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Alternate Occupations

Expand your Project Zomboid gameplay with over 25 unique professions! Each offering unique traits, skill boosts, and roleplaying opportunities. Whether you want to survive as a hardened blacksmith, a resourceful scavenger, or a charismatic musician, this mod adds depth and variety to your gameplay.

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• 25+ New Professions: Unique playstyles and thematic character designs for a variety of survival approaches.
  
• Balanced Point Costs: Each profession is fine-tuned to ensure fair and engaging gameplay.
  
• Immersive Traits: Professions include new and existing traits for added depth.
  
• Starting Items: Equipment and tools are carefully chosen for each profession. (not yet implemented)
  
• Dynamic Mod Support: Special perks and traits for musicians when the "Lifestyle", "Explorer Trait", or "Scavenging Skill" mods are active.

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"Survivor of hardship, a humble but resilient worker."
Skills: Farming (1)
Traits: Cowardly

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"Follower of forbidden rites with a knack for crafting and farming."
Skills: Farming (2), Tailoring (2), Cooking (1)
Traits: Sober
Recipes: Metal walls, mildew cures, slug traps, and more.

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"A simple farmer, builder, and fixer of the old world."
Skills: Farming (2), Woodwork (2), Maintenance (1)
Traits: Handy

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"A skilled tailor with nimble hands."
Skills: Tailoring (3), Small Blade (2)
Traits: Dextrous, Tailor

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"A healer and gatherer with knowledge of the wild."
Skills: Doctor (3), PlantScavenging (2)
Traits: Herbalist

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"A forger of tools and weapons, essential for survival."
Skills: MetalWelding (4), Mechanics (1)
Recipes: Metal walls, armor, and containers.

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"An inventive spirit who can fix almost anything."
Skills: Electricity (2), Mechanics (2), Maintenance (1)
Recipes: Advanced mechanics and generator crafting.

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"A master of looting and surviving in the ruins."
Skills: PlantScavenging (2), Mechanics (2), SmallBlunt (1)
Traits: Burglar, NightVision

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"An expert in finding and collecting natural resources."
Skills: PlantScavenging (4), Trapping (1)
Traits: EagleEyed

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"A reclusive survivor, thriving in isolation."
Skills: PlantScavenging (2), Trapping (1), Fishing (1), Woodwork (1)
Traits: Outdoorsman, Solitary, Whittler

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"A stealthy marksman and trapper."
Skills: Aiming (2), Trapping (2), Sneak (1), Lightfoot (1)
Traits: KeenHearing

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"A brutal survivor skilled in combat and scavenging."
Skills: Aiming (2), Blunt (1), SmallBlade (1), MetalWelding (1)

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"A charismatic trader with an eye for opportunity."
Skills: Mechanics (1), PlantScavenging (1), Electricity (1), Maintenance (2)
Traits: Trader

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"A disciplined soldier ready for the apocalypse."
Skills: Aiming (3), Reloading (2)
Traits: Brave

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"A quick and observant pathfinder."
Skills: Sprinting (1), Sneak (2), Lightfoot (1), Electricity (1)

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"A relentless tracker with deadly aim."
Skills: Aiming (5), Reloading (5)
Traits: Desensitized

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"A resourceful survivor deeply connected to the wild."
Skills: Spear (4), Trapping (2), Fishing (1), PlantScavenging (1)
Traits: Illiterate, Outdoorsman, NightVision

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"An unpredictable fighter with a twisted mind."
Skills: LongBlade (2), SmallBlade (1), Axe (1), Aiming (1)
Traits: Desensitized

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"A nimble and elegant performer."
Skills: Lightfoot (2), Nimble (3), Fitness (1)
Traits: Graceful, Pretty

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"A teacher of all trades, a learner of survival."
Skills: Woodwork (1), Cooking (1), Farming (1), Doctor (1), Tailoring (1), PlantScavenging (1), Trapping (1)

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"A fierce combatant born to fight."
Skills: LongBlade (1), Axe (2), Strength (2)
Traits: Axeman, Brawler

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"A loafer who thrives on doing the bare minimum."
Traits: Untalented

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"A quick-footed delivery specialist."
Skills: Sprinting (3), Sneak (2), Fitness (2)
Traits: Pathfinder

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"A self-sufficient farmer and animal caretaker."
Skills: Farming (3), Cooking (2), Husbandry (3), Butchering (2)
Starting Trait: Self-Reliant

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"A master of stealth and light fingers."
Skills: Sneak (2), Lightfoot (2), Nimble (2), SmallBlade (1)
Traits: Burglar, Inconspicuous

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"Prepared for any disaster with versatile survival skills."
Skills: Maintenance (1), Cooking (2), Woodwork (1), Doctor (1), Electricity (1), Aiming (2), Reloading (1), Fishing (2), Trapping (1)
Traits: LowThirst

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"A beacon of hope in dark times."
Skills: Lightfoot (3), Doctor (1)
Traits: LightEater, Pacifist, IronGut

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"From the stage to the apocalypse, rhythm is your survival skill."
Skills: Nimble (2), Blunt (2), Maintenance (1)
Traits: KeenHearing
Note: Additional perks for Music and Dancing if the Lifestyle mod is active.

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"An artisan of clay and soil."
Skills: Pottery (3), PlantScavenging (2)
Traits: Graceful, Handy

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"A skilled craftsman in handling and processing meat efficiently."
Skills: Butchering (3)
Starting Trait: Blade Tools Specialist

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"A spiritual guide devoted to leading a halal lifestyle."
Starting Trait: Halal Lifestyle (Functionality Pending)

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This mod is designed to work seamlessly with other trait and profession mods. No base game professions or traits are overwritten, ensuring compatibility with a wide range of mods.

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Your feedback is essential to improving this mod! Please share your thoughts on the mod page or in the following discord channel: https://discord.gg/kKeWcpKa .

It basically is a rewrite and expansion of Post Apocalyptic Occupations by NukaBoy https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2960670927.

Workshop ID: 3387563172
Mod ID: AlternateOccupations

Workshop ID: 3387563172
Mod ID: AlternateOccupations