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DJG's Bound Materials
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Build 41, Build 42, Building, Items, Misc, QoL, Realistic, WIP
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10 May @ 6:56pm
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DJG's Bound Materials

Description
Now compatible with both Build 41 & Build 42!

Currently available in:  
English 🇬🇧 - Spanish 🇪🇸 - Portuguese 🇵🇹 - French 🇫🇷 - Russian 🇷🇺 - German 🇩🇪 - Italian 🇮🇹



🔗 DJG's Bound materials.
Tidy up your survival materials and lighten your load!



❓ What Does This Mod Do?
This mod allows you to bind multiple building materials together using Rope or Sheet Rope, saving weight and space.





✨ Features
  • Bind and stack:
    • Planks
    • Sheet Metal
    • Small Sheet Metal
    • Tree Branches
    • Metal Pipes (Iron Pipes)
    • Lead Pipes
  • Bound materials weigh approximately 40% less
  • Neater, tidier appearance for organized storage
  • Improved space management for inventories, backpacks, and vehicles



⚙️ How It Works
  • Use Rope or Sheet Rope to bind materials
  • Bound bundles are crafted through the right-click context menu or the in-game Crafting menu.
  • Crafting is simple and requires no skills or magazines.

📝 Right click on the materials you wish to bind.
Select, for example, "Bind planks x5" from the right-click context menu. You can perform this action from your inventory or on the ground.

📝 Look for the 'Organize' category.
In both Build 41 and Build 42 you can access the crafting menu and search for the Organize category to craft the bound stacks.







🎯 Why Use It?
  • Keep your base, garage, or backyard looking clean
  • Reduce encumbrance while transporting materials
  • Maximize your vehicle storage potential



💡 Survive smarter. Stack better. Stay tidy.



Special thank you to Albion from the Project Zomboid Discod!
Thank you as well to the users that pointed out the bugs and broken functionalities.
JT1527, Iziu, _syntaxera_, Blast Fizzlebeef, YoptbI4

Workshop ID: 3479505015
Mod ID: DJG_BoundMaterials
64 Comments
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JD. Valentine  [author] 12 hours ago 
I've introduced the changes for build 41 that should respect the required encoding for Cyrillic characters. I'll start checking out the metal rods as requested soon enough. Please update the mod and let me know how does it go with the new encoding for Build 41 (build 42 should be fine).
JD. Valentine  [author] 4 Aug @ 10:34am 
I've spoken to much more experienced modders and they suggested Cp1251/Windows-1251 so imma use that one and see how it goes. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get around doing this.
YoptbI4 3 Aug @ 9:35pm 
I think that if you change the encoding of the files in the path
\content\108600\3479505015\mods\DJG_BoundMaterials\media\lua\shared\Translate\RU (as I understand it, this is for B41)
to ANSI encoding, then the problems with incorrect display will go away. At least, this is what I did on the B41when I had display issues.
YoptbI4 3 Aug @ 9:21pm 
I use Notepad++ myself for translation, but it sometimes saves the text file in a complex encoding, so it's likely that the game engine doesn't understand this encoding correctly. Therefore, I simply re-save the file using the default notepad with the required encoding.
YoptbI4 3 Aug @ 9:04pm 
As an amateur mod translator, I can say that there were problems with the encoding. In B41, ANSI was needed to display Cyrillic correctly, while in B42, UTF-8 was required. I have no issues with the mod (B42/Win10), but I often have to change the encoding .txt in mods that already have RU support from the author.
JD. Valentine  [author] 2 Aug @ 8:16am 
To the users that say Russian translation does not work. Can you tell me the Operating System you are using and the default encoding you have configured? Every documentation I read reports the UTF-8 as correct encoding, which is the one this mod currently uses. ASCII's limited character set is not a good choice for Cyrillic btw.

Also can you tell me which version of the game you are running 41/42?
JD. Valentine  [author] 1 Aug @ 5:14am 
You can add the mod to an ongoing multiplayer server. It only adds new recipies and items without touching any existing logic.
Proximitive 31 Jul @ 5:45pm 
can this be added on an ongoing mp server
JD. Valentine  [author] 30 Jul @ 9:24am 
@Cosmo I simply reduced 40% of the original weight (rounding down). I might reblanace this in the future. @OmomiKigo @shxgun ett thank you for your input. I tested it in my machines and both work fine. I will test with ANSI encoding rather than UTF-8 and if that fixes the problem I will update the mod. I will also try to inlcude the bound metal bars as requested by another user before.

Thank you everyone for your input.
shxgun ett 29 Jul @ 7:19am 
yeah my russian translation is broken too. playing on b41. also could've been nice to be able to bind metal rods too, they are a huge part of metalworking