Development journal.

Proof before promises. Every entry records what changed, what failed, and what the world taught us.

A Survivor Who Gets Hungry — and Does Something About It

Hunger, thirst, Home food searches, visible physical actions, and real container interaction are turning autonomous decisions into observable survival behavior.

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The Server Is Empty. The NPCs Are Still Out There.

Cold-boot tests proved that connectionless survivors can restore, move through rolling world relevance, interact with real persistent objects, and return while no human is connected.

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Real Inventory, Nested Backpacks, and Vanilla Trading

A genuine IsoPlayer already owns a real inventory. The hard part was moving exact items safely through nested containers and vanilla trade without inventing an NPC connection.

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From Server Puppet to Autonomous Survivor

Homes, semantic perception, daily life, and independent decision timing turned a command-driven body into the foundation of an autonomous survivor.

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How True MP NPC Became a Real Project Zomboid Player Without a Client

The first breakthrough was not smarter AI. It was a genuine server-owned IsoPlayer that vanilla clients could see without a fake login, socket, or headless client.

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