At the beginning of the month, 7 Days To Die received a new patch for the alpha 16 update. The developers have now released the alpha 16.3 patch which addresses some of the most important bugs which have been discovered by the community, the official release notes can be found below.
Note: The developer strongly advise players to start a new RWG map after installing the patch as “the fixes necessitated core changes to the chunk code.”
Official Alpha 16.3 Release Notes
Changed
- Terrain generation rules to not generate so many jagged peaks in rwgmixer.xml
- Socket generation rules in rwgmixer.xml
- Challenge quests yield more skill points
- Tuned in weapon bob when running and walking for new smooth bob code
Fixed
- The issue where chunks would no longer load due to faulty triggers , which causes players to be stuck on building environment (NRE spam on server) is fixed, but requires a new map, as it does nto work retroactively.
- The issue where minibikes and the power.dat would not save properly is fixed.
- A reason where the game freezes while “Creating player” is fixed.
- The issue where minibikes and the power.dat would not save properly is fixed.
- A reason where the game freezes while “Creating player” is fixed.
- Businessman Zombie when killed can have his head dislocated when falls backwards into a corner or against a wall
- Vultures and Chickens artifact when rag doll rolling down a slope
- Pushing back LOD2 swap distance on vault doors. (Raner)
- Dedicated servers not added to history when connecting by IP/port
- Localization now showing english values instead of localization keys if localization is not set for a key in the user language
- Gore blocks have a chance of knocking you out of loot containers
- Zombie state is not being saved properly for clients
- Insta health on medkit not applied when healing others
- Supply crates have a chance of dropping through terrain.
- Concrete drys too indifferent
- Forge craft halting when output is full is broken.
- Players can kill chunk generation Griefing
- Shotgun turret goes out of sync
- Zombies rotate on ground again
- Lowered radius of dart trap firing sounds.
- Vultures can fly under water
- Sleeper zombies have a chance to rotate when they wake up
- Bears and wolves walk on water
- RWG highway connection issues
- Roads generating as Clay, Dirt, Gravel and Sand
- Deep roadside hole in RWG
- Odd hole in the road
- Weird spikes in the road
- Both turrets are missing firing sound
- Check rebuilding road cave
- Being stuck in 1*1 holes and then be catapulted
- Zombies sometimes clip into the ground and blocks when they jump
- Vultures and Chickens artifact when rag doll rolling down a slope
- Player is invisible to others on death
- Being disconnected while tabbed out of game causes menu unresponsiveness
- Typo in rwgmixer prevents spawning of utility_celltower_02
- Corrected up/downgrade issues with windows
- “Start a Base” quest asks for too much wood
- Some item types purchasable from traders cannot be sold back
- Stag run/walk state in water is not viewed the same between client and hostP2P
- Wolves dont properly attack zombies or stags
- Game sometimes stopping to save power / vehicle data
- Typo in rwgmixer prevents spawning of water_tower_02
- Painting ramps with 1×2 textures like redwood makes it invisible
- Wood debris (32) bad normal map metadata
- Gamestage calculates offline days as survived days
- Snowpack causing ceiling shadow on underground terrain blocks
- When on a slope both bears have difficulty in attacking the player
- Beverages do not restore stamina properly
- Zombies not using ladders properly and float/walk away from the ladder
- Planted crops/trees stop growing when chunk has been reloaded
- ERROR: VM.mesh[0].Vertices.Count (65248) has too many vertices
- When going underwater the Cannot Breathe Tooltip shows up
- Feral and Radiated feral version of zombies don’t count towards quest progression.
- UFPS Stutter issues
- Sleeper spawn issue where killing the last surviving sleeper would trigger a new set of sleepers to spawn
- All solid Wedge Inclines placed together front to back renders back side invisible
Known Issues
- On-screen keyboard is only available if you start the game from Steam’s Big Picture Mode
- Smell is not working with the new stealth we will revisit it in a17
- GlobalUV support inhibits anisotropic filtering and it has to be calculated in the shader.
- Farming of crops other than yucca and hops affects performance
- Precipitation and cold temp going through windows, glass blocks, doors, and hatchesExcessive use of trigger plates may cause servers to lag during hordes.
- Gore block dupe
- Turrets echo sounds for clients
Request to community:
- Blackscreen of death – still looking for savegames and outputlogs
- Sleeper spawning issues continue – we fixed the issue for wrongfully triggering new spawns, if you find more, please send us repro and video
- Creating Player hang issue – we found a fix that took care of our repro, if you still encounter it, please provide savegame, repro and outputlogs
