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Undead Honor

• This mod works in solo and multiplayer.
  
• This mod can be added or removed safely at any time.

In vanilla Project Zomboid, no zombie has even the tiniest imaginable shred of honor. Zombies will eat you while your game is still loading even though you cannot see or do anything, and they will feel absolutely no shame. Then everything will become visible, and you will be dead, and they will step on your body until you reanimate or ragequit. I get it. Maybe zombies should have no honor. It's a vibe. But, for many people connecting to multiplayer servers and loading heavily modded solo games every day, it's a frequently frustrating and unfair vibe.

This mod makes zombies honorable. If zombies target you, they will immediately realize that you haven't yet moved or aimed, and they will therefore change their minds and refrain from attacking you until you start moving, aiming, attacking, or performing actions.

• Options exist in the sandbox for determining how quickly zombies react after players begin moving or aiming.
  
• Zombies will approach new players and may begin to lunge once, but should not actually deal damage if the player is not yet ready.
  
• This mod does not require the host to disable any anti-cheat protection.
  
• This mod does not set any cheat-associated states (such as God mode or invisibility) on the player; it only affects the behaviors of zombies that are either lunging at or visible to the player.
  
• This mod will not heal the player or have any other odd unintended side effects to my knowledge.
  
• Using Mod Options, players can enable an optional icon that indicates when zombies are waiting for the player to be ready. Mod Options is optional; it is not required for this mod to work. It's only necessary if players want access to the indicator option.
  
• Players can enable both Undead Honor and Mod Options in the main menu of Project Zomboid before joining a server if they would like to enable the indicator icon in game options before spawning into a world.
  
• This mod will still allow characters to die by other means if players quit and reload while they are on the verge of death, so don't expect it to protect them from everything.

Please let me know if you have any feedback, requests, or issues, and feel free to try my other mods if you like this one!

For an even greater sense of security, consider running Advanced Death Log as well. It can allow you to easily restore a lot of your lost character data when you die.

Thanks to Brian J Bonislawsky of the Astigmatic One Eye Typographic Institute[www.1001fonts.com] for the great free font.

Shout-out to Stix for help with the icon!

Since y'all seem to enjoy not losing player data tragically, you might also enjoy my other latest mod, Advanced Death Log, which can not only track data related to player deaths but help restore lost skills, traits, and inventory. Additionally, Magic Chat will ensure that your players see server messages even if their chats are closed so that they won't lose data when servers restart, while also adding gamepad support to the chat interface!


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Workshop ID: 3302050113
Mod ID: UndeadHonor