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Craft Engine Parts

by Titoxic · for Project Zomboid

Craft Spare Engine Parts yourself! This mod adds the magazine " The Machinist ". Find it and read it! This adds three different recipes for making spare engine parts. Alternatively, you can unlock…

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About Craft Engine Parts

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Craft Spare Engine Parts yourself! This mod adds the magazine " The Machinist ". Find it and read it! This adds three different recipes for making spare engine parts. Alternatively, you can unlock…

[hr][/hr][h1]Craft Spare Engine Parts yourself![/h1]

This mod adds the magazine "The Machinist". Find it and read it! This adds three different recipes for making spare engine parts. Alternatively, you can unlock them by reaching a certain level in each required skill without ever reading the magazine (B42+ only). [olist] [*]Needs metal working skill and more metal parts [*]Needs mechanics skill and some additional uncommon parts [*]Needs electronics skill and additional electronic parts [/olist] It can be used for single player but the true reason I created this is multiplayer. Because often vehicles of entire towns are stripped of their engines to get these juicy spare parts, and this mod is meant to help with exactly this issue.

Version and language support

This mod is compatible with B41 & B42 MP (B42.15.0+). It is safe to add or remove in existing games. In version 1.4 English, German, Russian, French, Spanish (ES and AR), Traditional Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese (PTBR) are supported, but on player requests and with a little help I will definitely add more.

Future of the mod

As B42 progresses, crafting is expected to get a great revamp, and a lot more recipes and items will be added. In response to this, the recipes in this mod will likely be changed in the future to better match B42's new crafting system.

Reuploading and modpacks

For server owners it can be very useful to have their own modpack. That's why I allow reuploads of my mod as part of a modpack for a server if credit is given and if the modpack is unlisted on steam and only shared with the server members. Under all other circumstances please abstain from reoploads.

Important: balancing settings

When installing the mod, it comes as four separate ones named "expensive - original", "moderate", "cheap", and "cheapest". These four mods all do basically the same, but the cost, results, and requirements of the crafting recipes are hugely different as can be seen in the images above. This allows you to choose a difficulty, how much impact you want this mod to have on your gameplay, and how much you would like to spare those poor car engines from looting. Only choose and activate one of the four mods. If more are activated, it won't break the game, but it will cause a recipe redundancy.

I chose to implement difficulty / balancing settings this way and not via actual options within a single mod in order to prevent the need to add the ModOptions mod as a dependency. I have done this to avoid breaking people's save games and servers which already used the CEP mod before Version 1.2 and haven't got the ModOptions mod.

[hr][/hr][i]Workshop ID: 2744114761 Mod ID: CraftEngineParts / CraftEnginePartsModerate / CraftEnginePartsCheap / CraftEnginePartsCheapest

Highlights

From source data

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 20d ago.

Craft Engine Parts on Nxeon

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One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Project Zomboid servers. We download it from Steam Workshop, place it, and restart the server.
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Project Zomboid — 6 GB (6 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
2026-10-15, released 2026-10-15

Game versions by loader

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Workshop

From 2 recorded builds of Craft Engine Parts.

Recent builds

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2026-10-152026-10-15n/aWorkshop
2025-12-162025-12-16n/aWorkshop

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What kind of mod it is

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Listed on Steam Workshop as “QoL”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Compatibility

Game
Project Zomboid

Verified at the source

  • ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorTitoxic, as published on Steam Workshop
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

Craft Engine Parts, answered

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Is it free?

Yes. Craft Engine Parts is free to download from Steam Workshop.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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