Project Zomboid will try to stop you urviving at all costs. From when you first start a new character you will see the words, this is how you died. The game is a hardcore survival experience with a large emphasis on hardcore. Naturally apart from making the game easier through settings, you can always make use of some of the game’s cheats.
This article will go through some of the ways that you can use cheats to give youself an advantage in the game.
Contents:
You can select any of the links below to jump straight to any relevant part of the game.
How to Enable Cheats Using the Debug Menu
How to Use Cheats In-Game
Enabling God Mode
Invisible Cheat
Infinite Building/Creative Mode Cheat
How To Enable Cheats in Project Zomboid
By default, there is no cheat menu in the game. There isn’t some special cheat code to input into the game and you cannot type any cheats into the console whilst playing the game. To cheat in Project Zomboid you will have to set a certain launch option before you start the game.
The first step is to find the Project Zomboid game in your Steam library. Once you have found the game, right-click on the game and go to the ‘Properties’ tab.
Once you have opened the right-click menu, go down to properties and select it. From here you can opt into the latest beta, change game settings and other local setting but we are going to go to the ‘General’ tab which should be open first by default.
Go down to the small text box which is under ‘Launch Options’ and type in “-debug” into this field. It will look as in the image below.
Once you have typed this into the both, you can close the menu and start the game as you normally would. Once you have gotten to the main menu, start a new game and select any of the scenarios that you would wish to play in.
You won’t see any obvious changes to the game yet, until you have actually gotten into the world with your character. Read the next section to find out how you can use the cheats in Project Zomboid.
How to Use Cheats
Now that we’ve enabled the debug cheat menu in Project Zomboid we are able to use some tools in order to cheat in the game and make it a bit easier. Under the moodlets on the top left of the UI you should see a symbol that looks rather unfamiliar. There is now a symbol which resembles a mosquito present on the screen. Check the image below to see what it looks like.
This symbol is your ticket to cheats in Project Zomboid. By left-clicking on this little symbol you will be able to open up the debug menu. When you click open the menu you will see a pretty large list of different debug terms on the screen.
There are many different settings you can go through to change your character and the game. Take the first menu for example, the ‘General debuggers’ menu. With this, you are able to straight away change different values of your player on the fly, such as health, dirt, stamina, thirst and more. Simply select the side-menu ‘Moodles and Body”.
Another great thing you can do is toggle different cheats on and off through, such as the Health Panel cheat. One you have activated the health panel cheat, you will have access to different cheats inside the health panel. (This is the panel on that can be accessed by clicking the heart icon, which shows your character’s body parts and health.)
I will go through some of the more common cheats below and show you exactly how to enable them.
How to Enable God Mode in Project Zomboid
Probably the most common video game cheat of all time, god mode enables the player to take no damage at all from anything in the game. Like most popular games, Project Zomboid also has it’s own god mode cheat. There is a very easy way to enable this cheat whilst in the debug mode of your game.
As shown in the previous section, you can open up a menu which is called ‘General Debuggers’. Once here go to the ‘Modifiers and Body’ tab. Now, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, you can see a few different common cheats with checkboxes next to their name. To enable the cheat you desire, somply tick the box and close the menu. The cheat should take effect straight away. For this, we are going to check the box which says ‘God Mod’. (oops)
Once the box is checked, the player will no longer take any kind of damage. Be aware that any injuries that were sustained prior to checking the god box will remain on your character until they are healed. It is advised to fully heal your character using the health menu cheat before turning on god mode.
Ghost Mode Cheat in Project Zomboid
Along with the god mode cheat, there is another common cheat called the ghost mode. With the ghost mode enabled, none of the enemies in the game will be able to detect the player’s character at all. This will not prevent the player from taking any damage however, so be warned that you could still cut you legs and hands on broken glass and fall from heights to sustain damage.
To enable the ghost cheat, use the same steps as previously mentioned in the guide to enabling god mode. Once again, go to the ‘General Debuggers’ section of the debug menu and scroll down to the bottom of the “Moodles and Body’ section. Now, you will find a checkbox with Ghost written next to it. Select this checkbox to enable the Ghost cheat so you can slip past any NPC undetected.
No Building Cost / Creative Mode
Another great cheat to try out some of the building mechanics in Project Zomboid is the Building cheat. Once enable, this cheat will allow the player to build whatever item they want at no cost instantly. Build to your heart content without limit with this Project Zomboid Build 41 cheat.
Once activated, the player can build things as they usually would in the game by using the right-click menu of their mouse. With the menu opened, build things as you usually would in the game by selecting the carpentry or metalworking tab and choosing the item that you;d like to build. Now, you can place this item wherever you want in the world without having any cost at all and without having to physical build it.
Using the build cheat you can place whatever you want. This could be helpful for setting up a main base when you’re doing a legitimate run later. You could use the build cheat to set up different player housing on a role-playing server. Maybe you just want to try out a build for a future base or see what different things you can build without the pressure of possibly dying to zombies or having to go out and collect all the resources.
Let your creative juices flow and build something hopefully better than what I have done in the image above with the Build cheat.
