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Survivor PDA - RPG Skill Tree, Traders & Missions [B42]

by Batoonchi · for Project Zomboid

SURVIVOR PDA Skill Tree - World Danger - Traders - Missions - Mystery Boxes - Bank - Mail https://i.imgur.com/VZ3Ys8j.jpeg Knox County fell. The network did not. Somewhere out there, SURVIVOR .NET is…

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SURVIVOR PDA Skill Tree - World Danger - Traders - Missions - Mystery Boxes - Bank - Mail https://i.imgur.com/VZ3Ys8j.jpeg Knox County fell. The network did not. Somewhere out there, SURVIVOR .NET is…

SURVIVOR PDA

Skill Tree - World Danger - Traders - Missions - Mystery Boxes - Bank - Mail

Knox County fell. The network did not. Somewhere out there, SURVIVOR .NET is still online, and your battered PDA is linked to it.

Survivor PDA puts a whole RPG layer on one hand-held device. Press K and your survivor pulls out the PDA - a real 3D model in their hands - with a skill tree, a world that gets more dangerous every week, traders who remember you, jobs, mystery boxes, a bank and mail from people who are still alive... or say they are.

  • One device, everything inside: Dossier, Skill Tree, World Danger, Operations, Traders, Contacts and Settings are tabs of the same PDA.
  • Made for Build 42: single player and multiplayer, server-authoritative rewards.
  • 13 languages, fully translated.
  • Everything adjustable in game and in the sandbox options.

  • 8 classes: Vanguard, Marksman, Shadow, Tactician, Medic, Survivalist, Engineer and Scavenger.
  • 270 nodes: class paths, mixed rings, 8 hybrid specialisations and 8 permanent prestige professions.
  • Real effects: skill XP, weapon damage, endurance, reload speed, carry weight, healing and more.
  • Skill points from every level. Reset the tree for a new build; node power x0.5 to x3.
  • Keep progress after death (optional): your next survivor keeps the level and points, or everything.

  • 5 stages: Caution, Alert, Danger, Critical and Apocalypse, each with its own alarm (can be muted).
  • The dead change with each stage: faster, tougher, more sprinters, bigger raids.
  • The timeline shows what the next stage brings and when. Horde raids hunt you down as the days go by.

  • 8 traders, one per class, each with a personality, a story and a 3D portrait.
  • Shops with stock that changes every few days; they also buy the items they want.
  • Relationships from Adversary to Ally: better prices, more work, gifts and special deals.
  • They talk about each other, take sides and remember what you did.

  • 385 trader jobs: hunt, deliver, craft and survive. Follow up to 3 at a time in Operations.
  • 51 survivor missions: strangers write to you for help - a family in a bunker, a ransom, a cult, a choir that keeps singing. Send what they ask for and live with how it ends. Some are dark. Some are lies.
  • Rewards: money, XP and trust; the hardest jobs give a skill point.

  • 93 rewards, from Normal to Mythic, in Normal, Rare and Legendary boxes.
  • Get them with a skill point, from kills, in the Mystery Box hunt event or at the bank.
  • Admins make their own boxes in game; they are saved to a file and load into a new save.

  • Mail from survivors who are not players: families asking for help, bandits, madmen and stories that go on for days.
  • Mail from your traders: news, gifts, gossip and job offers. Some mails are hacked. Some are lies.
  • In multiplayer, write to other players. Contacts shows who is online.

  • Your survivor file: class rank, affinity, vital signs and your standing with all 8 traders.
  • SURVIVOR.NET Bank: an account that outlives your survivor, interest, shares of the 8 trader companies on a market that rises and crashes, Mystery Boxes to open or gift, and the LUCKY SURVIVOR slot machine with one jackpot for the whole server.

  • Two ways to carry it: the permanent PDA, or the immersive PDA - a real item you craft, carry and keep charged.
  • Player HUD with level, XP, skill points, unread mail, world danger and a battery panel.
  • PDA size, text size, screen colour, sounds and animations.
  • Admin panel (Shift + F7): give items, heal, send presents, start XP events and box hunts, set the world danger, traders, bank and every setting.

  • English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
  • The PDA follows the game language, or you can pick any of them in its settings.
  • To read Chinese, Korean or Japanese, set the game itself to that language: only then the game loads its fonts.

  • Works in single player and multiplayer; the server decides every reward, price and job.
  • Light on the network: only what changes is sent.
  • Install it on the server and on every client (Workshop subscription).

[olist] [*]Subscribe. [*]Enable Survivor PDA - RPG Skill Tree & Traders in Mods (mod ID: ProjectRPGExpanded). [*]Press K to open the PDA (F10: Dimensional Vault, Shift + F7: admin panel). Keys can be changed in the key bindings. [/olist]

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Highlights

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Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Last update

Its author last shipped an update 1d ago.

Survivor PDA - RPG Skill Tree, Traders & Missions [B42] 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
2026-11-05, released 2026-11-05

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From 9 recorded builds of Survivor PDA - RPG Skill Tree, Traders & Missions [B42].

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2026-11-042026-11-04n/aWorkshop
2026-11-032026-11-03n/aWorkshop
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2026-10-302026-10-30n/aWorkshop
2026-10-292026-10-29n/aWorkshop

Run Survivor PDA - RPG Skill Tree, Traders & Missions [B42] on a Project Zomboid server

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What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Steam Workshop as “QoL”

Quality of life & UI

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

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  • ✓Steam WorkshopOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-05Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorBatoonchi, as published on Steam Workshop
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

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Is it free?

Yes. Survivor PDA - RPG Skill Tree, Traders & Missions [B42] is free to download from Steam Workshop.

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