We're pleased to announce VEIN 0.021 is now available on Steam. This update includes new zombie behavior, lighting and performance improvements, some new server browser features, and a lot more — it’s our largest update ever.

Unfortunately, because of some future-proofing steps we've taken (and the size of the update), saves from 0.020 are incompatible with this update.

• Early Access map progress
  
• Increase heating range for campfires/fireplaces
  
• You can now use grenades outside of the inventory
  
• New skin tone/face presets
  
• Better system node/item networking
  
• Add 5.7x28mm ammo type
  
• Ore, trees etc. now display hover text correctly indicating how to use them
  
• Calendar event system
  
• You can get tetanus if unvaccinated and walking on piles of rubble barefoot
  
• Feet damage/embedded metal and glass for walking on piles of rubble barefoot
  
• .45 ACP, .38 Special textures
  
• Trash bags can now be emptied like garbage cans
  
• Added Allow Pickpocketing setting
  
• Added Hide Code Locks setting (for streamers)
  
• Increase max zoom level for maps
  
• Add search bar to construction menu
  
• Add improved pickaxe item
  
• You can now transfer fluid between containers in your inventory by dragging and dropping onto each other
  
• Increase capacity of workbenches, campfires, etc.
  
• Rewritten save game system
  
• Add UN Fifty-Seven pistol
  
• Barbed wire fences now fuck you up if you try climbing over them
  
• Lower main menu train volume
  
• Telemetry opt-in/out in main menu and game settings
  
• Add seizure warning
  
• Better damaged vehicle engine particle effect
  
• Better smoke effects across the map in general
  
• Better forge smoke effect
  
• Corrected bug at high elevations resulting in incorrect temperatures around fireplaces and fires
  
• Fix fireplaces being called campfires
  
• Refactored flashlight system; added Helmet w/ Headlamp item
  
• Improved cloud shadowing
  
• Add military zombies, clothing
  
• New military backpack art
  
• On-screen damage indicator when you take damage (blood splash)
  
• On-screen hypothermia indicator
  
• Add Offline Raiding setting (prevents base raiding if you are offline)
  
• Zombies are able to go unconscious
  
• Add taser weapon
  
• Rewrite a bunch of fluid tank code, can now wire anything to any fluid provider (wells, generators, whatever stores fluid)
  
• Corrected a lot of visual errors with the sky and lighting
  
• Modified weather seed so day 1 starts off somewhat clear
  
• Fix doors being unlocked backward in some locations (e.g. double doors)
  
• Fix dartboard placement being incorrect
  
• Fix frostbite occurring way more frequently than it should have
  
• Food cutting recipes (ability to slice pizza, bread, vegetables, whatever)
  
• Fix pain not being removed from condition list at zero
  
• If your map is not working, pressing M will give you a specific reason instead of a generic 'cant open' reason
  
• Player indicator on the map uses vehicle angle if you're in one
  
• Fridges are now movable
  
• Fix being able to pour fluids into gas pumps and beer taps somehow
  
• Fix insulin spawning in unrefrigerated cupboards
  
• You can now drink directly from bodies of water (rivers, lakes, swamps if you are so inclined)
  
• Fix tarps having wood break sound when destroyed
  
• Fix trash bags giving you cardboard when destroyed
  
• New server browser tab, servers tell you their settings + can have a description/MOTD
  
• Fox now makes fox sounds and not dog barks
  
• TV can now display camera feeds (not yet in demo)
  
• Add police uniform, police zombies, correctional officer uniform, prison uniform
  
• Add put similar button - if you are looking at an inventory with stuff in it, this will store all the item types already in that inventory
  
• Smoother vehicle camera algorithm
  
• Improve persistent corpse system performance
  
• Fix ice machine not freezing stuff
  
• Thermometers inside fridges and freezers will display the correct temperature now
  
• Restrict max FOV to 105
  
• You can respawn at beds you've slept in instantly in singleplayer
  
• Add low poly background landscape so the landscape is never full of holes/unloaded
  
• Add option to submit save file with feedback
  
• AI spawnpoint system - AI should now be able to spawn in interiors easier
  
• Fix warehouse boxes, plastic totes having the wrong search sound
  
• Fix some damage not applying
  
• Add interior soundscapes, reverb settings
  
• Add build info to experimental branch watermark
  
• New impact/bullet impact effects
  
• Add starred items system: mark items as being important to you, they will bubble to the top of inventories (e.g. ammo, weapons, rare things, ...)
  
• Add "hand" grenade
  
• Add sounds when bodies impact the floor
  
• New music, thanks Remancer!
  
• Fix item instances not respawning properly
  
• Fix grease cleaner not decaying
  
• Thirst and hunger now show on the HUD if they're very positive
  
• Fix van deformation popping in
  
• Fix sprint zoom applying when flying
  
• Add some new collectible video discs (just vein devlogs, nothing fun)
  
• Code lock requirements for install/removal reduced to 5 electricity
  
• Add zombies, animals to admin seeall
  
• Slightly better turn animations
  
• Add RemoveAllVehicleParts cheat
  
• Prevent vehicles interpenetrating in multiplayer - should reduce fatality of car crashes
  
• Fix vehicle keys not appearing in containers if the game has been loaded from a save
  
• More logs for server hosts (player using stuff, etc)
  
• Rewrote moving furniture, should fix issues with moving objects e.g. turning off lights or changing the object
  
• Fix bug when supplying different gas types to a large natural gas tank
  
• Bump up natural gas tank quantities
  
• Fix item icons jittering in inventory in multiplayer
  
• Rewrote backpacked weapons (should prevent pistols on your hip sticking after you unequip the item)
  
• Allow some console commands to be used on the client
  
• Fix description of cooked spaghetti
  
• Add hydraulic tool type (unused in demo)
  
• Disable instanced stereo (should allow some ultra low spec players to launch the game)
  
• Reduce network load from using items, ladders, dropping items, zombies, switches
  
• Fix car keys not spawning in houses in multiplayer
  
• Interior fog should go away when you go inside a building
  
• Prevent long-decaying items (like toothpaste) possibly starting rotten in containers
  
• Fix clothing not reflecting its color immediately when being selected in an inventory
  
• Fix camera sometimes going through the floor when sitting in a chair
  
• Fix some stuff being placed on walls incorrectly
  
• Pillows, tvs should fall to the ground when you destroy the shelves/couches they're on
  
• Sirens no longer work without a battery
  
• Pet photo update
  
• M620 truck is now recolorable/has colors
  
• Fix other players loading the area around them on your PC
  
• Add PowerAllElectronicSystemNodes cheat
  
• Fix some misc. saving/loading issues
  
• Change "is on" to "switched on" for electronic items in the inventory
  
• Add vein.ItemActorSpawner.MinimumWorldTime cvar
  
• Fix item spawners doing strange respawning behavior
  
• Fix stoves functioning as a generator
  
• Better vehicle networking
  
• Fix join notifications popping up in character creation
  
• Speed up actor partition system
  
• Redo how vehicles save
  
• Fix check ammo animation not playing for weapons with no real check ammo animation
  
• Rewrite how ingame map works - should now work on different UI scales
  
• Tweak turn in place animation to not be too jarring
  
• Fix decals, sprays, blood not always aligning/rendering properly on surfaces
  
• Add RefreshAllDecals cheat
  
• Fix placement of hand grenade
  
• Add barbed wire buildable to secure fences
  
• Fix saves "leaking" between each other when you load another save from ingame
  
• Update map background
  
• Add back sun and moonlight bloom
  
• Fix apples being thrown crazy hard
  
• Fix stars being really low resolution
  
• Fix explosive box mesh not being easily selected
  
• Fix being able to pour past capacity into fluid tanks, losing the fluid you poured
  
• Electronics now break after you're 80% wet, instead of instantly when you go underwater
  
• Fix building colors not saving
  
• Fix train colors not saving
  
• Better foot/arm item art
  
• Fix some camera positionings for larger vehicles
  
• Spawn tweaks - animals spawn less frequently
  
• Fix animals spawning in caves
  
• Fix shoving animation not playing when hosting a server
  
• Add waterproof headlamp helmet
  
• Fix flashlight, map being weird when you have multiple of the same type equipped (eg. GPS + cell phone equipped causes map inconsistency)
  
• Fix alarms going off every time the door is opened
  
• Add PowerUp cheat (makes whatever you're looking at a generator)
  
• Fix broken bottles not being able to be made with whisky or gin
  
• Fix desync drastically
  
• Fix bodybag desync
  
• Fix clients on servers not smelling anything
  
• Fix using grenade when not in inventory being silent
  
• Add fire empty sounds to all weapons
  
• Increase scale of tadellini cobra, fix feet through the bottom
  
• Add cameras to school
  
• Add alarms across the entire map
  
• Some experimental indoors zombie spawning
  
• Fix selecting a haircut for someone else and the haircut sticking on them as they run away
  
• Prevent weather from appearing underground
  
• Low shadow quality preset now supports distance field shadowing
  
• Improved zombie pathfinding and navigation significantly
  
• Add rich presence to Steam for both player groups and locations
  
• Fix vehicle crash when flying around/moving at high speed
  
• Firearms are now twice as audible to zombies; add vein.Firearms.AISoundMultiplier in case we were too aggressive
  
• Zombies now get fall damage
  
• Fix zombies getting locked in climb animation loops over fences
  
• Fix memory leak related to item nameplates
  
• Master volume now defaults to 50%
  
• Visual quality now defaults to High instead of Ultra
  
• Renamed 'RemoveAllItems' to 'RemoveAllMyItems', added 'RemoveAllItems' to remove all dropped items
  
• You can now just click on a notification to dismiss it
  
• Kerosene heater now works like any other fluid tank (can drink from it, wire it etc)
  
• Soundscape improvements across the board
  
• Steam rich presence integration
  
• Correct some power desync bugs
  
• Fix fridge, broadcast radio facing away from you when being moved
  
• Seed items now tell you what planter slots they fit into
  
• Fix blinds appearing black/burnt
  
• Make soundscapes blend more smoothly
  
• Increase the car horn radius & zombie attraction radius
  
• Fix big hitch when pinning/unpinning a recipe
  
• If you can't move/destroy furniture due to a nearby utility cabinet, we now tell you instead of hiding the option
  
• Examine Connections now uses the icon for the type of thing you're looking at
  
• Fix distant sky fog glowing/being ugly at night/dawn/dusk
  
• Consuming water from a sink/etc. hooked up to a fluid tank will consume from the tank directly
  
• Fireplaces now have an estimated time remaining readout based on the fuel currently loaded in them
  
• Inventory search query persists between opening and closing the UI
  
• Rewrote chair exit algorithm: prevents vehicle from flinging away when exiting it when it's pressed against a wall
  
• Fix needing a lighter to extinguish a candle
  
• Resynced movement animations to footsteps
  
• Save games now save mostly asynchronously
  
• Added a notification when autosaves occur
  
• Rewrote furniture, buildable placement algorithm to better fit things snugly in tight spaces
  
• Fix basketball hoop being sideways
  
• Fix typoes in foot infection conditions
  
• Add vehicle headlight textures to vehicles
  
• Vehicles are less initially damaged in the world
  
• Add tool ammo: some tools now require ammo like saw blades or drill bits
  
• Add coloration to battery percentages
  
• Car keys can now be used wirelessly (unlocking, locking vehicle, panic button etc.)
  
• Add "Demo" to the watermark if it's the demo
  
• Add lifetime stats to death screen (zombies killed, steps taken, etc)
  
• Add HTTP API for server owners
  
• Normalize VOIP audio - should fix VOIP being really quiet
  
• Add sandstone items/silica to be smelted into glass
  
• You can now repair glass windows using glass sheets (craftable)
  
• Antibiotics now give you a condition that prevents being infected from bacteria
  
• Increased gas pump health; made them invulnerable to most damage
  
• Redford and Saranac now have items spawn on store shelves
  
• Add recipe list to forges/charcoal kiln UI
  
• Stuff now falls off your vehicle instead of just being blown up if it collides with something
  
• You can shoot through chainlink fences
  
• Add Eighty-Four explosive launcher
  
• Add matches
  
• Add cannabis seeds/cannabis farming
  
• Add cold medicine, prevents/reduces cold duration
  
• Add meth
  
• Vastly improve explosion physics especially against zombies
  
• Fix fortifying double doors vanishing the other door
  
• Add RandomizeTime command, sets the time between 0.0 and 1.0 years from the start date
  
• Fix that one fence changing colors when you run it over
  
• Fix fans not running when first loaded in
  
• Prevent cars from falling through the landscape when first loaded in
  
• High level weapon/ammo spawns are now findable in more containers - they're just very rare
  
• Reduce time items on your person are considered "newly acquired" to 5 minutes from 30 minutes (e.g. increase the amount you keep when dead)
  
• "W" is always up for ladders, "S" is always down for ladders
  
• Add tire shelf container that can store tires
  
• Fix being able to use anything eg. milk as engine oil
  
• Add some leniancy for truck rear doors to be considered blocked
  
• Fix item requirements in construction UI not updating
  
• Fix stuff attached to vehicles not loading in attached to vehicles
  
• Reduce GPU VRAM usage across the board
  
• Use options for items now display weight and stack
  
• Fix poor performance at dawn and dusk
  
• Main menu now displays news from news.vein.gg
  
• Fix bar (pressure) readout being incorrect
  
• Container size balancing (e.g. large vs small crates, dumpsters, etc.)
  
• Nighttime lighting changes and brightening
  
• Fix compass showing with a turned off phone
  
• Foliage LODs are slightly more aggressive
  
• Motorcycle helmet now uses motorcycle helmet asset instead of towel placeholder
  
• Road texture resolution fixes
  
• Fix snow not appearing on distant landscape
  
• Fix water sounds playing while water is frozen
  
• Fix being able to drive through ice
  
• Add icons/colors to packing up chairs, sleeping bags etc.
  
• Add air conditioner/heater status to vehicle HUD
  
• Fix zombies getting stuck on rugs sometimes
  
• Way better sky lighting performance, especially at dawn/dusk
  
• Dryers now have a UI like washers
  
• Add bone broth
  
• Perk menu close button is just an x now
  
• Fix free look breaking your neck if you go from third to first person
  
• Possibly fix the lock desync on doors
  
• Fix zombies sometimes not playing a death animation on dedicated servers
  
• Explosions no longer ignite things
  
• Add thermometer art
  
• Fix TV volume not applying to disks when you switch over to them
  
• Fix food spawning in at 0 C
  
• Forges & kilns now say 'ignite' and 'extinguish' instead of 'turn on' and 'turn off'
  
• Fix some weird glass textures in convenience stores
  
• Add new mastered music tracks
  
• Fix broken glass not always sticking to doors on load
  
• Fix logic error blocking you from moving furniture into your UC area when standing outside it
  
• Fix server hosts turning invisible when lockpicking
  
• Streetlights now come on slightly earlier
  
• Increase capacity of specialized containers
  
• Some new loading screens
  
• Performance and networking fixes across the board