pz-rust — Project Zomboid in Rust

What works today

Real map data. All 4,065 Muldraugh cells (4.16M chunks) decode byte-exactly from your own install.

wgpu renderer. Vulkan, DX12 and Metal. Every atlas page lives in array-texture slabs: one draw call per frame instead of 1,270.

Floors & roofs. Multi-storey buildings render with correct stacking; roofs hide when you walk indoors.

Deterministic sim. Fixed 30 Hz tick with wall-aware movement driven by the game's own tile properties.

git clone https://github.com/LakoMoor/pz-rust
cd pz-rust
set PZ_DIR=C:\path\to\ProjectZomboid
cargo run --release -p pz-viewer

WASD to walk, Shift to run, mouse wheel to zoom. --shot out.png renders a frame headlessly.

Characters & animation, doors, stairs, items and Lua scripting, zombies, audio, then a headless server with networking.