Store Page
Project Zomboid
All Discussions Screenshots Artwork Broadcasts Videos Workshop News Guides Reviews

Project Zomboid

Store Page
Project Zomboid >  Workshop > albion's Workshop
936 ratings
Excavation - Basement Expansion
Description Discussions7 Comments372 Change Notes
17
8
10
4
4
2
   
Award
Favorite
Favorited
Unfavorite
Build 42, Building, Misc, Realistic, WIP
File Size
Posted
Updated
2.260 MB
Dec 25, 2024 @ 5:52pm
Mar 4 @ 1:28pm
12 Change Notes ( view )
Required items
This item requires all of the following other items
Created by
albion
Offline
See all 15593 collections created by albion and other people (some may be hidden)
138,461 Unique Visitors
81,091 Current Subscribers
4,280 Current Favorites

Subscribe to download
Excavation - Basement Expansion

In 2 collections by albion
Albion's PZ Mods
16 items
Mods using Starlit Library
10 items
Description
Allows digging through walls to create and expand basements. To dig, you need a shovel and some sacks to carry the dug out dirt in. You will need to sledgehammer any walls or pull up any flooring in the way first. Digging will tire you out very quickly.

Future features
While it is to the best of my knowledge stable, this mod is still WIP. Intended future features are:
  • Building stairs upwards out of underground areas.
  • Stability system that requires you to build sufficient supports or risk a lethal cave-in.
  • 'Minecraft' mode with underground ores.
  • Allow building new walls directly on top of dirt walls.

Known issues
  • Excavated areas are not considered indoors, so you will be rained on. This seems to be a hard limitation of the game, but I am still researching ways to bypass this.
  • Digging more than one layer down causes extreme visual bugs, so it is disabled by default.
  • Some flooring cannot be removed or dug through.

Translation credits
French translation by Furthick
Russian translation by Noomez
Brazilian Portuguese translation by Vinicius_Goy
Polish translation by Nacho Juarez
German translation by DaNeo
Spanish translation by Veloxyz
Turkish translation by BayGlitch
Italian translation by Gabbo990
Thai translation by Overlord

View on GitHub[github.com]

Workshop ID: 3392001801
Mod ID: Excavation
Popular Discussions View All (7)
13
Feb 16 @ 12:19am
Bugs
PKPenguin
13
Mar 28 @ 7:50pm
Translation
Furthick
2
1
Feb 18 @ 1:40pm
Spanish Translation
Veloxyz
372 Comments
< >
chicken leg 11 hours ago 
but I don’t wanna dig a hole :c
I wanna dig a basement ;w;
Lukewarm Moth 12 hours ago 
It allows you to make your own tomb to die in after becoming infected.
albion  [author] 18 hours ago 
you get to a dig a hole
chicken leg 18 hours ago 
i dont really see the point of using this mod if it doesnt even give you a roof.
its more like a very large pit
Lukewarm Moth May 23 @ 8:50am 
This mod is a pretty fun companion piece for Slayer's One Week, shame that the player made basements are considered to be outdoors as the post nuke stage makes everything cold for 3 months but is still manageable. But yeah, I hope TIS creates an update which makes it easier for modders to code new basement rooms as indoors, or just label floor -1 as being indoors in general.
Samurai May 17 @ 6:16am 
Alright, thanks.

I'm probably not alone in saying the community would greatly benefit from a write-up/steam guide of some kind on how the region manager and basements interact, and how that change could be implemented manually. If you have any specifics on that i'd def give it a read. Mod speed seems to always surpass the development of this game
albion  [author] May 17 @ 6:00am 
it's not possible, the region manager doesn't run underground so rooms will never form there. vanilla basements can create rooms directly but mods don't have the ability to do this
Samurai May 17 @ 5:57am 
Seems like all we would have to do is apply the same parameters on the player constructed basement that are applied on the auto generated basements, no?

If the vanilla generation does it, there has to be a way to update the map afterwards too.

I play on cryogenic winter, so I actually cant use this mod without a roof
albion  [author] May 17 @ 4:46am 
don't waste your time doing stuff like that, it straight up isn't possible in the current engine, the game will NEVER consider an underground area indoors or covered from rain, it's not an oversight in the mod it is literally impossible
Samurai May 17 @ 4:44am 
Just spent an hour fucking around in debug mode on B42 trying to add a roof. No luck.

Mod is pretty much worthless without a fix