Howdy Survivalist,

We’ve just released Alpha 6.2 patch that has many fixes and changes making Alpha 6 much better to play.

How to participate in Alpha 6

Open your steam client. Click on Games/View Games Library Right click ‘7 Days to Die’ and select properties From the new popup dialogue box select the ‘BETAS’ Tab Under ‘Select the beta you would like to opt into’ – select ‘alpha_6 – Beta Testing’ The game will then update and download Alpha 6 Switching back to Alpha 5 is as easy as repeating steps 1-4 and on step 5 choose the option ‘None – Opt out of all Beta Programs’ and you’ll revert to Alpha 5 which will be re-downloaded and you can try Alpha 6 after it is improved.

Changes

Changed on Mac the reflective water is set to off per default improving frame rate

Changed shotgun to use animation clips to support single shell loading

Changed reduced radiator to have 2 pounds of brass

Changed reduced weight of car batteries

Changed trophy 2 and 3 to lead and tungsten

Changed Breakdown Weapon recipe name and tip description to say Breakdown Item instead

Changed sharp stone attack has been removed and is no longer a weapon may come back in alpha 7

Changed mp5 to SMG on all items

Changed Kicking and banning to search if name contains than input instead of starting with the input. Also added player id as a fallback. Player id can be seen by using the “lp” command.

Bug Fixes

Fixed player hosted game servers were not showing in the game browser.

Fixed game Info player counts were showing incorrect numbers

Fixed favorite servers list would break if you had no other favorites and added a manual favorite entry.

Fixed unable to remap reload/take-all key, should now map correctly.

Fixed bug when mining less than 16 blocks above bedrock pressing E brings up a console error IndexArrayOutOfBounds

Fixed brass trophy so it can be smelted

Fixed female third person wrench hold and use animations

Fixed crossbow bolt from stuttering when reloaded

Fixed female crossbow animations

Fixed shotgun reload and crossbow stutters

Fixed animator warning for sharp stone

Fixed Crafting Grid Item Loss when quick crafting using known recipes if you switch from recipe to recipe you will lose the items on crafting grid.

Fixed Add an ounces and burn time for gas cans for the auger and chainsaw.

Fixed Multiplayer\Client de-sync all containers de-sync between server and client resulting in loss of items, item duplication, and in some containers which have randomly generated loot multiple different instances of that loot.

Fixed Forge didn’t sync between clientsKnown Issues

Players can sometimes get stuck in small vertical spaces less than 2 blocks high like on top of a cinder block or trash pile

Mac builds need to quit via the task manager

Rocket Launchers and Hunting Rifles cannot be broken down yet or crafted

Upgrading to Alpha 6 will sometimes cause players to lose key bindings go into options/controls/restore defaults and hit apply then close the game and start again to fix the problem

Known Issues

Players can sometimes get stuck in small vertical spaces less than 2 blocks high like on top of a cinder block or trash pile

Mac builds need to quit via the task manager

Rocket Launchers and Hunting Rifles cannot be broken down yet or crafted

Upgrading to Alpha 6 will sometimes cause players to lose key bindings go into options/controls/restore defaults and hit apply then close the game and start again to fix the problem

You stay cool

The Fun Pimps