Alpha 16 Experimental (B105)

Distant Location Rendering System

We’ve added a new distant location rendering system which renders low-polygon versions of locations in Navezgane and Random Gen worlds over a kilometer away. The system creates models of locations above a certain mass and height.

New Locations

We’ve have embellished many old locations with new loot and some custom painting. Too many to mention. We’ve also unlocked a new city in the south east Navezgane desert we call Departure. It’s the largest city so far. We have added over 30 new locations to the game including:

4 new skyscrapers have been added to the game. We’re calling these mega locations vertical dungeons because they play like a traditional game with a lot of thought put into the path, enemy spawning, surprises, even secrets.

3 fast-food restaurants (1 in Navezgane, all 3 in RG)

6 new modern houses (3 in Navezgane all in RG)

Daycare (Both)

Private School (RG only)

Laundromat (Navezgane and RG)

Hair Salon (Navezgane and RG)

2 fire stations (1 Navezgane, both RG)

2 Post Offices (1 Navezgane, both RG)

2 Court Houses (1 Navezgane, both RG)

2 Old business strips (Navezgane and RG)

4 new trailer lots (RG only)

Pawn Shop (Navezgane and RG)

Navezgane Hospital and Football Stadium (added to RG)

New Enemy Spawning and Gamestages

Sleeper Spawning – We’ve gutted the old static spawn system and added a new sleeper spawning system that embeds trigger volumes into locations which are set up by designers.

We’ve added sleeper volumes and spawn points to every location in the game.

Every location has unique spawning appropriate to the location or the area within a location. F.E. a maintenance area will spawn utility worker zombies and an office might spawn businessmen zombies

The amount of zombies spawned at a volume is determined by the spawn definition set by the designer and the definition set in the gamestages.xml regardless of the number of spawn points.

The type of zombies that spawn are determined by the spawn definition it’s set to and the parties game stage. The game will challenge you regardless of your level.

Zombies will spawn in different locations within a pois every play through for a new experience every time.

Zombies at locations are persistent meaning if you entered an area killed 1 of 5 guys and returned you would find the same 4 games alive.

Zombies will respawn in their volume if the volume has never been cleared or nobody has visited it in 5 days

Sleeper zombies have a chance to be a decoy meaning they are already dead. We added this so we could remove the old corpse loot block. Note: you have to damage them first before you can loot them.

Decoy zombies have a chance to not be dead so you can be surprised sometimes

Screamer Hordes

We’ve changed screamer hordes to use gamestages now so they will be dynamically set to the offending parties game stage

Game Stage Improvements

We’ve made many changes to make the challenge the advanced players including:

We’ve added feral and radiated zombies to the upper game stages to increase the longer game challenges

7 day horde stages use a larger pool of zombie types, 15 at gamestage 435+

Zombies killed by playerdeath will be added back to the pool

We’ve added a new menu and server config game option to set the number of zombies per player on Blood moon hordes. It defaults to 8 but can be set to 4, 8, 12, 16, 32 and 64 or any number for server admins. Game-stages are still determined by your party.

With the addition of blood-moon count we changed the Enemy Spawning game option to ON/Off as blood moon count and sleepers control the other spawning system counts

Electricity

We’ve added a complete functional electricity system with a wiring tool, power sources, lights, switches, triggers, traps and more. These items are gated by perks, loot found and trader only items you can buy. They include:

Wire Tool – Use a wire tool to wire electrical components. Focus on any electrical component and use the secondary action to add a wire to a parent and once again to complete the connection to a child component. Focus on any electrical component and use the primary action to remove or cut that components wire to its parent component. With the wire tool equipped you can see many useful things including: a components power usage and power status, the flow of power from parent to its child component and the aiming of objects with motion sensing.

Generator Bank – The Generator Bank allows you to power your electrical components. It requires at least one small engine, expandable up to six. The maximum energy output is determined by the number of small engines installed and their quality. The generator bank uses gas for fuel which can be found in loot and purchased at traders or crafted at chemical stations and campfires.

Solar Bank – The Solar Bank allows you to power your electrical components. It requires at least one solar cell, expandable up to six. The maximum energy output is determined by the number of solar cells installed and their quality. Solar banks produce power during the day when in direct sunlight. Solar Banks and cells can be purchased from traders or found in rare loot.

Battery Bank – The Battery Bank allows you to power your electrical components. It requires at least one battery, expandable up to six. The maximum energy output is determined by the number of batteries installed and their quality. An externally powered and turned on Battery Bank will recharge its batteries. If there are no batteries installed it acts as a relay pushing power down line.

Electric Wire Relay – The Electric wire relay allows extending your electrical network further with a small cost to power.

Switch – The Switch allows pausing the flow of power to children components.

Pressure Plate – The Pressure Plate triggers the flow of power to children components when stepped on.

Motion Sensor – The Motion Sensor triggers the flow of power to children components when a player or zed is in its view.

Trip Wire Post – The Trip Wire Post triggers the flow of power to children components when a player or zed moves between two connected posts.

Electric Timer Relay – The Electric Timer Relays allows the flow of power to children components during a specified time period in 30 minute increments.

Blade Trap – The Blade trap has three spinning blades that chops players and zeds alike. It does not discriminate.

Electric Fence Post – The Electric Fence Post shocks players and zeds who move between two connected posts.

Dart Trap – The Dart trap launches metal darts when powered.

Auto Turret – The Auto Turret senses targets in its view and fires 9mm rounds at them.

Shotgun Turret – The Shotgun Turret senses targets in its view and fires shotgun shells at them.

Speaker – The speaker plays an alarm sound when powered.

Lights – There are many lights that the player can now craft to illuminate their forts.

Spotlight – The player crafted Spotlight has changed to require power but can now be aimed be where light is needed.

Random Gen Beta Version

We’ve greatly improved Random Gen with many improvements and additions including:

POIs

New RG Distant POIs

Over 30 new locations

We’ve re-organized the rwgmixer.xml and it’s spawning groups and now have every POI spawning as intended

POI location size restrictions have been removed so every location will now be included in possible locations lists. F.e. the football stadium can spawn

POI Picker code improved, ensuring a more even distribution of POIs

POI location facing directions have been fixed so their fronts face roads

POI height is checked against it’s spawn height to ensure it’s not placed too high in the world

Hub Generation

New socket hubs added

City, town, and rural Hubs are now Socket Hubs and spawn based on terrain available

Socket hubs can not only be on hills now but they now have organic overall shapes and look. No more square cities.

Socket hub township type is decided by placed residential buildings using a scoring system

New socket streets to go with socket hubs

New socket street generation formula controllable via rwgmixer.xml

New zoning system to place POIs in certain parts of a town

Downtown zone area percentage parameter added to rules

Terrain Generation

Terrain generation improvements

Terrain generation now adjusts the heights to stay within the bounds without clamping

Biome Generation

Biome dispersion and elevations are improved and more natural.

Biome decoration generator now checks height of prefabs and blocks to ensure it’s not placed too high in the world

Highways

Highways are sexier and have smoother curves

Highways now all have gravel shoulders

Gravel Paths

Gravel paths now use more improved pathfinding

Gravel paths no longer eat out a chunk of the highways they connect to

World previewer

World preview window is now wider

World preview now has fly mode using movement keys when holding right mouse button down

World preview window fly mode speed can be controlled with the mouse wheel

World preview terrain height better reflects actual height

World preview shows random town name using town name generator

Other World Generation and Biome Changes

Biomes have undergone some changes, too.

The gravel spots in bio* mes are more reliable and will drop 1 unit of the ore they are leading you to.

Stone in the top soil of plains biomes has been replaced by gravel

Individual particle spawners (tree stumps) have been replaced by a biome particle manager so there is no random (and possibly extremely high) concentration of particle generators

Spawning of animals in all biomes has been reworked.

Darkened snow biome sun light a little to reduce whiteout.

You can find small patches of fertilised soil in burnt forest biomes.

You can harvest coal from ember piles and burnt trees.

Surface potassium nitrate in the snow biome is now replaced with oil shale and coal.

Nitrate, oil shale and coal can be found on the surface in the burnt forest.

Added dead trees to the plains.

New Enemies

We’ve added some new zombies and some boss variants to improve game stage challenge. Here they are:

Business man zombie – Often found in corporate locations like the new skyscrapers, these zombies are all about the business of eating you alive. They typically carry cash and paper.

Disturbed Tourist – Everyone loved the old fat Hawaiian shirt tourist zombie so he’s back in HD! Prior to his permanent vacation to the afterlife he was hoarding canned food. Perhaps that is why he was caught and turned into a flesh eater.

New feral zombies – Every zombie in the game now comes with its feral counterpart. Feral zombies always run and have glow in the dark yellow eyes, are much harder to kill and do more damage.

Radiated zombies – There are radiated variants of the fat cops, the spider zombies and the zombie wight ‘the artist formerly known as the feral.’ They have the physical attributes of feral zombies and always run, but also regenerate lost health! They glow with radiation making them unmistakable!

Reworked Enemies

In Alpha 15 we experimented with UMA procedural zombies but they ended up not looking as good as traditionally modeled zombies, and they did not perform as well either so we decided to replace the new UMA zombies with traditionally designed ones. We’ve also redone collision and ragdoll on all enemies for better combat and more believable deaths. The following have been remodeled and redesigned by hand from scratch resulting in scarier hordes and better performance.

Fallen Soldiers

Hazmat male zombie

Biker zombie

Stripper zombie

Utility worker zombie

Team Z Player Football zombie

Motivated Cheerleader zombie

Zombie Cowboy

Zombie Farmer

Zombie Skater punk

Hungry Fat Female zombie

Removed zombies – The miner zombie and the female hazmat zombie have been removed as they didn’t offer enough variance to earn a permanent job at team Z.

Animals

Along with adding new animals and reworking some of the old ones we have added a new fur system. All furry animals now utilize our new fur system which renders a furry coat of realistic looking fur on top of the texture. Here are the new or improved additions:

Grizzly bear – The grizzly bear has been redone from scratch with new meshes, textures and animations. They don’t mess with you unless you get too close to them. They like to habitat in the green forests and snow biomes.

Zombie bears – The zombie bear has been remodeled from the ground up and is meaner than ever. Don’t feed the zombie bears, they only eat human flesh. They are only found in the wasteland and burnt forests.

Wolves – Grey Wolves are a brand new threat to 7 Days. Like the bear, they attack if you get too close to them, and do more damage than zombie dogs but they give up easier. Wolves are found in the green forests, snow biomes and plains.

Dire Wolves – Black with glowing eyes, this wolf is much larger than the grey wolf and is to be feared as they are much more aggressive than any predator. They rarely spawn in the forests and snow biomes, but can roam in packs.

Zombie Vultures – The undead have taken to the skies! These nearly relentless pesky birds stalk the player from the skies and attack without warning. Luckily they don’t like to be indoors so players can find refuge indoors from them. They are common in all biomes except the green forests.

Rattlesnakes – Rattlesnakes are fairly defensive reptiles but will strike and defend their territory if you get too close to them.

Added: Wandering vulture hordes, wolves, and wolf packs

We’ve also redone collision and ragdoll on all animals for better combat and more believable deaths.

Painting

Use a paint brush and paint to give your base a custom look. Focus on any paintable block and use the secondary action to paint a surface and the primary action to erase the paint from a surface. Hold the reload key to see additional painting features and change the desired paint color. Unlock additional paint groups by finding and reading painting books. Many new textures have been added to use for painting.

There are many Radial paint options some of which are only available in cheat or creative mode. Radial Options include:

Materials – When this icon is selected the paint selection menu is displayed. Here you can select the paint you want, search for paints, see how much paint per face they cost and see what paints you have unlocked.

Paintbrush – When this icon is selected the primary action erases a painted block face and secondary action paints a block face.

Roller Icon – Paint or erase a larger area of faces.

Spray-gun – Paint or erase the massive area of faces.

All-sides – Paints all sides of a block face.

Texture Picker – When this icon is selected the paintbrush will be set to the paint that the cursor is focused on if it is unlocked.

Copy Block – Select this icon while focusing on the desired block to copy a stack of painted blocks to your belt.

Replace – Select this icon and the next face you paint in a location will be globally replaced within that location.

Experience, Progression and Skill Changes

Many improvements and changes have gone into the skill system for Alpha 16, including:

You can scroll through all levels of a skill or perk and find out what you will get from it.

You will get less experience for killing zombies but there are a lot more zombies in the world now. In some cases over 100 in a single POI.

You will gain XP from harvesting and farming and better tools or perks can increase that.

Crafting skills are now perks with 10 buy-able levels.

Higher levels of crafting perks require a certain player level.

Armor crafting skills merged into one skill. If it takes duct tape, leather or iron, it’s Armor Crafting. A simple bandana is Misc Crafting.

Low crafting skill tiers yield great benefits for repair degradation. Picking up some of the basics enables you to repair items efficiently. At max crafting skill you have trivial repair degradation.

Electricity recipes are unlocked with a series of Science-based perks.

Both the cost and effect of perks increase at higher tiers so that buying a perk tier gets you an increase proportional to the cost.

The Fixer perk is cheaper and reduces repair degradation by up to 1/3 for all crafting skills.

Crafting firearm ammo requires an anvil and workstation, not calipers. Bullet tips and similar materials do not require a perk.

The tutorial quest gives you enough skill points to actually buy a perk.

The bedroll newbie quest is #1 instead of #7 in the quest chain.

Bad Mechanic perk to increase construction (wrench) harvest amount

Ability to page through skill levels to see attributes and requirements for any skill level

Science and Painting skill categories

Upgrading farmland with fertilizer provides XP.

Repairing or upgrading a block now gives XP based on materials used multiplied by their count

Harvesting a block now gives xp based on item materials gained

Planting crops gives block material exp

Crafting skills are now buy-only. You still gain level XP for crafting and repairing

Master weaponsmiths can craft machetes

Most perk requirements lowered because players should never have skill points and nothing to buy with them

You can craft/scrap/repair with leather without buying a Leather Tanning perk

Crafting advanced workstations uses the science skill

The Knife Guy and Miner69er perks increase harvest amount at the higher tiers

Adjusted perk costs to reflect crafting and other skill changes

Both the cost and effect of perks increase at higher tiers so that buying a perk tier always gets you roughly the same proportional increase

The Fixer perk is cheaper and reduces repair degradation by up to 1/3 for all crafting skills

Low crafting skill tiers yield great benefits for repair degradation. Picking up some of the basics enables you to repair items efficiently. At max crafting skill you have zero repair degradation

The Secret Stash perk is the only way to see the highest trader stash level.

Full Gamepad/Controller Support

We’ve added full gamepad/controller support and tested for Xbox One, PS4 and Steam controllers. The controls are not definable but are the same as the console version defaults. They even have custom button icon prompts that display when using a controller. Note that on-screen keyboard for text fields will only be available when the game is started from Steam’s Big Picture Mode.

This also includes updated windows as well as keyboard hotkeys for actions on items.

New Recipes

There are new recipes for building blocks, traps, electric devices and resources.

Bulletproof glass is tough but can only be “repaired” with a completely new block

Several material tiers got expanded to new shapes.

Loose Boards Traps

Jail door

Wedge corners

Stairs corner

Rounded blocks and corners

Molotov cocktail

New Items (Lootable/Harvestable/For Sale)

We have added new items you can get by looting, harvesting or purchase from traders.

Paint magazines to unlock paint groups for the paint brush.

Said paint brush.

Compound bow, which is more accurate than a wooden bow or crossbow and fires faster than a crossbow.

New Creative Block Shapes

We have added new block shapes for the creative builders to use and improved the placement mechanics. Here are a few of the many highlights.

Frame blocks show proper backfaces which makes them easier to place correctly

Damaged concrete and wood blocks

Both centered and non-centered iron bars.

Cars automatically pick random colors based on their x/y position

I-beam blocks

Arch shape

Cube cutout backfaces shape

wedge60_corner

3D ladders

3D ramp frame shape

Cube eighth shape

billboard_centered shape

Box collision to ramp frame

Curved wall 3x3x1

Concrete destroyed 05,06,07

wedge60 inside corner set

Block Rotation and UV Improvements

In order to add painting and fix a lot of bad UVS we’ve unified block and model rotations.

Every building block can now be rotated to all 24 rotations some special model ones still have 28 for 45 degree ground rotations

Blocks can have a “handle face” orientation, defaulting to sticking a certain side of this block to whatever surface you are pointing at.

All place-able blocks now have radial options to improve placement including:

Simple Rotation – rotates the basic 4 on the ground plane

Advanced Rotation – rotates all 24-28 rotations

On Face – Rotates on the face your cursor is focused on

Auto – rotates away from you automatically. This tag is only on some blocks like ramps and stairs

Copy Rotation – Copies the rotation your focused on to the stack your holding.

Land Claim Improvements

We’ve increased the default size of land claims to 41 to work with electricity and coming Alpha 17 settlement features.

Our general block placement colors have been changed to following: Green inside your claim, Yellow inside your friends claim, White everywhere else, Red cannot place block.

Made block placement glow grid double sided so you can see it from underneath too

You can pickup and move electrical components and work stations inside your claim.

Electrical Items outside of your claim can be cut and wired by strangers

New Stealth System

Stealth 2.0 is more flexible and allows for more varied zombie behaviors.

Things that affect how a player is detected:

Player Light Level (world lighting and equipped items)

Player Stance (Standing or Crouched)

Player Motion

Noise

Smell (carrying fresh meat is not ideal for sneaking around zombies)

Distance

Zombies have varying stats both for the zombie type and individuals.

Some see better than others, some hear better than others, some smell be… actually they all smell bad but you get the idea.

A sleeping zombie may or may not growl a bit when it’s close to waking up.

Which way a sleeping zombie is looking does matter.

If you clear an area completely it will take several days to respawn. If you don’t and leave it will respawn quickly.

Placed (active) bedrolls prevent sleeper respawns in a… range

…now defined in serverconfig.xml (BedrollDeadZoneSize)

To zombies, held torches are the least noticeable light source. Then come gun lights, flashlights, and the mining helmet is the most noticeable.

New Weapons and Weapon Improvements

Molotov cocktail craftable by player. Be the life of the party and light zombies and players on fire. Player recipe included.

Compound bow with parts and loot list entries. Required to use steel and flaming arrows. Loot only.

Weapon Sight In & Out. Pistol, Mp5 and Ak47 have reworked iron sights for more accurate aiming, and have new fire sounds. All weapons have an aim in and aim out sound now too.

Added local impact sounds for distant shots scored. This allows you to know when you scored a distant hit.

Improved bow, crossbow aim and iron sighting no longer shows crosshair. Compound bow has range sights.

All weapons have hip fire accuracy now. Hip fire is less accurate than iron sights.

Accuracy overhaul for all ranged weapons.

Minibike Improvements

Minibikes now show an icon on the map and compass for the person who placed the chassis or attached the lock to it to avoid losing them in the wild.

How minibike parts are processed, decreasing processing time from 2ms to 0.5ms

Fix for minibike vanishing and falling through the world

Client will receive minibike NRE when someone in the game rides a bike

NRef in GUIHUDStealthInfo.cs when quitting while sitting on a minibike

Minibike NRE when leaving and reentering game from main menu

Minibike chassis placement dupe

Added

Broken girder beams in the wasteland are now a block shape instead of a model

New rusty texture for girder beams and rusty metal

New block rustyMetalWall

4 new beards to character selection menu

Iron bars and iron bars centered

Flannel shirt item, also used by arechtype MadMole

Flannel shirt variations and loot entries

Stairs filled corner shape

Add buffs to explosions

New quarter cube shape

Generic craftable storage crate

Support for binding CapsLock

Keyboard hotkeys for item actions

Keypad divide (‘/’) toggles invisible mode (SP only!)

Step trash sound variety

DOF for focussed views, like staring at a rock while you chop it

Concrete terrain block

Show password checkbox to password dialog, password hidden by default

A full spectrum of paintable drywall/concrete textures

Loose floorboards that break away when you walk over them

Ramp corner cutout shape

Grey and dark grey paints

Hit sound when hurting players, zombies or animals about 10 meters or further away

cube_glass shape that hides inside faces

Plywood texture for new construction and boarded up windows

improved fog performance

Washing machine and trash compactor loot containers

Added a bookstore and car parts shipping / loot crate

Added a Construction Site loot and random container

Security gate plate

Business glass plate and curved plate for counters and such

Commercial blinds shape and textures

New archetype Richie, a well groomed businessman

Several new random car colors: dark green, dark blue, beige and black

New character preset Roxy

Focus search fields in windows with “F”

Lockable, craftable wall drawer

New Destroyed bridges over forked river east of and leading to the new departure city

Broken workstation blocks (for prefabs) that can be looted or harvested for parts.

Hidden Stash (hero) shipping crate + loot container for prefabs

Lab equipment shipping crate + loot container for prefabs

new round ladder model for metal ladders.

burnt biome reference to the farming journal entry.

Workstation journal entries: added info on items having to be in your inventory

Broken workstation blocks (for prefabs) that can be looted or harvested for parts.

Helper blocks to randomly spawn a working or busted workstation.

Hidden Stash (hero) shipping crate + loot container for prefabs.

Lab equipment shipping crate + loot container for prefabs.

New round ladder model for metal ladders.

Added Broken Battery Bank, Broken Generator Bank.

Added recipe for Loose Boards Plate 1×1

Random stations spawners to some locations in the world which spawn a random station in working or destroyed condition.

Bookstore boxes to bookstores, lab boxes to pharmacies and auto parts boxes to auto locations.

Heat to wall torches

Business Glass Pane (Trap) + Business Glass Centered.

Changed

You can harvest plant fibers from grassy terrain blocks

Plant fibers can be harvested more efficiently with a hoe

Reduced crafting time on cottonPlant

Rebalanced harvest events of cars

Zombie limb dismemberment rebalanced

When digging up fertilized farmland there is a chance to harvest fertilizer

Making glue does not require cooked water

Multiple seeds can be planted by holding down the mouse button and moving down the row and the placement cursor is always on, making targeting easier

Increased hit points of vending machines

When a loot container is destroyed a bag with the content is dropped instead of individual items

Overbright mining helmet light set back to 1x intensity instead of 2x

Grate block removed

Moldy Bread is a science crafting item

Fat zombie cops are bigger

Zombie soldiers are less generous with the rocket launchers

Shotguns only have one schematic

Increased the amount of ammo that traders carry

Low quality weapon parts are more durable and effective

Maple Forest biome grass, added specular channel to grass. Adjusted spectrums, added sparse pine trees.

Grass normals now have a 10% direction to them in order to catch better specular lighting

Renamed assembly tip title from Gun Assembly to Item Assembly

Mass/SI values adjusted to be more consistent and easier to understand

Available gamestages increased by 50% to make the life of high level players more interesting

Corn plants are 3 blocks high at every growth stage. Every other farm crop (including mushrooms) is 2 blocks high

Updated glass to better high res texture

Replaced shower glass with new tiling gen glass

Sun angle is now SE to NW

Updated decayed b texture, redwood fence texture and scrap iron walls to HD versions

Auger and chainsaw parts are less rare

Increased chance to find forged iron and steel in loot

Reduced block damage of explosive bolts to be in line with pipe bombs

Poncho and bellows are made from leather

Poncho renamed to Leather Poncho because the animal hide armor is the “warm and furry” armor

There are 5 scrap armor schematics instead of one McDyver book

Quality level loss from repairs has been lowered

Slightly lower slowdown from barbed wire fences

Increased the availability of padlocks

Preview placement block is fully opaque

Burnt Frame used on roofs can be upgraded

Street light metal is less shiny and more rusty

Reduce light intensity on mining helmet and minibike to match flashlight

Some tool damage and block health values rebalanced

Most block destroy events moved to harvest events

Block/Entity Harvesting overkill now provides bonus resources

The tutorial quest gives you enough skill points to buy the cheapest perk

Stone in the top soil of plains biomes has been replaced by gravel

The gravel tendrils that lead down to ore veins spawn more consistently and they always drop 1 piece of the ore you would find below

Better tools (steel instead of iron tools) will harvest considerably more resources from the same block

Increased stack size of mass resources like rocks

You can place the claim block farther away so you can see the size of the affected area

Evenly distribute load for block ticking over multiple frames

Calipers are not required for crafting ammo. Bullet tips and similar materials do not require a perk

Improved sniper zoom animation

Expanded scout / sleeper group with the new radiated / feral zombies

Rebalanced and extended gamestage lists to allow higher difficulty for groups of players

Made sandstorm effect more grainy

Made the biome snow “smoke” a bit more noisy

Removed old treestump blocks that create snow, smoke and sandstorms now that we have procedurally placed particle effects

First round check for flat space, if no town area is found, use the more liberal per cell height diff check

Widened highways to 10 to match socket roads

Mirror texture has no black wood trim, but is now seamless for full length mirrors

Town/City street axioms to allow for more growth

Adjusted placement range of cars

You can scrap a blood draw kit into plastic

The car is now simply labeled “Sedan”

Redid low res creme drywall and creme drywall baseboard textures

Use game GUID for local save cache folder so it properly “resets” when another server with the same game name is joined or the server is reset but keeps the game name

Darkened moonlight in wasteland biome

Rain sky and fog when raining

Stainless steel texture is bigger and better

Updated stainless fridge top and bottom textures

Water textures

Improve a couple destroy shapes

Thickened fog and trees in burnt forest

Darkened snow biome sun light a little to reduce whiteout

Increased chance for spawning of bears

Shipping / loot crates use a standard texture now, allowing for more varied loot distribution

Better framerate reflections that include distant terrain

Requirements now reflect currently viewed level

Level text on requirements to “Player Level”

Attributes in locked levels, grey out just like req

Only show unlocked recipes for currently shown skill level

Wood/metal desks support blocks again

Rebalanced sensitivity of land mines and explosives to damage and other explosives

Now using “sack dropped” for each dropped block as model

Misc Crafting group icon now changed to match the misc crafting skill icon

Reairing a block is cheaper than building it new

Crafting skills have 10 buyable levels

Removed old hornet assets

Max camera control pitch is -80 to 80 instead of -90 to 90

Both concrete and reinforced concrete need time to harden after being placed

Handguns and shotguns are pretty accurate when fired from the hip and are more accurate if you aim

Rifles are less accurate when fired from the hip and very accurate when aimed

Less loot is found on zombies

Finding whole guns is more common than finding parts. Traders carry more guns and ammo.

Cars now angle with terrain

Socket town roads now use trimming to blend with the surrounding terrain

Bow weapons have wider crosshairs

Bows now sway unless iron sighted

Loose gun parts that you find are generally higher quality than whole guns

Shotgun wound buff slightly tweaked upwards

Increased fire rate of 9mm pistol and animation speed

Increased dead body hit points so corpses don’t turn to blocks before they hit the ground

Increased firearm durability by 25-40%

Mp5 and ak iron sighting is more snappy

Updated night vision effect

Feral zombies spawn at night in the wasteland Note that they can survive the night and be active during the day

Main building blocks, doors, and hatches use passthrough damage on downgrades

It is now not possible any more to place a plant seed if there is not enough light for this plant to grow

Corpse blocks now destroy to a torso instead of a backpack.

Dead zombie ragdolls last longer and have more hit points to destroy. When destroyed they downgrade to a block zombie corpse. The block zombie corpse will degrade to nothing over time instead of a rib cage. If the block zombie corpse has loot in it and is destroyed, it will spawn a rib cage model that contains the loot instead of a backpack.

Desaturated the plains sun a little, darkened the ground texture and grass.

Splint requires now requires cloth, wood and duct tape to craft

Shadow flickers at far locations – Adjusted shadow cascade distances, near clip plane, and fixed near/far shadow option values to reduce shadow flickering when you’re far from position (0,0).

Increased zombie dog health, they are too easy to kill now that the glitchy spinning is fixed and nerfed wolf health

Updated forest biome art

Updated sand texture

Farming: Partially grown crops can be harvested for 1 seed.

Suppress the impact sound on blocks if the hit also destroys the block

Torches are made with animal fat (no cooking pot required)

Torches and candles placed on walls will eventually attract zombies

Heat value (attracting screamer zombies) of forges and campfires reduced by 25%

Thinned amount of tree stumps in the snow biome

Adjusted Trader secret stash inventories

All ammo items have been labeled (Ammo) so they can be searched for

Moved drop toolbelt item to G, godmode to Q

all campsites and army locations to use camo and other paints for variety. Two large campsites are now army campsites

You can no longer invest skill points in the Misc Crafting skill

Overalls are now made from cloth

Slowed player leveling.

Some wood harvest amounts reduced and fuel value increased

Increased hit points of valuable workstations so they are not destroyed accidentally.

Cooking stews is more expensive but more rewarding.

Healing from eating food has been reduced in general.

You start with a claim stone in single player because it now enables the pick-up ability for certain blocks.

Updated the abandoned houses to use a variety of siding and roofing textures

Increased the cost of claim stones

All trader locations now have a working version of every station workbench, forge, chemistry station and cement mixer. All non trader locations stations have been replaced with a random station spawner where they have a small chance to be a good station and a greater chance to be a broken station which can be looted and harvested for parts.

Workstations can no longer be fully harvested with a wrench. Inside of a land claim area you can pick up workstations placed by a player.

Gave banks the new bullet proof glass.

Slower bloodmoon fade 6:00PM-10:00PM

Cooking stews is more expensive but more rewarding.

Healing from eating food has been reduced in general.

You start with a claim stone in single player because it now enables the pick-up ability for certain blocks.

Increased hit points of valuable workstations so they are not destroyed accidentally.

Slowed player leveling per level.

Fixed

Running shoes can be scrapped

Chrysanthemum seeds can not be found in loot

The pistol skill does not make clear that it also covers revolvers

Vending machines are limited to a x8 claim modifier

Removed stray vertex from shantywall collision

Underground caves cause blocks above them to collapse

Rain effects fixed on signs placed indoors

IOException when deleting a saved game

Cars misaligned on slopes

Open locked doors need abiltiy to be closed by all

Duplicate any item in zombie corpse

Screen flickering during daytime lightning

Vending machines covered in snow indoors

Block placement too opaque

Not ignited Dynamite does not blow up after nearby explosion

Window03 getting occluded by water

Glass windows in hospital outlining terrain behind them

Distance between players is not updated when user is in Players tab

Player can drop items into walls and be unable to retrieve them

Now playing interactive sounds at the position of the target block

Car windows not getting snow cover

The player is able to pick up items not focused in POI

Character has to be in water in order to drink from it

Crouching affects open/close volume levels

No “Collect item” prompt is displayed on dropped Stone Shovel

Increasing server heap by shooting rockets at ground of lake

Dupe items using full backpack and lootcontainer

Player is able to upgrade and destroy blocks simultaneously

Concrete mixers are 1 block high but require 2

Excessive journal tip links removed from items, missing ones added

Campfire Dupe from forum and youtube find

Audio getting cut off before finished

An MP5 would not normally use 10mm ammo

Concrete Mix bucket model looks the same as Bucket of Water after dropping

Consumable items can be substituted with another while being used

Container Sorting – Not functional in Minibike Storage

Container Sorting – Stacks of same blocks are not sorted together in Container or Backpack

Client in a multiplayer game does not receive Harvesting Resources note after killing an animal

Pistol cannot be picked up after being dropped

Auger falling through world

Iron Desk Stability is different than Wood Desk

Scrap metal log spike yields wood upon destruction

Dupe assembly items with sorting button

Crafting queue does not advance after slot is cancelled

Incorrect collision detection on Minibike

Ammo amount indicator does not appear after respawning while wielding a weapon

Death of the player’s character does not affect the number of spawned zombies during horde as intended

Missing Accuracy and Range stats for certain ranged weapons

Crosshair is visible for Rocket Launcher whilst aiming down sight

Rocket Launcher unaffected by Range and Accuracy stats listed

Placed decorative blocks may partially sink in the surface

Spending Skill Points Journal Entry added only after completing Basic Survival Quest

Zombiespawn is triggered in owned POI by players w/o bedroll in it

Mouse sensitivity can no longer be set to 0

The player may get stuck in the wall after dismounting minibike

DOF for distant terrain

More severe description of the thirst/hunger effect that actually does damage

Chunks may not stream for certain players, also affecting mobs

Terrain artifacts may appear after removing large portions of ground

Zombie moan playing when they’re knocked out or dead

Impact sounds not playing quieter when crouched

Disappearing eyelashes while wearing particular headgear

Jewelry disappearing when wearing a hat

Missing drowning audio

Animal Hide Leg Armor is not displayed on character model

Terrain mismatch causes blocks not to render ( A15 & A16 )

Explosion does not affect the roof correctly

Using a bow results in multiple arrows being visible from another Player’s perspective

Some errors and potential NREs in networking if disconnected during login phase

Doors and undamaged windows do not keep the rain out

Many objects not getting snow cover

Grass tips missing snow

Lightning & Thunder on Dedicated Servers

Thunder synced between clients in MP games

Player dropped Backpack cannot be looted in shallow water

SetTraderArea can now also be used to remove a trader area protection

DeathCam persists after getting kicked off MP games

Water reflections flickering when camera near water surface

Assigned the relevant crafting skills to weapon parts

Wrong sound on one of the blood bag actions

Terrain has missing textures and black areas

Signs cannot be picked up once dropped

Terrain clipping exploit

Cement description is misleading

Duping bug using facial piercings

Bypassing loot timer by aborting loot progress

treeDeadShrub has wrong hitbox

You can place a bedroll in spaces too small to spawn a player

Socket Road LSystems not properly returning to last save point

Haybale is not repairable

Gas can and fuel barrel are smeltable in forges

Bow descriptions show compatible arrow types

Bugs with trees and crops

Animals won’t die from land mines while playing on dedi or as client on P2P

Ramp / inside corner frames do not have backfaces

Chemistry station not getting correct indoor/outdoor weather values

Fridge audio playing after quitting game

Snow on glass fix

Sun/Moon pop in movement on clients of MP games

Raw but fresh food has a lower chance for food poisoning than rotten/moldy food

Flaming arrows are ineffective if the target is on fire already

Items can be thrown through hatch’s collision box

Metal railing downgrades to wood railing

Shooting through lower part of the frame may cause projectile to go under the ground texture

The player can loop use animation of specific consumables and delay correct use of them

For each out of sync in network writing of Chunk

Old Sofas has incorrect icon and different name in creative menu

No icon when you pick up seeds while harvesting trees

Added send-backoff on errors for Steam networking

Change Hazmat Shirt into a Hazmat Jacket to prevent clipping issues

Wrong side textures on windowPlug blocks

Assigned correct (new) cutout shapes to frame blocks

Disappearing faces on wedge60 cutout

Table doesn’t hide itself

Some windows or wooden window frames have the wrong material type

stairs_filled_quarter_vertical_uv collision and zombie pathing

Timing on zombie hand attacks

Chalkboard is spelled incorrectly

Player unable to pass through wedge corner railings

Terrain concrete is too white

Road lineup issues in towns

Prefab heights in towns

Various other regeneration related issues

Blend not working

Highways not lining up in some cases

Limited bumpiness and cliffs on upward and downward turns

Collision on resource rock ID# 630

Wood frames durability is unequal

Unintentional air gap in flooded basement

Highways no longer connecting to other highways

Highways going to center of hub by default

Water holes in RWG due to road ending

Incorrect/missing fall events on some doors and log spikes

(Most) Navezgane Bridges are having SI issues

Sandbags are missing repair/harvest properties

Secure Reinforced Door collapsing into iron debris

Secure Reinforced Door and Metal Reinforced door do not turn into debris

Reinforced Wood Metal Log Spike3 does not leave debris after collapsing

Food Poisoning debuff is not refreshed when reapplied

Using delete key in input fields on Linux causes malformed strings

Cleaned up old corpses. We now have decoys

Removed duplicate sight from shotgun mesh

Wrong sound when using a blood bag

Outdated hit point values on some blocks/materials

Improve map colors

Water bottle icon showing incorrectly in character tool belt after filling

Fridges had doors on both sides

Keep populating server list after sorting

No floating “crafted” HUD icon with CustomIcon

When leaving game with attachable wire in hand – on rejoin the wire runs to 0,0,0

Farming feature suffers from a number of issues

Player is able to place cooking tools when UI shows padlock

Death animation disabled when alt tabbing during death

Breaking down a car on the sloped road will create a hole in the world

Some clothes and armors are lacking Waterproof statistic

Skill requirements of perks do not display localised string

Info window level starting at 0

All explosive ammo and mines use the Science crafting skill

Concrete and steel blocks have reversed explosion resistance

Zombie gore causes a blockage on catwalk, prevents zombies from advancing

Snowberry poisoning is causing wellness number to be too lengthy

Skill menu search function does not cover localized strings

Stack overflow exception when starting a new seed

Hunting Rifle has small zoom available

Bear had no collision or ragdoll

3rd person clipping into main player camera when opening camera control window

Fix nightvision/miningLight double activate issue when holding a gun with no flashlight enabled

The UI shows incorrect weapon damage

Healing items can be used to identify decoy sleepers

Snowberry poison / blood draw kit buff lasts through player death

Audio – shotgun repeat rate fix

AK47 firing sounds

Many zombies material was set too dark

Exception in ItemValue Constructor

ArgumentOutOfRangeException on specific sign use

Cancelling bow and compound bow shots is now smooth and animates back to the idle position naturally instead of a lag and instant pop

Unisex Hair Raider rendering issues

Dev-flagged pickup frames and other “game mode” items like secure storage chests

Increased maxAlive scaling on gamestaged spawns. Both maxAlive and the max zombie / player menu setting act as max caps.

Distant terrain with holes in Navezgane

Raider hair overlay

Removed deprecated properties from sounds.xml

Zombie triggered car explosion doesn’t kill zombies

MP5 front sight is below the crosshair mark

Fix zombie run offset from dusk/dawn stinger

Issue where client skills wouldn’t clear out when joining a server

Fix glass icons transparency making them chopped up

Cannot shoot through certain Iron Bar (1126) rotations with guns – RWG

Session temp freezes when cancelling large recipe counts

INF Hub Cell does not exist at grid position 0, 1 for client

Incorrect values are shown in “Gun Smithing” skill

Large Welcome Sign Prefab seems to defy physics

Horde difficulty does not adjust correctly for a party with multiple players together

When new players join a dedi (day 77 ) the gamestage recalculates, gives only 1 zed each

Excessive harvest quantities

Block placement rotating when pausing the game.

Vehicle data saving on clients

Localization not working when game is not installed in Steam client

zombie transition from walk to idle and vise versa not smooth

Add zombies killed by playerdeath back to the pool

Marker not showing for clients when first placing minibike

Unmanned minibike triggers tripwire

Red paint showing on distant lod damaged cars

Secret Stash does not require Barter skill

Typo in cotton description, form should be from

un-needed railings in oil refinery

change color placement to red if the player blocks it

Decoration Replacing Light Pole Base in Nav a tp -1660 61 772

Fixed: Added burnt biome reference to the farming journal entry.

Fixed: Workstation journal entries: added info on items having to be in your inventory

Fixed: Audio clips not stopping upon leaving a game

Fixed: SDTD-6556 Audioloop possible on auto fire tools/weapons – when emptying a clip with no ammo

Game settings, command line, command console

Allow overriding the Steam language with the “-language=” command line argument

Launcher switch for exclusive fullscreen mode on Windows (“-window-mode exclusive”)

Allow EAC to be put in debug mode on servers with “-debugeac” flag

Console command “visitmap” to generate chunks and minimap contents

Console command “givequest” prints list of available quests if none given, also preventing an NRE when given an invalid quest name

Print IP of client to log on connect

ini support – location is in the same folder as Saves for your saved games. It will be auto-generated and filled once you exit the game, if it doesn’t exist. When hitting apply in the graphics options it should not overwrite your ini settings unless you specifically set those settings, or change Graphics Quality, in the graphics options menu. The default graphics options have been adjusted for better general performance.

Modding

Allow parameters to be passed to XUi controls as well as using them in simple calculations

Added “-debugxui” and “-debugxui=verbose” arguments to show XUi related warnings while loading, especially with control instantiation

Added a server side log entry “PlayerSpawnedInWorld” when a player actually spawned, as well as the according ModAPI event

Data/Config/Stealth.txt documents the stealth system and how to adjust it

Biome Particle Manager – Biomes.xml can now specify particle effects to play per biome with a few variables for count and placement. The BiomeParticleManager syncs all clients together and the particle effects are saved and loaded per game. Exact location of the effects is mostly “random”, but synced between clients, while still only playing the effects within its correct biome. More effects are spawned per biome a few seconds after players enter new biomes or every 5 minutes or so per client, but spawn count won’t go above the specified max in the biomes.xml file per effect, per biome, world-wide.

Reworked a bunch of the internal prefab editor features and UI to get closer to a prefab / world editor for public use

Servers / Config

“EnemySpawnMode” serverconfig setting is now true/false

“EnemySenseMemory” serverconfig setting has been removed

Added “BloodMoonEnemyCount” setting (Adjust this to get more enemies per player on blood-moons if your game stage is high enough. Game-stages are still determined by your party)

Added “BedrollDeadZoneSize” setting (This is a 3 dimensional unit in meters from bedrolls that blocks zombie spawning. Including zombies spawned from biomes, screamer hordes, blood moon hordes and even sleeper volumes that are within this distance.)

Allow overriding serverconfig settings via command line (“-settingname=value”)

Added “HideCommandExecutionLog” to disable printing of command execution to the server log

Limit of per player uncovered map area configurable with preference “MaxUncoveredMapChunksPerPlayer”, client side defaults to 4 times the area of before A16 (128 km² instead of 32 km²)

Support reserved slots (“ServerReservedSlots” and “ServerReservedSlotsPermission” settings) as well as admins joining the server even if already full (“ServerAdminSlots” and “ServerAdminSlotsPermission” settings)

Known Issues

Electric Fences do not have a unique buff yet this is coming in A17

On-screen keyboard is only available if you start the game from Steam’s Big Picture Mode

Smell is not working with the new stealth we will revisit it in a17

Once you are hunted, it takes along time for them to lose interest and your position.

Advanced rotations of doors and hatches are offset incorrectly.

Mac OS has a rendering overlay bug.

Mac OS distance building render too dark.

Linux OS distant water has missing texture.