Version history

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For the list of upcoming features for future versions of Project Zomboid, see Planned features


This page shows the current version updates that have been implemented in the game. For verified planned additions, see Planned features.

Pre Alpha

Version Number Date Added Features/Fixes Added
0.1.5d September 7, 2011 (current)
  • Fixed the 'infinisleep' bug.
  • Hypochondria and uncooked food no longer cause damage and pain, just illness.
  • Character creation button clicking fixed
0.1.5c September 6, 2011
  • Optimizations - Hopefully a ton less lag.
  • Less rain.
  • Various bug fixes.
  • NPC tweaks – Less chance of hostile NPC. A bit more varied behaviour.
  • Multi-stage barricades.
  • Increased sound muffle effect of being in/out buildings or different rooms
  • Slowed down horde movement.
  • Added weapon durability and breakage.
0.1.5b August 28, 2011
  • Fixed weird zombie spawning.
  • Fixed crash when full tile barricade is placed without a hammer equipped.
  • Added missing dialogue to Raider scene in K&B story.
  • Fixed character creation screen issue when double sized in previous game.
  • Fixed zombies walking into walls.
  • Fixed NPCs attacking thin air.
  • Slowed down NPC walk speed.
0.1.5a August 28, 2011
  • Craftable doors. Smashed doors have a chance of dropping hinges and door knobs.
  • Open doors now block vision/collide at their new angle.
  • Professions and traits – initial character customization.
  • Cooking food. Fully functional ovens.
  • Food now goes bad. Refrigerators slow down the process. Eat consumables first!
  • Chance of illness if eating spoilt or uncooked food.
  • Bored and depressed moodles. Read books or magazines or go for a stroll outside to relieve boredom (more later). Eating cooked meals also * reduces boredom / depression.
  • Curtains. Block view into building without needing barricades. Sheets can be used to make makeshift curtains.
  • Various bug/crash fixes. Notably no more fire crashes.
  • Burglar alarm on a couple of random buildings on the map.
  • Barricading and crafting etc now takes time to complete. Alterable by different traits.
  • A few more foods and cooking apparatus / crafting recipes.
  • Customizable characters. Most of the legwork for the NPC update already done due to this.
  • Sandbox mode / Adventures of Kate and Baldspot
  • Moddable items, moddable crafting recipes, moddable item distribution, moddable maps, moddable costumes / characters.
  • Rain gets you wet. Colds. Get a cold, coughing and sneezing draws zombie attention. Tissues will mute the sound you make.
  • Wearable clothing.
  • Jukebox – at moment with some old PAWS tunes. One day this system will allow in-game playing of music collection.
  • Basic NPC's with basic controls (move, punch, run)
0.1.4с June 19, 2011
  • Adjustments and tweaks to Panic system.
  • Fire Animation rate fix.
  • Fire-system memory leak fixed.
  • A bug un-spotted so far with the Clock has been fixed.
  • Infection rates from zombie scratches and bites modified after _extensive_ testing.
  • Memory leak in the rain system fixed
  • Based on extensive play-testing - Fixes to incorporate the specific number of bruises, scratches, bites has been factored into the body damage calculations.
  • Bug with moodles always being shown in the lower right on Hi-Res displays is now fixed.
  • Body part status updated to reflect being on fire/burning.
  • Alcohol helps you calm down and combat the panic-state moodles and their negative effects.
  • Player can become drunk from consuming too much alcohol.
  • Drunkenness moodles added.
  • Mass mantis bug cleanup fix operation.
  • Panic only triggers when a zombie comes into view closeby, not if it wanders closeby while in view. Panic still occurs if suddenly you see a ton of zombies, but only if you're outside or the zombies are inside the same building as you.
  • Stumbling about like a buffoon when drunk.
  • Fixed various LOS issues with walls / windows / doors.
  • Changed 'time since seen zombie' code to avoid 'permazomb music' syndrome.
  • Hallucinations cannot break down doors.
  • Indoor ambush zombies are deaf and only respond to seeing player, to avoid them thumping at doors.
  • Addition to panic system to aid in 'user empathetic response to character panic'
  • Fix to mac log file problem stopping it working.
  • Weather blending system to stop it from raining constantly.
  • Fix to allow the drinking of booze by dropping it on the heart icon.
  • Fix to bug in fire code.
  • Fix to pain system, to allow pain to dissipate naturally once all body damage is gone and player is fully healthy.
  • Sleeping clears the system of sleeping pills, beta blockers and anti-depressants.
0.1.4b June 10, 2011
  • Fixed ATI crash bug. We're not sure but this may cause a slight slowdown as it was an optimization that we had to remove to fix it. We'd like to hear how this affects anyone? We'll work on pulling back performance to what it was, but non-ATI owners have to admit this needed resolving fast.
  • Fixed camera bug.
  • Removed custom mouse pointers entirely, for now. Too many issues on macs and some PCs.
  • Various zombie spotting chances changed. A player not moving inside a building will rarely be seen by a zombie from outside and higher floors the chances diminish too since zombies tend to look ahead.
  • Sounds in buildings are muffled so don't travel as far outside.
  • Some horde balancing / fixes.
  • Some aiming tweaks.
  • Reduced footstep range slightly.
  • Zombie spotted music will not play if the zombies are miles away or many floors below you.
  • Made the horde prefer outdoor locations and generally ignore doors without any stimulus from inside. They will on occasion disregard this inclination, to keep you on your toes. After all if a zombie starts thumping he'll attract attention from others. ** may need tweaks **
  • Bug meaning scratches were 100% infection fixed.
  • Removed accidentally left in 'debug shotgun shells'.
  • Beta blockers, anti-depressants, sleeping tablets and extra effects for booze.
  • Pills now work over time instead of immediately and can be stacked for faster / more powerful effect. No consequences... YET.
  • M to toggle music on and off (in lieu of a real option screen)
  • A secret thing.
0.1.4a June 6, 2011
  • N, E, S, W / NE, SE, SW, NW directional control toggle.
  • Inventory grows to fill vertical space of sidebar.
  • Fixed various bed related bugs. Added option to sleep to avoid accidental clicks, or to inform player why they can't.
  • Fixed pot dupe bug.
  • Fixed the death sound.
  • Planks of wood will be useable melee weapons.
  • A few stragglers aside, zombies flock together and slowly migrate around the map in one or more groups, meaning the zombie density around the map will differ massively, and this will change over time. This means that your safe-house may be left alone for some time before suddenly being in the centre of a massive shambling swarm.. This may need some balancing in future updates, but should provide more strategy to avoiding the horde.
  • Scratches have only 25% chance of infection, and you will only find out a day or more later when you get queasy if you were infected. Bites are 100%.
  • Added something little to the tutorial that was missed off due to time.
  • You survived for...
  • Bite / scratch / death sounds.
  • Uhoh! Something that'll catch people out a fair few times before they adjust their plans slightly.
  • Can barricade with hammer in your offhand. Forgetting to do this if you have wood selected and try and barricade a door, it will fail but NOT open the door to all the zombies you're trying to protect yourself against.
  • Context sensitive clicking is disabled when CTRL is held.
  • Beds can only be used when within 'open container/open door' range.
  • Skipping tutorial will retain the 'safe zone' until you venture out, to make it a way of skipping the tutorial without punishing the player, making it a more attractive option.
  • Experimental - Raised day length from 15 minutes to 20 minutes, now that there is the ability to fast forward. Doubled the speed of fast forward (CPU dependent).
  • Food / pills can be eaten by putting them on the heart icon, in analog to putting things in inventory.
  • Couches / sofas can be slept on.
  • Eating / pill popping no longer clears item from mouse. So eating multiple is just multiple clicks.
  • Restarting after death. Will skip front end and load the map again immediately. May cause obscure 'second playthrough' bugs from restart we'll have to deal with as they become apparent. May also be pushing it for memory on lower end PCs if the old map hasn't been garbage collected in time.
  • The heart icon does a little wiggle (like the moodles) when you sustain injuries, as a reminder that you might need to tend to some new ailment.
  • Mouse hotspot offset removed on Mac until proper cursors are working.
  • Options file saved in lwjgl cache with game resolution. For those Mac users that need a different res for offline. Will have no effect when played in the browser.
  • Random buildings / doors will be locked and only openable from the inside. Fire axe can attack doors. (Well everything can but most are ineffectual)
  • Craftable full-tile barricades made from 2 plank + 2 nails + hammer. Exact #'s still to balance.
  • Smashed doors either by player or by zombie yield some planks to pick up.
  • Game pause/resume and speed control buttons on the hud.
0.1.3a May 31, 2011
  • Fixed invisible wife / running bug.
  • Mousewheel support for inventory
  • Rudimentary joypad control. Movement/attack/door interaction. This will be ongoing and it'll be a while before the entire game is playable purely with a joypad. Press A button to activate pad. Left thumb = sneak, walk, run. Right thumb = moonwalk/look around. Right bumper (on Xbox pad) = attack, A to interact with doors / containers. Compatibility on mac / different gamepads unknown.
0.1.2a May 29, 2011
  • Added 'speed up time' button (return) that will (PC power dependent) speed time up by a factor of ten. Useful for skipping cut-scenes, waiting out a night when not tired, or doing Benny Hill impressions.
  • Tweaked zombie numbers to make it less immediately punishing. Days are now safer for longer, without sacrificing the danger of nights.
  • Added arrow keys / right shift / control keys as alternates to WASD
  • Lowered zombie path-finding range
  • Made zombies have a chance of getting 'bored' banging doors and investigate other zombie sounds, thus making it feasible to wait out zombies at the door if they don't break it down in time and you make no further sounds.
  • Added tutorial skip option that we're somewhat ashamed of thinking of and will probably become infamous. You'll see.
  • Fixed Kate's dragged / dead frames which weren't working .
  • Fixed infinite ammo bug.
  • Player's footsteps now make sound audible to zombies. to compensate for this zombies have less peripheral vision.
  • Double click to add to inventory.
  • Repaired moodlets for bleeding, injury, pain etc.
  • ESC skips dialogue for current conversation entirely.
  • Potential fix to lag issues. Not definite or even probable but possible.
  • Space will now open inventory and holding it will stop it from closing.
  • RTS style control groups for equipped items. Shift+Ctrl+ 1-9 will store the current equipped items for that hotkey. Pressing 1-9 after will recall them if they are in your inventory. (shift + control is because you use control in battle so using ctrl alone would lead to accidental overwrites)
  • Ctrl click will drop an entire stack into a container straight away instead of one by one.
  • If you walk away from a container while holding one of its items on your mouse pointer, when it shuts the container it will add the item to your inventory and keep it on your pointer, instead of removing the item from your pointer.
  • Some balancing of item weights.
  • Improved moodle effects.
  • Added 'encumbered' moodle.
  • Bandages now stop health loss completely for that body part (until proper medical attention is in via NPCs/Skills)
  • Pain threshold reduced to better warn of scratches etc.
  • Increased wall transparency range.
  • Line of sight now works when zombified.
0.? May 28, 2011 * Pre-alpha tech demo is released to all pre-orders.
0.0.0 March 15, 2011 * Project Zomboid is officially announced

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