience. It would be awesome to hear how you survived, if you did.
 
Here's mine, for example.
 
My craziest experience was when my brother and I were looting a few houses on a rich neighborhood. I had already spotted enough zombies packed into the streets to be a horde, as there's always a LOT of zombies in those rich neighborhoods. My brother was inside looting the fridge and I was in the garage of the house next door looting tools. When I opened a window to that house itself, an alarm went off and I calmly and instinctively said "Dude, run upstairs...NOW", and ran to regroup with my brother in that house. Oh, and our characters were too sleepy to fight through a horde, so when we ran upstairs and closed ourselves in the smaller bedroom, all we could do is sleep, and hope. As we slept, all we heard was breaking glass everywhere, countless moans, and zombies banging on doors. When we woke up at about 1 in the morning, we found that none of that banging (thankfully) was on our bedroom door, but that didn't matter. It was time for our escape plan. Downstairs was a no-no, I mean, we could hear why that was the case. Jumping out of the second story window in the room was a no-no; who knows how long we would last against a horde of zombies down there with a broken bone. So we settled on sheet ropes, which we had never used this way before. So I fumbled around in my inventory until I had found my ripped sheets, and I nailed two of them, one for each floor. I looked out the window for a second and looked at my brother irl, then took the slide of faith. There were about 30 zombies at the bottom around where the rope was, but every last one of them was focused on the house and somehow didn't see me, so I told my brother to come quickly, and he slid down and we ran until we were out of the neighborhood (the houses we searched were by the entrance). We made it back home safely, and without a scratch. Now that's smart planning! The End (<---lol). 
 
There's mine. I've only got about 50 hours on the game and about 40 of those were spent noobing around and learning the game, so hopefully I'll have something even more epic later on.