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Merchant Island - Deadline RP

🏝️ Merchant Island – Standalone RP Map

🌆 Kentucky Reimagined for Roleplay A standalone island map built from Alree’s Unjammed Kentucky, with towns relocated closer to each other to cut travel time.

✨ Designed and optimized for multiplayer roleplay, while fully playable in singleplayer.

⚔️ Deadline RP Server ⚔️

Come see Merchant Island with the rest of the Deadline RP community — a living world where 🔎 hidden POIs, 📖 evolving lore events, and 🗺️ exclusive features unfold in real time.
Whether you’re a seasoned roleplayer or brand new to RP, you’ll find a place here. The server is beginner-friendly, highly active, and has been thriving for over a year, with a community of 2,000+ Discord members keeping the island alive.

🔥 Come for the survival — stay for the stories.

📌 Discord: https://discord.gg/deadline-rp

📌 Server Info: Persistent RP world, community-driven survival, and long-term storytelling.

🗺️ About the Map Merchant Island is a standalone island map, not part of vanilla Knox Country. It blends custom locations with Kentucky towns — moved closer together for faster RP interaction and less downtime.

📦 500+ cells
🏙️ Relocated Kentucky towns for RP-friendly travel
🎬 Includes the Kingsmouth, Knox Event & Film Studio challenge maps
🌍 Fully integrated with community maps and tile packs
🎭 Built for Deadline RP, but available for everyone
🧱 Custom Assets Included 🚏 Island-Friendly Signs – road and town signs completely reworked for the island identity 🎨 Exclusive Tile Work – custom tile sheets created to give the island its own feel
🔄 B42 → B41 Tile Mod – includes my exclusive backport of Build 42 tiles for Build 41
Check it out here! https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3582341889

💾 Installation (Clean Setup Required)

⚠️ Merchant Island must be run once on a clean Project Zomboid Build 41 install. All Workshop mods need to be unsubscribed first. Steps:
❌ Unsubscribe from ALL Workshop mods.
✅ Subscribe only to: Merchant Island Dependencies (Steam will auto-sub them).
🟢 Enable all mods.
🔀 Set the load order BEFORE launching the game – Islandblends must take higher priority than trimble (check screenshot in the slideshow for correct setup).
🎯 Choose World 1 and only use Muldraugh or modded maps for spawn (Rosewood, Westpoint, and Riverside do not work — update coming soon).
▶️ Run the game once with ONLY this setup.
📝 Start a new game so the map generates properly.
❌ Close the game.
🎉 Now you may re-subscribe and enable other mods.


🙏 Credits & Thanks
Merchant Island is a community achievement — built on the foundations, tiles, TBX and maps created by countless modders.

💎 A Special Thank You

Alree – for Unjammed Kentucky, the foundation this island is built on.
Daddy Dirkie Dirk – for his YouTube tutorials, teaching a generation of PZ mappers including me.

👉 Without you, this map simply would not exist.

🌍 Community Map Makers Thanks to the authors of New Albany, LV International Airport / ValuTech Amusement Park, and Trimble County Power Station & La Grange. Your maps make the world feel alive and connected.

🎨 Tilepack Creators Massive gratitude to Azakaela, BigZombieMonkey, Cookie, Daddy Dirkie Dirk, Dylan, Erika, ExtraNoise, Fantasiado, Simon_MD, throttlekitty, Melo, Pert, Oujinjin, Skizot, Tryhonesty, and the Legendary Fear. Every street, wall, and detail comes alive thanks to your creativity.


💻 The Unofficial PZ Mapping Discord The heart of PZ modding.

Thank you for the thousands of hours spent on maps, TBX and tiles.
its truly Amazing to see what gets made in that discord server!!!
Merchant Island belongs as much to you as it does to me. and i hope you enjoy it :)


🎭 RP Communities Special thanks to Nightfall RP and Deadline RP for running the map live, bug testing, and giving feedback. Your roleplay communities helped shape and refine Merchant Island into what it is today.

❤️ And to the entire Project Zomboid community: thank you.

⚠️ Known Issues Spawn points (Rosewood, Westpoint, Riverside not yet functional).

🚀 Future Plans To continue working with Deadline RP and expand south to connect with even more maps.


🚫 Permissions

❌ Do not reupload, repack, or redistribute this mod (or any part of it) without permission.
✅ Server owners are welcome to add Merchant Island to their collections, provided it links back to this Workshop page.
🧱 Tile assets and maps included in this pack are exclusive to Merchant Island and not to be reused elsewhere without prior approval.


This project represents thousands of hours of work by myself and the wider PZ modding community. Respect the effort — don’t steal it.

Workshop ID: 3577181530
Mod ID: b42tob41
Mod ID: islandblends
Mod ID: islandtiles
Mod ID: KYGONE
Mod ID: MerchantIsland
Mod ID: noislandpowerlines
Map Folder: islandblends
Map Folder: Muldraugh, KY