Questions? Answers.

Yes, AffenBiss: a German PvE server for Project Zomboid, hosted in the EU, with no whitelist and no application. It's been running since 22 October 2026 and it's open to everyone, you just join.

No. English speakers are welcome: German and English both work in chat and on Discord, German is the main language. Our own mod is fully in English too, it follows your game language. Other languages only in private, please.

In the game via Multiplayer, with the server address from our Discord. All you need is Project Zomboid on Steam, the game downloads the mods itself. Every step is on How to join.

Yes, AffenBiss runs on Project Zomboid Build 42, the stable version. You get it the normal way through Steam, no beta branch needed.

No: the game downloads every mod automatically when you join. Your first visit takes a while because of that, after that it's quick.

The heart of it is our own mod, AB System: claims, bank, shops, events, ranks and nearly everything on this page. Cooking window, inventory with quick bar, hotbar, beekeeping, music and the extra firearms are now built in-house too. On top: a build menu with blueprints (Knox Buildworks), KI5 vehicles with trailers, semi trucks, legendary backpacks, fanny packs, katanas and naginatas, hairstyles, more clothing and emotes.

Your first character spawns with a school backpack and a baseball bat with a saw blade. In the backpack: 2 bottles of water, 2 bags of chips, 2 granola bars, 2 bandages, a hunting knife, a flashlight with a spare battery and a note from the head monkey. Bat and knife are used. Your second character gets no kit.

After loading you're invisible to zombies for 10 seconds so you can look around. The protection ends early as soon as you attack or do something, and it comes back at most every 5 minutes.

One game day lasts 4 real hours, so one game hour is 10 minutes. Hunger, thirst and fatigue rise slower than default. Nights are short and bright.

No. Sleeping is switched off on the server, and you won't get tired enough to pass out either.

Yes. On a PvE server you only fight zombies, nobody enters your claimed house without permission, and when you die your new character gets most of your skills back. The guide explains everything, and you can ask on Discord in English or German.

The AffenBiss button in the game opens the systems of our mod: claims, vehicles, tickets, leaderboards, service tokens and more. When you log in, the chat greets you with your rank and today's numbers, then a tip pops up every 20 minutes.

In the guide: in game via the AffenBiss button, "Guide" tab, and on the website at guide. Both explain the same, page by page, with pictures of the windows.

No, there's no full wipe, AffenBiss is a long-term server. Instead, part of the map gets fresh every night (map reset, see below): what's in your claim stays, anything built or stored outside can be gone. Bank account, rank and claimed cars stay yours.

Four times a day to keep it fast: at 1, 5, 10 and 15 o'clock German time. Evenings stay free. You get a warning in the game 15, 5 and 1 minute before. The next one is shown on The server.

German or English, both work in chat and on Discord, German is the main language. Other languages only in private, please. The server is in Germany, right in the middle of the EU, with good ping across Europe.

85 slots. Who's online right now is on the home page and on The server.

Yes, with directional sound: people close by are loud, it gets quieter from 10 tiles, and after 100 tiles nobody hears you.

AffenBiss is a PvE server: you against the zombies, not against each other. PvP only exists in one marked zone, shown in red on the map; the game warns you when you enter and leave. Everywhere else you're safe, even from shots fired out of the zone. There are no claims and no vehicle claims inside the zone.

In the game via the AffenBiss button and "Tickets": at most 3 open tickets, subject up to 80 and text up to 500 characters. Vehicles, claims or broken map pieces can be reported straight from the right-click menu. A map piece the team approves is reset at the next nightly reset. Everything else goes through a ticket on Discord.

Only for server bugs and only with a video: open a ticket with a video that shows the bug and the loss. Everything else is at our discretion: if we have time, we check the logs. That's voluntary and depends on how busy we are.

On Rules, with the penalty list: graded penalties instead of random bans, old strikes expire.

Your new character automatically gets part of your skills back: 80 % on the first death, then 10 percentage points less each time (70, 60 … 10), always from your last level. The ninth death gives nothing, with the tenth it starts over at 80 %: 80, 70 … 10, 0, then 80 again. No journal or item needed, after you spawn a window shows "old level → new level".

Fitness, Strength, learned recipes and traits. You train Fitness and Strength again. Muscle strain is heavily reduced on our server, so that goes faster than default.

Only deaths after about 2.5 minutes of life. If you die sooner, your old level stays saved. The new character has to be fresh to get it. The server keeps your saved level for 90 days.

Money in your bank account stays yours. Cash stays on your corpse, and anyone can loot that.

Yes. After death your own claims are at the top of the spawn list and you appear in the middle of the claim. Only in your own claim, not as a member, and only right after spawning.

Yes, two characters per Steam account, the second one right away with no conditions. Bank account, limits and rank are shared, skills and reading progress are per character. The second character is added to the first one's claims automatically.

Positive ones include: Iron Liver, Pacer, Trekker, Bouncer (melee costs 25 % less stamina), Paramedic (first aid twice as fast), Pit Crew, Competitive Eater, Productive, Adaptive Metabolism, Companion, Haggler (5 % better deals in shops), Grease Monkey (cars wear 20 % slower), Banana Junkie and Radio Operator (20 % shorter air drop cooldown). Negative ones include: Acrophobic, Cold Sensitive, Heat Sensitive, Ravenous, Luddite, Flimsy, Injured (start with a broken leg), Vehophobic (you can't drive yourself), Drunkard, Unlucky (one item less in air drops) and Loudmouth (20 % more zombies at drops).

Yes: Gardener costs 4 points and makes you fetch and pour water twice as fast. Handy builds and barricades twice as fast. A few others got clearer descriptions.

Stand by the house, right-click, "Claim house". The claim covers the house plus 2 tiles around it, narrower towards the street because no road may be inside. A shed that's cut off gets included whole. With your very first claim you get a move-in kit: hammer, 20 nails and 6 planks.

Homes, farm buildings like barns, stables or greenhouses, abandoned houses and unfinished builds. Police, fire stations, military, hospitals, banks, shops, warehouses and factories only through a claim request to the team.

Up to 20 × 20 tiles it's free, every tile above that costs $2. Examples: 25 × 25 costs $450, 30 × 30 costs $1,000, 40 × 40 costs $2,400 and 50 × 50 costs $4,200. It's paid from your account first, otherwise in cash from your main inventory.

A free square of 10 × 10 or 20 × 20 tiles around you, no house needed, free of charge. You can extend it like a house claim, the starting land has to stay inside. Unclaimed cars on the area have to be claimed or driven away first.

One at the start, two from 8 hours of playtime, three from 30 hours. Every land deed gives you one more slot for good, at most 2 deeds. Playtime means real online time, both characters together.

The longest side grows with your playtime: 25 tiles at the start, 30 from 8 hours, 40 from 30 hours and 50 from 100 hours. More than 50 × 50 isn't possible. The claim manager shows when the next step unlocks.

Very rarely in office and police desks, or for 16 service tokens in the veterans' shop. You redeem it in the claim manager, which uses it up.

Not over other claims (touching is fine), not on the road, not within 5 tiles of a spawn point, not in the PvP zone, not too close to the shops and not in restricted areas. If a stranger or a stranger's car is standing on the area, it won't work either.

Send a claim request: when you try to claim, the game asks whether the request should go to the team. The cost is taken right away, you get it back if it's declined. Then open a ticket on Discord and give your request number. Once approved, you have to be online within 48 hours. An unanswered request closes itself after 7 days and the money comes back.

Yes, via ticket. Clans of 4 or more pay with in-game money, the team sets size and price by clan size and need. Businesses and community projects get extra space for free if they're open to everyone. If the claim no longer serves that purpose or sits empty, the team can take the approval back.

Yes, up to 12 members, people who join through your faction don't count. Every member gets their own rights for containers, building, dismantling, vehicles and managing. Every member can use doors and lights. Managers can invite and set rights, but can't appoint other managers.

Up to 8 areas per claim with their own rights for entry, containers, building and dismantling. That way a friend can, say, build in the workshop but not touch your pantry.

Yes: with "Entry by invitation only" no stranger gets onto your property. Without it, strangers may walk in but can't touch anything.

Yes. With "Strangers may drop items here" strangers can put things on the floor anywhere in the claim. For finer control, make a trade corner in a sub-zone: either "drop only" or "drop + take".

Every member can secure a door or container in the claim with a PIN of 4 to 8 digits. Only the person who set the lock gets in without the code, everyone else types it, the owner too. It stays unlocked for 15 minutes, after 3 wrong tries there's a 5 minute pause. Owner and managers can remove a lock but not open it.

Yes: right-click the container button in the inventory and pick "Label", with a name (up to 30 characters), colour and icon. Works on crates, cupboards and fridges if you have the right in the claim.

Yes, to a player who's online and has a free claim slot. You stay on as a member, the claim level starts over for the new owner. Selling through the system isn't possible.

The longer you hold a claim, the higher its level: from 7 days "Settled", from 30 days "Homestead", from 90 days "Old-timer". Zombies inside a claim always vanish after a short time, from "Homestead" on a 5 tile border around it is kept clear too.

Yes, 5 minutes between claiming, releasing and claiming again. Releasing a very fresh claim (under 24 hours) several times makes you wait longer: from the second release 30 minutes, then 1, 2, 4 and up to 6 hours. Moving out of an older claim costs no wait.

After 14 real days in which neither you nor a member was there. You get a warning 24 hours before. After that the claim is sealed for 3 days, during which the team can give it back with everything inside, then the area is reset. Going away for longer? Tell us via ticket.

Everything in the claim is removed: crates, builds and whatever's inside. Land you paid for is gone. So empty it first.

Map furniture with storage (cupboards, fridges, shelves, crates) can only be dismantled in your own claim, looting it is fine everywhere. Otherwise houses would be stripped fast, and dismantled cupboards never get new loot. Furniture without storage and mannequins can be dismantled by anyone.

No. Anything you build or place outside a claim can be dismantled by others. Valuable stuff belongs in your claim.

Only in a claim where you have the right to dismantle.

Right-click the vehicle and "Claim vehicle", no key needed. After that nobody else can start it, take parts off or siphon fuel. To drive you still need a key or hotwiring. Claiming doesn't work in someone else's claim or in the PvP zone.

3 at the start, 4 from 8 hours of playtime, 5 from 30 hours and 6 from 100 hours. Every vehicle title gives one more slot, up to 5 titles. Trailers count as vehicles.

Very rarely on workshop shelves and in police desks, or for 12 service tokens in the veterans' shop. You redeem it in the vehicle manager.

Only people with access, passengers too, everyone else gets kicked out right away. You give access once (until they get out), on loan for 1, 2 or 6 hours, or forever, to up to 10 people. Quickest via right-click on the player.

Drive and use the trunk. Taking parts off and siphoning fuel is only for the owner and people with permanent access.

They belong to the property: only members with the "Vehicles" right can use them. An unclaimed trailer belongs to its claimed towing vehicle.

No. Someone else's claim is a wall for cars, the car brakes gently before the border.

After 7 real days without logging in. A car parked in your claim never expires. You get a warning 24 hours before. If the claim expires, the car is scrapped. You can release a car at the earliest 10 minutes after claiming it.

Yes, in the vehicle manager. The buyer has to be online, stand at the car and accept within 60 seconds, payment goes account to account. They need a free vehicle slot.

Truck yard in Brandenburg: tractor units and trucks for $5,000 to $11,300. Trailer yard near West Point: trailers from $350, semi-trailers $5,400 to $7,500. Sports car house in Louisville: $13,600 to $17,800. Paid from your account, you need a free vehicle slot, and the vehicle comes already registered to you, with key and only a few kilometres on the clock.

Semi tractors and semi-trailers, military trucks (M35, M49, M911, Oshkosh), the Ford B700 and F700, the Bushmaster and the rare sports cars like KITT, the DeLorean and the GT500e.

Yes: roughly every 14 days a rare sports car shows up somewhere on the map, never in a claim. The feed announces it but not where. Whoever finds it first keeps it.

Every car has an odometer, and it decides how far you can repair it. Up to 80,000 km you can get it to 100 %, after that the limit drops evenly to 60 % from 250,000 km. Cars you find are often well past that. Mileage and limit are shown in the mechanics window, trailers have no odometer.

As the owner, via the "Paint" button in the mechanics window. Your own colour: 2 full paint buckets. Factory colour: 1 paint kit. Special livery: 1 paint kit plus $12,000. Paint kits are rare on workshop shelves or cost 1 service token.

Yes, in the mechanics window. Heater: Mechanics 1, 2 electronics scrap, 3 screws and a screwdriver, which gives 30 % plus 5 % per Mechanics level. Glovebox: 4 screws and a small metal sheet or 2 scrap metal. Radio: 2 electronics scrap or an amplifier, from Electrical 2.

Right-click and "Free car": it puts the car back on its wheels, pulls it out of the ground and unhooks a trailer. You have to be allowed to use the car, stand next to it, and nobody may be inside.

Yes, from the front, the back or a corner to turn it, if it's standing still and you may use it. It costs stamina, Strength helps.

Yes, with a welding mask and a torch. The car has to be empty and unhitched. Other people's and unclaimed cars only if they're under 65 % condition.

Fuel at the pump is cash only, $2 per litre. Gas stations are scarce: new fuel arrives rarely, as a 250 litre delivery, on average about 50 litres per pump per day. Empty pumps are normal, fuel is worth something.

Gas stations buy home-distilled fuel for $0.72 per litre in cash. Propane tanks can be refilled at any pump, $120 for a full tank, pro rata for what's missing.

No car alarms. Crashes don't hurt you, and you can't get run over either. In return cars use 25 % more fuel than default, and cars you find tend to be in bad shape.

Cash is bills in your inventory, they stay on your corpse when you die. The account is safe and shared by both characters on your Steam account. Shops, car dealers, library, barber and vending machines only charge your account.

For the pump (fuel and propane) and the slot machine. Bills you find are worth $0.45 to $7.50, the amount is in the item name. Right-click to split money or stack it.

At any ATM, no power needed. No fees, no interest.

Each tier sets how much your account can hold at most. Tier 1: $1,000 (free). Tier 2: $3,000 for $250. Tier 3: $5,000 for $750. Tier 4: $10,000 for $1,500. Tier 5: $25,000 for $4,000. Tier 6: $50,000 for $8,000. Tier 7: $100,000 for $15,000. You always buy the next tier at the ATM.

At the ATM you can only deposit up to the limit. If money gets credited to you, the part above the limit goes into your inventory as cash, and if you're offline you get it in cash shortly after your next login.

Yes, the kit is $3,000 at the furniture store. You set it up in your own claim, one per claim.

Deposit at an ATM in the PvP zone and you get 20 % on top once a day, on at most $300 deposited, so up to $60. You need 2 hours of playtime, and freshly withdrawn money doesn't count.

Each vote puts $10 to $50 in your account, even if you vote while offline, plus a random package at your next login: for example nails and screws, steel sheets, batteries, engine parts, canned food, seeds, ammo or antibiotics, rarely even an emergency radio. 30 % of the time there's a scratch card too: right-click to scratch it, 1 in 4 wins $5 to $50 to your account. In the game /vote opens the vote page, you can vote every 2 hours.

No. You earn money by selling, events, votes and trading.

Hand over cash, set up a trade corner in your claim, sell cars through the vehicle manager or put up your own vending machine. You can post offers in the marketplace on our Discord.

Right-click the ticket, "Scratch the ticket": 1 in 4 wins $5, $10, $20 or $50, straight to your account. You find tickets in the world, and a vote package has one with a 30 % chance. The pawnshop no longer buys tickets.

Yes, at the game table: Texas Hold'em and Monkey UNO with up to 6 people. Whoever sits down first is the host and starts the round, nothing starts by itself. Poker with blinds from 1/2 to 25/50 $ and 20 to 5,000 $ at the table, Monkey UNO for free or for 10 to 100 $. The money comes from your account, 1 % of every round goes to the state. The table can't be bought yet.

Only a little: AffenBiss is a loot game. You can buy at the car dealers, the specialist shop, the furniture store and with service tokens in the veterans' shop. Everything else you find, build yourself or trade. All shops are on the map.

McCoy lumber mill near Muldraugh (wood), metal works in Irvington (metal and scrap), farm buyer in Echo Creek (crops, herbs, meat, eggs, wool, leather), fish hall in Brandenburg (whole fish and crayfish), pawnshop (jewellery and valuables), furniture store (dismantled furniture) and library (books). All prices are on Economy, money goes to your account.

Only what's loose in your main inventory, not in bags, in your hands, worn or marked as favourite. Goods have to be intact, consumables full, food fresh and unbitten, containers empty. Planks, firewood, branches, twigs and metal bars are accepted in any condition, just not broken.

Each item has a daily demand that grows with the number of active players. Until it's met you get full price, then it drops piece by piece down to 30 %, and at double the demand the business stops buying. That clears again within a day. In the window yellow means normal price, red means full.

Yes. About every 6 hours the server picks 1 or 2 shops where all prices go up or down by 5 to 15 %. It's announced in chat. Car dealers never change.

Rings, necklaces, earrings, bangles, watches, gems, gold and silver, trophies and medals. A gold bar brings $400 for example, a silver bar $200, a gold trophy $150 and a diamond or a gold watch $50.

Furniture and appliances from $12 (rug) to $1,500 (heavy military container), plus the vending machine for $2,500 and the ATM for $3,000. It buys back dismantled furniture for about a fifth, a fridge for example costs $500 and brings $100.

Nolan's sells the workshop manuals for the modded vehicles that you can't get anywhere else: $1,000 for everyday cars, $1,500 for military vehicles and trailers, $2,000 for sports cars and heavy vehicles. Each manual is available once a week for the whole server, you learn it the moment you buy it.

A shop that only takes service tokens: paint kit 1 token, "The Machinist" magazine 2, survival radio 2, medical radio 3, army radio 3, stalker radio 4, vehicle title 12 and land deed 16 tokens.

Defend an emergency call (1 token and $150), help rebuild a destroyed shop (1 token from a 25 % share) and finish in the top 3 at horde events (3, 2 or 1 token). Your count is shown in the veterans' shop and the AffenBiss menu.

In March Ridge you read on site, taking books away isn't possible. The book has to fit your level, at most one level above. Volume 1 and magazines are free, volume 2 costs $3, volume 3 $6, volume 4 $10 and volume 5 $15, tapes $3 to $5. You pay once per title, continuing later is free. A book reads at half a second per page, faster when sitting.

$20 for the first copy of a title, $2 for every further one, up to 10 copies. Away from the library there are drop-off points with a book cart: it takes 2 to 6 hours, a quarter gets lost on the way, and the money arrives even if you're offline.

Yes, for $2,500 from the furniture store, one per person in your own claim. It has 12 slots with up to 50 items each, you set the price yourself. Buyers pay from their account even when you're offline, 5 % goes to the state, the rest you collect from the till. As the owner you take items out one by one or empty a whole slot. With power it cools like a fridge.

Insert cash ($5, $20 or $50) and play 5 reels with 10 lines, bet $0.10 to $2 per spin. The wild monkey replaces almost everything, 3, 4 or 5 bananas give 10, 15 or 20 free spins with double wins. Top win $500 per spin. On average it pays back around 80 %, the house wins. Walk away and you get your credit back in cash.

Yes. A cut costs $15, dyeing $25, with 14 colours. Shorter always works, longer only by growing: your beard grows one step every 8 hours of playtime, hair every 20 hours.

With an emergency radio: right-click, "Request supply flight", confirm. You have to stand outside, the radio is used up. The crate lands after 80 to 100 seconds a few tiles from you, away from all claims.

Army radio (weapons and gear), medical radio (medicine and some food), survival radio (food, water, tools) and stalker radio (protective gear, guarded). The normal emergency radio rolls the type.

In the veterans' shop for service tokens, rarely in the vote package, as a reward on the notice board, rarely in military storage and sometimes in event drops. There's no radio for money.

There's no daily limit. You can have 3 crates going at once, with a 1 minute pause between two calls.

A tall column of smoke rises over the landing spot, visible to everyone in sight. People closer by get direction and distance shown and hear an alarm at landing. The crate belongs to nobody: first come, first served.

2 military weapons with ammo and magazines: M16 and M4 most often, plus AKM, M14, FN FAL, G3, MP5 and rarely an M60. No shotguns there. Plus military gear like vests, army helmet, boots, camo trousers, gloves, balaclava, pads, holster, canteen and walkie-talkie, rations and bandages. 80 % of the time there's a rare item too.

Medical: lots of medicine (bandages, disinfectant, antibiotics, splints, first aid kits) and food, no weapons. Survival: food, water, tools, nails, rope, tent, sleeping bag, seeds and fishing rod, 30 % of the time a rare item. Stalker: gas mask, camo, vest, a weapon and 3 rare items guaranteed.

No. Usually you get a good part of the load, one in five times the full load, then with a packed military backpack. Rare items are for example a weapon light, SWAT vest, riot helmet, chest rig, car battery or generator.

Yes. 20 % of the time there's extra "rare loot", like a sledgehammer, katana, assault rifle, hunting rifle or scope. Every fourth hit is legendary, for example a legendary backpack or a legendary naginata. Legendary items only fly at night (22 to 6 o'clock game time) or in the PvP zone. When someone finds rare loot, the whole server sees it.

Yes, around 40 per wave, some already with the smoke, the rest after landing. At night and in the PvP zone 25 % more come. Army and stalker bring a second wave. Drop zombies take more hits, some wear military or police clothing, a few rare elite gear. Emptying the crate fast doesn't help, the horde comes anyway.

The crate is guarded by 3 to 5 guards who take far more hits: figures in hazmat suits, bandits with machetes or a spear squad. The guards carry loot themselves, like gas masks, ammo or antibiotics.

With 10 or more players online you always get a full army crate there with 3 weapons and 2 rare items, legendary loot possible any time. In return there are more and tougher zombies, and the whole server gets the coordinates.

Until it's empty. If nobody touches it, it disappears after 2 hours. If the flight can't land, you get your radio back.

A horde attacks a shop, business or state generator. The server announces it 10 minutes ahead, with reminders at 5 and 1 minute. Whoever stands in the red zone around the target defends. 3 waves, 60 zombies plus 15 per defender, at most 200.

About every 4 hours, when at least 15 players have been online for half an hour. Targets near players get picked. None around the restarts.

Anyone who spent at least 60 % of the time alive in the red zone gets $150 and 1 service token. One random defender gets rare loot 20 % of the time. You win when all waves fall or the target holds for 25 minutes.

It's broken and closed until it's rebuilt. On its own that takes 2 hours. It goes faster when you hand in planks, nails, screws and metal sheets. Anyone contributing at least 25 % gets 1 service token.

Server-wide tasks that start every 90 to 120 minutes once at least 8 players have been online for half an hour. An event lasts 15 minutes. Mostly it's a contest, sometimes a horde, a drop or a shared server goal.

Combat: for example head collecting week (kills), housewife power (frying pan and rolling pin), penny pincher (kills with one weapon), hit and run (by car), bouncer (shoving) and tap dance championship (stomping). Work and fun: lumberjack, fishing, fleeing the taxman, the undertaker, laundry day, crime scene cleaner, corpse looter, weak bladder, all you can eat, booze cup, olympic fence games and more.

Combat: $300, $150 and $75 for places 1 to 3. Work and fun: $150, $75 and $40. From place 4 there's $20 if you reach the minimum. Money goes to your account.

Hospital rounds, summer clearance sale at the mall, traffic control at the police station, last orders at the bar or Sunday mass at the church, wherever most players are nearby. 6 waves in 15 minutes. If you win, every defender gets $100, the top 3 by kills get 3, 2 and 1 service token.

In the drop event ("parcel left with the neighbour") an air drop lands at the player with the most people around them, with twice as many zombies. In a server goal the whole server works on something together, like kills, kilometres or meals. The goal grows with the player count (per player online 30 kills, 2.5 km or 5 meals), and everyone who does at least half their share gets $200.

Every larger town has a board with 5 notes: deliver, craft, hunt, explore and zombie jobs. You do the job and hand it in at the board, each note once a day. You get matching items, experience and reputation. Finish every board in one day and you get a survival radio.

Reputation levels you up: from 25 points Helper (hard notes and bounties), from 75 Known (sixth note), from 175 Solid (special notes), from 350 Respected (choose your reward), from 600 Legend (golden name). The helper of the week gets a survival radio and 20 % more experience for a day.

In the right weather you learn faster, with 50 % more experience: storms for carpentry and maintenance, thunderstorms for electrical, snow outside for fitness and strength, rain for farming, fog outside for sneaking and lightfooted. In sunshine you use 20 % less stamina running outside. The chat announces when it starts.

Guarded places with good loot, like military, police or gun stores. We don't tell you where they are. Tough guards come back over time, big places have a treasure chest once a week. You can't claim near them.

When a player dies, the chat shows a line with [RIP] and a dark-humoured line matching how they died. On Discord and the home page you'll also see level-ups, crowns, new claims, air drops, events and records, never positions or balances.

You need Metalworking 3 and Carpentry 3, a hammer, a pot, a metal pipe, 4 planks and 8 nails. You can only set up the kit in your own claim.

Beer and gin from Cooking 1, vodka from Cooking 2, rum from Cooking 3, brandy from 4, whiskey from 5 and fuel from Cooking 3 with Farming 2. Plus cider from Cooking 1, champagne, coffee liqueur, port, scotch and wine from 2, curaçao from 3, tequila from 4 and vermouth from 5. Beer ferments for 15 minutes, whiskey for 60. One bottle distils in 15 (beer) to 90 minutes (whiskey), a full batch of 10 bottles in up to 6 hours. Wood: half a unit per bottle.

Yes. After fermenting you have 2 hours at full quality, over the following 4 hours it drops to 50 %. Less quality means fewer bottles, at least one.

In the still from 10 crops (sugar beet, barley, wheat, rye, corn, sunflower or soy) and 10 litres of water, up to 10 litres per batch. You can fill up with it or sell it at gas stations.

It cures a zombie infection with a 65 % chance. Afterwards you're weak and tired for 15 minutes. If you're not infected, the ampoule isn't used up.

In three stages, each needing First Aid 10. Stages 1 and 2 run in the lab, 2 hours each, in full protective gear (gloves, gas mask, surgical cap, lab coat, scrubs, rubber boots). Stage 3 you distil in the still from the antiserum, vitamins, whiskey, vodka, honey and rat poison, which takes about 11 hours.

You connect sinks, basins, bathtubs, showers or toilets in your claim to rain barrels. You need a pipe wrench, metal pipes (one per 10 tiles) and the right to build. A pipe can be up to 40 tiles long, up to 6 barrels per basin. The water is rainwater: boil it before drinking.

Through our own music pack: boombox, walkman, discman, record player and the jukeboxes in bars. Record player and jukebox need power. Anyone who joins later hears the song from the right spot. Loud music attracts zombies, headphones never do.

Animals get little hungry or thirsty, give milk and wool quickly and hatch quickly. Grass grows back after 6 hours. On a pasture in your own claim they stay calm and take no damage as long as they're fed and watered. Animal sounds don't attract zombies.

Plants grow four times as fast as default (counted in game time), lose little water and resist disease well. They die indoors, and they grow by season.

Yes, but only while you're online: the beard one step every 8 hours, hair every 20 hours. You can cut it yourself or at the barber.

Only legendary backpacks and fanny packs. They last about 110 hours of wearing, with the weight reduction dropping to half along the way. You get a warning at 90 %, at 100 % the bag tears and the contents drop to the floor.

Yes: duffel, gym, tool, police and military bags can be worn low on the back, but only under an ALICE or legendary backpack.

When sprinting, a light on your belt can drop, with a 5 % chance after 3 seconds of sprinting. Never while running normally. Clumsy people lose it twice as often, graceful ones half as often.

Yes. Stand outside in the rain and the blood on your clothes, bags and skin is gone after about 10 minutes.

Right-click a pot, pan or stove to open our cooking window: click ingredients, "Add water", "Cook". The top shows when it's done.

A little more than default, concentrated in towns, mostly in groups. They don't open doors, don't destroy player builds and don't drag you down as a group. A few play dead.

Yes. Our zombies are only really active at night, and then about one in ten is a sprinter. During the day they shamble slower and chase less. Night in the game means dusk to dawn, longer or shorter depending on the season.

Only bites infect. If you're infected you die after 2 to 3 game days, so 8 to 12 real hours, and get up again shortly after. Only the Knox vaccine can save you.

Yes, but not many: an area has to go unseen for a while, then a few come back over time. Corpses disappear after 2 hours, with lots of corpses around you the server clears them sooner. Player corpses stay.

No, both are switched off.

Normal changes with rain, fog and snow that settles. The world starts in July.

Yes, world map and minimap are fully revealed from the start, but you need light to read them. On the map you only see friends and your faction.

After 7 game days (28 real hours) in containers that were already looted. Not in claims, not in houses with player builds or barricades, and not in containers that still hold 5 or more items. Loot is scarce overall.

Loose items on the ground outside claims are cleaned up after one game day (4 real hours), so the server stays fast without wipes. What stays: everything in your claim, weapons everywhere, plus logs, planks, stones, gas cans, propane tanks and generators. Rotten food in crates outside claims is cleared after about 6 hours.

Every night at the 5 o'clock restart part of the map gets fresh, in 42 nights every area has had its turn. Doors, windows, furniture and loot are back like on day one, and anything built or stored there is gone without replacement. Claims plus 3 tiles around them stay: what you want to keep belongs in your claim.

Other people's crates, cars and corpses have to be searched: items show up bit by bit, and taking everything at once only works afterwards. In your own claim and your own cars you see everything at once.

By playing: there are 40 ranks from Noob to Legend, counted by your real online time, both characters together. Rank 10 takes about 33 hours, rank 20 about 136, rank 40 about 550 hours. When you die, your rank stays.

Which rank you show, your name colour and whether rank, clan tag and crown appear in chat or above your head. There are 12 name colours, two right away, then a new one every 4 ranks.

Places 1 to 3 on a weekly leaderboard get a title and a gold, silver or bronze crown. There are leaderboards for kills, playtime, walking, driving, money, shopping, eating and more, in the game and on Leaderboards.

Founding costs $1,000 and needs 5 hours of playtime. A faction has up to 12 members, a leader and up to 3 deputies. You get your own chat with /f, a shared map with up to 20 markers and your members' positions, and you can add the faction to your claim as a group.

Yes, with the same tiers as the bank account. Every member can deposit, only leader and deputies can withdraw, at most $3,000 a day.

Not for playing. With an account you see your stats, rank and claims, link Discord and show up on the leaderboards. You sign in through Steam, no separate password, and we never see your Steam password.

Economy lists all buy and sell prices of the shops and businesses, same as in the game.

In game in the AffenBiss menu under "Changelogs", in the changelog and in the #changelog channel on our Discord.

In your account under "Your data". You can download everything we store about you there first.