This is personally one of my favorite mods when I was doing my realistic build 41 runs. I hope this mod gets updated for later iterations of the game in the future! Best wishes! <3

what should i do to make it work in b42?

Works fine in B42 if you just make the necessary folder adjustments yourself, fyi.

this is honestly one of my favorite mods for Zomboid. that risk of you deep in a building trying to avoid zombies and BAM! lights out! i really hope you do come back and make this for B42 when its able.

This mod does not make anything knock on your doors. Haha. But it may be the reason your power goes out.

duno if its from this mod but, i keep having phantom things knocking out our door and some times when i go out to see it, the power goes out in the base

i will probably start playing again when b42 has multiplayer, but i will not be focusing on the mod for a while so i can enjoy the game again. but then i'll eventually look into how much needs to be done to port it to 42

It's a couple months later, I'm curious if this is what you mean by b42 fully released or as in when B42 MP is released?

Someone mentioned water events. Aren't water facilities with their massive pumps powered by electricity too? perhaps you could simply add an option to include water shutdown when the power blacks out? Most big water facilities have backup power that kicks in when power goes out, but that only lasts so long without people around to maintain and refuel them. Great mod BTW. Love the concept and how it boost immersion.

Hello, this mod is not currently in development. When B42 is fully released I will decide if I have time to work on updating this mod for compatibility along with adding other WIP features we never got around to. For now, please enjoy this mod as it is in Build 41, and be patient until we see where we can go with it when Build 42 is out.

b42?

b42?

Date ranges better than "Vanilla's too soon I just spawned" or "too late I started a new save" options

i was chilling, making a salad in the kitchen when the power went out, the sound it made scared the hell out of me, 10/10 mod

Please add water shut off to correspond with blackouts! PLEEEEEASE!

it's not out yet

42?

I think that was something we had in the past and thought was resolved. I've been on hiatus for a long time but I do keep mental notes of the comments made.

Try unsubscribing from the mod, verifying integrity of files, and then resubscribing. If the issue still persists, please report it in the bug report thread so we can look at it again some day. Thanks!

Dumb thing, Having an issue where the power will go out until I load back into the game, have you seen the issue before? only started happening recently

That's a really neat idea! I hope someone gives it a spin some time!

I'd love to see random water outages as its own separate thing from blackouts. Definitely would keep you on your toes if the water shuts off randomly.

Pretty awesome mod

Thank you for all the support everyone! I will probably come back to try the game in vanilla for a while before seeing where the state of modding is at. For now, please hang tight and enjoy the new features of the unstable beta for B42, and continue enjoying this mod in B41 before it the update. If and when I update this mod, I want it to be in its best possible state before pushing it out

Hope to see this updated later on, great mod

Just to clarify, I do not personally consider 42 *out* for my own purposes since it does not yet have multiplayer and is still in a somewhat buggy, incomplete beta form. I can pass Joy what I have if they decide to get ahead on singleplayer modding, but I don't plan to work on modding PZ myself until MP is back and preferably the devs have done whatever they're going to do about gamepad support for the new features and menus.

Controller use is still officially "not recommended" for 42, so I plan to wait and see how much support the devs actually add before 42 gets multiplayer and enters stable branch. I'm an online controller player so I don't really want to get sucked into looking at all the things that need modded in 42 until those things are relatively finalized from the devs' perspective.

When 42 *actually* releases - not when stripped-down-42 beta is beta testing - I'll be more inclined to return.

i cant wait for the update! 42 out!

Looking forward to seeing again

When B42 is out i surely will have another go at the game. i'll do my best to make sure it is compatible and get it to a finalized state when that happens!

Hope this mod will be maintained and updated when B42 comes out.
With the new darkness mechanics, this mod will bring true terror into the game world.

Thank you for using our mod! I'm glad you are enjoying it!

I LOVE this mod! Sometimes I like to play with extended power and water, and this mod was just what I needed to shake things up!

No worries! Happy surviving!

Thought so, but wanted to double check. :)

@Blood no it will not turn off generators

Does this affect buildings powered by generators?

Yep, that's the best way to do it for now.

Took me a bit to figure out what you were saying, but I think I get it now.
Basically have the cut-off date faar into the future, but have the blackouts be for long durations and constant so that the norm becomes having no electricity, right? Genius, thanks man.

(You have to have global power for blackouts to make any sense, which is why the override exists to help people reactivate power on existing servers that have already lost power.)

If you adjust the Override in the sandbox, it should bring power back on your server (and therefore blackouts).

Also, can be combined with Restore Utilities mod.

Man, I misread and got excited. The mod is great in and of itself, but I thought for a second that the power could come back up momentarily after it gets cut off for good, the same way it can go out when there's still power. That would be amazing.
I'm big on lighting and how it can completely transform a space or moment just by itself (Drooling over B42's lighting changes), and PZ does it so incredibly well with some colored bulbs and well-placed lamps.
Sadly that only applies to your home base after the power goes out.
But it would be so cool to have it come back now and then, like the ghost of a city inviting you once more to what it was.
I would set a Dinner up just for that brief power surge and go soak in the ambience, maybe some 80s tracks in the jukebox, have a cigarette and some Nuka Cola..
Then poof, back to the overgrown run-down building where the dead fill the hallways.

I too am a bit burned out on PZ Modding to be honest, but I can get a translation update out if someone sends me files on Discord.

I don't mind uploading a translation file, but we can also add it to the base mod if you are okay with that. A future update we have on hold would add new sandbox options, so that would leave some untranslated content whenever that drops, though. For now, it should be fine. I am not currently working on the mod as I am on hiatus due to life and burnout.

(I don't think Joy will care if you upload *a new translation file* for this mod, but I would await their permission for any code uploads. I am only a helper on this mod.)

@dabuniu13 Just FYI, you should be able to make a translation for this mod by uploading only a translation file, by requiring this mod. I would not recommend reuploading the code for that, since the only translations are options and tooltips (nothing in-game).

If you reach out on Discord and you prefer, I can help with adding the translation to the main mod (with credits).

Hello, can I translate your mod and upload it to the creative workshop?

Or, you know, die...

Not yet but the current maximum override equates to 11 years if I recall correctly, so if you play in real-time or anything near that, you are very likely to find a generator and learn to use a plumbing mod before your power and water go out...

Is it possible to set the power shutoff to not happen? I'd like to keep power for my entire save

hi! thanks for the feedback. i was made aware of this suggestion but it will have to come next time i actually choose to work on the mod. thanks for using our mod and i will consider that in the future

We've been testing this on our server and it's great. I have a recommendation if it's possible to add values under 1 for more probability customization. We found that even at 1% blackout chance, it nearly consistently triggers every day and we would like it to be lower. It helps to be able to customize the cool down, but lower probability is more fun, especially with the option for it to be more frequent during storms. Thanks for making a cool mod!