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A20.5 b2 Stable

Mon, 16 May 2022 22:27 CEST

Hello everyone!

Today we give you 20.5 stable with fixes for crashes and also a fix for the drone that caused issues in MP.

We are aware of the following regarding this build:

We are seeing reports of the Discord overlay potentially crashing the game, please read here[support.discord.com]. Please scroll to "Overlay Issues".
EOS issue with macOS Monterey, you can still play without EAC until this is fixed by EOS.
Party voice for macOS does not currently work and needs to be fixed by EOS in a future update.
Party voice currently not supported on Linux, waiting for a fix by EOS.

If you are not on macOS Monterey and you crash, you can try starting the game without EAC or run the game's 7dLauncher.exe directly from the game folder. If you can play then, great, but please help us by reporting the crash following the link below.

If you are still crashing, please take your time to report a bug, after reading this:
https://community.7daystodie.com/a20-bug-database/bug-pool/before-you-post-a-report-r1/

If you still crash before the game starts, we would need your launcher.log and the anticheatlauncher.log.
Please provide them in a bug report following the link above.

Mods folder

Due to restrictions from Microsoft, FUTURE updates may change the location of the Mods folder.

These restrictions make it so that the Mods folder can longer be in the same installation folder as 7 Days to Die.

You can specify the location of the UserDataFolder in the game launcher. The Mods folder can then be placed in that folder.

Add the following to the command line:

Format:

-UserDataFolder=

Example:

-UserDataFolder=C:MyUserData

The UserDataFolder can also be set in the serverconfig.xml file.

Format:

Example:

Changelog:

A20.5 b2

Added

Server browser now shows warning when results hit the search limit
Localization files are tested for a valid header line and show appropriate errors

Changed

Removed EAC compatibility warning on Windows 11

Fixed

Voice comms fail for player who was voiced in multi player party who then leaves game to main menu then rejoins game and party
Voice chat fails to initiate for latest joiner to the party
EAC error after entering server password
Reenabled player reporting
UserDataFolder and SaveGameFolder did not allow gamedir relative paths
PartSpawn in POI Marker doesn't pull parts from mod folders
XUi FilledSprite view not properly updating on position changes
Drone causing excess data in player data .ttp file on dedi

A20.5 b2 EXP

Mon, 09 May 2022 22:42 CEST

Hello everyone!
Please take your time and have a look at the new EXP build.
This build tackles several reasons that did cause crashes for some users.
We are seeing reports of the Discord overlay potentially crashing the game, please read here.[support.discord.com]
We hope in this EXP build, everyone can play again.

If you are still crashing, please take your time to report a bug, after reading this:
https://community.7daystodie.com/a20-bug-database/bug-pool/before-you-post-a-report-r1/

If you still crash before the game starts, we would need your launcher.log and the anticheatlauncher.log.
Please provide them in a bug report following the link above.

Please do not look for help in the discussion thread here, but go to the bug reports instead. The QA team is in there helping as soon as they can.

To participate:

1. right click on the game in steam
2. click on properties
3. click the "betas" tab
4. the drop down menu will have latest_experimental available ← you want THAT
5. select that and wait for the game to download.

Changelog:

A20.5 b2

Added

Server browser now shows warning when results hit the search limit
Localization files are tested for a valid header line and show appropriate errors

Changed

Removed EAC compatibility warning on Windows 11

Fixed

Voice comms fail for player who was voiced in multi player party who then leaves game to main menu then rejoins game and party
Voice chat fails to initiate for latest joiner to the party
EAC error after entering server password
Reenabled player reporting
UserDataFolder and SaveGameFolder did not allow gamedir relative paths
PartSpawn in POI Marker doesn't pull parts from mod folders
XUi FilledSprite view not properly updating on position changes
Drone causing excess data in player data .ttp file on dedi

Alpha 20.4 b42 stable

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 23:08 CEST

Hello everyone!
While the majority of the team is heavy at work on Alpha 21, we are excited to give you A20.4 b42 stable today!

Server owners will need to add/modify these 2 new properties in the serverconfig.xml. These filters will help players find your server.

Values must be one of the following:
NorthAmericaEast, NorthAmericaWest, CentralAmerica, SouthAmerica, Europe, Russia, Asia, MiddleEast, Africa, Oceania

Values: Use any language name that your players would expect to search for. Should be the English name of the language, e.g. not "Deutsch" but "German". This is a filter name only and DOES NOT SET the language for players.

If no region is entered on the server end, you will not be able to find the server.

For everyone who played EXP:
There is no change between b41 and b42, we just had to adjust the buildnumber.

A20.4 b42 changelog:

Added

Language selection under Video > UI. Defaults to the platform's language (on Steam the language that is selected in Steam for the game, otherwise the host system's language)
EOS P2P networking for cross platform P2P games
Destroy area attacks partial blocks it moves into
AI ApproachAndAttackTarget decreases path update rate at farther distances
Path generation canceling on a new path request
Cr console command u, utimed and ue parameters

Changed

Launcher on Windows now stores log files in %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/logs folder
Screenshots are stored in /Screenshots (i.e. the folder that also stores saves, e.g. on Windows %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/Screenshots)
Mods are now loaded from /Mods (i.e. the folder that also stores saves, e.g. on Windows %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/Mods) in addition to /Mods. In a future build this will change to only load from that new location so no data is written/changed in the program folder at any time.
Reduced sleeper volume attack target time
Changed SkyManager to explicitly set shadowCustomResolution for the moon and sun lights based on the ingame "Shadow Distance" setting: 1k for Low/Medium, 2k for High, and 4k for Ultra/Ultra+. This gives more consistent results in terms of performance and fidelity when changing the setting, regardless of the user's output screen resolution.
MacOS builds target x86_64 only for now until third party code supports M1 you can still run the game on M1 Macs with Rosetta, but you no longer manually have to enable it
Reduced achievement goals for: Dying, PvP kills, game stage, and staying alive
Favorite and history servers are now stored independently of Steam
Removed display name from non-lootable produce baskets
Improved path generation state switching and aborting
Optimised SpeedTree shaders by multicompiling a version without FadeOut behaviour and automatically swapping to it whenever the FadeOut value is set to 1 (fully opaque).

Fixed

Giving the same command line argument to the dedi multiple times causes exception but no startup abort
Errors in dedi config does not cause the server to immediately shut down after the errors are logged
Client side NRE spam after kicking a player with ESC menu open
Opening the map on a controller attempts to open On Screen Keyboard
Vulture sleepers flapping when spawned
Cases of falling into ground if chunk colliders reallocated during baking
Rare invisible chunk colliders if changed and cleared during baking
Drone's light doesn't affect player stealth
Junk drone dye not applying to all tint parts
Drone dye displays differently between clients and hosts Dedi and P2P issues
Only the first Drone Cargo Mod can be added by drag and drop
Ranged actions doing tool belt notifies more than once per execute
Sporadically vehicles can reload underground and get moved (IsChunkAreaCollidersLoaded check)
Silly votes and actions conflict with each other.
Activating quest marker at POI can reset adjacent POI
Robotic turrets stop working when placed higher than where the player is standing
Removed Unity Screen Selector option from game launcher as Unity does no longer support this
2 wheeled vehicles are very good at climbing vertical walls
Zombie pathing/digging can fail/struggle when the player is too far underground
Fixed shadow clipping bug in the SpeedTree8 shader by implementing Unity's SHADOW_CASTER macros to correctly handle shadow pancaking.
Server list not updating the table when new data for an existing entry comes in
Changing server list sorting did not apply until filters are changed or a new server shown
Resetting filters in the server browser causes any filter fields that are min/max input only (like game days) to fail
Playing doctor achievement triggers without proper requirements
Billboard shapes had inconsistent harvest events
Players can be damaged and rag dolled by vehicles on log in
Treasure chest appears in the same spot as previously looted treasure chest.
Occasional NullRef's when decapitating wolves, mountain lions and deer as client on dedicated server
Typo with some repair lists using forged iron could not be repaired

A20.4 b41 EXP

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 03:15 CEST

Hello everybody!

Sending a small update out to fix some smaller issues and also update localization.
This also addresses the Linux issue that prevents players from using the audio options.
The same issue also rarely occured for windows users.

We wish you a good weekend!

Here's what changed since b39:

A20.4 b41

Fixed:

Error when opening audio settings when EOS could not find any microphone and/or speaker device
Servers do not announce themselves on Steam's backend
Updated Localization.txt

A20.4 b38 EXP

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:37 CEST

Hello everyone!
Today we have the first experimental build for A20.4 for you!

Server owners will need to add/modify these 2 new properties in the serverconfig.xml. These filters will help players find your server.

Values must be one of the following:
NorthAmericaEast, NorthAmericaWest, CentralAmerica, SouthAmerica, Europe, Russia, Asia, MiddleEast, Africa, Oceania

Values: Use any language name that your players would expect to search for. Should be the English name of the language, e.g. not "Deutsch" but "German". This is a filter name only and DOES NOT SET the language for players.

To participate:

right click on the game in steam
click on properties
click the "betas" tab
the drop down menu will have latest_experimental available ← you want THAT
select that and wait for the game to download.

We hope you will have fun with it!

A20.4 b38 changelog:

Added

Language selection under Video > UI. Defaults to the platform's language (on Steam the language that is selected in Steam for the game, otherwise the host system's language)
EOS P2P networking for cross platform P2P games
Destroy area attacks partial blocks it moves into
AI ApproachAndAttackTarget decreases path update rate at farther distances
Path generation canceling on a new path request
Cr console command u, utimed and ue parameters

Changed

Launcher on Windows now stores log files in %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/logs folder
Screenshots are stored in /Screenshots (i.e. the folder that also stores saves, e.g. on Windows %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/Screenshots)
Mods are now loaded from /Mods (i.e. the folder that also stores saves, e.g. on Windows %APPDATA%/7DaysToDie/Mods) in addition to /Mods. In a future build this will change to only load from that new location so no data is written/changed in the program folder at any time.
Reduced sleeper volume attack target time
Changed SkyManager to explicitly set shadowCustomResolution for the moon and sun lights based on the ingame "Shadow Distance" setting: 1k for Low/Medium, 2k for High, and 4k for Ultra/Ultra+. This gives more consistent results in terms of performance and fidelity when changing the setting, regardless of the user's output screen resolution.
MacOS builds target x86_64 only for now until third party code supports M1 you can still run the game on M1 Macs with Rosetta, but you no longer manually have to enable it
Reduced achievement goals for: Dying, PvP kills, game stage, and staying alive
Favorite and history servers are now stored independently of Steam
Removed display name from non-lootable produce baskets
Improved path generation state switching and aborting
Optimised SpeedTree shaders by multicompiling a version without FadeOut behaviour and automatically swapping to it whenever the FadeOut value is set to 1 (fully opaque).

Fixed

Giving the same command line argument to the dedi multiple times causes exception but no startup abort
Errors in dedi config does not cause the server to immediately shut down after the errors are logged
Client side NRE spam after kicking a player with ESC menu open
Opening the map on a controller attempts to open On Screen Keyboard
Vulture sleepers flapping when spawned
Cases of falling into ground if chunk colliders reallocated during baking
Rare invisible chunk colliders if changed and cleared during baking
Drone's light doesn't affect player stealth
Junk drone dye not applying to all tint parts
Drone dye displays differently between clients and hosts Dedi and P2P issues
Only the first Drone Cargo Mod can be added by drag and drop
Ranged actions doing tool belt notifies more than once per execute
Sporadically vehicles can reload underground and get moved (IsChunkAreaCollidersLoaded check)
Silly votes and actions conflict with each other.
Activating quest marker at POI can reset adjacent POI
Robotic turrets stop working when placed higher than where the player is standing
Removed Unity Screen Selector option from game launcher as Unity does no longer support this
2 wheeled vehicles are very good at climbing vertical walls
Zombie pathing/digging can fail/struggle when the player is too far underground
Fixed shadow clipping bug in the SpeedTree8 shader by implementing Unity's SHADOW_CASTER macros to correctly handle shadow pancaking.
Server list not updating the table when new data for an existing entry comes in
Changing server list sorting did not apply until filters are changed or a new server shown
Resetting filters in the server browser causes any filter fields that are min/max input only (like game days) to fail
Playing doctor achievement triggers without proper requirements
Billboard shapes had inconsistent harvest events
Players can be damaged and rag dolled by vehicles on log in
Treasure chest appears in the same spot as previously looted treasure chest.
Occasional NullRef's when decapitating wolves, mountain lions and deer as client on dedicated server
Typo with some repair lists using forged iron could not be repaired

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Mon, 04 Apr 2022 19:09 CEST

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Alpha 20.3 b3 Hotfix

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 01:20 CET

Hello Survivors!

This small hotfix addresses a change to the Twitch authentication, allowing users the continue using it after February is over.

This build was supposed to go out Wednesday, but Twitch did a test run, which forces us to put it out early.

There is no reason any of you should have to start over with this update.

Expect A20.4 with general fixes on EXP by end of this week or early next week.

We hope you enjoy!

Alpha 20.3 b3 Hotfix

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 00:16 CET

Hello Survivors!

This hotfix addresses a change in the Twitch authentication so our users can still use Twitch integration after the end of February.

There is no reason any of you should have to start over with this update.

Expect A20.4 with general fixes on EXP by end of this week or early next week.

We hope you enjoy!

A20.2 goes Stable

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:33 CET

Hello!

Today we are releasing a small A20.2 patch to the live build.
It has a fix for turrets falling through blocks/the world and a NRE fix for the celebrate buff.

This patch should not have any conflicts with existing savegames.
A20.3 EXP will start soon and be meatier than A20.2.

If you want to help improve the game, file a bug report here.[community.7daystodie.com]

We hope everyone will have fun with it!

A20.2 b2 Changelog

Fixed

Null Ref when killing enemies with celebrate on
Turrets falling through blocks
CallGameEvent would not work on servers for clients

A20.2 EXP

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:26 CET

Hello Everyone!

This weekend we have a small patch for you fixing the NRE for "celebrate" kills.
We also have a fix for falling turrets in here.

This patch is expected to go stable on Monday.
You can look forward to a meatier patch again with A20.3

A20.2 b2 Changelog

Fixed

Null Ref when killing enemies with celebrate on
Turrets falling through block
CallGameEvent would not work on servers for clients

A20.1 Stable

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:15 CET

Today we are releasing A20.1 b6 as stable.

The update comes with many fixes and small balance improvements including fixes to POIs, a fix for the drone dupe, a fix to make achievements work again, balance changes and much more.

Save games should be compatible with A20 b238.

Official A20 Bug Reporting Thread[community.7daystodie.com]

We hope everyone enjoys A20.1 b6!
Have a good day!

A20.1 b6 changelog:

Added

Show Stability makes a clearly different green for max and darkens colors every 1m of world space

Changed

AI destroy area is canceled when damaged by an entity
Updates to downtown_strip_05 based on player feedback (e.g. texture issues, sleeper adjustment, etc.)
Updated to house_modern_18 based on YT player feedback. (made path more obvious, added torches, added triggers so sleepers arent' left behind, etc.)
Updates to remnant_skyscraper_01 based on feedback.
Updated house_construction_01 and house_construction_02 with new art props
Updated remnant_business_0205, updated with new art and shapes
Updated store_book_01, store_clothing_01, store_electronics_02, store_grocery_01, store_gun_02, added new art and new shapes
House_modern_23 (TIER4) Changes made based on feedback
Updated restore power and sleeper configuration for countrytown_business_04 based on player feedback.
Warehouse_04: added floor trims inside warehouses, fixed mispainted textures in bathrooms and kitchen's floor, replaced shelfs to prevent zfight.
Remnant_waste_01: replaced sinks for sink shape inside ice cream store. Improved destroyed ceiling
Updated downtown_strip_10 based on player feedback.
Downtown_filler_27 (TIER3, search, clear) removed door frame simulating door that was permanently closed to avoid confusion
House_modern_23: changes made after level designers meeting feedback
Reworked all couch harvests to give some of the main resources on the destroy event instead in the middle of the harvest
Slightly increased the probability of books found in book piles and crackabook shelves
Downtown_filler_23. Replaced bank upper windows for bulletproof. Replaced old fuse boxes. Fixed trigger not properly linked to door.
Updated loot probability and quality templates to better align with the new loot stage system
Added and updated loot probabilities with a ProbT2Cap template to prevent empty loot containers and/or missing loot items at high loot stage where ProbT3 is not available
Mailboxes now have a higher chance to spawn archery, spear, and needle and thread books early game
Reworked tiered chest loot to better reflect POI difficulty
Reduced the amount of aloe cream found in backpacks
Increased the chance to find acid in sinks and chemical sets
Added another low chance to find vehicle wheels in PassNGas crates
Warehouse_04: final loot room sleepers volumes rearranged to hold at least two feral. Replaced fake scrap metal rollup doors for steel ones. Fixed mispainted texture in perimetral wall
Reorganized the furniture helpers to prevent unwanted block rotations hiding adjacent block faces due to mixed block types/properties
Moved cabinets, cupboards, and bookshelves to a new player crafted helper block (same recipe as before)
Moved the storage crate and writable storage crate to their own recipes (same recipe as before)
Moved the old chair out of the furniture helper and gave it its own new recipe
Added produce baskets, pallets, and empty clothes shelves to furniture helper
Updated preview thumbnail JPGs for part_loot_t1 through t5.
Penetrator Perk now references the Lever Action rifle instead of the Marksman rifle
Updated Localization for furniture helper blocks
Drone description no longer references the ability to fight
Reduced ammo loot counts by ~15 to 30%
Reduced amount of ammo found in yellow zombie loot bags from large to medium group
Reduced amount of ammo found in blue zombie loot bags from 2 large rolls to 1
Updated colliders and xml on all arrow slits to work like iron bars
Yes Arlene, it's time to take the Christmas tree down! Removed Christmas themed items from loot.
Improved AI destroy area trigger percents/distances, stun handling and capped spread to allies
TerrDestroyedWoodDebris now harvests 1,2 wood instead of 3 to be better aligned with the cost of frame shape blocks
Mmetal_weak to Mmetal on stoves to match other appliance HP pools
Increased the max HP from 5 to 100 on lootable backpacks, duffle bags, sports bags, and purses to help prevent premature loot loss
Added quick exit keyrack to POI oldwest_business_13.
Large_park_01 moved kiosk 1 block to the back, added extra floor under it
Farm_04 made changes so it's no longer easy to reach and kill final sleepers before triggering. Fixed mispainted textures. Changed quick exit for roll up door.
Farm_08 locked front door. Added light pointing at the quest's entrance.
Removed restore power quest from lot_downtown_filler_01
Clean up and rename junk drone console commands to jd for local player data and jd clear for clearing.
House_old_tudor_06 to new RWG standards.
House_old_bungalow_08 for new RWG country residential.

Fixed

Remnant_downtown_12, mispainted textures
Terrain density covers satchel in warehouse_04
Missing paint behind curtains in house_old_ranch_01.
Missing paint in gas_station_07.
In body_shop_01, loot room sleepers on rooftop spawn within players view
Terrain water blocks can be broken and sent flying in block shape by the splash damage from Rocket HE rounds.
Distant and/or low resolution reflections/lighting on arrows are pink
Inaccessible cabinets in house_old_ranch_06.
In POI oldwest_business_12 sleeper stuck between 2 bookshelves.
In POI house_old_victorian_05 nightstand and bed clipping into window ledges.
House_old_modular_06 z fighting on exterior.
Diner_03 density issue on roof.
Diner_03 bathrooms need stall art update (restaurant booths, commercial sink, mirror, easy exit, etc.)
House_old_modular_08 zfighting on exterior windows
POI canyon_gift_shop has extra blocks.
Survivor_site_09 zfighting on watch tower.
Fastfood_04 terrain hole under car.
Treasure maps calculate location from 0,0
Confuse does not affect vehicle controls.
Active drones can duplicate
Drone manager duplication
Drone can fall under bedrock and get stuck
JunkDrone stay command sync error with clients that could cause multiple drones.
Remove the "and fight" from the Robotic Drone's information localization
JunkDrone case where teleporting away was not creating a nav object for the unloaded chunk.
Handled a case where picking up the junk drone was not fully cleaned up from the player data.
NRE caused by highlighted text in inventory search field
UI button hover scale effect only playing once per button per game session
Playtest and give feedback on countrytown_business_13 The Dead Rooster
HUDStatBar not working with "statcurrent" for "ActiveItem" when holding a paintbrush
Playtest and give feedback on countrytown_business_06 Ruby's
Downtown_filler_30 (TIER3, clear, search): sleepers showing through ceiling and birdnest clipping through awning
Workbench not crafting multiples of items correctly if output slots full and placed directly into player inventory.
Workbench duplication bug
Can not shoot through bunkBedFrame
Pathing incorrect ladder height check if open to sky
SMG and Desert Eagle holosight location update.
Adjusted collision to close out gap between the door and the frames of all cellar doors and shutters that allowed player interaction behind them
Inconsistent resources and scaling on military armor recipes
AK47 and Pump Shotgun holosight location update.
Tactical AR holosight scope offset for dot alignment.
Holosight dot position updates for Iron Crossbow and Compound Crossbow
Holosight dot position updates for Lever Action Rifle and AutoShotgun
Structural Integrity is not recalculating when block pillar is recreated
Fixed Slightly tweaked Scope Camera offsets and dot placement for Reflex scope on pipeShotgun
Playtest and give feedback on countrytown_business_13 The Dead Rooster
Missing textures and sleeper volume issues in downtown_filler_13 based on player feedback.
Sniper Rifle holosight dot update.
Attempting to generate a world with Seed: ActableCravings results in a KeyNotFoundException
Scrolling too fast in part selector causes NREs
Show Stability could show old colors
Playtest and give feedback on commercial_strip_01
Using Advanced Generation to generate a 4k world results in an Argument Out Of Range Exception
Cellar door and shutter open/close issue
Explosion of water fix would cause chunk regen to never resume
ChangeBlocks handling of clusters with recursion
Farm_07 mispainted texture in kitchen cabinet next to stove
Achievements aren't working
Fixed not tied to build : Cut Gamestage Achievements in half
Switching between Steam offline mode and online within one savegame results in different player profiles/saves
Restore power host melee desync
Fixed zfighting on exterior windows at house_old_bungalow_11.
In POI motel_01 sleepers in final room do not spawn until after player is inside room
Door unlocked in house_old_victorian_01
House_mansard_06 unstable cellar door
Zfighting and missing paint at POI bank_01
Exit sign in courthouse_med_01 is too low.
Floating TV's in bank_01.
Bank_01 zfighting
Action_time_shift index out of range.
Using Twitch teleports while in a workstation UI does not close the UI.
Added missing IndexName property for chandelierLight to work with restore power quests
Origin shift could cause objects to fall through world
Vehicles and drones are using repair kits without showing the minus inventory icon on the HUD
Path node otherheight bad in cabin_11
Arrow slit AI exploit ("Zombie Forcefield". Other shapes/rotations can/will allow setups like this, but they are not nearly as convenient)
Falling ragdoll ground hits did not do damage or AI handling
Imposter issues on rwg_tile_downtown_t
Updated missing paint on attic ceiling corners in house_burnt_01
Updated missing paint on attic ceiling corners in house_old_bungalow_06
Having a full inventory and equipping a tool or weapon deletes currently selected hotbar item
Player bedroll and vehicle locations are displayed in the console
Deleted two utility poles in the trader tile to remove an exploit
Occasional NullRef's when decapitating wolves, mountain lions and deer as client on dedicated server
Door near loot room was unlocked in POI oldwest_business_13.

A20.1 b6

Sat, 29 Jan 2022 03:16 CET

The A20.1 b6 EXP update brings a fix to the crash several users experienced since A20.1 b5.
What else it has in store for you, find out below.

A20.1 B6 The Forum Bug Reporting Thread [community.7daystodie.com]

Changelog

Added

AI destroy area is canceled when damaged by an entity

Changed

Updated colliders and xml on all arrow slits to work like iron bars
Yes Arlene, it's time to take the Christmas tree down! Removed Christmas themed items from loot.
Updated bombshelter_02 based on feedback.
Improved AI destroy area trigger percents/distances, stun handling and capped spread to allies
TerrDestroyedWoodDebris now harvests 1,2 wood instead of 3 to be better aligned with the cost of frame shape blocks
Mmetal_weak to Mmetal on stoves to match other appliance HP pools
Increased the max HP from 5 to 100 on lootable backpacks, duffle bags, sports bags, and purses to help prevent premature loot loss
Disabled graphics jobs
Added quick exit keyrack to POI oldwest_business_13.

Fixed

Using action_teleport_landclaim with no landclaims down causes null reference spam.
Arrow slit AI exploit ("Zombie Forcefield". Other shapes/rotations can/will allow setups like this, but they are not nearly as convenient)
Falling ragdoll ground hits did not do damage or AI handling
Imposter issues on rwg_tile_downtown_t
Missing textures, Added food helper piles to kitchens, adjusted sleeper volumes based on player feedback in downtown_filler_12.
Lot_industrial_14 sand pile made of sandstone.
In POI house_old_bungalow_09 bed frame clipping through window trim.
Origin shifting before the player spawns
Gameevent teleport can now teleport relative to player facing.
Only Usable property for twitch actions can now be set to VIPs.
Updated missing paint on attic ceiling corners in house_burnt_01
Updated missing paint on attic ceiling corners in house_old_bungalow_06
Having a full inventory and equipping a tool or weapon deletes currently selected hotbar item
Player bedroll and vehicle locations are displayed in the console
Deleted two utility poles in the trader tile to remove an exploit
Occasional NullRef's when decapitating wolves, mountain lions and deer as client on dedicated server
Door near loot room was unlocked in POI oldwest_business_13.

A20.1 b5 EXP

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 05:12 CET

The EXP branch is now populated with our first point release to A20.
Give it a go and have fun.

Starting a new savegame on a fresh world is recommended.
Old savegames should still be compatible, create a backup anyway, just in case.

To participate:

1. right click on the game in steam
2. click on properties
3. click the "betas" tab
4. the drop down menu will have latest_experimental available ← you want THAT
5. select that and wait for the game to download.

A20.1 b5

Added

Show Stability makes a cly different green for max and darkens colors every 1m of world space

Changed

Updates to downtown_strip_05 based on player feedback (e.g. texture issues, sleeper adjustment, etc.)
Updated to house_modern_18 made path more obvious, added torches, added triggers so sleepers arent' left behind, etc.
Updates to remnant_skyscraper_01 based on QA feedback.
Updated house_construction_01 and house_construction_02 with new art props
Updated remnant_business_0205, updated with new art and shapes
Updated store_book_01, store_clothing_01, store_electronics_02, store_grocery_01, store_gun_02, added new art and new shapes
House_modern_23 Changes made based on feedback
Updated restore power and sleeper configuration for countrytown_business_04 based on player feedback.
Warehouse_04: added floor trims inside warehouses, fixed mispainted textures in bathrooms and kitchen's floor, replaced shelfs to prevent zfight.
Remnant_waste_01 replaced sinks for sink shape inside ice cream store. Improved destroyed ceiling
Updated downtown_strip_10 based on player feedback.
Downtown_filler_27 removed door frame simulating door that was permanently closed to avoid confusion
House_modern_23: changes made after level designers meeting feedback
Reworked all couch harvests to give some of the main resources on the destroy event instead in the middle of the harvest
Slightly increased the probability of books found in book piles and crackabook shelves
Enabled graphics jobs
Downtown_filler_23. Replaced bank upper windows for bulletproof. Replaced old fuse boxes. Fixed trigger not properly linked to door.
Updated loot probability and quality templates to better align with the new loot stage system
Added and updated loot probabilities with a ProbT2Cap template to prevent empty loot containers and/or missing loot items at high loot stage where ProbT3 is not available
Mailboxes now have a higher chance to spawn archery, spear, and needle and thread books y game
Reworked tiered chest loot to better reflect POI difficulty
Reduced the amount of aloe cream found in backpacks
Increased the chance to find acid in sinks and chemical sets
Added another low chance to find vehicle wheels in PassNGas crates
Warehouse_04: final loot room sleepers volumes rearranged to hold at least two feral. Replaced fake scrap metal rollup doors for steel ones. Fixed mispainted texture in perimetral wall )
Reorganized the furniture helpers to prevent unwanted block rotations hiding adjacent block faces due to mixed block types/properties
Moved cabinets, cupboards, and bookshelves to a new player crafted helper block (same recipe as before)
Moved the storage crate and writable storage crate to their own recipes (same recipe as before)
Moved the old chair out of the furniture helper and gave it its own new recipe
Added produce baskets, pallets, and empty clothes shelves to furniture helper
Updated preview thumbnail JPGs for part_loot_t1 through t5.
Updated house_old_tudor_06 to new RWG standards.
Updated house_old_bungalow_08 for new RWG country residential.
Updated large_park_01 moved kiosk 1 block to the back, added extra floor under it
Farm_04 made changes so it's no longer easy to reach and kill final sleepers before triggering. Fixed mispainted textures. Changed quick exit for roll up door.
Farm_08 locked front door. Added light pointing at the quest's entrance.
Removed restore power quest from lot_downtown_filler_01
Cut Gamestage Achievements in half
Penetrator Perk now references the Lever Action rifle instead of the Marksman rifle
Updated Localization for furniture helper blocks
Drone description no longer references the ability to fight
Reduced ammo loot counts by ~15 to 30%
Reduced amount of ammo found in yellow zombie loot bags from large to medium group
Reduced amount of ammo found in blue zombie loot bags from 2 large rolls to 1

Fixed

Remnant_downtown_12, mispainted textures
Terrain density covers satchel in warehouse_04
Missing paint behind curtains in house_old_ranch_01.
Missing paint in gas_station_07.
In body_shop_01, loot room sleepers on rooftop spawn within players view
Terrain water blocks can be broken and sent flying in block shape by the splash damage from Rocket HE rounds.
Distant and/or low resolution reflections/lighting on arrows are pink
Inaccessible cabinets in house_old_ranch_06.
In POI oldwest_business_12 sleeper stuck between 2 bookshelves.
In POI house_old_victorian_05 nightstand and bed clipping into window ledges.
House_old_modular_06 z fighting on exterior.
Diner_03 density issue on roof.
Diner_03 bathrooms need stall art update (restaurant booths, commercial sink, mirror, easy exit, etc.)
House_old_modular_08 zfighting on exterior windows
POI canyon_gift_shop has extra blocks.
Survivor_site_09 zfighting on watch tower.
Fastfood_04 terrain hole under car.
Treasure maps calculate location from 0,0
Confuse does not affect vehicle controls.
Drone can fall under bedrock and get stuck
JunkDrone stay command sync error with clients that could cause multiple drones.
Remove the "and fight" from the Robotic Drone's information localization
JunkDrone case where teleporting away was not creating a nav object for the unloaded chunk.
Handled a case where picking up the junk drone was not fully cleaned up from the player data.
NRE caused by highlighted text in inventory search field
UI button hover scale effect only playing once per button per game session
Playtest and give feedback on countrytown_business_13 The Dead Rooster
HUDStatBar not working with "statcurrent" for "ActiveItem" when holding a paintbrush
Playtest and give feedback on countrytown_business_06 Ruby's
Downtown_filler_30 (TIER3, clear, search): sleepers showing through ceiling and birdnest clipping through awning
Workbench not crafting multiples of items correctly if output slots full and placed directly into player inventory.
Workbench duplication bug
Can not shoot through bunkBedFrame
Pathing incorrect ladder height check if open to sky
SMG and Desert Eagle holosight location update.
Adjusted collision to close out gap between the door and the frames of all cellar doors and shutters that allowed player interaction behind them
Inconsistent resources and scaling on military armor recipes
AK47 and Pump Shotgun holosight location update.
Tactical AR holosight scope offset for dot alignment.
Holosight dot position updates for Iron Crossbow and Compound Crossbow
Holosight dot position updates for Lever Action Rifle and AutoShotgun
Structural Integrity is not recalculating when block pillar is recreated
Slightly tweaked Scope Camera offsets and dot placement for Reflex scope on pipeShotgun
Playtest and give feedback on countrytown_business_13 The Dead Rooster
Missing textures and sleeper volume issues in downtown_filler_13 based on player feedback.
Sniper Rifle holosight dot update.
Attempting to generate a world with Seed: ActableCravings results in a KeyNotFoundException
Scrolling too fast in part selector causes NREs
Show Stability could show old colors
Playtest and give feedback on commercial_strip_01
Using Advanced Generation to generate a 4k world results in an Argument Out Of Range Exception
Cellar door and shutter open/close issue
Explosion of water fix would cause chunk regen to never resume
ChangeBlocks handling of clusters with recursion
Farm_07 mispainted texture in kitchen cabinet next to stove
Achievements aren't working
Switching between Steam offline mode and online within one savegame results in different player profiles/saves
Restore power host melee desync
Zfighting on exterior windows at house_old_bungalow_11.
In POI motel_01 sleepers in final room do not spawn until after player is inside room
Door unlocked in house_old_victorian_01
House_mansard_06 unstable cellar door
Zfighting and missing paint at POI bank_01
Exit sign in courthouse_med_01 is too low.
Floating TV's in bank_01.
Bank_01 zfighting
Action_time_shift index out of range.
Using Twitch teleports while in a workstation UI does not close the UI.
Added missing IndexName property for chandelierLight to work with restore power quests
Origin shift could cause objects to fall through world
Vehicles and drones are using repair kits without showing the minus inventory icon on the HUD
Path node otherheight bad in cabin_11

7 Days is now 70% Off!

Wed, 22 Dec 2021 19:01 CET

Hey Survivors,
TFP wanted to wish the team and all of you a very Merry Christmas. And to Celebrate 7 Days is now on sale for 70% Off for the duration of the Steam Winter Sale!

There is no better time to buy it as the feature rich Alpha 20 just dropped and is 70% Off. Find out why Alpha 20 has broken the games highest peak player record and highest review scores. Navezgane awaits!

7 Days to Die Steam Store Page

A20 b238 goes stable

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 23:08 CET

Hello survivors!

Today we release A20 b238 to stable.

Find our forum announcement here.[community.7daystodie.com]
The complete changelog can be found here.[7daystodie.com]

We do have a public test server running for people to join and hopefully reproduce chunk and/or region errors on it, so we analyze the log.
steam://connect/185.209.179.61:25008

TFP wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

A20 b238 EXP

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:12 CET

Alpha 20 B238 Experimental is out!

Official A20 Experimental Forum Bug Thread[community.7daystodie.com]

Here is how you can access the A20 Experimental build:

Right click on the game in steam
Click on properties
Click the “betas” tab
The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available <— you want THAT
Select that and wait for the game to download

Changelog A20 b238

Changed

AI destroy area works on full paths
Wrehouse_02: reduced street light intensity
Warehouse_05: replaced poles with parking blocks, reduced street light intensity
Pass on fixing POI densities

Fixed

AI path grid has missing ladder nodes from origin shift
Docks_02 has an SI issue with the bridge sign area.
Cleaned densities on terrain for house_old_ranch_10
Added key to front door on house_old_ranch_10

A20 b234-b237 EXP

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 05:32 CET

Alpha 20 Experimental is out!

Official A20 Experimental Forum Bug Thread[community.7daystodie.com]

Here is how you can access the A20 Experimental build:

Right click on the game in steam
Click on properties
Click the “betas” tab
The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available <— you want THAT
Select that and wait for the game to download

Changelog b234-b237

Added

Shape MaterialHitpointMultiplier scales a blocks upgrade, repair and harvest values
Block LODCullMin to override culling minimum (2% default).
part_trader_tile_filler_03

Changed

Adjusted AI destroy area values
Switched the capsule collider to a box collider and adjusted the size to prevent floating arrows on large ammo piles
Set landmines to .1% min cull
Block shapes with 25% and 50% HP are now back to 100%
Suppressors attached to pipe pistols now suppress
Suppressors attached to .44 magnums now suppress, a little
Reduced sleeper count in volume in rwg_tile_countrytown_intersection
Updated part_trader_tile_filler_01, removed player sleeping bags and replaced them with the POI versions

Fixed

Car block can throw error when exploded
AI not attacking when blocked above a ladder
Regression in vehicle headlight toggling with a controller
Reduced AI trying to crouch when pushed into walls
AI uncrouching when someone above them which could push them through colliders
NRE ItemActionEntrySell HandleRemoveAmmo with a junk sledge when selling
Rwg_tile_gateway_cap with new part_trader_tile_filler_03
Terrain and road bumps in Navezgane.

A20 EXP update b233

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 03:13 CET

A lil somethin somethin: You can find the details for this event on the announcement page here.

A20 b231 EXP Patch

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 16:17 CET

We have just released an update to A20 Experimental b218 with some great fixes.

Here is how you can access the A20 Experimental build:

Right click on the game in steam
Click on properties
Click the “betas” tab
The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available <— you want THAT
Select that and wait for the game to download.

Changelog b219-b231

Official Forum Bug Reporting Post[community.7daystodie.com]

Added

City_center_01 tier 4 "Olgiddy & Brother" ad agency POI.
Held candle light visibility
VoteRequirements for buff and progression.
Random pitch support to sounds played at a position (like impacts) or in head
LighLODHeld flickerRadius which does algorithmic motion (added to candle)

Changed

Removed infinite blocks/paint from cheat mode
Added missing random loot counts to some raw food crafting ingredients
Iron Bars now upgrade to concrete
Increased player's held light visibility when world darker
Lowered the max texture quality VRAM requirement to 3 GB
Living off the Land level 2 now has a 50% chance to harvest 1 additional crop
Updated the verbiage referencing the land claim block in the game mode tool tip
Slightly lowered the stamina use of the pipe baton
Improved wording on LandClaimExpiryTime and BedrollExpiryTime comments in serverconfig.xml
Increased sound clip randomness and don't repeat the same clip
In A19 items got increased scrapping speed when scrapping to iron. Updated all other scrap actions to the same speed.
Rare or progression relevant items can not be scrapped or smelted. This includes crafted workstations, vehicles and their assembled parts, workstation tools like an anvil or beaker and sewing kits.
Reduced the magazine size of the pipe machine gun
Lowered the Max Durability of all ranged pipe weapons
Most pole and smaller sized shape HP values reduced by 75%
Most plate and similar sized shape HP values reduced by 50%
Added missing light opacity property to "most" block shapes that have holes or do not fill more than 50% of the voxel space to allow indoor or underground farming
Commercial_strip_02 tier 2 questable.
.44 magnum rounds are now found earlier in loot progression
Reworked the loot found in caskets and coffins
Updated LiteNetLib to 0.9.5.2, includes some disconnection fixes
House_modern_05 updated
Additional changes to store_autoparts_01

Fixed

Teleporting from the boss horde fails the event.
Running from the boss hordes no longer rewards you a crate.
Boss hordes should stay focused on the target player.
Boss hordes could fail if someone leaves the party.
If any of the boss horde despawns, despawn the rest.
Incorrect wording in twitch settings for custom events.
User created map waypoints do not display text
Some new blocks like shutters have a stack count of 1
Issue with UV's on scaffolding_plank_supported_center
Brawling perks and books can be in effect while driving a vehicle since the player is technically using hands during that
Advanced Generation RWG GC Memory Allocation Crash
Player placed light sources did not increase visibility of player except on dedi
Rain can be seen inside POIs
Radiated and feral Mutant zombies don't have spit attack
Zombie dogs missing flame effect
#reverse now flips the velocity of the vehicle as well.
Traders protection buffer area overlapping into POIs outside of the tile
Fixed remnant_oldwest_07 z fighting
Drone mods of the same type stack. Cargo mods are allowed to stack.
In current RWG Oldwest towns can spawn in water
NRE when generating 2 worlds without closing the client
Party member with shared quest for same restore power location causes current restore power quest to break.
Issues in current RWG including Generated World name
Removed recognizable credit card logos from ATM
Custom POIs added via the "Mods" folder are not spawning in Random Gen
Docks_03 in navezgane is almost full of water now.
Pregens Trader space adjustments and oldwest_corner fix
KeyNotFoundException in advanced gen on 2nd consecutive generation
Town tiles can overlap one another, including/cutting in half POI's
Missing red tint on cntBuriedLootStashChestInsecure
Wrong icon for wedgeNarrowTipLeftTrim2SidedRail
3rd person arrows are pink
Vehicle headlight and personal flashlights had different actions, making it impossible to assign the same keyboard button when reassigning
TerminalWindowEnabled setting not respected when starting a dedi server
No flame on candle when equipped
Zombie AI gets stuck attacking 1/2 block pillar
EntityLootContainer "unloadEntity !dict" can cause NRE
Flipped normal on cube_half_bottom_pole_1m_top collider allowed entities to fall into it
Improved PathAbstractions performance during game sessions
Timed charges arming audio
Burning buff now plays burning sounds.
Burning Shaft mod causes pink & different lighting effects
Spears missing material when in midflight
Multiple restore power quests at the same location cause a corrupted quest
Businessman zombie head flopping around during ragdoll

Alpha 20 Experimental is out!

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 20:09 CET

Hey Survivors,
We are proud to announce that the ‘Alpha 20' Public Experimental Build will be out today! We would like to thank all of the participating Streamers who streamed over the weekend.

Official Alpha 20 Forum Bug Reporting Thread [community.7daystodie.com]

Here is how you can access the A20 Experimental build:

Right click on the game in steam
Click on properties
Click the “betas” tab
The drop down menu will have latest_experimental available <— you want THAT
Select that and wait for the game to download

.
Alpha 20 Official Release Notes

Alpha 20 is by far the largest content drop TFP has ever delivered. This is partly due to TFP nearly doubling the team size over the last two years and vastly improving our proprietary tools to improve the game and speed up new content creation.

Alpha 20 takes some big leaps towards Gold with these major improvements:

A brand-new version of Random Gen World creation with new cities, city tiles and a part system spawner. You will be blown away by it!
Over 200 new POI’s and updates to many of the older POI’s. Over 550 Explorable locations total
Navezgane has many city improvements, terrain improvements and new rural and wilderness communities
Nearly 25 new HD characters with a couple with improved shaders
6 New weapons and 13 HD remakes with the addition of new primitive pipe weapons
Overhauled shape menu with hundreds of new shapes organized and buildable from a simple frame with in-game, creative and level design support
Block Placement Improvements
We have added a Robotic Drone Companion to carry your extra gear, heal you and more
Dynamic Imposter System renders accurate changes to POI’s and player bases at far distances
Rendering improvements with 100s of new PBR models
Quest Improvements including new restore power night Quests
AI Enemy Improvements including city spawning, ducking, obstacle attacks, head tracking and burst attacks.
Feral Sense Game options for a completely new game experience
Vehicle Improvements with coop passenger support and mods to improve and customize your Vehicles
Loot Progression Improvements include a new Loot Stage System, Biome and Tiered POI loot bonuses and early game balance
Improved dynamic music and ambient audio system with added new content
Improved weather system with more distinct and varying weather
Video Options for Anti-Aliasing - Temporal (TAA) and AA Sharpening have been added along with an auto detection system that will set your game settings to better match your hardwares capabilities.
Animations have been improved from 1st person to 3rd person to provide a more immersive experience
A new Dismemberment system has been integrated with some of the zombies
Twitch Integration has been improved with many new commands, voting and more
Modding support has been improved with better world editing, level editing, RWG and Server.XML settings and tools

Alpha 20 is not compatible with previous Alpha worlds or save game data. New Pregen-Maps have been created and can be used. We also advise that you delete the 7 Days save Game data folder before playing.

TFP is extremely excited for this release. It’s by far the biggest Alpha ever and is jam packed with new content, bug fixes, optimizations, and game balancing. Read on for more information!

Complete Alpha 20 Change log [7daystodie.com]

Here is a great Alpha 20 main Features Breakdown by Guns, Nerds and Steel!

Alpha 20 Streamer Weekend Starts Now!

Fri, 03 Dec 2021 18:14 CET

Alpha 20 Streamer Weekend Starts Now!

We are proud to announce that the ‘Alpha 20 Streamer Weekend’ is finally here. We have partnered with over 200 streamers from 30 countries.

We will be running the Streamer Weekend event from Friday, December 3rd through Sunday, December 5th.

Expect a public experimental to follow sometime Monday afternoon December 6th.

Many will be streaming all weekend and giving away Free Keys. Check their channels for their upcoming weekend schedules. These are being broadcast in many languages so scroll down to find yours.

https://7daystodie.com/a20-streamer-weekend/

Alpha 20 Streamer Weekend is here!

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:18 CET

Hey Survivors,
We are proud to announce that the ‘Alpha 20 Streamer Weekend’ is finally here. We have partnered with over 200 streamers from 30 countries.

The Alpha 20 Streamer Weekend event starts Friday, December 3rd starting at 12:00 pm CST through Sunday, December 5th. Many streamers broadcasting in several languages will be streaming all weekend and giving away Free 7 Days to Die Keys.

Expect a public experimental build to follow sometime Monday afternoon, December 6th.

Official Alpha 20 Streamer Weekend Participants List[7daystodie.com]

Alpha 20 Official Release Notes

Alpha 20 is by far the largest content drop TFP has ever delivered. This is partly due to TFP nearly doubling the team size over the last two years and vastly improving our proprietary tools to improve the game and speed up new content creation.

Alpha 20 takes some big leaps towards Gold with these major improvements:

A brand-new version of Random Gen World creation with new cities, city tiles and a part system spawner. You will be blown away by it!
Over 200 new POI’s and updates to many of the older POI’s. Over 550 Explorable locations total
Navezgane has many city improvements, terrain improvements and new rural and wilderness communities
Nearly 25 new HD characters with a couple with improved shaders
6 New weapons and 13 HD remakes with the addition of new primitive pipe weapons
Overhauled shape menu with hundreds of new shapes organized and buildable from a simple frame with in-game, creative and level design support
Block Placement Improvements
We have added a Robotic Drone Companion to carry your extra gear, heal you and more
Dynamic Imposter System renders accurate changes to POI’s and player bases at far distances
Rendering improvements with 100s of new PBR models
Quest Improvements including new restore power night Quests
AI Enemy Improvements including city spawning, ducking, obstacle attacks, head tracking and burst attacks.
Feral Sense Game options for a completely new game experience
Vehicle Improvements with coop passenger support and mods to improve and customize your Vehicles
Loot Progression Improvements include a new Loot Stage System, Biome and Tiered POI loot bonuses and early game balance
Improved dynamic music and ambient audio system with added new content
Improved weather system with more distinct and varying weather
Video Options for Anti-Aliasing - Temporal (TAA) and AA Sharpening have been added along with an auto detection system that will set your game settings to better match your hardwares capabilities.
Animations have been improved from 1st person to 3rd person to provide a more immersive experience
A new Dismemberment system has been integrated with some of the zombies
Twitch Integration has been improved with many new commands, voting and more
Modding support has been improved with better world editing, level editing, RWG and Server.XML settings and tools

Random World Generation

TFP is very proud and excited to bring a brand new Random World Generation System to Alpha 20. The System has been re-engineered from the ground up with a focus on generation speed, flexibility, quality visuals, believability, replay-ability, POI dispersion, Trader positions, and so much more. We took a more content-driven approach for POI’s, City Tiles, and Stamps. Cities and roads are much more believable and detailed. Wilderness paths connect in a believable way to POI’s. There are really too many changes to list but here are some of the main features included:

New Districts which includes downtown, industrial, commercial, residential, rural, country town, wilderness, and country residential
New RWG Tiles support city and town construction which includes tile variants of: Intersection, straight, corner, caps and T-sections with nearly 50 unique tiles.
New stamps to improve and create unique terrain for every biome
New stamps to support rivers and canyons
New faster RWG creation supports 6k, 8k and 10k maps
New town types: City, Town, Country Town and Ghost town. Custom townships can also be added.
New Part Spawn Markers which add unique Prefab possibilities to tiles and POI’s
New Road exit markers that align POI driveways to the end of roads
POI distribution has been improved to better use the over 550 unique POI’s and nearly 50 city tiles that the game has to offer for nearly infinite replay value
POI’s except for wilderness have all been redone to to improve how they work with the new city tile system. Sizes include: Small 25 X 25 meters, Medium 42 X 42 meters, Large 60 x 60 meters, Extra large 100 x 100 sizes
POI placement has been improved to account for each POI’s overall performance cost and as a result, very heavy POI’s will not be placed near each other which helps keep the game running better.
3 Brand new Pre-generated maps will be offered.
XML support for modding in your own tiles, parts, unique town types, and more see Server.XML and Modding section below for more detail.
New Random Gen Preview tool mix options to support tweaking custom maps to your liking changing many things including: Frequency of Towns, Frequency of Wilderness POI’s, Frequency of Rivers, Craters, Cracks, and Lakes, Frequency of Plains, Hills, and Mountains, Global amount of Randomness

Locations

The TFP Level team doubled in size by late 2020. That paired with many improvements to the proprietary level tools, shape tools, and world tools have helped the POI team generate an enormous amount of new and updated content for Alpha 20.

Here are just a few of the great things coming to Alpha 20:

Over 175 Brand new explorable POI’s
Over 25 reimagined old POI’s
Over 550 Explorable locations
Many Tier 3 and 4s have been added with some new and updated tier 5s
Alpha 20 POI Tier breakdown includes:
Tier 5 POI’s - 7
Tier 4 POI’s - 29
Tier 3 POI’s - 52
Tier 2 POI’s - 102
Tier 1 and Remnant POI’s - 360
There are over 200 new and overhauled POI’s, too many to mention but some notable larger POI’s include:
Countrytown_business_05 - “Butcher Petes” (Overhauled Tier 4)
Factory_03 ( New Tier 5)
Apartment_brick_6_flr (Overhauled Tier 5)
Apartment_01 (New Tier 4)
Downtown_strip_05 (New Tier 4)
Downtown_strip_07 (New Tier 4)
Downtown_strip_09 (New Tier 3)
Downtown_strip_10 (New Tier 3)
Downtown_strip_11 (New Tier 4)
Warehouse_01 (New Tier 4)
Warehouse_03 (New Tier 4)
Skyscraper_01 (Overhauled Tier 5)
Skyscraper_02 (Overhauled Tier 5)
Skyscraper_03 (Overhauled Tier 5)
Skyscraper_04 (Overhauled Tier 4)
Navezgane has gotten a little love with some new POI’s added. Diersville, Departure, Gravestowne, and Perishton Updates. New suburban, rural and wilderness communities were added. Road and Terrain Updates.

Characters

Our character team has been busy overhauling and re-imagining all of the zombies and NPCs in HD.

Nearly 25 new HD characters have been completed for Alpha 20 in fact all non player characters and enemies are now HD. There are also new improved character shaders for zombies, NPC’s, radiated zombies and burnt zombies. The New HD zombies include:

New HD Wight Zombie
New HD Thug Zombie
New HD Tom Clarke Zombie
New HD Worker Zombie
New HD Mechanic Zombie
New HD Hazmat Zombie
New HD Dog Zombie
New HD Biker Zombie
New HD Spider Zombie
New HD Soldier Zombie
New HD Lab Zombie
New HD Cop Zombie
New HD Tourist Zombie
New HD Nurse Zombie
New HD Lumberjack Zombie
New HD Businessman Zombie
New HD Mutant Zombie
New HD Screamer Zombie
New HD Stripper Zombie
New HD Burnt Zombie
New HD Trader Joel
New HD Trader Rekt
New HD Trader Hugh
New HD Trader Bob

Weapons

Alpha 20 introduces a new line of pipe weapons along with an overhaul of several current weapons for a total of 6 new weapons and 13 upgraded HD remakes to further the look and feel of an apocalyptic environment.

Pipe weapons are new early-game weapons easily crafted in your backpack, and only require basic ingredients like short iron pipes, wood, glue, and leather. Players will now have access to a Pipe Baton, Pipe Pistol, Pipe Shotgun, Pipe Rifle, and a Pipe Machine gun in earlier gameplay to be in tune with the new loot and level balancing. These weapons all have custom sounds and animations with variable mod slots similar to existing in-game weapons. Pipe weapons are easily repaired with short iron pipes. As part of weapon cleanup, the Blunderbuss was removed and replaced with the new Pipe Shotgun.

A new Lever Action Rifle was added to round out and complete the existing rifle tier. The Lever Action Rifle’s firing speed and range make it a great gun for outdoor survival. This rifle also uses 7.62 mm rounds and has variable mod slots similar to existing in-game weapons.

Existing weapon overhauls include new models, textures, and/or sounds for already favorite items like the AK-47, SMG, M60, .44 Magnum, Hunting Rifle, and the Rocket Launcher. These texture and model upgrades add some nice polish and align with the look and feel of other art upgrades throughout the game. In addition to model and texture updates, the Bows, Crossbows, and Compound Bow all received a damage increase. Arrow models received an update to complete the new look and feel of the bows.

Shape and Creative Menu

Building blocks have received a major overhaul. For starters, there are now over 1300 unique shapes to select from for every craftable material. Players can now craft 5 basic material helper blocks which are:
Frames (OSB/Weak Wood texture), Wood, Cobblestone, Concrete and Steel.

After crafting, equip them to the toolbelt and then use the radial menu (or shortcut keys Shift+R) to open the shape selection screen. This screen shows several shape categories that can then narrow down the search:

Basic, Square, Round, Wedge, Poles, Stairs, Catwalks, Trim, Windows, Destruction, Construction, Deco and Letters

For you modders out there, the shape menu brings with it an easier way to add new shapes to the game. Simply add the new shape definitions to shapes.xml and let the game fill in the materials for that shape at runtime. The new shapes are then automatically added to the material shape helpers in game. This feature also greatly reduces the amount of crafting recipes needed.

The creative menu has also been overhauled with a new category system and look.

Stability Preview

Placing blocks has had several changes. The block preview now animates smoothly through the world and the shading is improved. The preview will also change color to indicate the effect of adding the block. Colors Include:

Yellow - The block is stable. As the block becomes more yellow it means it is getting less stable
Red - Placing the block would cause some type of collapse. Adding blocks to reinforce other parts of the structure may allow this block to then be placed without collapse
Pink – Placing would cause this block to fall as it does not have sufficient support

Robotic Drone Companion

The new Robotic Drone is a companion that gives the player extra storage and some enhanced end game features. The drones abilities can be augmented and enhanced by the player's intellect, but players can still acquire and use a Drone without perking into it.
The Robotic drone is modded in the player’s inventory. Dyes are added to the cosmetic slot and mods to the modifier slot(s).

Some of the Additional Mods and Enhancements to the Drone include:

Robotic Drone Armor Plating Mod - Increases the Drones Defenses
Robotic Drone Cargo Mod -Increases the Drones carrying capacity
Robotic Drone Medic Mod - Gives the Drone the ability to heal the player
Robotic Drone Moral Booster Mod - Player Stamina regen is increased by 10% when near the Drone
Robotic Drone Headlamp Mod - Gives the Drone a headlight

Dynamic Imposters

We have added a brand new Dynamic Imposter System to the game which renders changes to Distant chunk POI meshes caused by players or zombies. Changes such as destroying a building, building your own base or adding to or modifying an existing building can now be appropriately displayed by the Dynamic Imposter System. Updated imposter meshes are automatically shared with new players who join the game.

What does this mean for players? With this option turned on you can renovate existing POI’s, fortify a whole town or build a castle on a hill top and see the changes from anywhere in the world.

Depending on PC strength we have several game option settings that can be edited in serverconfig.xml
DynamicMeshEnabled - Setting to true will enable the system
DynamicMeshLandClaimOnly - Setting to true will make the system only active in player Land Claimed areas
DynamicMeshLandClaimBuffer - Dynamic Mesh Land Claim Base chunk radius size
DynamicMeshMaxItemCache - How many items can be processed concurrently, higher values use more RAM

Big Thanks to Danny Richardson from the 7 Days to Die modding community for working with TFP on this awesome new system!

Environment Art

The Environment Art and Shader Team have been improving much of the rendering tech and creating hundreds of new PBR environment models to enhance the world, POI’s and overall game immersion. Improvements include:

Terrain Shader - Updated for better quality and performance including improved roughness and specular shading modifications
Foliage Shader - Updated for improved rendering effects like subsurface scattering in addition to physically based rendering and packed textures for performance
Entity Tint Shader - This shader provides support for tinted color variations on models in addition to improving performance due to packed textures
New Terrain Textures
New Block Textures
Lighting and Sky Improvements
Meshes - Short plant meshes, like grass and cotton, have been greatly improved to generate more detail and much more variety of shapes with less mirroring. Mesh complexity now uses the grass quality setting which allows for less detail on lower end computers
Biomes - Plant distribution has been improved and the forest has a new short grass sub biome. Grass placement on slopes has been improved as well
Trees - Trees now have a root ball to seal holes at the base of the trunk
Clouds - Improved blending of cloud layers and we now can keep cross blends for much more variety and to better match the weather system
Lightning - Adjusted values, added a cloud area brightening effect and fixed a bug with the world not being lit
Wind - The weather system's wind speed now changes the speed of plants blowing in the wind and we added wind gusts
Along with all of the new POI’s of alpha 20, there is plenty of new content to add to the visual immersion of the game.
Cities are detailed to a whole new level, with props such as newspaper stands, mailboxes, street lights, parking meters, planters, operational manhole covers, traffic signals, new street signs as well as business signs, ATM’s, Etc.
Industrial locations are enhanced by new assets like new conveyor belt systems, construction site material stacks. Tarp fencing, etc.
All new functioning and destructible doors such as cellar doors and shutters.
More immersive destruction for the world you’ve come to love with a variety of new rubble piles.
A new Mesh tinting system and shader bring you more color variations of new art content to further customize your creations.
Hundreds of new and updated PBR meshes have been added to the game overall.

Quests

Questing improvements have been made all over the world in 7 Days To Die. Starter quests now have helpful on screen icons to show you where to find the required items. We’ve decided to retire the challenge notes to allow focus on new quest types. Buried Supplies have been updated to increase the challenge. We’ve also added a new tier 3 version of this quest type. Trader to Trader progression has changed. Each trader now has their own set of tiered quests that must be completed. Players can now navigate between those tiers when selecting a quest from the trader.

We’ve also added a new quest type, Restore Power. Restore Power quests are activated at night and require the player to re-establish power to the locations. Find the generators inside and activate them. Be careful as the generators may alert nearby zombies.

The AI and spawning of enemies have gotten some great improvements including:

Biome Spawning - Zombie spawning in biomes is now based on the types of buildings in the area, so industrial, commercial and downtown areas are more populated. These areas also spawn more challenging enemies in the harder biomes
Ducking - Zombies can now duck down to help them not get stuck on obstacles
Obstacle Attacks - Zombies now stand more reliably at the point of attack without sliding around
Head Tracking - Added more variety with when and where they look
Burst Attack - Added a new AOE burst attack, which is used by the new mutant zombie

Feral Sense Game Option

With standard settings Zombies have limited distances that they can hear and see you. The feral sense option allows you to greatly increase their hearing and seeing, which makes the game more challenging. This also makes the world seem more populated as zombies you may not have noticed will find you. Features include:

Increases the range that all types of zombies can hear and see the player by over double the normal amounts
Stealth still works, the zombies will just detect you more easily
Game options are Off, Day, Night, All (Day and Night)

Vehicles

We have added mods, coloring and additional improvements and bug fixes to Vehicles. Mods improve different aspects of your vehicle like using less fuel. Any of the dyes you get during gameplay can be added to the cosmetic slot to tint the vehicle’s color.

Mods

Expanded Seating - Allows 2 riders on the minibike or motorcycle and 4 on the 4x4
Fuel Saver - Your engine uses less gas
Reserve Fuel Tank - Increases tank capacity
Off Road Headlights - Brighter lights
Super Charger - Increases acceleration

Colors - You can place dyes in the cosmetic slot to colorize parts of each vehicle
Camera

Tracking - Improved camera tracking and fixed some popping issues
Zoom - Camera can now be zoomed in and out using the mouse wheel or gamepad

Fixes - Vehicle duplication or getting relocated to a new position in the world has been addressed along with better out of bounds checks

Loot

Loot Progression has been separated from Game Stage with its own Loot Stage system. Players will increase their loot stage similar to their game stage, but there are many bonuses that can add to it. The biome the player is in, the POI the player is looting, and even the container they are looking at can have a loot stage bonus. Loot stage will then boost the quality and/or the tier of items found. For example, adventurous players that explore the more difficult biomes and POI’s will find iron tools or advanced weapons a little faster than those that stay in the pine forest.

When it comes to biome bonuses, the progression is as follows:

Pine Forest
Desert
Snow
Wasteland

(NOTE: Burnt Forest in Navezgane is the same as the Desert)

Loot has been adjusted to provide early game weapons and tools a chance to shine. This grants the player time to find and use a higher quality item before finding the next tier. Books have also been realigned to deliver players books like Spear Hunter and Archery earlier for the most benefit. Food, Drink, Medical, and Ammo Supplies have been adjusted to keep players on the hunt for more in places you would expect to find them. To bring back the fear of infection, items that cure it have been greatly reduced.

There are also 5 new Tiered Loot chests that are placed according to the POI Tiers

Music

For the Dynamic music system In previous Alphas, our goal was to maximize the uniqueness of content by leveraging the power of combinations. Working around a theme, we could build complex musical compositions by layering loops on and pulling them off. These layers function as individual instruments do in standard compositions. By defining how a given layer would be used in a given configuration, and by sorting a number of interchangeable loops into these layers, we were able to get a very high number of unique combinations across all of our configurations.

While this schema allows for a high degree of versatility in the way of content, it is not reactive to gameplay on the content level. That is where our new "vertical dynamism" comes into play.

In A20 we have created a theme just for Bloodmoon. There is an ebb and flow to the intensity of combat during Bloodmoon, and we have revamped our threat level system to tap into it. Our new theme accounts for this, and the music now reacts in real-time to the intensity of Combat as if a conductor is watching your every move.

New Bloodmoon Music with threat-responsive layering system
Improved layering with added complexity for layered tracks
Improved randomization
Over 6.5 million combinations of tracks across all configurations
New Threat-Responsive Ambient Audio System

Audio

The game audio keeps improving and the audio team has kept up with the needs creating new custom sounds for all the new content including:

Twitch Sounds
Custom sounds for all new pipe weapons
New Door Sounds
New game vent activation sounds (keys, buttons, etc.)
Restore power quest sounds
Custom sounds for new loot chests

Weather

The world’s weather system continues to improve with weather now being more distinctive and varying. Improvements include:

Randomness - Improved calculations and shorter durations, so less likely to get stuck with the same weather
Weather groups - Added grouping of values like fog, clouds, and precipitation to allow distinctive types of weather like foggy, raining, snowing or storming. Each biome now uses these groups for their own weather

Video Options

Several quality settings have been changed to better control the game’s rendering. Auto detection was added, which looks at your GPU to determine what quality preset seems best for your computer. The first time A20 is run it will reset the video options and a preset will be chosen. New Options Include:

Anti-Aliasing - Temporal (TAA) is an added choice. It is an advanced rendering technique that smooths edges based on motion
AA Sharpening - With TAA on, you can use the sharpening option to increase how strong edges look in the game

Animation

The Animation Team has been busy improving the overall animation quality of the game. Some of the animation improvements that have gone into Alpha 20 Include:

Overall improvement of First and Third person Weapon hold, attack, power attack and idle animations
Overall improvement of First and Third person Tool hold, attack, power attack and idle animations
Better 3rd person blending of upper and lower body while walking, running, strafing and general movement while carrying weapons
New Zombie dog animations
New Jiggle Tech adds dynamic movement based motion for the following Zombies and Parts:
Bloated Tourist - Stomach and overall body fat
Cop - Stomach and overall body fat
Big Mama - Stomach and overall body fat
Lab Tech - Hair, body wounds, dangling hand
Soldier - Torso body wounds and torn uniform
Mutated Zombie - Acid bubbles on skin, including blended animation
Screamer - Clothing, hair and movement of jaw and tongue

Dismemberment

Alpha 20 includes a preview of a new dismemberment feature to eventually replace the original system first introduced in Alpha 13. The new feature will allow zombies to have better-looking dismemberment effects, as well as unique effects per zombie.

The initial release will include support added to a small number of zombies, with subsequent updates expanding support to all zombies.

Twitch

Twitch Integration has been improved in A20 with balance, new commands and a new voting system. We’ve extended our point rewards for subscribing, gifting subs and raids. We’ve also added spam delay to help keep chat cleaner and support for custom events.

Voting introduces a new dynamic to the integration. Random polls are introduced, giving viewers options for new buffs and debuffs, attack hordes, and debuts brand new Boss Hordes! If the Vote Hordes eliminate the streamer, all voters receive a set reward.

Custom Events have been added to allow the streamer to customize their experience when viewers interact. These are based on bits, subscriptions, gift subs, raids and channel point redemptions. These are defined in the twitch_events.xml.

New features and commands include:

New Twitch Voting Mode
Progression mode has been improved with balance
Many new commands include:
#celebrate - It’s a party and everyone’s a pinata.
#dance_off - The Fun Pimps groove, and everyones invited.
#silly - A silly command sounds silly.
#reverse - Turns you around 180 degrees.
#confuse - Flips the movement controls.
#no_robo - No robotic help.
#no_explosives - No explosive use.
#no_vehicle - Vehicle use is painful.
#no_safe - Safe zones are painful.
#no_stealth - Bombs go off eliminating stealthy movement.
#painting - You see the apocalypse as a work of art.
#deafen - You cannot hear.
#spawn_mutated - Spawns a Mutated Zombie
#spawn_tourist - Spawns a Tourist Zombie
Custom Events based on:
Bit donation amounts
Subscriptions based on months
Number of gift subscriptions
Raiding with defined numbers of viewers.
Channel Point redemptions

Modding Tools

The Tools Team has been busy the past year improving proprietary tools to speed up internal development and continue to support the 7 Days thriving modding community. Here are just a few of the many tools and modding support improvements Alpha 20 has to offer.

World Editor Improvements

When placing a new prefab it is centered with its front side on the position you selected and are aligned with the ground level in that position
While moving prefabs around they show a preview of their contents
Moving prefabs becomes faster the farther the player is away from them, making it easier to move prefabs across bigger distances
Placing/removing prefabs is now managed from the prefab browser known from the POI Editor
Show prefab names on the POI selection boxes (can be toggled in the “World Tools” tab)
Show info about the selected POI in the ESC menu
Prefabs you are close to always show their orientation

POI Editor Improvements

Allow highlighting all blocks of a certain type from the “Level Tools 2” tab
Allow restricting paint brush operations to blocks within the current selection box
Add option to select the biome used for playtesting
Debug mode and creative mode are enabled in playtesting by default
ESC menu shows the quest tier of the current POI
Allow rebinding the keys to change block density
Added Paint Surface radial painting option to paint contiguous coplanar surfaces

RWG Preview and rwgmixer.xml

XML support for modding in your own tiles, parts, unique town types, and more
New Random Gen Preview tool mix options to support tweaking custom maps to your liking changing many things including:
Frequency of Towns
Frequency of Wilderness POI’s
Frequency of Rivers, Craters, Cracks, and Lakes
Frequency of Plains, Hills, and Mountains
Global amount of Randomness

Blocks.xml

Added a command line argument “-debugshapes” to get output on which block material / shape
combinations are created by the shape system
Added console command “placeblockshapes” to easily place all variants of the shape / helper block you are holding
Added property “PlaceAsRandomRotation” making blocks get placed in a random allowed rotation
Added console command “placeblockrotations” to place the currently held block in all supported rotations
Added property “AllowedRotations” to specify which rotations a block can be placed in

Modding

Clients now allow loading mod DLLs the same way as on the dedicated server - as long as EAC is disabled
HarmonyX is shipped with the game to allow patching game code at runtime. In combination with loading DLLs on clients patching game code files should no longer be necessary for almost all mods
The mod code initialization call IModApi.InitMod is now passed in its own instance e.g. to get the mod’s base path
Class names specified in XMLs now always support namespaces and not having to use any hard coded class name prefix (e.g. custom block classes do not have to start with “Block” in their name)
LootContainer references are now based on names instead of numeral IDs, making collisions between mods less likely
XUi controls and styles can be shared between the menu XUi and the in-game XUi XMLs
The XUi pager now supports showing the max page number
Added a new XUi dropdown box
XML patch type names (like “insertafter”, “set”) are no longer case-sensitive
XML loading and patching shows line numbers on most errors during loading/patching them
Added better error messages when using “set”-patches

Server Administration and Multiplayer

To future-proof our game, including allowing us to use the latest anti-cheat and expanding to other platforms later on for future crossplay capabilities, we added Epic Online Services (EOS) to the game. For regular players this should not have any noticeable effect, you do NOT need an account on Epics platforms. EOS only knows your SteamID which is public anyway and matches that to an ID for EOS that is only valid for 7 Days to Die.

The change for server administration is in the user IDs that are used to store data and reference players, i.e. the filenames of user files, IDs in the serveradmin.xml or console output / commands which now refer to the user’s EOS ID.

Serverconfig.xml changes

Changed default "WorldGenSize" from 4096 to 6144 to match in-game default
Added "ZombieFeralSense"
Changed default “LootRespawnDays” from 30 to 7 to match in-game default
Added DynamicMesh options - see section about Dynamic Imposters for details
Added Twitch options - see section about Twitch Integration Improvements for details
Fixed the Server Terminal Window sometimes not showing any output

More change log info here[7daystodie.com]

A20 Stream series

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 00:58 CET

REMINDER! TFP continues the Dev Stream series tonight at 9 PM CST with Scripting & System Designer Allan, Level Designer Earl & Merchandiser Desiree adn Richard Huenink with Sr. Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for another A20 hands on live-playthrough! Tune in for Free Keys!

This will be the last Dev Stream before A20 Drops. Happy Turkey Day!

https://twitch.tv/fubar_prime

A20 Dev Stream Series Part 7 Tonight

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:48 CEST

Reminder
TFP continues the Developer Stream series Tonight, Oct 20th at 9 PM CST. Join The Fun Pimps Co-Founders Richard Huenink, Joel ‘Madmole’ Huenink & Senior Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for the first Alpha 20 hands on live-playthrough! Tune in for Free Keys!

https://www.twitch.tv/fubar_prime

A20 Dev Stream Series Part 7

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:04 CEST

TFP continues the Developer Stream series Oct 20th at 9 PM CST. Join The Fun Pimps Co-Founders Richard Huenink, Joel ‘Madmole’ Huenink & Senior Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for the first Alpha 20 hands on live-playthrough! Tune in for Free Keys!

https://www.twitch.tv/fubar_prime

A20 Dev Stream Series Part 6

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 18:54 CEST

TFP continues the Developer Stream series tonight Oct 13th at 9 PM CST. Join the Random World Gen Team & Senior Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for an in-depth look at the new Random World Gen, Design, Algorithm and tools coming to A20! Tune in for Free Keys!

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A20 Dev Stream Series Part 5

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54 CEST

Reminder,
TFP continues the Developer Stream series tonight Oct 6th at 9 PM CST. Join the Code Team & Senior Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for an in-depth look at New Features, Audio, Quests, the Drone, Optimizations and more! Tune in for Free Keys!

Tune in tonight for a chance to win Free Game Keys!

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A20 Dev Stream Series Part 4

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:46 CEST

Reminder!
TFP continues the Developer Stream series tonight Sept. 29th at 9 PM CST. Join the Environment Art Team and the Weapon Team with Host & Senior Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for an in-depth look at new Environment Art, Rendering Tech, and HD Weapons.

Tune in tonight for a chance to win Free Game Keys!

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A20 Dev Stream Series Part 3

Wed, 22 Sep 2021 23:44 CEST

Reminder!
TFP continues the Developer Stream series Tonight Sept. 22nd at 9 PM CST. Join the Character, Animation and Special FX Team with Host & Senior Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for an in-depth look at the new HD Characters, Animations & Special FX Tech.

Tune in tonight for a chance to win Free Game Keys!

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A20 Dev Stream Series Part 3

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:08 CEST

TFP continues the Developer Stream series Sept. 22nd at 9 PM CST. Join the Character, Animation and Special FX Team with Host & Senior Developer Lathan (@fubar_prime) for an in-depth look at the new HD Characters, Animations & Special FX Tech.

https://www.twitch.tv/fubar_prime