7 Days To Die

7 Days To Die Dev Tracker




28 Apr

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

The term gold does not mean much anymore. When is it done? Many games release, get a few bug fixes, then no more updates, so I guess it is done. There are other games that just keep getting bugs fixes, balance changes, new features, at whatever rate the devs feeling like doing, so they don't ever seem done to me. Avorion, Grim Dawn, No Man's Sky, Empyrion, Everspace 2, Space Engineers, Rust. I play or have played all of these and look forward to some of their updates. Some were early access titles and while so, it actually encouraged me to play them less. Leaving early access tells me it is more stable, more complete and I will have a better experience.


I bought Necesse many months ago on a recommendation. On sale. Got that early access price as most games go up in price substantially when they leave early access. Played for 7 hours and stopped because I want more features. I want a more in depth experience and don't want to get burned out on the fe...

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    Roland on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Thanks for your feedback. Remember to post in a respectful manner and avoid insults. You can express criticism without resorting to toxic word choices. The 1.0 launch is sure to be interesting to observe no matter what you side you are on with regards to its timing. We will all know how it pans out after next month.
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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Yes, they would have been alpha 23, 24, but now something like 1.5 or 2.0.


It would be nice to break nothing, but I don't know if that is practical. Code will change to make it better or add features, so if a mod is changing code it may need updating. xml formats may continue to change as needed. Save data mostly has version numbers for the various types of data and we try to be backwards compatible reading older versions.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Yes. 1.0. No longer early access. Not gold. Not done. Continued full development exactly as if we had called it A22 and started on A23, then A24...
Many games leave early access and the devs then continue to improve them. There is nothing weird about this.


27 Apr

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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by hammerinn:
Originally posted by ravend: Not quite on release (Dec13 from memory) but it certainly has been a fun 10 years to this point.
200~ odd hours so far which is bound to go up with 1.0 - its certainly a game where I have popped back to check on what is new and survive a few weeks.

33/43 achievements, with a lot of the ones missing being PvP based which I will most likely never get.

Purchased: Mar 30, 2014
7 Days to Die - $19.99 USD
Buy it again just to play the game I already bought? Yeah no thanks.
Not on PC you don't.
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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
UE5 wouldn't offer any improvements either. Performance would be worse because UE doesn't do voxels as well.
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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
A thread on this question was opened a few days ago, and there is also a PINNED thread in the Modding section of the forum. Not to mention that someone asks this about once a month for the past eight years.

Please take the time to at least look around a little to see if your questions were already asked before starting a thread.
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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

Nav gets occasional updates by Will to fix things or add POIs, so it will be somewhat different in 1.0.


We should have pregen maps on console and they will be made using the improved RWG.

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    faatal on Forums - Thread - Direct

This FSR 3 port to Unity I used is 3.0 and it does not have frame generation ported. It basically works, but there is blurring on certain types of renderer objects like particles using cutout. I may not have much time left to make changes to it, so it may be off in all the presets, but manually enabled using the AA setting.


26 Apr

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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
DLSS isn't going to help your CPU bottleneck. Though they have started working on FSR3.

Edit: Also note that there is a lot of optimization going into the next release. You might be aware of that if you read up on some of the details.

25 Apr

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    Roland on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by rubyismycat: i know that Roland i dont think it was done well or thought out properly i dont want to make a field of 100 dew collectors defended by auto turrets because just collecting from the 8 i already have is more than annoying and tedius enough thanks and with respect and not wishing to sound rude or cynical i know that with console games there is massive pressure put on devs to stretch out playtime and keep games simple however some pc gamers like myself want maximum complexity and depth with the console release just arround the corner it makes sense for TF~P to dumb the game down to a moronic looter shooter me do fetch quest shooty things bang bang me happy der! level i really do understand and hopefully after the...
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    Roland on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by rubyismycat: ill keep repeating the point i just made as often as i have to lmao i got lots of water but i need industrial amounts like 1000 bottles of water to make glue and duct tape 5000 bottles of water to make various food items etc etc etc get it now? yes? Good

If you want industrial amounts then you need to build a proper industrial factory. Make more dew collectors or find a mod that makes them produce more bottles each.

Being able to easily produce duct tape and such in the quantities you want trivialize the game and are part of the reason empty jars were removed.
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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
The game is primarily designed for 8-player co-op. Unlike Ark or Rust which are designed for 60-100 players per server.

Most people are playing co-op with friends in private servers or are playing single player.

As mentioned already, we are also kind of in an activity lull that naturally occurs during this time of year, and additionally during this phase of development where a new build is just around the corner.
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    Shurenai on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Yes. Mods don't affect achievements. Only enabling cheats/creative/debug mode will prevent you from getting achievements, and even then they only disable it in the session you use them; if you do your business then disable them and reload into your save you can gain achievement progress again.

24 Apr

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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by RedWolfofDeath: Gotta get that refund quick before it leaves EA. Steam allows all EA games a full refund no matter the hours of play time. Honestly, this game was really fun before some of the big changes, but Q4 2025 before they even work on the story is enough to make me think of getting a refund on this game.
They already fixed that exploit.
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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Originally posted by seven:
Originally posted by Contra:
Original poster actually had a great idea. What you cited as a problem would be easily fixed by having a user-selectable setting for “simple” and “advanced” settings or something similar. Relying on mods is not near as good as native game support. Mods can break with updates and/or be buggier as a result of being the work of unpaid and often unappreciated programmers.

The problem is there have been many great ideas of opti...
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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Used to be able to do this. The containers required for the process were removed. Water is already too easy to get.
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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
This is what usually happens when you don't clean out old data before starting a new Alpha.

Moving to the correct forum section. Read the Pinned threads for assistance.
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    SylenThunder on Steam Forums - Thread - Direct
Moving to the correct section. Start with the Pinned troubleshooting threads, and if you still have an issue, read the thread on how to report an issue and follow the instructions.