Irvington Base Guide — Build 42's Western Connector Town
Irvington in Build 42: the connector town between Brandenburg and Ekron — smaller downtown, hardware and farm supply, and approach-road base houses.
FAQ
What is Irvington good for in Build 42?
Which part of the map is Irvington in?
Where should I base in Irvington?
Is Irvington quieter than Brandenburg?
⚠️ Content Pending Full Verification
Named Irvington POIs, the racetrack and farm contents, and street-level loot come from one guide's 42.20 survey plus community video. The town's role, base pattern and difficulty are dual-sourced; the specifics stay leads until our in-game pass.
What Irvington Is Cross-Verified
Irvington is the connector town of Build 42’s western additions: it sits between Brandenburg’s shopping and the deeper wilderness, with a smaller downtown and farmland at its edges. Both written guides describe the same shape — a place to live while you drive somewhere else for bulk supplies.
| Aspect | What the sources say |
|---|---|
| Character | Smaller downtown plus farm edges; the bridge between the other two western towns |
| Loot focus | Guns, hardware and rural supply in one trip; grocery and clinic-scale loot |
| Best for | Rancher and farmer builds; split-role groups — one player farms, one runs the shopping loops |
| Watch out for | Veterans still get lost; store types may not match an older video, so re-walk downtown after a mapping hotfix |
The Direction Problem
Our own county hub has described Irvington as the northern expansion, a framing taken from the Build 42 features overview. Two other sources point elsewhere: the official 42.20 mapping announcement and both community guides place Irvington among the south-western new towns.
We are not going to settle a compass argument with confidence we do not have. What we publish instead:
- Irvington is one of the three all-new western towns alongside Brandenburg and Ekron — every source agrees on that.
- Its identity — connector, farm edges, hardware-and-guns supply — is agreed and does not depend on the direction.
- One guide puts the racetrack north of town and factory farms with livestock to the east; that is a single-source landmark claim, so confirm it in your save rather than trusting any page, including this one.
Where Irvington Fits in the Western Triangle Cross-Verified
- Brandenburg carries the west’s commercial density — the shopping trip.
- Irvington is the middle ground: a smaller downtown plus farmland, highway links both ways, and shorter medical runs than pure rural tiles.
- Ekron is the quiet farm start with the weakest hardware.
The shared advice is to drive the triangle instead of living in all three at once: pick one home, schedule the supply loops, and treat the mall towns as loot routes with written exits. Community base tours for Irvington name compounds, a rifle club, a construction site and fuel-heavy garages, and one fenced meat-packing warehouse recurs across three creators — all of it sits in our requirements fact table as leads, not facts.
Named Points of Interest — Interactive Map
All 38 points, A–Z (Irvington area)
- Cattle Farm x 3789 · y 14440
- Church x 2432 · y 14225
- Comic Store x 1763 · y 14785
- Diner x 2484 · y 14469
- Farming supply store x 2468 · y 14320
- Food Factory x 3053 · y 14445
- Gas Station x 2526 · y 14469 Fossoil, 2 pumps.
- Gas Station x 2319 · y 14480 Gas-2-Go, 4 pumps.
- Gas Station x 2414 · y 13861 2 pumps.
- Grocery Store x 2469 · y 14469
- Gun Club x 1856 · y 14164
- Gun Store x 1774 · y 14785
- Hardware Store x 2149 · y 14534
- Irvington x 2498 · y 14253
- Irvington Speedway x 912 · y 13042
- Liquor Store x 2544 · y 14470
- Metal Workshop x 2373 · y 14477
- Motel x 2527 · y 14540
- Pharmacy x 2476 · y 14470
- Pig Farm x 3765 · y 14667
- Pile-o-Crepe x 1765 · y 14877
- Police station x 2485 · y 13940
- Post Office x 2444 · y 14535
- Public Pool x 1861 · y 14471
- Restaurant x 2460 · y 14470
- Restaurant x 1817 · y 14780
- Restaurant x 1748 · y 14787
- School x 2258 · y 14355
- Spiffo's x 2032 · y 14651
- Sports store x 1865 · y 14858
- Storage Units x 2455 · y 13909
- Supermarket x 2228 · y 14462 Zippee mart.
- Supermarket x 1847 · y 14778 Gigamart
- Train station x 805 · y 11853
- VHS store x 2302 · y 14480
- Warehouse x 3112 · y 14466
- Warehouses x 3779 · y 13483
- Wedding Store x 1829 · y 14858
Where these 38 Irvington markers come from: names and in-game tile coordinates are vendored from PZmap
(html/poi.json), MIT License, Copyright (c) 2022 Min Xiang; retrieved 2026-10-01. We add no coordinates of our own.
Read the gaps, not just the dots. This is a community catalogue, not the game's own list, and it is incomplete. Muldraugh is the clearest case: it carries no fire station record at all, even though the town's fire station is a well-documented loot site and base candidate. Absence from this map does not mean absence from the game. Nothing is drawn here that we could not source — and anything you find missing or misnamed is worth reporting, because we will check it against the game rather than guess.
Sources & Verification
| Source | Type | Sections Used |
|---|---|---|
| projectzomboid.wiki — New Towns | Fan-made wiki guide (updated 2026-08-15) | Connector role, strengths and weaknesses, approach-road base pattern, western-triangle plan |
| build42guide.wiki — Build 42 Map Guide | Community guide (checked 2026-08-11 vs 42.20) | South-west placement, racetrack and factory farms, gun/hardware/farm supply, named POIs |
| build42guide.wiki — Starting Locations | Community guide (42.20) | Irvington difficulty tier and best-for profile |
Named POIs and per-store loot are single-sourced here and labelled as leads. The direction conflict is published as a conflict, with our earlier hub framing kept visible instead of quietly rewritten.
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