What changed in 7 Days to Die in 2015

New water mechanics have been introduced in the game.

New abandoned houses have been added to the game world.

Repair costs for items have been updated.

Water has been introduced as a new feature in the game.

Players can now experience dismemberment in the game.

Dismemberment has been introduced as a new gameplay mechanic.

Players can now upgrade blocks in the game.

Repair costs for various items have been updated.

New abandoned houses have been added to the game world.

Players can now upgrade blocks in the game.

Several highly reported broken leg bugs have been fixed.

Several highly reported broken leg bugs have been fixed.

A small change was made to the RWGmixer XML which may cause generation issues.

A small change was made to the RWGmixer XML that may affect generation.

Reverted to the old loading system to resolve crashes on many Mac systems.

Reverted to the old loading system until further debugging can be done for Linux users.

Reverted to the old loading system (11.1) to resolve crashes on Mac systems.

Introduces crafting quality bonuses based on player leveling.

Introduced a new blunderbuss muzzle loader and primitive bow.

Implemented a new gore block system.

Dedicated servers randomly crash when clients disconnect; still trying to reproduce the problem.

Dedicated servers may randomly crash when clients disconnect.

Features a huge hospital, 2 new grocery stores, a larger bookstore, a larger hardware store, 2 luxury cabins, and an Indian burial ground.

Includes feral, spider, and burnt zombies.

Adds a new blunderbuss muzzle loader and primitive bow.

Players must start a new game due to significant framework changes.

New player leveling system with crafting quality bonuses.

Includes new standard shader reflection probes, ambient occlusion, fog, speed tree system, and sky system.

Includes new standard shader reflection probes, ambient occlusion, fog, speed tree system, and sky system.

Improvements include caves, roads on hills, new rivers, and new bridges.

Added a huge hospital, 2 new grocery stores, a larger bookstore, a larger hardware store, 2 luxury cabins, and an Indian burial ground.

New quality range system for guns, weapons, tools, and armor.

Includes feral, spider, and burnt zombies.

Starting a new game is required; do not salvage old saved games.

Introduced new steam networking.

Recommendations to improve performance by adjusting chunk distance, tree quality, reflection quality, and reflection distance.

To improve performance, turn down chunk distance, tree quality, reflection quality, and reflection distance.