Grayscale Chad with a barbed-wire bat, zombies behind him, grinning
Build 42 multiplayer · PvE first

The last server you'll ever play

Are you Chad enough to join?
What is Chadtopia?

It's important you understand, survivor.

You have played PvE servers before. Vanilla settings, a mod list you install by hand, loot that either never comes back or comes back all at once, an admin who is asleep, and a wipe every six weeks when the save file gives up. That is the normal one. This is not that.

Chadtopia is a Build 42 server that has been rebuilt from the ground up by one guy with a problem. Twenty-six maps joined into one Kentucky. Risk zones from Low to Extinction, each with its own loot, population and sprinter odds, so the dangerous places are dangerous on purpose. Every item you take comes back on its own timer. Kills pay cash, cash buys clothes from Clark, and a leaderboard remembers who did what.

Four hundred mods. You install none of them. The launcher does your pushups for you.

GET THE LAUNCHER
How to join

Two steps. Then run.

1

Join the Discord

No whitelist form. Walk in, say hello, read the rules you will later break.

2

Get the Chad Launcher

View launcher source on GitLab. Inspect the code, changes and build history.

It finds your game, reuses the mods you already own, downloads the rest, fixes your memory and remembers your login. You are not required to understand it.

OR

The Virgin Route

Skip the launcher and add the server by hand. Subscribe to the whole Workshop collection, then add the server. Good luck with the load order.

chadtopia.net:16261

Listed in the server browser as "Chad's Extinction Emporium". Yes, really.

What the launcher does for you

Four hundred mods. Zero homework.

  • Reuses your Steam mods. Hard-links what you already own, downloads only the rest.
  • Survives bad wifi. Four downloads at a time, resumable mid-file, re-fetched on a bad checksum.
  • Updates itself. New version, new launcher, no reinstall.
  • Remembers your login. Saved in the game's own account list.
  • Leaves single-player alone. Your own mod list goes back the moment you quit.
  • Fixes your memory limit. No more dying at the loading screen.
  • Snitches on crashes. Your console log lands in our Discord with your name on it.
  • Verify / repair. One button checks every file against the signed list.
  • Sets up playable consoles. NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Atari on in-game TVs.
  • Movies & TV, optional. Opt in to the tape library. Still in test.
  • Windows and Linux, same day. .exe, .tar.gz, .deb and .rpm every release.
  • Does not break Steam. Uninstall removes only what we installed.
A comprehensive comparison

Virgin PvE server vs Chad PvE server

The Virgin PvE Server

  • Vanilla sandbox. Same Muldraugh you have looted forty times.
  • Steam collection link. "Just subscribe to all 180." Three don't load.
  • Loot respawn off, so the pharmacy is empty forever. Or on, so a whole cabinet refills at 3 a.m.
  • Kills count for nothing. Money is a roleplay prop.
  • World wipe every six weeks because the save "got corrupted".
  • One map. Maybe Raven Creek if the admin was feeling spicy.
  • Admin spawns himself a katana, then goes to bed.

The Chad Chadtopia

  • Risk zones from Low to Extinction. Loot, population and sprinter odds set per zone.
  • One launcher. Four hundred mods. Reuses what you already own.
  • Each item you take returns on its own timer, in its own container. Like a real shelf.
  • Kills pay a wallet. Wallet pays Clark and the market. Fourteen leaderboards keep score.
  • Hourly snapshots, 128 GB of RAM, the whole map held in memory. The world stays up.
  • Twenty-six maps joined by road. Eerie Country, Mount Crow, Slocan Lake, the lot.
  • Every admin action logged. Admin perks pause your achievements. Even ours.
Everything else

What's actually running.

01

The Dead

Switched on. Then tuned.

Zones with teeth

Seven risk tiers. Sprinters are a per-zone percentage, mutants only where the zone allows, populations counted per chunk so towns stay full.

Events

Military drops, crash sites, sprinter packs after dark in the high tiers, Bad Moon, airdrops. Paced to the player count, never spammed.

Sirens draw the horde

Leave a siren or a stereo on in an empty car and the dead come smash it. The car pays for your mistake.

02

The Living

Not all of them friendly.

Survivor NPCs

They hold camps, keep reserves and run supply trips. Kingsmouth has hostile scavenger crews. Louisville has bandits with schedules.

PvE first

PvP only inside marked zones like West Point, with a banner and a sting when you cross the line. Everywhere else the dead are the enemy.

Death reports

Every death gets a report on the death screen: what bit you, what you ate, where you fell. Spawn protection while you read it.

03

Money

Kills pay. Clark collects.

Wallet, boards, badges

Fourteen leaderboards, thirteen weekly prize boards, a $10,000 daily contract and 117 badges. Tourist and Sprinter Hunter pay the brave.

Player market

Sell spare loot to other players. It spends the same wallet Clark does. One purse.

Honest scarcity

Regional loot tables, items that return one at a time, a guard on ransacked buildings, and video games so rare they are trading material.

04

Downtime

For when the dead are quiet.

Playable consoles

NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy and Atari on in-game TVs. Live now. Movies and the cinema are in test.

Lifestyle and pianos

Learn songs, play instruments, pick up hobbies, change your look at a mirror. The dead can hear the piano. That is a feature.

Vehicles with rules

Advanced vehicle systems, balanced top speeds, part claims, and a spin guard for people who think the car is a weapon.

Apparel

Clark Fitness.

A community operated luxury clothing brand, located in West Point, Kentucky, operated by a man named Clark. Over a thousand pieces that never spawn in the world. Try them on at the mirror. Pay in the money you earned killing the things that run.

All sales final. Clark does not do refunds. Clark does not do returns. Clark has seen things.

SHOP AT CLARK'S (IN GAME)
Clark the Clothier in-game shop with a catalogue of coats and prices
Did you do your pushups?

Nobody is coming to save you.

The Discord is where the rules live, where your crash log lands with your name on it, and where the death wall is going up. Bring bandages.