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Project Zomboid: Build 42.12 Update Summary - What's New, Changes, and Fixes
This video summarizes the main new features, balance changes, and bug fixes introduced in the Build 42.12 update for Project Zomboid. It highlights adjustments to weapons, improvements to the user interface, changes to gameplay, and important fixes.
1. ⚠️ Important Warnings and Preparations for Build 42.12 Update
- ⚠️ Generator Fuel Consumption: Changes to generator fuel consumption may affect existing saved games, potentially increasing fuel consumption. Users can adjust this setting in debug mode if necessary.
- ⚠️ Refueling Issue: There is a known bug when refueling at gas stations. Players must manually cancel the refueling process using the 'Escape' or 'Sprint' key to prevent the character from getting stuck.
00:02 - 00:57
1. ⚠️ Important Warnings and Preparations for Build 42.12 Update
- ⚠️ Generator Fuel Consumption: Changes to generator fuel consumption may affect existing saved games, potentially increasing fuel consumption. Users can adjust this setting in debug mode if necessary.
- ⚠️ Refueling Issue: There is a known bug when refueling at gas stations. Players must manually cancel the refueling process using the 'Escape' or 'Sprint' key to prevent the character from getting stuck.
00:58 - 02:35
2. 🛠️ Key Changes to Weapons, Lighting, and Corpse Storage in Build 42.12
- ✅ Ranged Weapon Adjustments: Ranged weapon damage has been modified to account for body part damage modifiers. Headshots now deal significantly more damage, while shots to the arms and legs deal less.
- ✅ Shotgun Fix: Fixed a bug that caused pellets to disappear when firing at specific body parts.
- ✅ Field of View Opacity: A field of view opacity slider has been added to the settings. The field of view now responds better to changes in light, using square lighting. Rooms behind closed doors are now darkened.
- ✅ Pathfinding Improvement: The 'Walk To' function now allows characters to follow paths over scalable walls instead of going around them.
- ✅ Corpse Storage: Players can now store corpses in vehicle trunks or seats, making it easier to transport large quantities of corpses. A new animation has been added for removing a corpse from a container.
02:36 - 04:58
3. 🖱️ User Interface Improvements and Gameplay Changes in Build 42.12
- ✅ Fluid Containers and Canned Food: Fluid containers that can be drunk from now have the option to drink available if the character can open them. A similar change has been made to canned food.
- ✅ Quick Consumption: Players can now double-click on consumables and pills to consume them quickly (except for rat poison).
- ✅ User Interface Improvements: The construction and crafting menu now closes when walking, but can be locked. Players can mark items as unwanted, making looting easier.
- ✅ Inventory Management: Players can add or remove indicators on individual inventory items so that they cannot be used in crafting or construction recipes. VHS tapes or CDs now show whether they have been watched or listened to.
- ✅ Context Menu: A context menu has been added to show which inventory items can be used in which construction recipe. A possible ingredients function has been added to the construction menu.
- ✅ Item Modifiers: Inventory items that provide resistance, fatigue, or stress modifiers now use color bars instead of numerical values.
- ✅ Composting: Worms in composters now reproduce in winter if the composter is indoors.
04:59 - 06:39
4. ⭐ New Trait, Recipes, and Sound Changes in the Build 42.12 Update
- ✅ New Trait: Handy: A new positive trait called 'Handy' has been added, which provides a 30% XP boost to crafting skills.
- ✅ New Recipes: Hay can be picked up from hay bales. New recipes have been added for making mirrors and glass jars. Cookable foods now show how long they take to cook at cooking level 5.
- ✅ Removal of Context Menu Options: The 'Investigate area', 'Vehicle mechanics', and 'Break vehicle windows' options have been removed from the context menu.
- ✅ New NASCAR Vehicles: NASCAR vehicles have been added that appear in the world, mainly near the Irvington racetrack.
- ✅ Sound Effects: New sound effects have been added for various activities. The range of animal hit sounds has increased from 30 to 40 tiles, and animal vocal sounds have doubled from 20 to 40 tiles.
- ✅ Controller Changes: Changes have been made to the controller to make navigation easier.
06:40 - 08:55
5. ⚖️ Game Balance Changes and Adjustments in the Build 42.12 Update
- ✅ Vehicle Kill Count: Zombies killed by vehicles are now added to the player's kill count.
- ✅ Calorie Multipliers: Calorie multipliers for food have been reorganized, reducing unnecessary time spent eating and unnecessary consumption.
- ✅ Drying Racks: Drying racks can now dry different amounts of items at once, and recipes have been updated to allow variable inputs of multiple items per drying rack.
- ✅ Large Hooks: Large hooks can now appear as surface clutter in barns and garages.
- ✅ Fish Hunger Values: Improvements have been made to the math regarding fish hunger values when caught in a net to match other fish catching methods.
- ✅ Sharpness Quality: Non-weapon items that have the sharpness quality will now display that value in their tooltips.
- ✅ Hay and Blacksmithing: Clumps of grass can now be dried. The blacksmithing skill requirement for forging large hooks has been adjusted from two to one.
- ✅ Recipe Learning: Players can now automatically learn all crop season recipes at level 10 crop farming. Mechanics can now also learn all the recipes they are missing to maintain their vehicles once they reach levels 8 to 10. The generator recipe is now an auto-learn recipe at level three electricity.
- ✅ Fluid Cleanup: The amount of fluid used to clean blood or graffiti from walls has been reduced.
- ✅ Chocolate Milk: Happiness has been added to chocolate milk.
08:56 - 09:32
6. 💣 Changes to Explosives and Traps in the Build 42.12 Update
- ✅ Pipe Bombs: Pipe bombs now have high explosion damage with low fire risk.
- ✅ Aerosol Bombs: Aerosol bombs have medium damage with low fire risk.
- ✅ Molotov Cocktails: Molotov cocktails have no explosion damage with medium fire risk.
- ✅ Flame Bombs: Flame bombs have no explosion damage and a high fire risk.
- ✅ Pipe Bomb Crafting: Broken metal pipes can now be used along with metal pipes to craft pipe bombs.
09:33 - 10:58
7. 🐛 Notable Bug Fixes in the Build 42.12 Update
- ✅ Poisoning from Burnt Food: Unfair poisoning from burnt food has been fixed.
- ✅ Sitting Aiming: The sitting aiming bug has been fixed.
- ✅ Memory Leak: A memory leak linked to FOD events has been fixed.
- ✅ Agile Experience: A bug where agile experience could be gained while driving has been fixed.
- ✅ Map Knowledge: The forget map knowledge button that also removed city, forest, and river names has been fixed.
- ✅ Movable Objects: Movable objects such as wood stoves and barbecues that could function as zombie-proof barricades have been fixed.
- ✅ Dragging Corpses: The walk function now works while dragging corpses.