Points of interest in Project Zomboid

Every place below is named or pinned by at least one guide written for Build 42. Coordinates are approximate world tiles that you can check on the map. No source gives zombie head counts, so the danger column is a relative rating that moves with your sandbox settings. Gun stores and army sites are on the gun locations and military bases pages.

Crossroads Mall sits about 1,300 tiles east of Valley Station (one source). One Build 42 chart of hot spots gives it the highest density score of any single site. Grand Ohio Mall is in the far north-east of Louisville beside the Ohio River. One guide lists a ground-floor gun store inside and calls the mall one of the last objectives of a run. A second large retail block is pinned near 13340, 3050 (one source).

Kentucky State Prison stands apart from Rosewood on its west side. One site pins it at two slightly different spots, 7776, 11793 and 7683, 11877, so use either as a rough target. The Rosewood police station has its own holding cells, which are a different place. Other sites that guides pin but do not describe: prison cells in north-west Louisville near 12410, 1590 (one source) and the Brandenburg Detention Center near 1385, 5877. The 42.20 release notes also mention an entirely new prison, an abandoned orphanage and a boy scout camp without saying where they are.

Opinion Treat both malls and the state prison as late targets. Go with a full tank, a planned exit and a cleared car park, and fight on foot rather than with gunfire indoors.

Louisville has the only full hospitals that guides name: Louisville General Hospital in the center and St. Peregrin Hospital further south, near 12410, 3670 (one source). Smaller clinics are a safer source of bandages, disinfectant and pills for first aid.

• Muldraugh: Cortman Medical, on the east side of town. Two sources name it.
• Rosewood: a medical clinic near 8090, 11520, plus a clinic room in the school (one source).
• West Point and Riverside: a downtown pharmacy each, near 11920, 6790 and 6470, 5260 (one source).
• Ekron: Family Medical Center and a Pharmahug store (one source).
• Brandenburg: a walk-in medical clinic (one source).

Hospitals are among the buildings that can have generated basements in Build 42 (one source). See basements.

Muldraugh has the best-documented industrial strip. The pins below come from one town map whose text and pin table differ by a few tiles, so treat them as approximate (one source).

Elsewhere, the same site pins a tool store in downtown West Point near 11970, 6900 with a storage unit yard on the south-east edge, a tool store in downtown Riverside near 6360, 5320, and a multi-level factory warehouse south-west of Riverside near 5610, 5960. Irvington has Hobbs & Perkins Hardware (one source). Louisville's warehouse blocks hold tools, building materials and vehicle parts (one source). What to take is covered in tools.

Bookstores and libraries are the main shelves for skill books. Schools add a library room, and one guide points to the Rosewood school for skill magazines and the generator manual. Container contents are never guaranteed.

One guide names the Rosewood bookstore BookNaked (one source). Louisville also has three movie rental stores for skill tapes, one of them near the mall.

Build 42 added livestock, and it turns up around farms and barns in the rural west. Named sites all come from one guide (one source):

• Ovo Farms, a chicken operation east of Echo Creek.
• Brott Cattle Farm and factory farms east of Irvington.
• Farming & Rural Supply in Irvington, the closest thing to a feed store that any source names. No source lists its stock.

Farmhouses around Ekron and Brandenburg are also described as farm base spots. Animals can wander or die before you arrive, so bring a trailer and feed plan from the animals page.

Louisville's horse track is on the west side of the city. The only Build 42 reference found is a movie rental pin described as near the horse track, around 12430, 2820, with a riding school at about 13040, 2820 (one source). The animal lists checked for this page do not include horses.

The developers' Build 42 feature list confirms a Wild West tourist town, a docked steamboat, a race track, a large lakeside guesthouse and an abandoned sanatorium. Guides match these to Coalfield, the P.S. Delilah at Brandenburg near 2048, 5687, Irvington Speedway and Sunderland Hills Sanatorium. The guesthouse is not named or placed by any source. A campground east of Irvington has backpacks, tents and sleeping bags (one source).

For water, the Ohio River runs along the north edge past Riverside, West Point, Brandenburg and Louisville, and the Salt River lies east of West Point. Fallas Lake and Doe Valley Lake are the named lakes in the west. All of them serve for fishing and as a water source once the taps stop.