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ZOMBIE NIGHTS MAP

ZOMBIE NIGHTSDROWNED CROSSINGS.

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Drawing of Drowned Crossings for four players: four island starts ringed by deep water, open bog with scattered woods and pools between them, and the Heart island at the centre with gold, relics and the sacred site.MAP LAYOUT · DRAWN FROM THE MAP SCRIPT

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HOLD THE CROSSING. HOLD THE VILLAGE.

A drowned marsh of bog, still pools and black water, where every night is a fight for a crossing.

Every player starts on an island ringed by deep water, with two ways in: a narrow causeway you can wall, and a ford twice as wide that is harder to close. Beyond them lies the bog, where your waves rise and where your outside gold and stone wait. At the centre, the Heart holds the richest gold, the sacred site and the relics.

Two crossings each

One causeway, about 24 wide, and one ford, about 48 wide. Wall one, tower the other, or hold both with an army.

Team games

Team-mates’ islands sit side by side and share a third, inner causeway, so allies can reinforce each other. The bog behind it is drowned, so no waves rise there.

The Heart

A small island in the middle, ringed by water, with a ford from every stretch of bog. It holds two or three large gold, the sacred site and relics, and guardians gather there after a few dawns.

Kings & Nomad

A low mound at the back of each island keeps a king away from both crossings. With Nomad on, the islands become prizes for whoever reaches them first.

Part of the Zombie Nights collection

The picture is drawn from the map’s own script for four players, so it shows the real layout, not a screenshot. The game adds the starting resources and places each tree itself, and the layout scales with the lobby. The map is available now. Subscribe on its official mod page or find it in the Age of Empires IV mod browser, then select it with the Zombie Nights game mode and tuning pack.

Explore Zombie Nights

IN GAME

SEE IT IN GAME.

In-game screenshots from matches on Hallow’s Hearth, with the interface hidden.

In-game screenshot: A player’s island: the town center and its first farms, with deep water and dead pines round it.
A player’s island: the town center and its first farms, with deep water and dead pines round it.
In-game screenshot: The Heart at the centre: the sacred site and a relic, with deep water on either side.
The Heart at the centre: the sacred site and a relic, with deep water on either side.
In-game screenshot: The bog between the islands, where the night’s waves rise: dead woods, still pools, deer and stone.
The bog between the islands, where the night’s waves rise: dead woods, still pools, deer and stone.
In-game screenshot: Large gold and deer out in the bog, a short way from a player’s island at the right.
Large gold and deer out in the bog, a short way from a player’s island at the right.

COMPLETE THE COLLECTION

GAME MODE01

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Zombie Nights

Build by day. Survive by night. Growing zombie waves hunt every player, and the survivors stay on the map at dawn.

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TUNING PACK02

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Zombie NightsTuning Pack

The zombies themselves: the bodies, claws and wall-breaking strikes the game mode needs. Select it with the game mode.

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MAP03

Available now

Zombie NightsThe Last Bastion

Rivals share the last walled city of a dead kingdom. Every night the dead come out of the Deadwood toward the city gates.

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MAP05

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Zombie NightsPlague Valley

Safe, poor highlands around a rich, cursed valley. Every day someone has to go down for the gold, and every night the dead climb up.

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