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Donovan All in One
If you were wondering which mods use should use for the "best" experience, look no further. Here you go! This includes all the functionality from Donovan's recommended mods, compiled into a single mod. You're still welcome to pick and choose additional mods to use, of course, but this serves as a...

Zombie Wraith
This mod adds a new zombie type to the game, the Wraith. It's a fast, agile, and deadly zombie that comes out at night.

Donovan UI
A very simple customized UI. Moves the food and water bars to the Left HUD underneath the health/stamina bars Moves the EXP bar to underneath the toolbelt and makes it slightly larger Adds the “locked slots” functionality back into the UI for the sort/stash buttons. Add Elevation data to the Comp...

Pick Me Up
This mod enabled certain blocks to be picked up after being placed. Modified blocks are: Wood Spikes Iron Spikes Barbed Fence

Night Fog
With this mod loaded, an unearthly fog will roll in at night, giving the game an even more creepy feeling.

Longer Loot Bags
Decreases the decay rate on zombie loot bags from 5 to 30 minutes.


More Books
Books can be rather scarce, especially in book piles. This mod increases your chances of finding books in shelves and in book piles. Perk Books Schematics Skill Magazines


Mega Stacks
This mod increases the stack sizes on most items, increasing the amount of resources you can carry and/or store by a very large amount. Intended for those who prefer to not worry about storage space as much.

Mega Loot Bags
Dramatically increases the drop rate on zombie loot bags: 20% for normal, 50% for feral, and 80% for irradiated. Conflicts with More Loot Bags. Works well in conjunction with Longer Loot Bags (for those long horde nights).

Mega Books
Books are rather scarce, especially in book piles. This mod greatly increases your chances of finding books in the world. Perk Books Schematics Skill Magazines

Mod Schematics
Have you ever found a weapon mod but wished you had the schematic for it instead? Well, now you can! Using the workbench, some paper, glue, and leather you can turn that mod into a schematic of the same type! Of course, in order to make the schematic, the original mod will be consumed in the proc...

More Loot Bags
Increases the drop rate on zombie loot bags: 5% for normal, 10% for feral, and 20% for irradiated. Hint: Works well with Longer Loot Bags for those long horde nights.

Less Grind
This mod increases the amount of resources obtained from many sources and also lowers the requirements for building some limited items. The intention is to lower the grind level of the game a bit, for those who don't enjoy that aspect as much. Changes to recipes are minimal, but do includes thing...

Donovan Craftable Parts
Craftable armor and weapon parts! Creates recipes for all weapon and armor parts so you can now craft them in the workbench.

Craftable Dukes
Craft dukes in the forge (brass + iron) - not as profitable as selling the brass outright, but it's a nice option to have.


Better Traps
Blade Traps and Electric Fences now have higher durability Blade Traps do slightly more damage. Blade Traps moved to T2 unlock (up to 50, from 25)



Better Cement
Reworks the way concrete is created. It never made sense to Donovan why you had to smelt stone to make cement mix, so he fixed that. The forge no longer creates cement mix, instead… Craft cement mix directly in the cement mixer with equal parts of sand and clay. Concrete no longer requires sand, ...





Better Brawler
Fist weapons now do more damage which scales higher with the Brawler Perk.

Better Blades
Bladed weapons now do significantly more damage, making them more viable for end-game. Affects the following weapons: Knives Machetes Spears Fireaxes Additionally, Spears and Axes can now be used to butcher animals.

Better Batons
Batons now do significantly more damage, making them more viable for end-game. Affects the following weapons: Pipe Batons Stun Batons

Better Start
Removes the starting quests, just make a bedroll and get going. Doubles the skill points you get from the starter quests. Gives you some starting dukes, stone tools, and a few basic items. DOWNLOAD (3 KB) If you need help, you can use this support link. Credits: Donovan

Night Vision Helmet Mod
A night vision goggle that can be attached to any helmet as a mod. While they're not generally available in normal loot, you may find them attached to Military and Swat helmets.

Better Collectors
This mod improves the dew collectors. Note that this mod is NOT compatible with EAC. Creates 2x more water (6) 2x faster water production (3x faster when foggy & 5x faster when raining) Adds a craftable Water Filter No longer functions when below freezing "Rain Collectors" mod by khzmusik - adds ...

Better Vehicles
Updates the vehicles to be bigger and faster. Increased Storage All vehicles are now 25% faster normal speed, and double that for turbo mode. In an attempt to make each vehicle useful to some degree, these are the changes he has made: Motorcycle is the fastest land vehicle, but has less storage t...

Loot Clean Up
Destroys certain containers after looting, to clean up the environment. Bird nests Garbage Bags / Purses

Craftables
Adds several missing recipes back to the game, along with schematics found in the world to unlock them. New Craftable items: Acid (unlocked via Schematic) Beaker (Requires Forge w/ crucibal) Sewing Kit (unlocked via Schematic) Download If you need help, you can use this support link. Credits: Don...

Craftable Jail
This small mod adds the Jaildoor back into the game as a craftable item. Also allows shooting through jail door and bars.

Craft Acid
This small mod adds Acid to the list of craftable items in your chemistry station.

Better Bandages
This mod changes the way you craft first-aid bandages. Instead of requiring cloth and aloe, it now requires bandages and aloe. This means that you can either craft normal bandages first out of cloth, and then make first-aid bandages or, more importantly, you can use any normal bandages you alread...

Craft Spikes
This small mod adds the wood and iron Log Spikes back into the game as a craftable item. Download If you find any issues or have a suggestion for improvement, please open an issue and Donovan will look into it ASAP. Credits: Donovan