Project Zomboid

We released 42.21 into our Unstable beta last Wednesday, and extend our thanks to the community for checking it over and kicking the tires! If you’ve just seen your game updating and want to know what’s new, then read on below. Full patchnotes however can be found here. Going forward, this should be the standard procedure for all releases; a new update goes to Unstable, it’s tested by you, we potentially make more changes, and ultimately the release goes to Stable. In this instance the community did not report any major issues, so the ‘Go’ button is being pressed… today. Main Stuff • We have tackled the worst offending bugs when it came to issues of zombie duplication in MP, and issues in which zombies would disappear after a player left and re-entered a “chunk” of the game world in both SP and MP. These issues were particularly obvious in larger zombie population games and as such impacted a lot of our hardcore players. You should find your game much improved on this count, although there are still some instances of this which we have on our radar and will be fixed in our next update. • A common piece of feedback since the launch of B42 Stable has been the new ‘XXL trees’ occasion

Project Zomboid build 42.21 includes balance changes and bug fixes aplenty, as The Indie Stone chases a more regular stable patch rollout. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Project Zomboid is "trying to move faster" as a new update fixes vanishing zombie hordes

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4460946/3ab5ae515b648cc78730233a9d4d103ccae889a8.png Hello Survivors! We’re back, and we have a new update, which is now available to play and test on the Unstable branch on Steam. As our first incremental update post-Build 42, this update contains fixes and updates for a whole bunch of things, and we’d love your feedback on them. How to update your Project Zomboid game client to access Unstable 1. Right-click Project Zomboid in your Steam Library. 2. Select “Properties”. 3. Under “Game Versions & Betas” select “Unstable”. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/4460946/f6e3f5b10e52b75e8fb54e02536be214f579cc74.jpg Existing savegames on Build 42.20.4 should not be affected by this update, however, if you want to test 42.21 with an existing save, we highly recommend manually backing up your save before attempting to play it on the Unstable branch. If you do discover issues with an existing savegame, please let us know via the forums. What’s in this update? 42.21 is an incremental update and has a lot of fixes, but also a few gameplay improvements. These are relatively minor, but hopefully will improve your “quality of survival” in your personal zombie apocalypse. Below are some hig

While this update should not break saves, if you encounter any bugs please ensure you can replicate them on a fresh save with no mods installed before reporting them to our team here. FIXES Fixed security vulnerabilities. Mod makers should be aware that as part of this fix, the loadstring and loadstream methods have been removed. If your mods used these methods you will need to update your mods. If you were using these methods to execute code sent from the server, then you will need to create the necessary methods and call them by sending the appropriate commands. If you are unable to replace these methods in your case, please report the issue in the #mod_portal channel of The Official Project Zomboid Discord server, explaining how you were using them As always, discussions regarding this update can be found pinned to the Project Zomboid Discussions Forums here.