Glossary

The Automated Emergency Broadcast System: a radio channel with weather, power cut and helicopter warnings. More »

The farming skill (shown as Farming in older builds). More »

Build 42’s on-screen aim indicator: smaller means a better shot. More »

The military backpack: 28 capacity, 85% weight reduction. More »

The skill for raising animals (also called Husbandry). More »

The default, canon game mode. More »

Planks, metal bars or a metal sheet nailed or welded over a window or door. More »

Build 42 underground rooms: 400 of them, picked at random each game. More »

The 42.20 rework of Riverside, West Point, Rosewood, Fallas Lake, Muldraugh, Ekron and Dixie. More »

A zombie wound that always passes on the Knox infection. More »

Forging metal at a forge and anvil. New in Build 42. More »

A placed hook for bleeding and butchering carcasses. More »

Making small items from wood and bone. New in Build 42. More »

A crop that survives being planted in winter. More »

A zombie on the ground after leg damage; can hide under cars. More »

A crop planted out of season that loses health twice as fast. More »

The no-job option (was Unemployed): +8 points, no skills. More »

A wound that needs stitching; often left after removing glass or a bullet. More »

Build 42’s moodle for bulky or armoured clothing. More »

A grab that pulls you to the ground when zombies swarm you. More »

Nature overgrowing the world over time. More »

A dish built ingredient by ingredient from a base, like a stew. More »

The military cordon around Knox Country. More »

The hardest official game mode. More »

A player group with a shared tag on a server. More »

A zombie lying still among the bodies until you get close. More »

A zombie lunging at you after climbing a fence. More »

A crafted Build 42 backpack; the large one is the biggest bag in the game. More »

Portable power after the grid fails: 20 tiles, 3 floors. More »

Glass stuck in a wound from a window; remove it with tweezers. More »

A helicopter that circles once, usually day 6 to 9, and drags zombies after you. More »

The trait and knowledge that lets you identify and use medicinal plants. More »

Starting a car without keys. More »

How warm a garment keeps you, from 0 to 1. More »

A gun failing to fire until racked. On in Apocalypse since 42.15. More »

A pottery station for firing clay. More »

Leading zombies around to fight them a few at a time. More »

Making stone tools from flint. New in Build 42. More »

The quarantined region of Kentucky the game takes place in. More »

The July 1993 outbreak and quarantine. More »

The virus behind the outbreak. On default settings it always kills. More »

A deep scratch with a 25% infection chance. More »

The Steam beta branch that keeps Build 41. More »

The TV channel that teaches skills for the first nine days. More »

Lua mods are supported Workshop mods; Java mods change the game’s code and are not supported. More »

Building with brick and stone. New in Build 42. More »

TV and VHS stop giving XP at level 3 by default. More »

Distant gunshots and other off-screen events that move hordes. More »

A status icon showing how your character feels. More »

One swing hitting several zombies; off in Apocalypse. More »

How far a sound carries to zombies, in tiles. More »

Build 42’s moodle for corpse piles and fumes. More »

The game mode that starts in the early days of the infection. More »

Ground herbs applied to a wound to heal or disinfect it. More »

The test branch that replaced Unstable with 42.22. More »

A ready-made set of sandbox values such as Apocalypse. More »

A crate or barrel that collects rain: 400 or 600 litres. More »

A cluster of idle zombies outdoors. More »

Remote console access to a server. More »

Rising as a zombie after death, within a minute on default. More »

Zombies returning to cleared areas. More »

The gentlest official game mode. More »

A building a player claims on a server. More »

Custom game settings for everything from zombies to loot. More »

The most common wound, with a 7% infection chance. More »

Foraging mode: walk slowly and items appear in a circle around you. More »

A slow, upright zombie. More »

A rope of bedsheets tied to a window as an exit. More »

Pushing a zombie over, then stamping its head. Costs no weapon wear. More »

A preset that starts in December with power and water off. More »

A book that multiplies XP for one skill while you are in its level range. More »

A support for a broken limb; no skill needed. More »

A zombie that runs. More »

The tested, default game version: 42.21. More »

The best bandage: no infection roll while clean. More »

Untreated water that makes you sick; boil it. More »

Zombies banging on doors and walls until they break. More »

Reading animal tracks in Search Mode. New in Build 42. More »

The old test branch, replaced by Pre-Release in 42.22. More »

How much of a bag’s contents you actually feel. More »

Metal work with a torch: barricades, walls, scrap weapons. More »

Steam’s mod library for Project Zomboid. More »

A status icon showing how your character feels, such as Hungry, Panic or Bleeding.

A slow, upright zombie. Sprinters run; crawlers are on the ground.

Stable is the tested default version. Pre-Release, which replaced Unstable in 42.22, is where new builds are tested for at least a week first.