# Project Zomboid 42.10 UNSTABLE Released

- Product: Project Zomboid (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/project-zomboid)
- Vendor: The Indie Stone
- Date: 2025-06-30
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/108600/view/498325386812195936
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/project-zomboid/releases/2025-06-30-42.10-unstable-released

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- **added** — General improvements to player map
- **added** — Street names on the in-game map
- **added** — New ImagePyramid style layer type to the in-game map to control draw order and color of image pyramids
- **changed** — Forests no longer fade out when zooming out on the in-game map, now rendered using image pyramids
- **changed** — Textures in image-pyramid zip files are now loaded on filesystem threads instead of the render thread
- **changed** — Updated Fire and Smoke visuals
- **added** — Gizmo controls for rotating and moving items during extended placement
- **added** — Ability to select 90 minute days in sandbox settings as new default for Apocalypse
- **added** — Zombie sandbox option to enable or disable Voronoi Noise randomisation of distribution
- **changed** — Adding Barricades moved to Build menu
- **changed** — Doors must now be closed before placing a barricade
- **changed** — Metal bar barricades now accept steel bars
- **added** — New SFX for Clapping and Opening Fridges
- **removed** — Sandbox setting for non-unique home VHS tapes
- **added** — Fishing with Spinning mechanic where player must reel the line to catch something
- **added** — Controller support for Fishing
- **changed** — Cast button on gamepad changed to RT with improved switching between gamepad and keyboard for fishing
- **added** — Animations for lunging zombies and zombies that turn on the spot
- **added** — Animations for zombies staggering left and right
- **added** — Alternate models for hoodie, padded jacket and poncho hoods up while wearing Balaclava
- **added** — New alternative models for Bandana mask to be worn when certain clothing hoods are up
- **changed** — Welding mask changed to use nobeard hair group
- **changed** — Animated clock hands changed to use textures instead of models
- **added** — Media/scripts/clocks.txt file to specify animated clock hand details
- **changed** — Default Apocalypse sandbox loot settings adjusted from 0.4 to 0.6 for all individual loot settings
- **changed** — Default apocalypse sandbox settings for zombie hearing and sight changed from random to random between poor and normal
- **added** — PiercingBullets added to the M-14
- **changed** — Industrial Dye can spawn in many more colors
- **changed** — Players can now sneak with heavily damaged feet, albeit much more slowly
- **fixed** — Issues with new zombie spawn map system that were spawning too many zombies at isolated cabins and police stations
- **fixed** — Sleeping Crash
- **fixed** — Crawlers being difficult to target
- **fixed** — Double doors spawning extra objects when opening
- **fixed** — Player animation sometimes freezing when attacked by multiple Zombies
- **fixed** — Bumped state causing an odd 90-degree turn when player bumps into something
- **fixed** — Vehicles killing ragdoll zeds on the slightest impact, zombies now get shunted out of walls and vehicles correctly

**Slightly shorter changelist for this patch due to various team members working on larger scale changes required for balance, QOL and other required features for 42.**

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**NEW**

- General improvements to player map.
- Added street names to the in-game map.
- Added a new type of style layer to the in-game map, called ImagePyramid. This is used to control the draw order and color of image pyramids.
- Forests no longer fade out when zooming out on the in-game map. The fading out was done due to the slowness of drawing all the forest polygons. Now, the zoomed-out forests are rendered using an image pyramid.
- Textures in image-pyramid zip files are no longer loaded on the render thread. Loading is now done on filesystem threads. When a needed image isn't yet loaded, a lower-resolution one is rendered instead.

- Updated Fire and Smoke visuals. (Please note this is a visual change only, and not a full system redesign, which remains planned for future builds).
- Added gizmo controls for rotating and moving items during extended placement.
- Added the ability for 90 minute days (now the new default for Apocalypse) to be selected in the sandbox settings. Existing saves will not have their day length modified.
- Added zombie sandbox option to enable/disable "Voronoi Noise" randomisation of distribution.
 -- The option to turn off the voronoi noise cutoff is not meant to be a general "opt out", it's a tool destined to workshop mappers to keep distribution deterministic. Disabling it will also double the amount of zombie spawned.

- "Adding Barricades" moved to Build menu.
- Doors must now be closed before placing a barricade.
- Metal bar barricades now accept steel bars.
- Added new SFX for Clapping SFX, Opening Fridges.

- Removed the current sandbox setting for non-unique home VHS tapes, as the current implementation does not work as intended.

- Added Fishing with Spinning - player has to reel the line from time to time in order to catch something. The Reeling mechanic is still WIP, however.
- Added controller support for Fishing.
- Changed cast button on gamepad to RT + improved switch between gamepad/keyboard for fishing.

**MODELS/ANIMS**

- Added animations for lunging zombies and zombies that turn on the spot.
- Added animations for zombies staggering left and right.
- Reverted a previous fix for Balaclava Clipping after player feedback. Changed Balaclava body location back to Mask.
- Added alternate models for when hoodie, padded jacket and poncho hoods are up while wearing Balaclava.
- Added new alternative models for Bandana mask to be worn when certain clothing hoods are up.
- Changed Welding mask to use nobeard hair group. Note that some clipping will still occurs but it is far better than before.

- Changed animated clock hands to use textures instead of models.
  - Added media/scripts/clocks.txt to specify animated clock hand details, instead of being hard-coded.
  - Added clock hands to the double-tile walls_detailing_02 clock seen in West Point's city hall.

**BALANCE**

- New Default Apocalypse will have 90 minute days.
- Adjusted the Default Apocalypse sandbox loot settings from 0.4 to 0.6 for all individual loot settings.
- Changed default apocalypse sandbox settings for zombie hearing and sight from "random" to "random between poor and normal".
- Added PiercingBullets to the M-14
- Industrial Dye can Spawn in many more colors.

- Players can now sneak with heavily damaged feet, albeit much more slowly.

- Fixed issues with new zombie spawn map system that, for example, were spawning far too many zombies at isolated cabins - and at police stations. Also general balance and polish put in.

**DEBUG**

- Added street-name editor to the F8 map editor.

- Items List Viewer now shows an additional "#spawn" column that indicates the number of times each inventory item has appeared either as loot or story-clutter.
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