diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/defaults/main.yml b/ansible/roles/podman/defaults/main.yml
index 9d195ea..b1919fd 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/podman/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/defaults/main.yml
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ zomboid_mods_excluded:
     mod_id: IconsInventory
     reason: Sophie recommends removing Icon Inventory
 
+# How long to keep PZ's own log archive under data/Logs.
+#
+# PZ rolls logs into dated directories and never prunes them; logrotate cannot
+# bound that, because the growth is in the number of files rather than the size
+# of any one of them. See containers/home/zomboid.yml.
+zomboid_log_retention_days: 14
+
 # Mod IDs the Sophie preset's `Mods=` line gets wrong for a 42.20.3 server.
 #
 # Every workshop item below is in the preset's own WorkshopItems= list and
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml
index 6f4dc79..b6dbc2e 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/containers/home/zomboid.yml
@@ -174,6 +174,38 @@
   notify: restorecon podman
   tags: zomboid-conf
 
+- name: deploy zomboid log prune script
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.sh.j2
+    dest: "{{ podman_home }}/bin/zomboid-log-prune.sh"
+    owner: "{{ podman_user }}"
+    group: "{{ podman_user }}"
+    mode: '0755'
+
+- name: deploy zomboid log prune units
+  become: true
+  ansible.builtin.template:
+    src: "zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.{{ item }}.j2"
+    dest: "{{ podman_home }}/.config/systemd/user/zomboid-log-prune.{{ item }}"
+    owner: "{{ podman_user }}"
+    group: "{{ podman_user }}"
+    mode: '0644'
+  loop:
+    - service
+    - timer
+  notify: reload zomboid systemd
+
+- name: enable zomboid log prune timer
+  become: true
+  become_user: "{{ podman_user }}"
+  ansible.builtin.systemd:
+    name: zomboid-log-prune.timer
+    scope: user
+    enabled: true
+    state: started
+    daemon_reload: true
+
 # The server's own logs, not the container's. PZ holds these fds open for the
 # life of the process, so copytruncate is mandatory -- a rename would leave it
 # writing into an unlinked inode and the file would appear to stop growing.
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml
index 9d80831..370812f 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/tasks/main.yml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
 
 - import_tasks: containers/home/gregtime.yml
   vars:
-    image: localhost/greg-time-bot:3.14.1
+    image: localhost/greg-time-bot:3.15.0
   tags: gregtime
 
 # Gated on zomboid_enabled (roles/podman/defaults/main.yml) so it can be taken
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/logrotate.j2 b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/logrotate.j2
index e62cacf..b3fd2d0 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/logrotate.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/logrotate.j2
@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@
 # {{ ansible_managed }}
 #
-# Project Zomboid's own log files. These are separate from the container's
-# stdout, which podman rotates itself via the k8s-file driver's max_size.
+# Project Zomboid's server console, which is a single ever-growing file. This is
+# separate from the container's stdout, which podman rotates itself via the
+# k8s-file driver's max_size.
+#
+# Scope is deliberately just this file. PZ's other logs live in dated
+# directories under Logs/ that grow in file *count*, not file size, so nothing
+# there ever crosses a rotation threshold -- those are pruned by age instead,
+# via zomboid-log-prune.timer.
 #
 # copytruncate is mandatory here: the server holds these fds open for the whole
 # life of the process, so a rename would leave it writing into an unlinked
@@ -10,7 +16,6 @@
 # The Discord bot tails server-console.txt from a byte offset and resets that
 # offset when the file shrinks, so a truncate under it is safe.
 {{ zomboid_path }}/data/server-console.txt
-{{ zomboid_path }}/data/Logs/*.txt
 {
     # size, not a time directive: logrotate's daily timer is when this is
     # *checked*, 100M is when it actually rotates. Specifying both makes
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.service.j2 b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.service.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1777550
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.service.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Prune Zomboid log archive older than {{ zomboid_log_retention_days }} days
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+ExecStart={{ podman_home }}/bin/zomboid-log-prune.sh
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.sh.j2 b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.sh.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cb15b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.sh.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Prune Project Zomboid's own log archive.
+#
+# PZ rolls its logs into dated directories under Logs/ (logs_YYYY-MM-DD/, plus
+# loose YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM_*.txt at the top) and never removes them. That is not
+# something logrotate can bound: it rotates by size, and no individual file here
+# ever reaches a sensible threshold -- the growth is in the *number* of files.
+# 112 directories and 146k files had accumulated to 18 GB before this existed.
+#
+# Files are owned by the container's UID, so this runs under podman unshare.
+set -euo pipefail
+
+LOGS="{{ zomboid_path }}/data/Logs"
+DAYS={{ zomboid_log_retention_days }}
+
+[[ -d "$LOGS" ]] || exit 0
+
+before=$(podman unshare du -sh "$LOGS" 2>/dev/null | cut -f1)
+podman unshare find "$LOGS" -type f -mtime +"$DAYS" -delete 2>/dev/null || true
+# Second pass: the dated directories are empty once their files are gone.
+podman unshare find "$LOGS" -mindepth 1 -type d -empty -delete 2>/dev/null || true
+after=$(podman unshare du -sh "$LOGS" 2>/dev/null | cut -f1)
+
+echo "zomboid log prune: keeping ${DAYS}d, ${before} -> ${after}"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.timer.j2 b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.timer.j2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0412ade
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ansible/roles/podman/templates/zomboid/zomboid-log-prune.timer.j2
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Prune the Zomboid log archive daily
+
+[Timer]
+OnCalendar=daily
+Persistent=true
+RandomizedDelaySec=30m
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=timers.target