Zombjas

How Zombjas work

The main purpose of Zombjas is to stop your village's failed Nonja experiment by slaughtering your way through the massive horde of Zombjas, which on completion requires a five day break before another attempt can be made.

Zombjas is a Village vs. Enemy area, which means this is a place for teamwork. To complete your task you have to defeat every single Zombja before they reach the bottom of the map. (Specifically, before they march off the bottom row. Their being on row 0 does not itself result in defeat, though it is one step from defeat.) The map's size is determined by the difficulty of the game. While you can move freely as long as you have Action Points and Stamina, Zombjas only have a 10% chance of move one square every hour (decreases as they getting closer to the bottom).
You start a game of Zombjas with 50 Action Points, and get a new point every 15 minutes, but with level 5 speedy, you get an Action Point every ten minutes. You can have a maximum of 150 Action Points.
Everything in Zombja loops, including your position, ZP, ZAP, weapons, and skills. You won't even be kicked out of the current game if you need to loop your character while playing.

You spend action points when:

Action	Points	Requirement	Misc.
Move	1	-	-2 Stamina
Fight Zombjas	1	-	-
Fight Zetta	1	-	Attack a single Zetta of a single type of your choice
Search	1	-	Sometimes free (Free Search)
Mega Search	10	-	Sometimes free (Free Search), Will tell you how many searches you got for free
Equip weapon	1	-	If your weapon breaks, it will equip another of the same kind for free as long as it wasn't your last
Heal (at Hospital)	1	-	-
Uninfect (at Hospital)	1	-	-
Grab a Bargain Bar (at Bunker)	1	-	Max 4 Bargain Bars
Uninfect/Heal others	12	Medic Level 1	+10 ZP (Uninfect), -2 AP cost per Medic Level
Dig Bunker	5	Digger Level 1	-
Build Teleporter	10	Digger Level 3	-
Sonar Ping	5	Engineer Level 1	-
Build Hospital	10	Engineer Level 5	-
Plant Mines	12	Gardener Level 1	-2 AP cost per Gardener Level, only one of a kind on one square, up to 10 Mines per square
Dig up Mines	?	?	A square can only hold daymines or nightmines, you must dig up the current mines if you want to plant the other kind
YANK to X	2	-	-10HP
Make Molly (at Gas Station)	10	-	Max (10-Diff) Mollies
Fix Flamethrower (at Gas Station)	20	-	-2 AP cost per Engineer Level
Pull Veggies	10	Gardener Level 1	-1 AP cost per Gardener Level
ZTFO	-	-	Leave map - you don't get ZRs, but you may escape catastrophe if the village loses (a kage can do this without unlocking the SCIENCE! Facility, making the map unwinnable)

Special Bonus

Effect	Requirement
Nut Up or Shut Up: May be activated once per map, makes every roll perfect for the next Attack Action.1	Survived the Impossible
When moving with weapon disabled due to infection, doubles chance of Runner activating.	Survived the Impossible
20% chance to dodge infection	Zombja Survival Guide
No Stamina Cost for Moving	28 Dayrolls Later
+10 Stamina-less Z-Map moves	ZombAway

Getting started

A village leader can start a game by paying an Advanced Resource and 100,000 Village Ryo. Both Nonja Lab and at least one active Nonja are required. This action opens up the Zombja map, while also destroying the last Nonja purchased. After a game is completed, the leader cannot start a new game until five days have passed.
You must be in the village at the time the game starts to play, otherwise you won't be allowed in until the next game. Playing Zombjas isn't required, and you are allowed to come in late.

Start Message:

OMG ZOMBJAS EVERYWHERE <date> (<day> - <time>): <Village Leader> totally injected a Nonja with who knows what - they explode, and a portal to Zombja Central has opened! Zombjas rise from your lands to eat everyone's brains! Get to the Zombja Menu and get to exterminating!

Bestiary

The Zombja horde is divided into to groups, Zs and Zettas. Zs are normal zombjas who's only purpose is to infect and damage you. Zettas are special zombjas that only spawn when there are a lot of Zombjas, with the purpose to annoy and distract you.

• Z - Normal Zombja
  • Can infect you.
  • Can damage you if you are infected.
  • You get 1 ZP for every Z you kill.
• Zetta - Special Zombja
  • You get 15 ZP per Zetta you kill
  • You get 30 ZP for every Thumper you kill
  • You get 10 ZP for each hit on the Zombulator (Unaffected by Awesome)
  • You get 50 ZP for the killing blow on the Zombulator (Unaffected by Awesome)

Zetta Type	Ability
Barglers	For every action you do, they have a chance of barfing up 8 Zs into your square.
Thrillers	For every action you do, they have a chance of thrilling you, causing you to lose an additional ZAP.
Noms	For every action, they have a chance of Nomming you. While Nommed you can only attack Noms.
Thumper	They might do heavy damage to you, without infecting you. They also have a shield ability, which shields them from damage 60% of the time. The Thumpers are found in the Rifts.
Zombulator	Does damage in the same way as Thumpers. Unlike other Zettas, this one needs 10 hits to kill. This is the last Zombja you fight and is found in the Gate. Does not show up on map, but is at the Gate; attacking it is a High Profile Action. If last zombja killed at gate, can need to refresh/step in and out to show up

Infection

Before Zs can damage you, they have to infect you first. When infected you have penalties according to your HP.

HP	Effect
-	Zs can damage you and you lose 5 HP for every attack you do
<80 HP	-5% Zetta kill chance, -1 Zs killed for each swing
<60 HP	-10% Zeta kill chance, -2 Zs killed for each swing
<40 HP	Weapons are disabled
<=0 HP	Cannot gain Actions or use Weapons

Weapons

Info

Weapons are found by using the Search option on a cleared square. Searching costs 1 ZAP. You have a 10% base chance to search for free (no ZAP cost).

Weapon Z-Kill Stat
When using a weapon with XdY + Z you will kill a random amount from 1 to Y multiplied by X plus Z zombjas.

Starter

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect	Permanent Item Needed
Fists and Feet	1	10%	-	-	-
Flaming Spit Technique	1d6	15%	-	disregards Thumper shields, 1 in 3 chance to kill an extra Zetta of the same type	Flaming Spit Technique
Shovel	3	20%	3%	-	Dirty Shovel
Shotgun	2d6+2	50%	15%	50% chance to not consume ZAP when All 4 One is in effect	Boomstick
Flamethrower	1d8+5	50%	25%	Has a rolling 1 in 3 chance to kill Zettas of the same type, may be reacquired at the Gas Station, disregards Thumper shields	Flamethrower

Gas Station

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect
Crowbar	1d6	20%	3%	-
Mop	1	25%	10%	If used to kill last Z in a square, no ZAP expenditure
Pistol	1d6+5	30%	15%	50% chance to not consume ZAP when All 4 One is in effect
Manly Ramen	1	10%	100%	Eat to heal if infected

Village

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance
Vinyl Record	3d3	10%	100%
Chopsticks	1d3+1	10%	50%
Cricket Bat	1d6+1	20%	10%

Collection Plains

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance
Rock	1d2+2	5%	100%
Shovel	3	20%	3%
Lawnmower	1d8+5	25%	15%

Forest

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance
Rock	1d2+2	5%	100%
Sturdy Branch	1d4+1	15%	25%
Chainsaw	1d10+5	25%	5%

Mountains

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance
Shovel	3	20%	3%
Crowbar	1d6	20%	3%

Wasteland

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect
SCIENCE!	1d20	15%	50%	-

Ramen Shop

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect
Manly Ramen	1	10%	100%	Eat to heal if infected
Cricket Bat	1d6+1	20%	10%	-

Arms Depot

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect
Pistol	1d6+5	30%	15%	50% chance to not consume ZAP when All 4 One is in effect
Shotgun	2d6+2	50%	15%	50% chance to not consume ZAP when All 4 One is in effect

Science

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect
Raccoon Launcher	1	90%	100%	-20 HP per use
Umbrella	1d10+4	25%	50%	Zombjas do not attack on use
SCIENCE!	1d20	15%	50%	-
Level-Z Flare	5d10+10	5%	50%	Infects, sets ZAP/HP to 0 upon use

Special

Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect	Location
Veggie	1	15%	100%	Eat to recover 10 HP	Can be pulled in the bottom 20*Level% of the Map.
Bag O' Needles	1d3+1	25%	75%	Use to Restock your Medic Supplies (+1 Medic Use, -(24-4*Medic Level) HP)	Hospital
Bargain Bar	1d5	15%	25%	Max 4	Bunker
Molly	3	50%	100%	Drink for a temporary +10% Zetta-Kill2 and Molly Blindness, Max (10-Diff), Disregards Thumper shields	Gas Station
SCIENCE!	1d20	15%	50%	-	Zombja Rift or Sealed Rift
11Saber	11d11+6	86%	26%	-	Gate

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Weapon	Zs Kill	Zetta Kill	Break Chance	Special Effect	Location
Fists and Feet	1	10%	-	-	Unequipped
Manly Ramen	1	10%	100%	Eat to heal if infected	Ramen Shop, Gas Station
Veggie	1	15%	100%	Eat to recover 10 HP	Can be pulled in the bottom 20*Level% of the Map.
Mop	1	25%	10%	If used to kill last Z in a square, no ZAP expenditure	Gas Station
Raccoon Launcher	1	90%	100%	-20 HP per use	Science
Shovel	3	20%	3%	-	Collection, Mountains
Molly	3	50%	100%	Drink for a temporary +10% Zetta-Kill and Molly Blindness3, Max (10-Diff), disregards Thumper shields	Gas Station
Rock	1d2+2	5%	100%	-	Collection, Forest
Chopsticks	1d3+1	10%	50%	-	Village
Bag O' Needles	1d3+1	25%	75%	Use to Restock your Medic Supplies (+1 Medic Use, -(24-4*Medic Level) HP)	Hospital
Sturdy Branch	1d4+1	15%	25%	-	Forest
Bargain Bar	1d5	15%	25%	Max 4	Bunker
Lawnmower	1d5+5	25%	15%	-	Collection
Flaming Spit Technique	1d6	15%	-	disregards Thumper shields, 1 in 3 chance to kill an extra Zetta of the same type	Replaces Fists and Feet if you have the Flaming Spit Technique
Crowbar	1d6	20%	3%	-	Mountains, Gas Station
Cricket Bat	1d6+1	20%	10%	-	Village, Ramen
Pistol	1d6+5	30%	15%	50% chance to not consume ZAP when All 4 One is in effect	Arms Depot, Gas Station
Flamethrower	1d8+5	50%	25%	Has a rolling 1 in 3 chance to kill zettas of the same type, may be reacquired at the Gas Station, disregards Thumper shields	Gas Station4
Umbrella	1d10+4	25%	50%	Zombjas do not attack on use	Science
Chainsaw	1d10+5	25%	5%	-	Forest
SCIENCE!	1d20	15%	50%	-	Wasteland, Science, Rifts
Shotgun	2d6+2	50%	15%	50% chance to not consume ZAP when All 4 One is in effect	Arms Depot
Vinyl Record	3d3	10%	100%	-	Bunker
Level-Z Flare	5d10+10	5%	50%	Infects, sets ZAP/HP to 0 upon use	Science
11Saber	11d11+6	86%	26%	-	Gate

Abilities

You can get abilities with the ZP you earn by killing Zombjas. Each level of a skill costs 100 * Level ZP. Level 5 costs 500 * (Number_of_Level_5_Abilities + 1) ZP (Max of 5,000 ZP Cost)

After leveling up 10 Z-Skills to their max level you can trade 2500 ZP for 1 Z-Reward

Ability	Bonus
Immune	10% Chance per Level to 'dodge' Infections
Healthy	+20 HP max, +1 HP/heal per Level
Perceptive	10% Bonus Chance to Search for free
Sniper	5% Bonus Chance to Zetta-Kill per Level
Thorough	+1 Z Killed per Level, at Level 5, 1 in 3 chance to do 2x Z Killed
Speedy	-1 Minute per ZAP refresh per Level
Medic	May Heal (Uninfect+10HP) another person for 12 ZAP(minus 2 ZAP per Level) twice per Level (recharge at Hospital). 5% chance per Level to dodge counterattacks while healing others.
Digger	May build one Bunker per Map at Level 1, 2 at Level 5 (5 ZAP), Teleporter at Level 3 (10 ZAP), +2% Bonus per level to Search5
Engineer	May Sonar Ping for 5 ZAP (Range: 2 per Level) and may build one Hospital per Map at Level 5 (10 ZAP), gives -2 ZAP per level on fixing Flamethrowers
Gardener	May plant DayMines and NightMines for 12 ZAP, minus 2 ZAP per Level, may also Pull Veggies
Runner	5% Chance per Level to not spend ZAP while moving
Careful	-3% Chance per Level to break Equipped Weapon (minimum chance 1%)
Jumpy	3% Chance per Level to cancel Zombja counterattack
Cleave	+1d3 Z killed per Level when Zetta killed, +15% chance per Level to kill a second Zetta of that type
Toughness	10% Less HP Damage per Level from Zs, at Lvl 5 affects Thumper damage

Sniper or Cleave?

People may wonder whether to improve Sniper before Cleave, or Cleave before Sniper, to kill many Zettas. The mean value for one attack is min[1, (base chance + 0.05 * Sniper)] * (1 + 0.15 * Cleave), assuming you attack a zetta type with at least two of them. "min" means that you can't exceed the 100% kill chance. Evaluation (images in progress) shows that Cleave become more important in comparison to Sniper when the base chance is high already, but for lower base chance Sniper is more important. These evaluations do not include the rising costs for more levels of either of these two skills.

Speedy is recommended before either of these, though, as it gives you more ZAP per day, at an increasing rate each level.

The Map

The size of the map is determined by the difficulty of the game and is calculate by $width = difficulty*2+1$, $Height = difficulty*4+1$.
The map you fight Zombjas have several different spot both made by the game and the players. You should note where those spots are, but it also can help to have the Sonar running, which provides a scan over the area and shows where places and Zombjas are. The sonar doesn't run by itself so an Engineer have to take care of this.
Place which will always be on the same location are: the first hospital (0,0), the Gas Station and first bunker (0,1), the Gate (0,Difficulty*4) and rifts (Highest row, except the Gate).
Villages with the upgrade Land Mimes starts the map with 1 Daymine and 1 Nightmine on each Row 2 square.

Main Areas:

• Village
• Collection Field
• Mountains
• Wasteland
• Rifts

Special areas:

Area	Notes
Hospitals	Hospitals can quickly recharge your cure, Uninfect you and heal up some damage.
Gas Station	Here you can make Mollies, and refuel your Flamethrower.
Bunkers	When on a square with a Bunker, the Marching Zs cannot hurt you. You can also load up on BargainBars here
Teleporters	Players may yank directly backwards to a Teleporter, if they are at the same col. Teleporters aren't shown on the map.
Ramen Shop	Here, you have a small chance of finding Manly Ramen
Arms Depot	Here, you can search for Pistols and Shotguns.
SCIENCE! Facility	Level 3+ Engineers may launch one Zetta-Nuke from here6
Gate	The area where you find the Zombulator and 11Sabers. Every action here has a chance to send you back to the starting square.

When the Nuke is unlocked by the Leader, the following message is displayed:

OH SNAP
NUCLEAR WEAPON UNLOCKED

Team Bonuses

There is also a few bonuses for teaming up, with a right number of players on a single map square:

Team	Requirement	Bonus
All 4 One	Exactly 4 Players	25% Chance to Dodge Infection, Pistols and Shotguns have a 50% chance of not consuming AP
The Square	8+ Players	Marching Zombjas cannot affect you, 15% Chance to Dodge Infection

How to win

To win a game of Zombjas you have to:

• Seal all Rifts⁷
• Kill every single Z
• Kill every single Zetta
• Kill the Zombulator (unavailable until the rest of the map is clear)
• Close the Gate

You close the Gate, sending the Z-Virus back to wherever it came from!

Your Village has fought off the Zombjas! Everyone receives 10,000 Party House Ryo, and X Z Rewards! Special Rewards (+X): Most Zs Killed - <Player>. Most Zettas Killed - <Player>. Most Heals - <Player>. Launched Nuke - <Player>. Closed Gate - <Player>. : The following Ninjas joined the map, but did not help enough to get Z-Rewards: <Player>, etc.

How to lose

Your village loses if you:

• Let a Zombja touch the last row

OR

• Unable to win by Day (4x Difficulty)

Zombja Overrun: Your Village has been overrun by Zombjas! -30 Stamina / No Village Contributions tomorrow!

OverRun!: Your Village has been overrun with Zombjas, who eat all your Nonjas! Upgrades take 3000 Damage! Tonight, Upkeep is 100%, and all Z-Fighting Villagers lose 30 Stamina!

Z-Rewards

After winning a game of Zombja you gain Z-Rewards, which you can spend for bonuses, including Ryo, Stamina, and Permanent items. Bonus Z-Rewards are given for killing the most Zs, killing the most Zettas, doing the most 'useful' heals, launching the Nuke, and closing the gate.

• Easy Map: 1 Z-Reward, +1 Z-Reward for each Bonus
• Medium Map: 2 Z-Rewards, +1 Z-Reward for each Bonus
• Hard Map: 4 Z-Rewards, +2 Z-Rewards for each Bonus
• Having Natural Magnum level 3 gives +1 Z-Reward
• Villages with the Witches Brew upgrade get +1 Z-Reward
• Trading 2500 ZP for 1 Z-Reward (Must have 10 level 5 z-skills first)

Zombja Overcome! Your village has defeated the Zombjas! Number of Z Rewards you have collected: X!

Players can spend Z-Rewards on:

Reward	Bonus	ZR Cost
Nonja Gift	+20,000 Ryo	1
Nonja Party	+200 Stamina	1
Boomstick	+2 Drain Levels, Start Zombja Maps with Shotgun	12
Dirty Shovel	20% chance for Rare Ingredients, Start Zombja Maps with Shovel	8
Z-Virus	While Bingo'ing, 50% chance to take no damage during Round 1	15
Nonja Sidekick	+20 Stamina per day	5
Nonja Chef	+20 Appetite	7
Flamethrower	+4 Gen Levels, -1 Nin / Tai Levels, Start Zombja Maps with Flamethrower	12

or donate them to the village, and the Village leader can spend them on:

Reward	Type	ZR Cost	Bonus
Brilliant Crystals	Basic Resource	20
Medicinal Water	Basic Resource	20
Precious Metals	Basic Resource	20
Solid Fire	Advanced Resource	40
Unmelting Ice	Advanced Resource	40
Bargler Guards	Upgrades	100	+2 Succ needed when being spied upon (Undead Guards required)
Zombja Mechanics	Upgrades	150	+1 Max Deliveries per Day (Fine Tuning required)

External links

• The Zombja guide in the How to Play.
• Yaridovich's guide.

Footnotes

1. All attacks hit, all bonuses fire off, all ZKills succeed and are maxed, all Z-attacks swing wide. Zombulator hit twice

2. The +10% Zetta-kill for drinking a Molly only lasts 1 attack.

3. Molly blindness prevents you from seeing any enemies in your view, but still allows you to attack anything on the square you are on.

4. Requires the Permanent Item Flamethrower

5. The +2% bonus per level is both +2 to the weapon with the least find chance and -2 to the originally d200 die size.

6. First per map is free, afterward can be reset for 100+200x RP (where x is the number of previous re-launches this map) and fired at a row no higher than the last one, completely wipes one square of Zs and Zettas, must be Unlocked by a Leader first on-site

7. You get 50 ZP for sealing a rift.