VEIN 0.008 is now out. Check the update summary video here:

Features

• Champlain Valley north and south forest; Saranac river, some lakes; caves; bridges
  
• 153 new clothes
  
• Armor ratings on clothes - damage and elemental resistance
  
• Keys for vehicles now spawn in nearby buildings or on nearby zombies
  
• You can now label keys
  
• Hotwiring vehicles
  
• Car alarms
  
• Corpses are now persistent & remain until they're destroyed with a heavy cutting tool
  
• Firearms and melee items now show their stats (fire rate, damage values etc.)
  
• New game zombie settings (spawn count, damage multiplier, etc.)
  
• Better dirt texture on humans and zombies
  
• New ingame map
  
• New knife melee animations
  
• You can rest on a bed in multiplayer
  
• Manual handbrake in vehicles, interior light in vehicles
  
• Stoves have clocks that reset on power outages
  
• New WIP character creation level
  
• Add Nomad uniqueness: spawns you in a remote location
  
• Add new clothing-related scrap items
  
• Film grain effect
  
• Drunkenness now acts as a painkiller
  
• New grass and landscape texture improvements
  
• You can dye clothes with hair dye
  
• Tents and chairs can be packed up
  
• Bow and arrow has been rebalanced
  
• Fuel amount now shows in the vehicle part UI for gas tanks
  
• You can build mattresses in the construction menu
  
• Overeating and overdrinking will kill you
  
• Reduce battery consumption for many battery-powered items
  
• New Flock17 art
  
• Multiple randomized hair dye colors
  
• Setting to always go first-person in ADS (eg. if third-person, ADS makes you go first-person)
  
• New medical condition icons for eg. bandaging, infection, etc.
  
• Wounds can now be infected; you are more likely to get an infection if you are dirty
  
• Wounds can now be sutured
  
• Bandages can be destroyed if you take damage with one on; you can manually remove them through the medical menu
  
• Players have blood types, pending blood transfusion system
  
• Syringes: inject yourself with fluids, syringes can communicate disease including the zombie virus
  
• "Always become zombie" setting - all people that die will become a zombie
  
• Saws can now cut trees alongside axes
  
• Various changes to item spawn rates (for example axes now spawn more frequently)
  
• Warehouse garage doors can be fortified
  
• Powered tools now need batteries to function
  
• Hunger and thirst cause damage slower
  
• Compass will show where you died as a red X
  
• Tweak spawn rates of some items (eg hot chocolate mix); add fluid-fillable bowls, kettles, etc
  
• Money now shows it's name as the stack count (instead of "USD x41", you will see "$41")
  
• Increase audible distance of firearms
  
• Items can have colored info, clothing has placeholder notice if it is a placeholder
  
• Keep all equipped utility items when you die
  
• Some clothes adjust walking friction (some shoes are slipperier)
  
• Walking on broken glass cuts up your feet
  
• Clarify which parts belong to the engine in vehicles
  
• Foley sound effects when using most containers
  
• Sky lighting tweaks
  
• TVs cast light in the room they're in when they're on
  
• Add some streamer friendly settings (show/hide player names, show/hide chat ...)
  
• Melee animations are more responsive to player input
  
• Confirmation prompt to overwrite saves
  
• Only show vehicle part items in the vehicle part UI
  
• Barn doors open slower
  
• Add some new vehicles to the farm
  

Bugfixes

This isn't a comprehensive list - we've only listed the noticeable ones.

• Fix zombies not always going for players
  
• Fix map being grey sometimes
  
• Fix not being able to brake when you have no fuel
  
• Fix really loud paper tear sound
  
• Fix laggy melee weapons in MP
  
• Fix persistent blood not replicating properly in MP
  
• Fix crafting recipes always showing that you just need 1 of the ingredient
  
• Fix that one driveway ramp's collision
  
• Fix computers always being on
  
• Fix batteries being stackable
  
• Fix all fluids becoming water in stoves
  
• Fix cooking
  
• Fix destructible lights not saving
  
• Add vehicle oil to the farm
  
• Fix some furniture not being interactable (rugs, paintings, etc.)
  
• Fix destroying some containers deleting items inside them
  
• Fix computer monitors not appearing powered when powered
  
• Fix TVs being always on
  
• Fix being able to start vehicles without gasoline
  
• Fix some doors being lockable in the wrong direction
  
• Fix being stuck in lockpick if someone else unlocks what you're picking
  
• Fix mining rocks while being encumbered doing nothing
  
• Fix exploit where you can farm scavenging XP by scavenging your own containers
  
• Fix glasses etc. appearing on your face after character creation
  
• Fix brakes not functioning when the brake health is near 0; they now function until the brakes are literally dead
  
• Fix not being able to refill gas tanks without containers
  
• Fix not being able to reverse vehicles without brakes
  
• Fix spoon on a stick causing stabbing damage
  
• Fix battery powered items not using the best available battery
  
• Fix painkillers making a bandage sound
  
• Fix some damage calculations
  
• Fix sleeping not removing stress
  
• Fix rain not gathering in containers placed outdoors
  
• Fix ladder climbing animation being rotate-able
  
• Fix server browser needing refresh to be clicked the first time
  
• Fix built door flap not showing the right use option
  
• Fix crafting recipes not highlighting when you have all the ingredients
  
• Fix character creation stats not stacking properly
  
• Fix news dates in the main menu
  
• Misc small map fixes & crash fixes
  

Enjoy!

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