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Zomboid Deck

Project Zomboid, live on your Stream Deck. Your survivor's health as a bar across the keys, the moodles worst first in the game's own colours, the time, the day and the weather, the weapon in your hands, what you are carrying, and the car you are driving. Built for Build 42.

Setup guide In testing
Thirty Zomboid Deck keys at night in a thunderstorm: health 92 with a bar, the Tired and Boredom moodles in red, 11:50 PM on day 21, 17 degrees, an axe at 55% sharp, 4.5 of 8 carried, a Chevalier Nyala doing 63 km/h with 45% fuel, headlights on, the engine running, and a health bar across three keys.
Driving at night in a thunderstorm: a tired, bored survivor with an axe and half a tank of fuel.

What you need

  • Windows 10 or 11 with Stream Deck software 7.1 or newer.
  • Project Zomboid Build 42 (on Steam).
  • The free Stream Deck Bridge mod, which the plugin installs for you (or download it below).

1. Install the plugin

In testing. Zomboid Deck is being played on real decks before it goes to the Elgato Marketplace. This page will link to the listing when it is up.

2. Install the mod

Project Zomboid has no way for other programs to see into the game, so Zomboid Deck comes with a small client-side mod. While you play it writes what your survivor knows about themselves to a file in your Zomboid\Lua folder once a second, and the plugin draws the keys from it.

Put any Zomboid Deck key on your deck, click it, and look at its settings: they show whether the mod is there. With the game closed, press Install the mod. Then start Project Zomboid, open Mods, switch on Stream Deck Bridge, and load a save (for a save you already have, switch it on in that save's own mod list too).

Installing the mod by hand

Download Stream Deck Bridge 0.1.0 Build 42 mod · 16 KB zip

  1. Close Project Zomboid.
  2. Unzip it into C:\Users\you\Zomboid\mods, so you end up with a StreamDeckBridge folder there (with a 42 folder inside it, as Build 42 needs).
  3. Start the game, switch the mod on in Mods, and load a save.

3. The Zomboid Deck key and its layout

Drag the Zomboid Deck key onto your own profile and press it: it opens a layout made for your deck, with the live readings on the first page and pages for every moodle, your vehicle, the game's controls and the hotbar. The layout follows you: get in a car and it turns to the Vehicle page, get out and it turns back. There are layouts for the Stream Deck, XL, Mini and +, where the dials show your moodles and your car on the touch strip.

4. The keys

Sixteen Zomboid Deck keys on a calm afternoon: health 100, all moodles fine, 14:35 on day 13, cloudy and 24 degrees, outdoors, power and water on, a baseball bat and a flashlight, 6.2 of 8 carried, 93% endurance, one zombie in sight, 37 kills and no wounds.
A good afternoon: healthy, fed, a baseball bat in hand and one zombie in sight.
  • Health and endurance, as keys or as a bar across three or four keys.
  • Moodles, worst first: grey turning red as hunger, panic or pain climbs, green for the good ones, with the level shown as dots. There is a key for each moodle as well.
  • Time, day, date and weather, the temperature, whether you are indoors, and whether the power and water are still on.
  • The weapon in your hands and what is in the other: condition, how sharp, rounds left.
  • Weight carried against what you can carry, zombies in sight, kills and wounds.
  • The car you are in: its name, speed, fuel, the engine and the headlights.

5. Keys that act

  • Sit down on the ground or stand up (the game has no key for it).
  • Light: switch the flashlight in your hand or on your belt.
  • Headlights and Engine, when you are driving.
  • Stop: clear what you are doing, without opening the pause menu.
  • The Controls and Hotbar pages send the game's own keys, from its default bindings.

6. What it can and cannot do

  • It only shows what your survivor could know: no hidden infection (a hidden one shows only as the moodle the game shows), and power and water only as on or off.
  • The mod is client-side only, has no cheats, and nothing leaves your PC.
  • In multiplayer a mod has to be on the server for a client to load it, so it works where the server runs it.

Frequently asked

The keys say the game is not running.

Check the mod is switched on in the game's Mods menu, and in the save's own mod list for a save you already have.

Something is still wrong.

Email support@teatimeservers.ca and tell us what you see.