Expanded firearms
Vanilla Firearms Expansion with the STALKER and Post 93 packs, plus weapon slings. Everything is found, nothing is bought.
Project Zomboid · Build 42 · Multiplayer
Past it there are no guarantees — just you, your gear, and the choices you make. A hardcore PvP server built on risk, exploration and everything you can carry out.
A new way to play Zomboid
Project Realism is a Build 42 server built around progression, risk and player interaction. Arm yourself, claim a safehouse, pick your friends carefully — and live with what happens next.
It's more than surviving the apocalypse. Build your character, establish yourself, form alliances, take risks, and survive the consequences.
Come make your markVanilla Firearms Expansion with the STALKER and Post 93 packs, plus weapon slings. Everything is found, nothing is bought.
Claim a safehouse with offline protection. Raids run weekends only — defend what you've built, or take the risk and go after someone else's.
M35 deuce-and-a-halfs, MUTTs, HMMWVs and cargo trailers out in the county. Find them, fix them, and keep them running.
Double XP across the board, and craftable skill journals to bank your progress — so dying costs you gear and ground, not every hour you've put in.
A short, deliberate list that runs stable in multiplayer. See all of it.
A public 64-slot server with the population to make rivalries, alliances and territory actually mean something.
Some areas have better loot. Some are far more dangerous.
The best gear in Knox County sits exactly where you are most likely to get killed for it. Military sites, gun stores, the buildings everyone else is watching too. Every run out is a decision.
Beyond the gate
Your base is only as safe as you can defend it. Roads aren't safe. Loot runs aren't safe. Anyone can be watching. Learn the map, watch your surroundings, and think twice before trusting another survivor.
Farms, forests and quiet roads. Slow going, thin pickings, and mostly the dead to worry about.
Everyone has to move eventually. Vehicles are loud, roads are open, and people sit and wait on them.
Military sites, gun stores and the places worth driving for. Naturally, they attract the most players — and the most PvP.
Claim a safehouse and it's protected while you're offline. Raiding runs at weekends only, so the week is yours to build and the weekend is yours to defend. Losing is part of it. Make allies, make enemies, and create your own story.
Season 1 mod list
Short, deliberate and stable in multiplayer. Guns, military vehicles and the quality-of-life fixes Build 42 actually needs — with vanilla survival left intact underneath. Everything downloads automatically when you join.
View the Steam collectionEvery mod on that list earns its slot. A 200-mod server is a server that crashes, desyncs and takes ten minutes to join. This one starts fast and stays up.
An experienced, active and fair staff team focused on keeping the server enjoyable, balanced and welcoming. Report rule breakers instead of retaliating — it gets handled.
Events
We run regular in-game events — announced in Discord, fought over in Knox County. Show up armed.
Base building & raiding
Because they do — every weekend. The full server rules live in our Discord; these are the ones that decide whether your base is legal.
Monday to Thursday your base cannot be raided. Build, farm, stockpile and move gear in peace. Come the weekend, all of it is on the table — and everyone knows it.
Build for Saturday, not for Tuesday.
Build to slow an attacker down, not to make entry impossible. Layers, distance and defenders are fair. Sealed rooms, blocked doorways and loot with no route to it are not.
The test: if an attacker cannot reach your loot by any route, your base is illegal.
Max 5 doors or gates between the outside world and any loot.
If it’s walled or gated and it isn’t yours, it’s a base. Going in is a raid.
Every floor holding loot needs working stairs.
Traps are a deterrent, not a layer. Nothing may stand in for a door.
Keep the map usable for everyone.
Max 2 vehicles stored inside your base.
One base per player or group. No alt bases, no decoy bases.
Not sure your design is legal? Post a screenshot in a safehouse ticket before you build it, not after staff find it.