Star Shepherd

Seeing my favorite place to survive by far is the farm to the west, I feel like this would be an awesome feature as this is the only activity I am prevented from doing in my perfect Stardew Zomboid life. So yes, just like I'd love being able to create/dig cellars/underground storerooms/wells in the game too, to be able to create our own ponds for fishing/rearing. Tools and materials required to prepare the site: ◼️ Rope ◼️ Chalk/spray paint ◼️ Shovel ◼️ Rake ◼️ Tarp ◼️ Sand Tools and materials required to build the site: ◼️ Stones ◼️ Water bucket (maybe as you suggested it would need to be used many times to completely fill it and make the pond usable) ◼️ Pump ◼️ Water filter ◼️ Tubing ◼️ Pipes ◼️ Fittings The only mod I saw with a fishing pond isn't the best as it is way too pretty and doesn't look like a natural pond (I think a survivor would think practical before aesthetics) and require a high level of fishing when the idea is to have one to get better at fishing too: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875664804

For the body types themselves, for sure, I know it would require some work, and to add the toggle on the female body type for the boobs mean changing the default body type (it makes sense), but what about the "facial hair growth" toggle then? 🤔 And yes, more short haircuts would be nice too. It's just too bad I can only play "buff guy" (even when he is obese or very underweight, I don't see the difference visually) or a "girl with boobies" (a lot of girls, even not intersex, have barely any boobs showing, especially when underweight). I know in the department PZ is WAY BETTER than a lot of games where male characters are all apparent body builders and female characters fantasized adult movie stars with a huge breast (and revealing clothing/armor) but more diversity in the character creation department is always welcome. 🙂 Anyways, I just made my suggestion and will now just wait patiently to discover all the new things the next updates will bring. Perhaps one day someone will mod it to the game too as there are many mods changing/expanding character creation already. Thank you for your answer! ❤️

Minorities (albinos people, color-blind people, autistic people, left-handed people, etc.) are just as valid as you are. Project Zomboid allows you to play as deaf and hard of hearing, also minorities, and you do not complain about that. We are not abnormal, we are not mutants, monsters or freaks, we are just people, human beings, as you are, and just as you do we should be able to create a character that look like us. Allowing this would educate people and prevent them from believing in a very misguided way we are errors of nature when we are just a proof of nature's incredible beauty in diversity. Having this wouldn't prevent you to play the way you want to play, just like accessibility features that allow disabled people to play video games are not preventing you from playing the way you want. So what are you even complaining about?

You absolutely did NOT read my post, like... at all! 😶 And please, seek help, from the way you're reacting, you seem to desperately need it. 🥺 To clarify: ▶️ I never talked about sexuality (and since I'm asexual, I literally don't care about it make). ▶️ I don't ask for nude characters although balancing it for realism would be nice so that having the underwear items in the game make sense since as of now our character has underwear that can't be taken off and if wearing some of our choice it will overheated our character when worn). ▶️ Intersex is NOT non-binary. Most intersex people are men and women, I just happen to be agender (so non-binary). So yes, some people assigned "female" at birth sometimes have no boobs and a beard (my case). Some people assigned "male" at birth don't get a lot of facial hair (also the case for many East Asians btw) and sometimes have feminine features and boobs. Allow me to educate yourself. 🧑‍🏫 Intersex people are individuals born with any of several sex characteristics including chromosome patterns, gonads, or genitals that, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies". That's it. It's not about gender identity, it about natural variations in our body. We are about 1,7% of the world which is as much as redheads, and we often go through social and medical abuse, often since birth and during puberty, with non-consented surgeries and HRT, you know the ones that are refused to trans people who need it? There is no surgery on trans kids but they are on us, intersex people, sometimes as soon as we are born and for no reason other than "but society has those two very restrictive boxes with a list of criteria!". So yes, please calm down and get help as you are obviously distressed for a reason (trauma?). All my love to all the gays who got somehow attacked even though I was in no way talking (homo) sexuality. Stay fabulous!

Hello everyone! I want to start this post by saying Project Zomboid is one of my favorite games of all times. I also love supporting indie projects like this with a passionate team behind and because even if it's still in development it offers an incredible quality and more playability than most EA games out there, I'll support it all the way. Now, that said, there is something that as an intersex person and physically androgynous AFAB has been bothering me quite a lot: the binary choice in character creation. This is an issue in the vast majority of games, I'm aware, and realistically speaking it doesn't make much sense, and I know how you guys care about realism. My suggestion could help you improve character creation significantly and in a way that isn't that hard to implement too. I'm a roleplayer so I wouldn't play a non-binary character in 1993 Kentucky anyway, it wouldn't make sense. By that I mean my characters are non-binary, for sure, but the word for it and use of gender neutral pronouns wasn't a thing back then so this isn't what I am asking for since we don't have the use of pronouns in this game at all (up untile NPCs get implemented at least). If you want to keep the initial binary choice for the pronouns in the future, for the dialogues with the NPC, I think it's no problem and is realistic considering the setting. The only change I'd like isn't about gender but body variations and natural diversity. That's why I'd ask is for both M and F characters be able to chose between three body types (the initial two and one maybe a bit in between, slim like the F model but less curvy), and a toggle on both facial hair growth and boobs. Just that. With that in the game, I'll finally be able to play a character that is like me and I don't get uncomfortable playing a character with boobs but don't have to get the whole ma beard too. I have a beard but relatively smaller to what ends up being in the game when it is overgrown. If you can add between two options of facial/body hairiness too there, that would just be perfect. So for clarity, here is the suggestion summarized in order of importance : ◼️ Facial hair toggle for both M and F characters ◼️ Breast toggle on/off for F characters ◼️ 3 body types for each "gender" : 1 that is the current male body type, 1 that is the current female body type, 1 that would be in-between ◼️ 2 different hairiness levels for facial hair Thank you for the time you took reading my suggestion. Have a great day and keep up the good work!