Vein

• Add rep graph (should reduce CPU load on server hosts)
  
• Add passworded servers
  
• Add new sport tire type to pickup, sportscar
  
• Add high beams to vehicles
  
• Scoreboard now displays in minutes and hours instead of just seconds
  
• Add selected indicator to the server browser
  
• You can shift-click items in a workbench to quick transfer them to your inventory
  
• Fences submerge in the landscape
  
• New farm map
  
• Vehicle torque adjustments
  
• You can kick players from UCs
  
• Add weather controls to the admin menu
  
• Allow item placement on countertops, cabinets etc.
  
• Add /stuck command
  
• Add subtitles for resource lodes
  
• Double click a utility item to equip it
  
• Rain drops and puddles
  
• Add a confirm window to the settings menu if you don't apply changes
  
• Add news to main menu
  
• Add new help menu entries
  
• Add bars to conditions on HUD
  
• Add the ability to move placed items without picking them up
  
• Press G to cycle headlights in a car
  
• You get panicked from driving your car really really fast
  
• Rearrange UC option order
  
• Add stack count to item nameplates
  
• Standing in the rain will reduce your character's dirtiness
  

• Crash fixes
  
• Fix players in vehicle passenger seats not appearing to look side to side
  
• Fix client players driving vehicles lagging a lot
  
• Fix map not opening with M
  
• Fix motorcycle helmet refract
  
• Fix doors coming off hinges vanishing for clients
  
• Fix built doors starting locked
  
• Fix being able to move window fortifications
  
• Fix take and hold not always working
  
• Fix rain on glass going sideways sometimes
  
• Fix being able to move paintings onto the ground
  
• Fix vehicles not spawning on the main map
  
• Block using items when moving something
  
• Fix canned food doing way more damage than it should when thrown
  
• Fix dead characters keeping their flashlights on
  
• Fix being able to move chairs while players are in them
  
• Fix losing all your items on death
  
• Fix drowning and hypothermia
  
• Fix zombies not attacking doors
  
• Fix server browser not immediately refreshing
  
• Fix folding chairs, tents not showing up for clients
  
• Fix vehicles not entering upper gears
  
• Fix wet, dirty materials not applying to players or clothes
  
• Fix broken glass not staying broken between save games
  

• Radios consume less battery
  
• Tools that are powered, accept batteries now
  
• Workbench crafting results are stackable (you can craft it multiple times if the result can stack)
  
• Console has autocomplete
  
• You can start online servers from the New Game menu. Making it Public should have it show up in the server browser.
  
• Zombie footsteps are slightly louder
  
• Add help menu that pops up when the game starts
  
• Make cut wounds heal slower
  
• Being tired no longer prevents melee - it just makes it slower
  
• More car parts: brake assembly, 5 engine components
  
• Cars take damage on impacting stuff, damage you when you crash
  
• Cars can explode
  
• Explosions attract zombies
  
• Cars with damaged batteries can stall
  
• Wired up car chassis, car radio, headlights, filter, etc to their car parts' damage
  
• Make vehicles way less flippable
  
• Add driving animations
  
• Cars can take damage from being shot, attacked, etc
  
• New firearm audio
  
• Make car horn louder
  
• Removed headbob in third person
  
• Can close admin menu with tab
  
• Running into stuff with your car can damage you back if it's a big object
  
• Radios now sync between players in multiplayer
  

• Fix convenience store freezer being really loud
  
• Fix washboard item being usable
  
• Fix convenience store sign getting people stuck
  
• Fix some UC crashes, workbench crashes
  
• Fix item dismantle result notifications being incorrect
  
• Some vehicle engine/gas fixes
  
• Fix crash when furniture is run over with a car
  
• Fix item drink/eat montages playing in third person
  
• Fix broken baseball bat material
  
• Fix not being able to open first aid kits
  
• Fix lockpick being gigantic
  
• Reduce medical menu flicker
  
• Fix save games not loading from the main menu
  
• Fix server browser
  
• Fix all deaths being from thirst
  
• Fix some actors being invisible on clients
  
• Fix scoped weapons going invisible in multiplayer
  
• Fix clean map command removing items in your inventory
  
• Fix grenades not always blowing up cars
  
• Fix some inventories (corpses, etc) needing E held down unlike containers
  
• Occupations start with their weapons pinned
  
• Fix multiplayer clients not being able to insert keys into cars
  
• Fix door, broken glass desync
  
• Fix built actors appearing invisible for new clients
  

• The main Champlain Valley map is back.
  
• Added vehicles & other new features to the main map.
  
• Vehicles have parts that can be swapped out and (eventually in a future update) repaired. The vehicle will fail in different ways if its parts are broken or missing. Use a vehicle's hood to open it up.
  

• You can now move furniture, dependent on your Strength and Vitality skills. This will level your Strength skill if you do it repeatedly.
  
• New destruction system that physically destroys furniture (try breaking a table)
  
• Wind affects power lines
  
• Added gunsmoke
  
• Some minor animation changes
  
• Car radio UI now shows the current channel and number of available channels
  
• UI adjustments/unification of fonts, buttons
  
• Performance improvements across the board - you should see significantly more FPS
  

• Fixed volumetric fog
  
• Fixed crash when moving/drinking from toilets or sinks
  
• Fix some items not saving properly
  
• Fix flock17 being unnaturally loud in multiplayer
  
• Fix spawned cars not being able to have their key reinserted when taken
  
• Fix T-posed arms being visible in free look
  
• Fix some body sliders missing in multiplayer
  
• Fix bullet tracers penetrating through walls
  
• Fix NP5 shell ejection
  
• Fix water coming out of sinks with a temperature of -300 C
  

• New lighting and fog systems.
  
• Added wind, which affects grass blowing and weather.
  
• Characters get wind chill if it's windy outdoors.
  
• Wired up Driving stat.
  
• New inventory search UI.
  
• You can close containers with the E key.
  
• Stuff written on a map, remains on the map item and is transferrable to other characters.
  
• New 870 shotgun mesh.
  

Characters

• New character mesh & new clothes; female characters; more body sliders & skin tones
  
• Better character creation camera (can zoom in or out to face or body)
  
• Character menu in tab menu has been added that shows your character’s info, like uniquenesses and occupations
  
• You can sleep on beds; sleeping on a bed sets a spawnpoint for your character; in singleplayer, sleeping advances time 6 hours
  
• More stress reduction: watching TV, writing notes, listening to music
  
• Illness system (stomach flu, influenza, colds) - you can get illnesses from various unhygienic activities
  
• Banker, athlete occupations
  
• Panic condition when your character gets scared (getting spooked by a sudden zombie, etc)
  
• Can’t Smell uniqueness
  
• Damage now applies a camera view punch; camera FOV when sprinting
  
• You walk backwards slightly slower than forwards
  

Inventory & Items

• New custom models for some food & cleaning items
  
• Added cannabis
  
• Food can be spiked (weed brownies have a chance to spawn)
  
• New item spawning system in containers
  
• Quick-dismantle by holding left alt and clicking an item
  

Equipment & Weapons

• Farming (planting, watering, decay, sunlight, temperature)
  
• Utility items/slot-able equipment
  
• Backpacks
  
• Tree chopping
  
• Flashlights, radios, etc. now require and consume batteries
  
• Melee weapons can block attacks with right click
  
• New melee sounds
  

AI

• Zombie stun locking
  
• Crawling zombies, shoot zombie legs to make them crawlers
  
• Hostile raiders
  

World

• Personal radios (walkie-talkies), broadcast radios (music & alerts), world media system
  
• Night is 3x faster than day
  
• Moonlight
  
• Nanite foliage
  
• Grass wind effect
  
• More construction menu snapping, snap crates to shelves
  
• Unlocking doors from the inside
  

Meta & UI

• Admin menu changes: accessible in singleplayer, and noclip, godmode, collision toggles, movement changes, invisibility
  
• You can now manually save and load listen servers
  
• New feedback menu w/ voting (public feedback that can be upvoted or downvoted)
  
• Known issues menu
  
• Start work on vehicles, can spawn from admin menu
  
• Bugfixes as always
  

Characters

• New uniquenesses
  - Lactose intolerance: can’t consume lactose
  - Pale uniqueness: sunburn easier
  
• Alcohol poisoning: you die if you drink too much
  - Characters have bloodshot eyes when drunk
  
• Add LSD, drunkenness effects
  
• Better punch sound
  
• Stress condition occurs faster
  
• Player zombification: 2% chance to contract the zombie virus & turn into a zombie over a couple days
  

Construction

• Wood scrap fortifications tier: windows, doors, fences, etc.
  
• Structure damage & decay: structures can now be damaged and decay over time if not maintained
  
• Furniture dismantling results all wired up
  
• Scrap has been added to every container in the game
  
• Buildable doors
  
• Door destruction
  
• Door breaching (don’t stand behind them)
  
• Buildable water barrel that collects drinkable rainwater
  

World & Zombies

• Better item spawning calculations
  
• House alarms are now on map - be careful what doors you open
  
• Fix glass not being easily breakable by melee weapons
  
• Computers & internet
  - Computer logs: plenty of computers are now wired up with lore
  
• Debit cards & ATMs: use debit cards at an ATM to withdraw the money on the account
  
• Broken windows need to be cleared or you get damaged when climbing through them
  
• Zombies break down doors
  
• Stop zombies from killing each other so easily
  
• Horde mode: `vein.AISpawner.HordeMode 1` to enable it
  
• The mine north of Redford (you can mine the lodes inside of it by hitting them with a pickaxe)
  

Equipment & Weapons

• ADS has been fixed (mostly) on weapons
  
• New NP5 model
  
• Flare gun, which ignites zombies
  
• GPS, cellphone, compass possession determine what HUD elements you can see
  
• Clock and date UI if you have a clock
  
• Clothes can be torn into makeshift bandages
  

Interface & Experience

• Deleting characters
  
• Cooking, crafting menus now have recipes in categories
  
• Construction UI quality-of-life improvements
  
• Autosave option to disable autosaves
  
• Admin menu for multiplayer admins, press `\` to open it
  
• Support for mouse bindings in keybind menu
  

Misc.

• New music
  
• Halloween event, between Oct 25 and Nov 1 inclusive