Zombies & infection: getting bitten is a choice

The Red Rain and the world's infection levels

The apocalypse began with the Red Rain — and Zeverland starts in its first minutes, not years later. The 24 × 24 km map is layered by infection level: low zones where survivors settle, and deep red zones where the world turns hostile and the loot turns strange. (Some store listings cite "5,000 km²" — that figure is marketing copy; the layered 24 × 24 km world is the developer's own description.)

Bitten? You decide

1. Cure yourself. Standard survival: treat the wound, keep the crew alive, stay human.
2. Embrace it. Collect corpse parts — "尸材" in the dev's own framing — and assemble them onto your body to shift into zed form.

Playing as a zed isn't a costume: rebuilt parts grant different abilities, and pushing the path far enough leads toward becoming a zombie king. The trade-offs — how far you can push infection before it's permanent — weren't fully documented in playtests.

Zed types

Early access is planned to ship with four core zed variants. Their names and behaviors haven't been published yet — this section becomes a proper bestiary (/zombie-types/) with real stats when the demo or early access lands.

World projects: curing the map itself

The endgame is bigger than your camp. Servers work toward world projects — huge shared goals with different endings:

• The great Purifier — a miracle device meant to cleanse infection zones.
• The vaccine race — including a rumored half-infected serum route: keep your zed abilities, keep your mind.
• Go underground — flee the surface entirely.
• Reforest the land — push nature back against the red.

Servers run in seasons, so each world's story — and its ending — eventually resets. Which ending your server reaches depends on what the community builds, kills, and spares.