Project Zomboid

The Indie Stone renamed the Unstable branch to Pre-Release and put 42.22 on it, with ladders, crowbar forcing of locked doors and a batch of multiplayer fixes. Builds now sit there at least a week before reaching Stable.

• —Opt in through Steam's Game Versions and Betas tab, under Pre-Release; back up saves first, and a Pre-Release save is not guaranteed to work on the final build.
• —Multiplayer fixes: the duplicate-character bug, PvP damage moved server-side, faster server backups and updated anti-cheat.
• —Crowbars force windows, doors, garage doors and gates but not security or jail doors; Strength helps and repeated failures can damage the tool.
• —Stable stays on 42.21 for now; hotfixes may still go straight to Stable.

The Indie Stone says it officially supports only Lua modding for Project Zomboid. Java mods, loaders and frameworks are unsupported, may break with any update, and bug reports must reproduce without mods.

• —Java mods run outside the game's code confines and can add code the player never sees; The Indie Stone calls for open-source or reproducible builds.
• —Java-based mods, including third-party loaders and frameworks, are not officially supported and will be broken by updates without warning.
• —No technical support or compatibility fixes will be given for Java mods.
• —Bug reports are investigated only when reproducible in an un-modded game save, for Java and Lua mods alike.

Build 42.21 is now on the stable branch, after a week on the unstable beta. It targets zombie duplication and disappearing zombies, most visible on high-population servers.

• —Fixes zombies duplicating in multiplayer and vanishing when a player leaves and re-enters a chunk.
• —XXL trees cut away better for players in vehicles and no longer hide houses they overhang.
• —The loadstring and loadstream Lua methods, disabled in 42.20.4, are enabled again.