About Slow Consumption
From Steam WorkshopSlow Consumption Tired of constantly having to change the empty battery in your flashlight? Or finding a new soap or lighter to replace the empty one? Or even changing colored light bulbs too often?…
Slow Consumption
Tired of constantly having to change the empty battery in your flashlight? Or finding a new soap or lighter to replace the empty one? Or even changing colored light bulbs too often?
Because we've all done this too many times. This mod does all of these at once:
🔹 Reduces flashlight battery consumption by 2 🔹 Reduces soap consumption by 2 🔹 Reduces lighter/matches consumption by 2 🔹 Increases colored light bulb condition by 10
[h2]🆕 Want to adjust even more items? Try this mod : Custom Consumption - Adjusts more than 100 items in sandbox options[/h2]
◽ Supported Version: 41.73+
◽ Compatible with Singleplayer and Multiplayer
◽ Works on existing saves (*)
(*) only partially consumed colored bulbs will not be updated.

What exactly does this mod change?
- Reduction of torch [yellow flashlight] battery consumption from 0.0009 to 0.00045
- Reduction of handtorch [black flashlight] battery consumption from 0.0004 to 0.0002
- Reduction of soap consumption from 0.05 to 0.025
- Reduction of matches consumption from 0.1 to 0.05
- Reduction of lighter consumption to 0.015
- Increase of lighter "ticksPerEquipUse" [as a light source] from 110 to 220
- Increase of colored light bulb "ConditionMax" from 10 to 100 [like a default light bulb]
This mod can be added to or removed from a save file at any time.
- Tired from other excessive consumption? Let me know here!
- Report a bug or any issue here!
Workshop ID: 2864231031 Mod ID: SlowConsumption
Highlights
From source dataFootprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 4 yr ago.
Slow Consumption on Nxeon
From our catalogue- 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
- 2023-02-08, released 2023-02-08
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| Workshop |
From 1 recorded build of Slow Consumption.
Run Slow Consumption on a Project Zomboid server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogQuality 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 ↗
- ✓AuthorPaddiSson_, as published on Steam Workshop
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
