The biggest problem with this new "fake dead" mechanic is that on multi-player servers the get up animation can sometimes totally skip

If i recall you can just use trashcan "delete" option to remove zombie bodies. Only works with large trashcans (supermarket ones) since you need to fit the body inside but it's entirely viable for in-base use.

The worst part is that these don't work properly in multiplayer. i've had it happen several times where I walk past a corpse, the zombie immediately gets up and tries to bite me. Literally, they go from their corpse form to standing zombie immediately. It's one of the main reasons I play with infection off right now.

It would be cool if you could crush the zombie's head to ensure that they never get back up

A "double-tap" action would be fine, but why not going all out and add a "decapitate" option? You could maybe even collect skulls that way to use as decorations... otherwise, I think they should add a "funeral pyre" building that allows you to burn batch of bodies. But obviously, we all know that modding is always the solution :D.

had seen these before clearing out multiple cities and huge piles of corpses and had decay stat on pretty fast so sometimes one would just come back alive and I would go over to it and go " No no, you are dead go back to sleep" and re-kill it.

yeah I got caught out while I was doing my gardening, a corpse that I thought I killed on my last save decided to get up and try and bite my ass, lucky that heard him coming but it scared the shit out of me. For me I love this update, it keeps you on ypur toes and makes you consider options with the disposal

imo this is perfect for nerf zombie respawn, a chance to segmented into different good and better repopulate mechanics. i would definitely spice up the resurrection chance then massively drop the respawn chance

Gore could solve this too, like, if we had proper dismemberment, you could just blow their heads off or decapitate them. This game needs gore.

This reminds me of the last stand union city When I first learned of fake dead zombies, I decided to make sure they are dead by literally crouching and then meleeing every laying down zombie.

this actually reminds me of that one mod that revives zombies after certain amount of time, now it might be worth it to stuff corpses in any empty containers that can fit one or two bodies

It also happens with the random event dead survivors/zombies. Ran across one event at the warehouses to the east of the train yard in Muldraugh. No zombies in the area except the two that spawned for the event. One was a live zombie, the other looked like a survivor that had just been killed. The dead survivor got up when I got close. Freaked me out as that was the first time that had happened to me lol Didnt even know it was a thing at the time.

I've never heard of this game, I don't know why this was recommended, but I'm now very intetested. Thank you kind sir.

About the car thing. Simply put an "old muffler" at 0% or thereabout on a car, drive it into an area, surround it with campfires. Light all but the one immediately next to your door. Turn on the car and honk the horn exactly 3 long blasts (at least 3 seconds each) then get out, move off the unlit campfire, light it, and RUN. Useful for cars in the red condition-wise.

6:12 I thought you were going to say when you're dragging a body and it reinanimates, that'd be crazy

would be funny if there was a downside to burning them so graves would be more incentivised, but then there would be a chance that at night they come out of their graves

I love fake dead. nothing like walking through a road that is filled with corpses, to have a few stand up. it makes it so much more atmospheric.

wow, this update is very interesting, I love how they make this more and more scary

The get up animations being skipped in multiplayer makes it way too dangerous. Yes you can stay alert if you go back to where you killed zombies but one instant not looking at a corpse and you're dead. You could say it's unlikely, well i've seen a friend barely escape one while he was looking at the direction one got up from. Took the dead off his sight for half a second and he was already arms-stretched ready to grab. He showed us the recording and it's insane how dangerous that can be

Ohhh now it make sense. I thought the fake dead zombies were the ones you find on the ground already playing dead. I didn't expect the ones I've already killed could come back to life again. Now it make sense why the other day that I was moving a few things around my base some zombies spawn out of nowhere despite I've already checked there wasn't any in the vecenity. Thank God i have the habit to dig graves or else those two zombie could have been a small horde. I like this mechanic. It gives you a reason to get rid of the corpses instead of leaving them there to rot (that and the possibility to make your character sick)

For the fence-fire strategy, be aware that fences WILL break if they've been clambered over by a certain amount of zombies.

Using the "walk to" command lets you place a huge amount of zombies on one tile and burn them all with a single use of a gas can/lighter.

In fact, I very rarely encounter this. The maximum is when I perform tests with weapons. In such cases, I usually leave several thousand corpses in one place, and sometimes it's a lot of fun when you come back, and suddenly a hundred zombies get up

Decapitation would be a nice addition to the game now, one would just click the downed zombie while having a sharp tool in inventory and make sure they won't get up again or at least will have severe problems with biting you. CDDA has the "pulp" mechanic where you can basically mash them to make sure they won't get up again, so now that Zomboid Z's can get up again i would like the game to implement something similar.

I wonder if this will be an editable variable. I'd love to have a game with super low spawnrate, but powerful, door opening sprinters that have a 100% chance of reviving for the ultimate vampire apocalypse experience

I love the amount of detail in this game but sometimes it just feels like "action sims" when building a base/cleaning up.

Just wanted to point out at the end of the video that "you're awesome" was totally unexpected and actually cheered me up haha thank you :)

Every upload is a joy

I had one silently get up and get a hit on me from behind right as I stopped moving and opened my map thankfully it wasn't a bite but i'm def gonna be way more careful going forward

I'm something of an expert myself when it comes to removing corpses, I did a few gravekeeper runs back in the day and played with zero decay settings forcing me to remove them to preserve my FPS, so I thought of ranking them for the fun of it: 1) The fastest method of removing them is grouping them in a pile as you showed, but doesn't have to be on campfire. Any single tile works as long as you can distinguish it. I do that by using the place mode, identify a square and drop a rag in the middle of it, then drag corpses to that exact spot and once all corpses in 4-5 tiles are grouped up set any of them on fire, the whole tile burns and all corpses that were on it in seconds. 2) Bring the spiffo/coffee trash can, if can hold 50kg which means 2 corpses and 3 if you got Organized trait. Delete once full and repeat. This is the cheapest method and perhaps only tiny bit slower than the 1), but I find this to be just cheesy exploiting game's mechanics and burning them is not noticeably slower, but if you don't want to use gasoline or risk setting yourself on fire, this is the best method for you. 3) Graves. Requires shovel, plenty of dirt tiles and should be done with 2-3 backpacks large enough to hold a corpse. You can fit 1 corpse into each of the 3 backpacks and another 1 on your character, just barely short of filling 1 grave... Yeah it gets annoying. Sadly no bag in the game can hold 2 corpses to make this any more casual. You can and should use trunk/trailer/seats to transport even more corpses closer to the grave location. This is by far the slowest method even with the min-maxing and while can be made to look real decent with crosses or cairns, that translates into even more workload. If it's already numbing just clearing the area out, making graves for them will for surely lead to a burn out (oh the irony) so don't do that on high pops unless you are committed to this as the end game project to see how many graves you can fill up. It's a nice challenge. It also helps put your zombie massacring into perspective and becomes memorable every time you pass by how much work you did there. I'd say go for graves if you play on RP MP server are really dedicated in SP, but if there is too many or you play with respawn use one of the other methods or wait for them to disappear. They obviously won't turn fake dead if you don't spend the time in the area. I didn't even know about the Easy corpse move mod, that's defo a great tip. Might get me back to my grave digging days... I did know there is a different mod however that allows adding the corpses as fuel into the campfires.

So I wasn't insane after all. I told my buddy about this but he said that's impossible. Now I can't just pile these corpses just outside my safehouse.

I wish there was a burn pit, like a grave and camp fire together. Only you can keep dumping bodies into an already burning pit without catching yourself on fire, just fill the thing up with dirt when you're done. Heck treat it like a really silly fertilizer generator, ashes are useful.

This is perfect, it's going to make the zombie disposal methods useful.

Scary addition. I like it.

Great video, had no idea they added this

I shat myself when thus first happened, I had a zombie in the courtyard of the prison that I already cleared (I spawned there and buildings that you spawn in are always clear ig?) almost nab me from behind, definitely have my character, if not me, PTSD

I think a certain vampire grampa sent me here.... I have to thank vesper for showing this game, its so much fun!

I was playing project zomboid and a zombie did just this, I found a house that had a corpse in it, and I dumped it outside because of this lol.

When the game is so advanced you forget the number 1 rule of zombies, Double Tap

Yup, they sure are. Haven't ran into one yet but I know when it happens I'll jump outta my seat lol

And now, things have become clear, I literally went into a panic when I watched a Zombie get back up in front of my base one day and decided "I'm burning them all." piled them all up.. Failed to start a fire, and resolved myself to just check the corpse pile with my shotgun everyday instead.

My friends and I were playing these newer updates after not playing for about 3+ months and I almost immediately died because a random dead zombie in the middle of the road instantly stood up (no animation) when I went to search the car it was beside. Luckily I noticed him last second. I then preceded to avoid any dead zombie from that one encounter. Kinda crazy how one seemingly simple change can completely change how you play

If you frequently walk around in x2 speed it will automatically put you to x1 whenever near a zombie. Dispose of bodies around your base still though.

One Plank and One Shirt or Sheet, should make a torch, that is a melee weapon, whose spacebar attack lights things on fire. Then you don't have to waste as much gas, matches, or lighters, and you don't have to spend time moving them into piles and risk getting sick. Other ideas: 1. Maybe a craftable Funeral Pyre, made of logs, that lets you burn 100's at once in the nearby area with a single button click. Or my personal favorite: 2. A mobile wood-chipper you can feed bodies into.

How about this: Decapitate zombie heads. Maybe theres a chance during combat, but more interestingly you can choose to cut off its head after its dead, and then because why not you can craft head pikes as well why not, cmon devs feature the persistent corpse tech you got and the face generation.

when npcs come out they will be able to pile them up for you so that will help

What they need to add is a way to chop off heads. Makes sure the zeds are dead for good.

I think they are hiring an animator so probably we will get a lot of missing animations like sleeping in a bed, sitting on a chair etc. This is a nice addition to PZ, now I actually have a reason to clear the corpses somewhat.

Looking at the yeet zombie out of the window mod and wishing there was a literal animation of the character opening a window and chucking them out lmao

I recommend using the mod Crematorium, allows to use the zombie bodies as fuel to a camping fire, fireplace or antique oven.

I had one happen in my base while I was clearing out a horde I killed. I was shocked and confused since I had killed them a couple days previous. It's an awesome change although a brutally dangerous change

on Halloween those skeletons better get up as well or im gonna be so pissed off

I've had something similar to this with my friend, when killing Zombies on mass there will be Zombies that will become invincible to vehicle damage and cant be damaged by only one player so a friend has to step in to take em out then when they die they disappear.

Quick tip if you dont want to use the "Delete" button on trashcans: You can dig up a grave, fill it up with 5 zombies and use a sledgehammer to destroy the grave. And just like that, if you really need to get rid of them, you just need 2 dirt squares.

Double tap is an awesome idea! Hope it reaches the devs

It was weird. I saw this happen in my run, but I thought it was just the spawn system bugging out or maybe I just missed one. TBH it doesn't seem to be too much of a problem. The rate is fairly low, and you usually kill the zombies outside your base anyway. Sometimes zombies would spawn in weird areas before anyway, so it doesn't change too much. But it is good to know. If you recently cleared out a new base, you'll have zombies appearing atleast for the next week or two.

I saw a dead body and walked up to it... it surprised me by getting up and biting me lol. That is a cool feature honestly

I love how I've played the game so much that at 3:05 I'm like "Hey I know that place!"

This got me the other day. Swear this game just finds ways to make me piss myself just a lil bit. Not a full stream just a few tinkles

you can also pile zombies on one tile (you can use Walk To for accuracy) and burn the corpses there with gasoline also the "flickering" you mentioned is part of the decomposition process with each of them rotting away as their skin rots

Lol is that why zombies appear outta no where on my server 🤣 I’ve gotten so used to it that I can dodge them on instinct

I once got jumpscared by a zombie which at first was lying down in front of a car (it basically looked like a human corpse that got hit by the vehicle) so I ignored it, but later that corpse mustve heard me so it got up and started going after me. I was so confused when that happened.

I always bury the ones too close to my house

I've been playing with the custom zombies mod for a month or so and this is one of the settings for zombies. I use the "fly by" method of running past corpses. Or you run by and kinda juke to the side? Sorta? After burning down a warehouse and a couple blocks nearby, I don't use fire much anymore.

first time to this channel. but i like your approach to giving critisism as you often offer some thoughts on how you think an improvment could work/be.

Bruh i hadnt come up with the unreachable plus campfiring technique ! Very nice ! Just lost two of my characters one with 15 days in apocolipse 800+ z dead the other one just casually died in day 6 ... thanks anyway !

Definitely would be worth adding a 'Destroy corpse head' or just add area damage like the vehicles windshields that can Crit the skull with a specific audio cue? I still love where this is all going and I hope they keep working on all this cool goodness.

you can also stuff them in big trashcans and use the 'delete' option

great vid

Finally, my borderline OCD with regards to burying every single corpse is paying off.

I turned on the config option without knowing much about it. Sense the respawn system is somewhat iffy, this has me inspired on a whole different way the zombies could work. No respawns, but what if all zombie bodies get back up eventually? At least a days time, at most even a month, but the bodies are a constant threat that you have to go out of your way to deal with. This allows you to properly clear the area around your base while keeping outside areas you can’t properly clear a constant threat. Instead of coming back to the gas station to a bunch of bodies and some extra boys to clear out, you come back to find an area littered once with bodies is just covered in blood, maybe even leading in trails to where they have gone.

So we're getting closer to CDDA now? That's kinda neat.

i feel the way to deal with this is just be aware of corpse piles and dont leave bodies around in secure spaces

It literally just happened to me. I piled up a bunch of corpses outside my compound and then a few days I ran over them and boom one popped up and went for me

Time to download the garbage truck mod

You can build objects like floors on the concrete tiles to turn them into dirt tile for more graves

i want zombies to be able too dig themselves out of the graves you buried them in if they come back to life lol

Maybe an over the shoulder carry for corpses. And a fire man carry for other players.

well, time to dig them in graves or store them in huge trashcans(e.g:spiffos) or other storage units. they cannot rise again if they are an item

You can put them into containers. Sure, this takes up alot of space, but it will work.

I like the idea of the corpses you find being able to reanimate but this seems a bit ambitious. Especially with the performance issues it has in multiplayer. Having double tap or decapitation would be nice.

this happened to me before i was just looting some zombies i killed a few days ago and there was a crawler i didn't die i got shocked

You can burn multiple zombies by lighting one on fire. I once piled something like 100 zombies together and lit one on fire and then it spread to every other zombie. They have to be very close together tho

Haven't played in a few months but I always just put the bodies in a building I have stripped and board it up to keep my neighbourhood clean.

Imagine another new horror: Zambies reviving within ur Inventory. Its alive in ur inventory and giving u a guaranteed bite status.

OH THATS WHY. i was building at my base one day, killed 2,then litterlay 8 days later i was working inside my garden and sudddnly i see something moving, i get close to it and That zombie tryed to just bite my foot.

Had my first encounter with one of these fake dead zombies in a pile i was making outside the base to be burnt. I was moving them all and got the worst scare of my life, even without the jumpscare noise.

Is there any "lore" based reason as to how is this even possible? about a zombie being able to revive after being killed? i suppose the knox infection might grant them some healing capacity and even immortality to some degree

You can also dispose of bodies in a dumpster, using the delete garbage function. (Or Spiffo's restaurant trash can, since they for some reason, have a large amount of storage.)

I had five SWAT zombies (from a mod) all revive outside of the wire fence of my base. Freaked me out.

A Double Tap animation would be great. That sounds very RP friendly also considering that I think everyone would want to double tap zombies taken out if they fear they could get back up.

oh no, that's not good for my misery sprinters sessions

Issue with this is that head splattered zombies eill get back up with a new head

new fear unlocked

Oh man, I've accidently burned down parts of the gated neighborhood me and my buddies used as a base. Fire really is no joke.

I could have sworn this happened a few times to me but couldn't decide if I was just seeing things or getting confused 😅

I agree there should be a "Finish Off" action. This would use the currently equipped weapon on a corpse until a certain amount of damage is dealt. A completed Finish Off would prevent reanimation, be it first or second. Edit: When using a slashing weapon, it would also result in a severed head being left in your inventory. A severed head would eventually decay into a skull, in the same way that food decays.

If you use the walk to function when carrying bodies and drop them in the same tile, you can burn multiple bodies with one use of a gas can

Now the last patch is just make my worst fear of this game become real thing

So that's why i keep seeing zeds in my fully fenced base, even though there's no breakthroughs.