What changed in 7 Days to Die in 2026

Added tougher biome spawn zombies to the snow and wasteland biomes.

Jars no longer require the crucible to be crafted.

Radiated, charged and infernal mutated zombie's ranged attacks now have increased distance, speed and different patterns.

Added Roaming sounds for animalChicken and animalChickenHostile.

Enemy AI now play an alert sound when they run away from either an entity or being hurt.

Zombie XP has been re-balanced based on type, HP, and Damage.

Discord friends' sessions now appear in server browser's friends tab.

Identified and addressed the reason for severe hitches in cities.

Increased the snow biome gamestage_modifier from 2 to 3 and gamestage_bonus from 20 to 30.

Adjusted spawn groups for the snow and wasteland biomes to include Radiated, Charged, and Infernal variants.

Localization keys for shapewedge60TipTrimQuarterLeft2Sided and shapewedge60TrimQuarterRight2Sided were flipped.

The default jar refund chance is now set to 60%.

Increased the wasteland biome gamestage_modifier from 3 to 5 and gamestage_modifier from 30 to 50.

AI targeting range for nearest player was too short and inconsistent.

Issues with adding/removing vehicle storage mods and item loss were resolved.

Dew Collectors now require jars as 'fuel' to produce water.

Set the default for JarRefund to 60 in serverconfig.xml.

Improved quick swap slot assignment when scrolling through toolbelt on controller.

Fixed road texture blending on low settings when a new world is first loaded.

Third person character speed was affected by god mode speed modifier when it shouldn't be.

Identified and fixed the reason for severe hitches in cities.

Updated comment for BiomeProgression property in serverconfig.xml.

Discord friends' sessions now appear in server browser's friends tab.

Jars no longer require the crucible to be crafted.

Bear attack was hitting before animation hit.

ChangeBlocks could set the wrong neighbor block’s topsoil to broken.

Replaced old buff names used in logic for Stage 2 storm buffs.

Refactored zombie xp progression based on zombie HP and Damage.

Reduced completion requirements of several medical challenges to 5.

Removed legacy 'Boss' EntityDamage passives from Radiated Utility Worker and Radiated Businessman.

Radiated, charged and infernal mutated zombie's ranged attacks now have increased distance, speed and different patterns.

Improved terrain blending where topsoil is removed.

Added Roaming sounds for animalChicken and animalChickenHostile.

Removed debug logging of friend IDs.

Apiary fuel is no longer lost when the apiary is picked up.

Gyrocopter can now have 5 mod slots (requires a new gyro to be crafted).

Large Quest Generators now display their smoke particles correctly.

Dew Collector output now has 3 rows for a total of 9 slots.

PC/Mac/Linux now use an uncompressed texture for the road splat map for higher quality blending.

Updated harvest tags on several blocks for perkJunkMiner.

The default jar refund chance is now set to 60%.

Fixed paint rotation on baseboard in hospital_01.

Dew Collectors now require jars as 'fuel' to produce water.

Updated localization for armor perks to describe their loot boosted items.

Vultures on a dedicated server would only attack once.

The spawner source was set after the entity was spawned in four cases.

Added tougher biome spawn zombies to the snow and wasteland biomes.

Switching Challenge tabs should no longer cause them to flicker.

Enemy AI now play an alert sound when they run away from either an entity or being hurt.

Large ragdoll forces no longer launches small animal corpses long distances.

Floating platforms on growing trees are no longer possible.

Localization typo in some quest reward bundle descriptions.

Increased mutated zombie ranged attack damage.

Localization keys for shapewedge60TipTrimQuarterLeft2Sided and shapewedge60TrimQuarterRight2Sided were flipped.

Sleepers had too short of a kill off timeout.

Shift-Click for 'fuel' items in the collector class workstations is now working.

Increased dire wolf and zombie bear hearing and sight ranges.

Separated the dew collector and apiary fuel windows in code and XUI.

Bears can now fit through 1x2m openings.

Tagging issue that would prevent Legendary Parts from spawning when any armor perk was active.

Snakes now play footstep sounds.

Reduced block damage on zombieSteveCrawler and zombieMaleHazmat hands to align better with other zombies in their group.

AI targeting range for nearest player was too short and inconsistent.

Adjusted the wasteland weather with new hot and cold events.

Zombie XP has been rebalanced based on type, HP, and Damage.

RWG mixer was using mountains instead of burntForest_mountains.

Rogue Armor Set cowl would not show correctly.

Disabled allharvest HarvestCount penalty on several melee weapons to allow basic resource harvesting.

Progression bar no longer resets if fuel is removed from collector class workstations.

Adjusted spawn groups for the snow and wasteland biomes to include Radiated, Charged, and Infernal variants.

Increased player kill XP.

Increased the snow biome gamestage_modifier from 2 to 3 and gamestage_bonus from 20 to 30; wasteland from 3 to 5 and gamestage_bonus from 30 to 50.

Resolved hinge joint warnings in first person view gear.

Simplified vehicle camera method to eliminate stuttering caused by variable frame rates.

Lumberjack Gloves were invisible in first person view for female characters.

Addressed vehicle camera stuttering caused by variable frame rates.

Resolved issue with dismemberment shader not displaying correctly when entity is shocked.

Added missing connected body for CrotchArmor's HingeJoint to resolve warning.

Adjusted mesh for eyepatch skinning.

Camera no longer stutters when driving a vehicle (Note: This issue still applies to passengers).

Informs players that bees will spawn when closing the Apiary instead of when opening it.

Apiary mod visuals were not showing when returning to the chunk.

Gift subs with multiple subs only counted as one gift sub.

Apiary honey progress indicator was not updating properly.

Female Hellreaver boots were not displaying the shin guards properly.

Honey was producing in the background while Apiary slots were full.

Quality 6 (Purple) clothing can now spawn in loot.

Tree Hat DLC was clipping through ears, chin and/or back of the head for Native 03.

Apiaries could cause NRE resulting in chunk write errors and reset on dedicated servers.

Lumberjack Gloves were invisible in first person view for female characters.

Pirate outfit eyepatch was clipping on some characters.