Research Facility, KY [B41]

The Research Facility, KY is a full expansion and redesign of the secret military base that can be found to the west of Rosewood, KY. It's design is inspired by the sprawling complex of Black Mesa from the Half-Life series, as well as from the town of Eureka from the TV show Eureka (2006).

The facility conducts advanced research in the areas of high tech aerospace engineering, plant sciences and advanced biomedical research. The facility contains a several large research facilities, a satellite launch facility, a small heliport, a military outpost and a company town to house the employees of the facility.

Gameplay

The entire facility is surrounded by double wide, unclimbable military grade fence, and at the time of gamestart the facility has been placed on a full lockdown. This means it will be impossible to get past the main gate with a car until you have a sledgehammer (you can still climb the front gate). The zombie population are very high within the facility, but there are many valuable looting areas and many army vehicle spawns making it a much more attractive late-game looting spot compared to its vanilla counterpart.

"The Biomedical & Engineering Facilities are on full lockdown with shutters blocking off all entrance and exits, if the system worked the infection will be contained" (hint: there are ways in/out without a sledge)

You can spawn within the base, but the spawns are VERY high so it will be a very tough start in terms of numbers if playing on normal or above.

An optional addon is included that connects the Research Facility to Rosewood via a proper main road (see worldmap image for cells)

Compatability

The map uses the cells 18,41 / 18,42 & 19,41 / 19,42.

Works well with...

• Fort Redstone 2.0 - This mod was specifically designed to support the new incarnation of Fort Redstone, and does not overlap any of its cells at time of writing.
• Raven Creek - LOAD Raven Creek AFTER THIS MOD! Tested with this mod and works fine (they come up right against each other but dont overlap)

Incompatible with...

• Slocan Lake (Sort of works, you must put Slocan Lake (and Raven Creek etc) AFTER Research Facility.
• Rosewood Access Road (breaks half the map) and is not needed (This map contains its own access road).

Multiplayer / Server

Make sure you go into the server settings, map, and then add this map to the list and move it up to the top of the list to ensure it prioritizes generating the new area rather than the base map (not sure why its an issue within this map).

Special Thanks

DaddyDirk for his tile mod, and his excellent YouTube series that taught me how to map!

Dev News / Update

- April, 2026 Hi all, updated on this map. While i would love to and have ideas for a B42 version, sadly between work, life and others projects I just dont have time to port the map right now. I cant guarantee the map will ever be ported by me.

Any modders/map makers who wish to port it to B42 are more than welcome to, im happy for you to publish it yourself with attribution or I can add you to the modpage here and pending quick review can be updated here.

Workshop ID: 2807152393 Mod ID: rbr Mod ID: rbrA2 Mod ID: rbrA Map Folder: researchbase Map Folder: researchbaseroad Map Folder: rbr_road