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ZA-Z update, 10 September 2026: South African food, the Knox Antidote, weather events and hotbar reordering

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Two days, four additions. On 10 September 2026 ZA-Z started stocking Knox County with South African food and gained an events engine that stages the weather. On 11 September the Knox Antidote, the only cure for the zombie infection, entered the world, and the website learnt to reorder your hotbar.

#South African food (10 September)

Biltong, droewors, boerewors, Mrs Ball's Chutney, Simba chips and more: normal game items under South African names, so each one eats, spoils and cooks like the item it is based on (Biltong is beef jerky, Boerewors is a sausage). The server stocks map containers around survivors as they explore, from butchers' displays and vending machines to kitchen fridges. A first batch of renamed drinks still showed up as plain beer and pop, so most of those were dropped the next day. Today there are 55 foods: South African Food.

#Weather and events (10 September)

The server can now stage the sky to the in-game minute: storms with a proper build-up and fade, tropical storms, blizzards, fog banks, lightning shows and dry thunder, plus messages in chat and on the radio. Everyone online gets the same weather at the same moment, with no relog. How to prepare: Weather and Events.

#The Knox Antidote (11 September)

A green can that clears the zombie infection. Drink all of it and the fever, the nausea and the countdown to turning stop at once; the bite stays, and you pay with hours of agony afterwards. It is very rare and only ever turns up in fridges, likeliest in hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and labs. The first recorded cure came on 20 September. Odds and details: Knox Antidote; for bites without a cure, see the Immune System.

#Reorder your hotbar (11 September)

Build 42 has no way to rearrange hotbar slots, so the website does it. Sign in on your zazomboid.com page, open the Hotbar tab while you are on the server, and set the order; it loads the next time you join. See The ZA-Z website.