Project Zomboid Vehicle Spawn Control Mod | Which Cars & How Many per Zone, Mod Cars Too, No Restart

Minidoracat Vehicle Spawn Control — a vehicle spawn mod for Project Zomboid (Build 42). You decide which cars spawn in each zone and how many: vanilla and modded vehicles are listed automatically, and you tune them in an in-game panel or a config file — no coding, no server restart. ▶ Steam Workshop (if you like it, please give it a 👍): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3812410742 📖 Full guide (panel, config file fields, known limitations & FAQ): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3817839906 💬 Discord (update news & support): https://discord.gg/Gur2V67 ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Intro: a parking lot full of Spiffo vans 0:13 Opening the panel: Admin Panel & singleplayer right-click 0:27 Every vanilla & modded car, listed automatically 0:38 Halve vanilla, get more modded cars 0:51 3D preview & paint swatches 1:07 Per-vehicle multiplier, disable & add to zones 1:21 Batch edits: search, select all, halve 1:33 Zones: spawn chance, condition & weights 2:00 Review changes & apply (no restart) 2:14 Config file sync & error reports 2:25 History, restore & permissions ✨ Highlights - Automatic vehicle list: vanilla and every modded vehicle at startup, labeled with the mod that adds it; burnt and wrecked variants of one model are grouped together - Spawn amount: change each zone's per-slot spawn chance, burnt and special vehicle odds, part damage and vehicle condition - Vehicle mix: scale a whole source (vanilla or one mod) at once, or tune one vehicle's weight in each zone, even adding it to zones where it never appeared; the original share is shown next to the new one - 3D preview and paint swatches: drag to spin, scroll to zoom; a game engine limit keeps the preview on the default paint, so every paint job is shown as a swatch you can enlarge - Batch edits: search, multi-select or select all to change multipliers, disable vehicles or add them to zones; click a source on a zone's mix bar to select all its vehicles there - Changes are listed for review before you apply; areas generated afterwards use the new settings right away, while vehicles already in the world stay as they are - Config file sync: edit config.json and save, and it applies within about a minute; a mistake rejects the whole file, keeps the old settings and points to the error - History and restore: see who changed what and when, and roll back to any of the last 10 revisions that were in effect - Singleplayer and multiplayer; UI in English, Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese 🛡️ For server admins - Multiplayer: open the vanilla Admin Panel and click the last button, "Vehicle Spawn Control"; only roles with the vanilla Sandbox Options permission can make changes (moderators and admins by default, not GMs), and the server checks it again on every write command - Singleplayer: right-click the ground to open it; no permission check - Files live in the server's Zomboid/Lua/MinidoracatVehicleSpawnControl/: config.json holds only what differs from the original; catalog.json lists every vehicle, its source mod, the zones it appears in and its actual share; status.json shows the result and errors of the last check - With the server option PauseEmpty on (the default), the config file is not checked while no player is online; it applies once someone joins - The sandbox Vehicle Spawn Rate still applies on top of the per-slot spawn chance - Keep a newly installed vehicle mod from spawning: set newVehicles to "disable" in config.json, then enable vehicles one by one - Distribution changes other mods make before startup are picked up normally; changes made after startup are overwritten the next time this mod applies its settings ⚡ Performance - The server reads config.json once a minute and only parses and applies it when the content changed - Applying rebuilds the vanilla vehicle distribution once; spawning then runs on the vanilla code path, and this mod does no extra work per spawned vehicle - The panel only runs while it is open, and the 3D preview draws just the selected vehicle 🧩 Required - Minidoracat UI Library: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3789836701 🔗 All Minidoracat mods (collection): https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3809297109 #ProjectZomboid #PZMod #Build42