Custom Mods

Mods created for the server including quality of life features, UI re-designs, graphical overhauls, special zombies and more. Listed in alphabetical order.

Customisation

Press Esc > Options > Mods and scroll down to Custom UI to revert custom UI back to vanilla or toggle features.

⊞ Tray

This button grants access to many features.

Note: You can drag the co-ordinate display to a different position.

🔔 Admin Services

Opens a panel with common requests for staff, such as:

Claiming a safehouse with Safehouse Planner.
Requesting removal of a tile or misplaced container that became protected. Use the 'Tile Picker' to automatically pickup fake generators (decorations added in some map mods).
Request a car key or removing rust from a car.
Reporting an abandoned vehicle, safehouse hoarding vehicles or player.

This creates a ticket to staff who will respond when available, some actions can even be done remotely without staff logging into the server. Please be patient as all are volunteers. You do not need to remain online for a request to be fulfilled.

🛠 Tools

• Base catalogue

Allows you to view, search and sort the contents of the base, as well as view additional status updates. See Base Catalogue for more info.

• Field guide

The B41 Craft Helper, rebuilt for B42. A searchable catalogue of every recipe and craftable item in the game. Look up a recipe to see everything it needs or look up an item to see what crafts it, what it is used or borrowed for, where it is looted, where it is foraged and which book teaches it.

• Crops

Available when in a safezone with crops. Displays the health and watering status of every crop.

• Traps

Shows the status of your traps.

• Connection info

Latency, jitter, packet loss and more.

• Death marker

A snapshot of where you died, kept for 30 minutes.

📈 Statistics

Kills, deaths, playtime and more ranked on a leaderboard.

👥 Social

Faction Recruiter - Post your faction or apply to existing faction posts. See Factions.
Find a Vehicle - Available after 1 hour of play. See Vehicles.
Find a Ride - Lift service fulfilled by the community. See How to Get a Lift.
Auction House - Items listed by players for bidding. See Economy for more ways to trade.
Businesses - Post or view player-run services. See Businesses for an idea.

🎲 Games

Games can only be played when in a safe area far from any zombies.

• Plushie Pulls

A free daily slot machine to try your luck at obtaining a plushie, including ones unique to the server. Your character can play with a plushie for a happiness boost.

• Other games

Wordle
Four of a kind
Pairs memory match
Higher or lower

🐶 Adoption Centre & Kennel

Custom extensions to the Companion Dogs framework which lets you leave a companion for others to adopt, or store a companion in a virtual kennel. See Companions for more info.

🔇 Advanced Audio

Restores the advanced audio button under Esc > Options > Audio. Adds a search bar to look for specific sounds and the ability to play the sound to test.

Some examples of common sounds you can lower or mute:

HeartBeat

If you have a trait that causes panic you'll hear this a lot.

GeneratorLoop
OldGeneratorLoop

The constant hum of the generator running at your base.

UIClickToStart

The thud noise for Click to Start, which may be a bit loud for some.

BPV_Scream_01
BPV_Scream_02

The midnight hour scream to signify volatiles spawning, which is played globally even when not near a volatile zone.

FemaleBeingEatenDeath
MaleBeingEatenDeath

The grisly munching sounds on the death screen.

AnimalVoiceBullIdle
AnimalVoiceCowIdle

For if you don't want the ambient noise of cows or bulls mooing.

🪛 Auto Chores

Makes repetitive tasks more convenient.

Auto ChoresAlleviating repetitive tasks with auto chores, usage tips.

📌 Bulletin Board

Staff have the option to put map markers and server news straight onto the world map.

Open the board from the button in the map's own button row — a red dot means there's something you haven't read. Click any post to read it in full, and markers fade in as you zoom, same as normal map symbols.

Comes with an icon set in the map's symbol picker for your own annotations.

📤 Bundling

Right-click on compatible items and bundle to reduce weight by half.

🚓 Car Skins

Custom car skins requested by donators or added by staff. Cars can spawn with a random skin already applied or donators can choose by right-clicking on a car and selecting Vehicle Modifications > Vehicle Skin Changer UI.

See Guide: How to request complex car skins for more info.

🎰 Casino

Casinos offer an alternative way to get money in the game competing against other players or the house.

CasinoAbout the casino, chips, available games, membership card.

🗪 Chat Overhaul

Right-click a location on the map to create a link you can paste in chat. Players clicking on it will have their map pop open at that spot.
Right-click an item in the world to link it in chat. Some items are grouped so it may not be possible to, for example, link a specific book title.
The Dawn of the Dead logo lets you customise some aspects of your chat profile.
The face symbol lets you post emoji or stickers.
Click the cog icon to toggle displaying some features.
Select a tab to focus on a specific channel e.g. the envelope for private messages.

👕 Cosmetic Transmog

Change appearance of clothing to match another item you've previously picked up or hide parts of your armour.

AppearanceWays to customise your character that's different on the server.

🚩 Claim System

Custom Vehicle Claim System, which also works for Livestock and Animals.

VehiclesWhere to find cars, how to claim a car, getting a lift, tips and advice about various vehicle aspects.

AnimalsInformation on animals, how to find and claim them, animal care tips.

☺ Client Quality of Life

An overhaul of various information panels for convenience.

Health: Right-click a bandage to replace with a clean one from your inventory. Indicates Knox infection status with a green skull top left (can be toggled off in Esc > Mods > Custom UI). Detailed injury status.
Generator: Runtime, fuel and list of devices pulling power. Show the generator's range.
Death screen: Death screen repainted as a card, with that life's story in 3D.
Animal: Rebuilt animal and livestock-zone windows with hunger/thirst/bond meters, growth speed, produce and breeding readouts, one-click pet/feed/milk/shear, a searchable zone roster with per-animal icons, and a Designated Zones list showing the pen you are standing in plus every other one within 300 tiles with its distance and bearing.

Vehicle Mechanics

Rebuilt mechanics window with fuel/battery/engine/key status at a glance, ordered searchable parts list with condition bars, filters for what is damaged, missing or fixable right now, a requirements list and one-click action per part, a whole-vehicle shopping list, and a Fix What I Can button. Right-click a vehicle part in the panel to jump straight to its crafting recipe.

Foraging

Everything you've foraged in a session, in one list. Zone info and why the odds move.

Fishing

Rebuilt fishing panel with a species guide and a log of what you've caught.

Safehouse

Member online status, a shared to-do list and you can invite players who are offline. Client > Safehouse lists every safehouse you belong to, so managing multiple is easy.

Faction

Member online status and you can invite players who are offline.

Info

Restyled character window with extra readings on each tab.

Trading

Avatar preview, 40 slots instead of 20. Multiple of the same item now stacks in one slot. Restyled item icons and both players' seal state.

Animals in vehicles/trailers

Displayed as a list, with each animal's condition and buttons.

Clothing

Inspect window with corrected protection numbers and sewing buttons.

Collection Log

A grid of every recipe, book, tape, vehicle and notable item.

Equipment Interface

Redesigned equipment screen.

🦝 Companions

Custom additions using the Companion Dogs framework, as of this writing 28/10/26 that includes a fox and raccoon.

CompanionsAbout companion pets, where to find them, perks and more.

🕯️ Custom Tiles

Buildable light fixtures, furniture, signs, flags and other decorations requested by donators or created by staff. Find them in the DOTD category of the Knox Buildworks menu.

🥤 Energy Drinks

Different flavours of energy drink that wipe out your tiredness. Found in vending machines and fridges.

⌚ Exotic Watches

Luxury watch designs, wearable on either wrist. They turn up in watch shops and jewellery displays, less often in department stores, bedroom dressers and wardrobes, and rarely in a zombie's pockets.

As of this writing, 28/10/26 it is planned in the future for these to be added to the list of items you can sell via right-click Economy.

🍫 Freddo Chocolate

A chocolate bar that when eaten gives a wrapper of different rarities (Common, Rare, Unique), which can be sold via right-click Economy. Rare chance to be found when looting zombies, in kitchens, school desks, supermarkets, shelves or crates storing candy and bins.

📍 GPS

Right-click on the map and make a waypoint to a road to create a guided path to the destination.

🧺 Labelled Crates & Custom Containers

Buildable crates with a picture of what's inside painted on them, 25 categories, they hold 50% more than a normal wooden crate.

Custom hand-made storage containers including but not limited to: Picnic Baskets, Kitchen Rack, Knife Crate, Linen Rack, Medical Cases, Sewing Case, Metal Shelving, Suitcase Stack, Valuables Chest, Wardrobe, Weapon Rack, Wooden Chest and Bookcase.

Find them in the Knox Buildworks menu under Containers.

🧸 Plushies

Various plushies, which can be attached to backpacks, ALICE webbing, or hang them off both hips from a belt. Found in toy shops and kids' bedrooms most often, the odd one elsewhere.

🌆 Shaders

A graphical overhaul for isometric view with shading, lighting, shadows and other effects.

Optional: Enhanced ShadersAbout shaders, how to install and tweak.

📦 Storage Network

Extra storage on top of your containers, kept safe by the server.

Find a storage hub such as a Freight Drop Terminal, stand next to it, right-click it and open Storage network.
Set to Private it is yours alone and reachable from every hub. Faction is shared with your faction. On site belongs to that one hub, and anyone can use it.
Store single items or everything shown, take 1, 10 or all, and search. Identical items stack, and items come back exactly as they went in: condition, ammo, liquids, clothing damage and gun parts are kept.
Each storage holds up to 500 stacks and 20,000 items.
Food keeps rotting while stored.

Not accepted: bags, keys, maps, radios, watches, furniture, patched clothing, mixed liquids, frozen food (thaw it first), part-eaten or seasoned food, sharpened blades, written-in items, and anything equipped or marked as a favourite. The window tells you why.

📝 Tips

Tips regarding gameplay and the server for new players which display every so often at the bottom of the screen. You can disable seeing them in Esc > Options > Mods.

🧟 Undead

Custom special zombies, each with their own attack behaviour. See Zones: Undead for more details.