inZOI
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The Ultimate Tips, Tricks & FAQ Guide
By Gem
This is a collection of interesting tips and tricks that I've experienced playing InZoi or researched online.

Online references used are listed below.
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Tips & Tricks
Starting New Game
  • You can interact with the cat at the main menu with your mouse
  • You can visit InZoi Canvas on your web browser and schedule downloads before you start playing
    https://canvas.playinzoi.com
  • If you don't enjoy building, you can pick an empty residential lot then place a pre-made building into it
    You can even download more pre-made buildings from the Canvas system that other fans have created

Interface
  • You can simply drag any part of the HUD UI to change their position
  • You can use money cheat (100k Meows) by visiting the guide menu on the bottom right corner
  • You can drag the time scale bar on the bottom left to go even faster than 5x
  • If you find a Zoi that lives in your city, you have the option to switch to play as that household by clicking the play button above the social interactions
    You can also play as other households straight from the map by clicking on their home
  • Using 8x speed is too fast for Zois full autonomy to work effectively. Your Zois can die for not taking care of themselves at 8x speed
  • Jobs with a briefcase icon on the top right corner are non-active jobs

Gameplay
  • You can press TAB while manual driving to go into first person mode
  • Zois can be sick, use a first aid kit for medicine
    Search for "First Aid" in the buy mode
  • Zois can use the first aid kit to treat their hay fever
  • If you're outside of home and you own a car, you can summon your car to you by pressing on your Zoi and selecting the car option
  • While manually driving, you can drive next to other Zois and ask them to get into your car
    You can actually abduct strangers with this feature lmao
  • Zois can hack the ATM
  • You can break out of jail using the Emergency Rescue system in the guide menu
  • You can sell your items for more than they're worth at the cost of your karma
  • Zois can take out loans from the bank
    You need to first open a bank account by interacting with an ID Scanner. The ID Scanner looks like a card terminal
  • Zois can surf when their fitness level is high enough
  • You can hire cleaning and other home services through the Pocket Market app on your smartphone
  • Zois can feed bamboo to the pandas
    You can use the city management settings to spawn pandas
  • Child Zois cannot die
  • Zois who are enrolled in University cannot have a job simultaneously
  • Married Zois can no longer go on dates together
  • Zois can deposit to their bank once every 24 hours
  • Each city has their own unique careers and community lot options
  • Selecting preferences for Zois will make them do those activities more often autonomously
    Zois Preferences can be found under Zoi Card (O)
  • Zois have a chance to sleepwalk and may cause unpredictable actions
  • Only married Zois can try for a baby

Build/Buy Mode
  • You can change the brightness of the light bulbs under customisations
  • You can place cushions on sofas
  • After taking a photo with photo mode. You could use those photos to create family portraits in custom frames around your house
  • If you have a lot of money, you can buy gold bars to show your wealth
  • Try to avoid placing objects around the edge of the building area, this may cause pathing issues with Zois
  • When placing custom 3D objects, you can disable snapping (magnet) in the tool bar and hold ALT to avoid placing floating objects

City Management
  • You can play YouTube videos in your city's billboard within the city settings (M)
    Livestreams don't work
  • You can edit commercial lots or streets by clicking the Edit Streets button on the bottom right corner
    Your active Zoi needs to be at the commercial lot or street for the button to work. Not all commercial lots can be modified yet
  • You can use the city management settings to spawn animals throughout your city
  • You can reduce the amount of times your house gets dirty by setting City Sanitation to Highest within the city settings

Settings
  • You can manually drive the cars with WASD by enabling it in the gameplay settings first
  • You can disable aging for your own Zois and/or other Zois through the settings under Simulation
  • Enabling all Cast Shadows in graphics settings will significantly enhance the visuals of your game with a performance hit
    You can also enable Realistic Shadows but I recommend enabling Cast Shadows first

Technical
  • You can find and share your saved HUD configuration from the Windows directory location below
    %userprofile%DocumentsinZOIWidgetCustomization.json
  • You can create your own poses using images or videos
    It's best for your source material to have a blank background for better detection overall
  • Using the Cartoon filter increases your FPS while also visually looking better for low-end PCs
    Filters can be found in the tool bar at the top of the screen
  • Photos taken from Photo Mode are stored in the Windows directory below
    %userprofile%\Documents\inZOI\Photo
Zoi Lifespan
The values below are for patch 0.1.2
Stage
Days
Total Days
Newborn
1
0-1
Toddler
2
1-3
Child
6
4-10
Adolescent
4
11-15
Teenager
4
16-20
Young Adult
9
21-30
Adult
19
31-50
Middle-Aged
14
51-65
Senior
34
66-100
FAQ
What is the animation quality setting?
Animation quality is the smoothness level of the animations. 1ms is the most smoothest while also uses more PC resources.

How do I upload my 3D furniture to the canvas?
You will need to first place the custom furniture into the world then click on it and select Save Furniture, then click on Upload To Canvas.

Why should I care about the negative karma system for other Zois?
A Zoi having too much negative karma for a long time will kill that Zoi.

If you are worried about it, you can go into city management settings then drag down negative karma interactions to minimum and raise the positive karma interactions.

When does 30x time scale activate?
All Zois in your active household must be sleeping between 22:00 - 06:00. After 06:00 the time scale will go back to 1x regardless if all yours Zois are still sleeping.

What does autonomy do?
Autonomy ON - Zois can take care of themselves, your actions will take priority over autonomy actions.

Autonomy OFF - You have 100% control over your Zois and they won't do anything by themselves.

Can I change the text scale of my game?
No, that feature isn't available in the game.
InZoi Cheats
You'll need to enable cheats through the Guide button first then you can use CTRL + SHIFT + C to launch the cheat console

Full cheat commands list[playinzoi.com]
References

If you have any interesting tips and tricks, please comment below and I'll add them to the guide - Thanks!
12 Comments
Gem  [author] 7 Apr @ 9:03am 
<3
Hamyira 7 Apr @ 8:21am 
very helpful thank you
Kiera 2 Apr @ 9:50pm 
Re-banking: problem solved. At the id scanner there is an option to make a tier 2 deposit. Why didn't it just say make a deposit? It's confusing because the other option is to take a tier 1 loan, so I thought it was related to that.You can only deposit once every 24 hrs though.
Kiera 2 Apr @ 11:17am 
Re-banking, I've opened an account and have an ambition to deposit money 10 times. I can't find where to do it. Does anyone know how to deposit money in the bank?
Gem  [author] 1 Apr @ 10:38am 
@RainaMermaid - Glad the guide helped you!
Gem  [author] 1 Apr @ 10:37am 
@coraltheo - You need to first open a bank account by interacting with an ID Scanner (It looks like a card terminal)

I've updated the guide
coraltheo 1 Apr @ 9:57am 
Do the banks work at this time? I've been to both banks in Dowon and Bliss Bay, and I can't figure out what to do. I've clicked both the tellers, the computers, the guard, and the kiosk but I get nothing that has anything to do with banking.
popmanbrad 31 Mar @ 9:03am 
and another tip is that if you press 1 to go to normal speed and press 1 again you'll pause the game same with if your on 2-3-4 so your not forced to reach up and press 0 to pause the time
popmanbrad 31 Mar @ 9:02am 
one tip i have is multi-tasking where normal if you focus on a zoi that is far away it will give you a loading screen but if you select the zoi you focused on if you click to move and unfocus the camera the select another zoi and hit focus you'll zip to wherever they are on the map without a loading screen
RainaMermaid 30 Mar @ 7:03pm 
Thanks for the first aid kit! My zoi got sick and I didn't know what I was supposed to do