Pre Season

July got the zone recording again. August gives those numbers somewhere to go.

Pre Season Is Live

The first season in PavZ history started on the 15th.

Everything you do in the zone now counts toward a leaderboard - kills, zombies, crates, air drops and chickens - and each one is ranked separately. Being the best scavenger in the zone stands on its own rather than disappearing underneath somebody else's kill count.

Check where you stand any time with /leaderboard.

Pre Season is exactly what it sounds like: the shakedown run before seasons become a regular rhythm. Play it like it counts, because it does.

Desert and Valley Only

Leaderboards cover Desert and Valley. Test and example maps are excluded.

Those maps carry development playtesting, and counting them would put whoever spent an afternoon testing a spawn point at the top of the board permanently. The boards should reflect the zone, not the workshop.

VIP You Earn

Top a leaderboard category and you get VIP automatically. No request, no form, no waiting on someone to notice.

Lose the top spot and it transfers to whoever took it off you. It runs on its own every few minutes, so the perk follows the board rather than whoever remembered to ask for it.

It is deliberately separate from Supporter VIP - that one is yours regardless, and does not get taken away when somebody out-scavenges you.

The Busiest Month Yet

August was the biggest month the zone has had: 1,809 players across 4,594 sessions, 68,150 zombies put down and 95,647 crates opened.

By the Numbers

Changelog

• Pre Season started 2026-08-15, the first season in PavZ history
• Leaderboards for kills, zombies, crates, air drops and chickens, ranked separately
• /leaderboard to check standings
• Automatic VIP grant and revocation for category leaders, isolated from Supporter VIP
• Leaderboards restricted to Desert and Valley, excluding test map data

Think you can hold a top spot? The zone is open. Discord · roadmap