Last Days

Last Days

Zombie survival with a reason to keep moving.

Explore abandoned settlements, scavenge for supplies, maintain your weapons and vehicles, and work toward evacuation from a world overrun by infected. Last Days combines survival, gunfights, factions and a campaign for Minecraft Java 1.20.1, playable alone or with friends.

Current version: 0.2.1 Beta. Separate builds are available for Forge, Fabric and historical NeoForge 1.20.1. English and Russian interfaces are included.

Scavenge, prepare, survive

Search apartments, shops, villages, workshops, airfields, military sites and underground facilities. Supplies fit their surroundings: a kitchen, a police armory and a workshop offer different reasons to explore. Crowbars and lockpicks help you reach locked rooms and stashes.

Food, drinking water and shelter are your first priorities. Purify water, cook, and carry treatment for bleeding, fractures and infection. Clothes, vests and backpacks provide their own storage sections, so your equipment determines what you can bring home. Balance ammunition, medicine, food and valuable finds before each expedition.

Maps, GPS, compasses and radios help you navigate. Your journal tracks campaign progress and accepted tasks; temporary objective reminders let you recall your destination without keeping a permanent marker across the screen.

Weapons that need more than ammunition

Find pistols, shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns and a crossbow. The arsenal includes the PM, Glock 17, Desert Eagle, AK-74N, AK-74M, M4A1, SVD and PKP, with 3D weapon models, attachments and first-person animations.

Magazines are separate items: load compatible rounds, manage spare magazines, reload and keep your weapon in good condition. Worn weapons can jam; repair kits help restore them. Firearm shots travel through connected, loaded terrain until they meet an obstruction or unloaded area. Armed NPCs choose engagement distances according to their weapons, making cover and preparation matter.

Pistols support dual wielding. A riot shield offers another option: block frontal attacks, watch its durability and repair it when needed. Intact shields can be recovered from riot zombies or found in newly generated police loot. Hold-to-aim and toggle-to-aim are both available in weapon controls.

More than ordinary zombies

Alongside the existing infected, eleven mutant types expand the threats you can meet: Brute, Stalker, Screamer, Spitter, Bloated, Devourer, Grave Worm, Colossus, Riot Zombie, Hive and Scavenger Crow.

Their encounters include heavy melee attacks, grabs, acid, gas, shields and vulnerable body parts. Some enemies force you out of cover; others punish a direct frontal attack. Appearance and encounters depend on the creature, world settings and campaign progress. New laboratory layouts and evacuation defenses bring different threats together. Mutant behavior and encounter balance are still being developed in the beta.

Find a vehicle. Keep it running.

Repair and maintain a four-seat UAZ-inspired off-road vehicle or a BMW E39-inspired sedan. Both can appear through eligible garage and fuel-station vehicle assignments. A found car may need fuel, a battery, wheels or repairs before it becomes your way out of town.

The UAZ uses all-wheel drive and an off-road setup; the sedan defaults to rear-wheel drive. Carry supplies in the cargo space and travel with passengers. Doors, wheels, panels and other components have individual damage states. Parts can break off, and missing wheels affect the vehicle’s ability to drive. Damage and maintenance state persist when the world is saved.

Driving includes progressive steering, braking before reverse, surface grip and handbrake slides. W accelerates, S brakes then reverses, A/D steer and Space applies the handbrake. Combat helicopters add an airborne threat, while the rescue helicopter is part of the evacuation campaign.

People, factions and unexpected companions

Meet survivors, traders, soldiers and bandits. Karma and faction reputation affect relationships and trade. Optional contracts include supply deliveries, medicine, spare parts, scouting and combat. Patrols, caravans, wounded survivors and faction clashes create encounters as you explore, depending on world settings.

As you gain survival experience, you can also encounter Cheesy Mouse and her weasel companion. Escort both to safety to earn campaign materials through an alternative route toward evacuation. Keep the pair together: their escort is more than following a map marker. Cheesy Mouse also trades equipment for aged cheese found while scavenging.

Elsewhere, weasels and stoats can be befriended, fed and played with, including games of fetch.

Reach the laboratory. Make it to extraction.

The campaign leads from your first supplies to securing a virus sample and antidote, preparing a beacon and calling for rescue. Take on the underground laboratory or discover the escort route, then choose a landing site and defend the evacuation beacon until the helicopter arrives.

New laboratory layouts contain mixed mutant encounters, cover and routes around dangerous enemies. Returning from the laboratory can also bring trouble to your camp. Evacuation defense includes multiple enemy waves, so gather ammunition, medicine and allies before you send the signal. Older, already generated laboratories retain their existing layout and guards.

Night-vision goggles come in three generations with different visibility and visual effects, giving you another tool for dark interiors. You can explore at your own pace; completing every optional contract is not required to follow the campaign.

Play your way

Play solo or with friends. Presets and individual world rules cover destruction, loot replenishment, PvP, injuries, infection, enemy density and events.

• F9: campaign journal and accepted contracts.
• F8: world rules.
• Tab: recall your current objective; returning from the pause menu also recalls it.
• R: reload a held Last Days weapon.

These are default controls; key bindings can be changed. The mod follows your Minecraft language.

Install Last Days

Use Minecraft Java 1.20.1 and Java 17. Choose the file for your loader:

• Forge 0.2.1 — Forge 47.4.0.
• Fabric 0.2.1 — Fabric Loader 0.16.9, plus Fabric API 0.92.1+1.20.1.
• NeoForge 0.2.1 — historical NeoForge 47.1.106 for Minecraft 1.20.1. This build does not support modern NeoForge versions.

Put one matching Last Days JAR in your mods folder. Replace the previous version when updating. Multiplayer requires matching Last Days versions and the same loader on server and clients. Back up existing worlds before updating. When creating a new world, select Last Days and choose a preset. GeckoLib is required on both client and server. Install GeckoLib 4.4.9 for Minecraft 1.20.1, matching your loader: the Forge build for Forge or historical NeoForge 47.1.106, and the Fabric build for Fabric. The declared dependency range is >=4.4.9 and <5.0.0. Fabric also requires Fabric API.

A continuing public beta

Last Days began in the Minecraft 1.7.10 era and is now being developed for Minecraft 1.20.1 by Nail Safin. The current builds remain experimental: world generation, mutant mechanics, campaign encounters, balance and interfaces are still evolving. Full campaign and multiplayer coverage is still in progress. Old 1.7.10 worlds are not converted to 1.20.1.

The laboratory and vehicle GIFs show actual gameplay. Some screenshots use optional shaders installed separately. The AK-74N inspection GIF comes from a browser viewer using the mod’s assets. Visuals and balance can change between releases.

News and community

• Discord — international community, feedback and discussion, with English channels and a Russian chat.
• Telegram — development news from the author, mostly in Russian.
• Last Days website — about the mod, screenshots and installation.

Gather supplies. Choose your route. Make it out alive.