🧟 GROUNDZERO MODPACK UPDATE

This update brings a major expansion to vehicles, cosmetics, farming, infected wildlife, jobs and general GroundZero gameplay.

🚗 AUTOMOBILITY & VEHICLE OVERHAUL

• Cars now support 2 players — driver + passenger

• Added a complete vehicle damage system

• Crashes can damage individual vehicle components

• Separate health for the engine, body and all 4 wheels

• Damage scales with crash severity

• Heavily damaged vehicles lose performance

• Completely broken critical components can disable the vehicle

• Damaged vehicles can visually smoke

🔧 VEHICLE REPAIR SYSTEM

• Added the new Vehicle Repair UI

• Inspect the condition of every part of your vehicle

• Select individual components to repair

• Added interactive 1 → 2 → 3 repair timing minigame

• Added Vehicle Repair Kits

• Added Spare Wheels

• Added Engine Parts

• Added Body Parts

• New repair items have custom 3D models

• Repair equipment can be crafted and found through JEI

• Repair Kits have limited uses

👨‍🔧 CAR MECHANIC

The existing Mechanic profession has been expanded with a new specialization.

• Town Mechanic remains available

• Car Mechanic unlocks at Mechanic Level 5

• Car Mechanics receive dedicated repair equipment while on duty

• Repair damaged player vehicles for money

• Repair payouts increase through progression

• Car Mechanics receive a temporary service vehicle

• Duty equipment and service vehicles disappear after clocking out

This creates a new player-driven vehicle repair economy.

☣️ INFECTED FARM ANIMALS

The outbreak can now spread beyond humans and zombies.

• Zombies can now infect passive farm animals

• Infection isn't instant — a zombie needs to remain around an animal long enough for it to become tainted

• Infected animals become Tainted Animals

• Normally peaceful animals can become hostile and attack players

• Tainted animals periodically emit green infection particles

• Infected animals can spread the infection to other nearby animals

• This allows infection to spread through farms and livestock populations

• Killing Tainted Animals can produce Rotten Flesh

Keeping livestock around infected areas is now an actual survival risk. An outbreak reaching a farm can eventually turn peaceful animals into another threat.

👕 NEW COSMETIC WARDROBE

• Added the new Cosmetic Wardrobe

• Cosmetics are easier to browse and manage

• Equip and manage collected cosmetic items through the wardrobe

• Expanded support for GroundZero's custom 3D clothing

• Improved the overall cosmetic equipment experience

• Built to support our growing collection of custom clothing and cosmetics

🌾 FARMING & FOOD

• Farmer crop quality is now properly supported by the GroundZero economy

• Food can have different quality levels

• Higher-quality produce can be worth more

• Farming progression now has a bigger impact on harvested crop value

• Improved compatibility between custom Farmer items and existing GroundZero systems

💰 GROUNDZERO NIGHT

A new daily activity bonus has been introduced.

During GroundZero Night, supported activities receive a +10% payout bonus, including Ore Selling, Wood Selling, Corner Selling, Mechanic work and Police work.

The server automatically announces the active bonus to online players.

🏙️ TOWNS & NATIONS

• Improved Town Bank deposit reliability

• Improved Nation Bank payment handling

• Additional safeguards around town/nation economy transactions

• Several underlying town-system issues cleaned up

⚙️ GENERAL

• Additional GroundZero Core integration improvements

• Better communication between custom mods and server-side systems

• Multiple economy and job-system fixes

• Various compatibility fixes

• General stability and backend improvements

GroundZero continues moving toward one interconnected survival world — where the outbreak can spread through wildlife, vehicles require maintenance, professions depend on other players, and farming, cosmetics, towns and the economy all connect together.