Quality of Life

Vehicles

Zombie Land runs two separate vehicle systems: personal licensed vehicles you buy, spawn, and recall with commands, and normal world vehicles you find on the map and claim with a lock. Knowing which is which saves you fuel, scrap, and heartbreak.

Start with /license Licensed vehicles never decay Claim world vehicles with /lock

Minis, boats, horses, trains. If it moves, there is probably a license for it.

Two Systems, Do Not Mix Them Up

Licensed vehicles: personal vehicles you buy through the vehicle system. You spawn and recall them with commands. These do not decay while they are out.
World vehicles: normal vanilla vehicles found on the map or bought at vendors. These use vanilla decay rates. You can claim them with /lock (see below).

Licensed Vehicles

Use /license for a chat list of available vehicle types and commands. Type /buy with no arguments for the purchasable list, or /buy vehicle to purchase one.

Licenses do wipe on map wipe. Some vehicles also lose their license if they are destroyed in the world (blown up, crashed, and so on). Putting a vehicle away with /kill does not remove the license.

Vehicle license chat help — The /license chat output: every type and alias in one list.

Spawning, Recalling, and Storing

Core Commands

Works on any licensed type

/spawn vehicleSpawn your licensed vehicle near you

/recall vehiclePull it to you from elsewhere on the map

/kill vehiclePut it away (stores it; keeps your license)

Most vehicles also have a short alias that buys, spawns, or recalls depending on your current state. For example, /mini will buy a minicopter if you do not own one yet, spawn it if you own it and it is stored, or recall it if it is already out (/mini is available from Veteran rank and up). Other examples: /boat, /rhib, /transport, /horse. Run /license for the full alias list.

You cannot spawn or recall while building blocked, already mounted, or in blocked zones. Recalling is blocked if someone is currently inside the vehicle. Water vehicles require you to be looking at water.

The daily server restart does not despawn your vehicles. A licensed vehicle left sitting out will still be there after the restart (licensed vehicles do not decay), and world vehicles keep following normal vanilla decay. The restart itself never removes them.

Losing a License

If a licensed vehicle is destroyed in the world (explosion, crash, and so on), some types remove your license and others do not. Types that currently lose the license on destruction:

Mini-Copter
Attack Helicopter
Transport-Copter
Subway Cart and Train / Covered Train
Submarine Solo and Submarine Duo

Other licensed types keep the license after a destruction so you can re-spawn. Using /kill always keeps the license. What you get back when a vehicle is put away or destroyed also varies by vehicle: see What You Get Back below.

Crash survival tips: if you stay mounted when you crash, the vehicle will not take crash damage and will not blow up. Rust can still glitch you out of the driver's seat, so be cautious. If a vehicle clips under the map, dismount ASAP; our under-map rescue cannot pull you out while you are still mounted.

What You Get Back

You get it back Lost n/aNothing to give back Put away = /kill or /recall. Destroyed = blown up or crashed.

Which vehicles give back fuel, items, modules and engine parts, and which keep their license after a crash
Vehicle	Fuel, put away	Fuel, destroyed	Items, put away	Items, destroyed	Modules	Engine parts	License after a crash
Water
Boat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
RHIB	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
PT Boat	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
Kayak	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Submarine Solo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Lost
Submarine Duo	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Lost
Air
Mini-Copter	Yes	No	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Lost
Transport-Copter	Yes	No	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Lost
Attack Helicopter	No	No	No	No	n/a	n/a	Lost
Chinook	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Hot Air Balloon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
Armored Hot Air Balloon	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
Land
Horse	n/a	n/a	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
Bike	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Trike	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Motorbike	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Motorbike Sidecar	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Snowmobile	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
Tomaha Snowmobile	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	Kept
Car	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Modular cars
Small Modular Car	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kept
Medium Modular Car	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kept
Large Modular Car	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Kept
Rail
Subway Cart	Yes	No	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Lost
Train	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Lost
Covered Train	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Lost
Locomotive	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept
Complete Train	Yes	Yes	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	Kept

Recalling a vehicle never drops its items on the ground.

Team Sharing

Clan and team members can use your licensed vehicles with you. Players outside your clan or team cannot take the driver's seat or loot fuel / inventory on your licensed vehicles.

World Vehicles & Locking

World-spawned vehicles are separate from licensed ones. They use vanilla decay. Do not expect the no-decay behavior that licensed vehicles get.

When you sit in an unowned world vehicle, chat will tell you how to claim it. Use /lock while sitting in it to lock it to yourself. Use /unlock while sitting in it, or while looking at it within about 8 m, to release it. Licensed vehicles cannot be locked or unlocked this way; they are already owned through the license system.

There is a limit on how many world vehicles of each type you can lock at once. Higher ranks get higher limits.

Vehicle Lock Commands

Type these in chat

/lockLocks the vehicle you are sitting in. You become its owner and it counts toward your vehicle limit.

/unlockUnlocks the vehicle you are sitting in, or the one you are looking at within about 8 m. Only its owner can unlock it (admins can unlock any vehicle).

/vehicle listLists your locked vehicles.

/vehicle wipeUnlocks all of your locked vehicles.

Vehicle camping policy: see General Rules. No leaving vehicles on Oil Rig, Raid Base islands, or blocking Town facilities.

Command Quick Reference

Everything In One Place

/license shows the full alias list in-game

/licenseList available vehicles and aliases

/buy vehiclePurchase a license

/spawn vehicleSpawn your licensed vehicle

/recall vehicleRecall it to you

/kill vehicleStore it (keeps license)

/mini, /boat, ...Short aliases that buy / spawn / recall for that type (/mini from Veteran rank and up)

/lockLock a world vehicle while sitting in it

/unlockUnlock a world vehicle you own (sit in it, or look at it within about 8 m)

/vehicle listList your locked vehicles

/vehicle wipeUnlock all of your locked vehicles

Vehicle perks and lock limits by rank are listed on each rank page. Questions? Ask in Discord.