Build 42 · Season 9
Server Features: PvPvE Zones, Claims and a Real Player Economy
After the Fall is often imitated. What is hard to copy is the set of systems underneath it: proprietary mods that make PVP safety automatic, claims that make ownership real, and an economy we publish the actual numbers from.
Automatic PvPvE zones
The entire map is PVP except claimed safehouses and player-built settlements, where our own mod switches PVP off automatically. Nobody has to toggle a flag or be trusted to hold fire.
Safehouse and settlement claims
Claim a building and it becomes yours: a place you cannot be killed in, which makes long-term basebuilding viable on a server where everywhere else is hostile.
Car claims
Vehicles can be claimed the same way, so the car you repaired is still there tomorrow. Permissions can be granted to other players when you want them: a mechanic, a crew mate.
A real player economy
Scraps are earned from paychecks, zombie bounties, valuables and trade. Players run their own stores and set their own prices, so the market genuinely moves on its own.
Skill recovery
Dying costs you, but it does not erase months of progress. Skill recovery keeps a death meaningful without making a long-running character disposable.
A curated 70-mod collection
One Steam Workshop collection, maintained in the open: vehicles, clothing, hairstyles, quality-of-life fixes and the server's own systems, tested together rather than bolted on.
Events and active admins
Community-wide events, and admins who answer tickets daily. Volunteer staff go through a formal written application and review rather than being handed the role.
Published live server data
The market, the money supply, and the death log are all published on this site straight from the game server. Almost no server shows you this, and none of it is a marketing figure.
PvPvE, and why it is automatic
Most PVP servers ask you to trust a rule. Ours enforces it. Everywhere on the map is hostile, but the moment you step into a safehouse you have claimed or a settlement players have built, PVP is switched off for you by the server itself. That is handled by mods written for this server rather than pulled off the Workshop, and it is the single reason a PVP server here can also support months-long bases and a functioning market.
The consequence is a map with texture: roads and towns where you check your corners, and places where you can put a bag down. Where you die, and who kills you, is published on the homepage death board rather than left to rumour.
An economy with published books
Scraps come from playing: paychecks for time survived, bounties for zombies killed, and whatever you can sell. Players run stalls, set prices and compete, and the resulting market is not a shop we control.
What is unusual is that we publish it. The player market lists every item currently stocked in a player-run store with live prices, and the economy report shows the money supply, where money is created and destroyed, and thirty days of price history, read directly from the game server rather than typed up by hand.
Seasons, not surprise wipes
The server runs in seasons. Each starts fresh with new features and a published set of changes, announced well ahead in Discord. We are on Season 9 now, and the roadmap shows what is being built for the next one.
Run in the open
The mod collection is public on the Steam Workshop, the roadmap is public, and so are the finances: what comes in, what hosting costs, and what goes to the mod authors and artists whose work the server runs on. Staff are unpaid volunteers.
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