Project Zomboid: 6 Best Weapon Mods

Highlights

• The Scrap Katana mod adds a crafting recipe for a junk material katana, offering a reliable source of katanas.
• Tactical Weapons adds new melee weapons like a tactical axe, tomahawk, and knife for more variety.
• The Weapon Condition Indicator mod enhances the UI by displaying weapon durability, preventing unexpected breaks.

Weapons are the key to survival in Project Zomboid. Players need to trim down the local zombie population to get good loot. The vanilla weapons get the job done, but adding variety with mods adds a lot of fun. Some mods focus on melee weapons, and others add only guns, while some do both.

This topic will cover a variety of weapon mods to accommodate many player tastes, including some recommended UI mods affecting weapons. A few mods will vastly affect the game’s feel by adding a crazy amount of guns, which can be a good thing for gun-loving gamers.

1 Scrap Katana

Mod Focus: Katana Replacement

The katana is the highest damage-dealing weapon in vanilla Project Zomboid. The crafting mechanics are a core mechanic of the game and will play a larger role in Build 42. Scrap Katana is a mod that adds a crafting recipe for a katana made of junk materials. Players will need to have lvl 3 metalworking, and lvl 2 tailoring and carpentry to craft the weapon.

As for the materials, players will require junk materials such as metal bars, tin cans, screws, and a few other odd-end items, alongside the necessary tools listed on the mod page. The crafted katana uses a unique texture to reflect its background of being a hodgepodge of scrap materials. Players can finally have a reliable source of katanas and actually use the weapon rather than have it up for display.

2 Tactical Weapons [41.65+]

Mod Focus: More Melee Weapons

Melee weapons will be the bread and butter of taking down zombies for players. Having more melee weapons to choose from gives each player a personal feel for the melee weapon they picked in the apocalypse. Tactical Weapons adds new melee weapons with a tactical aesthetic.

New weapons include a tactical axe, a tomahawk, and a knife. Gamers craving an impromptu weapon aesthetic will find the barbed wire ice hockey stick ideal for their taste. If a player wants a larger weapon, they must use the long sword, and pair it with the power armor mod.

3 Weapon Condition Indicator [41.60+]

Mod Focus: UI Tweak

Having a weapon break during a tense moment can result in an early death. Staying on top of weapon durability is difficult in vanilla, as players must hover over a weapon to see its durability. Weapon Condition Indicator adds the weapon’s durability to the UI and is among the most downloaded Project Zomboid mods for its usefulness.

Players can pick from a depleting star or a color bubble for their durability UI feedback. The mod also adds the ability to hover over weapons from the hot bar to view extra information. Ammo count is displayed for equipped weapons on the top left of the screen, preventing players from running out of ammo unexpectedly.

4 Handmade Weapons [41.78]

Mod Focus: Primitive & Simple Craftable Weapons

The apocalypse will send people reverting to primitive crafting such as a club for bashing in zombie brains. Build 42 will be overhauling the crafting mechanics, but for now, players can have a taste of primitive and medieval weapon crafting with this mod.

A wooden club requires a log and a saw to craft and can be upgraded to a wooden club with 5 nails and a hammer. Carpentry lvl 6 now allows players to craft a handmade baseball bat using two logs, a saw, and a newly added tool, the chisel. Chisels can be found inside loot containers or stuck to a zombie’s back.

5 Bow And Arrow

Mod Focus: Simple Bow

The bow is the ultimate zombie slayer across all video game genres. Silent and deadly, the bow is heavily featured in other zombie games such as The Last Of Us. With the crafting system in Project Zomboid, stockpiling arrows is a player’s safest method to stay bite-free.

This mod adds a bow and arrow that are craftable and a rarer compound bow that can only be found. To craft a bow and arrow, players will need a plank, knife, twine, sturdy stick, sharp stone, and duct tape. There is a QoL mod for the Bow And Arrow mod that adds arrows to the loot pool, better crafting recipes, and other QoL changes.

6 Brita’s Weapon Pack & GunFighter Mod [2.0]

Mod Focus: Gun Variety

Both mods need to be installed as one contains the textures, while the other contains the code. The weapon pack mod is multiplayer compatible and provides a ton of options to tweak gameplay settings to match each player’s ideal gunplay for Project Zomboid. It’s vital to note that this mod adds a slew of ammo types that may confuse players at first.

For gamers seeking to upgrade their weapon selection, these mods will spoil players with options. New weapons vary from various shotguns, a Winchester, SMGs, crossbows, and many AK variants.

The mod can disable guns manufactured after 1992 when setting up the game for players who care more about immersion over firepower.