A firestorm hitting a city.
Dog Bleeders
Smilers
Bleeders
Description
How You Died: The Official Modpack
S-1 has been unleashed upon your world.
A weapon intended for your nation to destabilise an enemy within hours.
Patient zero breached containment.
Your world is in ruins.
A weapon intended for your nation to destabilise an enemy within hours.
Patient zero breached containment.
Your world is in ruins.
This is how you died.
☣️ The Ultimate Hardcore Sandbox
Welcome to the definitive modpack for How You Died, a hardcore survival experience ported and reimagining a Project Zomboid concept. Set within a beautifully decayed, overgrown world, you must utilize heavy industry, tactical vehicular transit, and high-caliber firearms to survive against mutated entities that hunt by sight and sound.
Optimized and heavily recommended for Hardcore Mode to truly capture the brutal, tactical survival energy of the apocalypse.
🕹️ Current Features & Mechanics
- The S-1 Bio-Threat (How You Died): Face three custom terrifying entities. Smilers are durable tanks that track you strictly by sound. Bleeders hunt relentlessly by sight. Dog Bleeders act as hyper-fast pack scouts that hamstring you and howl to call the horde.
- Firearms & Industrial Power (TacZ & Create Ecosystem): Access a massive military arsenal to defend your perimeter, or tap into advanced automation. With the base power of Create alongside The Factory Must Grow, you can evolve your base from simple clockwork engineering to full heavy oil processing, steel metallurgy, concrete fortification, and industrial electrical grids. [1, 2, 3]
- Acoustic Danger Loops: Build armored supply lines and cross-city subway systems to transport vital resources—but choose your movements wisely. Gunfire, running combustion engines, heavy machinery, and speeding trains generate massive sound footprints that pull entities from chunks away.
- Systemic Environments (Weather2 & Burnt): Fire and weather are fully interactive. Wildfires realistically spread, consume blocks, and leave behind charred ruins—now fully integrated to burn and destroy dynamic forest systems as well. Localized supercells and tornadoes from Weather2 will dynamically fight raging fires with rain, while fierce windstorms will actively bend and whip the dense smoke and ash plumes generated by burning blocks. [1]
- Overhauled World Generation & Survival Navigation: Explore a stunningly ruined world generated by The Lost Cities, Terralith, and Dynamic Trees, packed with abandoned structures and bunkers to scavenge. Map your surroundings and track your waypoints using Xaero's World Map and Minimap, and use Walkie-Chat to communicate over local radio channels.
💾 Installation, Requirements & Performance Notes
⚠️ REQUIRED MANUAL ADDON:
Due to CurseForge hosting guidelines, this pack requires a manual addition to unlock vertical movement mechanics. Before launching the game, please download your preferred Grappling Hook Mod (.jar file) — my recommendation: Grappling Hook Mod by yyonnex — from its official external source and drop it directly into this modpack instance's
Due to CurseForge hosting guidelines, this pack requires a manual addition to unlock vertical movement mechanics. Before launching the game, please download your preferred Grappling Hook Mod (.jar file) — my recommendation: Grappling Hook Mod by yyonnex — from its official external source and drop it directly into this modpack instance's
/mods/ folder.- Recommended RAM Allocation: 10GB is the recommended baseline for smooth operation with active physics engines and heavy mod integration. Allocating significantly higher than 10GB is discouraged as it can trigger severe Java Garbage Collection micro-stutters, which are lethal in high-intensity combat.
- Built-In Shaders & Optimization: Fully optimized using Embeddium and NeOculus. This pack comes pre-loaded with premium shader profiles (Solas Shader, DMS, and Miniature Shader) to lock down a gritty, dark, and terrifyingly atmospheric visual style.
📜 Complete Official Modlist
- Core Threat: How You Died
- Technology, Industry & Logistics: Create, Create: The Factory Must Grow, Steam 'n' Rails Neoforge, Create: Copycats+, Create: Extra Copycats, Create: Gears n' Kinetics, Create: Bells & Whistles, Create: Lost Cities Subways
- Combat & Firepower: [UNOFFICIAL] TaCZ NeoForge Port, Elite X Quality Guns (TACZ)
- Vehicles, Decor & Comms: Immersive Vehicles (MTS), Immersive Vehicles OCP, Immersive Vehicles OAmP, Immersive Paintings, Walkie-Chat
- World, Structures & Navigation: The Lost Cities, Lost Cities Modern Tweaks, Terralith, Lithostitched, Berezka API TaCZ addon [The Lost City/Abandoned Structures/Bunkers], Streams Reflowing, Xaero's World Map, Xaero's Minimap
- Flora & Fauna: Dynamic Trees, Dynamic Trees Plus, Dynamic Trees - Terralith, Alex's Mobs (Unofficial Port)
- Environment & Physics: Weather, Storms & Tornadoes, Weather2 Concurrent Packet Fix, Burnt + Additions, Burnt Dynamic Trees
- Performance & Graphics: Embeddium, NeOculus, Solas Shader, DMS, Miniature Shader, Clumps
- Libraries & Core APIs: Framework, Citadel, CoroUtil, Fzzy Config, Cloth Config API, YetAnotherConfigLib, Kotlin for Forge, Berezka's library, GeckoLib, Essential Mod, Essential Essentialized, Backpacked
📜 Credits & Inspiration
- Core concept inspired by Born Of Birch's Knox Plague retexture mod for Project Zomboid.
- Narrative elements, lore parameters, and script outlines co-created alongside K.
- Smiler textures utilize a temporary placeholder base asset via Nova Skin.
Pack is built for stability, extreme environmental tension, and atmospheric horror. Good luck out there.
The How You Died - Official Pack Team
