Hi everyone, were happy to announce VEIN 0.009 is now live. Please check it out when you have a chance! The changelog is below. As a PSA, weve started collecting donations at https://ramjetstudios.com/membership. These help us pay for our growing server and dev costs. To check out what we spend monthly, give the page a visit. Theres no obligation to donate anything & VEIN will still be free regardless. Anyways, here's the changelog. A lot of changes and fixes are omitted because they're too small to mention - but we're sure you'll find some during gameplay. Changes:

• Radio and TV reduce stress more
• Add reinforced wood fortification tier
• Rebalance wood scrap usage for fortifications
• Unify some window build objects into one fortification type
• Kitchen sinks can now be filled
• Zombies spawn further away from your UC
• You can bandage scratches if you want
• Add health bar to damageable stuff
• Made cooked food satisfy hunger 3x as much as uncooked food
• Antidepressants treat stress
• Add Mosin-Nagant
• Add furnaces/forges for smelting
• Add limestone brick fortification tier
• Add river water sfx
• Lower default door HP
• Fix game being dark and high contrast
• Add per-damage-type damage to health components (fire damages wood more than bullets)
• Rebalance tools in loot tables; you find tools easier now
• Sanitary fluid and antibiotics treat deep wounds
• Zombies can sleep
• Reduce insulin spawn rate
• Add item selection UI for attaching locks, inserting debit cards, filling fluid containers
• New blood material for players/zombies
• Add tracker items
• Add console commands to add/remove admins while ingame
• Add category buttons for crafting recipes on workbenches
• Add save game version difference warning
• Underwater muffles sound now
• Add the town of Saranac (WIP!!)
• Add SUV
• Add semi trucks
• Reduce lens flare intensity
• Add van, news van
• Identical notifications now stack ("you drink the water" x8)
• Exit signs are now powered
• Add Night of the Living Dead, can be played on TVs
• Rename "Damage" -> "Condition" for damageable items
• Item decay is in human language now ("Rotten" instead of "105%")
• Wood fortifications are now flammable
• Add hatchback vehicle
• Add school bus vehicle
• Some zombies now carry ID cards
• Add character dialogue genders to character creation for future use
• Add ability to push a vehicle forward
• Optimized vehicle networking
• Re-add water freezing over in winter
• New forest trees and foliage
• EBS broadcast now causes stress while NOTLD reduces it
• Gore items
• Move sportscar trunk to being a frunk
• Add autumn season coloring to foliage
• New wood cutting sfx
• Fix some hitching/loading flush triggers (aka: better performance)
• Remove weapon sway when in ADS (for now)
• Adjust some weapon pull-back-at-wall animations
• Make vehicle handling way snappier
• Driving stat now affects vehicle torque
• Fluid containers, gas containers now use their contents' density instead of magic numbers to determine weight
• Buildings creak when walking in them (modulated by your sneak stat)
• Footsteps are now muffled behind walls
• Workbenches now pull ingredients, tools from utility cabinets
• Add option to always show all conditions, regardless of their severity
• Substation computers which monitor the current load of the power grid
• Fix a bunch of meshes appearing low quality thanks to nanite when nanite is off
• Optimize CPU performance of a bunch of props

• Fix cars spawned from the admin menu sometimes having alarms
• Fix not being able to replenish engine oil
• Fix not being able to close some windows with inventory key
• Fix splitting stacks removing items when your inventory is full
• Fix some settings not saving (eg. zombie speed)
• Fix container search status not saving in singleplayer
• Fix melee tiredness not applying per-weapon
• Fix dedis not being configurable for some convars
• Fix tool items not appearing on workbenches
• Fix keys in houses not matching with vehicles sometimes
• Fix key mapping notifications not appearing properly
• Fix items respawning near utility cabinets
• Fix explosives not exploding
• Fix being able to hotwire cars with no battery
• Fix scoped weapons filling your screen while in ADS
• Fix cooking sound being weird
• Fix being able to "dismantle all" on the ground infinitely
• Fix giant lag spike when modifying the power grid
• Fix zombies spawning with fresh food
• Fix being able to reverse while vehicles are turned off
• Fix spawnlists not applying decay properly
• Fix falling out of world making you explode
• Fix input lag on vehicles in multiplayer
• Fix getting wet driving through puddles
• Fix vehicle glove boxes, trunks not spawning anything
• Fix blind status desyncing in multiplayer
• Fix splitting stacks always moving items to your inventory
• Fix AK material being weirdly dark
• Fix most buildings being unreasonably cold
• Fix not being able to destroy corpses while in godmode
• Fix drag and drop UI sticking onscreen when a window closes
• Fix culling not affecting houses
• Fix destroyed furniture not saving