Alpha 15 Official Release Notes!
Navezgane world updates
New Distant Terrain feature renders terrain over 1 kilometer away.
Almost 2 square kilometers of new explorable space has been unlocked
New highly embellished height map with huge mountains in every biome
New giant desert canyon
Over 23 new locations have been added to Game most in both Navezgane and Random Gen
5 new unique Trader Settlements
Grand Ostrich Hotel
2 new roadside hotels
Football stadium (Navezgane Only)
Auto Parts Store
New hidden bomb shelter
Oil refinery
Funeral Home
Prison
Red Mesa Government Installation
Indian Cliff Dwellings (Navezgane Only)
Canyon gift shop and scenic overlook (Navezgane Only)
Buzz’s Bar
Strip CLub
Rock and Roll Club
Skate Park
Canyon Gold Mine (Navezgane Only)
New Trailer Park
Random Gen Worlds 3.0
We’ve greatly improved random gen with many improvements and additions including:
New RG Distant Terrain
New road system that uses pathfinding for smoother transitions in height in all areas besides the hub entries.
Terrain generation is now in rwgmixer.xml: This allows for modification of the terrain
Biome generation is now also in rwgmixer.xml : This allows for modification of biomes
Hubcell data is generated and saved in the game’s save dir: This allows backward compatibility and prevents RWG from regenerating the hub each time it’s called when not cached.
Rwgmixer is saved to the game’s save dir: This ensures the same terrain generation and biome generation and prefab regardless of edits to the main file.
All new locations spawn except for the football stadium, canyon gift shop and canyon cliff dwellings.
We added a Random Gen Wolrd Previewer tool see the modding section below for more details.
Journal Tip System
A new journal tip system has been added to the main in game menu signified by a pen icon. The system writes all old tips and has over 20 new conditionally based in-game tips that pop out with a right screen notification. Players can at their leisure read these tips on advanced gameplay system teaching players everything from gun assembly when finding their first gun to harvesting with the best tool after killing their first animal.
Trader and Economy System
We have added NPC traders to the game at 5 unique White River settlements signified by a White River Flag and a Traitor Joel’s sign. These Settlements and NPCs appear in both Navezgane and Random Gen Worlds. NPCs include Trader Joel, Trader Rekt, Trader Bob, Trader Hugh and Trader Jimmy. The settlements are 100% land protected, players cannot build near them and players will be teleported out when the traders are closed so they cannot be exploited as a night time safe haven. Traders announce over loudspeakers when they are open, closed and about to close. When they close they lock their gate and turn off their open sign. When they open they unlock their gate and turn on their open sign. It is wise to close the gate behind you so you don’t let the zombies follow you into a settlement.
The in-game economy uses Duke coins and players can see how many they have in the upper right corner of their backpack. Traders will restock items periodically so check back often. They also have a secret stash category signified by a safe icon which offers special items based on your level and perks. Some items can only be bought or sold in bundles. Traders are open for business between dawn and dusk. Invest in the Barter skill and Secret the Stash perk to get better deals and see better items with traders.
We also added a new ‘White River Citizen’ quest to find Trader Outposts. The Quest is received when completing the ‘Basics of Survival’ quest chain.
Vending Machines
There are three types of vending machines: beverage vending machines found at stores, rentable trader protected vending machines found at Trader Settlements, and player owned vending machines which can only be acquired through a Trader’s Secret Stash. All vending Machines use Duke Coins which can be found in the world or acquired through selling items to Traders. You can see how much money you have in the upper right of your inventory.
NPCs can purchase from your rented vending machine so it’s wise to keep it well stocked and not mark up the items too high. If you buy your own vending machine it’s wise to put it in your land claim area as other players with effort can destroy them and steal your goods. Use these at your own risk as vending machine raiding ‘griefing’ will be possible. Note rented or player owned vending machines can be password shared if you want to let a friend use all of your vending machines functions.
Blood Moon Horde Party System
We have added a partying system that groups players together into parties of one or more players within a minimum distance. These parties will now each get their own blood moon horde.
Blood Moon Dynamic Difficulty
We have also added a Blood moon horde dynamic difficulty system. At runtime the game calculates the spawn game stage difficulty group for each party based on the criteria of number of players in the party, each player’s level in the party, each player’s current days survived ratio in the party and the hosts global difficulty setting. These things work together to output a game stage number or dynamic difficulty number for each party.
Higher game stage numbers have harder enemies F.E. Game stage 10 might only have base female and crawler zombies while game stage 20 might spawn those plus Dogs and Feral Zombies. Higher game stages will also have higher spawn limits meaning more total spawned not more alive at once to keep the games framerate consistent. New players can join the game just before the first Blood moon and only get a game stage 1 horde if they’re the only party member. The plan is to use the dynamic difficulty system for static spawned and screamer hordes in A16.
Improved Farming
We’ve improved the farming adding fertilizer and 5 new growable crops: Yucca, Mushrooms, Red Flowers, Aloe and Hops to make Beer. The soil can be improved and depending on it’s quality, grown crops will yield a greater harvest. Trees require regular dirt to grow to full size. Growing them in a desert or snow biome is less efficient.
Chemistry Station
We’ve added a new craftable Chemistry Station where both old and new advanced chemical and compound recipes can now be crafted. While some critical recipes can still be crafted with a beaker on a campfire, crafting them in a chemistry station is faster and requires fewer resources. Advanced recipes are limited to the chemistry station.
Station Searching
Recipe searches now show recipes that can only be made at any station signified by a special icon on the right of the recipe bar. This allows players to find and learn about recipes they cannot make at their current station or backpack.
New UMA Zombies
We’ve expanded on our general UMA system to use it to make custom zombies with unique loot, health and some with unique behaviors or abilities into the general spawning, special locations and blood moon spawning. The system is used for our NPCs like Traders too and will be used for Bandits in upcoming updates.
Fallen Soldier Zombie (Found at Army and Government Installations. Notable loot includes firearms and military gear)
Hazmat Male and Female Zombies (Found at Army and Government Installations. Notable loot includes hazmat gear and technical supplies)
Zombie Biker (Found at bars. Notable loot includes biker clothing, melee weapons and minibike parts)
Zombie Stripper (Found at bars. Notable loot includes cash and drugs)
Utility Worker Zombie (Found at Utility and Factory locations. Notable loot includes mining helmets, metal resources, calipers and more)
Team Z Player Football Zombie (Found at Football Stadiums. Notable loot includes football helmets, Mega Crush energy drink, drugs, treasure maps and challenge quests)
Motivated Cheerleader Zombie (Found at Football Stadiums. Notable loot includes treasure maps and challenge quests)
Miner Zombie (Found at Utility and Factory locations. Notable loot includes mining equipment and dynamite)
Zombie Cowboy (Found at Old West ghost town locations. Notable loot includes cowboy gear, gun parts and complete weapons)
Zombie Farmer (Found near Barns and crops. Notable loot includes tools crops and seeds)
Skater Punk Zombie (Found in general spawns. Notable loot includes hoody, mechanical parts and quest notes.)
Hungry Female Zombie (Found in general spawns. General zombie loot.)
Walker Male Zombie (Found in general spawns. General zombie loot.)
Risen Woman Zombie (Found in general spawns. General zombie loot.)
Experience, Progression and Skill Changes
The most notable difference is that you now gain level XP when killing zombies and animals. It will always be possible to reach level 200.
Weapon and armor skills will now increase faster.
Experience from action skills like mining is no longer capped when the skill reaches 100. It may not be much but you will always gain some XP while harvesting resources.
With a crafting skill of 100 you can craft Quality Level 500 items.
To get higher quality items you can use the combine feature of the workbench or go out and find better items in loot or on traders.
Before buying perks you can see which stats are going to be affected and what your base value for that stat currently is.
Concrete mix is now only crafted in a cement mixer. You may find cement mixers in the world now.
The Steel Smithing perk now has multiple (but pricey) levels where you can acquire recipes for items that are usually only found and harvested.
Sign Creation System
Players can craft, place and add custom text on small medium and large signs made of wood. Sizes are 1×1, 1×3 and 2×5
Localization
We now support 4 languages English, Spanish, French and German which can be set through your steam language selection Tab. In Steam Right click on 7 Days/properties/language select your language. Note: Some new or rectly changed text will only appear in English which will be updated in future releases.
Steam Achievements
We have added a ton of Steam achievements some of which are secret.
Improved Ore Veins and Mining
We have random underground mineral veins where you can find all the old ores plus new rare mineral deposits which can yield Diamonds, Gold, and Silver. These minerals can be sold at the Trader Stations.
Workbench Improvements
We added a new combine items feature to the workbench where players can combine 2 similar items to produce one of better quality. We have also moved some advanced recipes exclusively to the workbench. Workbenches have been added to some locations like trader settlements and other areas. Workbenches can also be disassembled with a wrench.
Backpack and Container Sorting
We added a new backpack and loot container sorting system. Just click on the icon of your backpack and container and items will stack and sort properly.
New Recipes
There are over 80 new recipes including a Chemistry Station, Beer, Snowberry Juice, Player Made Signs, Draw Bridges, Garage Doors, Arrow Slits, Wooden and Metal Catwalks, Railings and Stairs and switchable lights. Note: Some recipes can only be crafted at the new Chemistry Station or improved Workbench and some are only unlocked by purchasing a related perk.
Adobe White Arrow Slit
Awning Red Corner Full
Awning Red Corner Inside
Awning Red Corner Round
Awning Red Corner Round Top
Awning Red Gable
Awning Red Pyramid
Burning Barrel
Ceiling Light (Switch)
Ceiling Light 02 (Switch)
Cobblestone Arrow Slit
Cobblestone Frame Full Corner
Cobblestone Frame Inside Corner
Cobblestone Frame Pillar 100
Cobblestone Frame Pillar 50
Cobblestone Frame Plate
Cobblestone Frame Pole
Cobblestone Frame Stairs
Cobblestone Frame Wedge
Cobblestone Frame Wedge Tip
Concrete Arrow Slit
Concrete Corner Round Top
Concrete Corner Round
Concrete Support
End Table
End Table Lamp
Flagstone Arrow Slit
Garage Door Metal
Industrial Light (Switch)
Metal Trussing Ramp
Porch Light (Switch)
Reinforced Double Drawbridge
Reinforced Drawbridge
Scrap Iron Arrow Slit
Scrap Iron Frame Wedge Tip
Street Light (Switch)
TV
TV Large, Left
TV Large, Right
Wood 1/2 Block
Wood Arrow Slit
Wood board stairs
Wood Board Stairs With Railing
Wood Catwalk
Wood Catwalk Corner
Wood Catwalk Wedge Corner Railing
Wood Catwalk With Railing
Wood Railing
Wood Wedge Tip
Mining Helmet
Beverage Cooler
Cooler
Lockers
Aloe Vera Seed
Chrysanthemum Seed
Hop Seed
Mushroom Spores (Seed)
Yucca Seed
Beer
Moldy Bread
Snowberry Juice
Candy Tin Can
Car Air Filter
Dirt Fragment
Electrical Parts
Electronic Components
Fertilizer
Flashlight
Hub Cap
Scrap Cable
Scrap Plastics
Snowball
Snowberry Extract
Spring
Sign (C)old Beer
Wooden Sign 1x1m
Wooden Sign 3x1m
Wooden Sign 5x2m
Snow
Nailgun
Cooking Pot Mine
Scrap Log Spike Frame
Chemistry Station
New Items (Lootable/Harvestable/For Sale)
We have added many new items you can get by looting, harvesting or purchase from traders.
Nailgun Schematic
Tasting And Brewing
Black Baseball Cap
Black Cowboy Boots
Black Goth Boots
Black Goth Pants
Black Hooded Sweatshirt
Black Jacket
Black Leather Duster
Black Leather Hood
Black Press Boy Cap
Black Shades
Black Shorts
Black Skirt
Blue Baseball Cap
Blue Hooded Sweatshirt
Blue Press Boy Cap
Blue Shorts
Blue Skirt
Brown Baseball Cap
Brown Hooded Sweatshirt
Brown Press Boy Cap
Brown Shorts
Brown Skirt
College Jacket
Cowboy Boots
Green Baseball Cap
Green Hooded Sweatshirt
Green Press Boy Cap
Green Shorts
Green Skirt
Heavy Bandit Boots
Heavy Bandit Chest Armor
Heavy Bandit Gasmask
Heavy Bandit Gloves
Heavy Bandit Leg Armor
Overalls
Red Baseball Cap
Red Hooded Sweatshirt
Red Press Boy Cap
Red Shorts
Red Skirt
Running Shoes
Strong Glasses
White Football Jersey
White Hooded Sweatshirt
White Jacket
White Press Boy Cap
White Shorts
White Skirt
ZU Football Helmet
Aloe Vera Plant
Aloe Vera Seed
Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum Seed
Corn Plant Random (Harvestable)
Cotton
Goldenrod Flower
Hop Plant (Harvestable)
Hop Seed
Hops Flower
Mushroom Spores (Seed)
Snowberry
Snowberry Plant (Harvestable)
Yucca Seed
Mega Crush
Snowberry Juice
Yucca Cocktail
Dirt Fragment
Electrical Parts
Electronic Components
Fertilizer
Gold Nugget
Mechanical Parts
Old Cash
Raw Diamond
Raw Iron
Scrap Plastics
Silver Nugget
Snowball
Snowberry Extract
Steel Polish
Nailgun Frame
Nailgun Parts
Nailgun Receiver
Rechargeable Battery
Diamond Deposit
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
New Creative Block Shapes
We have also added many new block shapes for the creative builders to use.
Adobe White Arrow Slit
Arrow Slit
Awning Green Corner Round Top
Awning Red Corner Round Top
Awning Tan Corner Round Top
Bar Stool
Brick Corner Round Top
Ceiling Light (Switch)
Ceiling Light 02 (Switch)
Cobblestone Arrow Slit
Cobblestone Frame Full Corner
Cobblestone Frame Inside Corner
Cobblestone Frame Pillar 100
Cobblestone Frame Pillar 50
Cobblestone Frame Plate
Cobblestone Frame Pole
Cobblestone Frame Stairs
Cobblestone Frame Wedge
Cobblestone Frame Wedge Tip
Cobblestone Full Corner
Cobblestone Inside Corner
Cobblestone Pillar 100
Cobblestone Pillar 50
Cobblestone Plate
Cobblestone Pole
Cobblestone Wedge
Cobblestone Wedge Tip
Concrete Arrow Slit
Concrete Corner Round Top
Concrete Corner Round
Corrugated Metal Corner Round
Corrugated Metal Corner Round Top
Draw Bridge
Fertilized Farmland
Flagstone Arrow Slit
Forest Flower
Forest Grass Diagonal
Furnace Door, Open
Garage Door Metal
Garage Door Metal v2
Green Drawer, Open
Green Rusty Metal Corner Round Top
Green Rusty Metal Wall Ramp
Hubcap (No Mine)
Industrial Light (Switch)
Loudspeaker
Metal Catwalk
Metal Catwalk Corner
Metal Catwalk Wedge Corner
Metal Catwalk Wedge Corner Railing
Metal Catwalk With Railing
Metal Railing
Metal Reinforced Wood Arrow Slit
Metal Sheet Random (POI)
Metal Stairs
Metal Stairs With Railing
Metal Trussing Ramp
Mobile Spotlight (POI)
Mortician’s Drawer, Open
Mushrooms (Harvestable)
Porch Light (Switch)
Red Metal Corner Round Top
Reinforced Concrete Arrow Slit
Reinforced Concrete Corner Round
Reinforced Concrete Corner Round Top
Reinforced Double Drawbridge
Reinforced Drawbridge
Reinforced Scrap Iron Arrow Slit
Reinforced Scrap Iron Wedge Tip
Reinforced Wood Arrow Slit
Reinforced Wood Metal Wedge Tip
Reinforced Wood Wedge Tip
Rusty Iron Corner Round
Rusty Iron Corner Round Top
Scrap Iron Arrow Slit
Scrap Iron Frame Wedge Tip
Scrap Iron Wedge Tip
Stainless Steel 1/2 Block
Stainless Steel 1/4 Block
Stainless Steel 1/8 Block
Stainless Steel Arrow Slit
Stainless Steel Block
Stainless Steel Corner Round
Stainless Steel Corner Round Top
Stainless Steel Full Corner
Stainless Steel Inside Corner
Stainless Steel Pillar 100
Stainless Steel Pillar 50
Stainless Steel Plate
Stainless Steel Plate Centered
Stainless Steel Pole
Stainless Steel Pyramid
Stainless Steel Ramp
Stainless Steel Ramp Corner
Stainless Steel Stairs
Stainless Steel Support
Stainless Steel Wedge
Stainless Steel Wedge Tip
Steel Arrow Slit
Steel Corner Round
Steel Corner Round Top
Street Light (Switch)
Trader Spawn Block
White Metal Corner Round Top
White River Flagpole
Wood Arrow Slit
Wood Board Stairs With Railing
Wood Catwalk
Wood Catwalk Corner
Wood Catwalk Wedge Corner
Wood Catwalk Wedge Corner Railing
Wood Catwalk With Railing
Wood Railing
Wood Shingles Corner Filler
Wood Shingles Ramp Corner
Furnace
Green Drawer
Mortician’s Drawer
Player Vending Machine
Vending Machine
Vending Machine Rental
Diamond Deposit
Gold Ore
Silver Ore
Cooking Pot Mine
Scrap Log Spike Frame
Chemistry Station
Added
Added: To optimize framerate and give players a chance to loot zombie corpses. We added a new system where ragdoll zombies turn into a lootable corpse approximately 45 seconds after death.
Added: water_emerge sounds and entry in sounds.xml
Added: Launcher on Windows, allows switching 32/64 bit engine as well as a few other options
Added: Wood and glass items can be scrapped
Added: Workstations can be disassembled with a wrench
Added: Blood Draw Kit has a side-effect
Added: control keys to modify god mode and free camera speeds using keyboard -/+ keys
Added: heavy bandit armor items
Added: new male hairstyles
Added: weeds, cinder blocks, small rocks, cracks, and an occasional old tire to roads
Added: Heavy bandit armor is equal to iron armor, armor name keys and description added
Added: New eyeball specular texture
Added: Water Particle Limiter in Video Option
Added: sawing sound when placing wood frames
Added: Animation for climbing ladders
Added: Missing (new) stairs variant Added: so all upgrade paths are consistent.
Added: Items and schematic for nailgun parts and some advanced resources
Added: Cooking pot mines
Added: Console output can be scrolled with PageUp / PageDown
Added: Directional thunder & lightning
Added: You can scrap stone tools or leftover concrete/brick blocks
Added: Bleedout buff audio hookup to code, internalBleeding & bleeding
Added: Stunned buff audio code
Added: Stunned audio filter
Added: Blood moon lighting
Added: default eyebrow to male and female bases
Added: Player Exp from killing entities
Added: 6 new maple forest grasses to maple forest.
Added: console comands BuffPlayer, DebuffPlayer, ExportItemIcons, RepairChunkDensity, TeleportPlayer
Added: Snowberry harvesting, crafting and effects
Added: new broken highway section to the wasteland decoration
Added: rough cut wood texture
Added: console commands GetGameStats and SetGameStat
Added: eyeliner, eyeshadow, blush, goth eyeshadow and lipstick to female characters
Added: land mines to the wasteland.
Added: commandline argument “-noeac” to disable EAC on Linux/OSX clients
Added: Gunpowder recipe for the workbench
Added: Any kind of food heals you now.
Added: library to school
Added: Command “teleport” which acts on the player issuing the command
Added: Launcher switches to disable EAC on Linux / OSX, disable NativeInput module on Windows.
Added: Console commands for weather indoorFogOff/On and the spectrum command.
Added: UMA texture quality option to video options.
Added: UMA Zombie Texture Caching system.
Added: Support for “required” field in entity spawn groups.
Added: Facial piercings item found in loot and on traders.
Added: Steel upgrade for log spikes.
Added: Launcher option to disable UNET networking.
Added: SystemInfo command to display your current running system info (Can be used to check which graphics device was being used, but there is other useful information in there about memory and CPU info )
Added: Running shoes can be found in loot and nerdy glasses can be found in loot.
Added: Enable glCore support and Launcher option for GLCore, tooltips for options.