Collectible Toy Dinosaurs

We proudly present an extremely lightweight mod that adds collectible plastic dinosaurs.

This mod is designed to add just a little bit of additional lore-friendly and historically accurate flavor to the Project Zomboid world. The plastic dinosaurs included in this mod (currently Vol. 1: Dollar Store Dinos) are modeled after cheap/no-brand dinosaur figurines found in the United States (and elsewhere) from the 1960s onwards.

Plastic dinos spawn in the same locations where brick toys are found. Rare Toy Dinosaur Packages might also spawn. Opening them will give you 1-3 random dinosaurs.

Absolutely not.

Similar to our Vectrex Playable Console mod, this mod adds a single placeholder item to loot tables using the same probabilities as the base game "brick toys" item. If a placeholder item spawns, it is then automatically replaced with one of the 48 collectible dinos. Thus, finding ANY dino is roughly as rare as finding brick toys. Dinosaurs follow the same loot rarity settings as other toys/junk found in the vanilla game.

Vol. 1 "Dollar Store Dinos" contain dinosaur models that are low-poly with simple 4×32 textures – even the most expansive dino display will not impact performance.

Does not overwrite any base game files, so it should be fully compatible with pretty much every mod.

You can add it to an existing save, but only unvisited chunks will have a chance for dinos to spawn (unless loot respawn is turned on)

You can also remove it, however, any dinos you have collected will of course disappear 🙁

The dinosaurs use the vanilla game display categories, so they are compatible with More Loot Settings.
In addition, the mod already takes into consideration the "Item Stories" mod – the placeholder item looks and functions identically to the "Toy Dinosaur Package" and can be opened to receive 3 random dinos. Thus, if it accidentally spawns due to "Item Stories" selecting it from a loot table, no admin intervention is required.

SP and MP tested and fully functioning.

If this mod reaches 1000 subscribers, we will release another volume of dinosaurs.

Spenglerian: Code and scripts, a texture here and an icon there, playtesting
Zhamul: 3D modeling, most icons, textures and UV mapping, dinosaur lore

Workshop ID: 3355886115
Mod ID: CollectibleToyDinosaurs