Project Zomboid: Stable Version 42.22.2 Released

New features

• Added ladder support and a crowbar mechanic for forcing locked doors and windows.
• Players cannot sleep while affected by an active Bad Smell moodle. A tooltip explains why the option is disabled.
• Player-crafted makeshift radios and walkie-talkies now use the encumbrance values of their corresponding tiles instead of randomized values based on Electrical skill. The makeshift walkie-talkie inventory item now has an encumbrance of 5.
• Raccoon skulls can be used to craft normal and long animal skull necklaces.
• Added a recipe to refill lighters using gasoline, a funnel and a surface.
• Added texture swapping for handheld light sources. Flashlight lenses now show whether the light is on or off.
• When switching to hand-to-hand combat while holding two heavy items, two flashlights, or a flashlight and a heavy item, the player drops the primary item.
• Updated localization.

Mapping and modding

• Fixed tile definitions, including commercial glass windows that were not transparent.
• Corrected minor inconsistencies and typos on the in-game map, and fixed an issue that prevented dirt from being placed on townhouse.lua.
• Moved binary map files into text-based .source files. Binary map files are generated from those sources and cached during development.
• Updated the biome map and depthmap textures.
• Custom maps can now include Town Preview videos.

Balance

• Corrected encumbrance values for some movable tiles.
• Consolidated metal sawing recipes to accept more inputs and reduce recipe clutter.
• Players can now perform the following actions while walking:
  • Open or close an umbrella.
  • Rip clothing or sheets.
  • Open boxes of 50 or 20 bullets and boxes of shotgun shells.
  • Remove or insert a battery.
  • Extinguish a candle or hurricane lantern.
  • Remove or insert a propane bottle in a propane lantern.
  • Add a cigarette to a pack or take one out.

Multiplayer fixes

• Added protections against more cheats.
• Fixed a bug that could duplicate a character at the edge of a chunk and potentially kill the character.
• Moved damage calculations to the server to address damage not being applied correctly.
• Improved server backup creation speed.
• Fixed the “All Known On Start” map sandbox option not working in multiplayer.
• Fixed several trailer physics and towing desync issues.
• Fixed client errors involving NetworkZombieMind, the Stash debugger, loading maps and using LootZed to refill containers.
• Fixed server errors involving ItemContainer.getCharacter(), entities already being registered, and IsoGridSquare.BurnWalls interacting with multi-tile objects.
• Fixed moving vehicles sometimes disappearing permanently after a reconnect or server restart.
• Fixed animals on a Butcher Hook glitching onto the floor when shot.
• Fixed maps being unreadable in containers and map notes or markings vanishing after a map was stored and retrieved.
• Fixed the admin “Timed action instant cheat” not working when transferring items to or from containers.
• Fixed “Recently Used” sorting in the Crafting and Building windows.
• Fixed fish bait not being reusable on a fishing rod after removal.
• Fixed server descriptions disappearing because of special characters.
• Fixed whisper chats closing server-wide when a player disconnected or respawned.
• Fixed the “Show connection info” and “Show server info” settings not saving when the client was relaunched.
• Fixed removed bandages still appearing on remote players.
• Fixed unarmed characters taking damage after interrupting the “Smash Window” action.
• Fixed “Zombie Count Before Deletion” marking zombies as safe to delete while they were still within a player’s protected range.
• Fixed character clothing updates stopping for other players and generating excessive server errors.
• Fixed player-built structures and their contents sometimes vanishing with a “Forward Direction cannot be zero length vector” server error.
• Fixed selected inventory items becoming unselected during zombie combat.
• Fixed vegetation not updating in real time as seasons changed, and vegetation visibility breaking when entering certain player-made buildings.

Split-screen fixes

• Fixed the Cat’s Eyes trait making nights lighter for a player who did not have the trait.
• Fixed doubled text in the chat box.
• Fixed a freeze when a player rejoined while the other split-screen character was fishing.

Other fixes

• Fixed animals dying while a player was away from the animal zone, and animals disappearing from full hutches after a server restart or chunk reload.
• Fixed a crash when a character left a chunk containing chickens in a nest box with eggs.
• Fixed female rabbits not producing milk for their kits. Characters cannot milk rabbits, as with pigs.
• Fixed Alice Belts and Chest Rigs not speeding up magazine-based reloading.
• Fixed window frames being impossible to build from inside a structure on east and south walls without floor support.
• Fixed an error when reading brochures or fliers with a controller or Steam Deck, and fixed furniture rotation on those controls.
• Fixed a “None” message appearing when selecting “Bleed” on a Butcher Hook, and removed the “Animal Info” option for dead animals inside trailers.
• Fixed a bug that allowed unlimited animal corpses in an inventory. An animal killed in the inventory is now held in both hands until dropped or another animal is picked up.
• Fixed a screwdriver appearing incorrectly when disassembling items with a blowtorch.
• Fixed toasters and coffee machines working without grid or generator power.
• Fixed Strength XP not being awarded when selecting “Cut down Tree” from the context menu.
• Fixed translation errors, including missing spaces, underscores in sentences and inconsistent names.
• Fixed characters failing to move to sow or harvest when the route crossed crops. Characters cannot trample crops and now move to the furrow as needed.
• Fixed placed or dropped 3D items not fading when obscured by walls, and certain walls visually overlapping objects built in front of them.
• Fixed randomized Building Stories sometimes failing to load depending on the direction of approach.
• Fixed an infrequent zombie spawn error and an occasional error near the end of loading a save.
• Fixed repeated errors when harvesting plants at 10976×6692.
• Fixed characters becoming locked in fishing mode after using a fishing rod as a weapon near water.
• Fixed pillows on the southeast tile of four-tile double beds not counting toward sleep quality.
• Fixed Animal Bones and Bone Spears not appearing lodged in zombies.
• Fixed errors caused by binding certain actions to mouse buttons through UI options.
• Fixed unbarricading allowing planks to exceed inventory capacity.
• Fixed external doors not locking from inside without a key. Deadbolts work again.
• Fixed car keys appearing beside untouched cars after a character left and returned to the area.
• Fixed certain fence corners that could not be jumped over.

Sound

• Added new sounds for equipping and unequipping melee weapons and throwable items.
• Added ladder footstep sounds that vary with ladder material and footwear, along with sounds for climbing sheet rope and doing burpees.
• Fixed the “Disinfect Rag” sound being out of sync and incorrect footstep sounds in some carpeted rooms.
• Fixed vehicle headlight and throwable item sounds playing multiple times in multiplayer.

Debug and technical changes

• Fixed a long pause when saving in the depth-texture editor.
• Removed TimSort and PZArrayList because current Java sort algorithms make them redundant.
• Moved tile definitions to a tile_definitions subfolder in /media. The .tiles files are now generated from .txt files.
• Added a “Useless” zombie toggle to Horde Manager in debug mode.
• Fixed a vulnerability involving eMudhra digital certificate validation.
• Added Java Runtime Environment integrity checks. Detected modifications appear in the version watermark.
• Updated third-party software licence acknowledgements in the credits and licence documentation.
• Fixed integrity checks incorrectly displaying “attached” on Windows.

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