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Zombie Count & Horde Nights
"Choose how many zombies roam ZED ZONE, and how often and how big Cataclysm horde nights are."
How do I install Zombie Count & Horde Nights?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Zombie Count & Horde Nights for ZED ZONE in one click.
</>What does Zombie Count & Horde Nights do?
Zombie Count & Horde Nights gives you two switches for the zombie pressure in ZED ZONE. Change Zombie Count sets how many zombies the world keeps alive around you. Wild animals that spawn on the map follow the same number, while traders and story characters are left alone. Zombie Count Percent at 100 is normal, 50 keeps half as many for a calmer run and 300 keeps three times as many for chaos. New spawns follow the number you set, so zombies already out stay until they die or their area unloads. Raising it also lets more of each area's zombies come out when the area loads. Change Horde Nights works in Cataclysm mode. Days Between Horde Nights sets how many days pass from one horde night to the next: the game's own gap is 5 days, and 1 means a horde every night. The next night is counted from the last one, so moving the slider never skips a night or starts one without its warning. Horde Size Percent sets how many zombies each horde night brings: 100 is normal, 200 is twice as many. Your saves keep the game's own night size, so a save made during a horde night loads normally without the mod. Switching a switch off puts the game's own numbers back, as does going to the menu or starting a Horde leaderboard run. After Change Horde Nights goes off, horde nights come every 5 days again, counted from the last horde night, for as long as the mod is loaded. If you later play that world without the mod, the game uses its own calendar of night 5, 10, 15 and so on: after a run of close nights the next one can be many days away, and after far-apart nights the calendar nights already passed count as skipped. The mod works for the host and in solo games, because the host's game spawns the zombies and runs the horde nights. If you join someone else's game, their numbers apply.
</>What is Zombie Count & Horde Nights?
This mod changes how many zombies ZED ZONE spawns. Lower the zombie count for a calm run of scavenging and building, or raise it for a crowded, dangerous world. In Cataclysm mode, set how many days pass between horde nights and how many zombies each one brings. The game's own numbers come back when you switch it off.
</>Common questions about Zombie Count & Horde Nights
Do zombies vanish when I lower the count?
No. Zombies already out stay until they die or their area unloads. The lower number applies to new spawns, so the world thins out over the next few minutes as you move around and new areas load. Wild animals that spawn on the map follow the same number, while traders and story characters still turn up as usual.
Does it work outside Cataclysm mode?
Change Zombie Count works in normal play and in Cataclysm mode. Horde nights only exist in Cataclysm mode, so Change Horde Nights only does something there. Horde leaderboard runs are left alone: the mod puts the game's own numbers back while one is running.
What happens to my save?
Saves keep the game's own horde night size. While a horde night runs, the mod raises or lowers the night's zombie total, and every time the game writes a save it puts the game's own total back for that write and its own number back right after. So a save made during a horde night loads normally without the mod, and if the mod is on when you load it, it sets the night's size again. Horde nights that happen while the switch is on count as nights played, like any other, and later nights grow the way the game's do.
What happens when I switch Change Horde Nights off?
Nights go back to their usual size, and horde nights come every 5 days again, counted from the last one. While the mod is loaded, that means no long wait and no skipped nights. If you play that world without the mod, the game uses its own calendar of a horde night on day 5, 10, 15 and so on. After a run of close nights the next one can then be many days away. After far-apart nights the calendar nights already passed count as skipped, and later nights are bigger, as they are for played nights.
Can my friends use it in a co-op game I host?
Yes, when you host. The host's game spawns the zombies and runs the horde nights, so your numbers apply to everyone in your game and your friends don't need the mod. If you join someone else's game instead, the host's numbers apply and the mod waits.
What options does Zombie Count & Horde Nights include?
Change Horde Nights
Cataclysm mode: sets how often horde nights come and how many zombies each one brings. Switching it off puts the usual night size and the game's 5-day gap back, counted from the last horde night.
Change Zombie Count
The world keeps Zombie Count Percent of its usual zombies and wild animals around you as new ones spawn. Switching it off puts the game's own numbers back.
Days Between Horde Nights
Days from one horde night to the next. The game's own gap is 5 days; 1 means every night.
Horde Size Percent
How many zombies each horde night brings: 100 is normal, 200 is twice as many.
Zombie Count Percent
How many zombies the world keeps alive: 100 is normal, 50 is half for a calmer run, 300 is three times as many.
Zombie Count & Horde Nights sets how many zombies ZED ZONE keeps alive around you, and in Cataclysm mode how many days pass between horde nights and how big each one is.
System Requirements
What features does Zombie Count & Horde Nights include?
- Zombie count from 25% to 300% of the usual number
- More of each area's zombies come out at a high setting
- Horde nights every 1 to 15 days in Cataclysm mode
- Horde night size from 25% to 400%
- Moving the sliders never skips a horde night or starts one without its warning
- Saves keep the game's own night size, and switching off puts the game's numbers and its 5-day gap back
Best For
- Play a calm survival run with fewer zombies while you build and scavenge
- Fill the streets with zombies for a hard, crowded run
- Get Cataclysm horde nights more often, or give yourself more days to prepare
- Make horde nights smaller while you learn them, or bigger once you're ready
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