Buildings changes in Project Zomboid
- 25documented changes
- 12patches
- 16fixes
Every documented change to Buildings
25 changes across 12 patches, newest first
Build 42 Stable (42.20.0) Wednesday, 29 July 2026
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: the same building showing different loot for different players
Fixed the same building showing different loot for different players
Official source - FIXBuildings
Fixed: building animations playing for the wrong player in split-screen co-op
Fixed building animations playing for the wrong player in split-screen co-op
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42.18.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 11 May 2026
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: characters could become trapped in some circumstances when placing or building multi-tile objects
Fixed an issue where characters could become trapped in some circumstances when placing or building multi-tile objects
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42.17.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 20 April 2026
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: player-made buildings being automatically powered
Buildings that players build no longer get power automatically.
Fixed player-made buildings being automatically powered
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Build 42 Multiplayer (42.13.0) Thursday, 11 December 2025
- CHANGEBuildings
Lighting: -Disabled individual rooms being darkened
Individual rooms in buildings no longer go dark, though a whole building is still blacked out when you view it cut away from a distance.
Lighting: -Disabled individual rooms being darkened.
- Lighting: -Disabled individual rooms being darkened. Entire buildings are still blacked out when cutaway from a distance.
- FIXBuildings
Tile building will now check for valid squares before consuming inputs and not afterwards
Tile building now checks that the spot is valid before it uses up your materials, so a failed placement no longer eats them.
Tile building will now check for valid squares before consuming inputs and not afterwards.
Official source - FIXBuildings
Fixed: Randomized building errors with zombies disabled
Randomized buildings no longer cause errors in games with zombies turned off.
Fixed Randomized building errors with zombies disabled.
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42.12.2 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 20 October 2025
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: very mysterious buildings that were blocking the highway south of Muldraugh
Fixed very mysterious buildings that were blocking the highway south of Muldraugh.
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42.11.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 4 August 2025
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: building feeding through not removing the placeholder thumpable, leading to duplication
Building no longer leaves a placeholder object behind, which could lead to things being duplicated.
Fixed building feeding through not removing the placeholder thumpable, leading to duplication.
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42.4.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 4 March 2025
- CHANGEBuildings
Halved the maximum size of buildings that can be trashed & looted
The maximum size of a building that can be looted and trashed is halved, so bigger buildings are left alone.
Halved the maximum size of buildings that can be trashed & looted.
Official source - FIXBuildings
The ShopLooted story will no longer occur in single-room buildings
The looted shop story no longer appears in single-room buildings, so police and bandit zombies stop spawning inside small utility buildings that used shop room types.
The ShopLooted story will no longer occur in single-room buildings.
- The ShopLooted story will no longer occur in single-room buildings. Some utility buildings used "electronicstore" or similar roomdefs for their single room, which means that police and bandit zombies could spawn inside them as a looted shop story.
- CHANGEBuildings
Trash will also spawn outside of Trashed & Looted buildings on ground squares
Trash now also appears on the ground just outside looted and trashed buildings.
Trash will also spawn outside of Trashed & Looted buildings on ground squares.
- Trash will also spawn outside of Trashed & Looted buildings on ground squares. Again, not much real estate to work with here.
- CHANGEBuildings
Additionally sometimes trashed buildings will have one
Trashed buildings can rarely hold zombies or corpses of bandits, survivalists or militia, and their outfits can carry good loot.
Additionally sometimes trashed buildings will have one or more zombies or corpses of bandits/survivalists/militia in them; this is rare, but as those outfits can have good loot, it will serve as "finding some of the missing loot.
Official source - CHANGEBuildings
The time until maximum Trashed & Looted buildings has been changed from 56 days to 90 days
Buildings now take longer to reach their most Trashed & Looted state, so they stay in better shape for longer into a run.
The time until maximum Trashed & Looted buildings has been changed from 56 days to 90 days.
Official source - CHANGEBuildings
The looted/trashed buildings should have more broken and open doors
Looted and trashed buildings have more broken and open doors and more broken windows, so they are easier to spot.
The looted/trashed buildings should have more broken and open doors, and more broken windows, to better signpost their status as looted & trashed.
Official source - CHANGEBuildings
Added some checks to the other looted two building/store stories
If the looted buildings option is off, the other similar looted building and store stories no longer appear either, and they now use the same room limit as the trashed and looted building story.
Added some checks to the other looted two building/store stories so that if the looted building option is disabled, those other similar-but-different stories from the "trashed and looted buildings" shouldn't occur.
- Added some checks to the other looted two building/store stories so that if the looted building option is disabled, those other similar-but-different stories from the "trashed and looted buildings" shouldn't occur. They will also use the same limit on room numbers that the trashed and looted building story uses.
42.3.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 11 February 2025
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: if a character lacked extra resources for additional constructions
Building no longer fails while still using up your items when you lack the extra resources for additional constructions.
Fixed an issue where if a character lacked extra resources for additional constructions, building would fail while still consuming the items.
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42.2.0 (Build 42 Unstable) Monday, 27 January 2025
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: the Residential colorblind pattern not being applied on some buildings
Fixed the Residential colorblind pattern not being applied on some buildings.
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42.1 (Build 42 Unstable) Tuesday, 21 January 2025
- FIXBuildings
Fixed: every Thumpable which has canPathN/W not being transparent to building
Placed objects you can walk or climb through on their north or west side no longer block you from building on or next to them.
Fixed every Thumpable which has canPathN/W not being transparent to building
Official source - FIXBuildings
Fixed: building randomization and stash system stuff not accounting for z-levels below 0 and above 8
Building randomization and stashes now work on underground levels and very high floors too.
Fixed building randomization and stash system stuff not accounting for z-levels below 0 and above 8.
Official source - FIXBuildings
Fixed: error with trunk access with Beckman's building van
Using the trunk of Beckman's building van no longer causes an error.
Fixed error with trunk access with Beckman's building van.
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41.78 (Build 41) Thursday, 20 October 2022
- FIXBuildings
Added a check to prevent any of the randomized burnt building stories from occurring if the building is a spawn location
Buildings that are spawn locations can no longer roll a randomized burnt building story.
Added a check to prevent any of the randomized burnt building stories from occurring if the building is a spawn location.
Official source - FIXBuildings
Fixed: missing checks to prevent buildings with inappropriate randomized dead survivor stories from being alarmed
Buildings with some randomized dead survivor stories are now checked properly, so they are no longer alarmed when they should not be.
Fixed missing checks to prevent buildings with inappropriate randomized dead survivor stories from being alarmed.
Official source - CHANGEBuildings
This also means the Toilet Paper story is now disabled in buildings that have over 10 rooms or are spawn locations, which will likely reduce the amount of Reddit posts about it by 50%
The Toilet Paper story no longer appears in buildings with over 10 rooms or in spawn locations.
This also means the Toilet Paper story is now disabled in buildings that have over 10 rooms or are spawn locations, which will likely reduce the amount of Reddit posts about it by 50%.
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41.71 (Build 41) Sunday, 22 May 2022
- CHANGEBuildings
Play the WorldEventElectricityShutdown event from the nearest square in a building when outdoors
The power shutdown event sound now plays from the nearest spot inside a building when you are outdoors.
Play the WorldEventElectricityShutdown event from the nearest square in a building when outdoors.
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