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DayW - The Zombie Mod

Their main activity is lurking around in the Constant and aggro on players around them. They climb out of the ground endlessly and randomly, but there are few tricks to fight against them and even benefit of them.

Health: 125
Damage: 15
Negative Sanity Aura: -20/min

They can be staggered (making them cancel their attacks) if you deal 50 or more damage to them.


Zombies can be stunned with any form of light source. When they are „stunned” they stuck in the insanity headache animation as long as they are in the radius of the light. Once they are out, they continue their last task.


There are four type of zombies:
- Grey brain - They hate any type of light
- Red brain - They hate natural and fire-related light
- Blue brain - They hate artificial light
- Brainless ones - They are immune to any type of light


Zombies prioritize brains over everything. If there’s a brain item on the ground, all nearby zombies lose aggro and rush to pick it up. Consequently, if a player carries a brain in their inventory, they rush to kill the player as well. In both cases, they recklessly continue the chase until the brain has been picked up by them or the brain carrier player has been killed and the carried brain has been eaten.

The brain can be eaten by both the player and the zombies. It restores 15 Hunger and decreases Sanity by 40.

Brainless zombies won't eat brains, instead they put it in their own skulls, transforming themselves into a grey brain zombie.



All zombies have a chance to drop a Zombie Arm item when they die. It can be used both as a weapon and as a Crockpot filler - even if it has the same effect there as a Monster Meat.

This is the only item that zombies can pick up as well and use as a weapon.
It deals 45 damage to mobs and 65 damage to players (if used by another player) as a weapon with 75 uses.




Players can craft a new item, the Brainstaff. While it's equipped, the spawn rate of the zombies highly increases around the wielder and - just like with the regular brain item - they will start to chase the carrier.

However, during these chases, zombies can set up themselves so much that they will go and attack any other non-zobmie mob they can find.

The staff deals 50 damage when used as a weapon. It spoils, but doesn't lose durability from attacks. Brainless zombies can use it to put a grey brain into their skulls - destroying the staff in the process.




- One brain (if they have one)
- 1-3 Monster Meat
- 0-1 Bone shards
- 0-1 Zombie Arm


During full moon, all zombies do the dance emote until sunrise. They only stop it if they have been hit.


Zombies won’t attack and can’t become aggro targets to any mob except:
- If the player attacks a zombie with a companion, the companion can attack the zombie (like a befriended pigman, Kronk, etc.)
- If a mob accidentally damages a zombie with an area damage effect, the zombie will attack the damage dealer (keeping the sinkhole movement). The target mob is able to counterattack.
- Zombies don’t help each other. If a zombie has been attacked, the other zombies won’t
bother to help. They have individual aggro triggers.


2023.03.23.: Zombie aggro range and spawn restriction around structures is now configurable. WX78's light module added to Blue Brain Zombie light list. Improved Zombie AI about their behaviour around walls and fences.
V1.0.: The mod has been published, collecting feedback.


- Monti provided the programming part of the mod. He did an outstanding job, as always.
- Special thanks to the kind members of the Klei forum. Without their help this mod would have never been created.
- The thumbnail background art is not my work, I've used a concept art image from the game.
- You may copy the codings of my mods, but I don't allow to use my sprites in any other mod.


- Balance changes (if needed)
- Visual updates (if needed)


If you experience any performance problems while using the mod, please, report your experience and try to reduce the zombie density at the configuration settings.


I've created a whole guide about character creation. Feel free to check it out:
https://forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic/129004-guide-the-big-book-of-dst-character-creation/

Check out my other DST mods:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/profiles/76561198129541353/myworkshopfiles/?appid=322330




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