Moloch Horridus

I want to offer a counter perspective to what OP said. I think there's plenty to enjoy about the new build. I've gotten the majority of my Zomboid hours in it, and before it dropped I can't say I found myself particularly enthralled by the game. The addition of new visible clothing, more weapons, and the revamping of the combat system were all good choices to make the game feel more immersive and like a sandbox-style simulation of what a survivor's experience would be in a zombie apocalypse. The update to zombie appearance and animations are also welcome changes. However, I DO also have some criticisms of combat for the current beta branch.
 
Criticisms
I wish that swinging heavier weapons (especially blunt weapons), would still have a chance to knock zombies back and over as they did in the older build. This would allow more crowd control with blunt weapons and maybe make fighting small groups of zombies more dynamic than constantly strafing backwards with the left mouse button held down. I still don't like the current implementation of the zombie fence attack. The stun lasts too long for my liking and the distance it pushes even a high strength character back is comical. Firearms seem far too useless now at low levels considering the noise many of them make. The skill requirements don't feel like they quite line up to me either. It should be possible for even a beginner to line up a shot with a scoped long rifle. I could understand pistols being difficult. The shotgun is mostly fine where it is. I'm fine with the character tripping and falling if they try to run past too many zombies. What DOES bother me is that zombies never stumble and fall themselves when your character pushes past them. They should have a chance to fall over when your character shoulders them aside at a jog, and probably be almost guaranteed to fall over if a sprinting character shoulders into them. I do think that scratches cause way too much slowdown to both fighting capability and movement for my liking. A bleeding scratch isn't fun sure, but I don't think it should reduce the character to walking at a limp or swinging weapons at what feels like a 25-50% reduction in speed. A laceration is much more reasonable for causing this sort of degradation in performance. Please stop nerfing small blade weapons so much. Stop, he's already dead...  Some weapon classes still could use more variety: Long Blades (Only has machete and katana) For how expensive the trait is, I wish Thick Skinned still reduced infection chance. Beyond trapping animals, the player should be able to use the trapping skill to make traps designed to maim or stop zombies (or maybe even other players...) There really should be more zombie states than the following: moving and fully functional, crawling on the ground, dead. Blunt weapons fracturing bones, sharp weapons dismembering limbs, and guns crippling zombies are all things I would like to see. The combat loop that is there is fairly solid, but it needs more variety. I don't think the decision to have zombies break sirens on cars was particularly fair to the player. I hope it will eventually be replaced with another mechanic, such as the zombies eventually losing interest in the siren and wandering off after an hour or so. That way it can still be used to clear an area temporarily, but maybe not for several hours. The above criticisms aside, the build is still a work in progress and I'm sure some or all of the issues I pointed out above will eventually be addressed. The devs have already said that the firearms system will get a revamp in the next build that will focus on hunting. I can also offer plenty of praise to the new build for features that I think have benefited the game.
 
Praise
Jogging, sprinting, jumping over tall fences, and being able to crouch are great additions to allow for more movement options. Despite my previous criticism, I do appreciate that there is a LOT more weapon variety compared to the previous build. There are far more melee weapons and firearms to choose from. Much more character customization. More hairstyles, visible clothes, visible backpacks, idle movements, cosmetics. Crawlers have a proper attack animation now and are a lot less dangerous overall. More specialized loot tables for locations, with loot that generally makes sense for the place you are looting. Tailoring system and clothing armor system that allows you to almost fully immunize yourself to at least a few zombie attacks. The new default combat experience is a lot more grounded without multihit. It makes picking fights and using the environment to split larger groups much more important. Zombies will now potentially cripple themselves and turn into crawlers if jumping down from building windows. 3D models for all the items in the game makes decorating a base much more visually appealing and allows for more interesting building stories. Sound Update while still a work in progress, does a lot for the ambience of the game. Noise when walking over wet surfaces and snow, hearing the stove bubble when you cook soup, more zombie noises, environmental noises, etc. Car trailers for hauling more loot, or just for style. More zed stories in general: Abandoned camping spots in the wilderness, police barricades, etc. Character insulation and temperature play a more important but not completely ridiculous role. Character will sweat more and may overheat if ridiculously bundled up in the summer, but can get away with several layers of clothing in the winter. The above list is just a few things I could think of, and I'm sure it will only get longer over time. I'm sure the foraging update, release of Louisville, and map update to make roads have curved turns are all things that will improve the game as well. Anyways, end of long post.
 
TLDR: There's definitely still things that could be improved in the new beta branch, but I think that it is adding plenty that is improving the overall experience of the game as well.

I mean all this "RNG forcing you to die" just doesn't exist. Wether you screw up or not isn't based on RNG, it's all in your control wether you bump a zombie/get grabbed or not.
However, when you do screw up THATS when the diced are rolled, and RNG will decide wether or not you will be forgiven for your mistake.

It's like you're burning yourself by laying your hand on a hot stoveplate and saying "omg stoveplate why did you do this to me, that's so unfair I did nothing wrong!!!"

Hi, it's me again.

30 zombies behind a door will be heard, even from outside building. Use the sound and you'll know it's more than 1 zombie behind that door. Find another opening or let them open the door themselves. You don't have to give them a hug.
Cheesing zombies at fence can be very effective, but it comes at a risk. 100% scratch/bite protection boots is easy to come by, so even if you screw up you're pretty safe. Just don't use this cheese if there are zombies behind you. 
You're never forced to be grabbed or dragged by zombies, you can outrun them very easily. no wait you can literally outwalk them

Zombies are too weak, the player is too overpowered, nothing can kill after you learn the game mechanics. If you don't want to learn new things, the option to play b40 is still available

Added Noiseworks Sound Revamp - Stage #1
Stage #2 is going to introduce a wider range for zombie voice sets as well as further improvements to the music and ambiance systems. Melee weapon SFX - currently mostly based on material rather than the weapon in question - will also get more specific to the weapons themselves; same goes for firearms. 
 
Added VHS, CDs etc.
- Added functionality and data for for Disks and Tapes. Data is stored in 'recorded_media.lua'.
- Media line effects will apply only once per player upon first time listening.
- Home VHS's spawn uniquely.
- Retail CD and VHS can have 'common', 'rare', 'very rare' spawn chance.
- Added learnRecipe method to gamecharacter. Adds the ability to learn recipes via the radio line codes.
- Added new translation file 'recorded_media_EN.txt'
    - This translation set keeps a translation of the english versions which can be retrieved seperatly.
    (needed for LCD which only supports basic ASCII chars)
- Added event 'OnInitRecordedMedia' to setup any recorded media data, see ISRecordedMedia.lua for modding.
- Added new Media UI section to device control panel.
- Added UI popup for disc's and tapes, some of them can show backcase info via the rightclick context menu.
- Removed item 'CDplayer' and added 'Radio.CDplayer' a portable device able to play CD's.
- Added ability to play media, RadioRed = CD, Black/Wide television = Tapes
- Changed display of overhead notifications for skills etc
    - Softer pastel colors and outlining, red for negative green for positive effect
    - Replaced skill/stat effect numbers by arrow up or down
- Small overhead text for skills and stats are no longer being displayed if there is no effect on their value.
- Removed overhead text code from ISRadioInteractions
- Added static class HaloTextHelper.java for more universal use of the overhead text.
- Added a few functions to add text, options for color and usage of the indicator arrows.
- If a text is already being displayed the next text is briefly queued.
- If multiple text are being added on same tick or while queueing they are combined and seperated with a grey ','.
- If a text is added which is already being displayed, it's discarded.
 
- Added world lights for flashing vehicle lights.
- Added animated flies texture displayed where corpse-flies are buzzing.
- Added new mugs
- Display read books in the character info panel ("Training Material"). This might move to the Crafting UI later on.
- Added highlighting to dragged items that can't be moved to the destination container.
- Added a loot-window container icon for mannequins as well as the container title "Mannequin".
- Added a context-menu command to empty a rain collector barrel onto the ground so it can be moved.
- Added a history of the last three catches to the Fishing menu. They will not fade out anymore. 
- Added the option to select a dedicated container for catches in the Fishing Menu. All catches will go to this container until full.
- Heart UI icon will shake when player character takes damage. It will stop shaking once the player is no longer losing health. 
- Draw a faint border around the player's health bar so the amount of lost health is easier to see.
- When crafting, items will be put back in their original container/bag. E.g. when adding Salt to a Salad, the salt will be grabbed from a counter, used, and put back.
  
- Upgrading walls (multi-stage building) takes items from the ground similar to carpentry.
    This includes opening boxes of nails automatically.
    For metal walls, propane will be used from multiple propane torches as needed. Only one propane torch needs to be in inventory, and it may be empty, as others will be used from the ground.
  
- Removed StopCar and HitByCar properties from one of the walls_exterior_house_01 south-east wall pillars.
    The properties were only on one of the several south-east wall pillars.
    This put "tree" physics on the center of the square.
    These pillars should be removed when one of the two adjacent walls is removed.
 
  
- Added 3D models for items placed in the world. 
    Right Clicking an item will show the "Place Item" option. This will display a rendered model of this item and highlight the square to know where it is being placed. On controllers, the item is currently always placed at the center of a square.
- Items automatically go on a table/counter if the mouse is over one of them.
- Press R to rotate clockwise, shift+R to rotate anti-clockwise.
- If you select multiple items and one does not have a 3D model yet, you'll simply drop it at your feet.
- Fixed rotation speed at different framerates.
- Added snapping to the nearest 5 degrees.
- Place items one at a time at the current rotation. 
- Shift-click to place all items. With a controller, the X button toggles between placing one or placing all.
- Improved lighting of 3d items in-world, to closer match the tiles lighting.
- Added rotation to the lighting in 3d items in world, before their lighting would rotate along with the item when rotated.
- Improved lighting on all 3d objects, characters, vehicles, items etc.
- Added "itemHeight" so players can place things on a microwave that is on a table for example.
- If you have a counter with a shelve on top of it, you can press tab to change the height of the item.
- Default "Iso Cursor Visibility" changed to 50% due to the regular cursor being hidden by default.
- 3D items can be disabled in the options.
 
- Table stories. Random chance to have some stuff on a basic home's table to tell a story.
- Multi-stage building QoL: Now if you upgrade a wall frame, wall, etc, you'll have the item displayed until you press ESC (like normal building), allowing to build multiples without having to use the right click context menu every time.
- Added a "Can't Sprint"-moodle which will appear when the character is unable to sprint. The moodle will shake for a bit when you can't sprint but try to.
 
Last Stand Compatibility changes:
- Player files are saved in Zomboid\Lua\LastStand instead of Zomboid\Lua\Players to avoid conflicts with Build 40.
- Player files have VERSION=1 at the top for compatibility with future versions of the game.
- Existing Build 41 player files will need to be moved into Zomboid\Lua\LastStand and add VERSION=1 at the top to work.
 
- The character-creation "Save" button dialog now fills in the name of the preset selected in the combobox, if one is selected.
- Require the player to be near a vehicle before the context menu displays refueling options to fix gas E.S.P.
- Changed the vehicle radial-menu icons for adding and removing gas (they were the same before).
- Added BaseTimedAction:setCurrentTime(). This is used by ISReadABook to set the start time based on the number of pages already read.
- Added blood and dirt stats to the Wash context-menu item tooltips.
- Added "Stack Weight" to inventory-item tooltips to show the total weight of a stack.
- Added a "Training Materials" button to the character Info panel. This displays a window with two tabs, one for skill books and another for magazines that teach recipes.
    For skill books, the item name is displayed in white once the player has read the book completely, or has gained the skill levels through other means.
    For magazines, the item name is displayed in white once the player knows all the recipes taught by the magazine.
- Updated/added Radio translations for Japanese, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese
 
 
BALANCE
 
- Allow plumbing a non-moved sink before the water shuts off if there is a rain barrel above. The water is still infinite for plumbed sinks before the water shuts off.
- Allow plumbing a sink to an empty rain barrel.
- Allow metal drums to be picked up with the furniture-moving tool.
- Allow pouring water into metal drums.
- Boosted loot spawns in stash.
- Display what perk just levelup up on top of the char (like exp gain from TV).
- Sheet ropes can now be attached to metal railings on balconies. (Currently doesn't work for fences on the south or east of a floor)
- Car wrecks appear less often, but can now be dismantled.
- Increased odds of curtains being already closed in houses.
- Holes will be added to clothing after the check for protection, meaning 100% protection will always defend you from a bite and lowered protection from a hole will only affect future attacks. Thanks to PseudonymousEd for pointing this out. 
- Shooting out of cars now has a more limited angle than the former 360°.
- Player will now be unable to control the car while reloading. 
- Reload time increased while driving.
- Control of the car is also lost when shooting rifles, but not with pistols.
 
Distribution changes:
- Updated distributions.
- Added a weightChance property, so you can try to make X spawn more than Y. Defines all the weight chance in said list (total can be over or under 100, doesn't matter).
- Added a forceForTiles property, this'll check that a specific tile exist on this container's square to spawn items from this distribution list (ex: force something in counter under a sink).
- Added a forceForRooms property, we'll check that a room specified in this list exists in the building of the container.
    Example: Police station has an "office" room with a desk, but we don't have ways to spawn more police themed items in their desk. 
    Simply define a new distrib PoliceOfficeDesk, and add a forceForRooms="policestorage" so if we detect a policestorage room in this building, we'll use PoliceOfficeDesk instead of a regular desk)
 
Changes to knives:
- If you're too close to a zombie but there's another zombie chasing you (thus not be able to do a jawstab) the character will shove instead of stabbing normally.
- Slightly reduced movement speed while attacking with knives, similar to other weapons.
- Reduced Hunting knife damage a tad.
 
- Balanced some clothings Speed Reduction and Protection to be more consistent.
- Small chance of having some house windows being left open.
- Curtains can now spawn closed.
 
 
MOD SUPPORT
 
- Added outfit zombie distribution (see example in Distributions.lua). Allows modders to add items to specific zombie outfits (e.g. bigger chance of finding ammo on police zombies, etc)
    Quick example, add Outfit_ in front of the outfit name, like Outfit_Generic01 and define your loot table.
- Added getters and setters to Recipe, Recipe.Result and Recipe.Source for mods.
- Added a system for respawning zombies on island maps (e.g., Kingsmouth).
    Normally when respawning zombies, a random location on the edge of the map is chosen as a start location.
    The game then attempts to find a path from that start location to the chunk that zombies are respawning in.
    This doesn't work for maps that have water on all edges, since paths cannot be found through water.
    Map creators may now specify valid start locations by adding objects to the map's objects.lua file.
    The objects.lua file is normally created by WorldEd.
    These objects are rectangular areas along edges of the island indicating respawn start locations.
    These objects should be right on the edge of the land next to the water (but not in the water).
    Alternatively, these objects may be put into a file called spawnOrigins.lua in the map's directory.
    This file has the same format as objects.lua. See Kingsmouth/spawnOrigins.lua for an example.
- Added ISLiteratureUI.SetItemHidden(fullType, hidden) function so mods can prevent items being displayed in the Training Materials ui.
 
 
FIXES
 
- Fixed being able to fish from swimming pools.
- Fixed the "randomAngle" field of a VehicleZoneDistribution always being false.
- Fixed triggering OnObjectLeftMouseButtonDown and similar events on objects that have been removed from the world.
- Fixed long braided hairstyles not pointing to correct hairstyle.
- Fixed belt not working as 3D item.
- Fixed buildings having more than one table story.
- Fixed issues adding water to and taking water from rain-collecting items on the ground.
- Fixed aiming cursor being less visible on light backgrounds.
- Fixed changed shader files not automatically being reloaded.
- Fixed an infinite loop occurring when require()'ing a Lua file recursively.
- Fixed "invalid direction" exception when a fence is broken by zombies.
- Fixed "VanAmbulance" instead of "Base.VanAmbulance" in RVSCarCrash.
- Tutorial: Fixed the dad zombie's eating sound not stopping after he stands up.
- Tutorial: Fixed the player getting stuck using the Open Curtain context menu option.
- Fixed RVSCarCrash.
- Fixed some container types.
- Fixed issues with automatically opening boxes of nails when doing carpentry.
- Fixed tainted-water status of metal drums with water in them.
- Fixed some vehicles not playing Lock/Unlock/IsLocked sounds for trunks.
- Fixed the game hitching every second while in a vehicle until zombies are near again.
- Fixed no sound playing when hitting objects with bare hands.
- Fixed a multithreading issue with keyboard input. This only affected entering text, not keyboard controls while playing.
- Fixed vehicle radio text staying onscreen after turning off the radio when not in the driver's seat.
- Fixed the player's animation locking up when charging with a spear after a zombie is hit.
    This happened when the "Manual Floor Attack" key was the same as the "Sprint" key.
- Fixed impact and death sound not playing when spear-charging a zombie.
- Fixed "Place Car Battery Charger" displaying for every item clicked on
- Fixed the "Plant Information" window not handling different font sizes.
- Fixed bomb explosion sounds not playing.
- Fixed the weapon swing sound not playing when using the "Smash Window" context-menu option.
- Fixed class-cast exception in Moodle caused by HumanCorpse updating Moodles.
- Fixed HumanCorpse update() getting called when zombie spawning is disabled, which caused a NullPointerException with Moodles.
- Fixed overlapping disease text in the Plant Information window.
- Fixed farming with a controller.
- Fixed some of the excessive head movement when swinging a spear.
- Fixed Lamp On Pillar losing it's battery and on/off state upon reloading. This raises the WorldVersion to 183.
- Fixed rendering the isocursor and aim-outline in splitscreen.
- Fixed the position of the vehicle dashboard in splitscreen with more than two players.
- Fixed conditions of cooking vessels resetting the condition when adding water and rice or pasta. 
- Fixed Welding Masks getting soaked in the rain.
- Fixed Thick Skinned and Thin Skinned incorrectly calculating the chance to do damage from zombies.
- Fixed being unable to remove Thin Skinned using the Player Stats debug ui.
- Fixed Lua error after removing a trait in the Player Stats debug ui.
- Fixed showing zero-cost traits such as Axeman as "bad" when adding traits in the Player Stats debug ui.
- Fixed setting the Occlusion FMOD parameter to simulate the Hard Of Hearing trait, since it is now done in FMOD Studio.
- Fixed infinite carry capacity after making rotten-strawberry salad.
- Fixed the layout of the microwave and oven UIs with different-sized fonts.
- Fixed Lua error wobbling the non-existent heart icon of splitscreen players.
- Fixed endurance being reduced while holding down the Run key when not moving.
- Fixed misplaced halves of Large Modern Oven in one orientation.
- Fixed not being able to barricade carpentry Wooden Door.
- Fixed the layout of ISAlarmClockDialog with larger fonts.
- Fixed ISTabPanel:getWidthOfAllTabs() when equal tabs widths are used.
- Fixed native-code exception when opening the Option screen. This was a bug in GLFW.glfwGetKeyName().
- Fixed animation and sound issues when attacking zombies that are eating corpses
- Fixed VehicleAmbiance using the wrong event name.
- Fixed the vehicle horn continuing to play after the switch-seat ui is displayed while honking.
- Fixed Radio items without a WorldSprite being assigned an invalid module.type.
- Fixed duplication bug when crafting from containers.
- Fixed not being able to make coffee and tea with the Spiffo mug.
- Fixed hot beverage not being hot right after it is crafted.
- Fixed hot and cold drinks not giving a happiness bonus.
- Fixed not being able to tie a rope to player-made windows (gracias dito!)
- Fixed ranger car siren light colour.
- Fixed annotated map loot not always spawning when it should.
- Fixed crash when trying to go forwards & backwards at the same time in a car.
- Fixed Firearm Radial Menu coming up when any ISBuildingObject cursor is already displayed.
- Fixed trying to play multiple instances of WorldAmbiance since only one is allowed.

 
TECHNICAL
 
- Added a bunch of performance probes to IsoCell.renderTiles to help track down the inner-most causes of the performance lagging issue.
- New class: PerformanceProfileProbeList
    Allows us to have arrays of performance probes, suitable for profiling arrays of code blocks, like with IsoCell.renderTile layers.
- Added a few WorldDictionary.DebugPrintItem calls to some functions to help find some mod problems
- Moved updating some global FMOD parameters out of IsoPlayer into AmbientStreamManager.


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Additional Hotfix:

- Fixed small clock
- Fixed DrinkingFromBottle sound continuing forever after the action completes.
- Fixed the Training Materials button overlapping other text with 3x font size and many traits.

Peeking:
 
As the multiplayer gaming in PZ approaches I think we need more functional stealth mechanics. This would also be useful in single player when NPCs eventually drop. Maybe little less useful with zombies, but advantageous with them also.
 
How does being able to peek from beyond closed curtains or doors sound like? I'm talking about animationless way of implementing this, right click a closed curtain or a door and get an action called a peek to choose. Choosing this action would grant you a second or two view outside, only a very narrow view mind you. Implementing this with its own key/button would let the player to press and hold to peek at long as they wish, all the while increasing the chances of being spotted.
 
You could also peek into an inside of a building. Peek through a door before entering a suspicious building or take a look through barricaded windows when scoping out enemy base.
 
This would let you assess a situation outside without revealing yourself. If a character, be it a zombie, NPC or another human player, looks directly at the player peeking the game could have some light indication that signals said character to take notice. With zombies or NPCs this of course would be handled by the programming and AI but in multiplayer this could maybe be indicated by quick glimmer like animation in the window or door area.
 
Indicators:
 
As briefly described in the above paragrah I'd like to suggest small visible indicators to things currently presented as huge graphics or noticeable actions like peeking.

A quick animation like glimmer mentioned above could indicate car keys on the ground for instance. Now we see a huge key on the ground and immediately know what it is. All small objects on the ground could have same kind of glimmer to them and only when the player is examining the ground container would the see what is actually there.

A simple animation would suit many different use cases where a blown up graphic seems out of place in otherwise graphically well laid out world and would also let developers quickly implement new features like peeking without creating animations at least right away.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE:
 
Project Zomboid IWBUMS beta update 41.51 contains significant optimizations to our save game system. As such any saved games played in 41.50 will NOT be operational.
 
A separate Steam beta containing the previous 41.50 build has been provided so that you can continue and finish your current game.
 
Similarly, in a changelist as big as this some mods WILL become incompatible.
 
If you enjoy playing modded PZ then please consider using the provided 41.50 beta to allow the creators of your favourite mods some time to update to 41.51.
 
This version also sees some of the foundational aspects of PZ updated to more recent versions - with it now running on Java 15 and LWJGL 3.2.3. These have, and will in future, give us access to many new optimizations and engine features.
 
Although any incompatibilities found in our testing group have been fixed, some issues may occur on outlier system set-ups, so please report any misbehaviour to us!
 
If 41.51 fails to run then please make sure you are not running an non-updated version of Windows 10, as the 64 bit version of 41.51 is incompatible with some older versions. The game should account for this, and choose not to load incompatible optimization features, but this might still be an advisable first step on a failed launch.

NEW/QOL
 
Now running on Java 15
Now running on latest LWJGL (3.2.3)
 
- Previously, to seed/water/harvest, you needed to right click on every plant and select an action. Now once you selected seeds, water or harvest, you'll have a cursor to water multiple plants easily.
- Shift+double click can now be used on clothing items in the inventory to wear the item
- Newest earned skill level is now highlighted when the skill panel is opened
- Added filter icon to inventory panel to add additional filter/sorting options, currently has 'weight'
- Water source now displayed in parentheses for the Drink/Wash option (partially to diagnose issues with puddles and rain)
- Analog watches no longer have alarms
- Digital watch display now has alarm button that can be pressed on the UI
- 'Saliva only' transmission option - player is immune to scratch infection
- Added tooltip to show which gun magazine will be filled
- Required items to cure plants and crops now shown.
- Zombies faceplanting on broken glass now get lots of blood on head/neck, and some on upper torso.
- Alarm clocks now display the same bell as digital watches when an alarm is set.
- When trying to repair a door on a vehicle through the mechanics menu, a tooltip appears telling the player that they need to uninstall the door before they can repair it. They can also then repair the doors from their inventory.
- When pressing Shift+E from any passenger door you will then move straight through to the driver's side if no one is already there.
- Added more smashed car models.
- Zombies can now pathfind through destroyable objects. They prefer to go around, but if there is no other path, they'll thump on walls and crates, etc.
- Added brazilian portugese radio translations
- Added hair gel. Mohawk will now be flatten if you wear a hat. Now need hair gel to fix it.
- Added new options to add padding/patch holes on garments. This will patch any holes if there are some and then add padding to the other parts.
- Added a remove all padding/patches option.
- Added small XP gain when ripping clothing/sheets. Gaining small amounts of XP when you recieve some thread back from items so it can't be abused.
- Added sandbox option for decay of items that are knocked off / fall off zombies
- Added some variety to crashed cars
- Use a cursor to choose which walls or objects to paint or plaster, when using the mouse and keyboard. This cursor was already used when playing with a controller.
- Added a combobox to Items List Viewer to choose which splitscreen player to give items to.
- Hats/Gloves added to the remove/decay list. Default also now set to 24 hours.
- Updated Korean fonts and translations, and updated community translations.
- Added "Please check PZ Steam betas for version 41.50." for WorldVersion 175 saves.
- Require Windows 10 version 1803 (build 17134) or greater to enable the newer garbage collector, earlier versions will just run without it and not receive the optimization.
- Added TrailerCover to VehicleDistributions.
- Allow trailer bodywork to be repaired by welding.
- Added a cursor for removing bushes, plants and wall-vines.
- Replace north-west corner wallframes with two separate wallframe objects (the first time they are loaded). The player can't upgrade the north-west corner objects.
- Car stories can now spawn decomposed zombies corpses.
 
MODELS AND ANIMS

- Added long hair style for when wearing hats
- Adjusted some clothes to accommodate new long hat hairstyles
- Adjusted a couple of female hats
- Tweaked female long hat hair to stop pixel flickering
- Added some new hairstyles
- Added some Braided hairstyles
- Adjusted some hairstyle definitions as they were pointing to a non-existent hairstyle and subsequently were invisible when wearing some hats.
- replaced the 'land gentle' anim with the heavier landing
- tweaks to turn 180 anims, first pass
- adjusted Zombie_Idle_FloorOnBack.X pose to match zombie death anim
 
BALANCE

- Added butter knives stuck in zombies.
- Reduced number of hunting knives stuck in zombies.
- Lowered zombie survivor in horde spawning rate.
- Lowered chance of alice pack on survivor zombies.
- Increased beef jerky nutrition values.
- Balanced weight of ammo/ammo box to be more consistent/logical (box weight is bit less than the full bullets stack)
- Dead animals (except rat/mouse) give unhappiness when you eat them raw, just cook them to remove that (tooltip was added to explain).
- White display counter (mainly in butcher shop) now also acts as fridge
- Added more tailoring books to kitchen.
- Added rifles in shed/garage.
- Zombies now do more damage to fences when crowding against/over them
- Now possible to recover and repair a weapon used in Spear creation
- M36 Revolver now only has capacity for five rounds
- Character can now auto-open nail boxes
- Beer can now returns an empty can after it's drunk
- Cockroaches and Grasshoppers can now be used to bait the StickTrap
- Tuna Can no longer requires a Can opener to be opened
- Increased health points of player built walls.
- Reduced the engine force & total speed of going in reverse with a car.
- Adding more items to partially consumed crafted foods will add new food values to original food, not partially consumed one
- Berries salad now reduces thirst
- Lowered amount of water in a bleach bottle.
- Increased recoil of pistols/revolver.
- Increased chance of creating crawler when hitting zombies with cars.
- Park Ranger/Lumberjack profession now gives a bonus to walking through trees.
- Leg fractures now reduce speed according to their severity.
- Splints increase walk speed with a fracture, depending on the doctor's Medical level.
- Can now add salt and pepper to sandwiches.
- Zombies spawning on vehicles stories now have high chance of having a key to a related vehicle.
- Increased the effect of injuries on sprint speed.
- Increased "wash vehicle" time.
- Crashing a car into objects can now damage the engine if hood condition is too low.
- Bags in hands/equipped now reduce run speed and walk speed. The more full the bag is, the bigger the slow down. Equipped bags in 2nd hand can also reduce combat speed.
- Fuel stations no longer have unlimited fuel.
- Added sandbox option under World category "initial fuel station gas", ranging from "Empty" to "Full" with "Low/Very High" etc. in between
- It takes a minimum of two zombies climbing over a fence at the same time to damage the fence. Metal fences take half the damage as wooden fences.
- Made firefighter clothing slightly heavier and increased their Run and Combat Speed Modifier accordingly.
- Lowered fanny pack capacity
- Increased empty gas can weight from 0.3 to 1.5.
- Added bullet defense in clothing tooltip.
- Some knives (mainly Stone Knife) slightly reduced in damage.
- Athletic trait now excluded when selecting Very Underweight.
- Adjusted weight of ammo boxes.
- Made tents thumpable so zombies can destroy them.
- Wooden wall frames placed by the mapper become IsoThumpables that can be upgraded, like user-placed ones.
- Did some balance on sneak/lightfoot exp gain: you now need to be rather close (15 tiles) from a zombie to gain exp, you also need to not be targetted by a zombie.
- Decreased damage done to feet when walking barefoot.
- Decreased damage done by trees when walking through them.
- Increased chance of spawning feeding zeds.
- Decreased chance of feeding zeds spotting you
- Set all bandana weight to 0.1.

PRE NOISEWORKS SOUND CHANGES

- Preload sample data ahead of time so that sounds can play immediately when started.
- Fixed some sounds randomly starting muted due to the Occlusion parameter not being re-initialized to the correct value.
- Don't set Occlusion to 1.0 as that seems to completely mute some sounds.
- Pause music when the game is paused.
- Fixed the BreakObject sound not playing when destroying carpentry objects.
 
DEBUG

- Added context menu option "[DEBUG] UIs > Spawn Points" for teleporting the player to various spawn points to check their positions.
- Added a context-menu to the "[DEBUG] UIs > Spawn Points" editor.  This can be used to reposition and remove existing points.
 To save the changes, use the "Copy All To Clipboard" menu option and paste in the appropriate spawnpoints.lua file.
- Added a separate menu "[DEBUG] Vehicle > Set Script (Smashed)" for smashed vehicles.
- Allow deleting map_zone.bin from the "More..." load-game ui in debug mode.

LOOT DISTRIBUTION CHANGES
 
Partially implemented new system - as yet untouched loot tables remain the same as before.
 
New more handcrafted loot placement / container system used for places like Giga-Mart and residential kitchens now applied to the rest of the map. Locations that previously spawned random grab-bags of loot (like Spiffo’s) should have their contents sorted into relevant lists: If you’re looking for a bladed weapon or some fresh-cut chops, try looking around the kitchen of any place that sells meat (i.e, not a bakery) for the meat-cutting station. If it’s baking supplies you need, look for where the sacks of flour are stored-- they’ll probably be next to a rolling pin.

Convenience stores, corner stores, and gas stations have had their shelves’ contents sorted so loose cigarettes no longer mix with the lollipops. Players who visit the pharmacy already have an idea of how the shelves are laid out: Some have snacks, some have drinks. You’re less likely to find medicine in a gas station but it’s not unheard of-- ditto car supplies in a Zippee’s. If you want the most of a particular kind of item, it’s best to stick to the relevant business. Gas station tylenol is a ripoff anyway.

Medical locations now sort their contents into tools, medicine, and doctor-related stuff like gloves, masks, and scrubs. Bars, beauty salons, butcher shops, cafes, and liquor stores all take the same approach. Giant ‘catch all’ loot lists should eventually be replaced with tailored selections of items that are relevant to the location they’re spawned in.

MOVABLES
 
- Fixed movable items, such as radios from cars, having correct condition when placed and picked up again.
- Movables can now be dismantled from inventory, except for the multi tile object ones i.e: beds.
- Added MovableRecipe which has no script definitions, instead gets created on the fly from movable definitions.
- Refactored some stuff so the MovableRecipe has the same chances, xp, resultitems, equipitems etc as world object dismantling.
- Single tile Movable items are now defined as 'Moveables.world_object_sprite_here" instead of all being 'Moveables.Moveable'.
 this also means these movables can be easily instanced directly now

CONTROLLERS UPDATE
 
- Removed the old JInput library which was used for controllers.  The GLFW library, part of LWJGL 3, is now used.
- GLFW has a database of several hundred Xbox-like controllers, including PlayStation controllers, so these should
 have a good chance of working.  Recognized controllers are listed in media\gamecontrollerdb.txt.
- The user can create their own gamecontrollerdb.txt file in their User\Zomboid\joypads directory.  This can be done
 to add new controllers or to override a controller in the game's media\gamecontrollerdb.txt.
- The game should handle controllers disconnecting and reconnecting during play.  If player 1's controller is
 disconnected, they can choose to revert to keyboard and mouse input.
- The controller X button now rotates objects in Place mode.

FIXES
 
- Fixed "delete all" on bins not working.
- Fixed tailoring book/farming mag not spawning in shelves.
- Fixed water container in office weighing 3.
- Fixed white display counter not cooling food.
- Fixed zombies not being able to pathfind through obstacles surrounding vehicles.
- Fixed some minor pathfind issues.
- Fixed zombies thumping windows when they didn't hear a sound or see the player, when the "Environmental Attacks" sandbox option is disabled.
- Fixed not being able to plaster doorframes built at Carpentry level 7
- Fixed stretched sprites in cutaways, including roof wall tiles, garage doors and certain windows
- Fixed heatable water containers not heating up if put into campfire/bbq before they are lit
- Fixed deep wounds having a shorter half-life than scratches or lacerations before healing
- Fixed GameWindow.StringUTF writing garbage characters at the end of strings. (Fixes saves)
- Fixed lights losing their custom color. (For example, the blue Pharmahug sign was only blue the first time it was loaded. Moveable lights lost their custom color when moved.)
- Fixed misplaced door models on the cars with door-models.
- Fixed keypad key names being the same as keys on the main keyboard.
- Fixed scissors not allowing jaw stab.
- Fixed corpses clipping through furniture and walls with the RBShopLooted story.
- Fixed FMOD .bank files not being found when the current working directory is not the same as Java's -Duser.dir option.
- Fixed some flying cars
- Fixed crawling zombies getting stuck while moving near walls.
- Fixed crawling zombies not thumping fences like they do with doors.
- Fixed crawling zombies trying to go through open windows.
- Fixed crawling zombies trying to crawl through fences when there is a nearby way around.
- Fixed zombies sometimes thumping on wall frames that they can climb through.
- Fixed WorldDictionary ID's not being reset uppon new game.
- Fixed the 'campfire bug'. in some cases sprite were not being set properly on IsoObject, this may have also affected erosion objects.
- Fixed edit item coloring not working.
- Fixed map issues.
- Fixed the fishing UI appearance not changing when a controller is disconnected.
- Fixed not being able to add any condiments to a Burger found in game
- Fixed Empty Pop Can appearing after char drinks a beer
- Fixed Sawed-off JS-2000 shotgun only being reparable with another Sawed-off.
- Fixed Hoodie unequipping when hood up + baseball hat
- Fixed cooking food increasing weight of the dish inconsistently
- Fixed player being able to eat by double-clicking when full to bursting
- Fixed Bourbon having two options to empty the bottle
- Fixed M9 pistol and D-E Pistol having their icons mixed up
- Fixed Wet Bath towel losing Favourite status after drying
- Fixed new ammunition types not being dismantlable 
- Fixed "Sleep on ground" option in the car when char is Ridiculously tired
- Fixed some furniture not being thumpable by zombies.
- Fixed unhidden "Hat" related hair type.
- Fixed incorrect alpha fades on non-updating objects such as roof eaves and furniture.
- Fixed being able to survive bleach death by eating lemongrass
- Fixed not being able to repair double doors
- Fixed Fish fillet / Chicken behaving strangely when used in salad
- Fixed filling up an empty bottle / bucket from a river or a lake incorrectly showing "Puddle" as a source
- Fixed not being able to hold RMB and use F to turn on flashlight
- Fixed "Easy use" causing all car trunks to be opened, not only unlocked
- Fixed Analog watches not having alarms if Spanish language is selected
- Fixed Padlocks that spawn in stores oftentimes getting called "house key" + a string of numbers
- Fixed not being able to freeze separate eggs
- Fixed inconsistence in rmb -> grab and basic transfer inventory action.
- Fixed some tile defs (bunker cutaway, railward vendor machine, changed shelves to clothing rack on certains container for clothing store).
- Fixed laundry basket acting as a dryer.
- Fixed zombies spawning outside very large buildings (eg. Mall) when unexplored rooms are seen for the first time.
- Fixed drinking from soup/stew bowl with a spoon not using the spoon.
- Fixed being able to bandage a fractured body part.
- Fixed cure flies/mildew on plants causing a crash.
- Fixed harvesting plant while plant info window was open causing a crash.
- Fixed some foods (notably a lot in Zed stories) having zero nutritional values
- Fixed not being able to wash blood stains off vehicle windows
- Fixed furniture sometimes fading away while the player is still close enough to see inside.
- Fixed not being able to freeze wild eggs
- Fixed seat naming weirdness by removing  "BigCarSeat" and "SportCarSeat" items, and renamng "NormalCarSeat" items to just "Seat".
- Fixed the random vehicle generator which was causing "Standard Seat" to be selected every time.
- Fixed being able to do fitness exercises when you shouldn't.
- Fixed a physics bug that caused the Sports Car to not accelerate to it's top speed of 120 km/h. This also caused vehicles to get pushed downwards at higher speeds.
- Fixed office water dispenser weighing only 5.
- Fixed blue hospital curtain requiring electrical skill to be picked up.
- Fixed "Hat" variants of hairstyles showing in the "Change" menu in the character-info ui. Some hairstyles (for example TopCurls) have a "Hat" hairstyle in their "Trim Choices". 
- Fixed dropping equipped container while being overencumbred duplicating the container on ground.
- Fixed being able to grab items through fences.
- Fixed being able to do fitness while climbing.
- Fixed house alarm and helicopter sounds ignoring the master sound volume.
- Fixed UI showing up on savefile thumbnail images.
- Fixed the clock not being centered in splitscreen and overlapping the button prompts.
- Fixed splitscreen savegames taking a screencap of the middle of the screen. Thumbnails will now be created from Player 1 screen.
- Fixed OpenGL exceptions when creating a new game due to trying to create the thumbnail image in GameLoadingState's thread.
- Fixed "can't create player at" error when going back from the character-profession screen and starting a challenge.
- Fixed being able to rotate carpentry objects while they are being built. ISBuildMenu.cheat no longer controls whether build actions complete immediately. Instead, IsoGameCharacter:isTimedActionInstant() is called, as is already done by most other actions. This makes it easier to test build actions without having to have all the materials.
- Fixed inventory tooltips flickering between visible and hidden when using a controller while in the main menu.
- Fixed controller glitch when closing a map by clicking the close button in the titlebar instead of using the B button.
- Fixed smart zombies triggering house alarms when opening windows when the "Zombie House Alarm Triggering" option is disabled.
- Fixed bumping into (and possibly being tripped by) zombies on the other sides of doors/walls/windows.
- Fixed being able to load bullets into or unload bullets from a magazine after it has been inserted into a firearm by a previous action.
- Fixed broken behavior assigning keys in the options.
- Fixed animation lockup pressing Alt + Space when Alt is assigned to both Sprint and "Manual Floor Attack".
- Fixed uninstalling parts resetting the condition to 100 sometimes
- Fixed items not saving condition if the condition was 10. Now condition only isn't saved when condition equals condMax (max condition).
- Fixed being able to open multiple sleep dialogues.
- Fixed sea horse bins not having "delete all" button.
- Fixed new liquor store in Muldraugh distributions.
- Fixed some wrong definition for bar.
- Fixed display case in pie restaurant.
- Fixed thin skinned giving more resistance to being damaged while walking in trees.
- Fixed icon for shooting glasses.
- Fixed Saucepan repairing itself after it was filled with water
- Fixed items being rendered in the wrong position (offscreen) after drying out on the ground.
- Fixed a Lighter being equipped when a Lit Candle is available when pressing the 'F' key.
- Fixed not being able to reinstall radios in vehicles.
- Fixed tainted water source being prefered over a non-tainted water source when drinking or filling bottles. Prefer a non-tainted water source over a tainted one when drinking or filling bottles.
- Fixed having to move and place sinks after water shut off to be plumbable again.
- Fixed not being able to use some shovels and handforks to pick up hedges, flower beds, etc. Any item with the DigPlow tag can now be used to pick up objects with the PickUpTool=Shovel sprite property.
- Fixed random horizontal and vertical lines appearing along the edges of some textures.
- Fixed the Crawl Under Vehicle sandbox option not being applied in some instances, so all zombies could crawl under vehicles.
- Fixed formatting of WorldItemRemovalList in xxx_SandboxVars.lua files.
- Fixed the player death-drag-down animation EndDeath being overridden by HitReactionFromBehind. They both had one condition that didn't exclude the other animation.
- Fixed the player always getting up from sitting sometimes.
- Fixed multiple different VehicleDistribution Specific categories of loot being applied to the same vehicle. Now a random Specific category is chosen for the vehicle as a whole, instead of for each container.
- Fixed LuaManager.refreshAnimSets() not checking all players in splitscreen.
- Fixed error clicking on a plant infested with flies without having Insecticide Spray in inventory.
- Fixed Fitness.save() saving exeTimer.size() twice.
- Fixed the inspect-garment ui not resizing to accommodate the Bullet column.
- Fixed being able to do exercises while climbing ropes.
- Fixed some cutaway problems.
- Fixed evolved recipe (cooking stir fry...) not resetting their base nutrition values, giving big boosts to nutrition on those recipes.
- Fixed invisible players triggering house alarms.
- Fixed some issues with zombie visibility.
- Fixed duplicate Scratch Defense stat in item tooltips where nothing or Bullet Defense should be.
- Fixed missing BodyParts\overlays textures by rebuilding UI2.pack
- Fixed layout issues in the inspect-garment ui.
- Fixed debug context menu exception when there is no zone on the clicked square.
- Fixed models with capital "I" in the name not loading on the Turkish locale.
- Fixed analog watches sometimes having the alarm set, which can't be turned off.
- Fixed a Lua error when running out of paint or plaster when using the paint/plaster cursor.
- Fixed some spawn points that were inside furniture or outside buildings.
- Fixed broken Perk translation in carpentry tooltips.
- Fixed unknown RemoveUnhappinessWhenCooked item parameter. Now "Cook to remove happiness malus." appears in the tooltip for fish, may want to edit this.
- Fixed thumbnail images for savefiles using mods not being updated after returning to the main menu.
- Fixed some hair type list.
- Fixed some parking spot in Muldraugh.
- Fixed wooden pillar acting like a wall.
- Fixed DataChunk exception with a user-created walkway on a guard tower.
- Fixed Lua error building fences.
- Fixed a garage in Riverside having an inside-out door and an old dirt floor tile (with a stray pixel in it).
- Fixed broken carpentry-tooltip perk translations.
- Fixed Shift-E allowing the player to switch from a rear seat to the driver's seat in the police car.
- Fixed "laundry" being in the list of buildings that RBShopLooted can happen in.
- Fixed WorldItemModelDrawer ignoring ModelMesh.m_transform. This fixes rotation of the forthcoming 3D item models so they match what is seen in assimp_viewer.
- Fixed font loading.
- Fixed InventoryItem.attachedSlotType being treated like an item module.type when it isn't. This fixes the "WARNING: Cannot get registry id" spam in console
- Fixed "Open File Location" button in the load-game "More..." ui, since it doesn't work with -Djava.awt.headless=true.
- Fixed the farming-cursor tooltip showing the exact water level for farming skill 4 instead of 5+.
- Fixed hats not rotating as they fall to the ground.
- Fixed the item type of Radios being changed to Radio.worldSprite which broke translations.
- Fixed untranslated names of movables being displayed for the Disassemble recipe.
- Fixed the Disassemble recipe for movables being displayed when the player couldn't actually perform the recipe
 (due to missing tools, for example) which is different than other recipes which aren't displayed.
- Fixed some tiles properties problems.
- Fixed duplicate VehicleDistributions.Hunter. One had TrailerTrunk, the one without it was removed.
- Fixed randomized building code adding barricades to double doors or garage doors, which the player can't do.
- Fixed campfire and tent options appearing in the context menu when in a vehicle.
- Fixed foraging ui being visible still when the player gets in a vehicle.
- Fixed duplicate radio items appearing in the "Install" men
- Fixed two unused files from "maps/West Point, KY".
- Fixed smashed StepVanMail using the StepVan template instead of StepVanMail (which didn't exist).
- Fixed upgraded doorframes blocking movement.
- Fixed weapon models without a "world" attachment not being oriented the way they used to be when on the ground. This is why things like the Club Hammer were standing on end.
- Fixed missing "world" attachments on several weapon models.
- Fixed some multi-hit sandbox problems in which some weapons would not multihit.
- Fixed TrailerCover missing from container distributions.
- Fixed Trailer-TrailerTrunk missing from container distributions.
 
MODDING

- Allow modders to add new vehicle zones to the global VehicleZoneDefinition table.
 Previously, only the game's zone names and types were allowed.
 This should work for any vehicle zone not called TestVehicles or containing TrafficJam.
- Added support for loading animations from a mod's media/anims_X directory (and subdirectories of that). It should handle activating and deactivating mods.
 
- Global ModData
Registers moddata tables with a given String key.
When Global Moddata is initialised during world loading it triggers the event "OnInitGlobalModData" with parameter: boolean isNewGame.
LuaTable ModData.create(String key) creates and returns the table with given key, returns null if the table already exists.
String ModData.create() creates a table with a random UUID key, note: returns the string key.
LuaTable ModData.getOrCreate(String key) gets or creates the table with given key.
LuaTable ModData.get(String key) returns the table with given key or null.
boolean ModData.exists(String key) return true if table with given key exists.
LuaTable ModData.remove(String key) removes the table with given key if exists and returns it or null.
void ModData.add(String key, LuaTable table) store the table with given key (overrides any existing table).
ArrayList getTableNames() returns a list of all registered tables.

Networking

Global ModData is not synced between server and client as depending on what the moddata is being used for this may not be required or even unwanted.
Syncing of data where needed is up to coder/author. There are however two methods for networking:
void ModData.transmit(String key)
- this will attempt to transmit the table with given key, when called on server this is send to all clients, when called on client send to server. (see note on receiving moddata below)
void ModData.request(String key)
- client only, this sends a request to server to send back the table with given key to this client.
When the server or the client receives a moddata packet it is not automatically added to the local register.
Instead the packet is read and the event "OnReceiveGlobalModData" is triggered, the String key and LuaTable table are passed as arguments.
NOTE: the table argument can be 'false' when moddata packet replied to a ModData.request.
The coder/author can then decide to parse, register or keep it as temporary lua table only etc.

- Fixed issues with setting appropriate texture flags when loading mod texture packs.
    - World textures were missing the flag to create mipmaps, resulting in "sparkly" textures when zoomed out.
    - Floor textures were using compression, resulting in visual artifacts sometimes.
    - UI textures were using compression and "mag linear" filtering instead of "mag nearest" filtering.
    - When a mod texture-pack name ends with ".floor", compression is turned off.
    - For texture packs containing UI textures and/or item textures, the mod.info file should add "type=ui" to pack= lines, like this:
    pack=MyPackFile 
    type=ui

- Allow vehicle scripts to override the "model" without a name.
 Previously, "model XYZ" would override a previously-declared "model XYZ", but "model" alone wouldn't override "model".
 
- Allow mods to define custom sandbox options.
 Each file called media/sandbox-options.txt that exists is loaded before Lua files are loaded.
 
- Allow mods to define custom perks (Skills ingame).
 Each file called media/perks.txt that exists is loaded before scripts and Lua files are loaded.
 New perks and perk categories can be defined.
 This required removing the Perks enum.  Now Perks is a class containing static instances of Perk.
 So Perks.Strength is now the Strength perk itself instead of an enum value.
 The Lua Perks table contains the predefined perks and also any custom perks.
 Fortunately, these changes didn't require any changes to Lua files. 

- Added textureShadow property to vehicle scripts to allow overriding the shadow texture.
 For example, write "textureShadow = schoolbag_spiffo," without quotes.

- recipe.Prop1 and recipe.Prop2 can specify a source item to display in the player's hand.
 For example, Prop1:Source=2 will use either the Saw or GardenSaw model:
 
    recipe Saw Logs
    {
       Log,
       keep Saw/GardenSaw,
       Prop1:Source=2,
       Prop2:Log,
    }
 The Log model could also be specified as Prop2:Source=1.

- Vehicle windows will have color from the textureLights texture applied. This was added for the boat mod. Call BaseVehicle.setWindowLightsOn(true|false) to control this.  This setting isn't saved, or synced in multiplayer.

- Vehicle-shadow size and position may be set using the shadowExtents and shadowOffset properties in vehicle scripts. These can be edited in the vehicle editor, under the Chassis section.

- Fixed "Mod: XYZ" in item tooltips for mod items always displaying the name of the last mod loaded.
- Added Tooltip.ModName debug option to control displaying "Mod: XYZ" in item tooltips for mod items.
 This could be changed to a Display option if wanted (translations needed though).
- Added GameTime helicopter-related methods for mods:
 int getHelicopterDay()
 setHelicopterDay(int day)
 
 int getHelicopterStartHour()
 setHelicopterStartHour(int hour) // 0-24
 int getHelicopterEndHour()
 setHelicopterEndHour(int hour) // 0-24
 
TECHNICAL

- Optimized game variable look-ups.
  - AnimCondition no longer repeatedly searches for the same variable by name.
  - Instead, it creates an AnimationVariableHandle and re-uses it.
- GameProfiler.invokeAndMeasure now check whether or not the recorder is running, and avoid capturing a new Lambda

- Performance improvement. Added an early-out to updateTwistBone
  - If the current twist is <1 degree, the function aborts.

- Savegame compression optimization from Turbo

- Refactored and tidied up WorldDictionary.
- Server now sends the WorldDictionary data to clients when connecting.
- Client now only saves WorldDictionaryReadable.lua in game folder.
- WorldDictionary now respects Core.noSave.
- World loading should now abort correctly if any problems are found with the dictionary.
- Added method getModID(), getModName() and isVanilla() to InventoryItem.
- Added the mod name which added the item, and optionally any overrides, to item tooltip.

- Performance improvements to BoneTransform calculations for a 2x boost to animation system.
 
- Fog optimization

- Memory optimization: placed IsoGridSquare.collideMatrix, IsoGridSquare.pathMatrix and IsoGridSquare.visionMatrix arrays to 32 bit integer and wrote bit access functions for those.

- Refactored IsoRegion system
 including optimized region calculations and fixes for a bunch of things that could cause bugs.
- Added new IsoRegion debugger based of ZombiePopulationWindow
 (can build via debugger now for quick testing).

- Added IsoRegionLogger, logs can be viewed via debugger.
- WorldDictionary -> disabled logging of missing object ID.
- Colors.java -> added GetColorFromIndex, GetColorsCount.
- Added Character.Debug.Render.Vision option to display the player's vision cone and see-nearby-characters radius.

- Use the proper distance instead of Manhattan distance in IsoPlayer.updateLOS().
- Fixed IsoGameCharacter.updateSeenVisibility() not handling the see-nearby-characters radius, resulting in zombies behind the player (or nearby but outside the vision cone) not becoming visible when they should

- Don't use shared animations on the nearest 20 zombies, to avoid foot-sliding when they're lunging. IsoWorld.sceneCullZombies() already sorts zombies by visibility and distance, so it is used to set a flag on zombies that shouldn't use shared animations.
 
- Removed IsoPlayer.m_moveDelta because IsoGameCharacter.m_moveDelta already exists.  The value is always 1.0 in any case

Peeking:
 
As the multiplayer gaming in PZ approaches I think we need more functional stealth mechanics. This would also be useful in single player when NPCs eventually drop. Maybe little less useful with zombies, but advantageous with them also.
 
How does being able to peek from beyond closed curtains or doors sound like? I'm talking about animationless way of implementing this, right click a closed curtain or a door and get an action called a peek to choose. Choosing this action would grant you a second or two view outside, only a very narrow view mind you. Implementing this with its own key/button would let the player to press and hold to peek at long as they wish, all the while increasing the chances of being spotted.
 
You could also peek into an inside of a building. Peek through a door before entering a suspicious building or take a look through barricaded windows when scoping out enemy base.
 
This would let you assess a situation outside without revealing yourself. If a character, be it a zombie, NPC or another human player, looks directly at the player peeking the game could have some light indication that signals said character to take notice. With zombies or NPCs this of course would be handled by the programming and AI but in multiplayer this could maybe be indicated by quick glimmer like animation in the window or door area.
 
Indicators:
 
As briefly described in the above paragrah I'd like to suggest small visible indicators to things currently presented as huge graphics or noticeable actions like peeking.

A quick animation like glimmer mentioned above could indicate car keys on the ground for instance. Now we see a huge key on the ground and immediately know what it is. All small objects on the ground could have same kind of glimmer to them and only when the player is examining the ground container would the see what is actually there.

A simple animation would suit many different use cases where a blown up graphic seems out of place in otherwise graphically well laid out world and would also let developers quickly implement new features like peeking without creating animations at least right away.

Peeking:
 
As the multiplayer gaming in PZ approaches I think we need more functional stealth mechanics. This would also be useful in single player when NPCs eventually drop. Maybe little less useful with zombies, but advantageous with them also.
 
How does being able to peek from beyond closed curtains or doors sound like? I'm talking about animationless way of implementing this, right click a closed curtain or a door and get an action called a peek to choose. Choosing this action would grant you a second or two view outside, only a very narrow view mind you. Implementing this with its own key/button would let the player to press and hold to peek at long as they wish, all the while increasing the chances of being spotted.
 
You could also peek into an inside of a building. Peek through a door before entering a suspicious building or take a look through barricaded windows when scoping out enemy base.
 
This would let you assess a situation outside without revealing yourself. If a character, be it a zombie, NPC or another human player, looks directly at the player peeking the game could have some light indication that signals said character to take notice. With zombies or NPCs this of course would be handled by the programming and AI but in multiplayer this could maybe be indicated by quick glimmer like animation in the window or door area.
 
Indicators:
 
As briefly described in the above paragrah I'd like to suggest small visible indicators to things currently presented as huge graphics or noticeable actions like peeking.

A quick animation like glimmer mentioned above could indicate car keys on the ground for instance. Now we see a huge key on the ground and immediately know what it is. All small objects on the ground could have same kind of glimmer to them and only when the player is examining the ground container would the see what is actually there.

A simple animation would suit many different use cases where a blown up graphic seems out of place in otherwise graphically well laid out world and would also let developers quickly implement new features like peeking without creating animations at least right away.

now, we already had unmarked asphalth tiles but a lot of people said ''muh road markings'' and dismissed any possibilty of at least somehwat curved roads, and I'd like to put my hand where my mouth is, so I found the tile template from the modding section and got to work.
 

 
ignore the odd tile coloring, I just colored them differently initially to make sure I aligned the tiles correctly. all the unique tiles you'd need are colored differently to emphasize how little you need to add 45 degree road markings. depending on where you want to push the line, you need 3-5 unique sprites for this turn. assuming the worst, that's 12 unique tiles to cover all possible turns.
 

 
again, marked with unique colors for every unique tile you'd need. in a 45 degree road, these handful of tiles can be used infinitely. I've only made them as examples, but I'm fairly certain making them as proper sprites with lines would be equally trivial. hell, just send me the sprites for asphalth and the lines and I'll do it for you.
 
hell, you guys already have angles asphalth, it's just not marked, so this is not a ''but half the tile would be road and half of it wouldn't'' because this already is a compromise the developers have made
 

 
so, for the love of god, please smooth these out
 

 
I'm fine with some hard cuts in cities or whatever, but this is an actual highway. there shouldn't be hard cuts here. look, I'm not asking for euro truck simulator style hyper smooth roads or something like this, all I'm asking for is this:
 

 
(yes this one is made very poorly with paint to demonstrate a point) for the love of god just smooth out some of the roads

Latest Public Beta IWBUMS patch has been released!
 
Barring anything urgent or required hot-fixes this will be the last update to IWBUMS for a little while.
 
Backstage the current internal MP branch is being merged into our mainline, meaning that all devs will be working on the version containing our MP work.
 
As such after this there won't be any big patches until MP itself is ready for a full IWBUMS beta release.

Things are feeling really good with it, but there's still a lot of work to do! Please keep tabs on the Thursday blogs for updates.
 
41.50
 
NEW
 
Added some contextual double click on items in inventory:
- If not in inventory, it'll just transfer it (like before)
- Dbl click weapon to equip/unequip it
- Dbl click clothing/Bags to wear/unwear it
- Dbl click food to eat it

- Excess zombies now drawn with a solid black silhouette. The silhouette is animated using five frames of two different animations: idle and walking.

- Updated translation.
 
SPIFFO'S SECRET SPECIAL SAUCE II
- Content Redacted (for now)
 
BALANCE

- Added some missing items in distributions (suture needle holder, leash, water dish, yarn...)
- Reduced fatigue due to foraging by a large amount.
- Fixed some items couldn't be merged (can now combine used wire, twine, etc..)
- Adjusted weight of several hats.
- Addressed beer bottle issues.
- Added smash bottle for the beer bottle.
- Added bite/scratch protection for bullet vest.
- Items in shops won't have their durability (for weapon) or used delta (for drainable, such as pills, twine etc.) changed, they'll always be 100%.
- Boosted tailoring book spawn in residential houses
- Boosted farming book spawn, also now appears in shops and farmhouses
 
ANIMS

-re-exported Bob_WalkHeavyLimpL_2H_Heavy.X so weapon held correctly

FIXES
 
- Fixed not being able to add worms as bait in trap.
- Fixed some combat near fences without a spear.
- Fixed thin/thick skin issues around how prone you were to taking damage from zeds
- Fixed wearing stack of clothing when selecting multiple and wearing them (ie. selecting multiple tshirt & right click/wear will only wear the first one, if you have shirt + pants selected it'll still equip them both though)
- Fixed fake-dead and crawling zombies attacking invisible players
- Fixed incorrectly counting the number of zombies surrounding the player when checking if the player gets dragged down.
- Fixed earring not showing on ground
- Fixed a multithreading bug that displayed corpses and mannequins using the wrong texture sometimes.
- Fixed missing consolidate context menu option for thread & wire.
- Fixed possible NullPointerException in RVSTrailerCrash if the trailer script isn't defined.
- Fixed equipping broken weapons by double-clicking.
- Fixed new splitscreen players with the same profession sharing the same XP multipliers.

Please make it an option to have only already crawling zombies to be able to crawl under the cars by default.

I feel like any normal shambling zombie suddenly gaining enough wits to start crawling under obstacles is not very realistic. Perhaps this whole thing should be tied to the cognition options since it clearly a concious choise the zombies make.

Also, player should be able to do the same, unless carrying a backpack.

And we should be able to climb over the furniture and cars. I know this is much harder to implement, but it really bothers me that a simple sofa or chair is an obstacle that might end up killing me.
 
 

I've always thought that in the game windows that won't open and eventually play the "you broke it" sound are latched shut and you just broke the mechanism trying to force it open. Rest of the windows are just slid down casually without latching them. Any time used by the PC fumbling them open might be just about trying to get a good grip on the outside parts where there are no handles.

I like the idea of making later gameplay more demanding, but early gameplay don't need it that much. Maybe make doors stronger and require a crowbar to pry them open from the outside. Metal doors and especially secure doors should require more force or tools and skills.
 
 

I feel like the roleplaying aspect on PZ would benefit from adding more ways for agility based skills to manifest in gameplay. You can already fall in various situations, but not in some that would be very probable in real life.
 
How this could be done is to make movement through various special terrains more hazardous and demanding. First that comes to mind is of course the piles of zombies you've killed, isn't it kind of obvious you'd have harder time stepping on corpses. Add a bit of a RNG and pair it with player stats to create more dynamic, challenging and realistic gameplay.
The more speedily you move, more exhausted you are and less skill points in nimble you have, more likely you are to trip and fall on obstacles on the ground.
 
Adding a some sort of ease of traversal status for terrain types and then layering optional negative or positive modifiers to it would make everyday life just a little bit more interesting. Instead of running through rotting corpses of slain undead you'd need to slow down a bit - unless you're nimble sprinter. If you're clumsy enough you might trip on a sidewalk when backing onto it for example. My point is not to make all movements more hazardous, most of the time you would be fine and be able to play just like you can today, but sometimes you'd had move more carefully.
 
This could be part of the erosion system also. Longer the undergrowth more chances you have to trip on something or just get tangeld up in the weeds. You'd need to think before you take risks, I think thats what the Project Zomboid is after. Falling down would have a probability of injuries, that promotes of using and upgrading your first aid skills.
 
Proper shambling zombies are clumsy and dull minded creatures, so they'd suffer the consequenses too. All and all I feel like this could be a well balanced add on that also contributes to skill usage.

I feel like the roleplaying aspect on PZ would benefit from adding more ways for agility based skills to manifest in gameplay. You can already fall in various situations, but not in some that would be very probable in real life.
 
How this could be done is to make movement through various special terrains more hazardous and demanding. First that comes to mind is of course the piles of zombies you've killed, isn't it kind of obvious you'd have harder time stepping on corpses. Add a bit of a RNG and pair it with player stats to create more dynamic, challenging and realistic gameplay.
The more speedily you move, more exhausted you are and less skill points in nimble you have, more likely you are to trip and fall on obstacles on the ground.
 
Adding a some sort of ease of traversal status for terrain types and then layering optional negative or positive modifiers to it would make everyday life just a little bit more interesting. Instead of running through rotting corpses of slain undead you'd need to slow down a bit - unless you're nimble sprinter. If you're clumsy enough you might trip on a sidewalk when backing onto it for example. My point is not to make all movements more hazardous, most of the time you would be fine and be able to play just like you can today, but sometimes you'd had move more carefully.
 
This could be part of the erosion system also. Longer the undergrowth more chances you have to trip on something or just get tangeld up in the weeds. You'd need to think before you take risks, I think thats what the Project Zomboid is after. Falling down would have a probability of injuries, that promotes of using and upgrading your first aid skills.
 
Proper shambling zombies are clumsy and dull minded creatures, so they'd suffer the consequenses too. All and all I feel like this could be a well balanced add on that also contributes to skill usage.

I feel like the roleplaying aspect on PZ would benefit from adding more ways for agility based skills to manifest in gameplay. You can already fall in various situations, but not in some that would be very probable in real life.
 
How this could be done is to make movement through various special terrains more hazardous and demanding. First that comes to mind is of course the piles of zombies you've killed, isn't it kind of obvious you'd have harder time stepping on corpses. Add a bit of a RNG and pair it with player stats to create more dynamic, challenging and realistic gameplay.
The more speedily you move, more exhausted you are and less skill points in nimble you have, more likely you are to trip and fall on obstacles on the ground.
 
Adding a some sort of ease of traversal status for terrain types and then layering optional negative or positive modifiers to it would make everyday life just a little bit more interesting. Instead of running through rotting corpses of slain undead you'd need to slow down a bit - unless you're nimble sprinter. If you're clumsy enough you might trip on a sidewalk when backing onto it for example. My point is not to make all movements more hazardous, most of the time you would be fine and be able to play just like you can today, but sometimes you'd had move more carefully.
 
This could be part of the erosion system also. Longer the undergrowth more chances you have to trip on something or just get tangeld up in the weeds. You'd need to think before you take risks, I think thats what the Project Zomboid is after. Falling down would have a probability of injuries, that promotes of using and upgrading your first aid skills.
 
Proper shambling zombies are clumsy and dull minded creatures, so they'd suffer the consequenses too. All and all I feel like this could be a well balanced add on that also contributes to skill usage.

I feel like the roleplaying aspect on PZ would benefit from adding more ways for agility based skills to manifest in gameplay. You can already fall in various situations, but not in some that would be very probable in real life.
 
How this could be done is to make movement through various special terrains more hazardous and demanding. First that comes to mind is of course the piles of zombies you've killed, isn't it kind of obvious you'd have harder time stepping on corpses. Add a bit of a RNG and pair it with player stats to create more dynamic, challenging and realistic gameplay.
The more speedily you move, more exhausted you are and less skill points in nimble you have, more likely you are to trip and fall on obstacles on the ground.
 
Adding a some sort of ease of traversal status for terrain types and then layering optional negative or positive modifiers to it would make everyday life just a little bit more interesting. Instead of running through rotting corpses of slain undead you'd need to slow down a bit - unless you're nimble sprinter. If you're clumsy enough you might trip on a sidewalk when backing onto it for example. My point is not to make all movements more hazardous, most of the time you would be fine and be able to play just like you can today, but sometimes you'd had move more carefully.
 
This could be part of the erosion system also. Longer the undergrowth more chances you have to trip on something or just get tangeld up in the weeds. You'd need to think before you take risks, I think thats what the Project Zomboid is after. Falling down would have a probability of injuries, that promotes of using and upgrading your first aid skills.
 
Proper shambling zombies are clumsy and dull minded creatures, so they'd suffer the consequenses too. All and all I feel like this could be a well balanced add on that also contributes to skill usage.

I feel like the roleplaying aspect on PZ would benefit from adding more ways for agility based skills to manifest in gameplay. You can already fall in various situations, but not in some that would be very probable in real life.
 
How this could be done is to make movement through various special terrains more hazardous and demanding. First that comes to mind is of course the piles of zombies you've killed, isn't it kind of obvious you'd have harder time stepping on corpses. Add a bit of a RNG and pair it with player stats to create more dynamic, challenging and realistic gameplay.
The more speedily you move, more exhausted you are and less skill points in nimble you have, more likely you are to trip and fall on obstacles on the ground.
 
Adding a some sort of ease of traversal status for terrain types and then layering optional negative or positive modifiers to it would make everyday life just a little bit more interesting. Instead of running through rotting corpses of slain undead you'd need to slow down a bit - unless you're nimble sprinter. If you're clumsy enough you might trip on a sidewalk when backing onto it for example. My point is not to make all movements more hazardous, most of the time you would be fine and be able to play just like you can today, but sometimes you'd had move more carefully.
 
This could be part of the erosion system also. Longer the undergrowth more chances you have to trip on something or just get tangeld up in the weeds. You'd need to think before you take risks, I think thats what the Project Zomboid is after. Falling down would have a probability of injuries, that promotes of using and upgrading your first aid skills.
 
Proper shambling zombies are clumsy and dull minded creatures, so they'd suffer the consequenses too. All and all I feel like this could be a well balanced add on that also contributes to skill usage.

HI all!
 
I thought VCR's and video tapes would be a really neat and appropriate addition for the game, considering the time the knox event takes place. By '93 Kentucky had close to 2 dozen Blockbusters, and plenty of other smaller rental locations.
 
The 80's and 90's had all sorts of educational tapes, so skill tapes would work well too. And the easiest addition, boredom/stress reduction videos. It would give TV's a use after the initial programs are off the air, and players would have to take the risk of turning up the volume to listen to the tape.
 
Thanks for your time!

This works as an event to attract zombies.
 
-has the radius sound of breaking a window to a specific point on the screen area.
 
-the classic jump scare.
 
-the trees will shake where the event happen 
 
-happens only on foraging areas or forest areas.

Currently all the options to build a base are separated and there is no well-defined connection between the skills carpentry, metal work and electric to create walls around the base. 
 
Metal walls are hard to built in early game, the quantity of work needed, doesn’t match the benefit from them. There is a reason you don’t see metal bases showcasing at the forums. Carpentry works fine due to having trees everywhere, makes it easy to build anywhere in the map. Electric have a relevant part to move appliances and preserve the generator but not on construction on 41.
 
The way to integrate the 3 skills could be this way:
 
-Carpentry walls can be reinforced with metal sheets. Improving in 3 stages the amount of metal sheets the wood wall can hold, according to the metal work level of the player to built metal walls. Wood wall level 1 with holds level 1 reinforced metal sheets stage, same with level 2 and 3. After reaching the stage 3 metal reinforced wall, it will have enough metal to be connected to the electric grid with level 4 electric skill and would be able to slowly electrify zombies to dead or stunt them.
 
-The electricity will not instantly kill the zombies it will drain slowly their hp until they die. During that time they will keep banging the walls, so the player may still need to go outside to kill the zombies. // The other option is that the electrified wall will randomly stunt the zombies so they don’t break the walls to fast, preventing constant attacks on it. 
 
-The more metal walls you have connected to the grid will make the generator consume extra gas. So at some point could be better having 2 generators one for the house and another for the perimeter to be turned on/off when the base is under attack.
 
-The advantage of still building a full metal wall is that it will be immune to fire since level 1 but still need to be a metal wall level 2 to be connected to the grid. Reinforced level 3 wood walls with reinforced metal sheets stage 3 would be fully protected to fires only at this point. 
 
-If there are to many zombies at the electrify wall, it will drain more gas from the generator with a chance of overheat and making the generator shut off.
 
-At some point you could use the crafted remote control to turn on/off the electric wall and control the future electric systems once develop in the game. 
 
-Having these possibilities will extent the base building phase to late game combining skills in a more progressive and rewarding way for the player. 
 
-In a multiplayer scenario this would integrate 3 players with different professions each to build a wall. Same with npcs in the future. I think the late game base deserves to hold dozens of zombies banging the walls for longer periods.
 
Is this realistic? Is more realistic than breaking the stairs of a house in 5 seconds with a sledgehammer, adding sheet ropes and be able to climb up those with a backpack full of loot.

Not sure if this was addressed earlier. If it was, let me know. 

With that behind, I suggest icing on roads to form as a result of freezing temperatures after a rain or fog. I'm pretty sure there's a grip mechanic regarding tires so shouldn't be hard to implement (hopefully, I'm not a dev). This would add a bit more realism and challenge to driving a car. Imagine just casually driving and then losing control which ends with a glorious crash.
Well technically even water on a road should decrease the grip in some way. Dirt roads could get muddy as well, slowing a car down. 

What is your opinion on this suggestion?

I Think that a tile based inventory system would be great for this game. like Escape from Tarkov, Day Z, and Resident Evil 4. (see attached photo for context)
 
It could let clothing have inventory space rather than you just being able to hold 10 units of stuff. course I see that it would be tedious to swap around items from your pants to a new pair, etc. but I think the struggle of organizing your items as a zombie, or three, bang on your door; but being able to visualize how your stuff is placed in your pack would feel less unorganized than a drop down list.
 
I'm not saying remove weight for a space system, but have both. it doesn't make sense to be able hold 250 potatoes in a backpack, but with the tile system you could have it only be able to stack 10 potatoes in a tile, thus you cant physically hold that many even if you have the strength to hold them. Same with other objects, like how does a rifle fit into a school backpack? I could see someone make a point that you could leave the top unzipped and leave it sticking out, which I think would be okay. 
 
Personally I think an extension to the holster system like the current hotbar in b41. if a backpack had a holster on the side that you slide any gun or two handed weapon into. it could let you have two weapons at the ready and it wouldn't take up space in the backpack. this all could fit into the tailoring system as well. adding new pockets to pants for more space?
 
This also has potential to give disorganized and organized traits New Life, maybe modifying how many of an item you can stack together or changing the size some items take up, or even making some storage have more space.
 
I could go on but I don't want to make a unreadable text wall.

So I thought about a feature that would maybe safe lives! I think it would be cool to be able to push Zombies while they are walking up the stairs. So when they fall, the fall the whole stairs down, and the Zombies that are behind the falling Zombie, are falling down with him, when the falling Zombie hits the others. But I think I would give it a - point, it should create alot of noise.
 
I apologize for my bad english*

I actually kind of like this idea, in principle. I think it would be fun and beneficial if pushing zombies down a set of stairs might cause them to stumble for longer, or until they reach the bottom of the stairs, if not fall over entirely. The Devs could tweak this to be as effective as they want, and if they're feeling especially generous, could do exactly as you said and have other zombies stumble or fall over as a result, too.
 
It'd help turn stairs into an actual useful terrain, instead of a weird bottleneck that you can't really use effectively.

Maybe we could remove entire window with the frame rather than just the glass.