TOP Project Zomboid Mods To Try In October 2024! NEW Quality of Life, Performance Mods & More!

[@harkken561]

Not gunna lie, the thumbnail made it look like a mobile game that KZbin was tryna push on me. Scrolled right past at first. Glad I came back to check

[@Adrenaline0413]

Same!!

[@spie9906]

same

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Haha, i can see it. we're exploring a new style atm but I'm glad you came back around :) Still got some work to do, but the new thumb style seem to be making a huge impact so far!

[@ush2177]

Same haha

[@denandden]

Could work for people who don’t know about the game

[@rokko1020]

i love hate your videos. every time i think im finally done with my mod list, you come along...and show me more stuff i never knew i wanted

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Excellent... Embrace the dark side, young one.

[@dragonborn4405]

​@@MrAtomicDuckiv got enough new mods😭 my poor dying potato laptop cant handle more, i beg for mercy😂

[@treanttrooper6349]

​@@dragonborn4405 I have the solution, PERFORMANCE MODS 😀

[@LoveJupiter325]

I have SO many mods... my save take like 5 minutes to load.. xD (and the game is on a good SSD)

[@sylvananas7923]

About Day One, it is very buggy as survivors are coded as zombies with human animations, meaning actual zombies will often ignore survivors to rush you among a crowd of 20, or they'll freeze mid animation while attacking a survivor. Survivors will always know where you are to attack or just wreck your safehouse

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Yep, that's why I mentioned it's got some issues at the moment :) It's still a big step forward and a lot of fun to play.

[@SleazeLife]

Bandits cant wreck your safehouse if youre a nomad ;)

[@sylvananas7923]

@@SleazeLife Though they can wreck your car by shooting/ hitting it with weapons lmao

[@r4doslav814]

The helicopter brought in a ton of zombies when I was playing with friends; they always got mad at me especially with night sprinters haha..

[@MrAtomicDuck]

So weird, I was flying around not during a single zed!

[@user-wi9hv2pb2q]

now I find out that's not a sadistic AI, just this guy multiplayer on everyone's game. 😂

[@Sulphyrous]

The fact the baseball cap one made it in was crazy, I saw it the other day

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Those wide-ass vanilla caps get to me more than they should...

[@blueclaw_sergal_plays]

Fellow sergal!

[@Jackal326]

Was just thinking to myself when the next MrAtomicDuck mod round-up was going to drop...Talk about timing...

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Here to help! 😄

[@sleepingsnorlax9948]

Hasn’t noticed the cap thing until you said… thanks now I need another mod

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Its SO ANNOYING THOUGH

[@shedoesntevencare2136]

The a10 cannon sounds so satisfying 😅

[@MrAtomicDuck]

The masculine urge to say "brrrt" every time.

[@ElanoreMaze]

I really struggle with direction. I don't know what's broken in my brain but it's really bad. That navigate mod is a life saver. I usually run my games with difficulty and accuracy as top priority, but I find myself getting so frustrated with my poor directional skills that I can ignore it for that mod.

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Glad you've been getting some use from it!

[@sjonnieplayfull5859]

Roleplay as a billionaire who has GPS before anyone else even knew it existed

[@ElanoreMaze]

@sjonnieplayfull5859 i LOVE that idea. I'm doing a rp of a real-estate developer who was sent to fix up rosewood for resale when the whole outbreak is over 🤣

[@stugiiif146]

If you want a different vehicle pack KI5 also does exactly what Filibuster does as well at 5:05 Theres vanilla replacers, scene replacers, wreck replacers as well. The mod features various different types of vehicles: Old beaters Military vehicles Sports cars Trucks Vans Police, Fire and Ambulance And many more! Many, if not most, are fully animated with many different upgrades. Such as extra storage, working armour, sirens and light bars.

[@leigharusso]

Another great video!! I'd just started using the caps and belts ones yesterday.

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Thank you! Enjoy the mods!

[@TotallyNotElPresidente]

It's an older mod, but for anyone wanting to be able to remove/add negative traits as you go, and find that the magazines mod is too OP, the Dynamic traits is the one for you. Yes, some traits you can get/lose GIGA easily (like gaining weight to lose the underweight trait will take you like 2 in game days if you just eat butter), but it's a pretty good one

[@jamison85]

Not sure if you've covered it before, but there's a mod that makes arcade machines and the flipper playable. Always felt like such a missed opportunity. It plays an animation and a sound, and gives the player character a little happiness.

[@OmegaN9ne]

Thank you for all the recommendations!

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Any time!

[@Universalaud]

The beauty of zomboid mod feeling like Warcraft 3 reforged

[@MNewton]

The gun sound overhaul sound more realistic but I actually like the base gun sounds more, they sound punchier from the few example that you played. Been thinking about doing another Zomboid run and then this popped up, thanks.

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Personal preference I guess! Happy to help :)

[@sdgamer1860]

For those looking for a few alternatives to the Workshop Mod and it's weapons and armor addons I suggest you look at Pallontras's mods. Pallontras has made a weapon pack that adds Scrap Metal and Forged Melee Weapons (a reason to level up Metalworking), Gauss Firearms from fallout (perfect for no gun loot runs) and the Tikhar Air Pressure Rifle from the Metro games (also good for no gun loot runs). After asking Pallontras about a Scrap Guns mod they said they want to make a Scrap Guns Pack but, is waiting for the right moment in life or tell after Build 42 comes out

[@GeneraI_Motors]

I would greatly appreciate if you could add chapters to these videos so I can see where every mod begins and ends :)

[@spencersmith5974]

Some bangers here for sure, thx!

[@BrandanZ]

It'd be cool to find a car with a GPS set to go somewhere, where you can explore and find what they were looking for or going to. Also, GPS satellite systems that degrade over time, with the poorer brand of satellites eventually crashing into the earth, while the higher quality ones only become slightly less accurate over time.

[@ravenwolf1487]

I only started playing Zomboid yesterday but I'm obsessed, I've been watching your videos for a few months so I'll finally get to try out all your recommendations 😊

[@bobiboulon]

I've made some simple mods for my own use (and finally replaced most of them with better workshop mods). And for being someone who put my hands in the most basic modding of that game, I'm geuinly impressed by the dedication of the people making those very neat mods. It's a lot of work, and I have no doubt that they have to deal with some strange old (legacy?) choices of coding that can wear off anyone's motivation (or am I projecting? :D), but they do it anyway. :)

[@warmuzi4240]

Dawg pls stop my pc can’t take it bro

[@ThyVirtue]

Great video !

[@Allstar-yl1ek]

I wrote this whole thing out before I realised you were talking about self-driving rather than GPS in general but I'm still posting it. GPS was actually released for civilian use in 1983, a good 10 years before the start of the outbreak. Although, it wasn't until the Gulf War that Selective Availability (an intentional error that reduced accuracy to ~100m) was disabled so I suppose _accurate_ GPS is technically period innacurate.

[@ricksanchez9310]

GPS is inaccurate in any case if the apocalypse comes. Unless multiple stations on earth upload navigational corrections and time information to the satellites every day or so, they will start to drift from their nominal orbit, and therefore the position the device on your hand will tell you will be way off. So in case of an apocalypse GPS is gone in a matter of a couple of weeks at best...

[@andrewcasias2676]

I’m definitely gonna try the trait magazine mod the next time I start a new file. That seems super handy!

[@Konstantin_Ananas]

The "Day One" mod is a huge discovery for me! What's important is what works with mod towns

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Crazy mod for sure. The chaos on that first day is un-matched.

[@Omni0404]

The Reddit has been so unhinged lately, lol. The community is restless

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Reddit is always unhinged haha. I stay off that platform as much as possible.

[@NoFear1979]

8:55 The carnage! lol

[@chrishaugh1655]

I feel like I'm going to die of old age before B42 sees the light of day.

[@johnracine4589]

Have you ever heard the tale of Mount and Blade: Bannerlord? It’s not a story the devs will tell you.

[@johnyprigioni859]

Awesome, thanks!

[@MrAtomicDuck]

You bet!

[@scifi.ginger]

Another good mod video :D Thanks for sharing

[@MrAtomicDuck]

♥

[@Thunderfgilo8]

Keep up the content!

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Thanks dude!

[@Rizz3n]

Much appreciated!

[@KrabNomad]

Ah I wish the helicopter mods could go up and down levels so you could land them on buildings. Nothin like being able to find and use a helicopter to move between tall buildings in a “Floor Is Lava” challenge

[@bobiboulon]

Talking about Day 1 and saying that it's "an absolute blast"... I see what you did here. :D

[@MrAtomicDuck]

A whole lot of blasts...

[@nfapeng187]

I been playing on and off, there is so many mods i cant even use em all. Ethan Electrical is nice! Its own T.V. show like life, and livin' Raises your electrical skills lil by lil which is nice.

[@Anon_Omis]

Is there a mod that changes your body size as you get over and under weight? And if so can it also randomize zombie body sizes?

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Not that I know of, but this would be a cool feature!

[@theforsakeen177]

dynamic body shape

[@NichitaScobelev]

@@theforsakeen177 ^this

[@warmachine5835]

I would adore something like what Kenshi has where the model changes over time as you go from noodle person to carved from granite. I'll never forget the first time I took my Kenshi character's shirt off after 400 hours on a save and discovered they'd gotten utterly shredded from how I created them.

[@Pancake_Nix]

Some of these mods look really cool! And yea, I totally hate the vanilla baseball caps. I sometimes ask myself, "Hey, why don't I wear caps?" but then I put one on and immediately remember why. I kinda like the GPS idea, but I think they need to make at least electrical 3 to build it. For realistic purposes even more, cos I worked as an electrician, I think I can say I have at least electrical 3 RL and yet there is no way in hell I'm gonna be building you any kind of GPS' from scrap parts. xd I've never heard of the ExtraNoise's car mod. I have so many car mods, that I wish you could choose which cars you want from that mod, but apart from that, they look great!

[@theoneandonlygustav1992]

Oh that gun sound overhaul mod is crisp. Any chance its coming to the Patron server in the future?

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Possibly! Don't wanna confirm anything for now but I do like it.

[@pegasusthirtythree1754]

Thanks M.A.D! because of this video my 69gb pz mod file will increase again :D

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Heh, 69... Nice.

[@TheDougliestDoug]

i havent played Zomboid in almost a year. I got the urge this week and just finished tweaking my modlist. Like 250 mods that I debugged and then as I was taking a break before launching this popped up! Back to the drawing board i go.

[@joj5150]

I feel this

[@itsgyde]

Thanks for showcasing my mod! I was on holiday from school and just decided to try making a mod for the first time and chose Zomboid. Happy that people are liking it and I'm honored that you covered it. Edit: Ah I've also added some sandbox settings to further balance the mod. One of them is a setting that only let's you read the magazines after you have survived for X amount of days. (not quite realistic, but balanced.)

[@MrAtomicDuck]

No problem! Fantastic contribution to the modding scene. Keep up the good work, and good luck with your studies 👍

[@Jay-corn3r]

The GPS was made in 1978, sure they didnt hit wide corculation until 1995 ish but we had them.

[@criminalmc826]

Thanks 😉

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Welcome 😊

[@o-taco4010]

Great mod recommendations overall👍 would dl asap

[@o-taco4010]

Not Day one tho, otherwise my pc is cooked 💀

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Enjoy!

[@vichraev.5386]

Day One is extremely broken. Enemies spawn on top of me every few minutes inside my starter house, and there were no friendly NPCs...they all were hostile.

[@reaper352c5]

it would be epic if there is a cordyceps mod for this game. it would completely change the way the game is played

[@MrAtomicDuck]

There is :)

[@LionOfTawhid]

I just hope my favorite mod susceptible gets updated for B42 tbh

[@Simsimixx]

Great video as always, I hope you keep up the good content. English isn't my native tongue so I wasn't clear with my previous comment. I'm glad my works can be shared through you to the community, it was eager to be featured in your channel last year, and my time has arrived just now. I hope I can appear in the next month video

[@bladeshifter]

My fiance the other night and I were talking about amazing games and she calm and sadly said, "I really miss playing Project Zombie" and I have never been more proud and heart broken😂

[@CZThomasCZ003]

I don't know if it was mentioned in previous video(s), but I can't play without "Check Upstairs (and more !)" after I installed it. Not having *any* info on what's upstairs is awful in PZ

[@david57boring]

I disagree about the gun sounds. Sometimes it takes a while to transition between indoor and outdoor sounds but I think they're really impressive, I especially like how desperate they sound if that makes sense

[@garver5833]

good stuff

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Thanks!

[@_lostclub]

Should install ZomboWin. Pretty good mod, adds a lot.

[@FlashDAH]

Need a video about Hallodoid please Im lazy and cba reading it all myself, thanks

[@MrAtomicDuck]

On the way :)

[@jaimecalleja8874]

I love what the Zomboid community has done with their MODs on the game and I love to try them all... I just with I have a better computer to entertain them all. T^T

[@despeckt]

At this point I'm waiting for the update 42

[@miracunlu85]

Insane mods

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Glad you liked them! Workshop has been wild this last month

[@davetrap9403]

i wouldnt disable vanilla vehicles as you can use kentucky car overhaul for it to fit in

[@webmasterdevon9070]

I heard that build 42 will be out on new years Eve (I'm 90% sure it's true)

[@rorarthepig]

*Day one mod stream flashbacks*

[@MrAtomicDuck]

That was a good day. Chaotic, but good.

[@JcPilot1]

In solo do i need to start over or can you just add mods

[@CP_DuBz]

BROOOOO !!! Fuck the baseball caps 😂😂😂 I thought I was the only one 😂😂😂 literally won’t wear them because they’re so damn big 😂

[@thesedgeman9863]

is there a mod that gives vehicles their own recognisable engine sound, i.e. V8's that sound like V8's, VW Beetles that sound like VW Beetles, etc. i only ask as most vehicles, especially cars, appear to have the same engine note. thx

[@liampugh4674]

Gonna sound silly but been looking for some ui fixes as im running zomboid through my tv and i swear i need binoculars with how small everything looks one hoping for a mod or something that helps 😅

[@kiritomato2312]

Somehow my server wont download fillibusters mods. (Always pending update and the it fails with result=2, but the modfiles arent on the server)

[@babywitches1750]

Day one mod is wild, got fucking bombed in a house in the middle of the map

[@michaelbravo2002]

In b42 your old gameplay in b41 will be wiped?

[@Spirosbotos]

No way did they finally add a helicopter

[@7h_45m]

while watching this video I sped from rose wood put to the left side on the mainroad to a gun store the door was locked had no hammer/screwdriver, killed maybe 25ish zombies almost died to thirst (high thirst) and starving, then speeding off to Riverside chilling at 90 then as soon as I get there there's a horde, park my car by a tall fence and a gas station, jump the fence try to sneak into a house because I'm still thirsty, hungry and exhausted and tired that house has an alarm, jump back over the fence into my car being swarmed the horde, fail the key like 5 times, get in speed off dodging more zombies, drive through the trees going along the river, ditch my car at a bar due to noise, go next door to boat club get food and water then stealth my way across Riverside to the gated community sneaking by zombies coming towards me due to the triggered alarm fight another 6ish to get into a house and miss my carpentry by about 10 in-game mins (where did I go wrong) 10/10 would watch again

[@gordon4672]

There are so many good mods out there and sometimes when I put too many tgh I get errors when launching the world. How do I know if they’re compatible or not?

[@vladtepesh3761]

Read all the comments on each mod, people put those notes there.

[@Knight6536]

I wish k15 made a rx7 fd mod 😭

[@noobyd9767]

tbh goood car! thank god you didnt say mk 4 supra...

[@Knight6536]

@@noobyd9767 ngl that car is overhyped for no reason

[@aquelarrefox3772]

I don't like the new helli mod, some desertion like put fix spot. The trait magazine, i like that mods but the issue is in places like raven creek the book spawn scale incredible

[@T-rev33]

Maybe I'm the only person but I don't like vehicle animations. If your car is at an angle it can be super hard/glitch entering the vehicle. I wish they had an option to disable that maybe they do. Actually my current playthrough all the animated cars on the map just lost all their doors hoods and trunks. So now I've got a bunch on car husks strewn across the map. Would be fine for scenery I guess but they look like brand new cars just missing every part. Probably going to get rid on those mods on my next playthrough which sucks because they often are cool looking cars.

[@manualuser]

Well that's 7 new mods to the pile.

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Mission accomplished.

[@LoveJupiter325]

2:40 One of the point I hate the most in Vanilla... WHY they didn't make all models of food ? Like wtf ? Some have models and a lot don't... And even with B42 they will not make models that so sad... and yes immersion breaking...

[@MatsJPB]

A mod I'm really hopeing will see someday is a proper junkyard. Cars stacked high ontop of eachother, a magnet thingy, car crusher... Maybe someday.

[@theoneandonlygustav1992]

Do you get to drive the crane that drops them in the crusher?

[@MatsJPB]

@@theoneandonlygustav1992 It would be pretty cool if you could. Quick scrap metal.

[@scorpiomelancholia1559]

Be the change u want bro Start modding

[@Macil2018]

I can't wait to play Build 42 beta in Q4 of 2025... *he said with heavy sarcasm* Several months ago when they came out and said that Build 42 was taking too long and they were going to trim down the fat and make the update a more manageable size, I stupidly thought that was actually going to happen and we might play it before the end of the year. I'm quickly starting to rethink that mindset. And as of late how they recently announced it won't be for multiplayer at first is even more of a kick in the pants - since that's exclusively the only way I play the game. Duck, your updates are the only thing that keep driving my interest in the game at this point. Much appreciation sir! Keep up the amazing work!

[@sparklefartzpwnt]

good thing this game is coded in LUA or else the PZ community wouldnt have even a 10th of the mods we do. hope the community doesnt "lose" mods when 42 finally comes out due to all the changes to the API, functions and new systems added. I use so many mods on WoW that have not been updated in 3+ years and UI is slowly breaking my game, while WoW and PZ are 2 different games they are use the exact same code base AND PZ mods often changes game FUNCTIONS unlike WoW which only changes what your own personal interface looks like. really weird thing to be afraid of but i know for alot of people who play PZ have atleast 1-2 mods they CANT play without and losing those would ruin the entire game for them.

[@MirandaHasty-fm6pl]

What's your server name Duck

[@demonplayer6265]

can you make a modpack that we can download for all the best mods please?

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Not as easy at it sounds, it would be changing every other day 😅 PZ community is always adding more stuff so I prefer to do things this way. Don't think I'd be able to maintain an entire mod pack sadly.

[@demonplayer6265]

@@MrAtomicDuck oh thats ok Thank you :)

[@yeetandskeet]

The thumbnail made me skip this video like, two times. Thought it was an ad lol

[@KnownNiche1999]

Having access to GPS when the sattelite systems worldwide have most certainly collapsed is beyond silly

[@MrAtomicDuck]

It's a mod. Nothing says it has to be realistic. Let people enjoy things and just pick what you want to use.

[@KnownNiche1999]

@@MrAtomicDuck I know, and I never implied people don't have the right to install silly goofy mods. When did I imply otherwise by commenting on the mod's realism?

[@kiritomato2312]

Day One mod ist broken and buggie af. Some survivors atrack you on sight. Any survivors in your near when you attack and hit them. They turn aggainst you. Even the one following you.

[@rudy2shoes]

Is it just me that thinks the mod gun sounds are significantly worse?

[@This-K9]

Just a comment for comments sake

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Appreciate the support all the same :)

[@jensmarkgraf]

90 pages is way to less!

[@capjacm717]

You can spend more time modding than playing the game lol

[@Technik3Dengineer]

Hmm, I wouldn't recommend One day mod. It's to broken

[@Traceless]

Just started playing, watched the tv and levelled my skills, gathered food, found military desert boots and leather gloves, house stocked nicely with food.. made the mistake of opening the door to “one” zombie knocking, got staggered and bite. I binged the food and sat on my porch waiting to get eaten

[@wedsv]

Let's be real, Day One mod is not a great experience. It's buggy, unbalanced and I can't see what people enjoy about it. It introduces absolut mayhem which might be fun for some time, but starting in a world in which many houses are burnt down and where are NPC groups of 10+ people with rifles, that follow you like bodyguards but kill you if you accidentaly punch one of them.... no thanks.

[@MrAtomicDuck]

I mean it's okay to not like something, doesn't mean others can't enjoy it :D I can understand not liking it for the bugs right now, fair enough, but we were still able to have a ton of fun with it and it's a big step forward.

[@aaronjaggard8287]

Act undead

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Covered it in my last mods video! :D

[@aaronjaggard8287]

@@MrAtomicDuck how did I miss that?

[@aaronjaggard8287]

@@MrAtomicDuck been enjoying that with 'they knee', pretending to be a z to infiltrate a large group and find the hazmat z

[@noobyd9767]

28 seconds no views, you fell off!

[@MrAtomicDuck]

I see this on all my videos now 😂

[@noobyd9767]

@@MrAtomicDuck you cant escape us heeh >:)

[@exceed8447]

It would probably be best not to keep releasing the best mods to use since essentially every single mod is about to break once 42 goes live.

[@MrAtomicDuck]

I'd have very little to talk about in the PZ world right now if it weren't for mods.

[@zackbatcountry3361]

​@@MrAtomicDuckplus dint the team say build 42 would be bringing some qol to how mods are handled and updated

[@MelodyIV]

Yeah no I clicked this video because I know you and know your videos are good but that thumbnail really turned me off, do NOT do that again I wouldn't have clicked if I didn't already know you

[@MrAtomicDuck]

I think it's the download button :) I've taken the advice on-board from folks and we'll see if we can change how that looks in the next ones! It's actually doing a lot better than my old style, but I get why the download button made it seem like an ad for something, so that part we can change :D Please don't make demands of me though, that's not cool. Polite suggestions or feedback are always better received.

[@MelodyIV]

@@MrAtomicDuck bet :D really loved the video btw

[@MrAtomicDuck]

Thank you!

[@FamiliarAnomaly]

I understand why the developer is stressed - these modders do more work in less time than the actual game does - he needs to just hire them

[@zaikolebolsh5724]

I thought somebody i subbed got hacked because of that thumbnail, a fan of your stuff, not of this style

[@hectorzarlasfilms9695]

Build 42 is taking way too long

[@Jute511]

I think it's time Indie Stone sold the IP to someone who would actually be bothered about getting B42 done, because Indie Stone obviously just cannot be bothered themselves, and the brilliant modders have done more for this game than the devs ever have or ever will.