# Project Zomboid 42.7.0 UNSTABLE Released

- Product: Project Zomboid (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/project-zomboid)
- Vendor: The Indie Stone
- Date: 2025-04-07
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/108600/view/498317776823256046
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/project-zomboid/releases/2025-04-07-42.7.0-unstable-released

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- **added** — Several new crafted clothing items using animal skins, leather strips, denim strips, rags, garbage bags and tarps
- **added** — Spiked Full Motorcycle Helmets and Football Shoulderpads with craft recipes
- **added** — Craft recipe for dividing Football Shoulderpads into single left and right pieces
- **added** — Glass lantern part item and craft recipe
- **added** — Blacksmithing craft recipe to produce Hurricane Lanterns
- **added** — StepVan and Van vehicles for Tailoring businesses
- **added** — New sounds for butchering actions
- **added** — Hide hats, robes, and wallets with items and recipes
- **added** — Mouse-over highlighting to Building UI and Crafting UI
- **added** — Ability to click anywhere in an input item in Crafting UI to toggle ingredients panel
- **added** — Right-click Drop option for all moveables
- **added** — Crafted Frame Packs in small and large sizes
- **added** — Hide and Leather Aprons and Tarp Chest Rig with recipes
- **added** — Prop book items
- **added** — Craft recipe and recipe magazine for making blank ID cards
- **added** — Twine Shoes item and recipe
- **added** — Craft recipe to make gold and silver coins from metal sheets
- **added** — Tuxedo-Print T-shirt item
- **added** — Steel Chunks can be smelted from Steel Items and Iron Chunks from Iron Items
- **added** — Dome Kiln workstation to make Coke from Charcoal
- **added** — Craft recipes for making Steel Chunks from iron objects and Coke using Advanced Furnace
- **added** — Processing Iron and Copper Ore into their respective metals for Blacksmithing

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**NEW**
- Several new crafted clothing items. Players can use animal skins; leather strips; denim strips; rags; garbage bags and tarps to craft a variety of low-tier survival/utility/dignity preserving garments.
- Added items and recipes for Spiked Full Motorcycle Helmets and Football Shoulderpads.
- Added craftRecipe for dividing whole Football Shoulderpads into single left and right Shoulderpads.
- Added new clothing items to some appropriate zombie outfits.
- Added the item and craftRecipe for the glass part of a lantern.
- Added a Blacksmithing craftRecipe to produce a Hurricane Lantern.
- Added StepVan and Van vehicles for Tailoring businesses; these don't have loot spawns defined yet, but are intended to serve as an opportunity for the large fabric roll items to spawn.
- Added new sounds for butchering actions
- Moar flyers from the flyer-factory
- Added items and recipes for simple hide hats, robes, and wallets.
- Added mouse-over highlighting to the Building UI and Crafting UI.
- Allow clicking anywhere in an input item in the Crafting UI to toggle the ingredients panel.
- Adjusted position of craft panel favourites icons (now more like inventory)
- Liquid amount bar now updates more gradually on Fill context menus
- Changed the appearance of inventory and loot window progress bars to match that of tooltip progress bars.
- "Can Research Craft Recipe" is displayed in tooltips for items outside the player's inventory, and when it is too dark to research the item.
- The "Research Craft" context menu option is displayed when it is too dark to perform the action. The option is disabled in this case, and displays the "Requires light." tooltip.
- Knocked down / stunned Zeds now have chest movement so player can tell they're still active
- Added right-click "Drop" option for all moveables. Dragging items onto floor container inventory window also now functions like other containers.
- Added Crafted Frame Packs, small and large
- Added items and recipes for Hide and Leather Aprons, and a Tarp Chest Rig.
- Added prop book items.
- Added craft recipe and recipe magazine for making blank ID cards. (This is purely a RP thing w/o any mechanics purpose. Burglars start the game knowing this recipe.)
- Updated advertising trailer mechanics overlay graphics.
- Added items and recipe for Twine Shoes.
 - QOL updates to farming when using a controller
    -combined mouse and joypad farming modes to use the same methods.
    -farming with a controller now stays in the selected mode when harvesting, watering, checking plant info, etc.
    -fixed issues with submenu options staying open when selected.
    -added farming tooltip following the farming cursor when using a controller.
    -added button and trigger prompts to the farming cursor.
    -added "Remove" farming cursor for removing multiple plants with a shovel using gamepad or mouse.
    -added farming cursors for multiple aphid, mildew, slug, pest flies curing with joypad or mouse.

- Added a craftRecipe to make gold and silver coins from gold and silver metal sheets.
- Added Tuxedo-Print Tshirt item.
- Added some new clothing items to some appropriate zombie outfits.
- Steel Chunks can be smelted from Steel Items; Iron Chunks can be smelted from Iron Items. Whether an item is Iron or Steel is arbitrary, but Steel items are plentiful enough that there should be enough to smelt.
- Some, higher tier, Blade type craftRecipes specifically require Steel and not Iron.
- New sounds for Chainlink Fence Destruction, resting on floor, butchering
- Restored the Dome Kiln workstation entity; this can be used to make Coke from Charcoal as well as making Charcoal. Coke can be used instead of Charcoal for many crafts, and is also necessary for making Steel out of Iron.
- Added craft recipes for making Steel Chunks from iron objects and Coke using an Advanced Furnace.
- Added processing Iron and Copper Ore

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