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Occupation Based Starting Gear

Lore-friendly starting loadouts for all vanilla ocupations and optional skills rebalance to make sense picking a occupation! Starting itens are fully customizable in Sandbox.

All items were chosen based on the equipment used by these professionals in real life, but I tried to keep some balance: A Veteran could start with a M14 or a M16 rifle, and the Construction Worker should have at least a sledgehammer. But as I'm a fan of realism, but I also like challenge and balance, I decided to think better about items that make sense but don't turn you into John Wick on day one.



I added a submod with rebalanced skills for all ocupations to make sense of the items, because... Tell me:

• What's the point of studying medicine for six years if in Project Zomboid you start with only +3 First Aid and nothing more besides a dirty lab coat and faith in God?

• Why does a rural town cop who's probably only been pulling cats out of trees his entire life have +3 Aiming, if a battle-hardened, dessentized Veteran only has +2?

Personally I can't understand what The Indie Stone thinks about what realism is, as most vanilla professions are basically useless except for roleplaying or very niche roles. The starting skills in this game never made sense and the eternal meta is always Fire Officer, Burglar or Unemployed in every run.

(Also I added descriptions whit cues about what items you get at spawn if you only play in Apocalypse mode, but if you don't like them, there's a submod without it.)




Original mod was made by "VOID", and the B42 Port was done by "Mang". With all my heart, thank you.




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