Solar Floodlight [42.16] [MP]

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Author: Alex Ron

Last revision: 2 Apr at 12:31 UTC (1)

File size: 2.07 MB

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Description:
☀️ Solar Floodlight — autonomous solar lighting for Build 42.15+

Reliable off-grid light for your base 🔋

Solar Floodlight adds autonomous outdoor lighting to Project Zomboid. It runs on a real rechargeable battery, charges during the day, and lights up your base at night.

Perfect for safehouses, workshops, entrances, yards, and remote outposts.

✨ Features
  • 🔋 Real rechargeable battery you can insert and remove
  • ☀️ Fully autonomous: charges by day, works at night
  • 🛠️ Three modes: AUTO / ON / OFF
  • 💡 Strong 15-tile light radius
  • 🖥️ Clean device-style settings panel
  • ⌛ Battery life gets shorter over time
  • ⚡ Instant light response
  • 🧭 Light restores correctly after leaving the area and coming back
  • 🧩 Works well in both singleplayer and multiplayer
  • 🌐 Languages: EN / ES / PTBR / FR / DE / PL / RU / CN

⚙️ Mechanics

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  • 🔋 1 floodlight = 1 rechargeable Base.Battery
  • Tick = every 10 in-game minutes
  • 🌕 Day charge = +10/h
  • 🌗 Twilight charge = +5/h
  • 🌑 Night drain = -16.35/h / capacityMult
  • capacityMult floor = 0.20
  • Normal wear = -0.0017/night
  • Deep-discharge wear = -0.0108 at 0 charge
  • AUTO = ON only at night
  • OFF = no drain, still charges

🔋 Fresh battery example (AUTO)
  • Last full-night run = day 14–15
  • Last run to dawn minus 1 hour = about day 30
  • At least 3 hours of light = about day 60
  • capacityMult floor reached = about day 85

🛠️ Crafting
  • Category: Electrical
  • Required skill: Electricity 4
  • Craft time: 240
  • XP reward: 15
  • Tools kept: screwdriver, small hacksaw or regular hacksaw
  • Materials: SmallCopperSheet, MetalPipe or MetalBar, Screws, ElectronicsScrap, ElectricWire, LightBulb

📍 Placement

Right-click the ground where you want to place it, then choose "Place Solar Floodlight".

❤️ Support

Solar Floodlight took over 200 hours of solo development time — from concept and mechanics to coding, testing, bugfixing, and polish. If you’re enjoying the mod and want to help support continued updates and new survival utilities:
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Stay safe out there — and light up the apocalypse ☀️🔦

Workshop ID: 3680577450
Mod ID: SolarFloodlight

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