Modern Status [B42]

Build Support: B42.12.3–B42.22.x — Build 42 only

Modern Status is a flexible, highly customizable status HUD for Project Zomboid Build 42.

Turn your character’s condition into circular indicators, horizontal or vertical bars, and compact matrix layouts with alarms, auto-hide, Detailed Info, Quick Actions, presets, and performance controls.

Safe to enable or disable in new or existing saves. Modern Status is a UI/HUD mod. It reads character status data and does not add items, traits, recipes, world data, or permanent save changes.

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Required Mod / Load Order

• NeatUI Framework is required.
• Load NeatUI Framework before Modern Status.

For MP servers: NeatUI Framework — Workshop ID: 3508537032 Modern Status — Workshop ID: 3451167732

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Quick Guide / Support

Modern Status — Quick Guide / FAQ

Bug Report

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Main Features

• Circular, horizontal, and vertical indicators.
• Multiple independent matrices with configurable position, size, spacing, growth direction, style, order, and Fill Hidden Gaps.
• All Indicators panel with filtering, sorting, bulk controls, and drag-and-drop reordering.
• Values, thresholds, alarms, gradients, icons, names, monochrome icons, and value inversion.
• Per-indicator Auto Hide and optional vanilla moodle hiding.
• Drag positioning, Multi Drag, locking, and grid snapping.
• Bundled presets plus custom saved presets.
• Double-click Quick Actions for supported indicators.
• Tooltips with values, moodle information, action hints, and optional Detailed Info.
• Performance modes and per-indicator update intervals.

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Quick Access

Right-click the Health / heart button on the left sidebar:

Modern Status > Global Settings / Presets / Multi Drag / Performance / Hide Vanilla Moodles

The old blue cog button can still be enabled in Mod Options, but is disabled by default.

Recommended setup:

• Load a bundled preset.
• Open All Indicators.
• Hide indicators you do not need.
• Use Auto Hide for situational indicators.
• Arrange the rest individually or in matrices.
• Save the finished layout as a custom preset.

Saving a preset occasionally is recommended so a custom layout can be restored easily if its configuration is ever reset or corrupted.

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Matrices

Each matrix can have its own:

• Position and indicator size.
• Columns, sort direction, and row/column spacing.
• Horizontal Growth: Left / Right.
• Vertical Growth: Up / Down.
• Fill Hidden Gaps.
• Style and shared settings.

Matrices appear as separate rows in All Indicators. Filtering a specific matrix lets you reorder its indicators directly by dragging rows.

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Tooltips and Quick Actions

Tooltips can show current values, thresholds, moodle state, Quick Action hints, and contextual Detailed Info.

Supported Quick Actions include:

• Drinking for Thirst.
• Eating for Hunger and nutrition.
• Sitting/resting when appropriate.
• Medication or health actions.
• Drying Wetness.
• Washing Dirtiness or Bloodiness.

Available actions depend on the player’s state, inventory, and game context.

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Performance

Performance modes:

• Responsive — faster updates.
• Balanced — default balance between responsiveness and performance.
• Lightweight — lower update frequency for heavy modlists or lower-end systems.
• Custom — used when update intervals are adjusted manually.

Modern Status batches large UI/configuration changes and uses optimized rendering paths to reduce unnecessary per-frame work.

For additional UI performance: ESC > Options > User Interface > UI Offscreen Rendering

You can also lower UI Rendering FPS.

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Supported Main Indicators

• Health, Bleeding, Bloodiness, Hunger, Thirst, Food Healing, Fatigue, Endurance
• Stress, Panic, Boredom, Discomfort, Unhappiness, Anger
• Drunkenness, Muscle Strain, Pain, Poison, Sickness
• Wetness, Windchill, Temperature, Catch a Cold
• Weight, Calories, Carbohydrates, Protein, Fat
• Dirtiness, Carry Weight / Encumbrance
• Medication duration: Antibiotics, Painkillers, Sleeping Pills, Beta Blockers
• Noxious Smell / Noxious Exposure

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Supported Mod Integrations

• Wash or Rot / Wash or Rot SP/MP — Grime
• LifeStyle: Hobbies — Hygiene Need, Bladder Need
• Take A Bath And Shower — Body Grime
• Excrementum — Stomach, Colon, Urine, Smell, Shame
• Nature’s Call — Bladder, Bowel, Gut Health, Soilage, Digestive Effects

Modded indicators only appear when the corresponding mod is active and the required data is available.

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Troubleshooting

If Modern Status does not appear, settings do not save, moodles behave strangely, or the UI looks broken after an update:

With Project Zomboid closed:

• Unsubscribe from Modern Status.
• Wait until Steam removes the old Workshop download.
• Subscribe again.
• Verify Project Zomboid files through Steam.

Then test a new or backup save with only: NeatUI Framework + Modern Status

If that works, add other mods back in small groups to identify the interaction.

To reset only the current Modern Status layout/settings, close the game and rename or remove: