Dear Survivors,

a new experimental build has been releases.

To get access to this version:

• Right click on 7 Days to Die in your Steam Library
• In the windows that opens, Click on 'Properties'
• Click the 'Betas' tab on the left side of the panel
• From the dropdown in the top left, select 'latest_experimental'
• Now the game will begin to download
• Once it's completed, start playing!

Changelog V1.2 B22:

• Cross platform block lists
• Implemented console Performance/Quality graphics modes, selectable through the video options UI.
• New vulture model
• New rabbit model
• New chicken model
• Biome spawner delays have a 10% random variation
• CRT TV emergency broadcast sound (*enables with light)
• Sleeper volumes reset the available spawn points when finding one if they have all been used
• Deco manager tree grouping with async loading and work spread out more evenly
• Additional flame prefabs to burning Zombies
• SFX for nerd outfit extra crafting skill point perk
• Missing spark textures for mines

• Revised first person rendering to use a single camera
• Disabled the old resolution scaling and enabled FSR in Performance mode on all console platforms
• Enable RWG menu items in submission builds
• Allow opening of chat window when communication blocked
• Implement show user profile for PS5
• Optimized entity effect groups by removing duplicate setters from ancestors
• Improved biome entity spawners to run timers independently of counts and better track counts so they can't spawn over the limit
• Re-balanced biome entity spawner counts and delays
• Removed sleeper spawning at farthest position ground check if using min script
• Improved active sleeper despawning rules to allow more distance and time
• Optimized material cleanup
• Optimized object pooling and containers
• Optimized chunk wall volume containers
• Video brightness setting darkens interiors and night when set below 50%
• Decreased darkest range of moon light slightly
• Helmet light mod to have less range
• Deleted old hidden animator data from the ZController file
• Optimized FindInChildren
• Optimized entity spawning model type lookup
• Updated Screamer sounds
• Solar Cells can no longer be scrapped
• Grace is no longer zombie food

• Iron Gut does not apply on login
• Xbox/PS5 Friends not working in Server Browser
• RWG previewer not removing some of the button handlers on close
• Server doesn't log chat sender names
• NRE and loss of controls when sign or storage crate is destroyed while writing in it
• Copy+paste kills tabs/linebreaks
• Error loading prefabs with ExcludePOICulling=true due to outdated ins files
• Effect groups do not extend from ancestors in the correct order in entityclasses xml
• Vehicle manager respawns vehicles repeatedly if a non vehicle entity has the same id
• A biome zombie type spawner could have a permanently disabled timer if they aged out before a player ever killed one (old data is removed and they will start spawning again)
• Biome spawners could conflict and use the same status data
• Arrow LOD issue zooming in and out while bow is pulled back
• No respawn on min script sleeper volumes if entity despawned
• Player drop time delay was affected by frame rate
• Simple prefabs like part_streetlight_single generated an empty imposter mesh
• Chunks being copied to Unity could rarely have the wrong object and block all copying
• Primitive outfit has a read/write issue
• Occasional Exception and NRE when exiting to Main Menu
• Wall volumes were added to chunks they did not overlap and had unneeded padding
• Sleeper and trigger volumes were added to chunks they did not overlap
• Battery and solar banks beep when relogging
• Player placed torches had a duplicate Audio Player
• Audio sources with doppler could make squeaks or dropouts on player teleport or world origin shifts
• Audio manager would still track many sounds after they were destroyed
• Loot abundance settings below 100% would give less loot than it should
• Hordestone Twitch Event should not auto respawn.
• Tactical Assault Rifle missing reflex sight model
• Headgear morphs won't spawn in when in first person view now.
• Drone inventory can roll back as client while using drone healing mod
• Drone can't heal player while on vehicle
• First time the drone heals the player after a debuff has been healed, it fails to heal the player