Vein

• Fix unwiring a generator also removing all links from its child (e.g. unwiring a battery unwired anything plugged into the battery bank and a junction box)
  
• Fix some collision for some art assets
  
• Restore some original texture resolutions for some art assets
  
• Fix zombies not spawning if you go back in time to before you spawned
  
• Fix stoves in school not working, fix radiators in post office not working
  
• Fix not being able to drink out of the orange toilet 🤤
  
• Fix drinking fountain not working
  
• Fix PBJ recipe not requiring a pan
  
• Fix cooking a canned food item resetting its lid
  
• Fix some server settings not displaying properly in the admin menu
  
• Hide nameplates (item names) with `vein.HUD.HideAllNameplates 1` or with `ShowHUD` turned off
  
• Disallow server hosts to set the max character count to <= 0
  
• Remove jerry can item, replace with gas canister
  
• Fix propane canister containing natural gas by default instead of propane
  
• Fix floodlights exploding into a wood shelf when destroyed
  
• Save openable door/window flaps to save games
  
• Possible fix for jalousies (blinds) not saving
  
• Disable being able to uninstall and drop parts from a locked vehicle
  
• Fix withdrawing engine oil being able to overfill containers
  
• Prevent clipping through walls by cleverly positioning a vehicle and getting out
  
• Fix being able to fill sinks with the water off if they are already partially filled
  
• Quick use slots (0-9) are now rebindable
  
• Fix heat sources not drying clothes
  
• Add `vein.Vehicles.OutgoingPlayerDamage` cvar, fix vehicle damage not respecting `vein.PvP`
  
• UC and containers now drop any contents they have when destroyed (e.g. by being run over by a vehicle)
  
• Fix tree with physics enabled being made invisible due to scalability settings
  
• Block take all, put all before the inventory is searched
  
• Misc. map bug and power grid fixes
  
• Misc. crash fixes
  

• Fix lockpicking buses immediately closing
  
• Fix pot roast being named 'grilled fish'
  
• Schematic items will give one notification instead of 5 at a time
  
• You can sleep on stretchers
  
• Rename 'feedback' to 'feedback & bugs'
  
• Fix not being able to boil water in campers
  
• Fix not being able to put/take stuff from the RV stove if the RV is locked
  
• Fix desync if food is cooked past 200%
  
• Fix construction consuming way more than it should if there are multiple stacks in the UC
  
• Fix UC eating entire stacks at a time when you put stuff in it
  
• Fix being able to climb ladders forever
  
• Vastly improved tree chopping networking
  
• Fix frame drop when chopping trees in multiplayer
  
• Fix invisible trees
  
• Fix utility cabinet radius being incorrect when placed in a building
  
• Add nighttime start and end time console variables
  
• Fixed days in a year being 365.25 (there are 365.24219 days in a year)
  
• Increase the capacity of a charging station to accommodate a car battery
  
• Fix dishwasher collision preventing grabbing items placed close to it
  
• Corrected streaming pool size to just use your entire GPU
  
• Fix tree stuck in bridge in the camping area
  
• Fix clock item not telling time when equipped
  
• Fix ending up somewhere else when exiting a chair
  
• Misc. furniture clipping fixes
  
• Misc. crash fixes
  

• Fix crash when a prompt window opens and closes in under 1 frame
  
• Fix soundscapes (e.g. river) persisting after death when the corpse despawns
  
• Fix moving suitcases, archery crates deleting them
  
• Fix 'start time' option not having effect
  
• Fix refilling items from natural gas tanks not increasing partially filled items, fix gas containers having infinite capacity
  
• Fix radiators not functioning properly
  
• Fix corpses sometimes being not searchable
  
• Fix in-world items that have been spawned not saving correctly
  
• Fix Flock17 not getting 25% extra damage from perk
  
• Fix natural gas tanks not reactivating when natural gas is re-added to them
  
• Fix exercise immediately stopping when taking condition damage
  
• Fix stuff carrying over from a previous game when loading a save from ingame
  
• Fix wet dog food, wet cat food not being considered canned items
  
• Fix flame remaining lit after destroying a candle
  
• Fix conflict between hammer recipe and iron arrow recipe
  
• Fix password prompt not appearing to people joining when hosting a friends-only passworded game
  
• Improve planter logic for saving and loading, fix moving planters with plants in them, fix some placement issues with planters on legs
  
• Add 'Zombies Can Climb' setting
  
• Fix wrong names in the group menu
  
• Fix minor inefficiency in networking items in inventories
  
• Fix rain collector not collecting rain when it's <10% precipitation
  
• Fix fluid containers not refilling proportional to precipitation amount
  
• Fix some issues w/ plugging in computers, saving moved computers
  
• Fix not being able to play when Steam is offline/absent
  
• Fix crash when pasting appearance data that is not actual appearance data in character creation
  
• Add capacity label to selected fluid and gas container items
  
• Fix bullets hitting players weirdly when not aiming directly at them
  
• Fix medical cart in vet not being unlockable
  
• UC does not take resources if building decay is off
  
• Misc. furniture clipping fixes
  
• Various crash fixes
  

• Doctor loadout now has appropriate clothing
  
• New melee hit camera effects
  
• Raincoats now block rain wetness
  
• Better farming UI/UX
  
• The odds of a horde event occurring depend on the time since the start of the game
  
• Add kerosene canister item for kerosene lamps, as well as the ability to change kerosene/add/remove kerosene from kerosene lamps
  
• WIP huge asset replacement with better art
  
• Night time and ambient lighting tweaks
  
• Zombies in a region can now be entirely killed off/exterminated
  
• You can now stick forks in junction boxes/outlets/etc
  
• Increased the texture resolution of some commonly seen textures in game
  
• Melee blocking replaced with a quick melee, also works for e.g. firearms or held items
  
• Long skirt reduces run speed significantly
  
• Better grenade explosions
  
• ID, debit card items now have proper textures
  
• Better hotwiring effects
  
• Prevent hotwiring damage by wearing gloves
  
• UI improvements to the repair workbench
  
• Add scope glint
  
• Esc now closes open menus on the main menu
  
• Toilet brush weapon now can cause illness when someone's hit
  
• Doctors, firefighters, police officers, veterans now know their own blood type by default
  
• Street signs now become visible when hit by a car
  
• Crates when labeled now show up in-world
  
• Car hoods are now popped instantly
  
• Changed some items e.g. firearms to be placeable flat on the ground
  
• If you get far away enough from a horde, they stop coming
  
• Much better zombie navigation
  
• Add the ability to copy character appearance from the character menu
  
• Add `vein.Time.ContinueWithNoPlayers` convar for dedicated servers
  
• Unclamp the max fly speed
  
• Removing a battery now puts the battery in its container's inventory instead of yours
  
• Firearms now tell you what they're chambered in
  
• Improve third-person cameras for large vehicles
  
• Water pressure prevents you from exiting a vehicle underwater
  
• Better movement when travelling on top of something
  
• Workbenches/stoves/plants now prompt for a fluid amount to add
  
• Furniture now has health and zombies will attack it if blocked
  
• Add roadmap to esc menu/main menu
  
• Add loads of item use animations
  
• Add 15-20 new stat perks
  
• 3 new music tracks incl. main menu
  
• Add ability to exercise on the ground
  
• Add compass mesh
  
• Add the ability to move containers
  
• Add the ability to learn how to build & to build some furniture like coffee tables and shelves
  
• Increase the number of build objects you can build on each other
  
• Add buildable junk piles
  
• Improve construction menu UI for buildables with few requirements
  
• You can now be wet from clean/dirty/putrid water etc.
  
• Add buildable candles
  
• Add sounds to the wiring system
  
• Hazmat suit now prevents you from getting wet
  
• Add admin report system to esc menu/admin menu in multiplayer
  
• Sleeping in multiplayer now sets your spawn point like in singleplayer
  
• Add demo player scoreboard badge
  
• Increase the amount of tiredness from punching
  
• If you have more than one plant seed, planting one will continue trying to plant another
  
• Add battery indicator on equipment slots
  
• Add notification when an equipped battery powered item runs out of battery
  
• Disable the ability to just remove a lock from a container that you don't own
  
• Add sheriff clothes
  
• Add a distance limit to wiring electronics
  
• Add some new emotes
  
• Add backpack weapons (some quick use items now appear on your character)
  
• Submitting feedback now tells us where you are ingame (if people report 'this door is broken' or something we now know where the door is)
  
• Improve ladder movement
  
• Car alarm now instantly stops when the battery is removed
  
• Use options for sinks and other water sources is now disabled when the water is off
  
• Towels don't need to be wet to clean blood, add hint to use a towel to clean blood
  
• Add more info to the furnace window re: melting points, fuel types, etc.
  
• Make some fences, graves, etc. easier to break down
  
• Numeric prompt improvement: default values, keyboard navigation etc.
  
• Painkiller overhaul (painkiller condition stacks)
  
• Add a large delay to pickpocketing
  
• Placing wet clothing items in a warm, dry place will dry them
  
• Ceramic planters now need glass scrap instead of wood scrap
  
• Add UI scale 0.5 and 0.75 options
  
• Add container respawn option to main menu
  
• The inventory sort direction persists between closing and opening the inventory
  
• Placed fluid items now display their contents in the use tooltip
  
• Nerf utility cabinet to require items only once every 4 hours; add some utility cabinet console variables
  
• Add the ability to destroy corpses before they become persistent corpses
  
• Vehicle initial damage on the map has been increased (vehicles are more broken by default)
  
• Crafting recipes have been rebalanced; some higher tier recipes are easier
  
• Add small timeout to broken glass damage so you don't die from touching a door
  
• Significantly reduce in-world item spawner duration
  
• Add the ability to use stuff, enter vehicles etc. while moving or building things
  
• Increase the speed food cools inside fridges/freezers
  
• Solar panels now generate partial electricity depending on cloudiness/sun angle/etc
  
• Add notification when invited to a group
  
• Significantly improved vehicle networking performance
  
• Add item loadout to occupation selection in character creation
  
• New weapon impact effects
  
• Utility cabinet UI now colors red if you're missing materials
  
• Player-built containers now have capacity weight limits
  

• Fix 'wire' use option subtitle
  
• Fix some clothing items not being hidden in character creation
  
• Fix the sky being overly bright
  
• Fix forges/furnaces not saving their contents properly
  
• Fix notepads not contributing to good compost quality
  
• Fix player corpses not saving properly
  
• Fix UC UI alignment issues
  
• Fix alarms not instigating hordes
  
• Fix (sort of) some pump shotgun animation issues (its still placeholder)
  
• Fix some character creation sliders saying '-0%'
  
• Fix 'inject' syringe option always injecting you instead of your target
  
• Fix small rendering bug on map
  
• Fix hair disappearing in character creation sometimes
  
• Fix cars driving into a forest and getting propelled into the air
  
• Fix not being able to select items in the inventory after you've alt tabbed
  
• Fix being able to write on fishing lines
  
• Fix bug not being able to add a stack of items manually to a workbench with some other stuff in it that's not stackable
  
• Fix memory leak in multiplayer when a large battery is plugged in
  
• Fix some containers, doors being locked and not pickable ("no lock" but it's locked)
  
• Fix fabrication bench collision (prevented use)
  
• Fix not being able to load singleplayer characters when loading a singleplayer save as multiplayer
  
• Fix crash when steam is not running and you use links from the main menu
  
• Fix getting contact highs in multiplayer
  
• Fix the sun rising in the west, fix the sun not properly following the equator
  
• Fix being able to open/use items in locked vehicle inventories
  
• Fix getting XP for invalid item transfers to/from the forge
  
• Fix darts not aligning to velocity/sticking to stuff
  
• Fix a significant amount of hitches/frame drops
  
• Fix mechanical vending machine requiring power
  
• Fix some vending machines just eating your money
  
• Fix giveitem cheat not giving you the correct amount if you enter a quantity that is equal to the max stack of the item
  
• Fix duplication exploit on workbench
  
• Fix TVs having two wire options
  
• Fix vehicles maintaining e.g. the gas pedal when you exit the vehicle
  
• Fix sports locker name
  
• Fix weird ladder animation when rotated
  
• Fix footstep sounds being wrong in large buildings (e.g. gravel sound in the high school)
  
• Fix shotgun being able to reload 2+ rounds at a time
  
• Fix player inventories merging stacks when loaded from a save
  
• Fix feedback votes not loading properly in singleplayer
  
• Fix workbench not showing correct item counts when your inventory changes
  
• Fix keybind labels missing in the main menu
  
• Fix always being able to drink from water pipes in buildings, regardless of if the water is off
  
• Fix being able to open e.g. the admin menu when dead
  
• Fix (?) stuff in your base despawning, but this needs a lot of testing
  
• Significantly improve vehicle networking
  
• Fix inconsistent weight units
  
• Fix workbench UI not respecting locks on items
  
• Fix water pipes in houses not being affected by water shutoff
  
• Fix physics issue when loading built actors, items, etc. that are attached to vehicles
  
• Fix gas tanks not saving their contents properly
  
• Fix moving items from point A to B causing them to impact vehicles in the way
  
• Fix bloody footprints lasting forever if you go back in time
  
• Fix hiding hats, hiding hair
  
• Fix main menu settings being unusable at low resolutions
  
• Fix flatscreen TVs snapping to the floor
  
• Fix 'move' option appearing on everything, even stuff that can't be moved
  
• Fix mousepads not being grabbable
  
• Fix grabbing items being audible by everyone
  
• Fix utility cabinet consuming way more resources than it should
  
• Fix firearms and magazines having invalid ammo in them (this will empty existing firearm/magazine items)
  
• Fix a bunch of dialog/UI using metric units when imperial is selected
  
• Fix 'take and hold' causing some desync in multiplayer
  
• Fix snow particles being spawned way above the player
  
• Fix cooking sound not looping
  
• Fix 'move to POI' admin menu button not working
  
• Fix bug when repositioning dragged players/corpses
  
• Corrected double barrel shotgun ADS
  
• Fix cooking an item resetting the cooked amount
  
• Fix some furniture (e.g. instruments) producing incorrect destruction effects
  
• Fix vehicles being invisible sometimes in multiplayer to clients
  
• Fix utility cabinet not showing its draws to clients
  
• Fix cooking autoselecting already-cooked items
  
• Fix player groups not saving
  
• Fix player nameplates not updating for some people
  
• Fix some furniture duplicating between loading saves
  
• Fix permanent arrows appearing from use of the bow as a client
  
• Fix fishing line being stuck in place from the server's POV
  
• Fix groups not loading from saves
  
• Fix fluid containers not filling up with water when placed outside
  
• Fix not being able to move microwaves
  
• Fix radiators not working properly
  
• Fix smelling, refilling gas containers not working properly
  
• Fix drop button sometimes not working in inventory
  
• Fix syringes not working as a client in multiplayer
  
• Fix grass showing up on the horizon during winter
  
• Crash fixes
  
• Other small fixes/performance improvements
  

• Fix items not always loading in from either save games or when leaving and returning to an area
  
• Fix some containers in the sandbox being empty
  
• Fix Riot Shirt floating zipper
  
• Clamp time such that you cannot change the time to before the apocalypse
  
• Fix water in e.g. bathtubs having collision
  

• Fix not taking damage from anything not a player if base damage is off
  
• Fix edge case where locks on some things wouldn't save their state
  
• Fix crash
  

Gameplay fixes

• Fix being unable to move some stuff (such as the stuffed deer)
  
• Fix becoming a zombie then getting trapped in a loop of becoming a zombie
  
• Fix bases unsaving when you leave the area and come back
  
• Reduce save file size
  
• Fix not being able to dismantle stuff when god mode is on
  
• Small performance boost for containers
  
• Disable Q/E inventory navigation (was conflicting with pressing E to close the window)
  
• Fix water being off at school
  
• Fix magazine items having no collision when dropped/placed
  
• Fix 'write' being a use option on some random items like sawdust or kindling
  
• Improved speed of some stat systems
  
• New and improved vehicle networking for multiplayer - should be slightly faster and less laggy
  
• Fix getting stuck in the demo bounds while driving
  
• Fix use options not popping up always when moving an item to a container and clicking on it
  
• Remove some of the weirder bird sounds
  
• Fix possible bugs when someone removes an item from a repair workbench you're looking at
  
• Fix all conditions being additive instead of multiplicative (whoops)
  
• Rename 'speed' to 'speed multiplier' and 'stress' to 'stress multiplier' for conditions
  
• Fix bug with forges/furnaces when loaded from a save game requiring thousands of seconds until the next coal burn
  
• Fix zombies being able to damage bases when base damage is off
  
• Fix small hordes not having any cooldown
  
• Fix washing machine in bar and grill being unwired from water
  

Crash fixes

• Sometimes when becoming a zombie
  
• Sometimes when firing a weapon in multiplayer from far away when something is unloaded
  
• Sometimes when a firearm with an attachment loads in from far away
  
• When driving into an invalid actor
  
• When dismantling a stack of items very fast
  
• When using an item in multiplayer that is in the process of unloading
  

Known bugs

• Unreal DX12 GPU crash: Use DX11 when launching the game
  
• Multiplayer desync (vehicles and characters are in different positions in multiplayer)
  
• Players (rarely) lose all of their skills on death in multiplayer
  
• Conditions sometimes flicker in the top left with Show All Conditions on
  
• Performance problems around dawn
  
• Various smaller issues
  

Fixes

• Fix crashes
  

Why are there so many crashes

Why did I crash specifically

• 929 of you crashed because a firearm's attachments didn't load properly
  
• 61 of you crashed because someone shot a firearm that hadn't fully loaded
  
• 25 of you crashed because someone reloaded a firearm that hadn't fully loaded
  
• 9 of you crashed because the UI was trying to display the item count for an unloaded item
  
• 26 of you crashed because you tried to dismantle an unloaded item
  
• 6 of you crashed because you tried to equip a desynced item to a utility slot
  
• 72 of you crashed because of a low level Unreal Engine rendering bug, or you ran out of VRAM
  
• Around 50 of you crashed because of an Unreal Engine low-level bug
  

Will multiplayer crash from this problem after this update

• Fix crash in multiplayer