Every Zombuddy was a person. Eternal-02 didn't erase who they were — it amplified their most persistent habits and removed the context that used to keep those habits in check. Evolve them through four tiers using Soul, and build the squad that fits your strategy.
Ordinary people who had routines and lost the context for them. They are going somewhere. They don't know where. They will not stop. Whatever gets in the way is briefly dealt with, and then they continue — no memory of starting, no sense of arriving.
They are not attacking you — they are performing. The fact that their performance involves spinning kicks at high velocity is your problem. At Specialized Elite tier they unlock an area spin attack that stuns surrounding enemies and applies a dance buff aura to nearby allied Zombuddies.
Enormous, slow, and radiating specific frustration. Defeating a Bloated is not the end of the encounter — it is the start of the last part of it. Death Burst detonates on death in a large AoE. Tiana can trigger it early. The Bloated appears, when this happens, to have been waiting for it.
The highest evolution tier. Every Zombuddy type has an Alpha form with a unique passive aura that buffs all nearby allied Zombuddies. One Alpha changes how a camp feels to raid. Requires Viral Serum and Soul to reach. Worth it.
Two maps. Two different problems. Your Camp Map is your home — build it, defend it, raise your Zombuddies here. The Big World is where everyone else is — go out, collect resources, recruit wild Zombuddies, and try to make it back before someone kills you and takes your Field Pack.
Soul is collected in the Big World and generated passively at camp. Use it to evolve Zombuddies through four tiers — Infant, Evolved, Specialized Elite, Alpha — and upgrade your camp structures. Recruiting wild Zombuddies costs Soul. Losing your Field Pack before you get home means losing all the Soul you gathered that run.
Other players raid your camp while you are online or offline. Station Zombuddies to defend, build structures that shape where the fight happens — Reinforced Walls, Spike Traps, Soul Snares, Alarm Posts. Your Zombuddies are the active defense layer. Your structures buy them time. If your Commander Shelter falls, the raid succeeds.
The Big World has no protection. If another player finds you, they can fight you. If they kill you, your Field Pack drops. The deeper you go, the better the loot and the rarer the Zombuddies — and the further you are from home when things go wrong. Every run is a decision about when to push further and when to go back.
Defensive structures do not aim. They do not fire. They shape where the fight happens and buy your stationed Zombuddies time. Build the right structures in the right places and a raid becomes very expensive for whoever is running it.
Season updates, gameplay breakdowns, and field reports from the post-Eternal world.
From building your first Commander Shelter to recruiting your first wild Zombuddy, to setting up a defensive layout that makes raiders regret the decision — everything you need to know to get started.
A wild Zombuddy in your Field Pack is worth nothing until you get home. Here's how to evaluate when to push deeper for a recruit and when to cut your losses and run.
From Hermann Buck's lab directive to Eternal-02's global mutation — the full timeline of how the world stopped making sense and started being this instead.
