Build 42 is finally here. Years of development, a community's worth of patience, and now it's live — with a collection of features that genuinely change how a Project Zomboid server feels day-to-day.
Supercraft's Project Zomboid server hosting is fully updated to Build 42 and stable from day one.
What Build 42 brings to your server
Build 42 isn't a patch. It's a proper generational jump for Project Zomboid. The highlights that matter most for a multiplayer world:
- Deeper crafting and skill trees — more reasons for survivors to specialise, which means more reasons to stick around your server long-term.
- Animals in the world, which changes hunting, food supply, and how you lay out a safehouse.
- Basements — real vertical building. Your community's safehouses just got dramatically more interesting.
- Lighting overhaul that makes night actually feel like night, and torches actually feel meaningful.
- Engine improvements that handle bigger, busier servers far more gracefully than Build 41 did.
Whether your crew has been playing since the early alphas or you're coming fresh to Knox County, Build 42 is the best time in years to start a new server.
Why day-one Supercraft hosting matters
Big version jumps in complex survival games come with the usual hazards — save format changes, mod compatibility, occasional server-launch weirdness. Going live on a host that's already tested the transition means your night one looks like "we start playing" instead of "we start troubleshooting."
If you were running Build 41 with us, your save migrates cleanly on the first Build 42 boot. If you'd rather hold on Build 41 for a couple of weeks while your favourite mods update, you can pin your server to the previous branch from the panel and move across when you're ready.
Workshop mods keep working
The community mod scene is the heart of serious Project Zomboid. Nearly every popular mod pack has already shipped Build 42 updates; a handful are still in beta. We've re-pinned our Project Zomboid Recipes to Build 42-compatible versions, so spinning up a modded server is the same one-click flow it always was.
Recipes we'd particularly recommend for a fresh Build 42 server:
- A community-QoL bundle for quality-of-life without changing the core experience.
- A roleplay-first pack for groups who want Knox County to feel lived in.
- A hardcore classic for the people who think Build 42 is too soft — it isn't, but we support your bias.
Browse the lot on the Recipes marketplace.
What a Supercraft Project Zomboid server gets you
- Instant deployment. Server up in a couple of minutes, not hours.
- Automatic Build 42 updates. We handle patches; you handle surviving.
- Automatic nightly backups. Build a sprawling basement complex; don't lose it to a bad night.
- Regional routing. Your server lives on a node close to most of your crew.
- A public server page for your community — live players, uptime, rules, invite link.
- Discord webhooks so joins, leaves, and restarts land in your community's channel.
One plan, many games
A small but loved detail: a Supercraft plan lets you switch games any time. Build 42 is the event of the year for Project Zomboid, but when your group wants a weekend of Valheim or Palworld, the same subscription pivots. Come back to Knox County refreshed.
Start a Build 42 server today
New to Project Zomboid hosting? Visit the Project Zomboid hosting page, pick a plan, and you're playing Build 42 within minutes. Already with us? Your deployment is already running Build 42 or can flip to it whenever you're ready.
See you in Knox County.