Hey Survivors,

Alpha 18 Stable b155 is finally here, and Team TFP is extremely excited for this release. It’s bigger than Alpha 17 and is packed full of new content, bug fixes, optimizations, and game balancing.

To make Alpha 18 a great build we combed through hundreds of community reviews and forum posts to compile a large list of the most common Alpha 17 feedback. You spoke, we listened, and committed a ton of effort and resources to address what the Team and Community felt needed improving.

We think folks will notice this effort and believe Alpha 18 to be by far the most impressive version of the game to date. And if you haven’t played it for a while we suspect you’ll come back.

Official A18 Bug Reporting Forum Thread

Official A18 Balance Feedback Forum Thread

Alpha 18 Official Release Notes

XP Earning & Balance

We had a lot of feedback from Alpha 17 on how XP was was mostly earned by Zombie Kills, making play styles other than ‘Killers’ invalid as you could only level up by killing zombies. In Alpha 18 we streamlined and balanced the ways players earn XP to support multiple play styles and supporting rolls. These include XP for Killing Zombies, Completing Quests, Harvesting Resources, Mining, Upgrading Blocks, and more.

There are many ways to play the game, but we believe players primarily play as one or more play-style archetypes that we have identified as The Killer/Looter, The Quest/Builder, The Builder/Gatherer, and/or The Miner.

The testing team painstakingly played build after build purposely playing as these archetypes and collecting XP earning data, recording and analyzing the results, and working with the game designers to re-balance. We believe the game now supports all the current play-styles. We plan to collect telemetry data in the future to help us further improve this aspect of the game.

Stamina Balance

TFP also heard a lot of A17 feedback about how starting player stamina was too low, and player stamina drain made actions like harvesting, mining, and running a grind and a chore.

We’ve reduced stone axe stamina costs, so a new player can get started harvesting resources and not be interrupted with low stamina alerts. Many other primary attack stamina costs have been reduced. Power attacks still have a hefty cost, but also a reward. Armor perks and mods now reduce stamina and movement penalties as well. There are perk books in loot that reward stamina for kills.

We changed encumbrance so players start with a larger backpack in new games so the penalty is less when your inventory fills up. We also added deep pocket mods to allow you to carry more without being encumbered, which doesn’t require you to perk into pack mule.

Optimizations

We had a lot of feedback from Alpha 17 on how performance was lower than Alpha 16. We have made many changes to improve performance including:

Occlusion System – We engineered a proprietary new occlusion system that stops the rendering of chunks, block entities or trees that are onscreen, but not visible to the player. This will often greatly increase your FPS, especially in indoor areas. The new system does add some minor popping artifacts, where occluded objects may take a moment to appear. Occlusion can be disabled in the video options if desired.

We engineered a proprietary new occlusion system that stops the rendering of chunks, block entities or trees that are onscreen, but not visible to the player. This will often greatly increase your FPS, especially in indoor areas. The new system does add some minor popping artifacts, where occluded objects may take a moment to appear. Occlusion can be disabled in the video options if desired. Incremental Garbage Collection – We updated to Unity 2019.1, taking advantage of their new incremental garbage collection mode, which means the old hitching we all noticed has been greatly if not fully reduced for most users.

We updated to Unity 2019.1, taking advantage of their new incremental garbage collection mode, which means the old hitching we all noticed has been greatly if not fully reduced for most users. Collision Mesh Optimizations – We went through a lot of the models that had complex collision meshes and simplified them which reduces physics calculations and improves performance.

We went through a lot of the models that had complex collision meshes and simplified them which reduces physics calculations and improves performance. POI detail reduction – We engineered a proprietary tool in the level editor that shows vertices and triangle counts. With this we we’re able to optimize POIs in the game reducing unneeded and sometimes abusive details by as much as 40% in some locations.

We engineered a proprietary tool in the level editor that shows vertices and triangle counts. With this we we’re able to optimize POIs in the game reducing unneeded and sometimes abusive details by as much as 40% in some locations. Entity Ticking – Players, animals and zombies now update over multiple frames, which reduces the CPU load during any single frame, which reduces frame rate spikes.

Players, animals and zombies now update over multiple frames, which reduces the CPU load during any single frame, which reduces frame rate spikes. AI – Has a new character controller that uses a bit less CPU.

With our changes the game runs a lot better for most users. However we do recommend learning how to use the game’s video options to lower detail, resolution, reflections and other options to get the best performance for your hardware. Keep in mind 7 Days is a fully dynamic game where you can add to, change or destroy everything in a huge open world, so it cannot be compared to games using smaller static level worlds with pre-baked lighting and visibility. This means that just because your hardware can run the latest Call of Duty at 4k, doesn’t mean you can run 7 Days at 4k with the same hardware.

Zombie Balance

We heard many comments about zombie amounts in POIs and biomes in Alpha 17, and we also heard about the lack of smaller POIs that were simple to explore with few or no zombies.

To resolve this we grouped POIs into questing Tiers and set their spawns to reasonable max counts/numbers for those Tiers and balanced enemy counts in every POI quest-able or not.

We also lowered biome spawning some so players could have a little more breathing room when just exploring the world.

On top of this, we created nearly 30 new, smaller POIs we call remnants much like the abandoned house in a variety of themes. These remnants are smaller, less populated and have a chance for 0-2 zombies giving players many less threatening explore-able spaces especially when they are starting a new game or when limited on how much daylight is left.

In future builds we plan to add more of these for every zone type.

Attribute Balance

We heard many comments in A17 about how we forced players to choose Strength and Intellect attributes as they had many must have perks under them. Making the playing of different player skill builds nearly impossible. To resolve this we made a number of changes.

First and foremost each attribute has been balanced and given melee and ranged weapons they govern so every build has a new unique feeling to it with specialized weapons they use. Secondly we removed level requirements , so a player can specialize very early game now and unlock any perk in the game once they meet the attribute requirements.

We have slowed leveling because a level 40 character is now very powerful if you specialize mostly under one attribute. This doesn’t mean you can’t grab a few perks from every attribute and we encourage people to experiment and make the right build that matches their play style and is the most fun. We have also lowered a lot of requirements for some perks, so you can get three ranks of quite a few perks with a fairly low attribute, making players adequate at say mining with just three ranks. The top rank attributes cost less, too, meaning less points needed to reach rank 10. We’ve also added schematics that unlock nearly every craftable item in the game, so players no longer need intellect to craft most items.

You gain 1 HP/Stamina per player level instead of increasing this value with attributes.

Gameplay Changes

Item changes – All item crafting is now governed by the perk tree its affected by. So rather than intellect controlling the quality of a shotgun you crafted, its governed by the Boomstick perk. Players can craft up to blue quality. Faulty and poor quality items have one mod slot, fair and good quality items have two mod slots, great quality items have three mod slots, and fine quality items have four mod slots. Items scrap to parts like shotgun parts, light armor parts, etc and are crafted from them. Higher quality items require more parts and materials to craft. For example a crude shotgun only requires 3 shotgun parts but a great shotgun requires 15 parts. Primitive items like stone and wood items do not require special parts and are crafted from common ingredients. Items’ quality now influences damage and armor ratings. All weapons and armor have random stats and a brown club can be better than an orange club, so check the stats. Mods still increase damage when installed but not as much since item quality influences damage.

All item crafting is now governed by the perk tree its affected by. So rather than intellect controlling the quality of a shotgun you crafted, its governed by the Boomstick perk. Players can craft up to blue quality. Faulty and poor quality items have one mod slot, fair and good quality items have two mod slots, great quality items have three mod slots, and fine quality items have four mod slots. Items scrap to parts like shotgun parts, light armor parts, etc and are crafted from them. Higher quality items require more parts and materials to craft. For example a crude shotgun only requires 3 shotgun parts but a great shotgun requires 15 parts. Primitive items like stone and wood items do not require special parts and are crafted from common ingredients. Items’ quality now influences damage and armor ratings. All weapons and armor have random stats and a brown club can be better than an orange club, so check the stats. Mods still increase damage when installed but not as much since item quality influences damage. Schematics – We’ve added classic item schematics back to the game that permanently teach the player how to craft specific items and sometimes an entire group of items. There are hundreds of schematics to find so if you don’t want to spend perks on intellect you can find schematics to unlock nearly everything in the game. There are even recipe cards for nearly every food item in the game as well. We have removed the perk books and ingredient based schematics from the game.

We’ve added classic item schematics back to the game that permanently teach the player how to craft specific items and sometimes an entire group of items. There are hundreds of schematics to find so if you don’t want to spend perks on intellect you can find schematics to unlock nearly everything in the game. There are even recipe cards for nearly every food item in the game as well. We have removed the perk books and ingredient based schematics from the game. Armor Changes – Armor rating does not change based on perks. Armors offer great protection early game, even cloth and scrap armor is worth using. Cloth armor does not slow the player or cost any stamina to wear. Armor significantly reduces chance for bleeding and stun. Heavy armor is the best but has the heaviest penalties. Perks and mods can remove nearly all penalties from light armor and most from heavy armor.

Armor rating does not change based on perks. Armors offer great protection early game, even cloth and scrap armor is worth using. Cloth armor does not slow the player or cost any stamina to wear. Armor significantly reduces chance for bleeding and stun. Heavy armor is the best but has the heaviest penalties. Perks and mods can remove nearly all penalties from light armor and most from heavy armor. Encumbrance – We’ve removed a whole row of encumbrance so early game is more forgiving. There are also pocket mods you craft for clothing to reduce encumbrance very early game. It is possible to have zero encumbrance with no pack mule perks now, you just have to get the right gear.

Death Loop Improvements

Many players complained about getting into death loops or cheap deaths in the game at times when they were not taking risks. Here are some of the things we have done to improve this.

The death debuff has been changed from lowering attributes health and stamina to losing XP resulting in less cheap back to back deaths.

After a player dies during a blood moon, zombies will no longer know where you are and normal stealth rules apply. If you re-engage an enemy, blood moon behaviors recommence.

We lowered the default difficulty from Nomad to Adventurer since A18 is a little harder with the new zombie rage speed boosting behavior.

We changed AI noise detection to play sense sounds and lowered hostile animals’ noise and sight detection ranges. Some animals now have a chance to flee when damaged in combat.

Bleeding does less damage per second and armor reduces the chance to bleed dramatically.

Melee hit Detection and Glancing Blows

Some folks gave us feedback about how you would swing and miss zombies too often. Melee was too binary, hit or miss. To remedy this, as well as make melee feel more impactful, we added a swing arc to detect hits along the path of the weapon. If you miss with the crosshairs, you will still hit enemies along the arc of the weapon swing, just for less damage. This allows melee users to do splash damage to crowds while primarily attacking one target. We will be improving on this new system as time goes on.

Melee Impact Audio Polish

To improve upon the existing melee sounds, we have gone through our melee weapons and added new crunchier impacts. We also added sounds for glancing blows and player power attacks sounds which makes melee feel much more immersive.

Animation Polish

We expanded our animation team and they have been kick-ass on polishing and making all first person animations more fluid, snappy and satisfying.

With this also came new item hide/show code which allows thrown or placed items to be hidden and shown on the right frames to make things like grenades, c4 and rocks look great.

Dynamic Music System

TFP has teamed up with Native Darkness Productions to bring a fully dynamic music system to Alpha 18. The system procedurally generates a complete musical arrangement from a set of interchangeable loops. As of now there, are over 750 unique combinations.

Our hope is that this feature will make Alpha 18 that much more immersive. We have set a default cap on the music, which will allow it to play for 30% of a given day, but you are in control of how much music you can hear through the ‘Daily Time Allotted’ property in the audio options menu. (Note that setting this property to 100% will not give you constant music, as that percentage is a daily cap and not a guarantee.)

At the moment, our system is designed to provide music while the player is exploring the world. We do however intend to broaden the system in the next Alpha with not only more content but to include suspense, combat, and trader music. That being said, for the time being, we hope you enjoy this new addition to the 7 Days soundscape.

New Infection, Dysentery, and Stun Changes

New infection system – Infection is easier to contract when you have low health than high health. 1% is barely infected, at 100% infection you die. Stage 1 lasts one (real time) hour and up to 14% and has no side effects. Stage 2 lasts 3 hours (up to 57%) and has -25% stamina recovery. Stage 3 lasts 3 hours and is -35% stamina recovery and -1 to all attributes. Getting hit by zombies can increase infection level. Take antibiotics to slowly cure infection, such as honey, herbal antibiotics or pharmacy grade antibiotics. Antibiotics lessen stamina recovery penalty by half while curing. Make sure to have a larger cure amount than your infection amount or you will get sick again when the cure buff runs out.

Dysentery and food poisoning – Dysentery and food poisoning are non-lethal but easier to contract. All foods except canned now have a chance to contract food poisoning. Food poisoning causes you to throw up and you lose most of the food you have consumed. Recover by eating. Dysentery causes diarrhea which will drain your water causing dehydration. Drink goldenrod tea to recover faster from dysentery. Boiled water still has a chance to contract dysentery so drink teas, coffee or the new mineral water to be exempt from dysentery. The perk slow metabolism has been renamed to Iron Gut which reduces chance for dysentery and food poisoning with each rank.

Stun System – Armor greatly reduces chances for being stunned.

HD Icons

We overhauled the icon Atlas to support power of 2 images and created new HD icons for all blocks and items. They are now much sharper and higher resolution.

New Books and Schematics

We have added 16 book sets to the game the game with 112 total unique books. Reading these books unlocks unique perks and skills and completing a set unlocks a book series perk. Book sets are:

The Fireman’s Almanac – gain perks based around fire fighting, heat resistance, harvest more coal from burnt embers and more.

gain perks based around fire fighting, heat resistance, harvest more coal from burnt embers and more. The Great Heist – Gain perks that help you become a master thief. Gain new stealth abilities, craft timed charges to open safes quickly and more, damage land claimed areas 20% faster and more.

Gain perks that help you become a master thief. Gain new stealth abilities, craft timed charges to open safes quickly and more, damage land claimed areas 20% faster and more. Lucky Looter – Each volume helps you find more specific items in loot.

Each volume helps you find more specific items in loot. Needle & Thread – Become a tailor and learn to craft clothing, coats, hats and even pocket mods for your clothing to reduce encumbrance without strength perks.

Become a tailor and learn to craft clothing, coats, hats and even pocket mods for your clothing to reduce encumbrance without strength perks. The Night Stalker – Become the ultimate assassin and gain stealth and combat bonuses at night.

Become the ultimate assassin and gain stealth and combat bonuses at night. Magnum Enforcer – Maximize the capabilities of the .44 Magnum.

Maximize the capabilities of the .44 Magnum. Batter Up! – Learn to craft baseball bats and hit zombie heads out of the park!

Learn to craft baseball bats and hit zombie heads out of the park! Wasteland Treasures – Learn to to harvest new materials from various objects to become the ultimate junk collector of the apocalypse.

Learn to to harvest new materials from various objects to become the ultimate junk collector of the apocalypse. The Hunters Journal – Do more damage against different types of animals with each volume.

Do more damage against different types of animals with each volume. The Art of Mining – Enhance your life as a miner with new craftable equipment and mining tricks to one-shot ore!

Enhance your life as a miner with new craftable equipment and mining tricks to one-shot ore! Rangers Guide to Archery – Become the ultimate archer with this set of books. You can even craft exploding arrows.

Become the ultimate archer with this set of books. You can even craft exploding arrows. Pistol Pete – Master the use of 9mm weapons with this set of books.

Master the use of 9mm weapons with this set of books. Shotgun Messiah – Become the action hero you always dreamed of with this complimentary set of books

Become the action hero you always dreamed of with this complimentary set of books Sniper – If exploding heads is your thing, look no further. Craft special ammunition, ghillie suits and more!

If exploding heads is your thing, look no further. Craft special ammunition, ghillie suits and more! The automatic weapons handbook – Learn every trick in the book about machine guns.

– Learn every trick in the book about machine guns. Urban Combat – Become the ultimate commando with Urban combat and look like a sexual tyrannosaurus.

New Weapons

This is by far the biggest weapon update we’re ever had which includes 20 new weapons to play with.

Spears – Spears have great range and can be thrown. From stone, iron and steel, there is a spear for you. Steel spears are loot or schematic craft only. They can be modified and are governed by the new perception perk “Javelin Master”. Primary attack jabs and secondary attack performs a power attack that charges up the spear and releasing throws it. Press E to reclaim your spear.

Spears have great range and can be thrown. From stone, iron and steel, there is a spear for you. Steel spears are loot or schematic craft only. They can be modified and are governed by the new perception perk “Javelin Master”. Primary attack jabs and secondary attack performs a power attack that charges up the spear and releasing throws it. Press E to reclaim your spear. Junk Turret – Junk turrets are governed by the new intellect perk “Turrets Syndrome”. They are a hand held weapon that is fired with primary attack and reloaded like a normal weapon. Secondary attack deploys it in the world and it will target zombies and animals as long as the player is close enough to it. Turrets deactivate when the player is too far away and will stop making noise and the barrel will aim at the floor when they run out of ammo or are out of range.

Junk turrets are governed by the new intellect perk “Turrets Syndrome”. They are a hand held weapon that is fired with primary attack and reloaded like a normal weapon. Secondary attack deploys it in the world and it will target zombies and animals as long as the player is close enough to it. Turrets deactivate when the player is too far away and will stop making noise and the barrel will aim at the floor when they run out of ammo or are out of range. Stun Baton – A new melee weapon governed by the new intellect perk “The Electrocutioner” gives intellect players a shock baton that charges with each attack. Each rank of Electrocutioner reduces the number of swings needed to achieve a charge.

A new melee weapon governed by the new intellect perk “The Electrocutioner” gives intellect players a shock baton that charges with each attack. Each rank of Electrocutioner reduces the number of swings needed to achieve a charge. Baseball Bat – The baseball bat is a top tier club that is loot or schematic craft only. Clubs and bats are governed by Pummel Pete under Strength.

The baseball bat is a top tier club that is loot or schematic craft only. Clubs and bats are governed by Pummel Pete under Strength. New Sledgehammers – Want to be a sledgehammer guy early game? Craft a stone sledgehammer right away from basic ingredients like stone, wood and plant fibers. Later game you can find steel sledgehammers or craft them with a schematic. Sledgehammers are governed by Skull Crusher under Strength.

Want to be a sledgehammer guy early game? Craft a stone sledgehammer right away from basic ingredients like stone, wood and plant fibers. Later game you can find steel sledgehammers or craft them with a schematic. Sledgehammers are governed by Skull Crusher under Strength. M60 – The M60 is a top tier machine gun class weapon that is loot or schematic craft only. It is governed by the Machine Gunner perk under Fortitude as well as the Ak47.

The M60 is a top tier machine gun class weapon that is loot or schematic craft only. It is governed by the Machine Gunner perk under Fortitude as well as the Ak47. Knuckle Wraps, Brass Knuckles, Spiked Knuckles – Ever wanted to just punch a zombies head off but the old vanilla fists were just too weak? Well now you can perk into “The Brawler” under Fortitude and use leather knuckle wraps, Brass Knuckles and Spiked knuckles to punch their face into a pulp. “But won’t I get infected being so close to zombies?” you might ask? Fear not because they come with a special built in perk that removes a zombies ability to infect you by punching out their teeth (punch to head instantly neutralizes zombies infection ability).

Ever wanted to just punch a zombies head off but the old vanilla fists were just too weak? Well now you can perk into “The Brawler” under Fortitude and use leather knuckle wraps, Brass Knuckles and Spiked knuckles to punch their face into a pulp. “But won’t I get infected being so close to zombies?” you might ask? Fear not because they come with a special built in perk that removes a zombies ability to infect you by punching out their teeth (punch to head instantly neutralizes zombies infection ability). Double Barrel Shotgun – Fires two shots, but you can double tap and basically shoot both at once. Shotguns are governed by the perk Boomstick which is under Strength.

Fires two shots, but you can double tap and basically shoot both at once. Shotguns are governed by the perk Boomstick which is under Strength. New Explosives- Grenades and timed charges have been introduced to alpha 18. There are normal grenades that bounce and contact grenades which explode on contact. Timed Charges deal massive damage to safes and doors and are great for raids. They are governed by Demolitions expert under Perception.

Grenades and timed charges have been introduced to alpha 18. There are normal grenades that bounce and contact grenades which explode on contact. Timed Charges deal massive damage to safes and doors and are great for raids. They are governed by Demolitions expert under Perception. New bows – The normal bow people are used to has been turned into a primitive bow so it will probably feel worse to experienced players. We’ve added a new wooden bow which behaves similar to the old bow, and the compound bow is still the top tier bow. We’ve added a new compound crossbow which is a top tier crossbow that is loot or schematic craft only. Both bows and crossbows alike, can use flaming and exploding ammunition. Bows are governed by Agility now.

The normal bow people are used to has been turned into a primitive bow so it will probably feel worse to experienced players. We’ve added a new wooden bow which behaves similar to the old bow, and the compound bow is still the top tier bow. We’ve added a new compound crossbow which is a top tier crossbow that is loot or schematic craft only. Both bows and crossbows alike, can use flaming and exploding ammunition. Bows are governed by Agility now. New ammunition – All firearms can use regular ammo, HP ammo which does more damage, and AP ammo which pierces through enemies and low hit point structures like wood and glass. Shotguns have breaching ammo for wrecking safes and doors, bows have exploding arrows. Advanced ammunition requires a schematic to craft. Steel ammunition has been removed from the game, but there are many new ways to acquire brass including smelting dukes.

Thrown Items

In multiplayer games, thrown items were moved by the server, which means if your computer was not the server you would see a delay when you threw an item and see lag in its position updates and collisions with the world. In A18 we added a Physics Master system that lets the player’s computer that threw the item spawn and run the item’s physics, so you get the same lag free throwing as a single player game and they will accurately hit other players.

Many thrown items have been resized and had their colliders adjusted, so they are easier to use. Molotovs have a smaller radius and a more forgiving distance check to players, so it is harder to set yourself on fire.

Rocks and snowballs can be thrown much further now which is useful to lure zombies away from your backpack or a POI you want to sneak into.

New Terrain Blending, New Unity Distant Terrain & PBR Terrain Textures

We have integrated a new terrain shader that blends the terrain textures in a much more natural way. With it we can do interesting things like base the texture weight on slope angles (e.g. grass grows on relatively flat terrain only and steeper surfaces have eroded stone etc).

Along with this we have converted our old distant terrain to use Unity’s distant terrain giving us much more fidelity in the distance as you can now see details like erosion and higher resolution mountains and plateaus.

If that wasn’t enough we have overhauled all the terrain textures not only in a higher resolution but also to support the new PBR art pipeline.

New Random World Gen

Random World Generation has been overhauled to use a new custom in-house solution. This new system uses a combination of artist driven graph networks, and improved programmatic algorithms to distribute custom artist created height map stamps for the terrain geometry and unique biomes, along with smart systems that control placement of roads, bridges, towns, and designer built POIs. With each new seed generation, a new and exciting world is created for the player to explore.

The game now includes 3 8k generated worlds.

POI Locations

We’ve re-imagined dozens of older locations with a complete art and game-play overhaul converting them to beautiful and quest-able dungeon experiences. We optimized and re balanced all existing quest-able locations and re-balanced all locations in the game.

We have also created many brand-new locations. These locations are all setup to support a variety of quests of 5 Tier difficulties. All locations are working in Navezgane and Random Gen worlds. Over 101 new locations and counting. Some of the new or re-imagined locations include:

Modern houses

Burnt businesses

Burnt houses

Burnt remnant/abandoned

Old west businesses and business strips

Old west remnants/abandoned

More house remnants/abandoned

New lodge

Updated auto parts store

Trailer park

Trailers

Army camps

Army barracks

Fire Station

Funeral home

Diners

Fast food

Garages

Water towers

Reflections

Reflections are shown using reflection probes. We added a new reflection manager that tracks multiple probes and blends between them to reduce hard transitions. Probes now update based on player movement or changes to the world, instead of all the time, which can give an increase in FPS.

AI, Animals and Zombies

We have made a variety of improvements to the game’s AI including:

A coyote and mountain lion were added. The mountain lion uses the new animal leap ability.

The demolition zombie was added. Beware his explosive charge!

Zombies have a new rage mode. There is a chance when damaging zombies, based on the game difficulty, that they will move faster for a short amount of time. This add more variety to combat.

Sense sounds have returned to the game. They are played when hostile AI investigates a noise.

Hostile AI no longer investigates player noise at the exact position of the player, but rather picks a spot somewhere on the player’s breadcrumb trail based on how well the AI can hear.

Some types of hostile animals may flee when injured.

Zombies will now fight bears or wolves that attack them.

Zombies can ragdoll when they fall.

Sleeper volume triggering was improved.

Vehicles

Vehicles have had several improvements done to them:

Steering, tire rotation, bicycle pedaling and the gyro rotor can now been seen moving when looking at other player’s vehicles.

Vehicles fall more accurately and riders can take falling damage.

Damage when colliding with the world is more accurately calculated and less land claim damage is done.

Using the hop action on two wheeled vehicles lifts the front tire more, so it is easier to drive over obstacles.

Vehicle UI, locking and passcode interaction was improved.

Mining Overhaul

Mining has been overhauled and made much easier to find the ore you need. Now there are brand new 3d surface boulders of each ore type identifying where matching ore can be found below. What you see is what you get. See Lead, mine it and below the boulder will be a new lead textured underground ore that matches the surface boulder. Each boulder has a unique look so they are easy to identify at a distance what type of ore it is. These boulders are uncommon so there are still many deposits close to the surface that can only be found by digging.

Server administration (config changes, console commands, etc)

Due to a change in Unity the -logfile argument now seems to require an absolute path passed in, otherwise no log is generated at all

Added serverconfig option “ServerMaxAllowedViewDistance”, allowing to limit the view distance clients can use to save memory and performance.

Added serverconfig option “ServerMaxWorldTransferSpeedKiBs”, allowing to override the data rate limit which is applied while transferring the world files to new clients.

Changed serverconfig option “DropOnDeath” values to now match the “DropOnQuit” values, thus also now allowing “nothing” as a valid setting and shifting all previous values by 1

Added serverconfig option “BedrollExpiryTime”, allowing to specify after how many days of owner inactivity a bedroll will no longer prevent zombie spawns / quest respawns

Added console command “gfx dt 0/1” to toggle the distant terrain rendering

Added console command “gfx pp ssrdist/ssrit/ssrq”

Added console commands to “mem” to control garbage collector (type “help mem” for info)

Updated console command “killall” ‘alive’ and ‘all’ parameters to work correctly and updated help

Added console command “spawnentityat” takes stepXYZ parameters

Updated console command “getoptions” now also allows filtering by substring

Updated console command “exportcurrentconfigs” now also exports rwgmixer when run from main menu

Modding Support

Support for localization from mods – not pushed from servers yet

Custom journal entries can be added

XUi: Reworked adding/overriding UI sprites. ItemIcons now go to “<mod>/UIAtlases/ItemIconAtlas”. The new system can also be used for the regular UIAtlas that is used with generic XUi sprites (“<mod>/UIAtlases/UIAtlas”) or completely new custom sprite atlases (any other folder name in UIAtlases). Added sprites can be any size (a sensible limit would be 1024×1024 though) and aspect ratio. Created atlases are dumped to disk for inspection when the game is ran with the argument “-exportcustomatlases”

Asset bundles from mods are now loaded on game startup instead of when contents of them are first used (e.g. due to spawning an enemy the first time)

Allow blocks to have particle effects from custom bundles

Mod XML method “removeattribute”

Fixed an interaction issue with custom multiblocks

XUi: Added support for stash-buttons to “windowBackpack”. Example usage is commented out within that window’s vanilla XML

XUi: Allow MaxSpawnedZombies/Animals to be added to the XUi XML for the new/continue game window

XUi: Applying a “style” attribute when using a control is now supported

XUi: Fixed texture file references not working on macOS

Added

New reset_books parameter for ResetProgression action

Pathing will cross 1m ladder gaps

Log when the Origin changes

Player vomit sounds

VehicleManager signature error message, load message and counts to save message

Mark server admins (permission level 0) in player list

TGALoader grayscale image support

Advanced Engineering reduces material cost of forge recipes up to 20%

AudioSource for Alerts, senses, giveups

AI SetNearestEntityAsTarget max hear distance parameter and set on animals to be about 5m farther than max see distance

AI SetNearestEntityAsTarget plays sense sound when investigating noise

Wandering hordes are disabled in playtest mode

4 second delay after world gen to ensure cleanup is done

Vehicle steering and tires sent to remotes and FixedUpdateMotors is run

Flag players that died during blood moon as invalid GPS

AI Director blood moon 1.5 sec update delay for targeting

Entity Physics Master system so clients can run physics

Occlusion video option

Bandages, First aid bandages, first aid kits and splints now give XP

Physician perk now gains 20% more xp per rank for using medical items

Gas can schematic recipe to loot and traders

Encumbrance journal entry after you get the buff for the first time

Grenade sound effects & explosions

Machete sounds with custom impact overrides.

Vultures will get battle fatigue and stop attacking for a while

Battle fatigued vultures will not circle toward far players

Air conditioners and new car radiators models drop radiators when destroyed.

Powered vault door & vault hatch

3 new craftable player lights. Unlock via schematic or electrician perk

Electrical schematics to loot and traders

Craftable power doors and bridges. Unlocked via schematic or tier 4 of Advanced Engineering

4 new modular pc models Modular Desktop PC

Basketball Hoop

Yeah Science offers a 20% crafting speed boost to all items crafted at chemistry stations

Advanced Engineering offers a 20% crafting speed boost to all items crafted at table saws

Empty cans can be forged

New icons for dyes that match the new colors

Garment Bag & Modular Closet Rods

Advanced engineering ranks 3 through 5 give you 20, 35 and 50% XP for kills electric based turrets make

Blacksmith and Tinkerer perks now give you faster crafting time on anvils and workbenches.

Master Chef now lets you cook 10% faster per rank

#HeldItemRoot for AddPart to be able to attach parts to held items

Advanced engineering grants a 20% crafting speed bonus to items crafted at workbenches, table saws and cement mixers

HitSound and GrazeSound overrides for melee weapons. Stone sledge as example

TrapIncomingDamage passive effect

CVars can now be displayed on buff popout and in buff list. See cold/hot temp buffs

Coal ore model

New 3d lead ore model to surface to easily spot lead ore mines

Iron ore surface boulders to distinguish iron ore mines

Zombies set short controller and physics heights when start as or turned into crawlers

Reflection Manager

ModMeleeClubMetalChain with 10% knockdown chance

MeleeKnucklesLeather as a T1 brawling weapon

Buried Supplies Tier 2 quest

Cargo storage pocket mods for clothing that reduce encumbrance by 2 that are unlocked with needle and thread book

Animal leap ability

Changing the held item during weapon reload cancels reload

Syncing of junk turret targets over the network

Entity ownership list

Demolition zombie

Sleeper volume trigger modes (Active, Passive, Attack)

Player breadcrumb system

AI SetNearestEntityAsTarget investigates player noise using random distance breadcrumb

Sleepers go active from moderate noise at .9m outside the volume

GenerationInfo.txt for host side only, contains various generation info and original seed

World Size ruleset switching

4k biome and terrain to rwgmixer.xml

Urban combat book allows crafting of cigars

Forge schematic

Military stealth boots which have no stamina penalty and muffle movement sounds

Item random spin when thrown

Cosmetic dye slot to assemble window

Mountain lions spawn in the snow biome

Military fiber schematic and added to loot and traders

Coyote to desert spawns

AI RunawayWhenHurt param1 is chance to flee when hurt and a minimum health needed to trigger

Wolf type AI will RunawayWhenHurt 40% of time when below 10%40% health

New firearms plus ammo to loot groups

Occlusion whole chunk culling

Properties to control grazing hits

EntityPenetrationCount passive effect and hooked up to perk

Ability for ranged weapons to penetrate multiple targets

Logic to cause blocks to take away 1 penetration point for every 100 max block hp

Soft particles are enabled when water particle limiter is above .5

Traders now have vehicle parts for sale, and complete vehicles

Clean Densities button to level tools 2, setting all densities to default value, either within the current selection or if no selection in the whole prefab

Held items spawn with random stats. Crafted items are not random.

Clothing spawns with random stats. Crafted items are not random.

Duct tape and leather to most tool recipes to keep them from being mass produced for big profits at traders

Vehicle parts schematic items and added them to loot

Fireman’s almanac modification. Unlocks an axe mod that does 25% more block damage but 25% less entity damage

Pure mineral water, unlocked by Wasteland Treasures

Double barrel shotgun to loot and traders

AI attack motion estimation uses a random range

Zombies when damaged have a chance based on difficulty to get a move speed boost for 410 seconds

Zombies can ragdoll when falling more than 2m (spiders immune, ferals cap at 70%)

New block concretePlateCorner

Dismember chance is scaled by damage / max health

ConcretePlateBroke04

Added breaching slugs

Army Truck

Craftable storage pocket mods to modify clothing and decrease encumbrance, unlocked with needle and thread book.

Sewing kits, loot only, needed to craft non primitive clothing, armor and their mods

Blackstrap coffee, a super strong long lasting coffee unlocked by one of The Art of Mining books

Diamond blade tip modification that doubles tool durability that can be crafted when reading one of the

Lockpicks to loot and traders

Schematics for table saw, work bench, chemistry station, and cement mixer

Coyote prefab and adjusted xml

Mountain Lion

Art of Mining Bundles (allows players to craft bundles of ore to save inventory space)

Roughed in spear damage and power attack damage

Cardboard pallet prefab

Gun parts to shotgun messiah boxes

Dynamic recipe costs for all firearms and power tools

New materials for all new weapon and tool parts

All firearms can be scrapped into specific gun parts such as ak47 Parts, pistol parts, etc.

Fuel tank mods for motor tools

Craftable Ghille suit gated by the sniper book series.

Path start position motion estimation

AI slows down near end of path and won’t turn when close

New note to players inventory from the Duke of Navezgane when they start a new game

Block VehicleHitScale for vehicle collisions, removed heavy hit based on mesh tag and setup blocks (road debris and small cactus x999, signs x8, shopping cart x4)

Vehicle hopForce forward offset, so front tire lifts more on 2 wheelers and motorcycle does wheeliesPrefab instance name and volume count to sleeper console command

Modular Firewood Stacks

Janitor Cart

Cow Skull

Claw Foot Tub

Modular Rope & Noose

Sleeper Volume Grouping (added volume group ID and save/load, properties UI, selection box orange color, ] key to group with previous, shift ] key clears group id)

Toaster

Firefighter’s Helmet

Ice machine prefab

Modular Hoist Set

Wood Burning Stove

Entity minimum step/height (rabbits and chickens can step .5m)

Lockpicking for Locked containers

Explosions do crits if >10% of max health

Kneel stuns do ragdoll 25% of time and 100% on a crit

Left and right floating railings

Block IsCheckCollideWithEntity which CheckCollisionWithBlocks uses to only do bounds checks on blocks needing it (x2 performance)

Beer crafting to tier 4 of master chef

Add a way for buffs to play gender neutral sounds

Tier 1 questable oldwest_business_10

Optimization: Entity Ticking

Oldwest_strip_01 Tier 2 clear/fetch/cache ready for playtesting

Logging of time scale when changing with //enter keys

Household Coffee Maker

Chandelier

Commercial Coffee Maker

Soda Fountain

Spawn menu will spawn along a left to right line, 1m apart, when alt key down

Candelabra

Washing Machine Model

Domed Trash Can

Brute style trash can

Pool Table

Large Pet Cage

Hand Truck

Reptile Terrarium

Minimum zombie dismemberment chance on death of 50% (heads 30%) if killing damage is strong enough

New food piles

Utility Carts

Tilt Truck

Classic Dog House

Orange sunrise in the pine forest

10% chance to harvest military fiber from barracks chairs

Ower attack vocalizations.

Sound effect for swarm of flies.

Custom recipe read sounds

Add xml setting onslopes=”true” to prefabs in biomes.xml

Dry fire sound

New town site selection function. Still needs some work but is functional asis

Trap block material creak warning.

Item Break sound

Vehicle turbo button toggles it when using a controller

3 new pre-generated 8k random gen maps for those who don’t want to wait generating new custom maps PREGEN01, PREGEN02 and PREGEN03.

Remnant_house_10 to the project and rwgmixer

3 new loading screen textures replacing the old ones

13 missing POIS to the rwgmixer.xml file

Gfx tex command calls UnloadUnusedAssets

Gfx st budget/forceload console commands

Gfx tex console command to show texture usage info

Gfx dt console command help

Anisotropic filtering is disabled if 3 GB or less of VRAM

Biome feral night born zombies will be old and die at dawn

Zombie super rage

Streaming texture budget is set based on VRAM size

Gfx af console command

Pumpkin seeds that can be planted and grown into pumpkins to enjoy the fall build. Craft pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake to feast on. Craft Jack O’ Lanterns to add a spooky night light and celebrate Halloween!

Changed

8k maps can have up to 10 total traders

Player activity drains less food/water. Added a base drain.

Broken item sounds now play when pressing the button instead of waiting for tooltip

All biomes have night time zombie spawns

How some items are shifted to check if there is a difference on AMD

Decouple bedrolls decaying from landclaim settings

Fire_station_01 refactored, tier two 15 guys

4×4 has much larger inventory

Glass jars, drinks, windows, etc. scrap to broken glass. Sand or terrain blocks do not scrap but can be smelted in a forge

Thinned out harvestable crops in field prefabs

Reduced radius of car explosions to 3.5m

Vehicle reset does not center steering

Odd/even check back to bit check instead of mod

Audio lowest and highest pitch default to 1

Removed audio pitch down on entities that were not a local player

Added pitch tags to the appropriate sound nodes in sounds.xml

Updated shaders for Vulkan and removed DX9 support

Improved duration display on items that provide buffs

Optimized Vector2i by changing x and y to fields

Drowning displays the time left in seconds

Removed black dusters from the game since you can dye them black now

Duke’s Casino Token can be scrapped for brass

Reduced gas craft component time since gas is more granular now

VoxelMesh MeshCollider cooking options to none for less CPU use

Even Odd calculation to use modulus instead of bitshift

Thinned biome spawning of zombies in all biomes & increased zombies at night in the wasteland

Wolves have a higher chance to flee in combat

UI World Generation now clears data BEFORE starting to load game

Brand new infection system. Infection is easier to contract when you have low health than high health. 1% is barely infected, at 100% infection you die. Stage 1 lasts one (real time) hour and up to 14% and has no side effects. Stage 2 lasts 3 hours (up to 57%) and is25% stamina recovery. Stage 3 lasts 3 hours and is 35% stamina recovery and 1 to all attributes. You die if it reaches 100%. Getting may hit increases infection. Take antibiotics to cure infection, such as honey, herbal antibiotics or pharmacy grade antibiotics. Antibiotics lessen stamina recovery penalty by half while curing.

Crafting drinkJarBoiledWater does not require a cooking pot but is very slow without one

Empty cans are not used for drinking or boiling water

More mods work on more weapons

Have bedroll show its covering area just like the land claim when placing it down

College jackets boost run speed by 10%. Arms/letter stay white, the body part accepts dyes

Bedrock texture now appears the same as stone

Repair and harvest of blade traps is simplified

Attributes cost less at higher tiers now

Nerfed gas crafting again. Now you get 10k gas for 1k shale.

Burning shaft mod doesn’t use a torch in the recipe but oil and gas instead

Rebar frames require 20 concrete to be upgrades to reinforced concrete

Crucible costs much more and isn’t sellable to the trader

Crucible is now under rare tools group and secret stash

Buffed feral/radiated zombie block damage by 50%, except for cops

Burnt cripple zombies now do full damage

Moved physician perk from craftsmanship perks to influence perks since it no longer unlocks any crafting items

Iron reinforced club model no longer changes its icon when barbed or spiked mod is installed

Construct concrete bags now drop cement instead of concrete mix

Slow metabolism only reduces hunger 5 to 25% instead of 10 to 50%.

Slow metabolism Perk to Iron Gut perk. Iron gut reduces chance to get food poisoning and does the things slow metabolism. Iron Gut also increases consumable buff duration 10 to 50%.

Clamped player ragdoll time to .5 secs

All helmets allow eyewear. Some show visuals of eyewear but full faced ones do not.

Now using Autodesk Interactive shader also on transparent meshes (f.e. glass)

Vitamins do not heal but grant disease immunity

Zombie cop vomit does less damage to wood/iron bars

Removed perk charging bull Remove charging bull from perk list

Traps require oil instead of duct tape in their recipe

Gas costs more shale to produce.

Air drops have = chance for any loot group to spawn

Replaced dead shrub with dead branch texture to save draw calls

Removed hoes from the game. They might return in a future alpha as a landscaping tool. Farming no longer requires them, simply place a farm plot and plant a seed.

Command getoptions now also allows filtering by substring

Working stiffs crates and destroyed forges have a chance to drop bellows and crucibles

The encumbrance buff on the HUD shows how many slots you are overweight

Vehicles have a terminal Y velocity instead of clamping with max velocity

Increased vehicle xz drag when no driver

It now costs 1 paint per face to paint instead of two.

Grandpa’s learn’n Elixer is cheaper to craft

Renamed Brass car radiator to brass radiator since they are dropped by generic sources now

Traders have more forged steel

Optimized Progression calculated levels (localPlayer tick is 4.5 times faster)

Steel AP crossbow bolts are unlocked by Rangers guide to archery

Vault doors and hatches require mechanical parts to craft

Console command exportcurrentconfigs now also exports rwgmixer when run from main menu

Increased AI per ally block damage boost to 20%

Starting to sprint while zooming will unzoom and start sprinting

A zombie hit can increase the degree (counter) of an existing infection if the attack procs that and the proc makes it past the player’s infection buff resistance. Try a hazmat zombie.

Improved shadow transitions

Day time fog look, and darkened night time fog

Increased all gas harvest and crafting x10, increased fuel usage x10 so that chainsaws and augers were not gas hogs

Gyrocopter is faster and gets better mileage.

Limited the hit indicator sound to ONLY ranged

Reduced resource rocks they are not needed in abundance with new mining

Workstation prices have been increased and are all for sale at traders

Nerfed gas harvest from vehicles

Set all hand items and weapons to not be read/write enabled to save memory

Desaturated cowboy boots and icon so dyes show better. (note icon will appear updated after the next atlas bake)

Adjusted black dyes to appear more uniform

Sleeper volumes to not trigger from players standing on top of them

Updated abandoned_house_02 to use skinny eeeves

Turned off sound on p_electric_shock_small particle effect for now

Reduced thrown item drag and velocity

Deleted OnDisableLight and removed from prefabs

Small clean up and put skinny eaves on abandoned houses 38

Improved LightLOD init

Blue and green dyes to be less saturated and cartoony

Craftable gas barrel cannot be sold to traders

Networking handled in background threads

Shopping baskets are now plastic

Cigars scrap to plant fibers, mining hats and football helmets scrap to polymers

Removed storage crate recipe since its in the wooden furniture helper menu now

Removed legacy asset wood_painte2.

Lowered number of concurrent GPU threads to possibly help with device lost

Improved AI RunawayFromEntity

Timid animals run from hostile animals

Split logic up into server side and client side

All weapon and armor mods have the word mod at the end of the name and their schematics so it is clear it is a mod.

Improved boss Grace (AI aggressive to players, destroy area, territorial. Slightly smaller. Moves slower. Longer range and more damage)

Decreased wolf attack delay, range and damage, Increased for dire wolf

Decreased bear attack range/sphere values

Reduced bear, boar, canine and vulture hit check delays

Scrapped over 250 block recipes which will reduce lag in the crafting menus

All tier 2 and above weapon and tool recipes require parts and scale ingredient costs based on quality level

Lucky Looter to match new less granular loot table

Goggles that boost looting to match less granular loot table

Helmet light mods and gun light mods now use flashlights instead of headlights

Improved sleeper volume dialog

Lowered price of mining helmet

Loot lists overhauled to match the A18 setup of tiered item types. All T2 weapons and T2 armor and all Basic ammo types can be found in loot.

Shotguns one shot wood blocks

AI SetNearestEntityAsTarget investigate time to 3060 second range

Sleepers go active when player .3m inside the volume

Reduced number of spawned arrays for GPU driven stamp caching

Nests were too low in the snow biome

Adjusted thrown explosive colliders

Cloth is now made from one cotton istead of two (I thought it was klunky having one left over cotton taking up space in inventory and too grindy making bandages early game)

Armor does not come with random dyes

Vultures no longer spawn in the snow biome, slighty increased odds for bears and dire wolves to spawn in the snow

Install a bellows into a forge to smelt faster. Install an anvil into a forge to craft faster.

Unified all t1,t2 and t3 weapon prices.

Increased sell back price from 15% to 20% of value.

All armor recipes scale in ingredient costs, so it takes more mats to craft higher quality armor.

Recipe amounts for armor and some armor values

Military Fiber recipe creates 10 fibers since acid is so rare

Military clothing uses less military fiber to craft

Flagstone blocks craft faster

Iron Fireaxe and Claw hammer require leather and duct tape to craft

Unified common ammo supply counts at traders

Workbenches cost 2k at traders

Cement mixer costs 3k, chemistry stations cost 5k.

Removed one row of encumbrance by default. Changed pack mule perks to unlock 3,3,4,4 and 4 encumbrance slots.

Cleaned up default item mod spawning to use list of item names or tags

Mods no longer have a rarity, there is now cosmetic_mod_chance for things like dye

Creative window can now add dyes to clothing

Order of mod checking so that one can re dye a found dyed clothing/armor item

Buffed wolf and boar damage

Buffed boar hit points

Shotgun slug recipe was too expensive

Repair kits are now made with forged iron and duct tape

All food and drink stack sizes are now 10. Food resources (uncooked foods) are 125. Medicated bandages are 10 med kits 5. Pills are 20.

There are only 2 types of armor increasing mods and they can be installed in both light and heavy armor

Reinforced wood and metal reinforced wood blocks upgrade to cobblestone.

Block replace tool keeps density of replaced block if either replaced and replacement are both terrain or both nonterrain

Held items rebalanced on entity and block damage. Melee got about a 20% boost, arrows and firearms basically unchanged. Low end tools tend to have more block damage.

All weapons and armor now use repair kits to repair

Iron clubs now use iron, leather, duct tape and wood to craft

Stack limit on parts to 50

Furniture drops less leather when harvested

Ore piles are often found where ore veins exist close to the surface.

Improved zombie jump accuracy and added distance variation

Player gains stamina back 20% faster. This should result in not getting exhausted doing basic activities like mining. Power attacks and sprinting still drain stamina quickly

The stone axe upgrades blocks faster

Mining hat is now a tier 1 heavy armor.

Removed feathers from junk loot, and reduced feathers in nests

Mining helmets do not have an innate light feature but spawn with a helmet light mod preinstalled

Increased quality of player UI 3d model

SS Reflection video option to Off, Low, Medium, High and used for the 4 graphics quality presets

Sand that is smelted into forges will display as sand in the forge. Recipes will also list sand instead of glass.

Nerfed gas found in loot

Improved farming by changing tilled dirt terrain to a planter like block that is much easier to plant seeds in.

You gain 1 HP/Stamina per player level instead of increasing this value with attributes.

Boss grace to have 0% head dismember

Increase the default settings for claim duration

UseTimes is now a float to allow for more range in degradation

Optimized Light LOD code

All armor and most armor mod recipes require sewing kits

Plant fibers can be crafted into grass seeds for decoration purposes.

Recipes that you have not unlocked will default to telling you how to unlock them.

Improved player placed light shadow modes vs distance

Lights to decrease range instead of intensity with distance

Items have up to 4 mod slots. An installed mod increases weapon damage by 10%.

Weapon damage is increased by 10% per item quality tier.

Canned food has no chance of food poisoning

Farming rebalanced. Allows increased harvest of wild plants. Schematics allow crafting of seeds without a perk.

Reduced birds nests 50%

Tallow is no longer used in the game.

The wrench no longer repairs. It only harvests and has a power attack. It gains no benefit from Miner69er.

Thrown dynamite does more damage and costs more to craft.

The nailgun has no quality or mod slots

The anvil and tool&die set forge tools are not gating any recipes

Grease monkey requirements are now INT 2,4,6,8,10

Scrapped the T3 armor mods, increased base armor values.

Reading books/recipes does not have an eating animation and does not cause weapon switching.

Item mod schematics do not require perkYeahScience to craft.

Removed hammer and forge perk tree.

Added forge crafting to Advanced engineering and reordered each perk and its requirements

The quality that an item is crafted at is unlocked by the governing perk such as Shotgun Messiah.

Bullet tips, casings, gunpowder, and the 4 basic ammo type recipes are not gated by any perk.

Forges do not require an anvil or crucible to be installed.

Removed steel bullet casings and bullets. Added AP and JHP ammo types.

Many vehicle interactions to be server controlled and server owns that data

Vehicle Service and Storage access is allowed for non owners if unlocked or passcode entered and also when it has a driver

Vehicle Service and Storage UIs to not close if driven, but if vehicle moves away

Vehicles can’t be locked if being driven

Vehicle passcode button is hidden if not locked

Vehicle damage to update the Service UI instead of closing it

Nerfed bandages to only heal 5 health. Nerfed medicated bandages to heal 20, and large health kits heal 40

Pipe bombs, dynamite and molotovs have more velocity when thrown and reduced time to charge max

velocity

Decreased molotov radius damage

Increased HE rocket block damage

Deleted Ninja Movement perk and merged with from the shadows

Local player check if entities are render visible to use distance to camera not player

Removed player camera blend to 3rd person, since it would extend your hit range

Xml event triggers can no longer use name=eventType, only trigger=eventType

Cleaned up zooming to reduce camera clipping with sights

Reverb mix values for exploration

Moved Gunslinger to Agility.

Stay Down! is now called Pummel Pete

Heavy Metal is now called Skullcrusher. Removed old Skullcrusher perk tree and head shot damage is

now tied to each attribute

Master Chef Rank 3 perks are merged to rank 4 and rank 3 is now army cook which lets you bulk craft stews and certain foods

Moved Automatic Weapons to fortitude and renamed it Machine Gunner

Adjusted animal move/panic/turn speeds

Increased timid animal vision angle

Increased path point reached distance when sidestepping

Improved AI blocked distance, sidestepping and direct movement

AI returning home to use aggro speed (at 80%)

Deleted self medicated perk from Fortitude

Optimized EntityAlive updateCurrentBlockPosAndValue

Adjusted starter quest note from Noah about the Duke

Moved master chef perk to strength

Crossbows and Compound bows crafting is governed by archery

Optimized HUD target/crosshair update and reduced garbage gen

Dropped zombie loot bags stay in the game 1200 seconds instead of 300, or around 7.5 hours instead of under 2 with default game time.

Adjusted mass of 2 wheeled vehicles

Increased vehicle self damage

DropOnDeath options now match the DropOnQuit options

Shift left clicking item in modify window to make error sound if item can’t be installed instead of moving to toolbar or for vehicles it always moved to storage

Alt key in prefab editor to show all sleeper volumes in see through mode

Vehicles do not have quality tiers

Optimized entity events/effects

Writing decorations now only every minute (if changed)

Fixed problem that decoration save game file grew over time too much

Physics Auto Sync Transforms to off, which is faster

Kneel stun test (strength) to be x2 on crits

ApplyExplosionForce to be a single burst on rigid bodies, use a max BlastPower of 100, have much higher

force and use RadiusEntities

Ranged weapons other than crossbows do not fire underwater

Entity to not push if has root motion (AI, expensive) and not to push other if it can’t be pushedNPCs to can’t push

Triggering of player in water sounds and have a volume based on movement

Streamlined tutorial. Now you only have to craft plant fiber shirt and plants, 1 arrow instead of two, and only 1 frame instead of 3. Recipes for campire were changed from 8 stones to 5. Plant fiber pants and shirt now only need 5 fibers instead of 10. Bedrolls only need 10 fibers instead of 20. Wooden Clubs need 5 wood instead of 6. Stone axe needs two stones instead of 4.

Bones stack higher and are more granular so that harvesting perks scale better

It is possible to harvest bones from small animals

Set default on fluorescent light from 5 to 2.5

Spawn menu to spawn entities slightly closer and only .5m above look position

Removed old “free camera move” mode (alt key)

Stability calculations: pretty big performance optimization

Imposters: less white lines between triangles

Vending machines no longer have prepared food or raw ingredients, only canned food and drink

Optimized bookcase_full and concrete destroyed 05, pole.0125, pole.025, rebar, security gate centered, table, stairs_railing, stairs_railing_metal, table_pole.025, trap barbed fence, trussing, deco pole round quarter center, railing, trussing bent, trussing centered, window boarded, wood_debris03, wooden_rail

Duck Music when musical stingers play

Pack mule strength requirements are lower.

Removed legacy modern houses from the project added new modern house to random gen

Spikes no longer snap to terrain but flatten it out instead, like a wood frame

Pass n gas sealed crates now only drop good and relevant loot

Better Barter selling rates are nerfed to 5,10,15,20,30% discount.

Zombies respawn faster in the wild, aggressive animals respawn much slower, and prey respawns the slowest

Smelting stone and crafting cement were too slow

Increased rock/snowball throw distance

Allow Block Destroy properties to be scaled with the existing HarvestCount passive

Change harvesting payout structure

Removed 32 bit Windows support

Removed: Perk magazines that temporarily increased an attribute and a perk.

Removed: Placeable TNT block.

Change: QoL, Spear can now be thrown through broken windows and iron bars via bullet HM

Change: QoL, Spear can now melee attack through iron bars via bullet HM

Expose block repair xp to be modifiable

Nerd glasses no longer improve crafting quality. They increase XP by 10% and increase intellect by 1.

Traders do not sell QL6 weapons

Improved XP and cash reward on T5 quests

Increased backpack retries when falling out of world

Dye will scrap to paint

Reduced file size of the 3 loading screen images by 75% saving a couple of Meg of memory without compromising the quality

Give trader inventory a full reset.

Updated many POI xml tags with better zoning, and allowed townships

Added Name(s) to entity death logs

Fixed

RWG maps are not guaranteed to have traders

business_old_04 (cabinet shop) has roof si issue

Crafting workbench uses modded tools from your inventory in the recipe

GPU stamp caching wasn’t using the correct value for outputMultiplier

Client’s don’t benefit from perkLuckyLooterDukes

Zombies won’t attack hatches nor climb ladders if covered with a hatch

Typos in the rwgmixer.xml

Docks collapses when you pick up the barrel.

Minibike has a dead spot where player can’t interact

Sawed off double barrel reload animation not scaling with reload speed

Vehicle placement is getting difficult again (improved placement)

Improved UVs on iron bars to work with wood grains

Falling bridges in b122 After 4 years of fighting bridge bugs we finally got them fixed. Please test all Navezgane bridges again and remember these words of caution “You breakamybridge and I breakayourface!”

Quest reset randomizer code rerolls the same

Motorcycle interact dead spot around handlebars

All bridge railings so they are not turned around inside out

TGALoader not using 255 alpha for 24 bit images

Mining hat shading artifacts

Still proximity issue with dropped molotov (reduced sized)

Navezgane Bomb Shelter Missing faucet in kitchen

Player “damage taken sound” doesn’t play anymore

God Mode desync after teleporting

Broken harvesting

Molotov and flaming arrow ignore game difficulty damage rules

Crawler zombies can give you a sprained leg debuff when hitting your chest or head.

AI SetNearestEntityAsTarget calling SeekNoise twice

Bears and wolves attack zombies but zombies wont fight back

Zombie bears would target zombies and move to them

Quest Rewards would display invalid negative bonus.

Some textures are blurry when starting a new RWG game

Towns very often have duplicated poi’s

When another player is riding the bicycle the players legs do not move

Stunned zombies still connect hits

Newly created character joins during Blood Moon Event has no safety

Graze center entity check could sometimes hit self

Army trucks do not place flat

Green trees in Nav snow biome at gas_station4

Explosions can cause void holes in the terrain

AddPart action holding on to old references causing bat flames to show on other items

Player planting tree seed as soon as tree falls will lose the sapling when tree dissolves

Clients throwing items is buggy

Hand thrown items go straight through other players

College jacket shirt is red, but should be white

WoodDestroyed06 block placed side by side will render one side transparent

Hatches have “butterfly” physics enabled when they fall

Switching to melee while reloading a ranged when zoomed would cause an FOV of 0

Fixed empty food can rotation.

Buggy shadow casters on luggage

Scrap helmet doesn’t allow eyewear but other full head helmets do

Int glasses effect can be used twice via active toolbelt slot

Mod texture references in XUi not working on macOS

Hatch can be used to push your way through walls

Player can be catapulted/glitched thru CLOSED hatch doors like an elevator

Using poles to fool zombies

Batteries cannot be charged with repair kits

When planting corn, you can see the alpha? Texture

Dogs can still remain standing when killed

Landclaim block preview doesn’t represent the actual block placement

Custom journal entries cause errors

Blocks can not have particles from bundles

Make UIAtlas overridable with new multi atlas system

FoV setting can be set outside of valid range

Player does not take fall damage while mounted to a vehicle

TreeDistance exploit

Ragdoll NRE for client

XUi controls do not apply styles

Some files from mod bundles were only loaded on first access, causing long delays during gameplay

Trader lights are blown out

Seeded containers dont reset with quests

Bridges break when driving over them and are now smooth with a gradual ramp.

Pigs attack when you damage them unless you’re on/in a vehicle

ArrowHelper block left inside funeral_home_01 and updated its imposter

Search in journal now does a full title and description test

When loading alternate ammo on bows proper ammo type doesn’t show

Hitmask overrides were not working on melee weapons

Bow zoom does not remain after shot with rmb held down

Weapon zoom prevents basic game control

Sun and moon light shadow crawl

Female characters left buttock looks distorted

Female character has boob issues

Male and female UMA characters have chicken legs

Reloading when zoomed in doesn’t zoom out

Eating animation, activated from backpack, shows in hand item twice

Player feedback impact sound playing on non ranged weapons

Players having two UpdateLightOnPlayers and always force updating

Exploit: Open character menu while using a consumable

Burning shaft mod gfx is cancelled by wearing or changing clothing/armor

Campfire ui open and running will cause extreme lag and fps drop

Command smoothworldall not working with worlds outside of the game’s Worlds folder

Cabinet broken door had broken uvs causing a black spot

Area around paths was being flattened to far out via socket height

LightLOD global scale could scale itself when light reused

Held torch light clipping through world

Player and weapon controllers each calling reload events

Buried Supplies treasure radius reduced.

Buried Supplies distance reduced.

Zombie AI pathing issue when breaking blocks to get to the player

Sleeper volumes could spawn additional sleepers at respawn positions

Sleepers could be awakened at range but won’t attack

Explosions using wrong sound name to notify AI of noise

Heatmap activity from noise not reduced by stealth

Hunter mod is missing description part that tells you which weapon it is for

Explosions doing no block damage on radius 1 (radius and damage are now decimals. radius is fully used. explosion damage starts from actual position with falloff starting at .5m. optimized)

Favorited recipes shall ignore the categories when favorites are toggled.

Quest items should be anchored to the top of each crafting tab.

Pocket mod showing up in clothing

Player can walk over tree stump as if there was a ramp on it

AI entities can’t be hit by Items when they spawn until they move or attack

Throw action not throwing when looking down

Player’s wall torch leaking light and not using game’s shadow quality setting

Wall torch fire being misaligned

Most zeds spawn as Twins

Player can heal themselves when landing from small or bigger heights

AI high blocked range being too short, so trying to jump over

Long and compound bows, charge function is not working

NRE in SetVisible when deleting a sleeper volume and saving

Burnt zombies didn’t do as much block damage as other zombies

Feral cop puke did not do massive block damage like they are supposed to (1 damage instead of 240)

Jumping with JumpStrength of 0 would leave entity in a jump

UI scaling option not applied

Mem command errors if world is not loaded

Sawed off shotgun sound was not playing when using sawed off shotgun sound

Player placed lights not updating or disabling with distance from camera and added 60% distance increase

Zombies don’t remain in destruction mode long enough, prefer futile paths to player

Debug HUD “Spawning” not showing the last one (just 3)

Time stingers are controlled by music volume control

When wearing a mining helmet on a bicycle you cannot turn it off

Smelting times reset when chunk is reloaded

XP pop out value is not updated on second block when upgrading blocks.

EntityItems waiting 5 ticks to appear (visible check now uses camera distance, so sooner)

Removed unneeded import material from pipe bomb collider

Charismatic nature perk doesn’t buff other players as described

Buff stacking for buffs procced by other players was not working over network

Crafting timer doesn’t advance properly when the chunk is unloaded

Double swing with melee weapons

Weapon hold and camera breaks when switched when zoomed in

Crafting items finish nearly instantly after the first slot is cancelled

Matts in crafting queue are lost on relog

Holding shift key does opposite speed affect on a couple circumstances

Smelt in system of forge carries over time to dragged over items

Clients see bow hold animation of other clients holding a club

Hunting rifle reload animation

Smelt in system of forge carries over time to dragged over items.

XP gained shown when level up is reached is limited to amount required to level up.

Entity RotateToGround jittering on flat terrain, rewrote math and added springiness

UI ItemStack dirty flags (always updating) and optimized UI array access

Fleeing animals will get stuck in corners or run into walls (Bigger random angle. Shorter paths. A large

AIPathCostScale now makes paths that don’t go through blocks. Run away short paths switch to random escape direction)

CalcPositionInDirection not height testing correct position

Missing ambient stingers

Jacket (white one) when worn will render upper torso transparent

Smoking minibike when placed/spawned

Mushrooms can be damaged when run over by minibike

Wandering horde has too many duplicates side by side (Spawners, except biome, try 3 times for a different id)

Vehicles are a base wrecking machine (vehicles do half damage to land claimed blocks and make the

sound, use driver’s block damage scale)

Request for having bikes (2 wheelers) not do damage to blocks when they fall over after dismounting (increased minimum velocity required to damage and reduced damage amount)

Vehicle doing more damage on collision separation, block check could fail and block hits tended to undo the motion and repeat the damage

Restored sleepers roll on animal/zombie spots

4×4 defies physics when parked on a drawbridge (added doors wake nearby vehicles when opened/closed)

NRE when server is shutdown via terminal window

Zombie crippling (Percent of health that a hit does is now the chance to cripple scaled by LegCrippleScale)

NRE when setting a door passcode in prefab editor (ignore if null)

Death anim is not playing for various deaths

ObjectiveZombieKill and ObjectiveAnimalKill now allow comma delimited target lists.

ObjectiveTime would never trigger complete.

Exception when using “Show Facing” before a prefab was loaded

Entity collision Rigidbody reducing fast movement of character controller (fixes )

Torches burn and warm you when underwater

Stepping off the top of a ladder or stepping down a 1m block does not generate a heavy fall/impact sound

Teleport using the map was moving you to the spawn position while editing or playtesting a prefab

Vending Machine auto buy time being 50% longer than a day and incorrectly scaling by DayNightLength

AI Manager errors on clients

AI SetAsTargetIfHurt ignore percent was too low

Deco pole round quarter was missing a polygon

Wood crown moulding now uses local uvs

Entity animateYaw applying time scale to delta time

Fix misalignment issue with TrackSet reader

Some bridge imposters not unloading as fast as other blocks on the bridge_wood1

Fix truncating issue with reader sample data

Optimized forge texture ram, deleted old spec and unneeded metallic texture

Hatches don’t always open on the first try

Allocations in AstarPath.Update (added a large LevelGridNode pool)

Trees relocate to surfacelevel for clients when grown in inactive chunk

Animal death anims not ragdolling when over

Deer not using death anim

Animal dismemberment (was never called, fixed finding bones, added bone alignment and scaling, made lower limbs remove upper too, fixed black streaks from scale of 0)

Upper leg gore prefab not having any mesh objects

Dismemberment was not allowed on dead entity legs

ERR Unknown particle effect: impact_bullet_on_resourceWood when shooting air supply crate

Lowered stamina cost for jumping is not mentioned in parkour description

Billboard shape preview rotation does not match placed block rotation

Spawn probability of radiated zombies is not scaling

Dynamite will not explode in player’s hand

Placeable blocks can disappear when placed where there is no preview

AI nightmare speed was barely faster than sprinting

Burning Barrel sound persists in pause menu

Ranged attacks defaulting to bashing damage, which caused huge ragdolls

Profiles.sdf player height exploit

Laser sight does not work until weapon is reactivated on toolbelt slot

Some outdoor decor model textures didn’t stream

NRE spam when radiated vulture lost its leg and survived

Known Issues