7 Days To Die Alpha 9

7 Days To Die Alpha 9 is out with a multitude of new additions, improvements and fixes. The biggest addition is the beautiful new Randomly Generated Worlds A.K.A. Randomz-gane which have full gigantic cities, roads, rivers, lakes, cliffs, mountains, roadside and wilderness locations and feature all biome types.

You can find all Alpha 9 servers here : http://7daystodie-servers.com/version/alpha_9_0/

Alpha 9 Release Notes

Added

• Added new game map option ‘Random Gen’ which creates a randomly generated world seed based on the name you give the world. The random world generation includes all biomes, a full random sized central city, random in the wild cities, roads, rivers, lakes and random roadside and wilderness locations. Simply select Random Gen as the Game World and the name you give it will be the seed.
• Added new sexier data driven ‘M’ map that renders based on where the player has visited with ‘Fog of War’ functionality. The new map shows, current position, cursor position, has waypoint functionality, recenter view to player, track friends on compass, mouse wheel scroll to zoom and left click drag to pan.
• Added new biome type wasteland hub with custom spawning definition for random gen cities
• Added overhauled most of the GUI including the new belt, backpack, compass, map, freinds list, character screen, loot container and more as well as new gui functionality and Truetype fonts
• Added many new locations never before seen that appear only in the randomly generated worlds including, city blocks, movie theaters, several apartment buildings, parking garages, parking lots, new destroyed buildings and giant sewer holes.
• Added a Debuff system for sprained, and broken legs that work with a new craftable splint that accelerates the healing time. Legs can also be re-injured more easily while on the mend and the more severe the injury the longer the recovery time.
• Added Dysentery Debuff contracted from drinking river or murky water. Dysentery is cured by drinking goldenrod tea or taking antibiotics.
• Added new stunned concussion debuff which slows the player down for a few seconds and has a chance to happen with zombie hits.
• Added soft shadows to moon and sunlight
• Added Simple drowning Debuff system that detects when the player is underwater and displays the icon. Going above water removes the icon. staying underwater for too long causes drowning pain damage and drowning death
• Added Underwater visual effects, sound effects & leaving water effects with refract & screen particle effects
• Added new tooltip loading screens
• Added craftable Cloth jacket, pants, shoes, hat and gloves
• Added cotton, cotton growing and cloth recipes from cotton
• Added new scrap metal frame, ramp recipes and upgrade path for more fort building options
• Added scrap metal inside corner wedges for scrap metal upgrade path
• Added outside corners for scrap metal forts
• Added recipe for scrap metal inside corner frames
• Added Apartment building, Parking Garage, Movie Theater and new destroyed buildings to Navezgane Gravestown
• Added eat glass for suicide option
• Added empty jars added to inventory when using water, coffee, murky water, yucca juice, and goldenrod tea
• Added recipe for adobe tan made from sand or sandstone and cement
• Added paper to trash loot
• Added cabinet filler pieces and cabinet top plate blocks for counters replacing some of the cabinet loot in the world
• Added green plaster wallpaper full blocks
• Added, blood bags, blood draw kits and first aid kits to the world. First aid kits heal 50 hit points immediately plus an additional 50 over 10 seconds. It is made from a bandage, grain alcohol, and a blood bag. Blood draw kits can be reused to make blood bags.
• Added “gunpowder charge” item & recipe which is made of 9 gunpowder
• Added inside corner wedge and wedged corner for oldwood for attics
• Added seeds to garbage and backpack loot
• Added icons for leg splint, blood bag, blood draw kit, first aid kit, gun powder chargebottle, cloth hat, cloth pants, cloth jacket, cloth shoes and cloth gloves.
• Added slowed movement speed in sand, water and web for player and entities
• Added weapon parts to loot lists, reduced chance of finding complete weapons
• Added a new water biome sound loop plays on rivers in random gen only
• Added Reduced damage from crawling zombies but gave them a chance give the player a sprained leg
• Added new blocks creme wall with backsplash block, wood floor with drywall ceiling block
• Added city street painted lines
• Added random rotation to loot on roads
• Added Player placed dirt now grows grass
• Added bookcase blocks, textures and recipes to craft them and bookcase loot containers to the world
• Added updated english.txt random gen description and new items
• Added MovementState to hornet controller to stop error msgs
• Added a few pigs to pine forest biome
• Added smell debuff code support and buff note: smell blips still show up on the main map
• Added upgradable inside and outside wood corners useful for building mitered roof corners
• Added scrap Lead to garbage loot
• Added recipes for wooden inside and outside corners

Changed

• Changed removed old minimap compass and replaced with new sleek minimalist compass that shows player sleeping bag position, set waypoints and tracked friends
• Changed Hordes are smaller in general but except every 7th day they are super nasty.
• Changed thinned the total amount of loot containers in all world prefabs and moved the best prefabs to harder to reach areas
• Changed Drinking river water doesn’t damage your health and you get some stamina now just like drinking pure water, but there is a chance of catching the new Dysentery Debuff from drinking it. Dysentery is cured by drinking goldenrod tea or taking antibiotics. If untreated it becomes advanced dysentery which damages stamina and health which is only curable with antibiotics
• Changed credits adding all Kickstarter Backers and made it scroll faster
• Changed cupboards to have 0-1 cans of food instead of 0-2
• Changed increased amount of food you get from canned Lamb and Chicken
• Changed decreased weight of candy tins, hub caps and air filters
• Changed slowed crop growth
• Changed spiked club recipe to require ingots instead of scrap metal
• Changed white flowers are now cotton plants
• Changed lowered zombie player damage to work with the new stun system
• Changed awnings are made from cloth instead of plant fibers
• Changed most all interior house walls are a full block thick improves lighting and enemy pathing
• Changed pipe bombs are now made from gunpowder charge instead of gunpowder
• Changed TNT now uses loads of gunpowder instead of gunpowder
• Changed replaced all plate block and plate block corner thin walls in old houses and ranch houses
• Changed new default spectrum (used in plains and Diersville) with magenta sunset and bluer nights
• Changed craft time of sandbags from 30 seconds to 5 seconds
• Changed all blocks that use the shape of the pine tip are now only 1m height.
• Changed backpacks so you have equal chance of finding the items they contain
• Changed pistol book so it gates pistol part mold crafting instead of pistol crafting.
• Changed removed shotguns from the book so they can be assembled by anyone who has the parts. Molds still require the book to learn how to craft them
• Changed Sandbags can be picked up
• Changed made both mattresses work as player bedrolls when placed
• Changed Fog, Sunlight and Sky in forest
• Changed when placing a regular block on the terrain, the terrain now “snaps” to this block
• Changed Zombies are no longer slowed by forge or campfire light at night, and never run in dark places during the day
• Changed increased chance of clay deposits in earth. Removed chance of getting clay when digging dirt
• Changed increased chainsaw wood damage
• Changed removed flicker from wall mounted torches
• Changed plains terrain grass is a little greener
• Changed resources underground so there are only 3 minerals per layer. There is stone and iron ore in every layer. The third mineral changes every twenty layers down starting with coal, then potassium nitrate, then lead, and finally tungsten.
• Changed radiated terrain texture, added more loot to cupboards
• Changed Added peeling paint and grunge to Diersville houses and white door
• Changed reduced cars in Diersville and gravestown for performance
• Changed the way chunks are build in background threads to optimize them
• Changed scrap metal wall and reinforced scrap metal wall art
• Changed dirt grows into grass, grass grows into tallgrass
• Changed ramp trussing textures to use new scrap metal textures
• Changed redwood cabinets plain on sides and bottom
• Changed removed blob shadows on all entities (zombies, animals, players, etc)
• Changed Biome intensity fading now also over time
• Changed winter biomes have less fog and brighter midday
• Changed dirt to sides of burnt forest blocks and burnt forest dirt on the sides of the wasteland blocks
• Changed tweaked cupboard loot. Added empty cans and coffee beans are now in the seed group
• Changed Reduced decal litter on roads
• Changed increased weight of fishing weights from 1 to 4 ounces
• Changed cars now only have automotive loot
• Changed crafted doors to be unlocked by default
• Changed Serverconfig.xml defaults to zombies normal 3
• Changed: Moved VAC window to the top

Fixed

• Fixed scrap timer not updating when adding more scrap while it’s in progress
• Fixed problem that other players HUD text was flashing
• Fixed elevator to surface bug
• Fixed all backpacks and purses have terrain decoration flag so they don’t clip terrain
• Fixed animals should avoid water > 1m deep unless they are forced in via physics somehow.
• Fixed player should be push out of ground correctly
• Fixed: Gave wasteland scrap metal block terrain decoration flag so it doesn’t float
• Fixed drinking from river not being the same as drinking murky water
• Fixed the VAC warning dialog
• Fixed problem with animated doors on a client and also open/close state of a door can be saved in a prefab
• Fixed regression: god mode wasn’t enabled in Cheat mod
• Fixed bug where Mouse Sensitivity was not adjustable
• Fixed horizon colors flickering a single time when time turns from about 13:50 to 14:10
• Fixed Spinning rabbits and deers
• Fixed the rotation of the preview of a door before placing is now correct
• Fixed loot not spawning the right amount of items
• Fixed severe problem that sometimes the collider for a newly placed block wasn’t generated
• Fixed: Fat Cop Zombie Vomit Projectile disappears before it hits anything
• Fixed old window upgrade path showing wrong model
• Fixed old window upgrade path to include scrap metal reinforced version
• Fixed window01white to require scrap metal to reach the metal reinforced version
• Fixed walking in shallow water plays footsteps from ground below
• Fixed playing “fall into water” sound now only if the fall distance is > 1m
• Fixed hovering over item in campfire and closing causing item names to stay
• Fixed Removed muzzle flash & smoke from crossbow
• Fixed problem that client player in a Coop game was not seen by enemies if far away from the server

Source : http://7daystodie.com/alpha-9-with-random-worlds-is-out/