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Project Zomboid guides
Project Zomboid: 14 guides from Play Your Way on getting started, server management and settings & admin, for your Project Zomboid server, written in plain English.
Getting Started
Server Management
Settings & Admin
Connect Project Zomboid to Discord
Link Project Zomboid's built-in Discord bot to your server: make the bot, paste its token and the chat channel's name in the Discord tab, and restart.
How to set the spawn point in Project Zomboid
Choose where new Project Zomboid characters start: spawn regions in the Worlds tab, one fixed spawn point, and the respawn switches in Server Settings.
Hunger, Thirst and Farming Rates in Zomboid
Slow or speed up hunger, thirst, fatigue and food spoilage, and tune crop growth speed and yield on your Project Zomboid server.
Project Zomboid admin commands and roles
Log in as your Project Zomboid server's admin, hand out roles, kick and ban, make the server whitelist-only and run admin commands from the panel.
Project Zomboid minimap: turn it on, coordinates, dots
Turn on the Project Zomboid mini-map, show player coordinates and choose which players appear on the map of your server.
Project Zomboid server and sandbox settings
Change your Project Zomboid server's rules and sandbox settings from the panel: presets, zombie speed and count, loot, day length and the whitelist.
Project Zomboid Server Command List
Every Project Zomboid admin command by job: players, items, teleporting, safehouses, weather and the server, with the syntax from the game's own help.
Spawn Items and Teleport in Project Zomboid
Give items, spawn vehicles and teleport players on a Project Zomboid server with additem, addvehicle and teleport, from the Console tab or in game.
Use RCON on Your Project Zomboid Server
Set an RCON port and password for outside tools on Project Zomboid, using an extra port, and see when the Console tab already does the job.
Mods & Plugins
Files & Backups
Project Zomboid Built-In Backups
What the game's own backup settings do, which of them start on or off on our servers, how to change them, and when the Backups tab is the better tool.
Upload a Project Zomboid save to your server
Zip a Project Zomboid world from your PC or another host, import it in the Worlds tab, switch between worlds and fix a save that won't load.
Get a Project Zomboid server
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These Project Zomboid guides cover getting started, server management, settings & admin, mods & plugins and files & backups. New to running a Project Zomboid server? Start with "Project Zomboid server: getting started", or search above for the error you are seeing.