Loot Respawn Project Zomboid (2024)

FAQs

How to respawn all loot in Project Zomboid? ›

Best case is to leave the town completely. This will govern if a container is allowed to respawn loot based on when the last time a player is within the zone the container is inside of. (i.e. if this setting is set to 10 hours, then no one must be within the container's zone 10 hours before the scheduled loot respawn).

It's crucial to remember that Project Zomboid's default settings for zombie respawn are 10% respawn after 72 in-game hours. No zombies will actually respawn if you kill 50 of the 500 zombies in a cell every day. However, 50 zombies will return there if you leave the region for 72 hours.

Failing to sleep will cause the player's damage when using weapons to drop. The player's field of view will also decrease, in addition to several other effects. The player cannot die from lack of sleep, though and can't currently fall asleep due to sleep deprivation.

Setting the Respawn Hours to zero (0) will prevent zombies from respawning in cells regardless of the time elapsed. Alternatively, you can set it to 8,760 in-game hours, which is equivalent to 1 in-game year, before the undead respawns in unseen cells.

There is some migration/respawn in the default survival mode. Too much so in fact. Like shooting a shotgun to clear downtown of thousands of zeds just for half of them to have respawned a week later.

The Crowbar has a base 1 in 70 chance to lose durability per hit, it's the most durable weapon in the game by far.

As innocuous as this may seem, boredom in Project Zomboid can lead to unhappiness, and if your character's unhappy, they'll perform actions slower than usual. Here's how you can stave off boredom in Project Zomboid.

Unhappiness makes all timed actions take longer: equipping weapons, transferring items, crafting, construction and so on. Unhappiness is reduced by reading certain literature, eating food that increases happiness like most sweets, Soups, Strawberries, drinking alcohol, or by taking anti-depressants.

A character's panic recovery speed increases every day, as time ticks over to midnight, up to a maximum of 150 days survived. Characters with the Desensitized trait can never gain levels of panic from exposure to zombies, though they may still gain panic from nightmares.

How to set respawn in Project Zomboid? ›

The chart below details everything a soft reset will impact on your Project Zomboid server. Removes all items left on the ground in-game. Deletes all corpses and zombified players from the world. Erases and replaces every container's loot, including player-made ones.

In Project Zomboid if you don't dump the loot and clothing a corpse (zombie or regular dead human) has before the time they rot away, it'll rot away with them.