Is there a way to disable boredom/depression?

[Nesano]

It's a pretty half-baked mechanic and it's really annoying on real-time mode because your character wants to kill himself after like 20 minutes indoors.

[Quill]

Depression is lost by gaining Happiness. Eat good cooked meals or read books

Depression is gained by either not smoking as a character with the smoker trait or having high boredom.

With Boredom that's much easier to fix

Go Outside

No, really. Going outside drops boredom. I often do my reading on rooftops outside and I never get bored. Another way to not get bored is with panic. I you have Claustrophobia and shove yourself into a tiny closet and do some reading you'll be panicked but not bored.

[Cute Fanat]

Boredom just go outside of any building/house/base, depression eat food/drinks that make u happy, read book, journals "Hot Chickens" Playboy without pixel girls huh, comics, antidepression pills.

[Herr Morlock]

Those mechanics do NOTHING! Why are even caring for them?

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by Würger:

Those mechanics do NOTHING! Why are even caring for them?

Really? Are you sure that a severely depressed moodle has no effect on any other game play?

[Zorlond]

Unhappiness also rises if your character is sick, especially if they got bit recently. Don't recall if it's a mod trait, but Hemophobic also gives a lot of unhappiness/stress, since you're constantly making more/walking past bloody corpses all the time.

As for why they're in the game? Dude, psychotic breaks and deep depression are staples of zombie apocalypse settings. Ya know, unless the writer is deliberately going goofy with it. But this isn't 'Zombieland', Project Zomboid is serious.

[Retro]

Originally posted by Shady Allie:

Originally posted by Würger:

Those mechanics do NOTHING! Why are even caring for them?

Really? Are you sure that a severely depressed moodle has no effect on any other game play?

He's talking out of his rear end.
Technically, boredom leads to unhappy which leads to depression.

When your character becomes unhappy, actions are performed slower. So yes, there are actual consequences in the game.

[Retro]

Originally posted by Würger:

Those mechanics do NOTHING! Why are even caring for them?

Wrong. https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Moodles#Bored

[Zorlond]

Originally posted by Retro:

When your character becomes unhappy, actions are performed slower. So yes, there are actual consequences in the game.

You're also more vulnerable to getting randomly sick, and DYING while sick if you're massively depressed.

[Dr.Gaubles]

Ummmm no depression stays with us all until we all die.

[Retro]

Originally posted by Zorlond:

You're also more vulnerable to getting randomly sick, and DYING while sick if you're massively depressed.

Where is your source for that? I've looked through the wiki, Reddit, the IndieStone forum, and now I'm looking through game files and there is no indication that's a game mechanic related to depression.

[Nesano]

Literally pop 2 anti-depressants and it goes away. It's not that I don't know how to deal with it, it's that it's incompatible with real-time mode because it doesn't scale right.

[Herr Morlock]

Originally posted by Retro:

Originally posted by Würger:

Those mechanics do NOTHING! Why are even caring for them?

Wrong. https://pzwiki.net/wiki/Moodles#Bored

I've played PZ for hundreds of hours and have not yet seen any difference between depressed and a "healthy" state of mind.
Can you be sure that those information on that wiki are true to the current state of the game?

[Cute Fanat]

Originally posted by Würger:

Those mechanics do NOTHING! Why are even caring for them?

If u unhappy or depressed I don't remember u do everything slower like packing/unpacking things, atk speed, other debuffs and ur character can kill himself if u have gun and bullet (if this was didn't fixed)

[Cute Fanat]

Originally posted by Dargsy:

Originally posted by Cute Fanat:

and ur character can kill himself if u have gun and bullet (if this was didn't fixed)

I have never once heard of this happening.

I remember it's old feature, never have this cuz never using guns but maybe it was in "story mode" with Kate and main character XD

[Deceptive Pastry]

This is why I love claustrophobic. Never get boredom when you have panic. If you have an indoor horde just lead them outside or to a bigger room. 4 free points.