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Personally I loathe getting coding information via youtube. I want a website where I can copy paste the code into my own or preferably download the source directly so I can dissect it at my leisure.

Not to mention having to go back and forth in the video if you want to look back at a particular section of code.

I hate video tutorials because you are stuck learning at the speed that the video creator felt like teaching. It's a pain to skip to the parts of the video that are actually talking about what you need to learn. I shouldn't have to sit through 5 minutes of video talking about things I already know, only to realize that they never actually properly explain the thing that I was there for.

Google. There's not much you can learn from a $100 textbook that you can't learn for free by googling it.

Do zombies replace other events?

No. Zombie raids happen in addition to the usual raids.

One, congrats on becoming a colonist.

Am I a colonist?

Two, there should be a version where the walkers are pretty slow, but instakill anything.

Zombie bites are about as close to instakills as I am willing to go.

Somehow I misread the title when I first looked at it. Because this thread was right above "Corpse Eating Animals", I read this one as "Colonist Eating Furniture" and immediately thought of a herd of couches being hit by a psychic wave.

Accidental brilliant mod idea!

I assume you looked at the save file to come up with that. That's not where you should be looking. Look at the defs instead.

What you need is in Mods>Core>Defs>PawnKindDefs. You can look at the xml files in those folders to see how to create a PawnKindDef, which is basically a "blueprint" for a Pawn.

You won't be able to specify names there, but that will let you create types of Pawns that you can spawn with the dev tools. That will be a good starting point for you, at least.

Whenever I download this mod and put it into the mod folder, it doesn't work. I believe the problem is the download not giving me any information other than the folders and the dll file. for instance, the dll file takes up no memory so that leads me to believe its empty, it also lacks a few other folders that other mods have. (I believe these are textures and languages) please help! this mod looks amazing and I would love to play it

There are no textures or language files needed, and the DLL should be small since the entire C# side of the mod is less than 1400 lines of code.

Make sure you do not have an extra folder in there. In the Mods folder you should have the "Zombie Apocalypse" folder, and if you click into that one you should see the About, Assemblies and Defs folder. If you have done that properly, make sure you go to the "Mods" menu and activate the mod.

Once it's activated, make sure you create a new planet and then create your new colony on that planet. If the mod is working, when you get into the game "Zombie Virus Active" will display at the bottom right of the screen while you are in a game.

Hey Justin, look what I found on youtube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3_LimvjlM

It's an update vid on mods/games, and your mod was showcased in it!

That's awesome! Thanks for the link.

I really wouldn't recommend learning LUA as a first language because it behaves so differently from programming languages. Python is a good first language to learn, but I would disagree that it's a better first language than C#.

C# really is a great language to start with. There are a ton of resources online that you can learn from, and if your interest is in making games Unity is a great reason to choose C#. You could pick up Visual Studio Express (free) and follow along with some tutorials online. Google is pretty much all you need to learn any programming language.

As for sites, http://www.codecademy.com is a nice site where you can learn the basics of a lot of different languages. It doesn't have C#, but it does have a lot of popular web languages. If you spend a few hours doing the Javascript course you should have a good idea of whether or not you will enjoy programming as a career.

.... why dose it work for 7-zip but not winrar ....omg im a dumbass sorry

WinRar works fine for me.

i am using windows 7 to be exact  i cant show an error log cause therre is no error the file just dosent show up i exstract it nothing shows up when you look in the rar file theres nothing there i cant explain more than that i dled the file 10x times already on 7 diffent sites still nothing but when idled the file back from alpha 4 i get the folder of the game stuff you guys must of changed something i cant be the only fool that is having this problem like there is no file i dont know how to explain even more i dont even know how to screen capture it on my desktop or i would

1) Install 7-Zip.
2) Download Zombie Apocalypse.
3) Right click on the .7z file, select 7-Zip > Extract Here.

If you follow those steps and it doesn't work then you did one of the steps wrong.

Would you know of a mac alternative?

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

It looks like they have a list of alternatives for people who don't use Windows. I don't own a Mac so I can't promise that any of those are good or even confirm that my mod works properly on a Mac.

hey i downloaded the mod and im having trouble i think im really stupid cause i cant see the mods stuff in my rar zip wth am i doing wrong i really wanna play soooooo badly

The download is a 7-Zip file, so make sure you have either WinRar or 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) to extract it with. Then you just extract it and throw the "Zombie Apocalypse" folder into the RimWorld "Mods" folder, activate the mod in the Mods menu, and then it should be working. Be sure to create a new world to play on after activating the mod.

It doesn't work,

I honestly have no idea what you did to get that. As I said, 7-Zip and WinRar both work fine for extracting .7z files. Use one of them.

I use zipeg, would that have anything to do with it?

Probably. 7-Zip is pretty much the standard now.

hey i downloaded the mod and im having trouble i think im really stupid cause i cant see the mods stuff in my rar zip wth am i doing wrong i really wanna play soooooo badly

The download is a 7-Zip file, so make sure you have either WinRar or 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) to extract it with. Then you just extract it and throw the "Zombie Apocalypse" folder into the RimWorld "Mods" folder, activate the mod in the Mods menu, and then it should be working. Be sure to create a new world to play on after activating the mod.

It doesn't work,

I honestly have no idea what you did to get that. As I said, 7-Zip and WinRar both work fine for extracting .7z files. Use one of them.

hey i downloaded the mod and im having trouble i think im really stupid cause i cant see the mods stuff in my rar zip wth am i doing wrong i really wanna play soooooo badly

The download is a 7-Zip file, so make sure you have either WinRar or 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) to extract it with. Then you just extract it and throw the "Zombie Apocalypse" folder into the RimWorld "Mods" folder, activate the mod in the Mods menu, and then it should be working. Be sure to create a new world to play on after activating the mod.