Faded's The Hive
The Long Hunt: a server-authoritative zombie ecology. By day, the infected occupy roosts. At night the Chorus marks one survivor and the zombies already in the world hunt that trail. The Hive never dumps a mega-horde on you; it coordinates what's already there.
One quarry a night
Each night one survivor is marked, and the HUD tells you if it's you. Recruited residents follow your live position or last-known trail.
Infected roles
Drones, Callers that howl in nearby infected, Weepers, Stalkers, Climbers that cross tall fences, Graspers and more, assigned deterministically per zombie.
The Living Ladder
Hunters stack into towers and scree ramps to get over tall fences and onto open upper floors. The server builds, validates and releases every structure.
Roosts and strongholds
Occupied buildings, deep nests and landmark strongholds. Claiming a safehouse immediately retires its roost.
Hollow Dawn
Rarely, morning stays dark for 2 to 4 extra hours and the same hunt continues.
No cheap tricks
No replacement hordes, raid events, map-wide teleports or all-sprinter populations. Difficulty presets scale coordination, never spawn counts.
What's new in 2.3.3
- Build 42.22 (2.3.3) — Java plugin support for Project Zomboid Build 42.22.
- The Living Ladder (2.3.0) — existing adult hunters can form living towers and scree ramps to cross tall fences and reach open upper floors. On by default with adaptive formations, two floors and two structures, set on the Infected Roles page. Swarm is absorbed and marked incompatible.
- Safe release (2.3.1) — combat, knockdown and death are preserved when a climber leaves a structure, and collapse damage respects invulnerability and is capped below lethal.
- Floor and save repair (2.3.2) — recruitment rechecks the source floor, saves and snapshots only record poses the server applied, and damaged towers and ramps can refill.
- Testing status — live two-client gameplay acceptance is still unverified.
Requirements
Project Zomboid Build 42.20.2+ (also 42.21). No required dependencies; the Java accelerator is optional. Echoes of Humanity and My Only Friend are optional peers. Default hunt window 21:00 to 05:00. About 85 sandbox options.
Player & Server Guide
A 9-page guide (written for 2.2.0) covering infected roles, roosts and strongholds, traversal, the Long Hunt, Hollow Dawn, Chorus intel, animals, population rules, optional peers, sandbox reference, and incompatibilities and load order.
| File | Size | SHA-256 | Download |
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| FadedsTheHive-v2.3.3.zip | 6.2 MB | 15e5f4de0794d14133e244529c0cff8f47248db366cd75fd873d6d7ce1c823fd |
Workshop access
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